₦airaland Forum

No. Just no.

davtosh:




As much as I love the way you presented your defence I want to put it to you that I never said all crimes are committed by atheists No.

There are millions of religious ppl on earth who are not only criminals but hardened Ones.

Thats a very Fat Fact.

What Im saying is atheist are more free to delve into crimes since nothing checks them except the earthly laws which of course you can always beat as a smart person.

But if you belive in A God that sees you in the darkest of corners where the eyes of the law of man cant see you then you are more cautious and careful.

I dont know of any other religion but the one I practice. which is True Christianity.
If you are a true Christian not those ritualists and half politician half priests you mentioned, you will always try to abstain from sins and crimes.

Happy Easter

My brother, let's be factual:

Who will do wrong will do wrong, regardless of religious affiliation (or lack of). Look at most of our politicians: knights and elders in church, respected people at the mosque, pious on Fridays, Sundays and at religious events but at every other time, they are grievously evil. Even our leaders in church and the mosques are not exempt. And they commit their wrong acts with either the thought that God will forgive them or that they are somehow justified. What makes them better than the average atheist?

Quick question for those that know so I can get a more nuanced view on this issue before commenting:

If TB Joshua accounts for 60% of tourism into Nigeria, what percentage of our GDP and IGR does tourism generate?

urheme:
Pls Go and ask your fore fathers who taught them A B C

Education and religion are two different things.

Onikan abi Costain?

urheme:
African traditional religion or Nigerian traditional religions

If these traditional religions played a good role in the society to start with, it wouldn't have been substituted for foreign religions..... We the people threw it away and embrace others because we could see the divided of the activities of E.G missionaries.
The traditional man is just a barbarian... so we reject backwardness....is a shame that not one of them is worthy of preservation....they are all bad for equity and good conscience.

Let me play the devil's advocate here:

So with all our adoption of foreign religions, how much better have we become as a society?

Apostlevincent:
You mean i should read all this..

I don't usually insult people on Nairaland.....

....but you're clearly daft so I'll make an exception.

I agree on this one. I also agree that Nigeria needs to be restructured to fit it's realities.

So it’s finally trending on Twitter. #whereisBuhari has trended for three days straight. Our president has progressively been less visible to the public since his return from England and, at this point, he’s not even been sighted in public at all either to chair the FEC meetings or to give the traditional presidential May Day speech. Does this story sound eerily familiar?

When president Buhari was running for office, I had several misgivings about his candidature. Sure, as a military administrator, it appears he had a great track record but then at his age, it wasn’t very likely he was going to be getting any stronger. I did share some of my misgivings online with whoever bothered to listen. I knew I wasn’t going to vote for president Jonathan because he seems to have had about as much control over his government as Buhari has right now. But given the Yar’Adua antecedent, I was worried about Nigeria having a president that just wasn’t fit enough health-wise to run such a complex country as Nigeria. It had nothing to do with prescience or prophecy because we have already seen it all before, more-so in the recent past. It’s not been up to a decade since Nigerians were left wondering where their president was and how he was doing and if he was even still alive. Funny story, we’ve gone full circle and we’re right back there again.

While I am convinced that the president is still very much alive, that is not the problem at all. The problem is that Nigeria failed to learn from the entire Yar’adua saga that left Nigerians unsure of who was actually running the country. Was it the president’s wife, Turai? Was it the so-called faceless “cabal”? It was certainly not his Vice-President who (eventually) succeeded him. I could join millions of Nigerians in asking where the president is but that’s a question for another day. The question for now though is: why does Nigeria never learn and specifically – why did Nigeria not learn from what happened at the tail-end of President Musa Umaru Yar’Adua’s life/tenure?

One would have thought that with the confusion that shook the entire country in those times of uncertainty, certain elements involved in the law-making process would have thought it expedient to craft a law detailing what happens in a case where the president is clearly not physically fit enough to discharge his official duties. Much of our laws concerning that either requires the president to actually die for those laws to kick in or the president to resign or write to the National Assembly asking that his Vice be made stand-in President pending when the president is fit again. But those laws really don’t take into consideration a situation where the president is still alive but is either physically unable to resign due to the nature of the illness or unwilling to resign because, well, “he just doesn’t want to”. It’s not as if we don’t know what happens when either scenario comes into play, after-all, we have seen it before. Remember when President Yar’Adua was “missing” yet documents in his signature kept turning up somehow? What is to say that isn’t the situation of things on ground now? We have already gotten to the point of asking where the President is. Up next, God forbid, might be asking who is actually running the country. Yet we have people who make laws for us and have seen the exact same precedent some of which where even members of the National Assembly at the time President Yar’Adua passed on. It would appear that once President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in, everyone just forgot about President Yar’Adua and everything that happened towards the end of his life and the conditions that necessitated hitherto Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan taking office as Acting President.

One might want to say we really should watch those we vote into office especially when they show signs of ill health or advance in age but then lots of people have gotten into office fully fit before succumbing to illnesses. Case in point, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez who was president for four terms before succumbing to cancer in his fourth term. We can’t tell the future – we really don’t know how long any of us would be fit for. However, e can plan for what happens in the event that we are so struck by ill-health that we can’t carry out our responsibilities. Nigeria has consistently failed to make such plans for its presidents. Maybe it’s because we’ve not had enough people die from ill health while being president or become too sick to run the country leaving those around them to make decisions on their behalf, some of which they would personally never assent to. Well I say two people is too many. Nigeria’s Senate and House of Representatives need to start working on a bill that, when passed into law, outlines what happens in any situation where the president is proven unfit to carry out his presidential duties but does not notify them in writing or otherwise or when the president has been out of the public eye for an extended period especially due to ill health.

Though we might actually need a president to sign that bill into law.

https://anigerianrealist./2017/05/02/of-nigeria-yaradua-and-buhari-a-country-that-just-does-not-learn/

sleekjosh01:
went through all the comments... inasmuch as I don't like anything homo, I feel legalizing it in Nigeria would be a total waste of time...tho the act of gayism is rampant in the society and the aforementioned bill that was passed was just a mirage as its not in effects...

to those saying being gay is imbedded in our genes and nature are either gays in the shadow or gat someone close to them as gay... yeah I know science gat theory for everything on earth which is why this f*cking gays kip talking trash bout nature supporting homo....


well if I happen to come across any gay whatsoever in my life, believe I would so punch that person he would forget bout his existence

#IHateHomos

Your post is 50 shades of confusing.

latsy:
Clinton didn't lose because Republicans voted for a republican candidate, she lost because many left leaning voters refused to vote or voted for independents because the atmosphere created by Obama was not motivating.

Again, it had nothing to do with Obama. If Bernie had clinched the Democratic ticket, he most likely would have gotten way more votes than Hilary despite also being in the same Democratic party. That tells you it was more about who was running than who had run before.

MrSly:
Little kids in NL who knows nothing about polity.

Thank you, Nairaland grandfather who knows everything about politics. I'm sure under your watch Nigeria has flourished and become a world power.

victorazy:
Obamacare is the mark of 666 the Bible is talking about.

Obama has been out of office for a few months now. Can't you guys give this a rest?

Adecks01:
murderers,robbers,prostitutes,kidnappers and so on,all consider the act as cool and not a crime,should we now legalize it?
Are you also aware of the traces and practice of the aforementioned crimes in nature?

What? Prostitutes think prostitution is cool? Offer a prostitute N20 million to quit prostitution and he/she would say "oh no, I like what I am doing. I would rather continue than quit"? Did you read yourself typing that?

This is a clear case of either someone being obviously daft to score cheap points or someone choosing to see things their own way because they have never been in someone else's shoes.

latsy:
Obama is the worst president in US history, a great failure he was.
He channeled his energy to forcing gay rights bullshit down people's
throat. He left real governance for gay activism and under him america
became so weak.
He was the main reason why Clinton lost.

Errr, way out wrong. Clinton lost because of Clinton. Asides those who were going to vote Republican anyways, most of those that didn't vote for Clinton didn't like her. Had nothing to do with Obama.

And don't forget; Hilary won the popular vote, meaning that if the US ran the same electoral system as Nigeria, she would totally be president of the US right now.

Lol, me sef ma know I wouldn't vote him if he contests for the presidency in 2019.

Him and his one watch of many faces and straps should just chill one side and be elder statesmen.

MosakuAW:
Now i see how stupid your father and mother raised a stupid son like you.

Omo abi ipabe

This went south quickly.

Well I don't know the details of your life and how they have led you to this point but it seems to me that you focused too much on trying to be religious and ignored an important part of being a human being - building every other aspect of your life. Life is about balance - too much to one side and you'll find yourself quite unhappy. This applies to everyone - whether theist or atheist, you need to make sure you don't leave other aspects of your life to suffer all in a bid to make sure on part flourishes.

Mheeen, that Civil Engineers' banner must have been in use since 1999

greatnaija01:
My dear your conclusion was very WRONG.... the whole concept of PARENT-CHILD relationships is Train UP a child in the way he should go and when he is older he won't depart from it
The story is a sad and pathetic one and am sorry for the death of the dear woman BUT Everything rises and falls on TRAINING.

In many home it is the father that is the disciplinarian but the MUM soft and can bend discipline to soothe her childrens' comfort
If they were TRAINED... I MEAN THE REAL AFRICAN TOUGH TRAINING...even if they were thugs outside... THEY WOULD DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE THEIR MUM HAPPY.

SOW GOOD DISCIPLINED TRAINING IN TO A CHILD TODAY AND YOU WILL REAP A MATURE WISE ADULT TOMORROW.
Maybe now she is dead, they will see how harsh their attitudes were and put it all away.

America is a clear example of pampered childhood... INDISCIPLINE is just as high as CREATIVITY... hence gay, lezbian and even all sorts of vices are learned from there.

THIS IS A LESSON FOR ALL.

America is full of vices yet Nigerians troop there like village people to traditional wedding.

Piercy:
Should I talk

Please do

galarbagalapazy:
hell mary mother of god pray for us now and forever

I'm sure it's hail except you're trying to be funny

kolafolabi:
Sen. Ben Bruce is right though...if he tweets other way round, people will still lambast him...

Then he should keep kwayet

I'm confused. Is there no law in this country that comes into play in the event that the president is unable to fulfill his duties in any capacity especially due to ill health, automatically transferring power to his vice? Why do we need to go through all this nonsense again?

refreshrate:
*that's your excuse* first of
Then, Yes it's true it's because of people like me blah blah blah

Why didn't you say anything about the Zimbabweans filing for returns on everything they bought despite the salaries they got? Or him bringing less than qualified people to boss over better qualified people here just cos their from his country ...oh that doesn't count abi?

Does your holier than thou attitude change the facts that such deals happen all over the world?
Or you will come and say this is the only one of its kind that's ever happened?

Sebi they kicked his butt the curb has he been able to get a deal similar to that afterwards?

See what he is going through is one of the 5 stages of grief ...let him go and preach to Mugabe

What the Zimbabweans do is their effing business. It's their company so they can run it however they please so long as it is in line with Nigeria's company and labor laws. I find it utterly pathetic that you're making excuses for corrupt Nigerians. I don't care what they do around the world. People are committing suicide all over the world; how come you're yet to kill yourself? You should be utterly ashamed that you defended and you are continuing to defend corruption.

Shocking!

Omo, some people on Nairaland have bad mouth sha

Seems like we have some of the old breed left behind....unfortunately only in the religion board.

leighcon:
Except that you demonstrated ignorance of Econet being Airtel today.

Econet -> Vodacom -> Vee Networks-> Celtel-> Zain-> Airtel-> ?

They sent Strive's team away from the management not sending the company away. I'm not aware he has even sold his stake.

The problem with this is not if one company survived or not. The problem is that our leaders are willing to lose opportunities that would benefit the masses and the country if doing so would serve their selfish personal interests or massage their egos. Econet may hay have survived in various forms to become Airtel but God alone knows how many companies have folded up just because those who should create an enabling environment for them to survive and thrive are to blinded by greed and self-centeredness and/or those leading the companies have become enmeshed in the cesspool of corruption that is the Nigerian political system!

refreshrate:
If you worked with econet those days you'll know this story get k leg

Ibori ask for bribe or not.

These people brought technical college graduates and made them bosses over people with masters degrees here mind you not even in core departments o

Then you should have seen these leeches after paying them armed robber salaries everything they used for themselves from lunch to taxis outside work hours they would requisition abeg the man should swerve if Na you invest money they way delta state did then and heard all this you no go vex?

Guess ibori showed him who the bigger person was. If this isn't a selective attack why can't he mention the other business man? All these people feeling they can be all moralistic by running others down ...guy swerve go and lick your wounds somewhere else.

Tell me the major deals anywhere in the world such things no dey happen?

This guy is just a bloody sore loser

Really? That's your excuses? "deals like these happen anywhere in the world"? And you're not covered in shame just typing that? Dude, you basically just justified corruption! And with these same fingers, you would accuse someone else of corruption!

Really, with people like you, should we be asking why Nigeria is in its current state?

IFNOTGOD:
always talking like an advanced outbecile, pick ur northerners who are not corrupt, check major corruption case dey are from d north, Ibori developed delta State unlike ur northerners who can't build schools for ur almajiris

Goodness! Dude......are you seriously for real? THIS is your response? "Ehn, the Northern politicians too are corrupt", dude are you not ashamed of this response? So because Northern politicians are corrupt, Southern Politicians too should be corrupt? I wonder what you would think if the Northern politicians set their people on fire! Is this the kind of mentality you want your kids to adopt?

God, how did I end up sharing this country with people like these?

hobermener:
Jonathan's greatest sin was not corruption, heck no! It wasn't cluelessness or incompetence. His greatest sin was being a southern Christian president from a minority tribe.
Had Jonathan been a fulani Muslim from the core north, trust me these paid zombies and bmc guys would have sucked all the cum outta his díck, extolling his numerous achievements and explaining to us how Jonathan was the best thing that ever happened to us after sliced bread

And before you foolishly contradict my assertion, look at the fulani disaster of a president, and the dick riding he still enjoys from the core north, after breaking every record there is to break as regards awful, despicable governance!

The blind support Buhari is enjoying in the core North is pretty much the same blind support Jonathan enjoyed in the South Easy and South South. Nigerians still haven't realised that good governance is not about party or tribe but competence. If Jonathan were to run against Buhari right now, I would vote neither of them. Jonathan showed he wasn't in control of his government because he was weak-willed and didn't have the level of political influence or clout that made Obasanjo so formidable. Buhari too seems to have lost control of his government because, let's face it, he's in no physical state to run a country and should focus more on his health than hanging on to the presidency. It's just sad that neither the PDP or APC seem in any shape to field a candidate that would unite this country AND run it properly. It's just sad.

FemiFimile:
The thing about Fayosi is his grass root appeal, it is something him alone enjoy and something that distinguishes him from OBJ and Tinubu.
He is truly a great Yoruba leader of our time.

Grassroot appeal does not automatically mean good governance.