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Career / Re: I Hate My High-paying Job. What Should I Do Please? by samtoye(m): 2:46am On Sep 01, 2011
Poster, i wanted to criticize you before i remembered i complain of similar thing. This is common with working with a big multinationals, it is easier to rise in a one man business or local companies than these big multinationals. Do not resign, endure it because of the income and those you support with it. Go for part time post graduate qualifications; Masters etc it increases your qualifications then start dropping your cvs in similar multinationals. Also look for a good viable business you can invest it in, nothing like a multiple income. Cultivate the habit of saving and tie down some property with your money. All these are exit plans, the income is an advantage to you so make good use of it for no one knows tomorrow.
Politics / Re: GEJ Attacked By His Facebook Friends by samtoye(m): 3:52pm On Aug 29, 2011
GEJ hasn't disappointed me o! actually he has lived up to my expectation! go check the great work he accomplished in Bayelsa, even his achievement as VP and acting President, He had been clueless since he was born, Nigeria is a peculiar nation that can be ruled by anybody, a dead man once ruled us for several months by proxy, now a slowpoke is ruling, what next? PDP would soon put Boko Haram to rule us! We warned Nigerians but they wont listen, Goodluck to you all!!!!
Politics / Re: Buhari Will Soon Prove Critics Wrong by samtoye(m): 4:58pm On Aug 25, 2011
After all economic blunders committed under this current dispensation, i am surprised that some people are still beclouded and unrepentant about voting for GEJ. We really deserve Jonathan and his PDP thieving cronies !!!! May God have mercy on our next generations.
Business / Re: The Customer Service Name And Shame Thread by samtoye(m): 9:16am On Aug 23, 2011
DSTV Nigeria - Their customer service personnel are clueless, i had a problem with my Dish, i called from my office and told the lady my issue (LNB cable disconnected), she said i should go back home and switch the decoder on and tell her the error code, i told her it would be impracticable to do so and even there was no error code, just the display of "check LNB cable", she arrogantly told me she can't help and she became saucy, when i asked to speak with her supervisor then she checked my profile and discovered she might be speaking to her MD's relative so she started using "Sir" and became courteous. I told her if she had a bad day she shouldn't have picked the call at all and i dropped the call. I called a local technician who diagnosed the problem over the phone and came to fix it for me.
Politics / Re: “i’d Rather Bomb Aso Rock Than Have My Children As Slaves -ikechukwu by samtoye(m): 12:51pm On Aug 16, 2011
By 2015, there would be a very wide demarcation between the poor and the rich. Tribalism would be about money and not ethnicity, if you are rich you belong to a tribe and if you are poor you belong to another general tribe regardless your ethnicity. Our elders have betrayed us, if we don't stand up for ourselves now we would end up betraying our children.
Politics / “i’d Rather Bomb Aso Rock Than Have My Children As Slaves -ikechukwu by samtoye(m): 11:09am On Aug 16, 2011
“I’d Rather Bomb ASO ROCK Than Have My Children As Slaves (A Warning To Leaders Marked By The Beast)”–Ikechukwu Enyiagu, Malaysia

New York [RR] Malaysia–According to Ikechukwu Enyiagu, Malaysia, “I’ll rather have all the senators, the house of assembly members, and even the Aso Rock-all those who squander more than 25 percent of the national budget bombed and wiped out than have my children continue in slavery to this hell called Nigeria and its politicians. It does not matter who amongst these evil leaders are reading this and planning on how to stretch their “human looting” to me, you will perish in your thoughts! I’ll rather have all PDP chieftains and all they have stolen in decades wiped off the earth than let my children feel the helpless pain I was born into and have lived with because of Nigeria. I would rather start every form of evil with those leaders who, from every angle, compel Nigerians into all forms of evil as means for survival. I would rather be a friend of Osama Bin Laden, though dead, than shake hands with these black monsters who call themselves “honorables” in Nigeria. And my life is not more precious to me than uprooting every tree of evil in my land and destroying those soulless leaders and restoring to those who live within Nigeria the freedom that is rightfully theirs as citizens of life. “These are the silent and helpless cries in every Nigerian youth’s soul, the cries of people who, with me, abhor the evil foundation of Nigeria and its leadership.
[PHOTO: Force Headquarters bombing in FCT-Abuja]
He added, “Ndigbo saw Nigeria on time as the seat of the Antichrist himself and decided to leave but everyone shouted NO! Since Biafra went on exile, everyone now sees the mark of the beast on all our leaders. When I consider most Igbo leaders, I regret not knowing Bin laden personally because I would have taught them a lesson on the dangers of fear; I would have fished them out from their comfort zones and dealt with them just as their silence has dealt with the very people they claim to represent. If I were the inspiration that brought about all the movement in the Nigeria Delta, I would have turned those I charged with my mission for liberation to madness since they have left their duties and resorted to enriching themselves.  And if I were the brains behind Boko Haram I would have shown them how to correctly aim on their targets by shooting down some of them right before others. I commend Chief Ralph of MASSOB for his bravery and resilience so far, but has it not yet been made clear that Nigeria will never budge without guns and bombs in your arms as this has been proven to be the only language that Nigerian government understands? Can’t you see that this evil called Nigeria will never leave you until you cast it out with thunderous blasts?
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For over 50 years Igbo leaders have become what their fathers never were-lambs for the slaughter, and have comfortably settled there. Instead of taking advantage of the state of the present world to gain freedom for their posterity, they are busy envisaging an Igbo presidency, tenure in, tenure out, in a country that is not theirs. The Niger Delta militants and leaders make mockery of their posterity by always asking for the crumbs of what is theirs from the hands of the legal thieves. Now, the Boko Haram sect, in their seeming irrelevance, has shaken everyone; yet their apparent ignorance irritates me: Your goal is a Sharia-governed state but the Nigerian government says, “No,” why did you then leave your enemies and bombed your brothers? Is it hard for you to know that those politicians sitting in various places of embezzlement and callousness who have refused us a Sovereign National Conference or even a break-up of the country which is long overdue are your core enemies and, therefore, core targets?
Nigerian youths are the most frustrated on earth, not because they don’t have anything, but because their inheritances are in the pockets of a few witches and wizards before whom every good thing is an offense. But to the youths, I say: Unless you become mad individually and collectively, these old evils will never release to you what is rightfully yours. They steal what belongs to you, save them overseas for their generations unborn while they turn around and make you their gatemen, cleaners, chauffeurs, cooks, and body guards.  And you seem grateful. Instead of using the guns given you by these politicians to kill your poor school friends and innocent Nigerians who are struggling like you to survive, is it not wiser to use it on those who have turned you into mere errand boys, into their slaves?  Instead of kidnapping and abducting the fathers and children of those whose mottos is “A luta continua,” why don’t you go for the bigger catch-why not go for commissioners, governors, MPs and all those bloated with blood money? You get frustrated in Nigeria, out of Nigerian schools, and out of the labor market; some of you sell all you have and even borrow to leave the country (your wealth) and start a new kind of slavery in another man’s land whereas a single slowpoke, one of those ill-mannered and illiterate law makers who fight publicly as a means of making laws, divides the national money amongst themselves. A U.S. President, whose country’s GDP is about US$13Trillion/year earns about $250,000 annually while a Nigerian senator, in a country with GDP of about US$45 Billion/year earns about US$1,500,000 annually. My God! And most times, the majority of you end up in jails or graves in foreign lands as a result your home leaders. The worst now is that the senate is arranging for more prisons where Nigerian youths, chased out of the country by these very leaders’ wickedness and into different prisons all over the world, would be exchanged and brought home and dumped in to rot. Instead of doing what is right, they prefer turning you mad and then cuffing you up and into dungeons while their children celebrate life all over the world. If most of you have the guts and courage to carry drugs into countries which attach death penalty to it, (like the two caught sometime ago with ingested drugs headed for Malaysia, and the one who just died on the plane because of the same risk in drug trafficking to Malaysia) just because you must survive and take care of your families back home since what we have in Nigeria is not a government for the people but a group of armed robbers sitting in government offices, what stops you from going directly after those holding your wealth at home with the same courage and fearlessness?
The Nigeria Labor Union is a major disease in Nigeria, a chronic disease; and its leaders are the viruses. The labor force of any country is its human and democratic power, but NLC has turned into a generation of beggars. You fix dates for strikes and you cancel it because you have no vision for the people you claim to represent and because your leaders have collected their shares of the national loot and now want everyone to think with the brains of these political witches and wizards. Shame on you, NLC leaders! It’s your duty to gather the national labor force for a mass demonstration against bad governance and demand, once and for all, a total change. A few pot-bellied people gather and share the nation’s wealth among themselves and their children while the NLC still finds it difficult to defend the rights of all labor members to a mockery of a salary. Again, shame on you NLC leadership!
In all these the worse people are some of the ones who call themselves “shepherds of God’s people.” Their matter offends the more because of the very sensitive position they occupy in the lives of the people. They think that their faith in God is a call to a life of selfishness, and so, they do not care what happens to other people in the country as long as their psychic power of hypnosis still earns them their own kind of loot by working on the unsuspecting members and adherents who fuel these so called shepherd’s luxury with their blood and the little they have in the name of “offerings to God.” Most of the religious leaders we have in Nigeria are the forerunners of the Antichrist that is about to fully confront Nigeria soon. They tell you that religion and politics do not meet and that Christians should not be concerned with what is going on in the polity if they have faith in God “for their supplies,” yet they, for the sake of their passion and love for money and worldly lifestyles, often refuse to speak the truth but instead, limit sermons to a lullaby of “sow and ye shall reap,” raising up a generation of religious psychos who feel totally lost and helpless without their religious opium. They have totally forgotten or ignored the fact that God is the only and eternal sovereignty and that all governments fall under him. If God is the head of kingdoms, which was shown through the works of the “men of God” in the past, why then do they shy away from speaking against and challenging the wickedness in the land and still expect people to believe that they are messengers of the true God? The Islamic leaders in Nigeria wear their beliefs and duties round their necks while our Christian leaders drink the blood of their flocks down their throats. Is it because they are afraid of death which they claim to have experienced in Christ or is it because they are a part of the whole evil team? No! They are of the devil. The answer is clear enough. Nigerians have been fooled enough by political leaders but nothing compares to the destruction of vision, will, strength and faith on the masses by most of these religious looters. Have you ever asked yourself why your pastor should live in the most secure areas of the city, drive the latest cars, have spare jets, wear the latest outfits and eat the best meals with your supposedly “offerings and seeds to God” while you and your family are almost reaching the point of madness as a result of constant fasting and praying? In Jesus’ time, he did not concern himself with the treasury and he fed his sheep, not with words alone, but with signs, wonders, miracles and food; but these ones have sole signatory to the churches’ account and would want to drain you of the little you have for your family with their story of sowing and reaping, a theory most of them do not even believe in. If these Christian Pharisee and Sadducees see a true man of God whom God uses to cater for people’s’ spiritual and material needs just as Jesus did in His time, they call him an antichrist whereas they are the very ones who crucify Jesus on moment-by-moment basis with their furnished hypocrisy. Did you ever read to find out the lives of the Bible-days men of God? Go and study for yourself because nothing is as strong a conviction as what you discover for yourself and no belief can change your life as the one you believe for yourself, not the one another forces you to hold dear as a result of his gluttonous and demonic schemes.
Enough of these religious gigolos, enough of them playing with the weak and the sin-tormented feeble! Go to God and be free instead if you carry a load of sin. I would that I had the opportunity of acquainting with Osama Bin Laden before he died so I could be equipped with all I need to, not fight the West, but wipe out every evil Nigerian political Leader, both traditional and political. In the quest for my rights on earth, I would rather die a new “Osama Bin Laden” than a “Saro Wiwa.”  I would rather challenge my overbearing enemy than resort to attacking my innocent, helpless, harmless and struggling neighbours.  I would rather be a suicide bomber against the Nigerian government than live through life in a hellish Nigeria. If I were the young Farouk, I would rather have begun my charity work at home where and when senators and MPs convene instead of going to an all-round rich America. Oh! Since it’s become clear that only in violence will Nigeria fulfil its destiny of allowing people their freedom which is the peace of all, I wish I had the explosive force needed to face the government instead of the poor masses. I would rather bomb the Aso Rock, the seat of power (if it means a thing) in Nigeria than have my children grow up in fear and frustration, watching the children of these politician robbers squander within days what is enough for a generation. But sadly then, when I often think of it, I recall: “If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.” Since I do not have incorruptible lawyers to plead my case, faithful militants to fight my course at all costs, nor soldiers to wage every war necessary in my defence, what should I do then? I will rejoice in the God of justice and vengeance; that God whose words are infallible, who will judge even Satan and hell, their father and abode, and believe in Him to perfect his works in Nigeria. There is a time and a season to everything, and one day soon, Nigeria’s wicked and occult politicians will meet their waterloo. By the blood, I will be at the right end here on earth amongst those who will rejoice in the victory of heaven over hell and her sons. But until that time, let wishes become dreams and dreams, sincere prayers…and convictions. Who can stop a man of convictions?
Culled to RepublicReport New York By Ikechukwu Enyiagu
Phones / Re: Mtn's Extra-cool Over? by samtoye(m): 3:38pm On Aug 10, 2011
Its gonna come back,
Phones / Mtn Promo - Free Recharge Cards: by samtoye(m): 3:35pm On Aug 10, 2011
Y’ello All,
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Romance / Re: Monkey! Whats He Suppose To Do With Banana? by samtoye(m): 3:21pm On Aug 10, 2011
yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!! next!!!!
Romance / Re: Would You Marry a Single Parent? by samtoye(m): 3:16pm On Aug 10, 2011
Marrying a woman with kid (s); actually the mother wont be your problem but wait till the child(ren) grow(s) up!!! There is a yoruba proverb that says, The family would be at peace provided the bastard amongst the children is still a child,
Romance / Doctor Beaten For Raising Up His Hand At Ex-lover’s Wedding ! by samtoye(m): 8:15am On Aug 10, 2011
For daring to raise his hand during an altar call by the officiating priest that whoever has any reason why the bride and the bridegroom should not be joined together should say so or forever keep his mouth shut, a jilted medical doctor working at the paediatric section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH Idi Araba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria was beaten to a pulp.
Dr. Adeyemi Oladele, whose former lover, Chritiana Essiet was being wedded to a pastor was attacked by ushers and members of the congregation after complaining to them that his fiancee of seven years was forced to the altar by the bridegroom, Pastor Ubong Abasi Okono who is also the General Overseer of Faith and Fire Prayer Ministry, located at 3, Oremeji Street, Ketu, Ijanikin, Lagos.
A.M.NEWS investigations revealed that the medical doctor and the bride, Christiana Essiet had dated for seven years and the bride had slept with the doctor in his house three days before the marriage last weekend (6 August).
Doctor Oladele also confirmed to A.M.NEWS that he sponsored the bride’s university education at the University of Uyo where she read Business Management and had been responsible for the upkeep of her family before her sudden change of heart which he claimed was influenced by her mother who did not want her to marry a Yoruba man. Doctor Oladele is from Ondo State.
“ I know he didn’t like the pastor she was forced to marry because three days before the marriage she had been sleeping with me in my house at Iyana Iba. Before her father died early this year, her parents had sanctioned our marriage and we were planning to get married later this year. Trouble started when her father died around January. Unknown to me, Christiana’s mother had all along opposed our relationship and it was her father that always prevailed on her to allow the relationship since we both love each other.
“Immediately the man died, she came out in her true colours and tried to force Christiana to abandon me but she resisted. It got to a stage that she packed to my house and started living with me. She even got pregnant for me but the pregnancy came down,” he narrated.
So on 6 August, 2011, when he heard that a wedding was going on in the pastor’s church, Dr. Oladele stormed the church and disrupted it. And he was beaten by the congregation who also handed him over to the police at the Ijanikin Divisional Headquarters.
“When the police heard my own side of the story, they granted me bail and invited all the parties to the station for settlement,” he added.
A.M.NEWS was at the Ijanikin Police Station yesterday where the pastor and his new wife, the doctor and members of his family were present.
In his explanation to the Divisional Police Officer mediating in the dispute, Pastor Okono said: “I proposed to her and she accepted it and her mother supported it. I am surprised that she slept with this ex-boyfriend three days to my wedding.”
Dr. Oladele told the officer that he felt let down. “Can you imagine how I was let down by my fiancee who I sponsored to the University of Uyo? We dated for seven years. We met each other in the same neighborhood. She lived at 7A, Alhaja Hassana Street, Orile Iganmu. She is from Akwa-Ibom State. And she was five months pregnant for me and from Wednesday to Friday before the wedding we had sex and she demonstrated how much she loved me. She also cooked their native soup for me and the soup is kept in the fridge,” he told the police.
Throughout the proceedings, the lady at the centre of the scandal, Christiana, could not deny what the doctor said.
She told the police: “I was under pressure from my mom and the pastor. It is true I was five months pregnant for the doctor but my mother ordered me to the village and I was given some herbs to take and I had miscarriage.”
The police warned the parties to keep the peace after the doctor said he had forgiven her.
Family / Re: Punishment For My Wife by samtoye(m): 3:33pm On Aug 07, 2011
Your wife isn't your servant or your daughter, she is entitled to her own individuality. Your basis of vexation is unjustified so the so called punishment is unwarranted. Take care of your mother

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Family / Re: How Much Does Your Husband Earn? by samtoye(m): 3:11pm On Aug 07, 2011
I read one of the replies that said "he married me to take of my finances", thats the most selfish statement i've ever heard! Are you handicapped or disabled? The most foolish of men would share their financial worth with a woman regardless whether she is wife or girlfriend. I know some gigolos would protest but hardworking men know better.
Family / Re: She Needs A Baby, Hubby Says It's Not A Necessity by samtoye(m): 4:47pm On Aug 05, 2011
Sleek Reek:

The poster didn't say they don't Be Intimate,so being impotent may not be the problem but he is definitely behaving funny and hiding something. It could be one of the following

!)The man already has children from another lady.
2)He has no intention of having the marriage last long.
3)He may know he can't have children
4)He is really not interested in having children because of his age and just want to spend time with his wife.

Whatever let her sit him down and lovingly speak with him and creat an atmosphere for him to honestly let her know whats the issue.


You just spoke my mind! as simple as that!
Family / Re: He Impregnated Her But Can't Marry Her: by samtoye(m): 4:37pm On Aug 05, 2011
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Mr poster, Na you be the friend. Why can't u just own up to your problem?
All i can say is LMAO.

I reserve my comment!!!!

For those asking, pregnancy confirmed by doctor's test. the father of the baby? that's the million dollar question. I have asked him to marry the girl o because i don't to be burdened with the guilt of being accessory to killing. Also if they eventually marry against my advise then i can bet i would be the lady's public enemy number 1.
Family / Re: My 17-year-old Daughter Is Pregnant For Me, What Should I Do? by samtoye(m): 4:27pm On Aug 05, 2011
Stop posting fictitious stories so that real people with real problems can get real advice. haba!!!
Family / Re: What To Do About Brother In Law? Reflective Answere Only Please by samtoye(m): 4:19pm On Aug 05, 2011
why are you women like this? sorry i am going to be frank with you - what i can only see here is you don't want anyone to live with you especially your husband's people, all those faults you listed are nothing out of the extra ordinary, @ 19 years, haba? the boy is only a teenager, all those attribute are teenager's life. My kid brother does exactly the same thing, i did same thing as a teenager, What if he is your brother? would you send him away? tolerance! learn tolerance in marriage or else you would start a fight you can't finish. Show him more love and you would get him on your side, remember he is the eye of your husband's family.

A word is enough for the wise,

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Family / Re: I Feel Betrayed By My Wife. : What Do I Do? by samtoye(m): 4:07pm On Aug 05, 2011
Dear Sir,

Married for 20 years with 5 kids? and you want to divorce because of a past event? No sir, For the sake of your children please don't. As the Yoruba would say, Beheading cannot be the recommended solution for headache,
TV/Movies / Re: Karen's Victory Shows Resilience Of Nigerian Youths - Minister by samtoye(m): 11:05am On Aug 05, 2011
I do't know why we have dumb-ass and nincompoops as Government officials, what character should the youth emulate from Karen? boobs job? booze drinking? tatoo-ing? running around naked? begging a man for sex? stripper job? or what? if they don't have something meaning to say why don't they just shut up!!!!! This is not an issue of hypocrisy, yes we agree so many youths are on the same path but should we glorify it?
Romance / Re: ??? by samtoye(m): 10:57am On Aug 05, 2011
You made yourself too available, take the hint. Trust me i know!
Family / Re: He Impregnated Her But Can't Marry Her: by samtoye(m): 5:13pm On Aug 02, 2011
I quite agree with all what you guys have said, which was what i told him, i gave him a bit of my mind too! I think it is daft to sleep with someone without a condom if she is not your wife and especially someone with multiple partners! But with all said and done, he is still in this big problem and needs solution, i first told him to go abort the baby but i felt guilty about advising to kill a life, isn't that sinful? But i am thinking the lady is an opportunist and its more of a trap. Some colleagues said he should marry the girl but isn't that marriage based on the wrong foundation? I wish i could condemn him but we men makes stupid mistakes when it comes to women!
Family / He Impregnated Her But Can't Marry Her: by samtoye(m): 12:27pm On Aug 02, 2011
Hello Nairalander,

I need to advice a friend in a situation so i need your advice -

My friend is a young unmarried guy (good job and status), one day while driving out of his compound his maiguard begged him to help a neighborhood girl (area girl) to her destination. After that days interaction, one thing led to another and they ended up "dating" but it was done discretely because of the status difference between him and the girl. They agreed to just be sleeping partners and she helps at times in house chores (the girl had several boyfriends and the guy didn't intend to marry her).
Yesterday, the guy called me to say the girl said she was pregnant for him, what should he do? The girl doesn't want to abort cos she said a "revelation" in her church said Np pregnant girl should about for risk of death" - What should my friend do? Convince her to abort? force her to abort? keep the child only and leave the girl? marry the girl because of the pregnancy.
Religion / Re: Tithes - Does God Want The Tithes Of Money? by samtoye(m): 11:42am On Aug 02, 2011
Matthew 23:23

New International Version (NIV)

  23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.


Why do
Boboedom:

May I refer all to Matt. 23:23. Christ refers to tithing and also did not condemn it but encourage us to tithe while not neglecting the most important things-Justice, and Mercy and honesty. Bless you all


Oga, that is matt 23:23 - I don't see where Jesus encouraged Tithing, lets not misquote the bible to make point, in-fact its even "woe",
Religion / Re: Tithes - Does God Want The Tithes Of Money? by samtoye(m): 10:10am On Aug 02, 2011
Tithing is Unscriptural Under the New Covenant

"Will a man ROB God?" How many untold tens of thousands of men will give account one day for teaching this verse in Malachi 3:8 totally out of context for their own sordid gain. I couldn’t count the times I have heard self-appointed ministers of the gospel berate their congregations and listeners for "robbing God" in tithes and offerings.

I marvel at the way the world of Christendom extract money from the poor and peddles the Word of God like so much merchandise for sordid gain. It is an international disgrace.

Jesus Christ’s followers did not pay tithe to Him from farm products or herds; neither did His followers pay Him ten percent of their salaries from other sources of income.

We have Scriptural proof that no such law or custom as Christian tithing was taught or practiced in the Church by the early apostles. Their epistles are totally devoid of any such tithing custom or law. Gentile converts were never taught to tithe to anyone.

Paul never taught the Gentiles to tithe, but he did teach them to give freely from what they had, not from what they didn’t have: "Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, or of NECESSITY: for GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER." (II Cor,  9:7).

It is funny how poor people's tithes are use to build schools and Universities that those poor cannot afford to attend, large edifices built in the name of God, Pastor driving exotic cars while Congregation are hustling, I even heard of unemployed youths paying tithe and tithing a loan from the bank. These are all wrong and not scriptural.

The real missionaries of the Gospel of Jesus Christ have not flown first class to cushy hotels in exotic lands to teach the natives while dressed in their $3000 suits! The real missionaries were often down in the trenches with few if any luxuries. And there are still to be found such dedicated dispensers of God’s Word. These are the ones that are in need of financial support, for sure. These are those who truly are "worthy of their hire."

HELP THE NEEDY, NOT THE GREEDY

Give to the fatherless, the orphans, the strangers, the widows, the poor, and the needy, the homeless, and the beggar on the street, as God gives to you, the wherewithal. Give to reputable charities if you have extra. Give to your family members and relatives in need—don’t humiliate them by making them ask you first. Give to a neighbor in financial distress. Even when tipping someone, let it be a reflection of the One that you are representing in your Christian walk. Our God is a generous God—may you become generous also. Develop a "love for giving." Paul tells us in Acts 20:35b to:

Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE .
Travel / Re: I Would Love To Travel: Got Potentials But Not Cash: Sponsors Re Welcomed! by samtoye(m): 5:49pm On Jul 28, 2011
A Lizard at home does not and cannot become a crocodile in the forest!!! My guy if you cant make anything of your life in your father's land where you know all the terrains like the back of your hands, what guarantees you would make it in a strange land!!!!!!, its not bad to dream but make sure it aint day dreaming!!!
Romance / Re: Help Guys! Can U Date Ur Ex Girlfriends Younger Sister. by samtoye(m): 5:22pm On Jul 28, 2011
dem take that family do you
Politics / Re: 5 Reasons Why America Is Worse Than Nigeria by samtoye(m): 5:00am On Jul 23, 2011
@OP, you are misinformed. From the tone of your write up i can deduce you are one discouraged teenager that had listened to too many stories of woe from unsuccessful older relatives. I don't even think you have started earning a living or else you would have the right fact. 500k house? How many Americans live in such houses not to talk of immigrants and 40k jeeps? You kidding me? Me think you watching too much of CRIBS on MTV Base. Then recently most cars sold in nigeria were bought from US so if they are cheaper here after paying for shipping and duties then the seller must be a father xmas or NGO running a GEJ program called "cars for all by 2020". Also with all your theories and deduction you havent even been able to convince yourself not to talk of convince anybody because it seems you are still in that US ( thats if you were even there in the first place and not a disillussioned youngman that understudied US but wasnt given VISA). The truth is that nowhere is a bed of roses but to say livng in Nigeria is better than US is far fetched, each country has its own challenges but there are many advantages of livng in a developed society.There are many Mark Zukerberg walking the streets of Nigeria but the best they could be are cybercafe attendance or computer scammers just because there noble idea died within them for lack of enabling enviroment, if Seun Nairaland had been an American, Nairaland would have been listed on Walls Street and himself listed on Forbes but no, he is a nigerian where things dont work by default. Therefore my confused brother and fellow Nairalander - look before you leap or else your oncoming children would blame you!!!y 2020". Also with all your theories and deduction you havent even been able to convince yourself not to talk of convince anybody because it seems you are still in that US ( thats if you were even there in the first place and not a disillussioned youngman that understudied US but wasnt given VISA). The truth is that nowhere is a bed of roses but to say livng in Nigeria is better than US is far fetched, each country has its own challenges but there are many advantages of livng in a developed society.There are many Mark Zukerberg walking the streets of Nigeria but the best they could be are cybercafe attendance or computer scammers just because there noble idea died within them for lack of enabling enviroment, if Seun Nairaland had been an American, Nairaland would have been listed on Walls Street and himself listed on Forbes but no, he is a nigerian where things dont work by default. Therefore my confused brother and fellow Nairalander - look before you leap or else your oncoming children would blame you!!!

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Politics / Re: A Dictator Is Coming To Fix Nigeria - Pastor Bakare by samtoye(m): 3:38pm On Jul 19, 2011
Whether you guys believe or not; - What's gonna be is gonna be - Bongo Zikwe (Cock Crow at Dawn). With all what is happening, Boko Haram, Militant insurgence , kidnapping, gun/bomb running, pervasive govt looting; it's a matter of time before the country turns into rubbles. Most African countries are heading towards self destruct, championed by Nigeria, Just like the warning given to soddom and gomorrah, posterity shall vindicate the phrophet. No big deal being called a Prophet of doom, Isaiah and Jeremiah were called such even St John predicted doom too, Nigerians deserve GEJ and PDP, we got what we asked for, Fresh Air 2011 - 2015 and beyond, except Nigeria Federation not guaranteed before 2015.
Romance / Re: Will She Kill Me If I Dont Marry Her? 9yrs No Be Beans O! by samtoye(m): 2:58pm On Jul 18, 2011
You want to dump her after 9 years? just say you are tired and wants something new shikena!!!!

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