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baynix: Why Nt Name Ur Pikin 'Garri' And Break The Record?? Or Alomo, Oroki, Agbalumo, Otapiapia??

ahn ahn, bros take am easy nah, wetin i do u? u see me for dream?

loswhite: totally agree wit u

i feel honoured!

thanks.

KnowAll: 419 is d most important 3 digits number Nigeria as a nation has given d world. U can google it. So making it a distress call number in Naija makes a lotta sense.

thanks alot, if this is the only comment i get on this post, then thats enough for me.

Infact, i think should go to bed now sef....

loswhite: bros they don't call her because she has attitude problem 4 u to post dis rubbish shows hw u will b responding wen they call.

You see, there are different classes of people in Nigeria, its not my fault if the op is surrounded by people who beg (whichever class they belong to), me and my friends in Nigeria are hardworking set of people, as a matter of fact, i have invited white friends i meet abroad in conferences to come over and have some fun in nigeria, i am an ibo boy and i have relatives who didnt go to school, they all have businesses they do, they dont go around begging people for money.

We are a people of great self worth! i sincerely dont understand what the op is saying.... Plus, if the op is smart enough then she doesnt need nairalanders to teach her how to raise her kids. (well, maybe her kids are already showing beggarly symptoms)

“As president, I would ask the Police to get a national emergency number, say 419 like the Americans use 911. It won’t be various numbers for various police stations. I saw some very long un-memorisable numbers on the website of the Nigerian police. How on earth do they expect anyone to know such numbers? The first thing most robbers do now is to take your phone from you so you won’t be able to call. How does the Nigerian police expect a traumatised robbery victim, whose phone has been taken from him, to remember a 10-digit emergency number? It’s rather ridiculous. I mean, we could instead have 419 – which is the most popular police code in Nigeria. If you are robbed, and your phone is taken, you can get to a call centre and just dial 419." by Temitope Oyetomi Author of the book 'Fellow Nigerians, I wish you Goodluck'

the curse of the causeless shall remain curseless

u are obviously surrounded by beggars.....

i cant remember the last time any of my friends or family members called to beg me for anything, and i must confess they only call to discuss business opportunities with me.

@op, quit messing around with beggars

NIGERIANS are not beggars, they dont sit at home depending on the government to feed them through welfare packages, they are hard working set of people. If they dont call u again, its not because u did not give them money, its because u are unreasonable, just like your post.

Gbam!

bros, i think i will just stick to ibo and yoruba names (since i understand both), in fact rather than me reading through everything u wrote in the quest of naming my child, i might just use gemstones like onyx, emerald, tourmaline, diamond... etc (at least they are of great worth). Guy, there is no time for Hebrew classes.....

and yes! u can also use your favorite movie character eg.. django (the d is silent), or Captain Whip Whitaker...

anybody my dad asks to? well, that was then, now, the most recent visitor leads - since all the kids are away from home doing their own things..

hey nwa m, i batago? ngwa kperu anyi ekpere ta.

omo mi, so ti de? oda gba adura fun wa loni.

hausas should pls forgive me..... infact, i should just pray and go to bed now.

very wonderful piece, brilliantly compiled.

but hey, God is love, he died for sinners - while they were yet sinners, he doesnt wish for any of them to perish and so didnt kill any of the above, he is life and life is all he gives. The devil obviously took advantage of all of them.

it is only expected for bad things to happen to bad people, and so was the fate of the people you mentioned earlier.

we all did wrong stuffs in the past, howcome God didnt kill us then, thats because his perseverance is unto repentance.

thanks for the write up though, seeing u are passionate about God as i am. Bless you!

(i am surprised that this didnt make frontpage)

hey Jeseoul, atleast, now i know who to contact if this happens again... thanks anyways.

what! no reply?

Well, i was just thinking, why not lets all drop our churches names and addresses and inter-invite ourselves, perhaps, there is someone new to your neighborhood looking for a church to attend or something. well for me, i attend;
Word Foundation Christian Centre, No 68 Aina Street, Ojodu Berger, Lagos. Pastor by Mark Greywood Ogu, the church is very committed to helping people realize their God given purpose on earth, and our sunday service starts from 8am to 10am.

So, lets hear yours!

Thanks.

wow, this page still exists? howcome, i wasn't notified that is has been unbanned.... Nice one then, i guess the MODS decided to just let it swing..... (dancing azonto)

i just came across this video while going about my own internet business (definitely), well, i was so impressed as to how the Golden Voice of Africa carried himself all through, an ebullient speaker of great eloquence, he was indeed very influential, one would have thought that Nigeria would be the most envied country in Africa by now.

i don't know if this video has been posted here on nairaland before, but then i would strongly recommend that you watch this video and be proud again to be called a Nigerian.

for those on cheap mtn, etisalat and glo data plans, i understand if you dont watch the clip, it is not your fault.... GGMUB!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5m9Fn9RBg

wow, what a wonderful testimony from a saint! Glory to God! lets keep pushing through, soonest we will banish sickness and death from the earth! common' saints lets keep pushing through......

Bless you op! I urge everybody to please keep sharing their testimonies......

wow, that's great news for Africa, go on and represent us well, bless you!

common guys, congrats to seun and everybody that made this happen..... lets go ahead and make nairaland the most visited site in the world. wow, i so happy. yipee!!!!!!!!!!

"he MISTOOK your loyalty for stupidity" haba! wizkid, it was a mistake nah.... forgive and forget. go back to EME records and give them that ur azonto werewere kiyamusa dance nah, banky W needs you nah, he didnt even deny making the mistake, plus, come to think about it.... he deleted the tweets afterwards.

on a more serious note, i have learnt in life that nobody is irreplacable. (maybe except, donjazzy)

he said u will have to make daily payments and all, i said u will have to make a one time yearly payment to ur air maintenance company. and the max u ll pay in a year is 37.5 million naira - thats if u are a very busy traveler. compare that to flying first class weekly with some of ur staffs onboard, maybe P.A. and so, u will that it is actually way economical. common, i know alot of peeps, okay maybe a handful, who spend way more than that yearly on just catching their fun and all.

Iyfe Namikaze: Lol.. Your comment shows that you actually hav never been in an airplane,let alone owning one. Do you have any idea the equivalent of $250,000 in Naira? You people will not kill person for here with lies ojare!
And to add it up, what you said did not in anyway dispute what He said. He even shade more light on the issue than u did.
Abeg no dey form formularity for here.

modicum: On issues like this, I want to thread softly not to be seen to judge nor condemn an anointed. For no one will pass judgement on the anointed and will be guiltless before God. Having said that however, my admonition goes to the men of God. Most of them started well and God lifted them. But what we now see is the danger of fullness. The deceitfulness of riches is derailing most of them. How many jets did they use at the beginning of their Ministry. Yet they saw the raw hands of God and their churches exploded with people who yearned for the truth. If a Pastor could even afford a jet in this impoverished economy, shouldn't the love for the people be enough restraint. Would Jesus do this if he were to be in Nigeria today? Among the hungered, a person drinking common Garri may be lynched for being sumptuous. This is what these men of God should think about. Also, I want to submit that only a very negligible percentage of wealthy men in this present Nigeria will be able to righteously acquire a jet, without a shady underground. Aside the acquisition cost of about N10b, the parking at the port is about N20,000.00 per day, Pilot's salary, maintenance is done daily, not like a car you service 3 monthly, landing tax in foreign countries is exorbitant even for commercial aircraft etc. All these associated cost of maintenance is over a million Naira monthly. So would an hungry man among the congregation not be tempted to pass judgement on the man of God? Paul the Apostle said if my eating meat will make my fellow brother to stumble, I will rather not eat meat. The men of God are making us to stumble by forcing the hungry populace to pass unhealthy comments. I will not. But let everything be done decently and in order.

Since I own a jet, I think I should educate you briefly on how maintenance works seeing that a lot of you guys are quite ignorant.

When you buy a jet, or before u buy one. You would first be advised on which option is better based on ur average travel time yearly. U ll either choose between private or joint ownership. Well, if u fly more than 400 hours a year. Then private ownership is/would be quite economical for u, especially if u travel with ur crew.

After purchase u ll then need to register the jet with an air maintenance company. They will do the servicing, repairs, parking, provision of their pilots and hotesses whenever you want to travel, only you would have to notify them 2 - 4 hrs before flying. Now that maintenance company will charge you 100,000 to 250,000 dollars per annum. Depending on how often u travel.

Now, that isn't much. Infacts, that's a cheap deal for a regular corporate or business traveller. And mind you, I know regular people who spend way more than that amount on partying yearly. So please, give these pastors a break. They deserve the good life. I look forward to buying a jet for my church soonest.

albacete: abi?
Mine went too.

It would only bounce back if your mail weighs more than 6MB, common' be honest with us, how heavy are the files u r attaching?

While u guys were busy debating on the right email address, I sent mine and it went. Thanks poster!

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Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself

By Alexandra Sifferlin

No surprise — those Facebook photos of your friends on vacation or celebrating a birthday party can make you feel lousy.


Facebook is supposed to envelope us in the warm embrace of our social network, and scanning friends’ pages is supposed to make us feel loved, supported and important (at least in the lives of those we like). But skimming through photos of friends’ life successes can trigger feelings of envy, misery and loneliness as well, according to researchers from two German universities. The scientists studied 600 people who logged time on the social network and discovered that one in three felt worse after visiting the site—especially if they viewed vacation photos. Facebook frequenters who spent time on the site without posting their own content were also more likely to feel dissatisfied.


“We were surprised by how many people have a negative experience from Facebook with envy leaving them feeling lonely, frustrated or angry,” study author Hanna Krasnova from the Institute of Information Systems at Berlin’s Humboldt University told Reuters. ”From our observations some of these people will then leave Facebook or at least reduce their use of the site.”

The most common cause of Facebook frustration came from users comparing themselves socially to their peers, while the second most common source of dissatisfaction was “lack of attention” from having fewer comments, likes and general feedback compared to friends.

The study authors note that both men and women feel pressure to portray themselves in the best light to their Facebook friends, but men are more likely to post more self-promotional content in their ”About Me” and “Notes” sections than women, although women are more likely to stress their physical attractiveness and sociability.



Overall, however, shared content does not have to be “explicitly boastful” for envy feelings to emerge. In fact, a lonely user might envy numerous birthday wishes his more sociable peer receives on his FB Wall. Equally, a friend’s change in the relationship status from “single” to “in a relationship” might cause emotional havoc for someone undergoing a painful breakup.

So far, it seems that the positive effects of being socially connected supersede the negative consequences of feeling inferior or left out by your circle of friends. But the authors suggest that if the hurtful feelings grow, Facebook and other social media may no longer be a fun way to stay connected with friends, but could become just another source of stress for people.

The research will be presented at an information system conference in Germany in February, called the 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Pediatricians Should Discuss ‘Facebook Depression’ with Kids



Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/24/why-facebook-makes-you-feel-bad-about-yourself/#ixzz2KZMIrAv8

TESTING! TESTING!! (Yipee! My ban has been lifted. I'm back!)

Recently I decided to pause and think about all my spiritual and conscientious views. And by recently I mean yesterday. There was ‘love’ all else nothing to do but ask myself questions: what’s up with me and this christian faith sef? What if I was born a muslim, or better still, what if I was the son of some successful atheist. What if I was born into some other religion that is perhaps intellectually and/or philosophically sound, and nope, I’m not talking about sango or ayelala.

Hey, we don’t have all the time in the world, let’s go straight to the point, I decided to embark on a self liberating mission to discover the truth, this can only be achieved by questioning all truths…. Understanding exactly what their founders/spiritual leaders really taught and nothing else! That simple uhn? I don’t think so. I tell you what, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Bob Noyce – the inventor of the microchip, Wallace D. Wattles – Napoleon Hill’s mentor, all these men at a point in their lives denounced every involvement with organised religion or perhaps they themselves were denounced by organised religions, either ways they claimed to have gone through the bible and other spiritual materials they could lay hands on, and yet couldn’t just understand the importance of organised religion to the world. They all believed in the existence of a God, but the theological truth been held by some that their religion is the only way to God, only sounded absurd to them, well, not to me!

In all my studies, I was mostly intrigued by a figure, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha by name, firstly, based on my research, its glaring that almost all religion on earth, if not all, is directly or indirectly linked to Jesus Christ. In the case of this traditionally professed and revered holy man called Buddha, he was an atheist and didn't even believe in the existence of a God, he was of the opinion that whether or not a God, or a soul exists is irrelevant to the human race, in fact he tried as much to avoid answering such questions when been asked by his subjects, he believed humans have done well without believing in God or in a soul and he taught his followers to use their minds in the pursuit of perfection and total salvation “Only when a man attains perfection, can he truly answer the questions of the existence of a God, a soul or even the afterlife” those were his simple teachings and practices, as he would sometimes sit under a tree for days, meditating deeply on attaining perfection, myth has it that he once sat under a tree for 43 days straight. Men! That’s mind blowing for a man who lived 438 years before Jesus Christ. He wasn't worshiped or even followed after his death, since he only taught on the renewal of the mind towards perfection. But you see, the moment the story of Jesus Christ reached the Ancient India(Nepal), they thought to themselves “we also have a great holy man who lived here some 400 years back, if the people in the west are worshiping Jesus, then we should also be worshiping Buddha” that was how Buddhism started, that was how some folks began to carve images, build temples and in fact idolize the image of a man who didn't even believe in the existence of God, what would Buddha have been looking for in a temple if he was still alive. For Chrissake he sees it as a namby pamby attitude for the people who were driven by fear to believe in the existence of a God, soul and probably a just reward in the afterlife.

This is my point, Buddha was a great man, but what if someone has actually attained perfection, what if Jesus Christ actually did attain perfection! What if he was truly the one in the best position to tell if there is a God, a soul, or an afterlife – in fact, Jesus the Christ preached on all these subject matters with a measure of audacity that defies explanation. Perhaps Buddha was right, we truly needed someone who had attained perfection in all knowledge to teach us all things. Jesus came, he attained perfection and it was said of him “this is My beloved son in whom I’m well pleased, listen to him”

www.searchobinna.

1st?

The bibliography of Christ

chucky234: Your point pls

Just because he owns a jet doesn't in any way mean he is not charitable.

Elvis Presley was a very flamboyant guy, who bought a whole shopping mall for his step brothers and had it delivered in less than 6 hours, yet he gave more to welfare than the whole of the united states of america put together.

Bishop Oyedepo responded hugely to the haiti disaster, he has loads of kids he is sponsoring, he donates massively to charity organisations monthly, plus, he gives more to any church he is invited to preach in than the church will give him. These are things I heard from Bishop's mouth.

I challenge you to ask any body close to him and they will tell you about how gracious the 'son of God' is.

While myy president was busy making his speech, Teemac was busy apologising to Bishop (or so he wants us to believe).

Just cause I use expensive stuffs doesn't mean that I'm not as charitable as should be.

CASE STUDY: Kenneth Copeland, Kobus Van Rensburg et al

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