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No be by force naah

May be or may be not.....they are missing not dead, probably, they are on strange island living and trying to find there way back home....just like in the movie Lost like you said.......

This list tho..... anyways not bad

Was never a fan of buhari, but the way and manners the present government run the affairs of this nation makes me re-think and consider this man at least for once....I have one VOTE, either it count or not, am gonna make use of it.

So so on point......nice post @Op

It's All About Believing in Yourself

Have you ever seen someone who didn't buy a car because he failed to learn how to drive? Or have you ever met someone who tried to learn how to drive then decided not to try again after failing for few times?

Personally, I have never met anyone like that. Almost everyone who starts learning how to drive ends up being able to drive well. Although not everyone becomes a driving expert still everyone who tires learns the basics of this complex skill.

The question is, why you succeeded in learning how
to drive yet failed in achieving some of your other
goals?

The answer is simple: because you were sure that you were going to be able to drive long before you sat in the driver's seat. You saw everyone around you succeeding in doing it and so were convinced that there's nothing particularly hard about it, even though it really is a complicated skill.


Believe in Yourself and People Will Be Forced to
Believe in You

Billions of people fail to live the life they have always wished to live. They fail to realize their ambitions and give up on their big dreams as soon as they encounter the first obstacle. One of the strongest causes for this attitude is that they do not believe in themselves.

Believing in yourself is all about being sure that you
are going to do whatever you want even if others
were against you. Usually, when you decide to take a big challenge or to do something that people failed to do you will find that everyone is putting you down.

Under the pressure of this criticism some people
start to doubt their own abilities and eventually give
up. The few people who manage to believe in
themselves and who continue moving along the path they've chosen are the ones who succeed. Check out these real life examples and see for yourself:

During the Dot Com boom, practically everyone was buying internet stocks madly. One of the few people who didn't buy was Warren Buffet. At the time, everyone criticized Buffet for his extreme caution and skepticism when dealing with these new stocks. Few years later, after the Dot Com bubble happened everyone lost a lot of money while Buffet ended up being the second richest man in the world!!!!

Alex Haley received 200 rejections before he
published the novel "Roots" which was published in
37 languages, won the Pulitzer Prize and become a popular television miniseries in 1977.

In the early development stages of Microsoft, the company was going to be sold. The buyer turned the offer down because he thought that people wouldn’t need to put computers in their homes. Now bill gates is the richest man in the world!!


How to Believe in Yourself

The previous examples were not of people who lived on other planets. They were just normal people like you, the only difference is that they believed in themselves and so they had the last laugh. If you want to be like these people and if you want to believe in yourself then stick to the following guidelines:

1 Learn about the psychology of convincing people:
In almost all the cases where people give up their
goals half way through, they usually start their task
being completely convinced with their ideas and are
then put down by other people. Being put down is no more than being convinced that you are moving In the wrong direction. The problem with convincing people to believe in something is that it can easily be done regardless of which opinion is right! If you don't want to allow anyone to affect your decisions or to put you down then learn about the psychology of convincing people.

2 Stop thinking that people’s opinion are
important :
Some people think that unless everyone agrees with them then they are wrong. This is completely wrong. No one ever succeeds without being rejected. If people think that you are wrong or that your efforts will yield no results then just go against them by either convincing them with your point of view right away or by waiting until they believe in you by force when they see your success.


3 Build self-confidence in your judgment:
In the Solid Self confidence program i said that If you challenged people once or twice and went against their opinions then succeeded, even if that was a trivial task, then you will end up being more
confident in your abilities and your ideas. At this
point their opinion won't affect you anymore.

4 Above all, Believe In God: Ask God for guidance and help and you will feel that you are backed up by a power which is superior to anyone who rejects you

Courtsy: 2knowmyself.com

[color=Red]“Final Words”[/color]

If you don't believe in yourself you will end up
discarding your ideas and no one will remember you.
On the other hand, if you believed in yourself and continued fighting for what you want then people
may reject your ideas in the beginning but they will
be forced to believe in you in the end after seeing
your success.

Cover eyes with towel

Noted

You are watching a two-hour movie. President
Goodluck Jonathan is the “actor” (that’s what we
used to call the main character as kids). It is
just 10 minutes to the end of the movie.
Jonathan has been dodging bullets on the
streets in the last one hour, running from pillar
to villa. Many of his fighters have deserted him
and joined his adversaries, led by Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari. They lob missiles at him,
like javelin, from every direction as he snakes
towards his fortress. Out of breath, he uses the
butt of his AK47 to smash the padlock of his
gate, and his rifle falls into pieces. He is now left
with only a pistol and a hand grenade.

Eight minutes to go… His vest torn, blood crawling
from his exposed biceps down to his forearm, he makes a dazed dash for his entrance door, barely
hooking the gate with a chain from inside. The
adversaries are closing in. They volley gunshots
at the fence as he desperately runs to open the
door. He has bruises all over his body. His nose
is bleeding from a stone just thrown by
Obasanjo which landed on his nose with
mathematical precision. Soyinka had earlier
knocked off his front tooth at a blind corner.
The scar on his forehead was scribbled by
Kolade. Jonathan now hates the mirror. It is a
hostile piece of glass.


Five minutes to go…

His right hand is hurt by the door knob as his
trembling arms try to force it open. His mouth
is in dry season, dreadfully in need of saliva or
anything liquid in form. The enemies are
massing outside the fence. He whispers to
himself, in pidgin English: “Wetin I do dis
people na?” He does not quickly reckon that the
door is playing its own trick. It refuses to open.
He has to fire the last bullets in his pistol to
force it open. He is now left with only a hand
grenade as he creeps into the villa.
Let’s pause there. I’m an amateur script writer
and I don’t know how to complete the
remaining three minutes of the movie. But let
us leave the world of make-believe and come
back to reality. And the reality is that this is not
the best of times to be Jonathan. With a
swelling crowd of opponents hitting at him, the
room for maneuver is getting smaller. Now, if
Buhari criticises him, you could say: What do
you expect? If it is APC, you would say it is
predictable. Even Soyinka, you might conclude
that he’s been vocal all his life. And Obasanjo?
Well, he tackles even the dead.


But Kolade? Now this is a different proposition.
There are a few Nigerians I adore with every bit
of my soul and pray to be like them in my old
age. Kolade is one of them. He is a man of
integrity, a role model, a patriot and a non-
partisan. I admire him to no end. So when
someone like that becomes your critic, then
there is trouble. The biggest mistake you will
make is to lump him along with your natural or
regular critics. However, you can choose to lock
yourself up, read his statement word-for-word,
get pricked in your heart, and say: Dear God,
what may I do to be saved?

I have said this before and I would like to repeat
myself: it is not in the interest of President
Jonathan to lump all his critics together. As a
leader, he has to sit down, analyse his critics
and their criticisms, arrange them in groups,
classify the key issues and work out his actions
and reactions appropriately. He sure has
millions of critics, like any other leader. People
criticise with different motives. People have
different agenda even when they are saying the
same thing. Unfortunately, you will miss the
message when you lump everyone together and
respond to every critic and criticism with
cynicism and antagonism.

I once identified at least four different
categories of Jonathan’s critics. In Group A, I
placed opposition figures and other political
opponents. There is no way APC would come
out and praise Jonathan; that is political suicide.
They want power. They want his job. Theirs is to
say Jonathan or PDP has not done well and that
if Nigerians give them a chance, they would do
much better. This is a universal characteristic of
opposition politics. You can argue that they do
not always work with the facts, but what is
politicking? PDP would do the same if APC were
in power.

In Group B, you have those who lost out in the
political game. Many politicians who supported
Jonathan in 2010 and 2011 feel abandoned.
They feel like a deflated orange: squeezed,
sucked and dumped. They feel Jonathan treated
them to a one-night stand, whereas they wanted
an affair. Some wanted appointments; others
simply desired respect and recognition. But
they are bitter that Jonathan jilted them after
getting what he wanted. In no time, they
became his sworn enemies. I would locate
Obasanjo within this group.

In Group C,

you have those northerners who are still bitter that Jonathan “hijacked” power after the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2010. The north had conceded power to the south in 1999, with the
understanding that Obasanjo would do only
one term. But Aso Rock was too sweet for him.
So PDP agreed to a north/south power rotation
every eight years. Unfortunately, Yar’Adau died
prematurely. Jonathan took over and refused to
let go. To some northerners, there is nothing
Jonathan can do to make them happy. Even if
he turns northern Nigeria to Dubai, their
message is clear: Thank you and just get out of
here.

In Group D are those who have neither partisan
nor sectional sentiments against Jonathan ─
they are sincerely critical of certain aspects of
his stewardship. Jonathan was marketed as a
breath of fresh air in 2011. But these critics
have been genuinely disturbed at his handling
of critical issues such as corruption and Boko
Haram. In truth, Jonathan lost a lot of
sympathisers with the Chibok schoolgirls saga
which was turned into the “Na Only You Waka
Come” tragicomedy in the corridors of power.
Now, you cannot group these genuine critics
with his political enemies. You cannot put
Kolade and APC or Obasanjo in the same
category. You will miss the point completely.
Let’s now unpause the movie. Jonathan is holed
up in his fortress with only one grenade left.
The blitzkrieg outside is intimidating. Some in
the cinema hall are already tweeting that
Jonathan is down and out and Buhari is only
two minutes away from taking over. The social
media community is awash with “Sai Buhari”
victory chants. But,wait, Jonathan is still the
president. He still has enormous political and
economic powers. He still has a few more
minutes to decide what to do with the grenade
in his hand. And he still has troops from 36
states trying to come to his rescue.
Will he survive? Will he detonate the bomb?
Let’s just relax, with popcorn and Pepsi, and
soak in the closing scenes. There could still be a
twist, who knows. It’s an exhilarating political
thriller.


AND FOUR OTHER THINGS…
OBASANJO’S WATCH

I find the circumstances surrounding Obasanjo’s latest memoirs quite revealing.
First, he defied a court order. Typical Obasanjo:
lawless. Second, he titled the book “My Watch”.
Wow. In 2004, Chinua Achebe rejected a
national honour, writing to Obasanjo: “I write
this letter with a very heavy heart… I have
watched particularly the chaos in my own state
of Anambra where a small clique of renegades,
openly boasting its connections in high places,
seems determined to turn my homeland into a
bankrupt and lawless fiefdom… Nigeria’s
condition today under YOUR WATCH (my
emphasis) is too dangerous for silence.”
Memories.


AU REVOIR, ATIKU

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has wanted to be
president of Nigeria since 1993 and it would
seem the dream is finally over after the APC
primary. If you had asked me in 2001 or
thereabouts, I would have said Atiku was the
most powerful politician in Nigeria and it was
just a matter of time for him to succeed
Obasanjo. In his latest book, Obasanjo recalled
how an Atiku associate came to “gist” him on
the VP’s comprehensive plan to become
president anytime he wanted. Obasanjo said he
thereafter told his ADC: “Why do people plan
and leave God out of their plan?” Deep!


WHO’S LAUGHING NOW

This is not funny, although there is a bit of fun
in it. In September, Malam Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso, Kano governor and former APC
presidential aspirant, described Malam Nuhu
Ribadu as a “laughing stock” for defecting from
APC to PDP and then failing to get the Adamawa
governorship ticket. But now Ribadu has the
PDP governorship ticket, while Kwankwaso has
failed in his own bid, despite reluctantly
appointing Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano
under pressure from other APC governors who
reportedly promised him the party’s
presidential ticket in return. Ribadu would be
saying: who’s the laughing stock now? Irony.


JONATHAN VS BUHARI

And finally, we’re going to have a rematch
between Jonathan and Buhari in the
presidential bout. To the partisans, this is going
to be a Rumble in the Jungle. To the spectators,
it is a Thriller in the Villa. But to the security
agencies, this could turn out to be a nightmare.
One thing we should all plead for is that the
contest should, for God’s sake, be conducted in
good spirits. In 2011, it was too bloody.
Violence erupted even before the election. The
combatants should stick to the issues and
undertake to control their supporters in the
national interest. Sportsmanship.


www.opinions.ng/can-jonathan-survive-this-blitzkrieg/

Slitz:
I don't agree with you and you don't have to agree with me too. But enforcing that silly idea on me is kinda ridiculous!

Is not ridiculous ma, he's quite saying the truth.

malvisguy212:
muhammed was in the cave of hira when the truth descend on him, meaning a new chapter of truth has just began,a new religion. Why the truth did not descend on other prophet? Could this mean the main reason islam get their religion creed (I believe in allah and muhammed is his only messenger?) Can you differentiate the truth other prophet were living in and the truth that descend on muhammed? Their are a lot of evidence that show the quran was spiritually manipulated by satan.

Muhammed is his messenger not only messenger....and to the bolded, you can't just say such and expect us to believe.... where is the evidence?....do you got any

moonglow:
I would like to explain, but human beings are a bunch of ignorant,stubborn,stvpid, fvcking idiats . it's a waste of my time explaining.
continue in your ignorant brainwashed ways. you filthy,worthless rags,Godforsaken animals known as humans! you deserve to suffer and feel pain.

Take it easy brother.....It as not got to a point to throw all that insult....I believe those that want to learn will still learn.....Someone like will definitely do....So, if there is any thing you wish to contribute to this thread for the sake of those that want to know more please do.....1 love.

SAVEDBABA:
Jesus is the way

How....Does the Op ask if Jesus is the way?....

Dreambeat:
@ Op,Christianity is not a religion,its a way of life.

How will you say christianity is not a religion but rather a way of life without you backing it up...its a way of life to you and others, okay fine....how then...no vex oh, mie just want to know ni Ooº°°ºoo...because i grew up knowing it as a religion....so explain to me how it suddenly become a way of life recently.

radiance26:
This topic is baseless,instead of preaching one love across all religions and denominations,u'r asking which is best? What answer do u expect to get?

At times, its very important one digest a qųęşţįoŋ first before he/she comment.....The Op did not ask which one of the religion or denominations is the best, but ask how do/did you know this or that religion or denominations is the best and accepted by God.

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Okay, now i know....tanks.

Nigeria is different from America naah.

God go continue to expose their black as.s one by one....

i sexy pass am sef...