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CelebritiesRe: 2face Idibia Opens Night Club In Victoria Island by sholay2011(m): 4:13pm On Feb 07, 2017
They keep opening night clubs, not industries or vocational training centres, yet the mess the country is in currently is wholly the fault of the government, not the citizens?
RomanceRe: Lady Announced Marriage Without Husband, Searching For Husband(photo) by sholay2011(m): 4:07pm On Feb 07, 2017
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FoodRe: African Man Crying Because The Sausage He Is Eating Is Too Sweet (Video) by sholay2011(m): 3:56pm On Feb 07, 2017
shocked cry
Christianity EtcRe: Why The Number Of Muslims Will Soon Outnumber That Of Christains by sholay2011(m): 5:04pm On Feb 06, 2017
This thread is kinda funny tbh.
Christianity EtcRe: Nairaland Has Destroyed Many Religious Soul(must Read) by sholay2011(m): 4:53pm On Feb 06, 2017
Ephesians 1:18
CelebritiesRe: #IStandWithNigeria: Comedienne Helen Paul Protesting (Video, Photo) by sholay2011(m): 4:18pm On Feb 06, 2017
durubrian:
You no get sense o
Where is your sense of humour?
CelebritiesRe: Tuface Cancels Feb 6 March by sholay2011(m): 12:19am On Feb 05, 2017
patrickmuf:
Nigerians who were so vocal in their support of the protest should go ahead and protest otherwise I'll say the whole clamor and support for the idea was cos people wanted to see 2face and prolly convince him to go on stage and do one or two songs
Well said.
CelebritiesRe: Femi Kuti Blasts 2face Over Protest by sholay2011(m): 4:49pm On Feb 03, 2017
veekid:
What's Femi Kuti's claim to fame? If not for his father's glory? Foolish man thinking he's wise. For making such statement on 2baba the thunder wey go fire you is currently spring charging.
You think his claim to fame is only his father when he already has a Grammy nomination that Tuface doesn't have?

Lol.

And there are other ignorant parts of your post.
FoodRe: African Americans Describing Amala. by sholay2011(m): 10:43pm On Feb 01, 2017
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CelebritiesRe: Breaking! Beyoncé Pregnant With Twins! by sholay2011(m): 7:56pm On Feb 01, 2017
Congrats to them.


Make dem come Nigeria come born am na. grin
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Maybe They Should Kuku Kill Me by sholay2011(m): 7:26pm On Feb 01, 2017
Thepasserby:
And some people still clicked on the like button. Biko what are you liking?
I think people liked the post because it presented the other side of reality of job search vividly. For one person whose post on how he got two offers in one week made frontpage, there are hundreds of others are still in deep sh*t.

@OP...The thread title though... grin grin
CelebritiesRe: Stella Damasus Doesn't Support 2face Idibia's Protest by sholay2011(m): 7:02pm On Feb 01, 2017
Ahmeduana:
MUST SHE TALK? WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION SHOULD WE GET RIGHT BEFORE EMBARKING ON PROTEST? THAT we should verify if we are suffering or not, that we are not buying kerosine at high price?
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EducationRe: Imeime Umana Emerges 1st Black Woman To Serve As President Of Harvard Law Review by sholay2011(m): 10:02pm On Jan 30, 2017
This is great! Best wishes to her!
Christianity EtcIs 'election' Divine Favoritism? by sholay2011(op):
I found this to be quite interesting and revelatory...

QUESTION: Nikki Symasek from Birmingham, Alabama writes in to ask: “Dear Pastor John, My 13-year-old son Drew is a deep thinker. This morning at breakfast we were reading in Deuteronomy 10. When I got done reading, Drew looked at me (visibly frustrated and a bit emotional), and said, ‘Mom, why does the Bible contradict itself? In Deuteronomy 10 it says, ‘the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality...’ Yet in Romans 9 it says, ‘Just as it is written Jacob I have loved, but Esau I hated.’ How is that not showing favoritism and partiality?’ I tried so hard to answer his question going back to God’s infinite wisdom, sovereignty, goodness, predestination and desire to bring Himself glory, trusting Him when we don’t completely understand. But as you read on in chapter 9 it doesn’t get any easier to swallow. God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy. I am not sure I gave him such a great explanation. I said, ‘Well son, I believe you just asked me a question that I would like to Ask Pastor John.’”

ANSWER: The first thing I have to say is: May the Lord give this 13 year old a humble and teachable spirit to go along with his sharp mind. I love sharp minds and they are a great weapon on the hand of the Lord when they are wielded with a humble and wise arm. He is off to a good start with such a discerning mother. So praise God for that.

So, yes. It is a really good question. God is impartial, not just in the Old Testament, but the New Testament. Let me just underline it. Romans 2:11. God shows no partiality. Ephesians 6:9. Masters, do the same to them and stop your threatening knowing that he who is their master and yours is in heaven and there is no partiality with him. Colossians 3:25. The wrong doer will be repaid back for his wrong doing that he has done. There is no partiality with God.

So in every one of these cases the Greek word prosopaulapsia — a receiving of face, literally — a receiving of face means that God does not receive or regard a person’s appearance. He does not base his approval or blessings on considerations that are irrelevant to the choice he is making, like a person’s face. So we need to be really careful. What does he mean by partiality and impartiality? Let me use an illustration for the 13 year old if he might be tuning in.

So you and your friends are trying out for the school or the neighborhood baseball team. What would it look like if the coach who has to choose who gets to play was partial? That is, not impartial. It would look like this. Your coach would show partiality if he chose the white boy and not the black boy even if the black boy was a better player, or if he chose his own son even if his own son was a worse player, or if he chose a boy because the boy’s father paid him money behind the scenes. So impartiality doesn’t mean you treat everyone alike. Everyone can’t play ball. Everyone can’t get on the team. It means you don’t base your favors on irrelevant considerations like race or wealth or your kinship.

Here is another illustration. I think a 13-year-old can get this one as well. If you are a judge in a court-room and you must decide a murder trial, judges are supposed to be impartial. In fact, the picture of justice has a woman blindfolded. You are going to say: What in the world does that mean? Impartiality does not demand that the guilty defendant gets to go free because everyone else is leaving the courtroom and walking out and you have got to treat everybody the same. And so the criminal who has been convicted and found to be guilty, he gets to go free because we can’t be impartial here. We have got to treat everybody the same and he gets to go free because everybody else is going free. Well, nobody thinks impartiality means that. Impartiality demands that the judge not base his verdict on irrelevant considerations like race or wealth or intelligence or reputation in the community. If the judge favors his own race or wealth, wealthy people or the intelligent people or the famous people, he would be partial and not impartial and he would be a lousy judge and unworthy to be judged.

So impartiality does not mean treating everyone the same. It means basing your treatment of others on the right kind of considerations. Did the defendant actually kill the man? If he did, then he goes to jail. Is the kid a really good ball player? Then he should be on the team.

Now the question is God. God’s choosing to save people and he never, never bases his choice, whom to save, on the basis of irrelevant considerations. He never says: I will choose Asians to save, not Hispanics. He never says: I will choose wealthy people to save, not the poor. I will choose the educated to save, not the uneducated. Or even I will choose the good and not the bad. God simply doesn’t base his choices on those kinds of considerations. If he did, then he would be guilty of being partial and he is not partial. That is the point of 1 Corinthians 1:26, isn’t it? Not many of you were wise according to the worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise and God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God chose what is low and despised in the world even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

So God’s choice is based on his own hidden wisdom. Ephesians 1:11. God works all things according to the counsel of his will, the counsel of his will. He does not base his choices in irrelevant considerations. He is free to choose whomever he will and his reasons are never owing to our goodness. How could they be? We are all sinners deserving of death. Yet he chooses freely to save some. And the very meaning of grace in Romans 11:5, the very meaning of grace is that the reason he chooses us is not in ourselves. It is not in our own virtue or our own sinfulness. It is in his counsel and he is wise in all that he does because he is guided by the highest considerations. And what is that consideration? Well, it was hinted at in that text we reads from 1 Corinthians one. What choices will humble sinful men? What choices will keep men from boasting in themselves? And what choices will bring people to praise the glory of the grace of God?

Source: http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/is-election-divine-favoritism
LiteratureRe: Buchi Emecheta, Exit Of A Rock Of Feminism by sholay2011(m): 3:04pm On Jan 29, 2017
cry cry

Just seeing this thread. Awww...

I loved "Joys of Motherhood".
Christianity EtcRe: 8 Signs That A Church Doesnt Get Grace - Paul Ellis by sholay2011(m): 8:21am On Jan 29, 2017
@OP... Repent. grin
PoliticsRe: "Why We Wish Our Presidents Dead" - Abimbola Adelakun by sholay2011(m): 4:10pm On Jan 27, 2017
Abimbola killed it again with this article. *bows*
Forum GamesRe: Which Of These Pills Will You Pick?(photos) by sholay2011(m): 11:20pm On Jan 25, 2017
Blue pill
LiteratureRe: What Are The Top 5 Books One Must Read In Their Lifetime And Why? by sholay2011(m): 7:10am On Jan 24, 2017
The Bible

The Purpose Driven Life (by Rick Warren)

Agbako Nile Tete/Koseegbe (Yoruba book)

Joys of Motherhood (by Buchanan Emecheta)

Burial Rites (by Hannah Kent)
CelebritiesRe: Styleplus, Esther Ezenwoye To Be Unveiled As Numatville Megacity Ambassadors by sholay2011(m): 8:08pm On Jan 18, 2017
Where is Tunde?

And what is Numatville Megacity huh
CelebritiesRe: Tonto Dikeh's Husband Posts A Photo Of Them Together. Excited Fans React by sholay2011(m): 4:47pm On Jan 18, 2017
Tonto Dike and MMM struggling for frontpage overhaul.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: 2017 Graduate Management Trainee Program At Terragon Group by sholay2011(m): 3:59pm On Jan 18, 2017
May Almighty God deal with the HR of this company and these unrealistic (not impossible though) requirements. Haba!
Art, Graphics & VideoRe: Wow!!!which Popular Nigerian Tv Actress Does This Resemble? by sholay2011(m): 6:06pm On Jan 17, 2017
Lol....'Jenifa'.
BusinessRe: Man Disguises As Diamond Bank Staff In Lagos, Steals N650k by sholay2011(m): 4:50pm On Jan 17, 2017
O ga o
TV/MoviesRe: What Is D Scariest Movie U Have Ever Watched? by sholay2011(m): 1:42am On Jan 16, 2017
I have seen many 'scary' movies but one I saw that was absolutely horror isn't actually a horror movie: "We need to talk about Kevin".

Gut wrenching movie.
CelebritiesRe: Is Kemi Iyanda The Most Beautiful Yoruba TV Host? (photos) by sholay2011(m): 10:32pm On Jan 11, 2017
Wipe off the poster colour on her face first, then, we can judge.
TV/MoviesRe: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by sholay2011(m): 6:07pm On Jan 11, 2017
1. Nocturnal Animals
2. Two Days, one night
3. We need to talk about Kevin
Jobs/VacanciesRe: I Am Hiring, What Can You Offer? by sholay2011(m): 5:46pm On Jan 11, 2017
fbtowner:
Lol. Just like that. U want people's idea.
intelligent people won't take u serious
His moniker is even 'Playa one'. grin
CelebritiesRe: Omotola ,soyinka, Banky W, Adesua At Private Screening Of The Wedding Party by sholay2011(m): 5:45pm On Jan 11, 2017
Where is Omotola? I can't see her in the pictures.
CareerRe: I Can't Accept A Job Offer That Pays Below 100k/month ( Keke Rider) by sholay2011(m): 5:12pm On Jan 11, 2017
Hmmm...in the long run though...
Jobs/VacanciesRe: The Deteriorative Recruitment Processes In Nigeria by sholay2011(m): 4:22pm On Jan 11, 2017
lakeside30:
but people are still getting good job even without knowing anybody. Just put ur hope in God and trust him, like me sometimes 10yrs ago I was looking for job, do you know despite my connection with a certain power n steel minister then and with all his promises he could not get me a job .

Nevr put hope in man rather trust God with your ur heart, and he will fix u up
You have a point but the OP is talking of a dilapidated recruitment system here, not just an unlucky individual. It will be quite selfish to come from the perspective of 'but some people still get job without connection' -which is true by the way, I am a living example- while ignoring the structure that has hindered gainful employment in the nation as a whole. You (or someone close to you) might just be part of those that are 'not lucky enough' to get job without connection, despite good grades, prayers and fasting. Even some that are currently unemployed/under-employed trust God with their heart than you do. We should stop using the religious toga to cover up the problems in our structures and instead, face them head on.

The government as well as our labour unions should please intervene in this matter. Labour unions should be known for things other than going on incessant strikes.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: The Deteriorative Recruitment Processes In Nigeria by sholay2011(m): 4:17pm On Jan 11, 2017
yorex2011:
To be really honest, we have witches and wizards at the helm of affairs in government. Look back at years past, the majority of our leaders grew up in a Nigeria that made sense. They grew up and became leaders of their tomorrow, but decided to unleash their inner witchcraft and plunge Nigeria into obscurity. And the worst thing is that they keep inculcating this witchcraft into their "boys" who they hope will succeed them.

This is just pure daylight wickedness in my opinion
Holy Sh*t!! grin grin grin

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