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I have considered all suggestions by many of our Christian brothers and sisters. Hence, I come up with these option and will also give my reasons. I hope we allow this option to stay so we can start to dig deep in the word of God.

1. I consider doing chapter by chapter studies as the best that will fit into everyone's style of bible study. Hence we should go for chapter by chapter on a weekly basis, beginning from Monday, March 19, 2012.

2. Topical studies will not be okay for us here due to the fact that it does not make our study unique or different from the usual thing or thread going on on Nairaland. Many of the threads on Nairaland are in the form of topics and usually end up with argument that is most time unresolved. I am very sure we don't want that to happen in our study.

3. With this Chapter by Chapter style of bible study, everyone is expected to participate by doing his or her personal chapter study. It encourages individual or everyone of us to do personal study on a private level. Everyone will be fully involved other than just being spoon fed, we want everyone to grow in the word of God. By this method of study, we will ensure everyone is doing his or her study..

4. We shall do just one chapter per week beginning on the above date. This will enable us have time to look at each chapter in a deeper study.

5. Every Monday of every week shall be our bible study day. What I mean is, every Monday shall be everyone's chapter study posting day while the rest days of the week shall be used or open for discussions, questions, answers, sharing of revelations on the current chapter we are studying, life application of the current chapter we are studying etc.

6. We shall begin or continue with Matthew chapter 2 on the above date but in the meanwhile, I shall finish the chapter one of the book of Matthew that I already started before next Monday 19, 2012 when Matthew chapter 2 shall begin.

7. For those that wanted the Old testament. As we study the New Testament, we shall always make references to the Old as we study the new.

Thank you all

Awesome.Lets begin then.

Na wa oh

The northern based Islamist Boko Haram sect terrorising the north has again given two conditions under which to ceasefire from the bombings and killings in different parts of the north.

A source close to the sect told P.M.News in an exclusive chat that members of the group have agreed to a ceasefire but with a condition that all its members in detention be released first .

Secondly, the group wants the safety and security of all members whose names would be given to the Federal Government through Dr. Ahmed Datti, President of Supreme Council of Sharia of Nigeria, guaranteed.

The choice of Dr. Datti, according to the source, was informed by the fact that late slain leader, Mohammed Yusuf, served as a member of the Sharia Council under Datti’s leadership and so he could be trusted.

The source, who spoke to P.M.News under anonymity, also informed that the sect members have also agreed that once the two conditions are met, within four weeks they would put an end to the hostilities .

However, he hinted that members of the sect said failure to heed the conditions would amount to more hostilities.

He disclosed that the sect are now ready to dialogue with the Federal Government through Ahmed Datti, Shettima Monguno and other three northern leaders.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/03/12/ceasefire-boko-haram-gives-fresh-terms/

Let the lootings continue

They both need to talk.Communication,love and trust is the key to a good LDR.Let her have a heart to heart with her man and am sure he will adjust.The guy looks like a busy guy and you wont blame him.So she should be considerate too.

Happy weekend all.
Goshen I have read through the thread from beginning and there is really nothing much i can comment however the suggestion for topical study would enable one know each person's understanding of a particular topic/subject and trust me they are hundreds of topics we can discuss.
Thanks

deshclones:
My fiance is my life, she is the best thing that has ever happened to me, the help and support (moral and financial)she gave me back then when boys were hussling in school can never be compared, am so proud of my girl, ,proud to tell the whole world that i wholeheartedly bought an engagement with my first NYSC allawi, proud to tell the world that i bought a car for my sweetness even b4 i bought mine, though she rejected it and suggested we get a land in chevron drive.i can do anything for her, anything, she is all i live for, you can never stay 5mins with me without me regaling you with stories of my beautiful sweetness,

The only time i had a change of mind was when she graduated with a third class but thank God i snapped out of it, its better to have a wife with world class brain and so sweet than to have a cheat with 1st class as a wife,

so i believe this story in all its entirety, desh say so,

Thats so sweet.So when you getting married?

Can any Nigerian Leader do this, simply humbly!!!

aleroo:
It happened with me, unfortunately he dumped my sorry Bottom and guess wat? He's now into mega bucks

So sorry about that

Thats almost 10million naira each times 109 senators.Do the maths

slimyem:
as if guys are not really showing girls too.m
ugh'

But out of 5 people that complain on NL, 4 are guys

Finally! But what next after the apology?

legendsilver:
thanks nairalanders, i rly aprciate all ur contributions. she has taught me a lesson in life which must not be forgotten

Eeyah! Girls are really showing guys this days oh

But what about His father God,what type of body does he have?

He has a perfect body of flesh and bone without blood.

Keep it up Abubakar

The site is not displaying the products when you clcik on a category!

Ok o.

Dyt:
^^ song

Abi

Abu Qaqa, Kabiru Sokoto open up
•Say Sultan is Boko Haram’s target
•Attacks on churches deliberate
From IKENNA EMEWU, Abuja
Thursday, March 08, 2012


Two Boko Haram kingpins in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS) Kabiru Sokoto and Abu Qaqa have revealed more plans the group has. In their confessional statements in Abuja yesterday to the SSS, Abu Qaqa, the sects’ spokesman now in detention and Kabiru Sokoto, the man behind the Madalla Christmas Day 2011bombing which claimed lives of 45 parishioners said they had sinister plans to undo the Sultan of Sokoto by taking away his religious powers.

Qaqa and Sokoto came short of saying they would have neutralized the Sultan or any other traditional ruler in the North in the bid to carry out their plans. They said: “Concerning this plan, any ruler that would have obstructed us would have regretted his action.”
They had intended to attack the sultanate and hijack the religious appurtenances of the seat and use the religious powers of the Sultan and practise the religion as they wish.

They said the original plan was to make sure the Sultan is reduced to a mere traditional ruler without religious powers, and in fact, he was not the only target as they intended to hack into the powers of other powerful emirs with a major design to Islamize Nigeria, starting with the north.

“With our plans already laid out, we had assured that any emir that resisted us would live to regret the action.”
But the duo also ended the speculation that the Boko Harm attacks are not predicated on religion or targeted at Christians. Qaqa and Sokoto said the attacks on churches and Christians are deliberate and intentional.
“We had a grand plan to Islamize Nigeria starting with the North. We felt that a lot of Muslims are not practising the religion faithfully as they should. Part of the plan was to reduce the powers of the Sultan to traditional rulership functions only, while all religious authority would be vested with our leader who would be based in Yobe.

“We believed there were so many things wrong with the present arrangement of combining both religious and traditional authorities in one man.” Revealing further on attacks on churches, Qaqa and Sokoto said: “The plans to attack churches and schools were not in reaction to any provocation. They had been there. You know why the churches had to go. Those schools we targeted for instance were not teaching the children according to the ways of the faith. So these were part of the initial plans to allow only Islamic schools and wiping away all so called secular schools.

“Though a lot of us who went to school saw this approach as too rigid since we could use the medium to propagate the faith faster, but we were fewer and scared of making our opinion known because that could earn us the tag of traitors and therefore face the ultimate consequence. “We wanted to reform the schools to conform to our plans and practice. And on the traditional institutions and rulers, anyone that would have obstructed our plans would have regretted his actions.”

Recall Kabiru Sokoto was arrested at Borno Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. He escaped when he was being led by team of policemen on a search on his house in Madalla, Niger State. He was re-arrested in Adamawa State last month.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2012/mar/08/national-08-03-2012-001.html

Man in trouble for raping pregnant woman
From Ngozi Uwujare Ibadan
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Detectives in Oyo State are currently investigating the allegation by a 38-year-old pregnant woman, Mrs. Halira Adegoke, that she was raped in a farm, by one of her neighbours, one Francis Etenikang, 32. The incident occurred at Abule Adisa area of the state.

According to the victim, Etenikang had demanded some water from her and after drinking, the suspect grabbed, wrestled her to the ground, stripped and raped her. She explained that all efforts to free herself from the grip of the randy man or get assistance from people, proved abortive.

“I sought for help but none came, as the suspect had his way and escaped on his motorcycle,” she alleged. The case was reported to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) but the officers couldn’t handle it properly, leading to the escape of the suspect. But aggrieved members of Abule Adisa community later reported the matter at the Iwerele Police Station, Oke-Ogun.

Still recalling the sad event, which traumatised her for weeks, she said: “I went to the farm with my husband and he left me in the hut. Suddenly, Francis came to beg for some water and after drinking, he barricaded the entrance to the hut and held me. When he wrestled me to the ground, he tore my pant and clothes.
I told him I was five months pregnant but he ignored and raped me. I started shouting and crying, calling my husband, Baba Iseyin! Baba Iseyin!”

“But before my husband could come, he had sped off on his motorcycle. When he came, he saw me half naked, and rushed me to the hospital for treatment. Thank God I didn’t lose the pregnancy. We reported the matter to the NSCDC but the officers didn’t handle the case very well. A community leader in Abule Adisa later reported the matter to the police,” she said. One of the community leaders, Alhaji Rasheed Badejo, condemned the act, describing the suspect as a beast.

He said: “It sounded ridiculous and unbelievable when we heard the news. We had to report the matter to the police, leading to the arrest of Etenikang. The community wants justice to be done.” The victim’s husband, Mr. Afonja Adegoke, confirmed the incident and said the suspect was one of his neighbours.
“We live together in this village. My wife and I came to the farm and she prepared a meal for me, which I ate and went to work, before I heard her, shouting. I saw my wife on the ground, half naked. He tore her clothes, including pant. I was mad and started searching for Etenikang but I found out that he had sped off on his motorcycle,” he added.

The suspect, who is being interrogated at State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), also admitted being the victim’s neighbour. He, however, denied the allegation. Etenikang said: “I was thirsty and requested water from Halira. She gave it to me and after drinking, I went away on my bike, that was all. I was later invited by the NSCDC. The officers discontinued the case, and it was reported to the police, leading to my arrest.”

It was alleged that I raped Halira, who was five months pregnant, but I didn’t touch her. I have my own four children in Cross River State. I don’t know what she is talking about.” The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Femi Okanlawon, said the victim was actually raped. Okanlawon described the incident as unfortunate. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Moses Onireti, said the suspect would appear in court at the conclusion of investigation.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/crimewatch/2012/mar/08/crimewatch-08-03-2012-001.html

FG dismisses militants’ demand for amnesty
March 8, 2012 by Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja,

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has said the government will not accede to the demand of some aggrieved ex-militants for their inclusion in the Amnesty Programme. .

Kuku, who is also the Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, maintained the position of the government that the Amnesty window had closed.

According to him, the government is working on the reintegrating of the 26,358 ex-militants from the first and second phase of the programme, saying those involved are undergoing skill acquisition training and formal education within and outside the country.

He said the government should not be expected to yield to the demand from people who had resorted to killing to get government attention.

He called on the Joint Task Force in Niger Delta to be alive to its responsibility of security and peace maintenance in the oil-rich area.

Kuku urged all development agencies in the Niger Delta such as the Niger Delta Development Commission, the Ministry of Niger Delta, state and local governments to provide alternative means of empowerment for the unemployed youths in the region.

He said, “How can Federal Government accommodate somebody because he killed people; because he killed patriotic citizens, a Lt. Col and Naval personnel. No. That cannot be the reason for admitting people to the Amnesty Programme.

“There is no third phase in the Amnesty Programme and there is no window that will include anybody in the programme.”

Kuku alleged some of the youth agitating for their inclusion in the programme had been threatening him.

The Presidential aide claimed anonymous text messages were being sent to him, warning him of an impending move to destroy his country home at Arogbo in Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-dismisses-militants-demand-for-amnesty/

13 AIGs retired
• Aggrieved officers head for court
From MURPHY GANAGANA, Abuja
Thursday March 08, 2012

Thirteen Assistant Inspectors General of police (AIGs) have been compulsorily retired as a fallout of the appointment of seven new Deputy Inspectors General of police (DIGs) announced recently by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

This followed the elevation of five commissioners of police who were junior to the affected officers, to the rank of DIGs in the newly constituted police management team comprising the Inspector General, the DIGs, and the Force Secretary.

Daily Sun checks indicated that apparently bouyed by the protests and petitions by some aggrieved senior police officers to the presidency and the National Assembly over the promotions in which 13 commissioners of police leaped to the rank of AIG, the PSC and the police high command might have resolved not to make the retirement of the 13 old AIGs public through police wireless messages or press statements.

Consequently, the authorities had reportedly begun issuance of the letters of retirement to the affected officers individually, with the AIG in charge of the Police Air Wing, AIG Charles Cole, said to be among the officers at the force headquarters already served with the letter. Reliable sources hinted that all the 13 AIGs who were in service before the recent promotion exercise, comprising 10 general duty (GD) and three specialist were asked to bow out of the force notwithstanding their statutorily scheduled exit dates, since they could not make the list of new DIGs and five of their junior officers had been promoted ahead of them.

The affected officers included the incumbent AIG in charge of Zone 11, Osogbo, Johnson Uzu-Egbunam; the AIG Force Secretary, Mohammed Zarewa; AIG Zone 2, Lagos, Christopher Ola; AIG Zone 6, Calabar, Saidu Daya; AIG Border Patrol, Bukar Maina; AIG Intelligence, Danlami Yar’Adua, and the AIG in charge of Zone 9, Umuahia, Mohammed Abass.

Others are the Commandant of the Police Academy (POLAC), AIG Shehu Babalola; AIG Zone 8, Lokoja, Ephraim Amakulor; Commandant of the Police Staff College, Jos, AIG John Moronike; AIG Medical, Dr. Maudeke Dax Uzu, AIG Police Air Wing, Charles Cole; AIG Works, Muazu Idris Hadejia, and the AIG Force Veterinary, Stephen Hart. Interestingly, all the affected officers have their official retirement dates ranging between May 2012 and December 2016.

There are however, conflicting reports as to the procedure to be followed in the notice of retirement issued to the officers. While one of the AIGs who pleaded anonymity confirmed that he had been served with a letter of retirement, others said they got the ‘news’, but have not officially received the letter. While also confirming the development, another senior officer warned on the consequences of the directive.

He said: “What I learnt was that some of the AIGs, who have been invited on the notice of retirement either refused to collect the letter or declined to write for voluntary retirement. I also heard that some of them are already planning to go to court over the issue. How can you force people to retire against their wish; it is improper, but we are watching, because there is confusion everywhere.”
Sources hinted that following the development anxiety had heightened on the fate of some of the commissioners of police whose subordinates were elevated to the ranks of DIG and AIG.
“We do not know for now whether the treatment meted to the old AIGs will also befall them,” a senior officer who does not want his name in print remarked.

Contacted for comments on the issue, PSC spokesman, Ferdinard Ekpe, said he was not aware of the development, and had not been briefed. However, the police Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Olusola Amore, did not respond to repeated calls on his mobile phone. Meanwhile, Daily Sun has authritatively learnt that the Chairman of the PSC, Mr. Parry Osayande, yesterday, sent a letter to the National Assembly, in which he gave about three reasons to justify the retirement of the 13 AIGs.

Among the reasons, according to sources privy to the letter, were that an officer may be retired if his/her office was being re-organized, or for reasons of redundancy. Osayande reportedly cited some sections of the Public Service Rules to justify the commission’s action.

The Senate Committee on Police Affairs was presently investigating complaints arising from the recent promotion of the seven DIGs and 13 AIGs, and it was believed to have waded into the contentious retirement of the AIGs whose names were also said to have been sent to the National Assembly.

Why Have A Nigerian Permanent Mission Abroad? By Idayat Hassan
January 29, 2012 5:35 PM
A Nigerian national shares her ordeal while trying to rent a conference hall at the Nigeria House in New York.
As a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York, I have endured my academic and other concerns diligently without bothering any one including the Nigerian mission in New York or the U.S at large. And because it isn’t my first scholarly sojourn outside of Nigeria, it isn’t any strange to me that Nigerian missions abroad are often indifferent to those they are primarily supposed to serve. But what can anyone do in the event of the need for passport renewal and stuff like that? Brace up for the cold disposition of the tin gods at the missions. It was my turn a few days ago in New York.
I walked into the Nigerian Mission in New York and the conversation below ensued:
I: hello sir
Security: what do you want?
I: I will like to reserve a room for an upcoming meeting?
Security: Call this number
(he tore a 2-inch paper and scrawled a number on it
I: Thank you sir. But in case nobody picks, what do I do?
Security: Drop a voice message
I dashed out immediately and called the number. It rang and rang to no avail. Afterwards, it slipped into voicemail: “you can’t drop a new message as the message box is filled”
Undaunted, I returned to the security man and the conversation resumed.
I: I called the number you gave me now but the signal I got was that the message box is filled so I couldn’t drop a message. Can you give me another number?
Security: There is nothing I can do, even If I let you in, nobody will attend to you. Just go, go and go away…
As the security man railed at me a woman was about entering the building. As if she was sympathetic to my plight, she volunteered: “he is just a security man, so he can’t do beyond what he has done. Actually he has gone out of his way to assist you, just go away and keep trying the number…” As the woman slammed the door thoughts ran riot in me and began to wonder what claim to patriotism or even sheer courtesy those who run Nigerian missions abroad can pretend to possess? To the extent that it doesn’t bother them that the first person to be encountered in these mission should have some measure of courtesy?
Six years ago I was postgraduate student in Belgium and had almost the same experience at our Brussels’ embassy over there. After all these years I could never believe in my wildest imagination that I would have to go through the same experience in the Nigerian Mission in New York with the large army of staff and bigger than the UBA building in Nigeria.
How do you go to your own supposed turf, your own country and you do not get as much as a hello from the first representative of the country, who is the security guard at the entrance? Why will the voicemail box of a whole embassy be filled with messages as at 1pm on a Friday? It probably had not been accessed all week if not all month. How do you encourage tourism and business into such a country where shabby reception and uncouth people are in charge? Are we saying that there are no good people in Nigeria fit for foreign services? Is there likelihood that there will be an intelligence staff in that office? I looked up and there were tears in my eyes, it finally dawned on me that all the complaints and allegations of my friends and relations hitherto are true.
In December 2011, I had good time with fellow Nigerians, and the subject of jokes was always the country and the embassy staff always extorting money from them to renew their passports, how things never work in my beloved country and so forth. I had always accused them of exaggeration. Now firsthand re-experiencing it, I now know. There is no stopping Nigerian embassy staff’s inclination for the business as usual indulgence. One need to see them saunter in and out of the mission, while also embarrassing fellow Nigerians they are supposed to serve! A so called “glorious mummy” even told me “you don’t talk to me like that.” Maybe she expected me to kneel down or rankadede her o.
My pain is fresh and my heart bleeds once again for Nigeria, I then remembered a non Nigerian colleague who once needed a national dress and told me she was going to go get one from their embassy. I thought coming from a third world country, her embassy will have none to give her until I saw her in the dress, well ironed. She was resplendent in her national glory. I looked at her enviously. Then it dawned on me that na true, things work in most countries except Nigeria.
Imagine me go request for a national dress (am laughing out loud at this moment) what would have happened to me? Maybe I would have gotten some whipping? Even if the Nigerian budget provides for national dress to showcase our culture, I suspect very strongly that some Nneka, Bose or Balarabe would have carted them away.
If our diplomatic missions can’t be courteous or accommodating to us, the citizens, then it is better imagined how much of sheer drain pipes they constitute to hard earned revenues. Above all I thank God I went with a fellow Nigerian and not a foreign national. Imagine the shame.
When are things ever going to move forward for us in this country? When will good people be deployed to our diplomatic missions?
A lawyer and development expert, Idayat Hassan is currently a Pilnet fellow/ Visiting Scholar at the Columbia Law School, New York, USA.

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Na wa o! which way naija?