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Sunday is a solemn day in
Lagos. For Lagosians, the day ”is a Sabbath
day” that must be kept holy. The day also
offers the best time to be close to God. But
Lagosians attend church for different reasons.
However, the irony of the pious church-going
Lagosian will make a good topic for research.

The question is: how come your average
Lagosian, who is aggressive on weekdays
acts saintly in church on Sundays only to fall
back to his or her old ways thereafter?

1. For prosperity and financial break through:
People attend church for different reasons.
But to many Lagosians struggling with their
finances, church offers the best assurances
to get out of financial challenges. There is
the belief that giving one’s tithes and
offerings in church according to biblical
injunctions will open the gateway of financial
blessings to the giver. People actually go to
church to ask to be blessed financially by
God.

2. Networking : One major reason why some
Lagosians flock to church on Sundays is to
network and met people they would ordinarily
not meet in their everyday life. For them,
meeting these people can improve their
chances of doing business since different
people of different status attend church.
Networking is one of the major reasons for
attending church in Lagos.

3. Forgiveness of Sin : I have heard some
funny stories of Lagosians attending church
to ask for restitution of sin or for offences
committed the previous week. Lagosians by
nature are aggressive people. Even the nicest
of people become pugnacious when they
relocate to Lagos. It is the way this city is
wired. There is no way one can live in Lagos
without getting into an argument or a fight
with somebody. The church offers the
sanctuary to ask for forgiveness for one’s
brashness. It is a sanctuary to keep one’s
sanity at least for the period the service will
last.

4. To Make Heaven : Lagosians in spite of the
intense hustling to make it in this world still
want to make heaven. You will often hear a
typical Lagosian say’ ’what does it profit a
man to gain the world and lose eternal life’.
Yes, the average Lagosian has an eye for the
good things the city offers but still keeps an
eye on salvation.

5. To have a sense of belonging: Church gives
a sense of belonging, that you are not alone
in the harsh and lonely life of the city. By
going to church and belonging to the sub-
groups and departments, you get a sense that
you belong in the community of humans not
the impersonal and aloof people you meet in
everyday life.

6. To fulfill all righteousness : For some
Lagosians who have a busy life, Sunday is the
only day they have for their faith. They go to
church on Sundays to purge any sense of guilt
they might have for not attending church mid-
week or performing other church duties.

7. Healing: We are all humans and many of
us have health challenges. By attending we
have the faith that our inadequacies and
physical challenges will experience healing

8. Miracle Seekers: Lagosians are daily
looking for miracles in their everyday life.
They want to live their dream. They expect
things will happen and the church will hasten
their miraculous encounter with God. The
dream job; the dream house and the lovely
partner will appear in a miraculous way. It is
hope rooted in faith.

9. To Keep Enemies at Bay: Many Lagosians
believe that whatever they are experiencing in
the physical is a manifestation of what has
transpired in the spirit. They believe nothing
happens in their lives that have not been
written. They also believe there are enemies
out there who may be wishing them evil or
behind their travails in life. The belief is that
attending church shield them from the evil
machination of enemies.

10. To search for Future Wife or Husband:
This may appear funny but Lagosians
especially the young unmarried ones attend
church with the possibility of finding a future
partner. it could be a future husband or a
future wife. That is why many churches
organize ‘Singles Fellowship’ where potential
bachelors or spinsters could meet. This is
actually one of the main reasons why young
Lagosians attend church.
Wishing you all a happy Sunday.

Kingoflotto:
Am not saying the phone is perfect its a mid range smartphone but it's average and its okay for normal basic operations

deeboiii:
what is ok??

weilee:
footballers are reacher than musicians. young thug career worts 20000$ due to bills gate


recommend this music for yall

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Tallesty1:
I have been using this phone for over a week so I decided to drop a review of it.


Introduction

Meizu is a creation company that has its root in the music industry.
Mx4 Pro is a high profile phone from Meizu; a sibling to the last year's mx4.


Key Specs

Soc: Exynos 5430
Processor: 8-core, 2000 MHz, ARM cortex-A15 & ARM cortex-A7
Graphics processor: ARM Mali-T628
System memory: 3072 MB RAM
Built-in storage: 32GB
Battery Capacity: 3350 mAh
Bluetooth: 4.0
Wi-Fi: 802.11 a, b, g, n, n 5GHz, ac
USB: USB 2.0
Connector: microUSB
Features: Mass storage device, USB charging OTG (I haven't tried it.
Other: NFC, Tethering, Computer sync, OTA sync

missbehave247:
All of that is $1m, imagine nigeria currency it around 20m

Mshevy:
;DDat betting was when 50cent nd mayweather ar in gud terms d fight was mayweather vs ortiz not pacman

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This man is on Facebook saying the 8 people, including four Nigerians, killed in Indonesia last week for drug related offenses were rescued last minute by special forces but it looks like he's using the post to draw attention to one of the men executed, Raheem Agbaje. Continue to read what he wrote...

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The goal post is a folded St Louis sugar carton, the ball is the head roller of a radio cassette tape, the players are bottle crown cork, usually we press them a bit inward from the top and use the inner rubber inside the cork after removing the lighter center to wear around the crown cork to enhance its stability. The players are numbered using paper sticked with gum or light eba. The goalie is made with about 10 corks by flattening the corks, bending some and constructed to resemble a typical goalie with two arms.

dyadeleye:
We're gonna share testimony in church..pay our tithe..then we need to stake another money just to win more maybe
P:S_ notice the word WE and OUR!

LewisO:
[color=teal](op) stop confusing yourself that pix is lame and it's not full, upload the full pix. [/color]

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People stood by while a Mozambican man, Emmanuel Sithole, was cornered, stabbed in the heart and left to die.

This happened yesterday in Johannesburg and yes, he died from his wounds.

Killed just for being from another African country.. and the story told by the journalist who witnessed this brutal stabbing is heartbreaking!

As told by Beauregard Tromp and James Oatway for www.Timeslive.co.za

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Shortly before 7am yesterday April 18th, Sunday Times journalists were in Alexandra township, near Sandton, speaking to shop owners who had their businesses looted overnight.

Children played, people walked the streets, some stopped to gawk at the carnage from the night before. Then this happened …

In a gutter in Alexandra a Mozambican man stopped and lay down. The gash to his chest meant he could go no further.
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At the day clinic less than 100m away they could not help him.

The doctor scheduled to be on duty did not show up because he was a foreigner and feared being a victim of xenophobia.

It began on Friday night when mobs blockaded Arkwright Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in Alexandra, with rubble and burning tyres.

Foreign-owned shops’ roofs were ripped open and metal gates torn away as looters went on the rampage.

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Outside one spaza shop, a man in a black corduroy jacket and red shirt was walking along the road.

Suddenly a young man dressed in a grey tracksuit jacket beat him over the head with a wrench.

The red-shirt man tried to fend off the blows, his arms raised.

He stumbled back, falling into rubbish strewn by the roadside.

The blows with the wrench rained down. Then the bludgeoning stopped and the man with the wrench moved away.

“Are we safe here?” asked a South African woman watching the attack.

The man in the red shirt got up. Now another man with a beige spottie approached, holding an okapi knife high above his head.

Again, the man in the red shirt raised his hands, pleading for mercy.

But his pleas were in vain. He was stabbed … again and again
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The two grappled and fell to the floor. The man with the wrench returned. Finally, a lanky young man sprinted towards the man among the rubbish, kicking him in the head.

The young man pulled a butcher’s knife. A man in a black leather jacket who had discouraged the attack grabbed the wrist with the butcher’s knife. The attackers fled.
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The red-shirt man tried to get up but fell. Finally he made it to his feet. Feebly, he walked up the road.

Do you know why they attacked you? Who are you? Where are you from, we asked him.

He turned his head towards the questions fired at him, his face pleading.

He said nothing. His shirt was drenched, a 2cm gash in his chest.

Metres further he stumbled and lay down in the gutter. He struggled to sit up and fell down

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Help me get him into the car. Help me, please,” said photographer James Oatway, looking around at the men gathered around him. One stepped forward, reluctantly.

Up the road, at Alexandra Day Clinic, nurses did what they could. There was no doctor; he would have to be taken to Edenvale Hospital.

Along the way the man was flailing wildly, sitting up, lying down, wincing with pain. The wound to his chest was gushing now.

At Edenvale Hospital a lone gurney stood at the entrance. The porters sat in a room with tinted windows. Oatway pleaded for help. The man in the car was critical, he said.

Slowly one porter rose and scribbled in a book. Then the other, both now ambling towards the hospital entrance. Inside the car the red-shirt man looked lifeless.
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“He’s dead. We can’t take him,” one porter pronounced.

There was no pulse. Then a gag reflex. He’s alive.

Inside the ICU, doctors compressed his chest, massaging his heart. After nearly seven minutes a ventilator was used.

Shortly after 9am Emmanuel Sithole was pronounced dead. He was Mozambican. The stab wound to his chest had penetrated his heart.

In his pockets, R285 and 10c in change and a cellphone. His phone would ensure he did not die nameless.

On his wrist, three armbands read: “United for Bafana.

paulolee:
hmmmm.....
we all kno dt e did it to get d votes...
politics ain't made to b taken to churches
GEJ visited some top churches n still lost to buhari who visited none
just hope dt Cameron's case ain't lyk GEJ story

RickRichards:
Lol...wetin be that? Someone edited his wikipedia page?