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RomanceRe: To Keep His Girlfriend, Man Allows Her To Sleep With Other Men by TANKDESTROYER(m): 4:17pm On Feb 19, 2017
End time mentality.... undecided
Christianity EtcRe: The Purpose Of Man. by TANKDESTROYER(m): 4:06pm On Feb 19, 2017
Created for intimacy with God

Created to manifest Gods kingdom upon the earth.
CelebritiesRe: Ufuoma Egbamuno Weds Chizzy Whyte (Photos) by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:37pm On Feb 18, 2017
cheesy awesome!!!!
FamilyRe: Court Dissolves Marriage Over HIV Positive Wife by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:35pm On Feb 18, 2017
darfay:
End time comment
tongue
darfay:
End time comment
HealthRe: Can Humans Kill All The Diseases? We Are The Most Intelligent Animals by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:31pm On Feb 18, 2017
Ignitereaders:
Do you have a good reason? Except scriptural reasons.
technological advancements have led to creation of man made diseases....... and will continue to do so as long as the nature of man remains twisted....
FamilyRe: Court Dissolves Marriage Over HIV Positive Wife by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:26pm On Feb 18, 2017
end time couple
Foreign AffairsRe: “If Mugabe Dies, We Will Field His Corpse As A Candidate For Election” - Wife by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:24pm On Feb 18, 2017
I just weak for some folks
RomanceRe: See What This Young Lady Wore In Public ( Photo) by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:21pm On Feb 18, 2017
nudity is now the new definition of BEAUTY........ end time mentality...
CrimeRe: Celebrant, Landlady, Neighbours Desert Building After Guests Die After Party (pi by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:15pm On Feb 18, 2017
Sad!!!! what is it with some folks and alcohol?......
HealthRe: Can Humans Kill All The Diseases? We Are The Most Intelligent Animals by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:12pm On Feb 18, 2017
Ignitereaders:
With all the things that humans have achieved. We are able to travel to space, we've built robots to act and think like us.
Yep...diseases can never be totally eradicated despite technological advancements....... even technological advancements......brought about more harm than good......
HealthRe: Can Humans Kill All The Diseases? We Are The Most Intelligent Animals by TANKDESTROYER(m): 7:08pm On Feb 18, 2017
DivinelyBlessed:
I think it will be significantly reduced due to advancement in technology to the barest minimum.
yes.... but can never be totally eradicated.
CelebritiesRe: Mercy Johnson And Husband Cover Media Room Hub Magazine by TANKDESTROYER(m): 6:45pm On Feb 18, 2017
observing
HealthRe: Can Humans Kill All The Diseases? We Are The Most Intelligent Animals by TANKDESTROYER(m): 6:15pm On Feb 18, 2017
it is impossible to have a disease free world
Christianity EtcRe: REAL Madness!? See Photos Of Church Members Kissing Shoes Of Popular Prophet by TANKDESTROYER(m): 5:44pm On Feb 18, 2017
end time events
CelebritiesRe: Anna Banner Celebrates Her 22nd Birthday Today (Photo) by TANKDESTROYER(m): 5:41pm On Feb 18, 2017
cool
PoliticsRe: Top 6 Organization That Are Killing Nigeria Slowly by TANKDESTROYER(m): 3:13pm On Feb 18, 2017
Not all churches bro..... the real ones are still here...
Not all schools either.......
RomanceRe: Still On My Birthday Build Up (photos) by TANKDESTROYER(m): 1:39pm On Feb 18, 2017
cool.. cool
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Npower Devices, Prices & Specifications by TANKDESTROYER(m): 8:21am On Feb 18, 2017
Cool....
EducationRe: Enugu Police Arrest Primary School Students For Not Doing Assignments(pics) by TANKDESTROYER(m): 8:17am On Feb 18, 2017
F
PoliticsRe: A Dishonest Political Circus by TANKDESTROYER(op): 8:03am On Feb 18, 2017
Redoil:
In summary, the writer is saying
Bad leadership, selfish interest leading to cross carpeting.... between parties..
Christianity EtcRe: If God Knows What Will Happen Tomorrow, Do We Still Have Free Will? by TANKDESTROYER(m): 4:42am On Feb 18, 2017
yep....
PoliticsA Dishonest Political Circus by TANKDESTROYER(op): 4:23am On Feb 18, 2017
By Sufuyan Ojeifo

They have acted smart, so it seems, by using and dumping the party in dishonest circus and manifest political duplicity; but, then, they have created an impression of themselves in the minds of their new landlords who will deal with them wisely, considering the fact that they are rangers in quest for insular political return
I have watched with amusement the hollow rituals of “comic tragedy” or tragicomedy, which the defection of politicians from one political party to another typifies. The polity has witnessed, in recent times, movements by some politicians who were, doubtless, respected leaders of their people up until their sudden volte-face and gravitation to other political parties, characteristically for obvious reasons.
Anytime I see them on television or read about them in the print media announcing, with glee, their decision to jump ship because they have suddenly realised how bad their original party has been and how disciplined and forward-looking their newfound party is, they cut a pathetic picture to the sight and create a sardonic impression in the mind.
What they, perhaps, know but which they do not give a heck about is that they do not enjoy the respect of well-meaning Nigerians, including, most of the times, their followers, especially those of them who can hold their own without the usual compromising handouts from “the lords of the manors.” This dimension reinforces the age-long subjugating notion of stomach infrastructure, which has, only recently, been so elegantly described and tagged in the aftermath of the 2014 Ekiti governorship election that swept Ayodele Fayose into power.
Nevertheless, political leaders’ movements have characteristically thrown up the loyalty question. As supposed leaders, they have failed the critical test of loyalty by wavering in their commitment to the party on which platform they have been voted into elective offices. Rather than consistently and persistently inspire confidence in their followers, they have disconcerted them, dealing a strong blow to their pristine sense of conservative attachment to the party.
It thus becomes crystal clear that the followership that has remained unwavering in its support is, indeed, the nucleus of the tribe of enthusiastic and enchanted party faithful, not the opportunistic political elites who, always wanting to be politically correct, lack the discipline to promote and embrace any well-defined ideological standpoint, which the followership can relate with or approximate under their tutelage. Like a reed, they are tossed about by the winds of political considerations and correctness.
Whenever a political leader decides to defect, he is always propelled by selfish interest. He is either battling for survival or groveling for relevance, hence the instinct and wisdom to strategically reposition. He rationalises his decision and couches his action in elegant dictions- that is, if he is gifted with the oratorical power. Sans the power of oration, he deploys the allurement of lucre, thus taking advantage of the followers’ poverty to further degrade their sensibilities.
But then, the people are wont to see through the chicanery of political leadership in a background that is traditionally conservative; which brings me to the conquistador’s temperament that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is exhibiting in the southeast zone, apparently in defiance of the affection the people have had for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since 1999. The zone is a traditional PDP enclave. It may, therefore, be pretty difficult to suddenly shear the people of the sentimental affection they have for the party.
Even in Imo state where there is an APC government in place, the PDP’s presence is pervasive and the structure on ground is, arguably, formidable. The party’s potential to dislodge the APC has always been there. But for the outcome of the 2015 presidential election, which saw the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, defeat President Goodluck Jonathan, the PDP’s whirlwind would have swept Governor Rochas Okorocha of the APC out of office and, thus, truncated his second term bid.
The bandwagon effects of Buhari’s victory, in addition to the deployment of necessary stratagems, ensured that Okorocha survived the onslaught by the PDP candidate, Emeka Ihedioha. That tension-soaked electoral contestation, perhaps, explains the strategic move by Okorocha and the APC to begin the process of dismantling the PDP stronghold in the southeast from Owerri, with the recent conclave during which some political juggernauts and business moguls, who were hitherto associated with the PDP, defected to the APC. It is needless to mention here the dramatis personae at the Owerri circus. They are all facts of recent history.
The Owerri outing represents, in the main, Rochas’s bragging rights and APC’s gambit to appropriate the southeast zone, reposition it and guide it on a trajectory that is northward ahead of the 2019 general elections. Whereas, movements of some PDP leaders to the APC in the northern part do not have the potential to upset any conventional arrangement due to the localization and reduction of presidential power politics within the context of northern ownership, such movements, against the backdrop of Rochas-APC initiative, become tendentious for the same reason that underscores southern Nigeria’s quest for the big prize.
The inter-party movements, sans ideological footings and justifications, continue to stimulate fears and create tension in the polity, especially now that the political map is being tinkered with and redrawn ahead of 2019. There are gainers and there are losers in quantitative terms. But the greatest beneficiary of the on-going circus of defections has been the governing APC and this is understandable. There has been a change of baton and the party has become the new power base. Not anymore the PDP. That is the way the cookie crumbles.
For the PDP leaders, especially those holding elective offices, that have already jumped ship, such act of abandoning the party on whose platform they won election, has only exposed their weak points as spineless politicians whose god is, perhaps, their bellies. They really do not care about what the rest of us think of them. For them, the end justifies the means, which is surviving the intriguing world of cloak-and- dagger politics. Therefore, they attach little importance to the leadership-followership system that underpins interactions in the context of political party administration on the basis of essential ideologies.
Whereas, they are supposed to provide unwavering leadership, they have become the exact opposite of that assumption. They have deliberately failed the test of faithfulness to their parties and what they stand for. The followers, on the other hand, are left to relate with the culture of leadership infidelity that cumulatively leads to atrophy of the party spirit.
To be sure, defection is not a new reality. It has been on, for the sake of this treatise, and restrictively speaking, since the advent of this Fourth Republic. The PDP had once benefitted from it. It is not malapropos that it is losing to it. What goes round comes round. Since none of the parties can lay claim to any guiding ideology, they may be somewhat excused, but the individual politicians are inexcusable. To define their individuality, they should dare to be different by standing for something so that they do not fall for everything.
A few of them have remained unwavering in their commitment to their political platforms since 1999, not changing parties even in defeat as has now been typified by the PDP. But what rankles, as its former Board of Trustees chair, Chief Tony Anenih, recently confessed, is that those who have defected to the APC were those who benefitted so much from the PDP.
They have acted smart, so it seems, by using and dumping the party in dishonest circus and manifest political duplicity; but, then, they have created an impression of themselves in the minds of their new landlords who will deal with them wisely, considering the fact that they are rangers in quest for insular political return. This is, indeed, unconscionable and sad.

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CelebritiesRe: Audu Maikori Arrested By The Police by TANKDESTROYER(m): 11:51pm On Feb 17, 2017
Hmmmmm
CultureRe: Is This True Regarding Nigerian Culture/beliefs by TANKDESTROYER(m): 11:47pm On Feb 17, 2017
Very Wrong!!!!!!!!
PoliticsRe: Lessons From VP Osibanjo's Visit To The SS And SE. by TANKDESTROYER(m): 10:48pm On Feb 17, 2017
So far.... not bad
RomanceAbstinence From Sex Guarantees Long Life - Scientists. by TANKDESTROYER(op): 10:40pm On Feb 17, 2017
Scientists have suggested that they have finally found a recipe for long life: total abstinence from sex !
The University of Sheffield researchers rest their findings on the belief that nuns — who are believed to stay away from sex completely — tend to live longer.
Refraining from having sex will help you live longer than all your peers, the study found .
The scientists discovered that mealworm beetles live for longer if they avoid mating ; while those who tried to produce offspring each day passed away at a much younger age.
Mating was found to release a hormone in the insects needed to produce sperm in a male or eggs in a female . But this was also found to have a negative effect on their immune system , the researchers found .
This makes them vulnerable to potentially deadly infections , as their body ’ s natural ability to fight rogue bacteria is compromised.
Though the mechanism is not necessarily the same in humans , study author, Dr . Michael Siva- Jothey , believes the principle can be applied .
He said : “ Nuns tend to have a longer lifespan than women with children; and most people know of someone with a maiden ( unmarried ) aunt who seems to live forever .
“ The question is , why ? The beetles which mate die sooner than the beetles which don’ t mate. ”
Humans also have weaker immune systems during sex , which explains how STIs can be easily spread, he added .
Nuns, priests , vicars and monks are known to live longer than others — but not for their religious protection .
It is believed that their low rates of high blood pressure — which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke — are responsible.

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PoliticsRe: Atewe Gave N35m To Winners’ Chapel – Witness by TANKDESTROYER(m): 6:16pm On Feb 17, 2017
Then?
RomanceRe: She Says She Cant Marry A Man Who Isn't A Virgin by TANKDESTROYER(m): 2:51pm On Feb 17, 2017
I agree with everything the young lady said......... virginity applies to both sexes..............
Travel AdsRe: Gifty Was A Hairdresser Before Big Brother Naija (Photos) by TANKDESTROYER(m): 11:56am On Feb 17, 2017
and this is news..... ?
CelebritiesRe: Actress Rahama Sadau Slays In Sheer Outfit [PICS] by TANKDESTROYER(m): 11:32am On Feb 17, 2017
I have nothing to say...
RomanceRe: Undergraduate Dies During Valentine's Day Rough Sex In US by TANKDESTROYER(m): 8:22am On Feb 17, 2017
End time occurrence.....

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