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Pinkieblue:
C0ngrats dear, have u g0tten any job offer ?

None yet...

Pinkieblue:
We need new updates, has anyone scaled through with the interview ?

I scaled through...
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Ujunkem:
can i summit my own CV when completing my profile? Though they made one for me but there is nothing professional and good about it. I doubt if any company will hire me with something like that.

I never used their CV but I guess there should be provision to edit your profile once you are done... companies really don't peruse through CVs... key words are being sort... if you have them then don't worry if you'll get employed or not... I know the struggle is hard, but keep your chin up... find some'm to do with your hands while you are on the look out... God speed...

From stage one to four I never paid a dime so ya'll don't need to pay... already have courses on CV writing so if you need a free CV review i'd be glad to help out... I can also give tips on passing the 4th stage for those yet to take it... if you don't pay them then there's nothing to loose... just try em out while you keep your options open...
FYI anyone willing to pay me for this comment is also free to do so

Going through comments you see a lot of complaints which is typical to the Nigerian youth especially those unemployed... and am sure someone there reading this is already trying to bad mouth this comment.
I also got the congratulatory message, not putting all my eggs (hope) into one basket but kudos to whoever thought of this PUSH mata... there must have been some technical work and thinking put into it... although I have a job with the govt i'll take on an offer if I get, if not, i'll continue improving myself, work hard on my business and look for better offers out there... complaining that govt is bad or push is a scam will not put food on the table... it also feels good to be among 1% of folks that made it to the end... ya'll that dropped along, pick yourselves up and try again... never give failure an excuse... (Ngwa badmouthers you can start rolling in ur comments)

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Anyone got this?

Aitee1:
Hypocrite everywhere don't they all have his songs on their phone and blasting it ahome morning and night


What's the difference between him and the church members

I think there's a difference between having the song on your phone and inviting the artist on sunday to perform. Sunday worship should be about God not the worship of an artist.

We are all hypocrites in this life but you'd agree that this guy pointed out some'm wrong.

You would be breaking the law of a land and that would be sinning against God

Have you found SGBC yet? If not send me a mail and i'll forward the address to you. anomterdoo@gmail.com

If you go through the book of 1st John you'll see signs of a true believer... that book was written for the assurance of salvation and also as a. test booklet for the verse 2 Corinthians 13:5

This guy. Has obviously never read ephesians 2:8...

I feel this!!! Haters @ work... just took a girl for a movie and she asked me: is this how you take all the girls for movies? dafuq!?!?!?

Very interesting stuff y'all.

Mind Blowing!!!!!

Have a history teacher explain this if they can.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."

Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the "kicker":

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.

A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

AND...................:

Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...

Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...
I saw this had to share just in case anyone did not know.

lebesgue: So since our African ancestors didn't believe in Jesus, we can then conclude that they were not God fearing people. In fact, since more than half of the world do not believe in Jesus, we can similarly conclude that they are not God fearing people.

The book of romans chapter two gives us a glimpse of how those who have not heard the gospel will be judged but am yet to fully understand, but. Those who have heard and yet refuse to put their trust in jesus I can categorically tell you they are not God fearing... romans 1 and 2 says that... now if you are a christian u have to believe what the bible says if you are not then brother put your faith in jesus and follow those steps, hebrews. says it's gone be bad for those who have heard but yet refuse to believe

1. Someone who believes Jesus came and died for his/her sins
2. Someone who recognizes he/she is a sinner
3. Someone who repents from their sins and asks jesus to come into their lives
4. Someone who now hates. Their former life and actively pursues holiness and sanctification
5(growing in the knowledge of God and also making the best of the opportunities of the means of grace.(reading the scriptures,praying, fellowshiping with other belivers)
Now this. Is a true believer.

marieolae: So u prefer to be lonely for a lifetime?

Quite the opposite actually... I'll to be with someone to sacrifice my pride for our joy...

If you actually read it you'd realise I wrote this for us to see the beauty in marriage, when we deliberately loose arguments and battles for our spouces' joy...

The evangelical world, joined by no shortage of secular observers, has been abuzz about the latest soundbite of note from the Pastors Osteen — this time offered by Victoria Osteen as her husband Joel beamed in the background. It is a hard video to watch.
In her message, Victoria Osteen tells their massive congregation to realize that their devotion to God is not really about God, but about themselves. “I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God–I mean, that’s one way to look at it–we’re doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we are happy. . . . That’s the thing that gives Him the greatest joy. . . .”
She continued: “So, I want you to know this morning — Just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy. . . . When you come to church, when you worship him, you’re not doing it for God really. You’re doing it for yourself, because that’s what makes God happy. Amen?”
As you might predict, the congregation responded with a loud “Amen.”
America deserves the Osteens. The consumer culture, the cult of the therapeutic, the marketing impulse, and the sheer superficiality of American cultural Christianity probably made the Osteens inevitable. The Osteens are phenomenally successful because they are the exaggerated fulfillment of the self-help movement and the cult of celebrity rolled into one massive mega-church media empire. And, to cap it all off, they give Americans what Americans crave — reassurance delivered with a smile.
Judged in theological terms, the Osteen message is the latest and slickest version of Prosperity Theology. That American heresy has now spread throughout much of the world, but it began in the context of American Pentecostalism in the early twentieth century. Prosperity theology, promising that God rewards faith with health and wealth, first appealed to those described as “the dispossessed” — the very poor. Now, its updated version appeals to the aspirational class of the suburbs. Whereas the early devotees of Prosperity Theology prayed for a roof over their heads that did not leak, the devotees of prosperity theology in the Age of Osteen pray for ever bigger houses. The story of how the Osteens exercised faith for a big house comes early in Joel Osteen’s best-seller, Your Best Life Now.
According to Osteen, God wants to pour out his “immeasurable favor” on his human creatures, and this requires a fundamental re-ordering of our thinking. “To experience this immeasurable favor,” Osteen writes, “you must rid yourself of that small-minded thinking and start expecting God’s blessings, start anticipating promotion and supernatural increase. You must conceive it in your heart before you can receive it. In other words, you must make increase in your own thinking, then God will bring those things to pass.”
There is nothing really new in this message. Anyone familiar with the New Thought movement and later books such as Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich will see a persistent theme. The important issue is this — Prosperity Theology is a false Gospel. The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth — and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.
But to talk of the promises of God to believers is actually to jump outside the Osteen audience. The Osteen message does not differentiate between believers and unbelievers — certainly not in terms of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In their sermons, writings, and media appearances, the Osteens insist that God is well-disposed to all people and wills that all flourish, but there is virtually no mention of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No reference to sin as the fundamental issue. No explanation of atonement and resurrection as God’s saving acts; no clarity of any sort on the need for faith in Christ and repentance of sin.
Instead, they focus on happiness and God’s “immeasurable favor” to be poured out on all people, if they will only correct their thinking.
As a thought exercise, let’s just limit the consideration to those people who have identified as Christians throughout the centuries. Does the Osteen message come close to their experience? Would it even make sense?
Just consider the fact that most Christians throughout the history of the church have been poor, and often desperately poor. They were not hoping to move into a suburban mini-mansion, they hoped to be able to feed their children one more day. That picture is still true for millions upon millions of Christians around the world today.
And that is just the start of it. What about all those who are even now suffering persecution for their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? What about the loved ones of the martyrs in Mosul? What about the Christians forced out of their homes and threatened with genocide? What about the children of Christians slain in Iraq and Syria just in recent weeks, or those martyred by Boko Haram in Africa? How does Prosperity Theology work for them? Can anyone look them in the eye and say that God’s plan for believers in this life is to know Your Best Life Now?
In her recent work on Prosperity Theology, historian Kate Bowler traces the shift from what she calls the “hard prosperity” message of the early Pentecostals to the “soft prosperity” message of modern preachers like Joel Osteen. As Bowler explains, the new “softer” version of the prosperity message has “become the foremost Christian theology of modern living.”
Well, maybe. Prosperity Theology certainly sells books and draws crowds in the United States, but what does it possibly say to a grieving Christian wife and mother in Iraq? How can it possibly be squared with the actual message of the New Testament? How can any sinner be saved, without a clear presentation of sin, redemption, the cross, the empty tomb, and the call to faith and repentance? Prosperity Theology fails every test, and fails every test miserably. It is a false gospel, and one that must be repudiated, not merely reformatted.
Victoria Osteen’s comments fit naturally within the worldview and message she and her husband have carefully cultivated. The divine-human relationship is just turned upside down, and God’s greatest desire is said to be our happiness. But what is happiness? It is a word that cannot bear much weight. As writers from C. S. Lewis to the Apostle Paul have made clear, happiness is no substitute for joy. Happiness, in the smiling version assured in the Age of Osteen, doesn’t last, cannot satisfy, and often is not even real.
Furthermore, God’s pleasure in his human creatures centers in his desire and will that they come to faith in Jesus Christ and be saved. The great dividing line in humanity is not between the rich and the poor, the sick and the well, or even the happy and the unhappy. The great divide is between those who, in Christ, have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God’s glorious light.
Mere happiness cannot bear the weight of the Gospel. The message of the real Gospel is found in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” That is a message that can be preached with a straight face, a courageous spirit, and an urgent heart in Munich, in Miami, or in Mosul. 
If our message cannot be preached with credibility in Mosul, it should not be preached in Houston. That is the Osteen Predicament.

You can be right, or you can be married; take your pick. I can’t remember who told me that, but I do remember that they were only half-joking. The other half, the serious half, is exceedingly important. This is why.

Many therapists aren’t crazy about doing marital therapy. It’s complicated and messy, and it often feels out of control. In the worst case scenario, the therapist has front row seats to a regularly-scheduled prize fight. But I love to do marital therapy. Why? Maybe I enjoy the work because I keep one simple principle in mind: if marriage is going to work, it needs to become a contest to see which spouse is going to lose the most, and it needs to be a race that goes down to the wire.

When it comes to winning and losing, I think there are three kinds of marriages. In the first kind of marriage, both spouses are competing to win, and it’s a duel to the death. Husbands and wives are armed with a vast arsenal, ranging from fists, to words, to silence. These are the marriages that destroy. Spouses destroy each other, and, in the process, they destroy the peace of their children. In fact, the destruction is so complete that research tells us it is better for children to have divorced parents than warring parents. These marriages account for most of the fifty percent of marriages that fail, and then some. The second kind of marriage is ripe with winning and losing, but the roles are set, and the loser is always the same spouse. These are the truly abusive marriages, the ones in which one spouse dominates, the other submits, and in the process, both husband and wife are stripped of their dignity. These are the marriages of addicts and enablers, tyrants and slaves, and they may be the saddest marriages of all.

But there is a third kind of marriage. The third kind of marriage is not perfect, not even close. But a decision has been made, and two people have decided to love each other to the limit, and to sacrifice the most important thing of all—themselves. In these marriages, losing becomes a way of life, a competition to see who can listen to, care for, serve, forgive, and accept the other the most. The marriage becomes a competition to see who can change in ways that are most healing to the other, to see who can give of themselves in ways that most increase the dignity and strength of the other.  These marriages form people who can be small and humble and merciful and loving and peaceful.

And they are revolutionary, in the purest sense of the word.

Because we live in a culture in which losing is the enemy (except in Chicago, where Cubs fans have made it a way of life). We wake up to news stories about domestic disputes gone wrong. Really wrong.  We go to workplaces where everyone is battling for the boss’s favor and the next promotion, or we stay at home where the battle for the Legos is just as fierce. Nightly, we watch the talking heads on the cable news networks, trying to win the battle of ideas, although sometimes they seem quite willing to settle for winning the battle of decibels. We fight to have the best stuff, in the best name brands, and when we finally look at each other at the end of the day, we fight, because we are trained to do nothing else. And, usually, we have been trained well. In the worst of cases, we grew up fighting for our very survival, both physically and emotionally. But even in the best of situations, we found ourselves trying to win the competition for our parents’ attention and approval, for our peers’ acceptance, and for the validating stamp of a world with one message: win. And, so, cultivating a marriage in which losing is the mutual norm becomes a radically counter-cultural act. To sit in the marital therapy room is to foment a rebellion.

What do the rebellious marriages look like? Lately, when my blood is bubbling, when I just know I’ve been misunderstood and neglected, and I’m ready to do just about anything to convince and win what I deserve, I try to remember a phone call we recently received from my son’s second grade teacher. She called us one day after school to tell us there had been an incident in gym class. After a fierce athletic competition, in which the prize was the privilege to leave the gym first, my son’s team had lost. The losers were standing by, grumbling and complaining about second-grade-versions of injustice, as the victors filed past. And that’s when my son started to clap. He clapped for the winners as they passed, with a big dopey grin on his face and a smile stretched from one ear of his heart to the other.  His startled gym teacher quickly exhorted the rest of his team to follow suit. So, a bunch of second grade losers staged a rebellion, giving a rousing ovation for their victorious peers, and in doing so, embraced the fullness of what it can mean to be a loser. When I’m seething, I try to remember the heart of a boy, a heart that can lose graciously and reach out in affection to the victors.

In marriage, losing is letting go of the need to fix everything for your partner, listening to their darkest parts with a heart ache rather than a solution. It’s being even more present in the painful moments than in the good times. It’s finding ways to be humble and open, even when everything in you says that you’re right and they are wrong. It’s doing what is right and good for your spouse, even when big things need to be sacrificed, like a job, or a relationship, or an ego. It is forgiveness, quickly and voluntarily. It is eliminating anything from your life, even the things you love, if they are keeping you from attending, caring, and serving. It is seeking peace by accepting the healthy but crazy-making things about your partner because, you remember, those were the things you fell in love with in the first place. It is knowing that your spouse will never fully understand you, will never truly love you unconditionally—because they are a broken creature, too—and loving them to the end anyway.          

Maybe marriage, when it’s lived by two losers in a household culture of mutual surrender, is just the training we need to walk through this world—a world that wants to chew you up and spit you out—without the constant fear of getting the short end of the stick. Maybe we need to be formed in such a way that winning loses its glamour, that we can sacrifice the competition in favor of people. Maybe what we need, really, is to become a bunch of losers in a world that is being a torn apart by the competition to win. If we did that, maybe we’d be able to sleep a little easier at night, look our loved ones in the eyes, forgive and forget, and clap for the people around us.

I think that in a marriage of losers, a synergy happens and all of life can explode into a kind of rebellion that is brighter than the sun. The really good rebellions, the ones that last and make the world a better place, they are like that, aren’t they? They heal, they restore. They are big, and they shine like the sun. And, like the sun, their gravitational pull is almost irresistible.

A lot of Bama youths embraced the Islamic sects Boko Haram long before now. They were non-violent but nurse the ambition of fighting the government as far back as 2006. That was and has always been the cardinal principle on which Boko Haram was founded, the Islamic revolution.

I can understand why a lot young people are attracted to such sect. The utter neglect by the State and the Federal Government. Government in Borno State has always been about sharing money by few in government. When I was growing up in Borno State in the late 80s and early 90s, I could clearly see unemployment was very high. There wasn't much to do but smuggling fuel out of the country and other goods and smuggling stuffs in from the neighbouring countries. For Custom officials it was to collect bribes and get as rich as you can as quick as possible. The police institution has always been an example of total institutional failure as far as Nigeria is concern and it reminds us of the Nigerian State. The same thing was going on for every other institution, even the military, in Borno State. There was simply no job to do.

One could see that armed robbery was very high in Borno with foreigners involved and many times they raided villages subsequently that these villages cease to exist as the villagers all pack out. Maiduguri was safe but the villages were like the Wild, Wild, West, even before Boko Haram. My father was a policeman, so I know quite a lot what was going on. In my father's days police were not paid salary for three months, then they pay for a month and off again for two to three months. So how do government expect them to feed their families? If not for my mom who was a strong business woman taking care of most things, I still wonder how we would have survived. My pops has always been this straight forward kind of fellow who doesn't take bribe, part of his military training before he joined the police. Even his colleagues see him as different as they nicknamed him 'Old Soldier' for his non tolerance of bribe and injustice that was and is still the culture of the police.

I understand why Boko Haram thrives among Borno youths. They never liked Western education which was free of charge in the late 80s. Living in Bama I can tell you they were less than 50 Bama students in Government Science Secondary School where I attended my secondary school. Almost 80 to 90 percent of Kanuris, Gamargu and Shuwa drop from Bama local goverment drop out of school or never go beyond Primary School. Young people seek solace in sitting under the nim tree, discussing religion and doing drugs. Diazepam and Tramal were the recreational drugs, cough syrups, pimolin tablet, and even alcohol were in high consumption. Alcohol mostly secretly as it is haram.

I left Bama in 1994 for Kano but I still here from people there. Somehow I kept contact with my friends, mostly Maiduguri boys who went to school in Bama. As Boko Haram hit Borno, I re-connected with friends here and there and they have been a great source of information.

Without job and education, with the hopelessness and fear that has become Nigeria and the wantom spending and ostentatious lifestyle of politicians, people close to politicians, their wives and children, indoctrinating people against the government would be as simple as ABC. It was the government that committed suicide against itself. The agitation for an Islamic State by Northern Nigerian governments in 1999 and the introduction of Sharia in 2000 in some state, kicked off Boko Haram.

When that Sharia of deceit failed, Boko Haram decided to give the people Sharia. They used that avenue to incite, inflame and to influence. Army of jobless youths in their thousands became members. Jobless, hopeless and uneducated, Muhammad Yusuf found the Vacuum to fill. Western education doesn't do any good but destroys. Only people with white colar jobs were seen to be enjoying the country and the shameless corruption was glaring that nobody hides anything. There was lawlessness. Boko Haram gave the army of jobless Nigerians a sense of importance and belonging to something big and important, something divine, the work of Allah, Jihad, wagging war against the enemy and the enemy is government.

Bama youths flooded into Boko Haram. Some of them killed their best friends who were involved in unIslamic activities after warning them to stop. Drug dealers, junkies and thoae who mistakenly talked against Boko Haram were assasinated. Where was government all these while? People in government were busy living the Nigerian dream which is looting.

As Boko Haram took over Bama today, majority of the fanatics fighting the Jihad to establish the Islamic Caliphate are from Bama. They know the terrain more that the Nigerian army and they can easily melt into the crowd of civilian.

In a barbers shop...
Nigga raw: guy wetin you dey do here na?
Me: I wan apply for visa

rattlesnake: ...many of us are avoiding the fact that lack of parental guidance and care led to this....mallam is a critic....who feels he's perfect n thinks God took his son....God does not crush people kids under truck..we do these things to ourselves n claim its God...RIP to the young lad and mallam should hold his tongue for two years n he will feel better....train up a child prov 22.6

Don't spoil your child

God does not crush children? So God was sleeping when the accident happened? Or it wasn't God that killed thousands of babies in Noah's flood? Don't believe God is just love, he is just also!!! And sovereign which means nothing goes on without his knowledge...

@ this some foolish Nigerians still propose war as a solution to separating we easily forget because history and humanity is neglected in schools

They don't deserve to live! Don't feel any holier but em niggaz deserve to die