₦airaland Forum

Pukkah: The terrorists immediately opened fire on the JTF team...twenty of the people who opened fire died but one of the soldiers on whom fire was opened died.

The claim of the JTF needs to be further investigated. I hope the pressure of rooting out Boko Haram did not lead them to attack innocent civilians.

The law enforcement agencies in Nigeria are known to do all sorts just to show they are working.

Leave the other posters to stew in their naivety. A group of 'terrorists' opened fire on you and caught you by surprise yet the force lost only one officer and killed 20?

The only theatre we see these kinds of Kill:Death ratio is when crazed islamist fighters assault a well armed NATO/US base in the middle east...and usually they call in artillery support and airstrikes. Here we have two nearly equally armed groups fighting on a flat terrain with not much element of surprise...what the heck do they think this is, Call of Duty?!

I really have to question the sanity of anyone who takes Fani-kayode's words at face value.
Does that mean you m0r0ns believe his assertion that 'demonic forces' were responsible for the Bellview and SoSoliso crashes?

60,000 Km in 8 months?!

Wait, what?!

jedisco: I still searching for what exactly makes it a low-end phone cos I see alot of features on the phone that no other phone has or can dream of having in the near future.

Pray tell me, apart from the Pureview camera, what other features?

You mean features like the low res 640 * 360 screen with a meager 184 dpi pixel density? Or the relatively puny 1.3 Ghz CPU and inferior GPU? is it in the apps selection where Symbian is woefully lacking?

Abeg tell me the wondrous 'features' o!

fodiyo: Yet everybody including Nairalanders went to do night vigil at SLOT centres last saturday to buy the new NOKIA 808 at discounted price of N41,000.just asking

You saw several hundred people (out of a HUGE population) and it's 'everybody' abi?

I find it puzzling that Nokia is selling this low end phone for 100 - 95k...and that normal people are buying at that price.

If i was in Lagos and i was too broke to buy a decent smartphone, i'd have queued for that phone at N41k, sold it to a mugu like yourself for 85k (discount ) and then added 10k to the money and picked up a Galaxy S III. That's #Winning.

Not even a 41MP camera would make me use that phone.

I just installed Cerberus on my Galaxy S III. Apparently it can even survive a full wipe on rooted devices. I'm not sure how many thieves will think of flashing a whole new custom ROM so it's almost fool-proof.

Shaw007: I dont think so. . .d latest htc and s3 androids have beta displays then Iphone4s(which i bliv is d best so far). . .besides,android smartphones have a larger gaming platform than Iphone,if i didnt know any better,i would say android phones were specifically built around gaming. . .

You've got to be on cheap crack. Even the Google CEOs will admit that there are more high quality games available on iOS than on Android.

Usually the preferred platform for big name devs is iOS, then Android. For good reason too: the same app/game makes lots more money on iOS than on Android.

I almost didn't switch to the Galaxy SIII because of the lack of Street Fighter IV. Still no Soul Calibur on Android yet.


On the flip side, you can connect a PS3 controller to most high end Android phones...and emulators run better on top end Android phones.

xyztus: tithing is very important as stress'd in the bible,bt because you should pay tithe does not mean you must give it to every church in every street corner,and pls if i may add its not a guarantee for you yo attain heaven.christ said no 1 can get to the father accept through him so u can pay d whole tithe in the world but if you do not believe in the sonship of jesus.hell awaits such a person.

SHOW ME WHERE TITHING IS STRESSED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT!!!

samizy1000: AMANYI Are u a christain AMANYI Are u a christain coz if of are u will know that titing is your obeligation to GOD.

He's a Christian. He just knows how to read his bible (unlike yourself) and unlike you he isn't a pastor worshipper.

SimonAndal: That copper's got some nice thighs. Lmfao!

Wetin your eye dey find for anoda man lap?!

Screenshot in case they delete it

EDIT: added to the OP too.

haruna1970: Honeywell group not batman.

Captain Obvious.

Leboska: Well will it add any thing 2 our economy? If nothing then his visit doesn't worth d publicity or even being discuse

Words fail me...If i describe you now dem go say i too dey abuse pesin.

Thisday's Journalism Hits A New Low...batman To Launch Power Projects In Nigeria

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/honeywell-to-invest-1bn-on-power-project/122253/

https://serving.thisdaylive.com/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4/assets/up2007212-Christian-Bale.jpg?maxwidth=400&maxheight=540

According to ThisDay, Batman actor Christian Bale is the CEO of Honeywell group...and they followed it up with a caption photo of the actor dancing with catwoman...ripped from the latest batman movie.

Sadly, such shoddy work is the norm with many Nigerian journalists these days.

Am just me: Another way of asking ur question is, Can I rob GOD and go to heaven? Or can I be a thief and go to heaven? If u don't pay ur tithe d bible says u r robbing GOD and ur a thief. Just pay ur tithe to ur own church and let d Pastors do wot they would wit it, at least btw u n GOD, u don clear ur way.

The bible also says
1) any woman on her period is Unclean. Any one who she has contact with in that time (seven days) is also unclean. .
2) Don't round your hair at the temples or mar the edges of your beard. - Leviticus 19:27
3) The smell of a bull burnt at the sacrificial altar is pleasing to God - Leviticus 1:9

So why are you sheep not doing any of these?

Oh, wait. I know. The Pastors cant use any of these to milk money from you, can they?


Now, let me show you what Jesus said under the NEW COVENANT

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

So explicitly Jesus is telling you in the new testament (NOT THE OLD!!) that what he delights in is when you give to the poor, visit the sick and show love to the common man out there. Did you see anywhere he mentioned giving 10% of your salary to him?


For all those who cling like sheep to the 'sow and you shall reap' mantra of our pastors these days, in the Parable of the Widow's Mite where the widow gave most of her possession as offering out of love, did it end with Jesus making her a multi-millionaire? No! Jesus told us she would reap her riches in Heaven! Your pastors now will start filling your heads with stories of bentleys and government contracts when you donate big money.

Chylo: Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have noticed something in all the responses here. People are just commenting on what they think or feel, but noone is talking about what the scriptures say. People get confused, even true believers, due to the way it has been so perverted, but God's principles remain the same. I will not argue either way, but I will simply present the scriptures (all from the new testament too) for you to make up your own minds.

1. Matt. 23:23 and Luke 11:42 - Jesus condemns the scribes and Pharisees for tithing even the smallest things, without doing the more important things like mercy, fair judgement and faith. However, He then concludes by asking them to do these more vital things, without leaving the tithing undone. I think this answers the OP's question. No, tithing alone will not get you to heaven!

2. Luke 18:12-14 - Jesus tells the story of two people praying, one a Pharisee, one a sinner. The Pharisee prays proudly saying he fasts twice a week and pays tithes, while the sinner prays humbly for mercy. Jesus concludes that the sinner is more justified than the other because,"everyone that exaltheth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted". Notice that Jesus does not condemn d scribe for tithing, but rather for being proud about it. If tithing were wrong from here, then so also would fasting twice a week. The lesson is, if you tithe, well and good, do not be proud of it. Also, if you are a sinner and do not tithe, God can still accept you; but this is not the ideal situation.

3. Hebrews 7:4-9 - Here, Paul suggests that tithing is a spiritual principle. Of particular importance is verse 8, where Paul says, "And here men that die receive tithes; but there He receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth". In other words, as human beings receive tithes here on earth, Jesus in heaven receives them there. When you pay tithes, you are not giving to any man, but to Jesus himself. You should imagine you are standing before God when presenting it. This is also an answer to those people saying you can pay tithes by giving alms, this is not what the scripture teaches.

What I can only say to pastors is that, please and please do not force people to pay tithes, it does not guarantee heaven, neither does it make one holy; however, simply present the Word of God to the people and leave them with the choice of whether to obey or not to obey.

Thank you very much.

This is what happens when Christians become Pastor worshippers and fail to study their Bibles properly.

Of course Jesus Christ would have NEVER asked the Pharisees to stop paying tithes. They were JEWS and it was Jewish custom to pay tithes to compensate the Levites for not working. How convenient of you to cherry pick passages from the Old testament and ignore others. Why do we not send women who are menstruating to the 'unclean' corner? Why no more burnt offerings?

The Bible is rife with stories of how the early Christians handled financial matters; the early SPIRIT FILLED Christians were selling property and giving to the poor, selling property and taking it to the church where it was shared THEN AND THERE with the widows, the sick and the needy. Yet you charlatans will rather use that verse in Malachi instead of reading the Acts of the Apostles!

Jesus Christ had tons of parables focusing on love, charity and giving to the poor. He had ZERO about sowing seeds, tithing and 'first fruits'. Yet our Pastors these days slavishly focus on tithes and sowing seeds...and sheep like you lap it up.

jmaine: ^^ Transition to a cashless economy should be in a graded manner to cushion all shock that may emanate from such move . . but his gungho approach would only cause unnecessary anguish and serious side effects that has being discussed extensively already on this land . . Do we even have the infrastructures in place yet to make the transition smooth and secured if we are to take into cognizance the recent cyber breaches developed nations are being faced in an increasing fashion . .  . . We don't need to plunge into something we know we haven't addressed the glaring and deleterious cons yet . . . as for the Non - interest banking or the sharia banking brouhaha, i don't like getting involved in ethno-religious debates . .it's always get very messy with adamant debaters standing their grounds no matter how badly they fare . . .

Funny how things turn out with time. The same person (jmaine) - who was complaining in 2011 that Sanusi's move to Cashless Nigeria was too abrupt and did not allow for enough transition time - was the one hailing GEJ's abrupt and disruptive removal of fuel subsidy in January 2012.

It seems the laptop crew are well remunerated

RICHIE BOI: A son of a prominent Bauchi state Politician displaying the wealth his father must have drawn from public funds.
these monies are proceeds from their Agricultural plantation....
Yet pupils in some part of Bauchi state are still studying under the tree. SMH!!

If you actually believe this story, I pity your parents who put money towards your education.

lastpage: 2.) The "big, moral question" hanging on El Rufai's neck now are:
(a) Are those same "plots classified as GREEN BELT" no longer on Green Belt anymore, now that you have allocated them to your family members. Source the Geese, source the Gander!

(b)As Minister, you have the power to make such decisions as 'classifying an area as green belt', did you abuse your power to re-classify those same plots so your family can benefit from them?

(c)What makes your own family members so special that they can make use of the "green belt" while other private citizens cant? Does this not amount to gross abuse of office?

No. The real question is...who told you that it was the revoked plots he re-allocated to other NIgerians (which includes 8 of his family members)?

The 27000 plots of land is the TOTAL land parcels he allocated in his entire tenure, not the revoked plots of land. This figure (27000) appears so many places online. Are you too lazy to do some basic research?

Perhaps El Rufai should have couched his answer in clearer terms to remove all ambiguity...but what rational, sane human being will believe that a whopping 27000 plots of land were revoked?

aryzgreat: Who are the innocent people? D bastards dat shot and killed 10 soldiers didn't disappear into the thin air after shooting, they ran into somebody's house and mix with the so called "innocent" ppl and the "innocent people kept quite. How do u expect JTF to fish them out? house to house search ryt? and when they do just dat, boko haram spokesmen like el rufai and sheik Gumi will start crying "murder" How do u expect JTF to win this war? Shut dat gutter u call mouth! JTF should open fire on any boko haram looking bastard! i don't give a damn, the soldiers dat are been killed daily are people father and husbands. Fuccck north mehn! am not just happy with these carnibals!

You thrice accursed m0r0n! There are armed robbers in your area...perhaps we should kill your entire family afterall the robbers can't just vanish into thin air.

Odunnu: You guys are trying to be diplomatic. Call that Pst Bakare to order! He isnt losing it, he's lost his tracks way way back.

In 2010 you posted messages of praise concerning Pastor Bakare when his SNG was demanding Jonathan's swearing in as President.
Now in 2012 he's 'lost his tracks'.

Nairaland!

Beaf: Don't be silly. GEJ announced the programe earlier this year.
There is also another programe for scientific research and R & D. GEJ just does his things calmly and quietly.

Don't let failure and desperation make your eyes pop out, bruv. Don't let winsh behaviour wreck yor mind.



http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/05/24/jonathan-inaugurates-committee-on-scholarship-for-best-brains/

Lol. E be like say e dey pain you.

Seriously, it's not uhuru yet, but this is a pretty good scheme and i guess i'll have to give GEJ kudos for that. This is something i've long complained that the Government should be doing instead of wasting our money sending people on pilgrimage with taxpayers money.

deltaforce7: You are so dumb. How do you define the word 'Corruption'?

At least unlike you I understand written English. And I can confidently say there's NOTHING in that tweet to indicate 'corruption'.

If I challenge you to show me where it says the land was given out for free to his family members, you will not be able to show me anything.

dedeike: The issue is not the allocation. H'ell Rufai's family members are eligible to be allotted the said lands.
But the problem lies with the revoocation and subsequent allocation to family members.
It is deceitful, wicked, barbaric, illegal, unjust and unacceptable.
How can you revoke allocations and hand it over to your cronies? KAI!

dedeike: Try to pretend to be objective for once. I understand you re paid to come and do this but you must not always sacrifice truth on the altar of greed.
The case is clear. The issues are clear.
Is H'ell Rufai's family members entitled to allocation of lands? Yes!
Is H'ell Rufai suppose to revoke lands from genuine title holders and re allocate same to family members. NO!
It is the height of wickedness and can only come from a Boko Haramic mind to strip land owners of their titles, and hand over same to his family.
It's inhuman, barbaric, illegal, wicked, deceitful, Shameful and a gross abuse of public trust.
He will go to jail

You m0r0n! 27000 is the total number of plots El Rufai allocated in his entire tenure... not the number of revoked lands.

What kind of imbecilic dolt would believe for one second that the man revoked 27000 plots of land?!

From the horse's mouth

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/newsflash/el-rufai-interview-part-3-on-income-inequality-source-of-wealth-performance-in-office-and-more.html

I can talk about it, and I do not deny it, because I believed I approved allocation of plot to my wife because she’s a Nigerian, and like every Nigerian above the age of 18 she is entitled to apply for a plot of land in Abuja and get it. And in my tenure as minister I approved allocation for 27,000 people and companies, and my wife got one of the plots, that is what I’m being charged to court for.

Aside from Beaf and a few others, you other laptop wielders are sorely lacking in the IQ department.

Beaf: Dude, I think you are too stup!d to understand English. Read the shiit again and seal your putrid, corruption supporting lips this time:

[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/784789_El-rufai_Land_jpgb4baec15339f7081c864f4d417e1f30d[/img]

Dear Laptop 1,
I can't see anywhere in the tweet that indicates all 27000 plots were dashed out. Care to point that out to me, o wise one?

jp philips: lol, a girl dat stole blackberry was stripped and disgraced, here a deluded Nigerian think its ok for a minister to divert 8plots of land.

If we go by average abuja real estate value, that is btwn 20 to 30million per plot mutiplied by 8 gives 160m to 240m.

Did i forget that d opinion attracted 4 likes,

*shakes head and sings edughana*

Another illiterate m0r0n. Care to show us where it says in the tweet or the OP that the lands were given out for free? Or that they were 'diverted'?
Or is that just your own assumption you pulled out of your anus?

Is there anything legally stopping members of his family from applying for land?

info: Same north opposing western education?

No, you m0r0n. That's Boko Haram.

It's pure imbecility to generalize so recklessly. North =/= Boko Haram. Please repeat this to yourself everyday until it sinks into your thick skull.

superior1: Why is this thread smelling of 40 laptops

Seriously o! The laptops are working in overdrive!

After all, of all the hundreds of high ranking Civil Servants in Bayelsa state (all of who have been working at their station for decades) na Patience Jonathan dem appoint Permanent Secretary.

I no see the 40 laptops crew protest that one. They said "She's a Nigerian, a Civil servant and qualified"


Of all the people in Nigeria, na Tompolo, (a former rebel who took up arms against his country) GEJ gave the contract to secure and police our waterways. That time the spin doctors told us he was a qualified Nigerian whose sins have been forgiven.

Oya na, PLEASE YOU M0R0NS SHOULD TELL US IF EL RUFAI'S FAMILY MEMBERS ARE LEGALLY BARRED FROM APPLYING FOR LAND GRANTS!

abdulmaliq: HOW IT WORKS.

The device is powered externally as needed. inside the device is a coil and a capacitor. When the RFID chip is exposed to an electromagnetic field the same frequency as the coil is tuned to then the coil takes some of the energy from this field and charges the capacitor which then powers the chip long enough to transmit, using frequency variations on the same coil that it used to get the power, to transmit a code. Your personal ID number. This is the same system used by EZPass but with larger coils.

In biblical numerology 777 is God and 6 is man so 666 is man trying to be god. One way man tries to be god to to control everything through our own technology.

This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666. Revelations 13:8

Actually the section of Obama Care...
That he is referring to I believe is dealing with implanted and external medical devices like pacemakers, defibrillators, injection pumps and that sort of thing. Although, I don't think it will be too many more years before they try the RFID. They won't round people up, they will just deny medical attention unless you agree to it.

Please be aware
that the text of the bill in no way requires people to get an implant. It was supposed to be a database of the devices used, collected for analytic purposes and as an easy way to handle recalls.

and of course, the bill never passed.

M0r0n.

wesley80: Question: What criteria was used that "appeared to be designed to exclude those from the Northern states"?

Answer: It was made exclusively for Graduates with a First class, NYSC discharge cert and those that graduated within the last two academic sessions.

Conclusion: Some provision should've been made to accommodate some "dullards" from the North; 'Federal Character' is what its called and its the antithesis to being "merit based" except that in Nigeria, that's the 'legal' way of doing things hence mediocrity holds sway in every facet of our collective national life from football to the highest office in the land, that's until someone brave enough chooses to ignore the usual 'Nigerian way' and does what's right. "Fresh Air" is what that's called!

What does this have to do with 'Fresh Air'? This is just the NUC following laid down process for awarding some post-graduate scholarship. Quota system still exists whole sale in University admissions and Federal Government colleges. It still exists 100% in federal appointments.

You do not have to politicize everything. Shower praise on the guys at the NUC if they stand their ground (you don't know if they will buckle under pressure at the end) if you must praise anyone.

I have not seen any american hailing Team America's Olympics Gold haul as a dividend of 'Change We Can Believe In' or any of Obama's other campaign slogans.

Lol.
All he's saying is that out of 27000 plots he approved, 8 were to members of his family.

In percentage terms, that's 0.03%.

Are you dolts seriously construing this to mean he's 'corrupt'?

This is far less fishy than out of all the thousands of villages in Nigeria, a contractor chose to build a church in GEJ's village of Otueke. I didn't see any of you clowns complaining then

Fhemmmy: But Nigeria used to have all that too . . . I remember the inter-house sports and inter-school sports, i guess all that has gone to the dogs now

You really need to stop airing your ignorance in public here.

There's a whole lot of difference between an avid secondary school and university runner and someone who spends his/her past 4 years training daily and participating in sporting activities as a sole career.

The blame for our dismal performance can be put squarely on the shoulders of our Government and the Sports Ministry.

Go and ask people at the National stadium how much the athletes there get as monthly grants from the Government.

Only in Nigeria would someone be asking why are Ijaw fishermen not competing with Michael Phelps. You think say na just native swimming dem dey use these days?

benzion72: Android people join us on the BB where you pay just N1500.00 for [b]UNLIMITED [/b]data

...and suffer through an antiquated OS with barely any quality apps.