₦airaland Forum

tbliss22:
The devil has succeeded manipulating the mind of this guy.

Imagine this straight, tall, handsome fresh skin looking young man, only God knows what was tunning through his mind before drinking that crazy poison.

However, almost everybody gets depressed at one point or the other but always remember that YOUR PRESENT STATUS IS SOMEONE'S PRAYER REQUEST somewhere at a particular time.

Go straight to psychiatric hospital and see able bodied men and women with various lunatic displays, the scene alone will make you say thank you to God for giving you the right functioning brain.

Take another visit to one or two general hospitals will make you thank God for sound health. So many prison inmates are being held on various crimes they knew nothing about.

I believe everyone is destined to pass through a narrow painful path at one junction of life. It's COWARDICE of the highest order for you to bow out when its your turn to face your own narrow painful path.

Do you think great men like Dangote, Good luck, OBJ, Festus Keyamo, Dele Momodu, Folorunsho Alakija, Otedola e.t.c. don't have stories to tell?? Some of them passed through thick and thin of life, but today because they stood firm facing all difficulties, they are up there being celebrated.

Finally, if you are reading this right now and you've got different shits running through your mind, brace up and shake it off because the whole world is looking forward to your greatness even in this present economic shambles.

God bless Nigeria!!!

Great men like who? Dangote, Good luck, OBJ, Festus Keyamo, Dele Momodu, Folorunsho Alakija, Otedola e.t.c. Being rich doe not make you great... this is what corruption or living in a corrupt society has done to the mental psyche of an Average Nigerian.

Stealing, stealing, stealing,
Stealing, stealing.
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

My father's house of worship,
Has become a den of thieves;
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

They fed our mothers with sour grapes,
And set our teeth on edge;
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

Strike the hammer of justice,
And set my people free,
Strike the hammer of justice,
Or let my people be.

They tell us of a heaven,
Where milk and honey flow;
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

They said this place called heaven;
The rich man cannot go.
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

Yet the reverend drives a fancy car,
Buys everything tax-free,
The people have to sacrifice;
To give in charity.

My father's house of worship,
Has become a den of thieves;
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

(..)

Stealing, stealing, stealing,
Stealing, stealing.
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

Stealing, stealing, stealing,
Stealing, stealing.
Stealing in the name of the Lord.

....Thanks Max Romeo

9japrof:
Tithing is corruption in the church, tithing has ceased to exist, from the inception of Christianity, it has ceased


Tithing in the past was given to the levites tribe who never recieved landed inheritance among the twelve tribes of isreal. So Jehovah made provisions that they feed from every one tenth that was presented by the other tribes of Israel. They were priests by calling,(hereditary) and they never had any other job excepting helping in offering sacrifices on behalf of other Israelites in the temple.

What do we have now? Rouges in church robes, from the advent of Christianity, tithing ceased because the Hebrew nation(Judaism) lost God's favour and their worship no longer accepted, that is why today Christians no longer need to do animal sacrifices to appease God, so since no animal sacrifices, do you need the priest for the sacrifices?

Check out the Christian Greek Scriptures(New Testerment) there were no indications that tithing arrangement continued after the prior, during or after the death of Jesus Christ. Contributions were only made to take care of needs of the congregation or during a disaster. There were no indications that the apostles of those times profited from the gospel, Peter continued in his fishing business, Paul after dumping his law profession learnt tent making to support himself materially and so were many disciples. They never collected tithes or contributions from their congregation for their personal use or consumption

Let's assum Paul who was a missionary back then was like the stupid greedy money conscious rouge pastors of today, he would have lorded it over the congregation back then to contribute and buy him a luxury ship, he can always use to sail for his missionary journeys, but no he boarded merchant ships even under the harshest of weather and boarding conditions and there were no indications whatsoever that the congratulations paid for those trips.

All pastors who collect tithes and convert to personal gains are rogues, criminals any name you deserve to give them. What they practice is corrupt form of Christianity
During Bible times, people whom God used for miracles never collected "kickbacks" for doing such miracles, neither did they profit from their spiritual work. Gehazi one of of Elishas servants who collected a gift gifted by Naaman that was rejected by Elisha previously was struck with leprosy. If Jesus Christ, his disciples and apostles of Bible times rejected gifts and self enrichment from the gospel, who the hell are these rogues to do otherwise.

Church contributions should be for maintenance of facilities and for disaster relieve and not into some useless pastors pockets for consumption. This confirms that their powers for operation are not even from God because when God gifts You a gift, maybe healing, prophesy etc and you misuse it, he takes back that power from you, but we see pastors all over the world eating fat while deceiving the congregation with false teachings of tithing. Pastorism now is a profession, where one goes for a course like it's tertiary education, qualifies opens a church while being lazy and the congregation keeps feeding him fat from their poor donations.

SIf Jesus were to visit physically churches of today, what will be his reaction today? When he sees the commercialism that goes in the church today, where all sorts of financial and economic messages are passed in the church while diluting the message about the kingdom of God and salvation( MMM was actively preached in the church by many pastors, Google the pictures are there in the internet). If Jesus was to be physically present in the church, what would be his reaction when he sees that different sections of church are being called out to carry their monetary donations in their hands and come out to recieve prayers according to the amounts one contributes( different prayer for 10 million, 5 million, 1 million, 10,000 and 100 naira donors).
What would be Jesus reaction to find out that PoS machines are now being pass round the church to ensure that you must drop money, even if you claim that you don't have physical cash, no wonder quite a number of people save themselves the embarrassment of going to church if they are broke.
Lemme tell you what Jesus would have done if he were physically present in any church and see the commercialism in the church, he would still do the same thing he did in the temple back then when he overturned the table of money exchangers, and claimed that the house of his father was for worship, while they have converted it as a den of robbers. What is now been done in churches are even worse now.

Now is time to take a step, a commercial church can never be from God, if it were, God would have taken back his power and support from them. Miracles that commercial churches do can never be from God, else when they recieve "kickbacks" for the healings they do, God would have withdrawn that ability to heal from them, meaning these churches that collect kickbacks and still continue healing collect their powers from a different source.

Now is the time to sit at home, do an honest research of the scriptures, do an honest and fervent prayer to God that you want to know the truth and serve him in a way and manner HE wants. He will surely answer your prayers

Brilliant submission. ... but you need to know that those who go to church really do not go there to hear the TRUTH... so the pastors would preach what they want to hear. I have always wondered why pastors pictures must adorn every nook and corner of our road, are they competing with nollywood actors and actresses? But really we can not change the tide of things in the church, all these occurrences has been foretold in the Bible. May God protect his children from the wolves in sheep clothing.

Sphinx02:
I met debola recently...very pompous nd arrogant fellow.

I don't know you but for some strange reason i kind of believe your statement.

Hardewarlee:
Nemesis will soon catch up with the rest . At least you all know how you spilled blood of innocent Nigerians before and after election . Even when you send assasin to silent your fellow human being.

Am sorry to say this ..: I have got no Rip. .

All I have to say is OK .

Quote me wrong , Na your wahala .... You get no response back .

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Jesus is Love, let us in all situation learn to love and forgive.. Never wish evil for evil. Peace

When your loved one are going for any major surgery... it might be a good idea to ensure you ask for a cctv recording to ensure no additional organs are removed on purpose ... The heart of man is full of wickedness.

aku626:
Education into what sector? Created jobs for people to lead others into joblessness. Why are we not considering alternative source of energy we should have a university for renewable energy.

UNIVERSITY FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY... why cant we be in the forefront of change.

Help me guess the amount of millions spent in sewing those school uniforms? The customers will surely pay in various bank charges as dividend of customer service week.

Situation:
this is not funny oo, I hear people saying Economy this, financial that, Ogbenii have you considered JAZZ factor?? for better understanding: I lost my bukateria to so called spiritual-grandmas doing something similar on small scale. in my opinion this should come first
1. spiritual stability(strong body IP)
you sef jazz up

Honestly you are spot on... people underestimate the diabolic tendency prevalent in Nigeria and how it can impact a business. I still i find it hard to believe that i rented multi shops in a shopping mall, without doing a profitability analysis, anytime i get back home to input the figure on my excel sheet, before making my decision, it seems i suddenly become either tired or distracted by one thing or the other.
1. Be prayerful when renting a shop for business.
2. Ensure you include some one to share and review your data concerning your investment choice
3. Share your plan with Nairalanders, they may suggest some alternative profitability investment that you might not have thought of.
4. Forget about external funding from financial institution or micro finance bank, these institutions are there just to milk you dry.

at $55 per barrel our leaders are still planning on how to get us from oil dependent country to become an export driven country
@ $45 per barrel our leaders are still planning on how to get us from oil dependent country to become an export driven country
@ $35 per barrel our leaders are still planning on how to get us from oil dependent country, by intensifying search for oil in the Northern region.
@ $25 per barrel our leaders are promising our youths a brighter future as the sale of electronic driven vehicle is not sustainable
@ $15 per barrel our leaders have concluded it is time to seek permanent asylum in Europe or America.
@ $5 per barrel suddenly everybody has moved beyond call for restructuring to everybody should bear his/her Fathers' name.
@ $1 per barrel suddenly North is championing resource control

there was a country.

Psoul:
(1) The mother already knw that what she is doing is wrong and don't want to be corrected.

(2) The woman is not married. The boy has no legitimate father

(3) The boy will grow up and behave anyhow he want due to the poor upbringing

(4) When the woman grows up in wisdom, by then she is already old and will no longer cherish this stupidity, she will cry "How i wish i can delete everything from internet" By then it's already too late and internet will continuously keep reminding her of her foolishness

(5) By the this little boy has grown into a wild orchard, tormenting ppl outside and this old woman that happen to be his mother.

(6) The woman will be too old and very weak to administer discipline in him.

(7) The woman will grieve and grieve and die especially as there is no man in the house to help and console her.


My prayer is that God should help this woman see where she is leading this little innocent boy to. He should also help her know that she is also preparing a very sad future for herself.

There are no golden rule for success, the child may even turn out to be superstar tomorrow. If a Jay-Z could be trained by a lesbian mother... and still become a superstar anything is possible.

If I had the opportunity to talk to Miss Kiki, i would have advised her to start small but dream big.... I remember the good old days of ordering cakes from a lady who used to make it right from her home, before she became one of the largest name in the bakery business in Nigeria.
For those who have loads of cash for biz, it is best to start on a small scale to test the water before making a big splash.
Wishing her much success in her new venture.

Sometimes a bad speed sensor can mimic some of the issues raised in the OP's post, how do we know when it is actually the speed sensor that is bad or spark plugs.

Dear Presido your search for the elusive FDI would not be in vain... People dont realise how much we need to attract Foreign Investment into the country now that the era of easy petro dollars from oil is gradually coming to an end.

Magnus Carlsen the only GM that can beat Femi with a "Fools Mate" ... hehehe.
I hope Carlsen does not send Femi to early retirement...
Wishing you the very best Femi... please can we bet on this game on any betting site in Nigeria.. the odds of Femi beating Magnus would be crazy! I want to be an instant millionaire my 50 kobo on Femi

Benstone:
Can't he help or donate for the black race suffering in Africa? Countries like south Sudan, central Africa etc. At least Gates family and other are really assisting.
Or if he can come up with a tangible project like Akon light up Africa, Blacks in the diaspora are not help matters at all. When ever they got issues with corps etc, they will remember their race, but when it's fun time, they are Americans.
Black should learn from the Jews, no matter how long a Jew stays abroad, they remember their root as isreal.
Blacks should develop Africa.

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When shall we all see through the lies of bill gates and co.. instead of fixing the root of the problem which is bad leadership in Africa, they keep on donating left, right and centre.. This is not the solution we need in Africa...

dheaven:
Why did President Buhari fail to commend Osibanjo?

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i totally missed that important fact! So you were expecting President Buhari to commend Osibanjo whom he demoted to the role of a mere coordinator... It is the norm in organization for a coordinator to report to a manager (Cabal).

HARDDON:
With empty stomach, heads they throng.
no visible achievements yet they drool
He go wasting national resources on personal health, yet dey r too blinded to see.

They must hv been spiritually blinded!

the effect of illiteracy

Honesty i wish our President no ill, but from all the pictures i have seen so far and given the best medical care he has received in the Uk to date, it is obvious that he can not handle the stress that comes naturally with being the president of Africa's most populous nation. I pray God guides him accordingly.

What a sad way for a young innocent child to be killed. The killer is heartless, but what of the herbalist & the herbalist apprentice that would use the body parts to prepare the concoction. if i had my way all shrines should just be destroyed, all this story that my shrine only uses animal sacrifice, is just mostly cover up. Human sacrifice obviously is still well and thriving in Nigeria.

If we had a functional rail system, it makes more sense to move such large equipment by rail, instead of causing unnecessary traffic hold up.
Also the road may not be designed to withstand such heavy duty equipment, in some months time we would start seeing craters in various part of the road... tax payers money that would be used to fix it... Ideally Dangote should be fined heavily for moving such extreme heavy equipment on publicly funded roads.

omoiyalayi:
This Dangote of a man sha, something a whole country that pride herself as the giant of africa could not achieve just one man I mean one man is doin it.

Kudo to him

We nid more of him in this country.

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Lets not make a superstar of Dangote... i assure if you also get the kind of privileges Dangote enjoyed, wont surprise me if you do much more than this.

Could it be some sort of Covenant thingy?Our rich men go to so many marabouts and well only God knows what sort of covenant they might have agreed to jointly or it could just be pure coincidence. My condolences to the family.

PrecisionFx:
Ur more confused than I thought.

The point is that if the the pipelines that brings him crude is bombed, he starts recording losses immediately(I don't think u know much about this). Then buying crude oil outside n shipping it back to Nigeria means ×5 of expenses.


No investment is safe in Nigeria, the volatility of the niger Delta region is the main reason why shell, chevron, AGIP etc who could easily build refineries here are completely uninterested in doing that.

The real reason why shell, chevron, agip would not build refineries, build power plants or seriously investment in development of gas plants, is that they are here and here for only one reason to plunder the resources of Africa. It is much easier and preferably for them to dig a hole and suck it dry and move on to the next hole until there is nothing to suck again and simply dismantle all their drilling rigs and ship out of Africa. Their task of plundering the resources of Nigeria was made much easier because of the unserious government we have been having over the years.

Oktane:
I was waiting for a post that would refer to ritualistic inclinations and even cultism. You know we can never go lowered than this. It beats me that otherwise very intelligent Nigerians will subscribe to theories of ritual processes and cultism producing wealth such as attained by Dangote. We really need to remodel our thinking honestly. Dangote being simple and modest it loud and arrogant is not the issue here.Those inclinations are a reflection of his person and evolutionary level. His contributions to the society is a moral question. His philanthropy cannot and should be judged as this is at his discretion. Society cannot judge the man based on other people's standards. People are different. We have to learn to listen to these interviews objectively.
Personally, I think Dangote is a great man. I allow room for his weaknesses and try it to judge him by my own standards. Afterall I am not in his shoes and our circumstances and predicates are different.

Have you met bill cosby in person, at least you have seen how soft spoken bill cosby appears on tv... He appears like the ultimate father role model, who would ever believe the revelation from the women accusing him of sexual molestation. Never vouch for any man!

RealityShot:
Most of the peopele typing “ be your
own boss”, or “team self-employed” or quoting “your salary is the bribe given to
abandon your dream and build other people
dream” are students or sitting at home chopping Daddy or mommy food and collecting pocket money!

till we change our mentality about going from university class to 250k per month or daddy giving you 1million to start a business..

..and start thinking "work and save , then start a business part time, then go fulltime (if its successful)"..

..most Nigerians will just continue to start those failed businesses we see everywhere!

Lets be frank the Nigerian environment makes running your business a very difficult preposition. The same business that will easily survive in developed countries due to the wonderful financial and economic support structure in place would fail big time in Nigeria. Do you know how difficult it is to access funds for business expansion. If you can not access funds to either rejig or retool your business, how is the business supposed to survive. You would be lucky to find a finance outfit that would give you a loan at less than 30% interest rate P.A.

For those who have a 9 - 5 job, in Nigeria should hug onto their job, running a business with zero security, epileptic power supply and lack of government patronage is no joke.

President Buhari... only come back to Nigeria when your doctors have certified you fit as a fiddle... You can verify with Aisha in the other room! Wishing you speedy recovery.

leo2020:
The world's most corrupt woman Diezani is in that same London but these miscreants never protested that she should go home to face justice. . London protest against Buhari is not new. Some paid foolish blacks also protested at Chatham House London in 2015 build up to the general election..

I am totally against what Diezani did, but let us be truthful to ourselves, she was emboldened to commit such level of malfeasance due to past precedence from previous ministers. What other past officials heading the petroleum industry have stolen if fully brought to light may make Diezani look like a learner.

bbbabes:
You have a great deal of funds. Divide the money into 3 and do 3 different kinds of businesses. If one fails, one picks up.

Thanks

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This is quite a good advice.
Let me add that no matter the business you are doing try to do a little market research, gather some data, let your decision be driven by data not emotion. Never rush into business, patience should be the golden rule to avoid fatal mistake.

planetx:
This Arabs are really dealing with the Europeans, funny enough the Europeans love and respect them more than Africans that are always kissing their ass.

isn't it ironic... in the voice of Alanis Morrisette

natznext:
Now, good point you've made
But let's not delusional and sweep our undoings under the carpet, these other guys didn't just attain their status in a few years, they went through phases, tho we necessarily don't have to take as long as it took em
But will the integration of all these tech and advancements take us time? Bitter truth is YES!
Real time oo, proper implementation, not some wild dreams o
200mil people?
What is our literacy rate?
Even the so called literate, 80% re stuck in the '80s

Furthermore, do you know the number of engines that uses fossil fuels in the world today?
Those that are still being manufactured?
Even if they'll want to start swapping combustion engines for electric motors, only vehicles that was produced in recent times would easily be converted
A lot of countries would still run on fuel for the next 30yrs
I say we take 15yrs to dominate and exploit the oil market since the major players would have already moved to electric and renewable energy, these doesn't stop us from using proceeds to fund the integration of Electric and renewable energy

Verily, I tell you fellow country man, if we leap to start moving at their pace without first setting a strong foundation, we'll crash

Listen must Africa always play the catch up, why cant we be brave and bold for once to even leapfrog the white man.. at least it is an incontestable fact that civilization started in Africa.
We may soon enter the era of buy one barrel of oil get 1,000 free... if our leaders don't wake up!