So after many decades of demonising, ostracising and sometimes disfellowshiping male members who opt to wear or keep their God given natural beards. The leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect has approved responsible male brothers to wear and keep beards if they choose in a recent update aired on jw broadcast dated December 15,2023.
On this update nos 8 they've agreed that is non scriptural to instruct Christians on how to look outwardly uniformly. They now accept that spirituality is the basis of Christianity not outward appearances or trying to appear or sound different from other competing religious organisations .
There's high and mixed emotions amongst the members now. Many are disappointed while few who has been scorned by elders and congregation leaders for trying to leave there beards to grow may be the only ones excited.
But personally they( Governing Body) needs to apologise to there members for trying to make them look like a cult. Cus is only a cult that that enforce a dress pattern or grooming for members from varying cultures and backgrounds all around the world
Eriokanmi: Useless buffoon. Our politicians are so greedy, why?. They've got no interest of the masses at heart. After finishing his 2nd term in lagos as the tradition demands, he suddenly realised he's not from lagos state and ran to Ogun so he could return to senate, thereby blocking the chance of the candidate who had been waiting patiently for that opportunity. He bribed his way through with the help of gov abiodun. Those who gave him that online polls must be either his sponsored pollsters or thise who prefer to be perpetually enslave by these greedy fellows.
I leave the Ogun people to do the needful when the time is right
Go and sit down. Legislative position has no term limit. Second term ko, infinite term ni
Shattuck: neither the aworis nor the binis can lay claim to the entire Lagos, the aworis had their territory in Lagos the binis also had their territory, Lagos is a state just like osun, just like you have the Ooni of ife who governs the ife territory of osun state, there are also other traditional rulers in the same osun, you can't come today and claim the ancestors of the Ooni founded osun state they only founded ife, same can be said about Lagos and how you guys always try to make it look like the aworis controlled the entire Lagos, the binis also had their territory, which means the oba isn't wrong.
Ife was standing even before Oduduwa defeated and conquered the several kings that governed Ife.
Zenret84: There was a repeated congress on the 25th of September 2022 and non of the actors went to court after the repeated congress. It's clear there's a conspiracy against Plateau state and I can assure you come 2027 APC will be sent packing again. Lalong became governor as a result of protest votes because of Baba Jang insistence on GNS and sadly Lalong sold us out...you and I know Lalong can't win any election again in Plateau state.
athaboi: What is Executive about holding secretarial position in a political party?? But the same useless country and constitution allows a sitting senator to retain his seat and go contest for governorship election and when he loses, he goes back and continue his legislative functions. Until this constitution is stopped, Nigeria will never make progress
It is the practise everywhere around the world. Senator John McCain contested against Barack Obama when John was a sitting Senator.
Beremx: What an unforgettable experience. That day was on a Sunday. The bomb explosion was felt at Festac Town all the way from Ikeja. I remember our windows vibrated and almost shattered. RIP to those who lost their lives at Oke-Afa canal
We felt it at Ota. My mum went for her family at Mafoluku Oshodi that year. The coaster bus she was in passed in front of the cantonment shortly before the explosion started.
When we heard the explosion, we thought it was thunderstorm at first till we switched on our tv and tuned to AIT and started getting updates.
omoredia: Pls lets be careful with our movement around Falomo. My friend entered one chance this morning on his way to see me to give me documents to sign. Lets be careful
Ttalk: That's it when military junta's almost turned Lagos into a jungle
You may not appreciate if you are not an indigene or a resident of Lagos state.
When you see uncultured children ranting about Tinubu, just tell them to ask their father or their uncles who lived in Lagos before 1999.
Hmmmmmm.
Gives me nostalgic feeling. I remember the stress between 98 and 2000 traveling from Ota to Fadeyi through Ijaye, Abule Egba, Abbatoir, Ikeja, Oshodi and then Ilupeju, every day of the work week to get to school at Igbobi College Yaba.
tonytony208: Be sincere to yourself; can NTA release unbiased news about the government? That makes NTA the government's propaganda channel. Simple common sense should make this clear to you. Unfortunately, common sense isn't common
Why do many of you Tinubu defenders talk like fools?
Where did you see tribe in my comment? Is like the minds of many of you are fixated on tribe and labour party. That's how one of you, MrMoh24 started ranting foolishly about Labour Party in a post that was solely about PDP!
Do you guys use your brain to think anything other than stupid tribalism and how to attack labour party?
Unfortunately for you, you can't use your tribal bigotry to buy fuel or dollar at low prices; you are subjected to the same economic conditions like everyone else.
If I were you, I would feel stupid.
You are definitely stupid. Very useless human. Check all my posts on nairaland and tell me one place I have been bias towards any tribe. You even do not know my tribe yet you come online displaying your schizophrenia. Going about labeling every individual with a contrary opinion a tribal bigot. You need to grow up and get the stupid mentality off yourself. I wonder what people like you would do if your employee have a differing opinion on any subject matter. You'll go on to label them stupid, right?
You are asking me if I'm an idiot because of tribalism and religion yet you come out here asking me again in another comment where I saw you talking about tribe. Do you have sense at all?
If you have sense, you'll see that I'm not new on nairaland and you'll see that I have never openly supported any politician on here. To label me a Tinubu supporter is the highest form of buffoonery and stupidity I have seen in a very very long time.
And now look at yourself, you already concluded that I attacked labor party. You are a shame. A big one. I feel ashamed of you.
tonytony208: Lolz. Only intentional idiots rely on NTA for information.
Are you an intentional idiot because of tribalism and religion bigotry?
NTA is supposed to be close to the seat of government and should be able to disseminate confirmed news. If they've not been doing that before doesn't mean they can't start doing so right now.
Then, I wonder what NTA have got to do with tribes. Growing up, it was NTA that we knew. NTA Channel 5, 7 and 10.
I don't know how old you are, but your utterance seem so uncouth and disrespectful.