₦airaland Forum

agbangam:
Those criminals in senate never liked Magu, dey want him out by all means and watch how chidren/ supporters of Looters will flood dis thread clapping for those criminals.

It is not about whether the Senate likes magu or not, it is about the law. The Nigerian constitution mandate that the EFCC chairman must be approved by the Senate before he can sit in that office. The Senate has the perogative to approve or reject the nomination for whatever reason they deem fit.

Magu is sitting illegally as the chairman (acting or not).

Magu has turned EFCC into a debt collection agency. If someone is refusing to pay you a loan you gave out, report to Magu, EFCC will swing into action sharp sharp and lock up your debtor

deji17:
The Gimba and many of the Channels TV presenters are very ignorant. Is Channels not paying her presenters and producers money and create time for research? Poor journalism.

Afghanistan has cost the U.S. over a trillion dollars since the Bush administration launched its military intervention in late 2001.

The $1.07 trillion bill can be divided into three segments. Overseas Contingency Operations funds specifically dedicated to the war come to $773 billion. $243 billion can be attributed to increases in the base budget of the Department of Defense while the increase in the Veterans Administration budget cost $54.2 billion


https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/08/24/the-financial-cost-of-u-s-involvement-in-afghanistan-infographic/#7e22706a1ee3

You get time to the answer pained anarchist (PDP and it's allies) who wish to destroy the country just because their hero lost an election. When I saw the story that America used $500 million to fight taliban, I thought it was a typographical error until I realised that they were serious.
The afganistan war that started in 2001 after the September 9-11 attacks and continues to this day costs N500 million ?

netflicks:
And the hardship of today including the fuel hike is the worst ever recorded in the history of Nigeria....APC and Buhari is like a punishment for the sins we committed in 2015....

This fuel scarcity the worst ever recorded in nigeria's history? You must be less than 3 years old.

Fuel scarcity bites harder in Lagos as marketers’ stocks dry up - February 2014 - http://www.nigeriaroute.com/blog/fuel-scarcity-bites-harder-in-lagos-as-marketers-stocks-dry-up/


FUEL SCARCITY: JONATHAN WADES IN, DIRECTS PETROLEUM MINISTER TO MEET OIL WORKERS
September 21, 2014 - http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/news/fuel-scarcity-jonathan-wades-directs-petroleum-minister-meet-oil-workers/


Fuel scarcity to bite harder – Investigation
30 OCT 2012 - https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/fuel-scarcity-to-bite-harder-investigation/amp/

There is no year Nigeria had not face serious fuel scarcity within the last 30 years.

luvinhubby:
Since when did governors become part of FEC?

My apologies, I was thinking of the Nigerian council of states.

biacan:
And your matter has been with your ancestors for a very long time that's why you've failed in life...... dude create his moniker in 2008 while in 2017 he has nothing to show for it except this BMC work......jumping from frying pan to fire you're a disgrace to this generation better go locate the cause of your problems before is too late smh

I wanted to engage you before but after glancing your history, I relided that you are not worth my time. You lack the educational, intellectual and maturity to engage in any meaningful discussion. I noticed you are more active in the romance section, stick to that and avoid attempting to sound cerebral.


I cannot even hire you as a cleaner in my office.

My advice to you is; improve your self, get an education, find a reasonable job and get a responsible husband. Make something worthwhile with your life, time waits for no one.

As I said, you are not worth my time, this is my last response to you.

aolawale025:
For a FEC meeting that lasted all day, they should have made major decisions not just another probe

And it was reported that the FEC meeting was only about the probe?

SalamRushdie:
Is that why they claimed to stay long at FEC yesterday looking for a crime to rope Jonathan with as election year approaches , just few days to an election day Buhari suddenly turns on the heat on all perceived opposition obstacles in the election . Well I am not suprised becuase I have since maintained Buhari doesnt have the ability hold free and fair elections but in God we Trust.

Relax, don't get a heart attack, Jonathan personally will never be prosecuted. That was part of the agreement on conceeding the election, but that does not stop Buhari from trying to recover stolen funds and prosecuting accomplices.

FreddyKruger:

And with the way things are going, come 2019 your dullard will make Abacha look like a petty thief.

How much was available for Abacha to steal? How much was the average price of crude during the 8 year Abacha reign? It is not comparable to what Jonathan made in 8 month? Jonathan was the alcapone of corruption.

Financialfree:
Anybody who mean well for Nigeria knows that APC is dirty

We don't need PDP to tell us how dirty they are
We know APC and Propaganda are inseparable

And anyone who mean well for Nigeria will forget or remain oblivious of how dirty PDP was.

Godjone:
USELESS PEOPLE. JONATHAN MATTER NO DEY TIRE UNA

Jonathan matter will remain with us for a very long time. His government seem the most corrupt in the history of Nigeria is not the whole of Africa. Jonathan made IBB look like a pick pocket.

Flets:
BMC resuming quite early. Tough days at work right?

Stale.

Work? at 6:30 am? Maybe you guys do your job under the cover of darkness, but most of us work in broad daylight light in offices.

Since you guys support stealing, corruption and moral vices on the alter of politics or tribe, I wonder how you can exhibit honesty and ethics at work.

olumide81:
It's no point trying to prove to us that previous administration was corrupt. Let's move on 'if possible' . This charade don tire me Abeg. Kilode gan.

It is not possible to move on, unless we solve the problems put in us by the PDP administration of the last 16 yrs. You say there is no point trying to prove the last administration was corrupt when the whole world except you guys believe the last administration was corrupt.

Financialfree:
this another campaign strategy to rubbish PDP but we know how it will end--just media trial
Nothing more.

But he that lives in glass house should not cast a stone,
APC is not so clean as the claim

No body says APC is clean, you guys get your act together and win the next elections, then you are at liberty to tell us how dirty APC was.

But for now, we need to know the full extent of PDP's filth.

biacan:
Books kwa.......... only GOD knows how much they are going to be probing for salts in aso rock



This government will always find who to blame for their misfortune........smh

You guys (IPOB, POP and 5 percenters) are really pathetic. You want Nigeria to crumble just because your hero lost the elections, forgetting you will also be consumed in the conflagration.

The FEC comprising of all governors is to budget N6.9 billion for textbooks for schools but insists it wants to know what happens to the 8.68 billion that was awarded for the same books in 2013. If the contracts for the books had been awarded and not supplied, would it not make sense and beneficial to Nigerian students to ask the suppliers to supply the books also, but you guys are crying all over the place.

petra1:
It's not every crop or animal that was accepted . Unclean plant ,perishable crops and unclean animals were not accepted as tithes and offering. How does a dog seller,horse seller ,give their tithes and offering . They pay for them with cash .

Leviticus 27:31
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

Leviticus 27:27
27 If it be of an unclean animal, the owner may redeem it according to your valuation, and shall add a fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Money was already introduced into the system

Under what conditions was money introduced into the system? The fact that you conceed that money was introduced into the system meant money was originally not part of the system, confirming that tithes was never money.

Now, are those conditions met today? Are you insinuating that all goods ( both agricultural and manufactured) good today are unclean and so qualified to be converted to cash to be given as tithes to pastors?

Luke 18:12 (TLB)
I go without food twice a week, and I give to God a tenth of everything I earn.'

Luke 18:12 (AMP)
I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I gain.

This is the height of dishonesty. Who was making the above statement? Was it an apostle, a disciple or a christian? No was a Pharisee. Christ was using the statement to admonish the holier than thou attitude of a Pharisee.
You guys are really modern day pharisee Jesus was always talking about.

That's a different one . There's a tithe to God , there was another 10% for the poor every 3 years and another 10% for feast . These are different from the 10% given to God for the workers of the house of God , the tithe for the fears cold be sold and the money used to buy food . That's like a love feast or campmeeting . It's not the one gyou gen to God

If you guys say there are three types of tithes, why are you guys only obsessed with the Levitical tithe? Why don't you guys also insist on the tithes to the poor and the feast tithe. Why not preach that the other tithes is as important as the pastors tithes and people will be cursed and hell bound if they fail to pay the other tithes also.

Was Melchizedek a Levites ? Tithe existed long before levitical order. The only qualiducation is because they were full time ministers .

Another bare faced lie. There is no evidence that tithes existed long before the Levitical order. The tithes that Abraham paid was war boots and not from his personal belongings.

Numbers 18:21-25
21 And, behold, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance in return for their service which they serve, the [menial] service of the Tent of Meeting.

The Levites were a tribe of israel from the lineage of Aaron. They do not have land so they cannot farm, they do not work so cannot earn a living. Their only work is to serve ( both menial and priestly work) at the temple, so they feed from the tithes of the temple. The irony is that today there tribe of levi is no more. So there is no longer levitical priest collecting tithes in Israel.

1 Corinthians 9:13-14
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

If people could give offering in cash , They could give tithes in cash as well

So how does the above verse command the paying of tithes?


The way some people use lies and conjectures to defend this tithe is alarming, it seems some peoples life must depend on tithe collection because some people seem ready commit suicide or murder to retain the tithe doctrine.

MuttleyLaff:
Cain married his sister
Revered Abraham married his sister

Like the other time I replied you,
the reason why incest got discontinued by God, is to guard against genetic disorders, as the DNA pool has begun to degenerate.

Hmm, smh, there is God ooo Petra1
Are you 110% sure the New Testament never said anything about incest?

Hmm, smh again, there is God ooo again Petra1
Are you sure no one honestly and frankly answered?

The thing tire me sef
I was shocked and surprised as much as you too

You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife.
It's your own father's unclothedness.
- Leviticus 18:8

In short, it is reported that there is fornication among you;
fornication such as this which is not even named among the pagans:
As far as a son that would take his father's wife..
- 1 Corinthians 5:1

Maybe we should just let Petra1 be, so he can continue believing that Paul never in 1 Corinthians 5:1 talked about incest

The man and step-mom collabo, in 1 Corinthians 5:1 above, is incest and fornication

Give it a rest.
"Can a christian marry is sibling" is attacking a straw man

Dont mind Petra1 jaare
We see how Paul categorically, publicly and clearly, for all to see, gives a piece of his mind concerning what he thinks of incest as whether it is something for believers to practice or not
but nowhere, not even in an extremely small amount, does Paul categorically, publicly and clearly, for all to see, gives a piece of his mind
concerning what he thinks of tithe, as whether it is something for believers to practice or not

You people know how to twist a sentence to mean whatever you wish.

Sleeping with your father's wife ( steps mother) is not necessarily incest.

This is the definition of incest;

incest
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.

the crime of sexual intercourse, cohabitation, or marriage between persons within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity wherein marriage is legally forbidden.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/incest

Your step mom is not related to you by blood. Since Judaism did not forbid polygamy, it was not uncommon for one to have multiple step moms, some very young.
So Paul was not talking about incest in 1 Corinthians 5:1, if he wanted to talk about incest he would have mentioned sex between a son and a mother or between a father and a daughter.

figment232:
Our liar president made us to believe that he's 75yrs old today when indeed, he's already a grand octogenarian.‎
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Be the judge with this simple arithmetic...‎

Let's play...‎

@M Buhari Obtained his controversial, questionable and still missing WASC in 1953 1961

2017-1953= 64yrs ago ‎2017 - 1961 = 56yrs ago.

‎Marking his 75th Birthday today...
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75 - 64 = 11yrs‎ 75 - 56 = 19yrs
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Invariably,‎
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Our liar president obtained his WASC at the age of 11 19 in 1953 1961 ? Wow! What a genius pupil he was in his days hey?! �

I still wonder how many kids in those days finished from the high school at the age of 11 except for a genius like Buhari....‎
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Further more‎, because 1957, the year that he joined the army is a constant that can NEVER changed, back or forward dated on any record  it means that our liar president joined the army at the age of 15.
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This means that Mohammadu Buhari was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a full lieutenant with 2 pips (stars) ‎at the age of 15. 19 ..
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I help you correct your mathematical errors and misconceptions.

You guys are just arguing senselessly. How many military officers have you seen that knows how to make money? I am not taking about stealing money directly from the treasury, I am not taking about using influence to get oil Wells, I am not taking about using influence to buy national assets at next to nothing and I am not talking about using influence to win non existent contracts or over inflated contracts. I am talking about actually making money producing goods and services. IBB? OBJ? Danjuma, David Mark?

I know many retired military officers who become dead broke a few years after retirement, because they just don't know how to do business.

What about civil servants? Their own case is even almost as bad as military officers. That is why they steal as much as they can before they retire and invest the stolen funds in properties, stocks, shares and bonds, so they don't go broke in the nearest future.

The funniest thing is that most people condemning Buhari's statement here have no idea of how to make money, they are either jobless or working for someone. Some have failed in their business ventures.

Enterprenuership is both a skill and a talent, something you cannot teach in a school. That is why professors of Business administration or economics do not necessarily make good business men. Very few people have the ability to make money or become success business men and women.

frankyychiji:
The little education you have wasn't enough to let you know that strong men don't make great countries but strong institutions do.

I disagree with you on this. Although strong institutions are good, great countries and empires were built by strong men. Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar built the roman empire, Alexander the great built the Greek empire, King David built the first Jewish kingdom and David Ben Gurion buIlton the modern state of israel, George Washington and a few men built the modern United States, etc. The list of strong men building strong countries is endless.

When we tell them that the "no sex before marriage" doctrine is not only practicable it is unnatural, holier than thou religious hypocrites would scream sin and hell.

And below is what a micro modular refinery looks like;

You see the difference?

Now how can any government in the world licence those contraptions called illegal refineries.

igbodefender:
So in that thing you call your mind the so called illegal refineries Vice President Osinbajo is trying to find solutions to are not refineries, abi? They are restaurants ni. Be deceiving yourself.

Osinbajo was just making a political statement. He was telling the niger delta boys what they wanted to hear, that is what politicians do. Since he made the statement early March, have you heard anything from him or the government about legalising illegal refineries since then.

Below is what an illegal refinery looks like;

igbodefender:
Vivere, you tribalistic vermin. Using your spare moniker will not stop you from stinking of tribalism. Do you know more than Prof. Osonbajo our Vice President? Your post is full of factual contradictions an educated person would not make. Sorry for you.

Carry your stinking tribalism some other place. Niger Delta hater.

Are you sane at all? You sound like someone suffering from psychosis. I am from the Niger Delta, oil producing community at that, so I know the exactly what I am talking about.

If you have more than the 10 Mb free data, you should have been able to Google " cost of micro or small refinery " and you would have learnt that small refineries start at a few tens of millions of dollars.

If refineries were that easy to set up, you think numerous wealthy enterprenuers in the nigerdelta would wait for you to advice them on how to set up refineries.

HardMirror:
It is popular to hear religionists say "science can not answer all our question".
Unfortunately even some atheists proclaim this same falacy.

Science and only science can give us all the answers we seek. Those things yet to be satisfactorily answered but science is not Because science lacks the answers but because we humans are just beginning to understand and expand or scope of science.

Today the miracles enabled by science makes a mokery of god and religion.

Science is not god, but science is the all knowing, the one and true omniscient. How far would we go and how much wld we learn through science, it is infinite.

Science has the key to immortality
Science can tell us our origin
Science can give us a way to reverse death.
In another 100years science should give us all god claims only him can give and what makes science better? Science is true, science does not care for your belief faith or race. Science works and always works

My brother, I am sorry to say but you are wrong on so many levels. Science cannot and never claimed to answer all questions. On the fundamental level, science cannot answer any questions.

Science can only attempt to answer questions that are observable, measurable and collateable ( interpretable data), anything beyond these science cannot answer.
In lots of instances science would at best make educated or speculative guesses. For example we would never know if there are multiverses, we can never really know what kick started life on earth.

Application of science has greatly helped us as a specie, it has enabled us understand, dominate and control our environment better; but that science can also lead to our downfall. The long term effects on our impact on the environment on our survival and those of many other species is yet to be determined. A single nuclear conflagration could wipe out our specie and lots of others, it could set evolution a few billion years back.

Science can never have the key to immortality, why? Because the universe itself is not immortal. Everything would eventually die. The sun will die someday.

On a biological level, the DNA cannot divide forever, every cell in your body has a fixed range of divisions it can undertake before the the cell cannot duplicate anymore. That is the major problem in cloning. Using a cell that has already undergone numerous divisions only results in clones aging mush faster than the original organism.

Science can never tell us our origin, as living things.

Science can never reverse death. As I had already said your cells and DNA cannot divide forever.

anonimi:
Please see below and redeem yourself of your blindness.

You redeem your sight by giving us details of how much aid was given the Buhari government the UK and how much of that aid was used to fight political opponents.

If your sight is functional as you think, you would have seen that the heading of the tread reads "Buhari Using UK Aid To Fight His Enemies Instead Of Boko Haram", there is nothing about EFCC receiving donations from international organizations.

If you have been sighted enough to actually read the article, you will notice that the article was published in vanguard on 12 April 2016, so between may 29 2015 when Buhari took office and April 12 when the article was published, how many billions of dollars did the UK give Nigeria as aid to fight Boko Haram?

Very disjointed story with no fact or source, just the speculations and ideas of the writer.

It failed to answer any of the following questions;

How much did the the UK give Buhari as aid to fight Boko Haram?

How exactly did Buhari use aid money to fight political opponents? Did he pay contractors or hired assassins to go after his political opponents? I thought if he wanted to go after political opponents, he will use existing state security services like the Police, DSS, EFCC, etc, what does he need to spend extra money for?

igbodefender:
If you don't support regulations for micro refineries to be legalised, then we have nothing further to discuss.
I want to discuss with people who want to see opportunities provided for the micro business people, not people who expect them to pay thousands of dollars to open a private refinery, when all those thousands may be just enough to purchase equipment and raw materials.

You want a micro and small business to pay $50,000 as part of registration. Where do you want them to get such money. That is just locking them out. I declare this discussion over.

I am sorry to say but you are speaking from a position of gross ignorance. You have no idea of what a micro refinery is. You think what what the people you called entrepreneurs do is actually refining, no. What they do is called cooking. They steal crude and cook it in drums. Most of the lighter hydrocarbons and heavier condensates are discarded, thereby polluting the environment, the cooking produces mainly impure diesel and kerosene and very little petrol.
Now how do you license that?

Small micro refineries cost millions of dollars, and that is not even putting into consideration cost of licences, land, running costs and cost of raw materials - crude. It was refinery business that killed a brother in law, he invested millions of dollars in trying to set up a small refinery, at the end of the day, he died of a heart attack.

AgentOfAllah:
You mistake my position! Let me be clear, I support the right of anybody to wear their hijab in or outside the courthouse because I don't believe her hijab interferes with her ability to practice her profession. This is not a sentimental position either, unless there is something sentimental about secularism.

You avoided to answer my questiin; do you support the rights of a rastafarian to wear dredlocks to a court room as it does not interfere with ability to practice the profession? Will you agree to stand before a rastaferian judge wearing dredlocks?

I saw your response late.

You said you have no problem standing before a rastaferian judge with dredlocks, I hope you are telling the truth because Nigeria been known for religious extremism (both Christian and Muslim ), 99.9% of Nigerians would not allow a rastafarian to adjudicate his or her case.

smoy:
that is one of her religion obligatory, uniformity comes later, she will be answerable to her body exposed if she chooses majorities way which may not always right. but she shall not be question on the uniformity of Lawyers.

Sorry not wearing a hijab but only a wig exposes her whole body. If she is more concerned about religious that uniformity and the ethics of the profession she chose to pursue, why stop at hijab. She should have appeared for the call to bar in full burka.

smoy:
any body is free to use anything he dim fit, as far as you don't tampered with the right of a Muslimah especially.

Why Muslimah especially? Does a Muslim have more rights than other Nigerians?

You did not answer my question, should NYSC members that are deeper life members be allowed to wear skirts instead of trousers, since their religious expression forbids the wearing of trousers?