Fycking murderer...I ve been looking for Michael's killer...I go catch u.

Damn! what's wrong with Africans ...amazing level of gullibility!

There is nothing new about that wife sha...the 1St still rocks!

These are the things that make me wonder how I managed to find myself in this continent.

Bad leadership, corruption and greed have conspired to create an atmosphere of desperation. What is normal elsewhere seems miraculous in Africa. What everyone is entitled to in the normal scheme of things is now seen as inconceivable without the help of some supernatural powers. Getting a job is a miracle. Getting healed from a curable disease is a miracle. Getting admission into a decent school is a miracle. Getting a visa to escape from the land of our birth is a miracle. Getting money for a surgery to restore one’s sight is a miracle. Becoming pregnant is a miracle. Safe delivery is a miracle.Everything is a miracle.

Please read this article, God may just bless you with clearer knowledge.
https://www.nairaland.com/2921046/why-mahama-heal-cripples-pastor#42736145

For summary searching crew, u may simply ignore, but if you take your time to read, I assure you, the lessons are invaluable!



Our elders say the toad does not run in broad daylight unless something is after its life. In the same way, if you find Ghanaians filling the venue of an event earlier than the scheduled time, then you must be sure it is an issue of life and death. That was what happened last Friday when the Black Star Square in Accra started filling up about 12 hours to the start of the programme.

The Nigerian preacher and founder of the Believers’ Loveworld Incorporated (also known as Christ Embassy), Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, was in town. He was in Ghana for his crusade dubbed “The Night of Bliss.”

For many city dwellers, however, the day before that night was anything but blissful. Some major streets near the venue of the crusade were closed to traffic. The police said the closure of the streets was to help provide security for the tens of thousands who came from all over the country and some West African countries. They came to receive miracles.

Some came in wheel chairs, hoping to walk back home. Others came to have their sights restored. Apart from the few who came with physical disabilities or illnesses, majority of the people who went to the Black Star Square in search of miracles looked very healthy. And did all the miracle seekers receive their healing? The answer is, predictably, no.

There is no guarantee that everybody who goes to see a pastor will be healed. A few are often healed and displayed on TV. The rest find their way back home, only to wait and hope that another wonder-working Man of God will show up.

So I have a suggestion for those “cripples” who were not healed by Pastor Chris. They should head to the Flagstaff House. Sometimes we need the politician, not the pastor. About 90% of those who did not receive their healing from Pastor Chris can get their miracles at the Flagstaff House. President John Dramani Mahama can heal them without having to fast or pray or do any spiritual gymnastics. They simply do not need any miracles. They need money. They need a decent source of livelihood. Majority of them need human solutions to their basic problems.

The truth about some of the tens of thousands of Christians who often run after miracles is that they do not need miracles. If you went to a hospital ward and gave all the patients on admission GHc2000 each, more than half of them would be discharged that same day. The “cripples” who wanted miracles from Pastor Chris were not only those with physical disability. They are not people who are mentally or spiritually crippled.

They are able-bodied people who are crippled by poverty. They are energetic men and women crippled by illiteracy and ignorance. They are crippled by despair and hopelessness. They are crippled by unemployment. They are healthy and productive citizens who are crippled by the lack of opportunities to live dignified lives. They are crippled because of years of greed and mismanagement of our resources.

Bad leadership, corruption and greed have conspired to create an atmosphere of desperation. What is normal elsewhere seems miraculous in Africa. What everyone is entitled to in the normal scheme of things is now seen as inconceivable without the help of some supernatural powers. Getting a job is a miracle. Getting healed from a curable disease is a miracle. Getting admission into a decent school is a miracle. Getting a visa to escape from the land of our birth is a miracle. Getting money for a surgery to restore one’s sight is a miracle. Becoming pregnant is a miracle. Safe delivery is a miracle.Everything is a miracle.[i][/i]

If anybody had gone to the Black Star Square on Friday and given each of the people there a $1000, about 90% of them would not wait to see Pastor Chris mount the podium. It is mostly a poverty problem. Here is an example:

Last year, a woman who could not see was brought to Joy FM. Her name is Afia Fugar. Last week, Afia Fugar was in the studio of Joy FM. This time, she could tell the exact colours of Lexis Bill’s jacket, shirt, tie and everything he wore. Had this woman met a prophet or seen a miracle-working Man of God?

No!

Then how is she now able to see?

Joy FM had helped to raise money to take her to South Africa for a surgery. Even though she is yet to undergo the final part of the surgical procedure she can see. It happened without the laying of hands and rolling on the ground.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a Christian. I believe in the power of God. I believe in miracles. But not all the things we call miracles are really miracles. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a miracle as an “unusual or wonderful event that is believed to be caused by the power of God.”

Take, for instance, the story of this nine-year old Iraqi boy named Saleh. On October 18, 2003, seven months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Saleh was returning from school with his 16-year-old brother Dia when he picked an unexploded bomb. Before his brother could take it from him and throw it away, the bomb exploded. Here is how the award-winning journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle, Meredith May, described the scene when the boys’ father met them:

“Lying sprawled on his back, Saleh was motionless, his belly torn open. His right hand was gone, and only a thumb and an inch of his middle finger remained on his left. Blood poured from his eyes. A piece of shrapnel the size of a quarter had torn through his left eye and lodged in his brain behind his right eye.”

Saleh in his hospital bed with his after the surgery. Photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle

The boys’ father, 35-year-old Raheem thought Saleh was dead so he ignored him. Saleh’s elder brother was still speaking: "There's nothing wrong with me," he told his father. His father took him and headed for the hospital. He did not survive.

“Just after Raheem had taken a dying Dia to the hospital, Hadia [their mother] had arrived at the blast scene to find Saleh on the ground. Realizing that her son was alive, she put Saleh's intestines back in his abdomen and held his body together with her skirt,” Merdith May reported in 2004.

At one point in the story, when the American military doctors met to consider the next surgery to conduct on the boy, they simply did not know what to do so they formed a circle around him and started to pray. The boy’s refusal to die contradicted anything they had learnt or heard in their yearsmedical practice. Saleh's situation can be described as a miracle. But he survived.

In June 2015, Saleh graduated from Oakland High School in the United States.

Saleh after his graduation from Oakland High School in the US. Photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle

Unlike Saleh, 21-year-old Abigail Owusu Diko, was not lucky. The final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology had a tumour in the neck and appeared healthy when she walked to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital with her father. Doctors said she needed to undergo surgery or else she would die. The doctors had the capacity to undertake the surgery, but there were no facilities. There was no space at the recovery ward which had only four beds and one patient can be there up to six months. And there’s only one of such facilities in Ghana.

Kweku Owusu Diko, Abigail’s father, watched his daughter’s situation deteriorate. She even picked infections at the hospital. And died while waiting for her turn to have the surgery.

The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is today closing three surgical clinics. Like Abigail, Rev. John Konde, who has a brain tumour and needs surgery, is waiting to die.

“I am deteriorating. I know my body, I can see that I am deteriorating,” he told Joy News’ Kwetey Nartey. Only a miracle can save Rev. Konde. If you find him in church, it isn’t because human beings cannot solve his problem. God has given wisdom to the surgeons in Korle-Bu to save people like Rev. Konde and Abigail.But because of greed, we have messed up our systems and we are dying.

Many of the problems we take to church do not merit the supernatural attention. Their solutions do not lie in miracles. God has given man the ability to solve some of our problems. That is why he did not put sand in our skulls. If God wanted to do everything for us, he would have probably filled our heads with pure water or cow dung. He would not have wasted so much time manufacturing that complex matter called brain.

Such desperations have created an industry of despots who exploit the gullibility and the vulnerability of the poor masses. The Bible calls them false prophets. But the President of Kenya, Ururu Kenyatta, calls them “thieves.” He has called for the regulation of churches. Back here in Ghana, anytime a nauseating video of Bishop Obinim or any of his likes pops up, people call on authorities to do something about the so-called men of God.

There are two ways to deal with this problem. Firstly, miracle-seeking Christians should know that not all our problems must be solved by God. Some problems need human solutions because God has empowered us to do that. Sometimes we only need to think. You don’t pray to God for a husband or a wife without doing anything about your behaviour which is so repulsive that even God will find it difficult to stand you. Let’s use our brains sometimes.

The second solution is to deal with the desperation that renders people powerless and sometimes thoughtless. Sometimes, it's the politician we need, not the pastor. We only resort to the latter when the former fails. If you find Rev. Konde, for instance, at a ridiculous prayer camp, the reason is not that he is stupid. He has no option.

My plea, therefore, to President Uhuru Kenyatta and other African leaders, including my own President Mahama, is simple: Africans have lost our sense of pride and dignity as a people. We are behaving like a drowning man, who will clutch on to anything, including a broken straw. Until you are able to stop the stealing of what belongs to us allwe the people will continue to suffer. And your people – the African people – shall continue to be the laughing stock of the world.

And we shall continue to die miserably. We the ordinary people. Of the blessed but accursed continent called Africa.

The Writer, Manasseh Azure Awuni, is a senior broadcast journalist with Joy 99.7FM. His email address is azureachebe2@yahoo.com. To read more of his writings, visit www.manassehazure.com



http://m.myjoyonline.com/marticles/opinion/manassehs-folder-why-mahama-can-heal-the-cripples-pastor-chris-could-not-heal

Why do ppl still use kerosene when gas is cheaper, cleaner and faster.

ashacot:
Hello nairalanders, pls does any one know if there is a salary structure for personal assistants to a CEO of a company. If there is, pls how much?

If it's a big Coy then u deserve a very good pay, because u d hav no life of ur own, ur life revolves around the CEO. U are up when he is up and as a rule, busy CEOs have no business with sleep and u are expected to adhere to that lifestyle.

I was paid a little above 200k, a flat and a car.
The good news is that u may end up not touching ur salary if ur CEO is a kind person, when u close at 2 in the night, he can't let u go empty handed.

Yes it is because it's Buhari, the saint and supreme leader of the North. He does no wrong.

As a child I received the usual strokes just like every other naija kid but my mum got a method that worked magic. Between 4 and 5am, she d wake u up, give u water to wash your face after which she goes into full emotional "blackmail", at times she will shed tears if she really wants to deal a terrible blow to ur emotions.

With the way I and my siblings love her, watching her do that will make u feel like a murderer and believe me, months after, we see ourselves still struggling to be at our best behaviors.

After we were all grown and independent, and joking about growing up, she confessed that some of those tactics were just well thought out drama.

That was how we started calling her our favourite and sweetest drama queen.

God 'll punish that cancer that took her away from us.

what about Camry that has American GPS, how much will it cost to change to Nigerian map?

Amaechi be like, I swear since them born me I never give or collect bribe.
The man on suit be like ...hahaha Amaechi maka why? I don see person wet dey lie pass me ooo hahaha

Merry Christmas...just incase )

Very untidy process, all these charges could be properly investigated, compiled and filed before embarking on all thees media drama, they will still withdraw the cases at the middle of the trial to unify their briefs. Why cant we just be professional in our conducts in this country?

Well done Lagos State, I recall when we dreaded every Friday in my Estate because TREM and Redeem will be on shouting competitions, when we complained we were termed enemies of God, they were later forced to remove outside speakers and limit the level of noise at night.

Some of these churches literally force night vigil on residents with their noise and speaking in whichever thing they call tongues.

I wonder when Africa will get over this nonsense of always claiming that somebody somewhere must be responsible for every death.

When I was in school, while some new students that just arrived where going through medical check, it was discovered that one of them was diabetic with incredible high sugar level, he wasn't even aware, the doc refused to release him and called ambulance immediately, screaming that the guy might fall into coma any moment. The guy was just smiling , saying that he was healthy.
If he was left in Nigeria , maybe one day u 'll hear that he collapsed and as usual some villagers will be responsible.

It is also very disturbing that a seeminly educated person will also be writing such trash. The youths in your village may end up accusing some innocent old man in the village and victimize him for what he knows nothing about .

Africa my Africa open your minds to reason. Brothers and sisters do comprehensive med check up yearly, u need not wait till u notice u are very sick.
My 2 cents

They will soon flood here and rain insult on him even though deep inside they know the man has spoken nothing but the truth!

According to Mr Google:

The definition of a maiden name is the surname or birth name a woman has before she marries and takes her husband's last name. An example of maiden name is Jones for a woman who was named Sarah Jones before she married and became Sarah Stein.



This is official. The federal government has spent “a little above N2.3 billion on maintenance of the presidential fleet between May 2015 and now.” At interbank rate, this is about $11.5 million. I repeat: 11.5 million USD was spent in about five months on maintaining the 10 aircraft on the presidential fleet; salaries and repayment of old debts inclusive.

This is what the Buhari administration calls “little”. $11.5 million is a lot of money anywhere in the world. This country is broke and we are still keeping 10 aircraft in the presidential fleet. The 10 aircraft include: 737 BBJ (1); G550 (1); G500 (1); Falcon 7X (2); HS 4000 (1); Agusta139 (2); Agusta 101(2). Why must this country continue to keep 10 aircraft in the Presidential fleet in an era of Change? Yet, Buhari is telling us that this country is broke. How many “broke” countries can afford to do this? Just imagine the number of tattered hospitals and schools we can fix with N2.3 billion in just five months? This is food for thought.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidential-fleet-gulps-n2-3-billion-in-5-months/226263/

I opened the original source ...Dangote is NOT mentioned in the report . The bolded paragraph is conspicuously absent.

And who will retire Buhari?

Please what exactly is so special about okada men's joystick that every time we read these bizarre stories it must always be an okada man? If u believe this nonsense u 'll believe that Obama was once married to Mugabe.

Sorry but which one be "few on bvn cloning date"?

Keneking:
nonsense write-up.

- unbalanced and unfair criticism of the nomination of some of Nigeria's finest brains by the President.
- is the writer aware that Nigeria's balance sheet would be at its finest (despite low oil revenues) since independence at year-end.
- are they aware that he is fulfilling the constitutional requirement by appointing ministers across the federation?
- only technocrats can not drive the economy?

Sorry, it is clear u never bothered to read the article, you can still support Mr president as well as open your eyes to objective reasoning . The analysis is apt , accurate and fair. Even our dear president if he is sincere will concur .

Nnaji has been doing fine boy in the senate, we ve never heard him say anything in the 4yrs he was there, therefore we chose to vote for Chimaroke, it was amazing when he was returned by INEC. Recall there was serious protests around Enugu after he was announced the winner.

For whatever reason I actually hoped that there will be a paradigm shift, but unfortunately all I see is same old sh*t.

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach?
Or would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the CHANGE? (CHANGE)

Where is the CHANGE? (CHANGE)
Where is the CHANGE? (CHANGE)
Where is the CHANGE, the CHANGE, the CHANGE

What if after all these drama we com dey see regular names like St Amaechi, his holiness Fashola, the untainted Ngige..that's gonna be horrible. He should better surprise every1 with the quality of ppl on that list.

I don't know what u guys are talking about, my brother's wife was like a girlfriend to our mum, even before my brother married her she couldn't wait for school to close before rushing to mumsy's house for hos.
And when the evil hands of cancer came, she hijacked taking care of her, mum was staying in their house until she lost the battle against cancer.
Till date she cries anytime we bring up mumsy issue., my sister and her mother in law are like 5 and 6 so I think this whole bad blood thing between mil and dil are grossly exaggerated.

Prof Dora Akunyili! May her soul rest in peace !!!

starlingslimnet:
Now this is stupidity and pure madness.....these guys should learn to separate tradition from Faith.

The church is blind... Anglican are blind

I am sorry but i think you are the one sounding stupid here, so to you wearing whatever you like is faith I dont blame you anyway, churches today totaly lack standard, everything goes so long as the cash is flowing, its your type that a pastor will sleep with and say he is taking you to a higher level of grace and you will be jumping and screaming preach on pastor....

They keep telling you guys this doesnt matter, that doesnt matter, ....all of them will one day become matters arising...

Let us hope its not true...it will be a great disappointment to find out that it took presido 3 months to gather waste as ministers.

The press once nominated and screened SGF for him ..the rest is history.

May the Lord give the Nnamani family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss. If u ve never lost a mother u 'll never comprehend what Chimaroke and the kids are passing thru.

May all readers of this comment never experience untimely transition of their mothers in Jesus name. Amen.