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Religion / Re: Is Marriage Restitution For Men With 2 Or More Wives Actually Scriptural? by potentpraise: 3:06am On Jan 22, 2018 |
Pierohandsome: where do you return the 2 wives, supermarket shelves? |
Religion / Re: Is Marriage Restitution For Men With 2 Or More Wives Actually Scriptural? by potentpraise: 2:24am On Jan 22, 2018 |
Biblical brainwash is going on. I need those who believe in that funny restitution(by the way its not restitution if you consider the meaning of restitution) to answer the following questions Where in the bible did you find you should marry one wife? what happens to those 2 other women whom will have their husband abandoned them? If you are single will you marry either the second and third wives of the newly born again? Bible does not teach us to be stupid, it is a manual for our lives. Why didn't Abraham, David, Jacob, and those considered patriarchs and people that are seen as biblical character references didn't restitute? |
Education / Re: I'm A Born Teacher, But I May Ruin Any School That Employs Me by potentpraise: 4:10am On Nov 20, 2017 |
How are you, please let's talk. Send me your information to ponabajo@dyvinson.com Thanks Beosten: |
Crime / Re: The Playboy Of Yorkville by potentpraise: 8:14am On Aug 27, 2017 |
According to police, Chrome also developed another elaborate, highly profitable scheme, one that encompassed mail theft, identity theft and credit card fraud. First, they allege, he would intercept mail at condos in Toronto, typically buildings without concierges or front desk staff. He’d enter the mailroom with a set of bump keys and try locks until one popped open, then repeat the process, scooping up as much mail as he could carry. Later, he’d open the mail, find bank documents, and record the target’s name, address and financial information in a notebook. He would call the banks and impersonate the cardholder, trying to extract additional information, and update each profile in his notebook as he went. As he honed his scheme, he’d learn his victims’ dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses. In many cases, he knew what car his victims drove, where they worked, and the names of their loved ones. With that information in hand, he’d call the bank’s customer service number and, armed with enough intel to ace the security questions, request a new card. A day or two later, he’d stake out the condo building, wait for the mail carrier to make their drop, enter, and steal the envelope containing the new card. Next came the spending spree. Often, Chrome would withdraw cash at an ATM or purchase prepaid gift cards. Chrome’s scam was labour-intensive—hustling for a few thousand dollars at a time—but therein lay its brilliance. Banks, though they won’t admit it, tend not to waste their time chasing small sums, which they can quickly reverse. It’s painstaking work for the police to chase down each reported fraud; Crown prosecutors roll their eyes at the complicated paperwork; and judges are often loath to dish out heavy penalties, since the crime is non-violent and the ultimate victim is almost always the banks, which can write off their losses. Despite their best efforts, police say, Chrome was able to continue his operation in plain sight—and no one could do much about it. Chrome’s girlfriend from Nigeria, Olubukola “Bukky” Jegede, soon followed him to Canada. They married and eventually had three kids. By all accounts, Chrome was a devoted father, taking his kids to the park, the movies, and to church every Sunday. The family moved often—presumably to keep police from knowing his whereabouts. Somewhere along the way, Chrome began using his middle name, Johnson, and sometimes went by Jay. As money began to flow in from his frauds, he explained to some friends that he worked for a moving company. Chrome also sent cash back home to set up a liquor store business for his mother in the Oshodi area. He later built two houses in the residential area of Abule Egba, in the north end of Lagos, and put his mother in one of them. He spent lavishly on himself, too. In April 2007, using stolen credit cards, he dropped $5,000 on stereo equipment at Bang and Olufsen near Bay and Bloor, and bought 10 pairs of designer shoes at Davids down the street. When police raided his Lawrence West apartment, he ran to the bathroom clutching his phone, which he tried to hide in the garbage can. On it were photos of a residential construction project back in Lagos, plus images of a shipping container housing a car, a flat-screen TV and building materials—many of which are hard to come by in Nigeria. They seized $140,000 of personal property, including clothing, watches and jewellery, plus five TVs, a washing machine and $17,000 in cash. But they didn’t find the evidentiary treasure trove they were looking for: the notebooks, credit cards, receipts and stolen mail that they hoped would convince a judge of the mammoth scope of Chrome’s operation. They began to suspect he kept a stash house for the most damning material. They eventually found enough evidence from ATM security footage to lay 53 charges. Chrome pleaded guilty to a handful of charges in exchange for getting the others withdrawn, and he got off with two concurrent sentences of six months’ house arrest, once again avoiding significant jail time. And so began a game of cat and mouse between the police and Johnson Chrome that would last nearly a decade. In august 2007, Chrome and his wife bought a three-storey detached house with a two-car garage in a sleepy Brampton subdivision for $442,000. Later, according to police, he invested his funds into more real estate, eventually putting a down payment on a $3.4-million five-bedroom, custom-built McMansion with a three-car garage, backing onto a golf course in a tony section of Kleinburg. Chrome used the spoils of his crimes to put a down payment on this $3.4-million McMansion in Kleinburg. Like any successful businessman, Chrome learned to delegate. Police say he teamed up with a fellow Nigerian named Mickie Noah, who would allegedly make ATM withdrawals and request new cards and PIN changes as part of Chrome’s operation. Noah had grown up in even poorer circumstances than Chrome, and over time he’d developed a similar appetite for luxury. He mocked Torontonians’ lack of sartorial derring-do. “Downtown, they think they’re stylish, but they all wear black,” he once posted on Instagram. Noah had a predilection for bright jackets, wide-brimmed hats and oversized Iris Apfel glasses. He shopped at Holt Renfrew and Via Cavour, stocking his closet with monk-strap shoes, vibrant ascots and jaunty bow ties. He also shared Chrome’s fondness for cigars—Cohiba robustos were his particular weakness—which he often enjoyed next to his friend on Yorkville’s best-situated bench. Noah posing outside the Hazelton Hotel Chrome gradually aligned himself with other associates. Andrew Afolarin was a confidence man, smooth on the phone and able to sweet-talk anyone into just about anything. Afolarin liked to hire white Torontonians as his subcontractors, believing they’d invite less suspicion in the banks because of their skin colour. A man named Gee Salaq was purported to be a specialist in account-takeover fraud, especially against U.S. residents. Police suspect that over time, Chrome also developed sources inside Canadian banks, who would provide cardholder information in exchange for a kickback. Chrome, Afolarin and Noah at Cabana Pool Bar In March 2008, Chrome went to the Bay and bought $586 worth of fragrances using a fraudulently obtained TD Visa. He also used stolen credit cards to buy a $355 belt, a $6,500 Omega Deville Co-Axial watch, a pair of $820 sneakers and $610 Louis Vuitton driving shoes. In September 2008, he pleaded guilty to three more charges of fraud under $5,000 and received a conditional sentence of 12 months, which again meant no jail time beyond the minimal time served. He later applied to have his bail altered so that he could fly home to Nigeria twice, to attend his grandfather’s funeral and later to deal with the estate. The judge allowed it. Salaq and Noah brunching at Café Boulud Two years later, in August 2010, police believe that Chrome tried to purchase $21,000 worth of furniture from Martin Daniels Interiors using a stolen Mastercard, plus $8,200 in ceramic tiles, perhaps for his housing project back in Lagos. Once again, they raided his home. Along with the usual plunder of watches and suits, they found mailbox keys for a building on Rathburn Road in Mississauga, and lists of various tenants of that building, plus their financial information. It was the smoking gun they hoped would make charges against Chrome stick. Over the course of their investigation, police compiled evidence suggesting that Chrome had compromised 162 bank accounts, allegedly dinging BMO for $274,000 and CIBC for $82,000. The resulting charges fell under several court jurisdictions across the GTA. One major count related to York Region, so the file was sent there and was misplaced. When it was recovered and sent back to Toronto, where the bulk of the alleged frauds had taken place, the case had been pending for so long that the courts stayed the matter. Again, Chrome was spared significant jail time. By the time Trotter and Kelly, of the Toronto fraud squad, held their bankers’ synod in 2016, Chrome had become a mythical figure in the financial industry, a kind of perverted folk hero who stole from the middle class and spent it on himself. Trotter and Kelly told the bankers that if police were going to solve their fraud problem, they’d need help. They wanted to determine if Mr. O really was as prolific a fraudster as the bankers assumed. They operated under the assumption that he wasn’t involved at all, then set out to determine whether these instances of fraud were in fact linked. They called their investigation Project Royal, and recruited help from the York Regional Police, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, the Canadian Border Services Agency, Canada Post, and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. They told the assembled bankers that they needed images of people making withdrawals using fraudulently obtained cards. They asked for dates, amounts, times of transactions and records of phone calls made requesting PIN changes. A few days later, they caught a break. Representatives from a bank in the Niagara region got in touch with video images from an ATM camera of a Nigerian man in his 40s, later identified as Adedayo Ogundana, making cash withdrawals using a stolen credit card. On one date he wore a grey hat with a black brim. On another, he wore the same hat and a hoodie with “NBA” written on it. And on another date, he wore a green Pharrell hat. He’d been charged before, which enabled police to obtain a search warrant on his North York condo; they raided it on December 13, 2016. Ogundana wasn’t home—he was out purchasing prepaid gift cards at the time—but inside his condo and car, police found a collection of credit card numbers scribbled on small scraps of paper. They also found the hats and clothing Ogundana had worn in the bank’s surveillance footage. When Ogundana finally returned home, police arrested him and obtained a search warrant for his cellphones. Ogundana and Chrome at Cabana Pool Bar On Ogundana’s phone, police came across an intriguing lead: short text messages from someone listed as “Jay,” containing what appeared to be random names and associated credit card numbers. Police thought that Jay could be Johnson Chrome, and they received judicial authorization to view the records for his number. Soon, they’d established his daily routine: he’d start the day in Yorkville, head northwest of the city until the early afternoon, stop in at the same area of North York where his wife and kids were living, and then return to Yorkville. Police appealed to fraudsters they knew for more information about identity theft networks in Toronto. Criminals typically don’t rat on each other, but in this case, there was no such omertà. Flashiness only invites police attention, and Chrome and his buddies were daring the police to sniff around. Trotter and Kelly followed the trail, combing through their social media accounts, which were teeming with photos of lavish dinners, fancy clothing, expensive cigars and luxury vehicles. And nowhere was there any evidence of any sort of employment. Even better, the accounts helped Trotter and Kelly piece together the group’s social relationships—without having to sit in a car with a telephoto lens. A few members of the public divulged crucial leads, including the fact that Chrome kept a condo in a high-rise near the Hazelton Hotel. Trotter and Kelly canvassed the area, asking retailers about Chrome; most people remained tight-lipped. Still, tips kept trickling in, and police soon learned that Chrome drove a black Jaguar. They tracked down his unit number, then applied for a search warrant. On April 24, 2017, Trotter, Kelly and four other cops, all of them in plainclothes, set up outside 155 Yorkville Avenue, the former Four Seasons. It was a straightforward stakeout, but something was off. There were a number of people hanging around, not doing anything exactly, and trading glances with the police. Trotter and Kelly called various agencies to check if there was anyone else on the case. There wasn’t. Then they sent one of their plainclothes officers to sit down beside one suspicious-looking woman and strike up a conversation. Within minutes, she explained her plan to marry Justin Bieber. It all clicked: Bieber was staying in town, and the people hanging around were paparazzi and wild-eyed autograph hunters. Eventually, police spotted Chrome walking toward them. With so many Beliebers in the vicinity, Trotter didn’t want to cause a scene. Instead, he quietly approached and whispered his real name, “ ’Kunle.” Chrome turned, said “Yeah?” then made eye contact with Trotter and bolted. Trotter gave chase. Someone was unloading produce from a parked truck onto a cart; as Chrome ran past it he toppled the cart into Trotter’s path, spilling fruit and eggs across the sidewalk. Trotter hopped over the mess, but got tangled up in a bicycle and wiped out. Two other officers ran after Chrome, but he got away. Another officer stayed with the car while Trotter and Kelly entered the suspect’s apartment. Chrome’s 600-square-foot condo was spartan, with a stunning view to the southeast. According to police, the moon dust watch, a few credit cards and two cellphones were on the counter. In the bedroom was an open safe, containing $39,200 in cash. They lifted up the mattress to reveal his massive footwear collection. Two closets were filled with bespoke suit jackets, watches, dress shirts, cologne and sunglasses. There were four bottles of moisturizer worth a total of $2,000. They found paperwork that they knew would help refute a defence lawyer’s argument that Chrome didn’t live in the condo. In the closet drawers was the evidentiary jackpot: 37 credit cards not in his name, rows and rows of stolen mail from more than 20 buildings in the GTA, plus 16 notebooks containing the names and addresses of some 5,000 GTA residents, including a widow named Doreen Affleck and an accountant named Wayne Haymer. Finally, they’d found the stash house. Johnson Chrome was on the run. The next day, he called a friend who worked as a bespoke men’s clothier in the Yorkville area. They’d met years earlier at the old Four Seasons bar, and Chrome trusted him. Chrome’s friend had made clothing for the Toronto lawyer Peter Brauti and suggested Chrome speak to him. Brauti eventually convinced Chrome to turn himself in. On April 27, Brauti called the police and said, “I think I have a guy you’re looking for.” Police had learned their lesson: fraud doesn’t get the court’s attention. So they gave it a spotlight. On May 9, 2017, Trotter and Kelly held a press conference announcing the details of Project Royal. They arranged a dazzling showcase of Chrome’s shoes, watches and cologne, plus a healthy stockpile of wine and liquor. They brought in racks to display his suit jackets. Trotter and Kelly spoke to the media at length about Chrome’s alleged activities, spelling out the broad nature of the crimes. They had prepared a slide show of his associates, emphasizing the claim that this was not a lone wolf operation but instead a major syndicate perpetrating fraud on a massive scale. Though none of the allegations have been proven in court, police have laid 14 charges against Chrome and another 14 against Ogundana. A warrant has been issued for Noah and Salaq, but they’re on the run, probably in the U.S. Here are some of of the goods police confiscated from Chrome’s condo. Photographs courtesy of Toronto Police Service The day of the press conference, Project Royal was a lead item on the evening broadcasts. The news even resonated back home in Nigeria. The overwhelming reaction among Nigerians I spoke to was anger and frustration at another native son going abroad and falling into a life of fraud. At the same time, there’s a faction within Nigeria that’s proud. They see fraud perpetrated on Westerners as payback for the years of colonial rule that laid waste to their country, infecting it with corruption and widespread dysfunction. Later that month, a judge granted Chrome bail with a series of conditions, one of which was that he not possess a cellphone, since it was his alleged business tool. Six weeks later, in late June, Chrome walked into an appliance store in Vaughan clutching a cellphone. Using a credit card, he had purchased $60,000 in appliances, presumably for his custom home in Kleinburg. Chrome asked the sales clerk for a refund on his deposit in cash, which raised the clerk’s suspicions. Two days later, police confronted Chrome, who was standing beside a U-Haul truck, talking on his phone. One officer approached from the front; Chrome saw him and turned to run, but encountered another officer who’d approached from the rear. His only words: “Oh, shit.” Chrome was placed in jail for violating his bail conditions, though he could be let out again before his case goes to trial, which will likely take place in 2018. According to police, the Crown’s case is strong: they have evidence of Chrome’s broad network and his criminal proceeds, plus an epic history of failure to respect the court’s orders. Recently, there have been a few fraud cases where the accused receives a penitentiary sentence, which means at least two years. But the Crown is fighting gravity: many of Ontario’s prisons are already overpopulated, and there’s a limited desire to add non-violent criminals to the mix. It’s possible, even likely, that Chrome will escape serious punishment once again. https://torontolife.com/city/crime/name-johnson-chrome-hes-citys-wanted-identity-thie |
Crime / The Playboy Of Yorkville by potentpraise: 8:13am On Aug 27, 2017 |
The Playboy of Yorkville BY MALCOLM JOHNSTON | AUGUST 23, 2017 Johnson Chrome was a notorious big spender with a taste for bottle service, bespoke suits and $10,000 shoes. The source of his wealth? A sophisticated identity theft scheme that may have conned Torontonians out of millions. The untold story of the city’s most wanted fraudster The fraudster who called himself Johnson Chrome liked to sit on a bench at the intersection of Hazelton and Yorkville, smoking a Montecristo Edmundo robusto and talking about fashion, cars and cigars to anyone who’d listen. He was charming and handsome, with a neatly trimmed beard, a shaved head and perfect teeth. The perch placed him at the centre of the rarefied universe he’d come to inhabit. His condo, in the former Four Seasons hotel, was steps to the west, and he parked his black Jaguar at the Hazelton Hotel opposite. His gym, the sleek Equinox, was a minute’s walk northwest; his preferred cigar shop, La Casa del Habano, was to the south; and his bespoke clothier, the Italian tailor V Hazelton, was directly behind him. In a neighbourhood known for excess, Chrome was its most conspicuous consumer. He owned 90 pairs of shoes, a collection worth $100,000. One pair was made of crocodile hide and cost $10,000; another was encrusted with hundreds of tiny silver spikes. He wore watches so gargantuan that they seemed to drag on his arm. One of them, the $150,000 Romain Jerome Moon Dust–DNA, contained actual moon dust and fragments of the Apollo 11 spacecraft and the International Space Station. His preferred suit style was Neapolitan—known for its soft con rollino shoulders, high collars and fabrics sourced from exclusive Ariston mills. His dress shirts cost $700, his sunglasses $800 apiece. His personal scent, Clive Christian No. 1, bills itself as “the world’s most expensive perfume,” and at $1,500 a bottle, that’s probably true. Chrome was generous with his money, regularly paying for meals and drinks for his friends at the Thompson rooftop, Cabana Pool Bar and restaurants like STK, Kasa Moto, One and NAO. On Friday nights, they would head to nightclubs like Lavelle and Wildflower, where they’d spend hundreds, sometimes thousands, on bottle service, drinking and carousing until close. They swapped compliments—how this pocket square neatly embellished those shoelaces, or how these cufflinks flattered that scarf. Chrome was brazen with women, identifying the most beautiful woman at a club and approaching her with confidence. When asked about the source of his wealth, Chrome would sometimes tell people he was an international businessman, in town for only a short time. One of his acquaintances assumed he was an oil tycoon. But police believe he was one of Canada’s most adept identity thieves, a major player in a sprawling $10-million fraud syndicate that victimized thousands of Torontonians for over a decade. Inside Canada’s financial institutions, he was a household name, suspected of being responsible for thousands of dodgy transactions. He might have evaded the police altogether, if not for a fatal weakness: the compulsion to document each high-priced meal, wild night out and hedonistic indulgence on social media. According to police, Toronto is a preferred destination for international specialists in identity theft, credit card fraud, extortion, phishing, romance and charity scams, and more. Fraudsters choose Canada because it’s soft on crime compared to the U.S.; there are plenty of extravagant ways to spend the spoils, especially in Toronto and Vancouver; and Canada is next door to one of the world’s wealthiest nations, putting fraudsters within arm’s reach of an international gold mine. The problem in Toronto has become so severe that the Toronto Police Service’s fraud unit has developed partnerships with the RCMP, the Ontario Ministry of Finance, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the United States Postal Inspection Service, placing officers within some of those agencies so that communication is as collaborative and expedient as possible. According to the Canadian Bankers Association, Canadian financial institutions were dinged for $939 million in 2016 in credit card fraud alone. In 2016, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre recorded $1.6 -billion in fraud-related losses of all types, but research shows that less than five per cent of frauds are ever reported—either because they’re never found out or because the victims are too embarrassed to admit they’ve been had. That means the true tally of fraud in Canada could be as high as $30 billion a year. Everyone knows someone who’s had their ID impersonated, credit card stolen or computer held hostage. These days, you’re susceptible every time you use an ATM, swipe your Visa, give out your email or open your laptop. Some people are victimized without doing any of those things. Wayne Haymer is an accountant who lived in a condo building near Don Mills and Eglinton. One night in November 2016, he was driving his mother to dinner. He stopped at a gas station at Wilson and Dufferin, where his credit card was declined. Haymer was puzzled. He’d used the card the night before, and he was careful to always pay off the balance. He called his bank’s credit card fraud number, but the line was so backed up that it took him three days to get through. Finally he reached a representative, who explained that his card had been charged twice, for a total of $1,800, at an east-end Loblaws that Haymer had never visited. The bank reversed the charges. Then Haymer remembered something odd: he hadn’t received his bank statement in the mail that month. Doreen Affleck, a 77-year-old widow from Etobicoke, had a similar experience. Like Haymer, she was careful with her finances, using her credit card only for gas and groceries, reviewing her monthly statement religiously and diligently paying off the balance. On April 24, 2017, she pulled into a gas station at Dixie and Dundas and was surprised when her card was declined at the pump. The attendant explained that she needed to contact her card provider immediately. She called, and the representative asked if she’d recently tried to purchase some $2,000 worth of clothing at a menswear store. Affleck was baffled. “I’m a widow,” she said, joking that she didn’t buy clothes for her husband even when he was alive. The representative said their system had flagged and cancelled the irregular transaction and placed a stop on her card. Affleck then realized she hadn’t received her statement in the mail that month. She was rattled. It wasn’t a lot of money, but the notion that someone was impersonating her was deeply disturbing. Both Affleck and Haymer assumed their experiences were simply bad luck, but the fraud specialists at their banks knew something bigger and more pernicious was at play. In Canada, between 2015 and 2016, instances of identity theft grew by 21 per cent. Last fall, the surge prompted bank fraud investigators to take a closer look, and they noticed a pattern: the victims were often middle-class Torontonians living in condos. The frauds were usually for small amounts—anywhere from $100 to $5,000—but in such astonishing volume that the total haul, if perpetrated by a single syndicate, would be massive. The banks reached out to the Toronto police for help. Their distress call made its way to Tim Trotter and Mike Kelly, detective constables in the financial crimes unit. The unit has four branches: proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering, corporate fraud, organized crime, and mass marketing fraud. In November 2016, Kelly and Trotter summoned representatives of 16 of Canada’s largest financial institutions to police headquarters at 40 College Street for a briefing. In the discussions that followed, the bankers kept circling back to one name: a mysterious “Mr. O.” Johnson Chrome was born Adekunle Johnson Omitiran on January 31, 1980, in the Oshodi slums of Lagos, Nigeria. His father, Gbadebo, was a travelling businessman from southwestern Nigeria. When Chrome was a boy, Gbadebo left Chrome’s mother, a Fulani woman from Nigeria’s north, and at one point allegedly had as many as six wives. Gbadebo studied at the University of Exeter in the U.K. and later found his way to Toronto. Chrome’s mother was left to raise him and his brother and stepbrother, with the help of her father, who took the family in. Chrome didn’t respond to interview requests for this story, but sources in Nigeria say he spent much of his childhood on the streets, getting shooed away from the local markets by vendors, who didn’t want a poor kid hanging around. According to one childhood friend, he wasn’t a troublemaker and had no criminal record. He later attended Lagos State University, and in 2003, when he was 23, his father brought him to Toronto. Chrome enrolled at York University, where he studied economics and lived modestly in a basement apartment near campus. Less than a year later, police believe, he entered the world of fraud. In January 2004, Canada customs intercepted a suspicious parcel destined for Chrome’s apartment. The package had come from Nigeria, and it was heavy enough to qualify for inspection. Inside, officials discovered 36 envelopes addressed to various people in the U.S., each containing a counterfeit cheque for roughly $10,000. The intended recipients had placed ads online selling various items; fraudsters, posing as brokers, wrote letters explaining they wanted to buy the item, but their buyers had already written a cheque for more than the asking price. Would the recipient be so kind as to deposit it and wire back the difference? In most instances of the scam, the intended target is skeptical and ignores the letter, but inevitably, some obey the enclosed instructions. By the time the bank catches on and cancels the transaction, the account holder is on the hook and the scammer is in the wind, a few thousand dollars richer. These kinds of frauds are so popular in Nigeria that they’re now known globally as 419 scams, which refers to the section of Nigeria’s criminal code pertaining to fraud. Police claim that Chrome’s job was to mail the letters from Canada, bypassing the suspicions of U.S. Postal Service officials. Toronto police set up a fake FedEx delivery to Chrome’s address. When he signed for the parcel, they arrested him and charged him with defrauding the public. Ultimately, however, the Crown decided they would be hard pressed to prove that Chrome was aware of the parcel’s contents, and the charges were withdrawn. Chrome reappeared on police radar in 2006, when he walked into a Royal Bank on Bathurst and, using forged documents under the name Glen Lee, opened a chequing account. RBC eventually realized that the account was fishy, and police arrested Chrome. He pleaded guilty to fraud under $5,000 and received a 12-month conditional discharge, which effectively wiped his record clean after the sentence was over. By 2007, he’d obtained Canadian citizenship. https://torontolife.com/city/crime/name-johnson-chrome-hes-citys-wanted-identity-thief/ |
Jobs/Vacancies / Sales/marketing Job for Dyvinson Deodorants by potentpraise: 8:31pm On Aug 20, 2017 |
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Jobs/Vacancies / Vacancy Vacancy Vacancy by potentpraise: 1:19pm On Feb 14, 2017 |
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Career / Re: Can A Pregnant Woman Be Denied Of Appointment Letter? by potentpraise: 8:06pm On Dec 20, 2013 |
Sorry most medical test for job is not about pregnancy test. It would be for the following except if being pregnant will also affect your work. 1. Drug Test: igbo or cocain 2. Alcohol Test: ogogoro, bear, sokudalaye 3. Physical Test: if you can carry load of about 50lbs 4. Tuberculosis or any communicable related disease Test: if you will be working with a lot of people or children |
Jokes Etc / Re: Fg Orders Arrest Of Children Playing Police And Thief by potentpraise: 3:28pm On Dec 10, 2013 |
I guess this must be joke: If not, its only leaders that lose priority and look for irrelevance to be relevant that will make such law. How could police and thief game breeds thieves or affect the children than poverty, unemployment, poor education and lack of care for the future leaders? As a matter of fact the children of the rich are the biggest robbers of our time and they don't play police and thief game. They rob us all with pen, leading to untimely death of the citizenry, underdevelopment of the country, poor education, lack of health care and depleting the established structure of the founding fathers. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Jonathan Being Prayed For By Ministers In Israel by potentpraise: 12:09pm On Oct 26, 2013 |
Confusion is a deadly disease |
Religion / The Application Of Safety Faith And Negligence Faith The Bane Of Nigeria Problem by potentpraise: 12:31am On Sep 02, 2013 |
Matthew 16: 15-20 There is power in the blood of Jesus and at the mentioning of Jesus name every knee bow. Philippians 2:10) In this day and age with different faith and applications, it not only confusing but easy to meddle all kinds of faith together and expect the same result. It’s like concussion of delicious meal and a perfectly made meal. While the former could be multi-dishes with diluted of conjugated taste, they are most likely to cause running stomach or make you run to toilet depending on the level of the concussion and the latter is to give you the distinct taste and the feeling that you have eaten balance diet. In many part of the world many people are brainwashed, confined to a century old ideology, philosophy, idea, story and beliefs that could not hold water, but thus cause lots of confusion for our modern world and the people in it. For instance, many people in this underdeveloped world believe there is one person with a metaphysics power to make them barren, have accident, make them sick or even kill them. When happenings happen, they can quickly relate it to one person in their village, family, their enemy who they think has the voodoo or power to have cause the evil deed or some spiritualist. To best analyze this content I will look into some biblical analysis and real life facts. Safety Faith: Ephesians 6:12 Safety Faith is the full application of Faith, preparation, work, analysis and total dependency on God should any of the precaution elements fails: faith with work and do your part and leave the rest to God. Among the Christians, they have read the bible many times and knew this: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. While Jesus made us to understand that we have been given power over all powers of darkness: Luke 10:19. If Jesus and Abraham is our model of Faith then the application should be based on their ideology. Meaning:application of Safety Faith: In Matthew 16:18-20, when Jesus charged his disciples with the confirmation of power to the key of heaven, he bade them not to tell the people he was Jesus in verse 20. (preserving himself until its time for departure) Abraham was instructed to leave his country to an unknown country Genesis 12: 1; and while he was leaving, he left with his Safety Faith Genesis 20: 2. Those are the faith that saves and when they appears to have failed, God takes supernatural control as he did for Abraham Genesis 20:3 (God threatens Abimelech so he could let Sarah go) Most people who apply this kind of faith make it in life. You do not have to be of Christian religion, all you need is to understand the principles and you will be successful. For instance the western world and the developing world. The western world depends on cause and effect, prevention and preparedness, extinction of hazard and control of hazard. The developing world would rather depend on supernatural being to think for them, protect them, prevent danger where they create hazardous environment. Negligence Faith Its a kind of faith that ignores safety, preparedness, common and simple questions for safety analysis, for Celestial body to take control in a magical way: application of Faith without work Our modern Christians, pastors inclusive in developing world such as Nigeria use this model of faith a lot and most time never use Safety faith. They read bible verses that assured that the enemy shall not exact upon them; nor the son of wickedness afflict them and God will beat down their foes before their face, and plague them that hate them. Psalms 89:22-23. Negligently they go face the enemy without the Safety Faith; forgetting the need for strategy and preparedness to win the war against enemy. No plan, no strategy, no fighting principles nor fighting analysis as was designed by God. Numbers 2 shows us sample and the principles of fighting enemies: And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. 3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah. When a Christian who has just buy a new van in less than a week and had gone to night vigil and in the early hour of the day, left the church for an appointment at Lagos island. Drove his van to the third mainland water, people ascribed it to enemy of progress and no one was intelligent enough to ask some accident investigation questions: 1. How many hours of sleep did he get within the last 24hrs before the accident 2. What is the possibility of speeding to quickly go to Lagos Island and come back to meet up other appointments 3. What about the excitement of just buying a new car that could make a new driver and even experience driver to experiment on the speeding power of his new car when the road is free 4. How long has he maintain a driving license None of the above questions was asked, the first thing was enemy of progress had cause this because he just bought car and the reason he did not die was because, he just finish vigil. There are many people that are not Christian that experience different type of accident each year and did not die. When it’s not your time, you are not going anywhere. A Christian enter a bus that the driver has been drinking paraga and alcohol throughout the early morning before his shift and perhaps had not slept in the last 12 hours and would be driving 12 hours on a bad road where there is no decent lane for the driver to maintain and few hours into the journey the Christian and the entire people die in crash and they say it was some spirit world sucking blood every year on that road. While in the western world, a drunk would not have been allowed behind the steering and if there is any reason to suspect fatigue as a result of not sleeping, you wouldn't be driving the public transport. There are laws and people most time abide by the law and thus it appears that there is no spirit world in the western world. Christians wake up, this kind of faith also apply to the affair of the country while many who call themselves pastors never make effort to change the status quo but rather depends on Negligence Faith: God will do it, let’s pray and there is no action being taken. As if Jesus is some sort of magician and he will just stand up and change the system. If Martin Luther King was telling the blacks God will do it, Obama will not have a chance to speak about King;s legacy 50 years later. We talk about Juju or voodoo so powerful and people can disappear, I wonder where that power was when the white masters came to carry the voodoo powerful back people. Nollywood also made us to belief that you can use voodoo to disappear, kill people and make people sick to the point where doctors cannot diagnose the problem. Has anybody ever asked why didn't the people disappear when they were taken as slave, or kill their masters with voodoo who only depends on Gun? If voodoo is so powerful, all our bad presidents would have died, I guess no one was using voodoo on them. Have we asked why voodoo never give anybody visa to any western countries but to most African countries where there is no adherence to policy or strict processes of doing things? If plane fall in Nigeria it’s the spirit world, there is nothing that talks about bad plane, bad engine, default in maintenance or fatigue pilots, everything was cause by some bad people. The application of Safety faith make planes to stay on air for 20 hours, and sometime more. The application of safety faith makes the modern presidents, governors, some pastors to have security details and bodyguards, the application of safety faith makes fewer accident on the road, air and sea in the western world. Let’s us apply safety faith before we travel in this MBER months and we will not experience accidents. |
Entertainment / World's Richest Djs Pull Down Insane Annual Earnings by potentpraise: 10:50pm On Aug 21, 2013 |
DJ-songwriter-producer Calvin Harris led the EDM pack with $46 million. Calvin Harris is on top of the electronic cash kings heap, according to Forbes' list of the World's Highest-Paid DJs. The Scottish DJ earned a whopping $46 million in the last year. Harris, 29, played more than 100 shows and pocketed nightly performances fees exceeding $200,000 — collecting more than music moguls Jay-Z and Katy Perry amassed in a 12-month period. The former grocery store stock boy doubles as a songwriter and record producer, and made millions from his collaborations with Florence Welch, Ellie Goulding and Rihanna. "The rise of dance music has been astronomical in the last three years," Harris told Forbes. "I happened to be in the right place at the right time." The list includes stars of EDM both old and young — David Guetta, 45, and Avicii, 23 — and represented Canada, France, the Netherlands, Scottland, Sweden, and the U.S. New to the list is Diplo, who spun his way to $13 million in 2013 and tied with DJ Pauly D for 12th place. The DJ-producer had a strong tour this year, and mixed tracks for Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, and Snoop Lion, formerly Snoop Dog. Here's the full list of the World's Highest Paid DJs: 1. Calvin Harris — $46 million 2. Tiësto — $32 million 3. David Guetta — $30 million 4. Swedish House Mafia — $25 million 5. Deadmau5 — $21 million 6. Avicii — $20 million 7. Afrojack — $18 million 8. Armin van Buuren — $17 million 9. Skrillex — $16 million / Kaskade — $16 million 10. Steve Aoki — $14 million 11. DJ Pauly D — $13 million / Diplo — $13 million http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/calvin-harris-dominates-list-worlds-162200531.html
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Religion / Re: Think before you contribute to the 3-km Long Church Auditorium for Rccg by potentpraise: 3:46am On Aug 17, 2013 |
Goshen360: I dey laugh o.. You better repent. You are a typical naija man, omo ti ekun ba bi, ekun lo ma jo(A lion will never give birth to a dog-you are son of your father) List of western union. any ways na prayer you dey pray for yourself, hopefully you will grow financially and one day you will be able to fulfil your obligation in sending some money to love ones and relatives... i want remind you self, iya risika was trying to get your number and would prefer you give her some money so she can pay her tithes and offering. make sure you help her out o |
Religion / Re: Faith That Works: Rev Kajode Oje - AFM Camp Meeting 2013 by potentpraise: 2:30pm On Aug 15, 2013 |
Good job, you should be a reporter, if actually you jotted this down while Rev Kayode was teaching the message of Faith. |
Religion / Re: Think before you contribute to the 3-km Long Church Auditorium for Rccg by potentpraise: 2:13pm On Aug 15, 2013 |
Goshen360: You try small and i am still not convince. Every organization has its way of operation. Jesus ministry is slightly different from John the baptist, however, they have the same fundamental principles of heaven as the last hope. Members just like you can decide to pay or not, they can decide to leave the church to another, they can also decide to give to the poor if they want. Giving in church is not mandatory and should not be. Churches today, could be building earthly kingdoms, that should not be a worry to any one that calls himself a christian, because the bible has taught us how to discern fake/false prophet or gospel. Let every man wears his wisdom and scriptural hat when at church. As for your giving to known and unknown, if you have not given to me, you have not giving at all. You are still not giving enough compare to how much you are making, so my friend do something, pass me some western union and better still, give some free recharge cards to some christian brothers in Nigeria..lol |
Religion / Re: Think before you contribute to the 3-km Long Church Auditorium for Rccg by potentpraise: 11:12pm On Aug 14, 2013 |
Goshen360: You are a good man. I have promised on the other thread to discuss the issue scripturally. I will do that before dawn, here and on the other thread. Mr Goshen360 when will you have time to contribute? You are begining to lie like those you are acquising. May God help you. I am waiting for your sculpturally made analysis...not scripturally because i know, no analysis you will bring other than the one that you made and attached some unmeasurable quotes Goshen360: @ Thread, How can you extablish that you are christian? Christianity is not about the belief in the religion or going to church. Its people who are christ-like: they have the characteristics of christ. Today is gone and you are yet to contribute is that your second day lie? Before you misquote Adeboye, you should ask yourself how many poor have you helped in nigeria or even on the street of NY? Anyways, i am giving you the opportunity to reflect on this and come take some biblical lectures from me, so you can be confident that you are dealing with issues scripturally.. My good friend--lol |
Religion / Re: Top 10 Richest Pastors In The World by potentpraise: 10:33pm On Aug 14, 2013 |
Goshen360: ^ where you go hide this I.D for ages? Abi antivirus catch you ni? How you doing my fewd, long time no see. A wise man talk when its noble... How are you doing? I can see you are trying endlessly to make sure that the churches dont collect tithes and offering. Like you and i know, you can only try, you will not and can not stop it. Its like asking baba-alawo and ifa priests to stop giving sacrifices to their gods. Anyways.. back to you.. i am doing alright and you.. I am starting a church o and i need your tithes and offering. lol 3 Likes |
Religion / Re: Top 10 Richest Pastors In The World by potentpraise: 7:04pm On Aug 14, 2013 |
The list is not complete: Where is Joel Osteen "Joel Osteen was born in Texas and has an estimated net worth of $40 million dollars. A pastor, author, and televangelist, Joel Osteen is the pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. He took over his father's role as a pastor and televangelist, despite having very little formal religious training, in 1999. Since then, the Lakewood Church broadcast has grown exponentially and can be seen in 100 different countries." http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/joel-osteen-net-worth/ 7 Likes
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Family / Re: What's So Special About Twins??? by potentpraise: 3:52pm On Jul 14, 2013 |
If you don't have money, twins are not joke. If don't have time to separate fight, then don't ask for twins If you can not do children care overtime, don't have for twins: both can get sick at the same time If you are lazy, don't ask for twins cos you will watch and wash cloths tire If you don't like to be asked questions by stranger, don't ask for twins(Are they twinS?) Above all, they are best for those that have money to take care of them not, those in face me and face you and okada rider, however, if you are in face me and face and ride okada and you have them, through them, God could change your status to landlord and car owner. The Good thing is God does not discriminate... so you status does not matter, because God will be ready to upgrade you because of the children |
Business / Re: Crops Farming by potentpraise: 2:47pm On Jul 09, 2013 |
bfmconcepts: My brother, Yes i noticed that. Easy way to everything would not help us to achieve anything. Although, its understandable if one has little or no concept or idea on these types of plantation. If i may ask, are you an expert in crops plantation? |
Business / Crops Farming by potentpraise: 8:03am On Jul 09, 2013 |
In recent time, i have discussed with friends who are interested in going into farm business. While the focus of anyone interested in farming has been live stocks, especially fish farming, i have noticed that, there are other important farming that are hardly discussed or deliberated on. For instance, vegetable, tomatoes, pepper and other crops that could grow every three months or so. My concern is how much would be a good budget to venture into this, if you already have a land to farm on? What is the profitability and what other crops will you advice that can yield high profits too? Would you do any of these high demand cash crops stated above or will you still prefer fish farming? I will like to hear from expert on this field, especially graduates of agriculture. |
Politics / Re: Labaran Maku Blasts Fashola At Ministerial Platform by potentpraise: 1:29am On Jun 04, 2013 |
Sincere 9gerian: Minister of information, Labaran Maku, Says Fashola does not have to do much as governor besides "traffic control and environmental sanitation". If the comment is true, then Labaran Maku, need to be educated that, its more difficult and technically challenging to maintain any infrastructure than to build it. Especially in Nigeria where there is no culture of maintenance. How many building can the federal government boast of to be in good shape. Even Aso Rock is experiencing some infrastructural decay Go look at the washington Nigeria Embassy: that might be too far.. lets look at Ibadan Express road.. The Federal Govt has sat on the repair of that road for as long as 1999. If a child was born in 1999 by now he will be 14 years and could even father another child if he smart.a.s.s |
Religion / Re: Contending The False And Heretic Teachings By Obadiah777 by potentpraise: 9:12am On Mar 24, 2013 |
Joblessness can increase one's ability into skillful argument 1 Like |
Religion / Re: What Has Unemployment Taught You? by potentpraise: 8:13pm On Mar 17, 2013 |
4tunebest: Number 5 on your list is very important. What i have learnt is that In any situation, there is always a lesson or lessons that God wants us to learn and until we do that, we may just be delaying our breakthrough in certain areas of our lives and also in terms of employment. You are right. May God give us listening hear. Lets have a joke that can also describe that waiting period. Lets assume and it could be in actual fact that Nigeria as a country is on waiting period, unemployed and in total disarray and in need of Medical attention.
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Religion / Re: What Has Unemployment Taught You? by potentpraise: 5:25pm On Mar 17, 2013 |
Bidam: Did you finally land your dream job? My dream job is to work for myself and be employer of labor, however i am currently employed. But the focus of this thread is to encourage others; even if you are yet to get the job, there are still somethings you have learned that you can share with others who are in current situation. |
Religion / What Has Unemployment Taught You? by potentpraise: 2:53pm On Mar 17, 2013 |
Here are 10 things i have learned in my last experience of unemployment Lets share to encourage others 1. When God is not there, your effort is worthless 2. Over preparedness and prayer are not guarantee for employment but God grace 3. Never be too desperate, it cost waste of time, resources, effort, energy 4. learn to be patient 5. Be observant and try to understand what God is teaching you during this time 6. Engage yourself with things of passion and ignore the worry 7. Believe your time will come 8. Be sensitive and flexible about your decision without compromising integrity 9. Do not take any job because of your situation, people will take advantage of you 10. Learn to compromise with a foresight on future opportunity 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: The State Of The Nigerian Embassy In The United States by potentpraise: 9:39pm On Mar 09, 2013 |
If the head is bend, how do you expect the body to be straight? If Jonathan got there by corruption and by who you know, what do you expect in Nigeria Embassy. Just forget you have an Embassy anywhere outside Nigeria and if you are in Nigeria, forget you have a government, because all of them have calabash head. 2 Likes |
Properties / Re: Architect And Builder,best Of Our Services At An Affordable Price,view Designs by potentpraise: 1:42pm On Mar 08, 2013 |
K.C System I think you scare your potential clients with this gigantic exotic beautiful building design that cost arms and leg to execute. While its good to showcase excellence structural design, i think your advert should reflect your potential customers budget. You can not show a design worth 20M -100M to execute to an average Nigeria on nairaland that does not have access to oil blocks or pension money. Also if they do, they might have other architects to do the job for them. So my suggestion for you is to design a 1 bedroom flat/self contain, 2 bedroom flat bungalow and other sophisticated design that its within 1-5 Million to realistically achieve. Anyways we can talk more if you want on relevant concept that can attract not only nairalanders but other potential customers. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Foreign Degree & The Nigerian Mentality by potentpraise: 2:36pm On Mar 05, 2013 |
Donxavier: As far as i know the number of unemployed is far more than the number of business owner that failed. As a matter of fact its another entrepreneurial failure to go to school and not get job or do something with the meal ticket. So what are we talking about? |
Politics / Re: Foreign Degree & The Nigerian Mentality by potentpraise: 2:21pm On Mar 05, 2013 |
Donxavier: You are all missing the important point, which is: it is ridiculous to pay 7 million for a meal ticket and can't even get meal for one day with it. Why wouldn't you use the 7million to invest in a business that could make you get to the echelon of success where you do not need to have your toe shoe begging for attention. When you aim high, you might not get there, but it get you much farther from poverty, than when you aim low 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Foreign Degree & The Nigerian Mentality by potentpraise: 2:16pm On Mar 05, 2013 |
Jarus: Of course you don't have to be Adenuga, neither is it possible for you to rise through a company to become a GM without being thrown out once they see that you are living a life style that look a little comfortable. If you aim a little high, you could eventually own your own company. To rise in any Nigeria company to GM, you will either be the owner relatives or family friend. Becoming a Director could be easy with government Job, either way, you still need to do some politics. So you can either take the bull by the horn and start a company that you can grow and become the group chairman or play politics while trying to be GM. |
Politics / Re: Foreign Degree & The Nigerian Mentality by potentpraise: 1:50pm On Mar 05, 2013 |
Interesting when you see Nigeria youths pouring there concern about looking for job. Education these days is a total financial waste if the meal ticket can not get you a meal. If you go abroad to spend 7million on Education and some even more and at the end of the day, you are looking to be hired and now disappointed that there is no Job, i guess you are born to be slave. There are many Nigerians not to talk about many Americans that are on the billionaire list that barely have undergraduate degree. Many of them knew that they would be wasting their time and resources to stay under someone for 3 hours a week class and at the end of the day accumulating grades that can not guarantee you a work not to talk of getting you job in your chosen field. But the sad news is that this is a global mistake that university degree provides wealth, because the people that controls the billions are contented with high school degree and make use of it to generate billions. That being said, what happens to collaboration, partnership, working with two or more youths that bring in capital to go into business? If a bank fail to learn money, and 10 people bring in $10,000 each that is $100,000 why can't we do it together and succeed than doing it individually and we all fail? I guess many youths that talk about their fathers in politics are corrupt can not trust themselves, because they breed in the system. Let us be sincere, if they don't learn to work together to either focus on entrepreneur or find a way to send their fathers in politics away, who do not care if they die of hunger we will forever be enslaved by the foreign countries we run to all in the name of greener pasture or eduction. Its easy for all of us to go against a government, but the moment one of us get an offer with government in power, we quickly disassociate ourselves from those people and then call them jobless people. I can not but be so disappointed and pained when i see how Nigerians suffer both home and abroad. Sometime i just cant comprehend it. We all have our share of blames, if truth be told. Sometime one could say as black as our skin so black our brain and thinking ability to do good. We strive well when we mix with the white skin and fail totally when we are around the black our pears. I wonder why the Islamic country could do it better, they send their children abroad with scholarship and when they return, job is on standby for them. However, some of our fathers that make use of Nigeria wealth to study abroad on scholarship came back and make scholarship difficult for ordinary Nigeria but could still navigate scholarship for their generation unborn despite their stolen wealth. Let the youth decide on our future, and not by one government, because jonathan can only apply animal governance on human government. 1 Like |
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