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But Pastor is also a human being. Look it is not easy being married and then your wife left you alone for seven years. The temptations can be deafening on a daily basis, and all those tight mini-skirt girls on the front row every Sunday showing their laps. Marriage is a vow but men of God can release you from a vow, and its curses, that you cannot keep through their prayers for you unto the Lord. Haba you this man to remain in the cold for the next 40yrs, he no go dey easy o. And all these while the wife maybe enjoying herself to the fullest and couldn't give a damn about pastor. If Pastor should fall into temptation papers would be awash with the story. Which is better: Pastor marry of Pastor fall?

Please does starcomm EVDO works in Ibadan around ring road and up to apata area? And is it as fast as Ebute-Meta's? Ur contribution plssss.

Well the Pastor is gonna preach like this: Brothers and Sisters abstinence is the best protection against aids but for all of you OLOJUKOKOROS pls see bro iceland for your set of condoms after service, i think we can only afford a week's supply for now, till next Sunday. You are all blessed in Jesus Name. Amen. Methnks that this bro iceland just wants the church to rubber stamp and approve his sexual escapades and he will then turn around and say well the church gave us condoms afterall whenever there is an issue. Be very sure that condoms are not infallible. I had remove it several times in order to have orgasm. By the way I'm married i only use it for birth control.

Well, while i am not against massive edifices called church auditorium (we are building a new church to cost a whooping 7m naira), the church must go back to basics and become focused,
The purpose of the church is to reach and make disciples of all nations. It is in this direction that the chunk of our resources should go. Not in gigantic edifice for us to worship. We the worshippers need to be out on the field doing the masters biz.
But then it gets more difficult to be on the field with our beautiful dresses and cool rides.
That is why this auditoriums becomes necessary.
But plz lets get to basics.

Regards to all no offence meant.

The real issue behind this soludo thing is not about Nigeria but it is an Ecowas agenda planed by the world bank for nigeria. Check out this opinion in today's guardian newspaper as this explains all you need to know. And also the reason why soludo had to retrace his steps after issuing higher denomination notes:


Soludo's American wonder

By Peter Alexander Egom


THE Nigerian Debt Management Office, DMO, held an international conference on debt sustainability in June 2001. It was in Abuja. And I was there as an observer. That event was the last official outing of Izoma Phillip C. Asiodu as Economic Adviser to President O. Obasanjo. It was also the first official outing for Dr. Magnus Kpakol, the neither here nor there economist, as Economic Adviser to President O. Obasanjo. But, the main stars of that conference were the quartet of Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor Charles C. Soludo and Dr. Mansor Muktar. The World Bank had used that occasion to announce them as its anointed quartet, come July 2003, with the scorched-earth mandate to finally drag the Nigerian economy, the heartbeat of the black race, back to colonial monetary manacle and bondage.

And, in this assignment the quartet has been very successful as the Naira under their watch has become ever so outward-looking and foreign-friendly, ever so work-shy and rural-shy in Nigeria, and ever so ready for the colonial monetary manacle of the fixed-rate currency board relationship with the imperial but terminally sick US Dollar. This is Mr. Soludo's latest plan for the Naira come August 1, 2008. Indeed, the main assignment of the quartet has been to midwife, latest by July 2009, a new West African Currency Board with the US Dollar as its guarantor and currency of reference.

However, what intrigued me much at the Abuja conference of June 2001 was not the Nigerian gang of four that the World Bank had chosen to corral Nigeria and the black race as whole back to colonial monetary manacle and bondage. Rather what caught and fixed my attention was this very stooping and very old man of an American by the name of Dr. Reginald Green. Ha! Ha!, was this not the same Dr. Green who had held the Tanzanian Treasury and President Nyerere's Ujamaa economic policy hostage with mumbling misadvice in 1974-75 when I was at the Bank of Tanzania at work with my flow of funds study of the Tanzanian economy? It surely was.

And there and then I knew that the economy of Nigeria under President O. Obasanjo would not bring any economic good cheer to Nigeria and to most Nigerians. And so it has truly turned out to be in spite of Nigeria's unprecedented run of economic good fortune in foreign exchange earnings from oil and gas export in the period 1999-2007.

But, we Nigerians owe Mr. Soludo a deep debt of gratitude. For flush, as he always is, with immodest and loquacious self-praise, he has gone on to give us the first ever clear statement about the Big Bang, or shall we say the Big Whimper, of the monetary theory and practice which lies behind the World Bank's colonial economic roap for Nigeria. For every economic policy package anywhere must be held together and driven by a concise theory and practice of money. The job of any public statement on the relevant theory and practice of money behind any economic policy package is to, among other things, educate and inform the public on whether the money being used to manage the economic life of a nation is debt-based or commodity-based, is urban-friendly or rural friendly, is public-sector financing or private sector financing, has outward-looking convertibility or inward-looking convertibility.

For once these key attributes of the money in use in a nation have been decided upon, then the economist is put in the vantage position to anticipate where the nation's economy is headed with respect to providing its nationals with job, food and social security. Thus, quite contrary to popular belief, economics is a cut and dried subject which says that debt money is always an impoverishing bad master where commodity money is always an enriching good servant.

Thus, until Mr. Soludo happened a week ago with his impoverishing bad master of the debt Naira and the colonial dollarisation plan for the Naira, the hitherto World Bank approved economic managers of Nigeria had been all too vague about the theory and practice of money that drives their American wonder works or shall we say their American Good Works in Nigeria! But this is no more the case.

For Mr. Soludo has now made it crystal clear that the World Bank's economic policy for Nigeria has the impoverishing bad master of the outward-working and non-convertible Naira at its base and centre but that the Naira is be to given, come August 1, 2008, a deceitful patina of outward-looking convertibility by being manacled, in restricted colonial convertibility, to the terminally-ill US Dollar at the fixed rate of N1.25 to one US Dollar. In other words, come August 1, 2008, Nigeria will be returned to the colonial thraldom of the pre-October 1, 1960 fixed rate currency board debt standard where the fixed-rate colonial convertibility of the Naira will be guaranteed by the US Federal Reserve System. Simply brilliant! But, treasonous and, treacherous all the same. And all of this ties up with the see-saw history of the ECOWAS common currency project as follows:

In April 2001, the ECOWAS member countries decided on a two-pronged attack on their elusive quest for a common currency. The CFA Franc economies of the ECOWAS were grouped under the umbrella of the First Monetary Zone with the CFA Franc as their common colonial currency which has restricted convertibility into the Euro of the Eurozone. The Anglo-phone economies of the ECOWAS were grouped under the Second Monetary Zone with the ECO to emerge as their colonial common currency which would have restricted convertibility into the US Dollar. However, the launching of the ECO has proved to be very troublesome after the target dates for this in July 2003 and in July 2005 came and went without the ECO coming into virtual or real circulation.

It was then realised that the ECO common currency had to have an anchor and a locomotive currency from among the of the WAMZ and the choice for this fell on the Naira of Nigeria, in the same manner as the DMark was the anchor and locomotive currency of the Euro. So, all of the recent avalanche of talk by Mr. Soludo about the Naira being the currency of reference in West Africa, and Nigeria becoming the financial hub of West Africa, if not for the whole of Africa, is all tied up with the planed emergence of the colonial ECO common currency in July 2009. And after July 2009, it is the plan that a new colonial ECOWAS common currency will be forged out of the colonial CFA and the colonial ECO.

And, it was, indeed, my realisation of the full colonial implications of the post -2003 economic policies of the World Bank's gang of four in Nigeria that prompted me to write as follows on page 95 of my 2006 book "Com for Economic Reform:

Already, "by July 2004, it was clear to any keen observer of the Nigerian economic scene that the ECO common currency project of the WAMZ would not fly by July 2005 as scheduled. What was missing and is still missing in this three-decade old colonial common currency project is a Nigerian anchor currency which has the colonial convertibility of the CFA Franc or of the Hong Kong dollar. Accordingly the ECO common currency project has been rescheduled to fly by July 2009 so that, in the interim, Nigeria would have to hurry and put in place such internal and external payments arrangements that would inexorably lead the Naira, before July 2009, to the gallows of colonial convertibility. This is the sum-total of the colonial sense in the on-going economic reform programme of Nigeria".

So, Soludo's newly announced Naira revaluation and convertibility plan gives credence to what I saw of the colonial drift of Nigeria's economic policy as far back as July 2004 when Mr. Soludo became the Governor of the CBN. Indeed, the new Lagos-based US dollar trading African Finance Corporation, AFC, with the wholly paid up share capital of one billion US Dollars, is the precursor of the West African Central Bank and, naturally, the unending beefing up of the capital bases of Nigeria's commercial banks to at least one billion US dollars per bank is all in aid of Nigeria becoming by July 2009 the sub-imperial hub of dealings in foreign exchange in West Africa, a money centre in the footsteps of Dubai. And likewise the FS2020 is aimed at turning all of Nigeria into a country-wide and colonial bureau de change!


To be continued

Egom is with Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos


All i'd say is tighten your seat belts and shine your eyes well well because nobody really knows how it will affect the common man in the long run.
My advice is to invest your naira in real commodities, sellable new items or landed props that can be sold for good profit if the going gets tough.

Really the issue is highly subjective. And everyone seems to be right in this matter.
The G.O. is right to make his own laws to guide the flock in a manner that seems best to him in leading them to the kingdom.
The ladies are also right in expressing their freedom to dress in a manner that seems best to them. It is a free world even the armed robbers and hostage takers thinks they are right. But there will always be laws to guide us. Take or leave it.

Well, love is only blind before marriage and never after.
Now supposing there is a wrestling match or a boxing match even an ordinary shouting match, can you take a bet who will always be the underdog?
I bet those tiny muscles won't help much.
Da bro is heading 4 a lifetime of being da underdog.
The truth is that, shine ur eyes well b4 marriage and turn the blind eye after.

Start selling nespapers by identifying a good location near to the bus stop or road junction where there is slow movement of vehicles. Since your area is a conservative area they should be able to afford newspapers. And pls consider home/office delivery as well. I tell you the capital that you need is quite small but the return may surprise you, okay. Then you need God's grace to succeed as a first timer in biz. Good Luck.