Stop Telling Lies On Behalf of God

Today a picture of a young soldier crying has been making the rounds on Instagram accompanied with a powerful story.

A story about a soldier taunted by his fellow soldiers because of his love of God. A soldier who on one of those taunt sessions was forced to drive and park a Jeep. The only problem was that the soldier did not know how to drive and the Jeep did not have an engine in it.

But yet to the amazement of his fellow non-believing soldiers, he was able to drive this engine-less car and also park it … all through the strength of God. At least that’s what the story wants us to believe…finish reading here

Now I am not saying God cannot pull this stunt off … what I am saying is that the story has all the signs of a made up story pulled out from the imagination of a brilliant storyteller.

For starters … the soldier’s name is unknown, the country where this happens is unknown … basically the story has no details, no proof, nothing.
In fact the story is 100% made up, a classic urban legend. But yet we spread it like wildfire to drive home a point about God being this awesome God of awesome miracles. Like God needs lies to show how ... finish reading here

The Role Of Ethnicity And Other Questions Answered With Numbers

On March 31st at 5:15 PM, Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan placed a historic call to Retired General Muhammadu Buhari to congratulate him on his 2015 Presidential election victory. An election won by exactly 2,571,759 votes.

Now it’s easy for that one number to get all the media attention … but there are several other smaller numbers that tell a bigger story and as an engineer I am addicted to the numbers. So I reviewed the data and observed several things such as the roles of Governors play in swaying votes as whether ethnic centered voting decided the Presidential elections. Here are my findings below…see them here

THE TOTAL VOTES

THE DISTORTED PVC COLLECTION RATES