oluamid:
The "brown envelope" practice is a grey area in Nigerian journalism. Of course, the person offering will not say its a bribe and neither will the person collecting, but we all know its a kind of "influence" on the angle of the story.

Students of journalism in the University study "Media Ethics and Issues" as part of their compulsory courses and "brown envelopism" is extensively discussed. It is against the ethics of journalism to collect any kind of gratification before or after publishing a story. But poverty is what it is in the country.

Apart from the issue of poverty, there are many instances where media houses owe their reporters salaries of up to 6 months. How do these journalists survive? Brown envelopes.

It is now the standard practice that a journalist be given a "brown envelope" if he attends a corporate event. I doubt if there is any living and practicing journalist who has not either collected a brown envelope or been offered one.

Any journalist who collects an envelope and say its not a kind of "bribe" is only playing the ostrich.

That's why Punch Newspaper have it printed on their front page that their reporters don't accept and should not be offered any gratification.

tijjanioyan: somebody should help me access his IQ

striktlymi: That audio did not prove that TB Joshua did anything wrong. All I see is an overzealous journalist who has decided to make a big deal out of the generosity of another.

Didiannie: Are you holier than him?

dammytosh: I bet 80% of those who hit reply button never listened to the audio in full if not i don't see any thing wrong with the conversation.

Before you start screaming, I am not a TB Joshua fan and can never be, but in the spirit of fairness, nothing is wrong with the conversation.

Every church/business organizations pays journalist when they come for briefings, press conference, 'advertisements' etc and when i say every church, i mean every church. Just the same way everyone who visits Jonathan in Aso Rock would be given so called 'Transport FARE' and Pastor Bakare went and turned it down in style calling it bribe to the celebration of journalists the last time.

Also I am disappointed in the religious arm of PDP called CAN and all the blinginglified leaders. So no one deem it fit to visit the site, no one sympathizes with TB Joshua and the Families who lost their lives. Even Daddy GO and other respected Men of God.

That is not good enough. Sounds like being silently happy their competitor is going down.

My Cent.

aysometin:


I am not a journalist, but does the laws of the profession support this? If it doesn't, then it is bribe. It is obviously offered to influence what the journalist writes. Whether it is the norm in Nigeria or not does not make it right.

san316: I've not seen any journalist coming to prove @striklyme wrng. Wen i c dat, i'll comment.

Seun: The gbagauns are one of a kind too.

rusher14:

OK. My name is David and I am appointed of God.

Please can I kill you to take over your possession ?

striktlymi: That audio did not prove that TB Joshua did anything wrong. All I see is an overzealous journalist who has decided to make a big deal out of the generosity of another.

Kachisbarbie:
Hahhahahahahaha...Is this coming from you?? Very-very funny...
I knew about his church all the while I was a teenager in Lagos, but as a kid...I didn't pay so much attention to what I heard about him.

Two months ago,I decided to watch his sermon that was being aired...Holy Lord...I was speechless all through. His diction is pathetic, I found it embarrassing that he hasn't improved over the years!

JonBee1:

With viewpoint like this, how can the nation not be a dismal failure.
The youth are worsen than the current set of leader, as the despotic ruler, IBB pointed out.

Lagbaja was right all along when he posited that we a nation of 170 million M-U-M-U.
...I am afraid there no hope left, the youth are in ruin

lomprico:
Ur point?

nagoma: In a just society this TB Joshua man should be in prison custody by now, for deliberately breaching the building laws of the country and putting people's life in danger and for 70 charges of manslaughter.

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it's funny how you guyz reason. Nway! Ave all my life loved TBJoshua not jut becuz he's a God sent prophet but cuz he's humble and gives like his life depends on it. (I once hated him tho)

Now like seriouly let's us be reasonable here, TB Joshua is a man just like we guyz, Нe has on him flesh which seriously мakes it a necessity for him to err.

We all knw SCOAN bin the most controversial Church ever known. So u sure shudnt expect him not to be over confused. Listened to the Audio over and over just to get where bribery came in, but like Starz i cudnt till now get it. For this I'll boldly go against it perhaps the audio i downloadd was different from the one u guyz listened to.

LETZ JUST CONSIDER IT IN YOU FOOLZ' PERSPECTIVE Even tho its glaring y'all twisting the truth here just to soil his name.

The building collapsed and those guyz came to write their LIFE as usual. We all knw Nigerians Lack what professionalism demands as they will surely add a smell to their pens just to gain attention of Readers.

OK Fine! They were badly treated, Apologies for this. But the worse set in when they salted the whole scenario by adding ' TB JOSHUA ordered his security men to treat them that way' just to down this Man of God. Even if the Security men were not working under instructions u shudnt xpect Prophet Joshua to deny he asked them to treat them that way. What manner of leader is he? At this state of confusion he decided to apologize to them,Beg for the story (the story of they bin beaten) to be covered up and give unto them what Nigerians are knwn for.

If u guyz were to be sensible i wud have asked you guyz to tell me what he wud bribe those guyz for.

A Church world-widely knwn, was he trying to tell the world the building didn't collapse? Or prolly he wud tell them to tell the world he's not the owner of the building?

A needle from The Prophet's wallet wud be made knwn let alone a whole building. I wish you guyz cud just use those things u guyz call brain and tell me what else he was trying to coverup if not how they were treated. .
And for crying out loud is TB Joshua not a Fleshy man like us that can take any measure to protect his Name/Image?

What wud u guyz say again? He claims to be a man of God? The last time i cheCked he's a man of God not a GOD. Born of a woman and all these make him imperfect.


People and their shallow brains called him a Murderer, how?? Going back thru memories, i remembered a Collapsed central hospital @ Benin, whose fault was it? The Government? Or the Drs?

And how comes Nicholas voice was neva heard sinz he claimed to be the only one who rejected the offer?
This is 21st century, what's even the prove that the audio is not a cooked up sh*t?


Nway! Bak to line.
What wud you guyz Ave done if you were to be in the dayz of David? David killed sum1 just to marry his wife and yet he was forgiven. Get this straight God is seriously not interested in your past what matters is asking for forgiveness while measures are taken not to get back into sin.

you all here ranting like some hungry pigs,crying blue murder cuz God chose him. Hiding behind fingers while what you all do in your closets are life-taking. Welcome to planet earth where you write woreva u so wish just to gain attention or side-kick ur sorrow, You all claim to be beter while in actual fact the devil itself seems to be much more preferable. Dirty Hypocrites it should be a shame on you guyz if the Prophet cud ave gone this far 'changed lives' 'changed nations' 'changed the world' positively despite bin a fake Prophet while the acclaimed Real ones ar wining on Zero.(Jesus was condemned so am less baffled) but it's a pity Common sense is seriously not common. Nway! these are hard times for him. But this am sure of 'He shall win the battle' Satan shall be put to shame'
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MY Dear prophet TB Joshua, God knows we shall keep praying for you. My Lord God Jesus shall strengthen you. We all love you. The best is yet to come

ipromise: Let him/her that is without sin; throw the first stone......This practise is inherent in our today's society, on normal event journalist do expect welfare packages from their host. Therefore, people should stop making HILLS out of this matter. We should be praying for the victims and their families instead of seeking selfish attention over the social media as if we just turned human right activist over night...THEIR FAMILIES NEED OUR PRAYERS..

declaro:

Please tell us how much you too have collected from him because you will be sharing the guilt of those blood wasted with him if you have collected something from him.