₦airaland Forum

kilmot:
I pray whatever happened at Lekki toll gate that day happen to you and your family. Just say Amen to confirm there was no killing.

we also pray some of you that want to destabilize this country with every pretext so your family will be destabilized as well,,,just say ameen

flokii:
Yes o.. they made sure Oba Akiolu's palace, Sanwo Olu's mother house and other top State owned assets in Lagos were burnt down while Obi of Onitsha's palace, Peter Obi, Nwafor, Arthur Eze, Obiano etc. houses were left untouched.

Well played!

we also pray some of you that want to destabilize this country with every pretext so your family will be destabilized as well,,,just say ameen

kilmot:
I pray whatever happened at Lekki toll gate that day happen to you and your family. Just say Amen to confirm there was no killing.

we also pray some of you that want to destabilize this country with every pretext so your family will be destabilized as well,,,just say ameen

rossniti:
Shut up. Why do you trust CNN? You actually think they care about you? Mumu slave people. Go and watch their so called video evidence, and there is still NO EVIDENCE of soldiers shooting people at Lekki. No use una brain. Mumu slaves.

No mind them ...Trump called them FAKE NEWS media...overrated..BECKY ANDERSON & DJ SWITCH (TWO LESBIANS )doing collabo together

For me, the saddest thing about Lekki is that the military was invited in the first place, and that it responded the way it did.
To do what exactly?
1. Scare the protesters away by their mere appearance?
2. Disperse them by shooting blank bullets? Both seemed to have worked.

But at what cost to the image of our military and the psyche of the citizens?

Lekki has been used to perpetuate the myth...actually, the reality...that the Nigerian soldier is to be feared by the people; not respected; not loved.
I would rather be loved and respected than feared.

I have stood in line at a grocery store in Augusta, Georgia (in the US) in uniform, and had two elderly women approached me and asked if they could give me a hug. Of course, I consented, and they both said as we hugged: "Thank you for your service to our country."

I have been in a grocery store in Virginia and had a total stranger offer to pay for everything in my cart.

I was once on a flight with my daughter from California to Toronto, Canada (in civilian clothes) when the crew asked for military officers to identify themselves. My daughter and I were upgraded from Economy cabin to Business. As we got up to transfer, our entire cabin erupted in hand claps and people were screaming: "Thank you for your service to our country."

Anonymous people have sent waiters and waitresses to me in restaurants with the offer to foot my bill. They also sent their "Thank you for your service to our country" message.

At Departure Halls in US airports, Service members (as US military members are referred to) are often called to board at the same time Business Class people are called. You don't even need to be in uniform. They believe you when you step out to board.

Hotels and car rentals have "military discounts". There are even some big departmental stores, especially in "military cities" that offer "military discounts".

There are banks that offer lower interests to Service members!
I can go on and on.

But I think you get the gist. American Service members are not destitute. They are well-paid. They do not need financial charities from people.
The people just love and respect them.

Why?
Apart from the obvious fact that we serve to defend the nation, we are also not above the law.

In fact, we are held more stringently accountable for infractions of civil laws.

For instance, I could very well lose my commission and be dismissed from service ("dismiss" here means no benefits at all) for beating my wife!

The police can arrest us just the same way they arrest civilians, although they will immediately hand you over to your Command where you'll be disciplined harsher and faster under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

While in the US, (other than members of the National Guard) we do not carry loaded weapons outside military bases.

In fact, when going from one base to another or to a firing range, live bullets are conveyed in a different vehicle than the one taking the soldiers. And guess what? Armed police are used to escort the soldiers and the ammo!

NB: The National Guard mentioned above is an arm of the military that is placed under the state governor's command. The governor gets to call them out in times of crises...like protests that overwhelm the police or during natural disasters like floods, earthquakes etc. They are trained in crowd control and evacuation of large population. They carry live rounds when on such duties.

I am familiar with the training that the Nigerian military undergo. Crowd control in cities is not included. They just...as we say here...wing it.

The Nigerian military is rolled up into the security architecture of most Nigerian states...as it should. Every arms-bearing entity, including Civil Defense Corps, local hunters (and I dare say...armed AMOTEKUN) should be rolled into the security architecture of their respective states. But the governor SHOULD be the ONLY person authorized to deploy them for operations within his jurisdiction. He SHOULD be the one to issue their Rules of Engagement (ROE) for the specific crisis.
And this arrangement should be made transparent to every Nigerian...that even within the states, elements of the military are subordinated to civilian authority...which is what we should have in a democracy.

AT ANY TIME THAT YOU DEPLOY SOLDIERS, YOU ARM THEM WITH LIVE BULLETS; NOT BLANKS.

What if someone in the crowd at Lekki was armed with an Uzi...with live bullets...and started firing at the soldiers once he realized they were shooting blanks? Blanks are used in training to teach steady aim, breathing and trigger control. They are also used in simulations.

Lekki was no simulation. Neither was it training. It was the real thing.
YOU DO NOT SEND SOLDIERS, ARMED WITH BLANKS OR LIVE, TO DISPERSE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS.

The Nigerian soldier is already fighting and dying INSIDE Nigeria trying to protect the country's territorial integrity against non-state actors. He/she should no longer be fighting the "jackboot" image...the image of ruthlessness and cowardly attacks on unarmed, peaceful citizens.

So that hopefully, Nigerians will begin to love and respect (NOT FEAR) them for their service to our country.

classicfrank4u:
Thank God for him..
The Military should be deployed to Edo state ASAP, things are getting out of hand over there.

Military ,small time you started shouting human right this and that

ChemicalHeart:
so what sense have you made now

The point is that she is a LESBIAN & seeking for public attention

Solatium:
How is she an asset?
She is inconsequential,if government want her to face justice it won't take Nigeria police 48hr to bring her out of her hiding,her case has not even ben escalated to the DSS level,talk more of the Military.

A free mind will never run away.
Na her hand work dey pursue her.

no mind the idiot

uche87:
In the last 5 years that I have been analyzing public affairs online, I have never seen a government struggle so hard to manage a crisis, like the Lekki Shooting incident of the 20th of October.

The Nigerian government has been using a big lie to cover another very ridiculous one since the ill-fated occurrence happened. It is as if the government has forgotten to apply its brakes on its adventure of falsehood, as several concerned agencies brace up to lie their ways out of the scandal. Nigerians are no fools; they know the truth, and they knew from day one. The leaders know the people are aware of those responsible for the shooting, but they don't seem to care. What they are doing is a mockery of the intelligence of the general public.

The morning after the incident, nobody claimed responsibility for the shooting. The Nigerian Army was quiet. The media filled the vacuum of communication by reeling out different death rates. When the military couldn't take it anymore, they started posting screenshots of news reports and tagging them 'fake news'.
The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu's desperately needed a story to tell the public as the de facto 'Chief Security Officer' of the state. He revealed that forces beyond his control were behind the attack on unarmed peaceful protesters. This statement indirectly pointed accusing fingers at his political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Sanwo-Olu later cracked on CNN where he hinted that Nigerian soldiers were behind the attack. It appeared the leadership of the army felt it had had enough from the governor. It came out to admit that the Nigerian troops undertook the operation, but they were invited by the governor.

The same military that denied being at the Lekki tollgate now claims the soldiers only fired blank ammunition into the air, as warning shots to disperse the protesters. Despite video and pictorial evidence, the military claimed the victim role and labelled the protesters as the oppressors. In the words of the army, nobody was shot, and there was no massacre.

According to a statement by a top army official, Lt Col Bello, the protesters, infiltrated by hoodlums, got violent and attacked the soldiers who were so patient and nice that they even offered their aggressors water and drinks. I guess this is the picture of the Nigeria of our dreams.

While the issue of soldiers being at the scene of the crime was confirmed, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami who appeared not to be updated about the state of the quagmire, insinuated that hoodlums in military fatigues carried out the attack. The government can't even gather its officials to lie in unison.

Nigerians hoped the CCTV footage by the Lekki Concession Company, LCC was going to provide a rare insight into what transpired that night at the tollgate. But the LCC soon claimed their cameras stopped recording at 8 pm when the tollgate was heating up. The company can't wait to move on with business, it has demanded to take control of the tollgate, so that business can continue as usual.

The shooting as well as the fatality rates have become mysteries. And they are mysteries because the government wants it to be so. The goal is to drag their feet over the matter till those asking questions grow old, develop grey hair, and lose interest in the bloody incident.

Even you think the testimonies of Obianuju Catherine Udeh aka DJ Switch are inconsistent, then you have to also admit that the government has broken the scale of inconsistency with its varying accounts. It is disturbing that the alleged corpses of the murdered protesters have refused to surface. We have also failed to record credible cases of family members searching for their missing loved ones. The commonest cases are that of the injured, dealing with severe injuries in hospitals. The back and forth has thrown us all in limbo. But on the scale of inconsistency in accounts, the ranking of the government might touch the heavens if that is done. DJ Switch who has been allegedly granted asylum in Canada explained on different occasions that her life is in danger. She revealed the death threats she got from different quarters were overwhelming and she had to be moving from one home to another in search of safety.

DJ Switch's role on the night of the alleged carnage was iconic. It is a further testament to the power of women in society. In Africa, it is generally believed that women are weak. But like the famous writer, Chimamanda Adichie once said, some women are stronger than their male counterparts. DJ Switch proved that. It is no news that countries managed by women e.g New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong (city) and others faired better in the battle against coronavirus than the men.

The stories behind the Lekki Shooting wouldn't have been this clear without DJ Switch who expertly played the roles of the medical doctor, political leader, journalist, disk jockey and an activist on the same night, in a simultaneous fashion. As soon as the protesters came under attack, she went live on her Instagram page and televised the event using her smartphone. She was seen reporting the event as bullets rented the atmosphere. She could be heard directing the protesters who queued behind her, and they adhered to her instructions. She was also seen attending to a man with bullet wounds. A bullet was removed from the body of a young man who was rumoured to have passed away after the gory experience. Despite the danger, she was also the voice of the protesters that night. She overcame her fears and addressed the military commander who led the soldiers. She gave regular updates about their status to the outside world who couldn't be at the scene. She also rushed several victims to the hospital for professional medical attention.

That night, she became the face of the protest movement at the Lekki tollgate, where celebrities who publicised the protesters on Twitter, were largely absent. According to her account, a man took a bullet for her during the ordeal. She said a man jumped on her while asking others to cover her up. She wondered what was happening, but she soon got to know they were forming a shield around her when a shooter targeted her.

DJ Switch sustained injuries that night, both physically and mentally. She left the scene of the attack with bullet shells which she displayed during an Instagram live session. Her life changed but not positively. From the disk jockey who was the life of parties, she became a target by high-handed state and non-state actors who didn't want her to tell her story to her waiting audience. They wanted to silence her. A country of a huge landmass of 923,768 km², with six geopolitical zones, that houses over 200 million people became too small and hot for her, that she had to run out.

It is a shame that the government which is supposed to be protecting an asset like her has been alleged to be her persecutor.

It is not clear if she is actually in Canada considering a recent statement by the Canadian high commission in Nigeria. If true, then it can be said that Canada came to her rescue the same way it has even bailing Nigerian millennials from the throes of poverty in the country. Some Nigerians tried to sponsor a petition to bring her back to Nigeria to face trial. But that is laughable, isn't it? Canada always comes through for the oppressed. The rumoured support she might be getting reminds me of how Canada bailed out the then 18-year-old Saudi Arabian girl, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who was running away from her family. The country also hosts several Saudi Arabian dissidents.

DJ Switch will be safe. Her mental health will also be taken care of. The strong woman will always miss home but her safety matters. One day, she will return to the land of the rising sun to tell her story. This time around, we hope more people will listen. DJ Switch should cry no more. The story of Lekki Shooting which has become part of Nigeria's history will be incomplete without her role.

Again, it is sad that she is receiving death threats. Who are the people that want her dead and what is their ultimate goal? Only time will answer both questions.

By Osayimwen Osahon George

Source: http://www.villagetowncrier.com/2020/11/lekki-shooting-who-wants-dj-switch-dead.html

Another paid job from IPOB SYMPATHIZER
DJ Switch is seeking media attention for her infamous tweet ..she will surely pay for her fabricated lies and incitement that resulted to maimed and murdered of police and other law enforcement agencies in most horrific manner..
"No evil deed will go unpunished; any evil done by man to man will be redressed; if not now then certainly later; if not by man, then by God for the victory of evil over good is temporary" – Dele Giwa (1947-1986)

SIONKPO1:
Ignorance is truly a disease
Let me school you a bit
*Living a good life is not worldly
*Driving good car is not worldly
*Owning a jet is not a sin
JET:YEAH,they should own jet cause its stressful most times when you want to go for ministrations in Ghana and so many countries of the world,you will observe that there is hardly any flight from Kotoko(Ghana)- MMIA(Lagos) and it may be so in 3months
Moreover,Job,Solomon,David,Daniel were wealthy people
Its only a sin if your wealth is not helping the needy in your community
My friend,hate kills faster that corona virus and please try to ask questions and stop judging based on one sided info you got
Lastly,why he dey pain you,na your money ?

I really sympathize with your blindness. ask yourself simple question which part of this world have array of pastor with stupendous wealth like Nigeria..Churches in Nigeria are business ventures take or leave it....why are catholics churches are not like that

SIONKPO1:
I pity you rather,and some of your likes that thinks pastors exploits their members
**Let me enlighten you small
1.Tithes is 10% of your income after tax or of 10% of your profits after sales
2.Tithes is necessary but not compulsory(no member,believer is forced to give it
3.In a church of 1000 congregations how many members earn #1m(assuming 500 members earns #1m and pays a tithe of #100,000*500::#5m
Let's do a small breakdown on how money works in some churches
***Tithes and offerings don't go to pastors but to the church
*Pay pastors
*Pay Instrumentalists
*Welfare department(members in needs)
*Power(Generator,diesel,engine oil,repairs)
*Security(Police,and church securities that opens gates and close it)
*Printing of tracts,t-shirts
*Provision of clothing's,foods etc for evangelism to areas where the gospel hasn't been heard
*payment and maintenance of pastor and other principle church workers and their helpers rents
*Paying of school fees of the children of the needy
*Payment of hospital bills and provision of Toiletries,milk,sugar,Milo etc
*Planting of new churches
*Holding Crusades,by paying for the ground,power,cleaners etc
*Assisting members who applied for financial help to set up business,complete their house etc
The Bible said study to show thyself approved,and the laws of the land says defamation of character is a crime
My brother,try to ask Christians how church financies are spent,don't just be throwing shades
*****What most pastors spends are personal offerings some members gives to them(Otedola's,Dangote,Rabiu,Maduka)/willingly
Lastly,pastors are placed on monthly salaries
**Nobody is perfect but the church system is so so transparent and flexible for all to see

**Nobody is perfect but the church system is so so transparent and flexible for all to see
I some much empathize with you how your has been whitewash...transparent indeed ....did you ever ask yourself why churches are lucrative in NIGERIA alone.. churches fly private jets with mansions and all & worldly things at their beckon.The masses walloping in poverty.. have your head re-examine

SIONKPO1:
If you think its lucrative go and open yours na
If demon slap you just once ehhh,e go affect your earnings and that of your next four generations
They are where they are today cause they paid the price
Fasting,
Praying
Evangelism
Sowing seeds
Community works

I pity your life for supporting those crooks entrepreneurs as men of God ...instead of them preaching salvation busy engaging in prosperity.....all this luxuries life is an illusion, the reality is death.

Pascallville:
pls display your face and location lemme fxxk you up real quick.. you don't deserve to live.. idiot

Another mobster on the prowl ....just because people disagree with your view

This man has started taking that stuff again.........pls those Niger Delta pipu make una help am

Came back to twitter temporarily, scrolling my TL saw some tweets from youths claiming that this is a generation of app developers, drone flyers etc therefore the youths have earned a right to be at the table (government).
I understand how badly our youths have fallen in love with weed.
By the way, BUSINESSDAY claims Nigeria is the highest user of weed. I bet over 70% are by the youths because it must be a special brand of weed that will make anyone think that because you developed an app/drone, that automatically gives you right to leading a country.
Before you people started doing PayStack, CowryWise, irokoTV etc, US, India, China etc had already blazed a long trail in technology & app development.
But guess what?
NONE OF THE SO CALLED DEVELOPERS OR TECHIES ARE RUNNING THESE COUNTRIES!
Wait a sec!
You think after protesting, setting the country ablaze you will then take over?
You want to replicate, Sudan/Egypt/Tunisia etc here? I got news for you.
Remember Alaa Salah, the Sudanese youth who stood & addressed crowd during Sudan's protest last year? Well, all she got was to be invited by the United Nations to read whatever she scribbled on a piece of paper.
They clapped for her, promised her donor funds, scholarship and put her back in a plane back to Khartoum!
What happened to Sudan after their protests? A Transitionary Military Council with some politicians took power and handed it to Abdalla Hamdok another politician who has been in the corridors of power for years!
The council/committee that was constituted & took power didn't have a single youth in it and had just one female (they complained how women are left out and yet they were left out yet again!).
You think you can take power by hashtags, threads/threats on social media/fake news, apps, protests etc? All you do with those things is to destabilize the political space & in the end it still only favours either those already in power, those displaced from power, those at the corridors of power wanting to go in, and a few crafty people they used to cause the unrest who get settled with cash, positions etc.
Kiki Mordi and Aisha Yesufu are just copycats of Alaa Salah;
They will set up CSOs/NGOs, that’s if they don't already have. Donor funds will trickle in, they will be called on TV & Radio to speak & maybe the UN/their agencies. Amnesty Nigeria will use them to further their agenda but IT ENDS THERE!
They will never be in power same way Yele Sowore, Moghalu Kingsley & Oby Ezekwesili etc will never have power!
It isn't because the system is rigged against them, it is because they have rigged themselves against the system!
How does one rig him/herself against the system? It's by mistaking social media validation as real life political currency!
The youths who are demanding power, how many belong to political parties?
How many have visited their villages except for maybe Christmas/Sallah holidays?
How many of you can call, at least, 100 people in your community & they will come answer the call without financial inducement?
We have lots of schools in our respective communities attended by the very poor amongst us, how many have we helped with painting their classrooms, paying fees, donating chairs & tables?
We have run down medical facilities in our villages, how many times have we helped organise free medical outreach for those very poor ones in our hometowns?
You ask the significance? So you do not realise that all politics is local & not social media?
You want to run for president and 90% of the people who know you are your followers on social media & somehow you think you will win the election?
Let's ask those who have tried; Can Yele Sowore win local government chairman of his ward? But after smoking weed & doing SaharaReporters blog you wake up thinking you can be president over 300 million crazy NIGERIANS? Yes, I am one of the crazies!
Oby Ezekwesili might be the only one with the solution to fix Nigeria but the question is, can she win governorship election in her state?
Even after being a two-time minister, World Bank Executive & every other thing, how many people know her in Kano & Bornu?
You wonder how relevant it is? Then go check the population of those states & tell me how you intend to be president if you can't court their votes!
So if you think you can become leaders by your activities on social media, apps you develop etc. we know your handles, who knows you in your community?
We have downloaded your app, we know your app but WHO ARE YOU?
If you think you can be President or lead with protests, know that when the dust settles down it is the military & THE SAME POLITICIANS THAT WILL CALL THE SHOTS!
If you do not go back, rethink, re-strategise, get involved in politics, the sun will set on the oldies you hate so much & rise ON THEIR CHILDREN who they have strategically positioned while you remain an online influencer/soro soke/app developer & agent of destruction

HandmadeD:
Tell it to your boss. Because these casualties could've been avoided should they never allowed the dirty looking thugs to attack the peaceful protest at the early stage. Which was the Genesis of it all.
But they're paid free supporters clubs seems to have forgotten what happened

It seem you are one of the perpetrator of this heinous and evil act......did they attack the protest b4 orile iganmu police station was attack or the jail break in Benin..the long arm of law will surely catch you.

HandmadeD:
Tell it to your boss. Because these casualties could've been avoided should they never allowed the dirty looking thugs to attack the peaceful protest at the early stage. Which was the Genesis of it all.

But they're paid free supporters clubs seems to have forgotten what happened

It seem you are one of the perpetrator of this heinous and evil act......did they attack the protest b4 orile iganmu police station was attack or the jail break in Benin..the long arm of law will surely catch you.

smoke9910:
The officer might be dead but his manhood lives on.

And is funny ba ?

smoke9910:
The officer might be dead but his manhood lives on.

And is funny ba?

bangging:
HBD to you my incoming president

After you and so called celebrities has ignite this country with fake news and incendiary remarks.....They have murdered sleep and sleep no more

Kriss216:
DPO left his uniform and japa. Osaro is the new DPO in town.

And you think dis is funny?

Kriss216:
You have to make a video cos of 10K? Do we make videos when giving our tithes in your dad's workshop

Ps ask that clown

In the NE especially Bornu & Yobe, the number of NGO representatives on ground are either equal to the number IDPs or more. In some parts of Maiduguri town, I think I am in ABA, a lot of my people loading trucks with indomie, rice, pampers etc.

They hustle security operatives to give them escorts so they can enter into risky areas to donate stuff to displaced people. All of them are armed with cameras or use their cellphones to take pictures. Once in a while they give cash or items to security operatives & you thank them for their kindness.

What many people see as people being kind & going an extra mile with great risks to themselves turns out to be a HUGE SCAM. Although not all are scams but 99% of NGOs operating in Nigeria are scams. Let me tell you a story about Somto (not real name).

Somto was based in South Africa with his south African wife until he fell on hard times. Not being able to provide for his family led from one domestic issue to another until his wife eventually divorced him & threw him out of the house. Broke with nowhere to go, he kept moving from one friends house to another until he got frustrated& decided to return to Nigeria.

Somto spent a few months sleeping in the living room of his friends apartment at wuse zone 6 Abuja (a two bedroom with 5 grown men) until they came up with an idea. One of them being a lawyer helped them in registering an NGO.

Next move was setup a website & a bank account (domiciliary (FX) & regular checking account). Then two of them set off on a trip to Maiduguri. Armed with camera's, they took pictures with IDPs, made videos of poor toilet facilities etc. They desperately pleaded with a senior army officer to help them get to chibok where they concentrated more on taking pictures of churches & discussing with the people how it was difficult to go to church.

It never crossed the mind of the soldiers that these men had a plan, an elaborate scam. After spending 9 days in Bornu, they eventually returned to Abuja. Then they put the next phase of their scam into motion. They uploaded pictures & videos on their website. They setup social media accounts where they uploaded pics/video daily.

Then they started scouring the net for churches in Europe & the US who had social media handles & emails. They kept bombing them with messages & pictures. One day they got a message from an old Italian woman who said she was too frail to travel but her son would come visit Nigeria to see things for himself.

They picked him up at Nnamdi Azikiwe airport, checked him into an hotel. After a few days they flew to Bornu. After visiting the IDPs, the Italian went back home. Few days later he & his mum sent the sum of 5,000 euro in 2 tranches by money Gram with a promise of more to come.

Somto & crew swung into action, they loaded a truck with Indomie, rice, some old cloths but instead of going to Bornu, they went to the IDP at Kuchingoro Abuja where they took pictures distributing the materials to the IDPs. They went as far as singling out two orphans who they dressed properly, made them take a picture holding cardboard signs that read 'grazie mamma Carina e zio Piero (thank you mama Carina & uncle piero)'.

BOOM! The donations started flowing in from Italy non-stop! Mama Carina was so proud she took the pictures to church & everywhere she went to showing off how she was affecting the lives of Christians being persecuted in Nigeria. Her church started a weekly contribution which they sent through her to Somtos NGO!

Her son Piero & his wife own a vineyard, so they processed & sold Italian wine. After his visit, they made sure 10% of all their sales found its way to Somto! Thousands of Euros & all Somto & his crew did was buy a few cartons of Indomie, pampers, pads etc and took pictures to smoothen 'their job'.

Diversification they say helps businesses grow, so they diversified. Next branch, Kaduna! They would wait for news on attacks in Southern Kaduna, find hospitals where they go take pictures with victims, go to locations of attacks take pictures and then include newspaper links. All these they send to potential 'mugus'. On their website they upload pictures where they claim the plan is to wipe out the entire Christians in Northern Nigeria, they even say how they are being hunted by law enforcement for exposing the genocide.

They find handles of foreign celebrities, Politicians etc who they send all these too. Money keeps coming from different parts of the world; $500 here, €2,000 there, $17,000 there & now Somto drives a brand new Prado with a duplex he bought in life camp. He also owns two houses in Lekki phase 2 he put out on rent.

All these he acquired within less than 2 years. There are many Somtos on social media! 99% of our NGOs are nothing but scams & avenues to launder cash.

HigherEd:
Well CU isn't in UK and doesn't strive to behave like a UK university. It has her own community culture and ideology which should not be subjected to thoughts and norms of westernisation.

The idea that a Nigerian university located in Ota must conform to lifestyle of a British university reeks of intellectual colonialism.

Very brilliant response...we still have people in Nigeria that can take us to the promised land...kudos my person

Al-Baqara (البقرة) / 2:21

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ

O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous -


and
Al-Baqara (البقرة) / 2:28

كَيْفَ تَكْفُرُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَكُنتُمْ أَمْوَاتًا فَأَحْيَاكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ

How can you disbelieve in Allah when you were lifeless and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned.

Jazakhallahu khair

Pls apprend that idiot immediately......He put almost in this mess. Tivs and militancy are cousins,very animalistics beleaguered... i pity idoma people to be grouped together with those animals called tiv

GarangDeMabior:
All these nonsense, See exactly what Christ did below

'Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church."


If Christ our Lord will be here today, he will use whip to drive out Oyedepo, Adeboye, Ibiyeomie, Ben Akabueze, Daddy freeze and others away from his church.

Christianity is fraud..blind followers .just to enrich those pastors and co

infinix phones are always overrated.....lethargic and always hangings ...i have over seven(7) varieties. My wife and i combined .... same problem

Mr Frank Tietie, an Abuja based lawyer and Human Rights activist, says the newly amended Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) poses no threat to religious freedom.
Tietie spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari signed CAMA into law on Aug. 7, to facilitate the ease of doing business in the country.
But a part of the law, particularly section 839, was not acceptable to some religious organisations.
Although it was not compulsory to register religious bodies in Nigeria, the activist said that CAMA still provided an advantage in the areas of corporate personality and perpetual succession.
“Any group of persons, either Muslims, Christians, or traditionalists that I am familiar with, can operate legally without having to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
“That is a fundamental right of every Nigerian, which has the force of law that is fundamental to the existence of the country itself.
“However, the law provides for the optional, twin benefits of corporate personality and perpetual succession to any group who so wish, only on the condition of registration with CAC,’’ he said.
The activist noted that any group of persons, who decided to be registered, means such a group has submitted itself to be regulated by the law applicable to corporates bodies.
According to Tietie, groups cannot continue to claim the twin benefits of registration and reject the corresponding responsibilities to such benefits.
He said that many people, including institutional donors, would not give money to an organisation, whether a mosque or church if they knew such an organisation was owned by one man who laid personal claim to all the property of the group.
He also said that no persons would support religious organisation that doesn’t have a clear-cut succession plan.
“Many members of such organisation often grumble when its leadership is passed onto either the wife, son or daughter of the founder, upon his death.
“Any group of persons that holds out itself to be registered, either as a church or mosque, must operate according to the minimum standards of transparency, accountability and predictability in the management of its property, particularly financial resources.
“There have been recent cries against some of the provisions of the new CAMA, which many claims, are meant to detract from religious freedom. That cannot be correct.’’
Tietie said that the controversial provision of Section 839 of CAMA, which enabled CAC to suspend trustees on certain conditions and in conjunction with the court, appointed interim managers for the association and deals.
The legal practitioner said that the deals were mainly with the property of such an organisation.
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“Property is at the heart of the matter, not religious freedom.
“A good example is the application of the said provision is the recent suspension of the trustees of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry in the UK, for failing to file its financial reports on time.
“The UK authorities reasonably do not have to appoint a Sheikh or Mullah to superintendent over the church.
“Only persons with knowledge in such areas as accounting, management, and administration were likely appointed.
“CAC has always enjoyed such wide discretionary powers in the repeal law that it can transfer the property of one defunct organisation to another that it considers having similar objects,’’ the lawyer said.
He said that there has been clearly, a regime of abuse in the management of the property of religious organisations in Nigeria and called for a serious understanding of the CAMA law.
He added that the requirements for transparency in the Not- for- Profit sector as contained in the new CAMA are not strange to Nigeria’s legal environment.

You have churches overseas where you fly in your private jets to preach. In those nations, you obey their laws. You never rose against the laws that regulate your spendings. When you flout the rules, they even appoint a small pikin who doesn't believe in your God to oversea your collections and spendings, you did not object. You didn't say those nations are fighting God.

But now in Nigeria, where the new CAMA is trying to bring civilisation and probity to money that you collect from the people, you said it is a law against God.. which God are you talking about? Is the God in US and UK where you and your churches obey laws and where your spendings are regulated different from the God in Nigeria?

Nigerian churches engage in businesses to make profit and yet will not pay tax because they hide under church. But they make profit?

Don't be decieved. The Church that is the bride of Jesus, that Jesus is coming for are not those incorporated institutions but you and me.

If you incorporated your institution, whether it is a church or not, the government that issued you certificate of incorporation has rule over you.

If you don't obey, you are not following Christ.

If you don't want government to regulate you...operate like Jesus and the Apostles after Him.

1. Don't do any incorporation.. in other words, remove the name and logo.
2. Don't own assets. Distribute all your money to your members.
3. Don't operate a bank account. Distribute the money you collect among the members and go empty.

There's nothing to fight in the new CAMA. It is meant to stop churches being operated as business centers...

Nobody can fight against the CHURCH of God. Your conscience is what is fighting you.


over to you

Daft reasoning.....those xtians don't you have lawyers among you? You registered your BUSINESS CENTER(sic) under CAMA law and you are claiming govt did not POWER to regulate your activities? who kom be mumu.....

You are comparing yourself with muslims and mosques ,pls how many imams have private jets, large auditoriums, private schools and foreign coys?
more so if any mosque or imams started anything funny like that he will be subjected to same law as well
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