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kmcutez:
The author lies. He should read Malachi 3:11. Tithes has to be paid for you to become prosperous. Who will rebuke the devourer for you ehh? How will the pastors buy their jets, be able to send their children to school abroad, build mansions in Banana Island.

Don't let the God of Oyedepo, Adeboye, Oyakhilome get angry with you oo.

Is tithe the only condition for wealth preservation and increase?
You sound stale at best.

bobowaja:
All he did was asked you a simple and direct question. Meanwhile, you should consider using the modify button because your answer is vague.

Simple answer to a simple question and you are starting a debate.

OtemAtum:
what does prosperity have to do with religion?

Everything.

Rapmoney:

There are natural laws that guide wealth. These laws are binding on everyone irrespective of religious affiliations. Efforts, patience, wise decisions and giving are core content of these laws. It does not matter who one gives to; whether you give to a magician, a medical doctor, a witch, a brothel operator, a pastor, an imam or an Orumila worshipper, you must always receive, for nature usually takes its course. Do not be fooled. No man is greater than this!

Wealth is best exchanged for needs and not wants. Giving to magician or brothel operators are mere wants and not needs. Even in the bible God recommends giving to the needy or those in need and not those who want.

Wealth has little to do with religion but prosperity has a lot to do with religion.
Wealth can be created and that explains why an atheist who works has something to fall back to but lazy religious folks who miss their priority have little to call theirs.

This was how Osun state started. Giving to the poor and expecting oil prices to maintain itself...

Atiku bought votes and buhari is already buy his also...

Originakalokalo:
Before God would harden anyone's heart, he will have crossed his boundary...

Go and study about Pharaoh very well and come back with your findings....

This otem guy has been speaking blasphemy FOR YEARS now and a lot of preachers have warned him...

Because of his mercy, he lives still.


If he reaches a point of no return, HIS HEART WILL BE HARDENED. ....and No one can save him..


I and several billions of people will continue to serve The Almighty God. .. because we know him well.



He is Sovereign and Almighty. He doesn't owe you or me or anyone any explanation.


Your opinion is singular... and has no effect whatsoever.

There used to be a member of this great forum named YModulus, he abused GOD.

Palm wine gospel...

GrammarNazi1:
Are you done crying?

You go about trying hard to spot peoples typos, book a space, then highlight it carefully but can't take correction yourself. What a character!

GrammarNazi1:
...Nigeria...Instagram.

Finally... and the dunce didn't disappoint. A brief look at his post history shows he has spelt those words correctly in the past and that should have alerted ur insecure mind that those are regular typos that come with comments made in a hurry in order to appear on first page.

GrammarNazi1:
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You booked that space. When u finally make ur contribution please make it a sensible one and not some useless grammatical error highlight.

Good thread. People don't know how to start it.

Haters, food is ready... That school u luv to hate is finally in the news again. Let the hating begin.

Killing of people who don't share your belief if they refuse to become your sex slave.

What is belief? It is your understanding of the abstract world or unseen world. And it baffles me people will kill others because they don't share their beliefs at a point.

He said: “The point here is that the wealth accruable lies somewhere beyond production volume. Some of us are really concerned because those who benefit more from cocoa are not the farmers or the regions that grow this commodity. The question is: why is this so?


Olusuyi said “The reasons are straight forward. The global cocoa trade is controlled outside the borders of the growers. The major players have sold the idea that we are better off remaining as providers of raw materials to feed their factories and should be contented with remaining on the fringes and the rent taking that goes with that as it were.

I disagree with that bold part. Nobody is holding us back from further processing our cocoa bean, powder, liquor and cake into consumer products but our shortsightedness.
All over the globe there are factories producing great products and making huge profits from these same raw material we sell in a hurry.
How much will it cost government to build the largest world class beverage and chocolate candy factory? A fraction of what we waste on religious trips will do that.

Over 84,000 Nigerians have lost their jobs in the cocoa value chain industry while about 16 companies have folded up in the last 10 years.

The National President of the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, Mr Sayina Riman, exclusively revealed this to The Guardian, saying out of over 20 cocoa processing companies in the country, about 16 have folded up, sending over 84,000 Nigerians back to the labour market.

“In the past 10 years, we have lost more than 14 or so processing companies. We believe that those companies would have contributed a lot into the economy. And we believe that these companies on the average were employing more than 600 and above managerial and special skilled services per company, and with the multiplier effects, about 4,000 to 6,000 persons would be servicing the entire value in the industry,” Riman, who is also the Vice President of the World Cocoa Producers Organisation, said.

“By implication,” he added, “if we have an average of 6,000 per company times 14 to 16 companies, that is what we have lost. That is what we believe Nigeria is losing in the economy and that has been captured in our 10-year cocoa action plan to show what Nigeria can do.”

If the cocoa industry is properly coordinated, the association said, Nigeria could take more than N1 trillion annually into the economy through the multiplier effects.

The cocoa association further explained that, “that is why we believe the government should synergize with the private sector. We can definitely move up in production because we have the best and the most suitable business friendly climate in the cocoa industry.

“We are asking that the government should synergise with the private sector. Cocoa is 100 per cent private sector-driven from farming to warehousing, servicing, shipping, transportation, financing and processing. It affects every sector of the economy and it is still open and highly viable only if we can put our hands together, the public and private sectors, to drive the industry forward. And what is the driver? It is for us to start promoting consumption locally, while also promoting production.”

For now, only about four cocoa processing companies remain inefficiently functional, and the struggling companies are Oluji Cocoa Company Ltd in Ile-Oluji and Coop Cocoa Company in Akure, all in Ondo State; Ede Cocoa Plant Products, Osun State and FTN Cocoa Processors PLC.

Similarly, it called on the Federal Government to intervene in the crisis rocking Multi Trex Integrated Foods Plc, the largest cocoa processing factory in the country, which has been taken over by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

“For the government to shut a company as large as Multi Trex with the largest capacity in term of processing in Nigeria, with about 65-metric-tonne capacity factory, is not good enough. Every country would like to protect its best by putting in resources and making sure that such an investment doesn’t go to waste.

5% of cocoa’s $140 billion comes to Africa 
Mr Akin Olusuyi, Managing Director of Oluji Cocoa Products Ltd, while explaining the challenges to The Guardian, corroborated the facts from the association, saying the volume of the global cocoa trade is estimated at $140 billion annually, but only about 5% of that comes to Africa, even though Africa produces over 70% of the global annual output.

He said: “The point here is that the wealth accruable lies somewhere beyond production volume. Some of us are really concerned because those who benefit more from cocoa are not the farmers or the regions that grow this commodity. The question is: why is this so?


Olusuyi said “The reasons are straight forward. The global cocoa trade is controlled outside the borders of the growers. The major players have sold the idea that we are better off remaining as providers of raw materials to feed their factories and should be contented with remaining on the fringes and the rent taking that goes with that as it were.

“While they are building industries around our cocoa and growing their economies, we remain in the same low end we have been occupying in the global value chain since 1910, when the first batch of cocoa was shipped out of Nigeria.”

Nigeria lost $100 billion in 10 years
In another development, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has disclosed that the country has lost over $100 billion since 2008 over its inability to produce, process and export additional cocoa beans, palm oil, groundnuts and cotton.

“It is estimated that Nigeria has lost $10 billion in annual export opportunity from groundnut, palm oil, cocoa and cotton alone due to continuous decline in the production of those commodities.

“Food (crop) production increases have not kept pace with population growth, resulting in rising food imports and declining levels of national food self-sufficiency,” the FAO report said.

The main factors undermining production include reliance on rain-fed agriculture, smallholder land holding, and low productivity due to poor planting material, low fertiliser application, and a weak agricultural extension system, among others.

The Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), which the present Muhammadu Buhari-led government promised would be continued, set a cocoa productivity goal to double cocoa production in Nigeria from 250,000 in 2011 to 500,000 metric tonnes by 2015, but industry players claim the production has not improved.

Former Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Professor Malachy Akoroda, said the goal was not backed up with sincere actions, describing the goal as far from realities.



https://m.guardian.ng/features/84000-lose-jobs-as-16-cocoa-companies-go-under/#top

What about the vvf angle? When they get vvf these men push them away and they suffer more.

Blue3k:
I disagree with your sentiment. If it was soley about traffic I wouldnt bother posting niche topics like this. Anyway Interesting topics should be viewed by as many as possible.

Interesting topics vary from person to person.

They said it and it happened but they are walking free.

omohayek:
Have you bothered to look up the Wikipedia entry for wheat (Triticum aestivum)? If you did that (or a Google search) you'd realize that it does best in more temperate parts of the world, rather than in the tropics, which is why places like Canada and the USA are by far the biggest wheat producers. There's a reason why wheat was never a part of West African diets before powers like Britain and France came to carve out colonies. Here's a scientific paper discussing the issue: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/100419/2/02whole.pdf

In any case, this is all irrelevant. The market naturally sorts out which goods and services have a comparative advantage where, and all governments have to do is stop trying to interfere with the results. Cocoa production in Ghana and Nigeria took off despite the intentions of the British, who wanted to force farmers to grow rice, and if our farmers have an advantage in wheat, the interference of an inept and corrupt Nigerian government won't be required to make it tell.

If I get your messages clear. We should be looking to produce enough of those things that thrive best in our climate naturally instead of trying to produce more of what we consume.

I think this makes sense. Why try to plant wheat because we consume it? Why not exploit the potential of other crops we have comparative advantage in like cocoa., cassava, yam and corn and earn enough. money to buy the wheat we need?

It is sad we have people in power who are constantly thinking of how to use sensitive policies to play intertribal and interregional politics.


It may surprise you know that solar generated power is being auctioned for as low as N10,000/Megawatt Hour or N10/kilowatt hour around the world while Nigeria with abundance of resource for solar power is struggling with vandalism prone gas plant infrastructure that delivers power at a higher cost. Why not use these solar power plants to satisfy the energy need during the day for millions of day time working Nigerians instead of having the run on petrol generators for as high as N120/kilowatt hour?

Blue3k:
Maybe I should have posted in for muslims section since it gets no traffic here.

You are so traffic obsessed dude.

MightySparrow:
Islam made the Islamic world illiterate. The dogma of Islam is anti - progressive. Don't be quick to curse. All the glories of Egyptian, Babylonian, Medo - Persian empires have be destroyed by Islam and its propagation. Today, most contributions from these areas are strangers to them.

Where is Egypt now in Chemistry and Mathematics? Yet embalmment and trigonometry started from there. Where is Iran in modern medicine considering their earlier contributions? Where are the great administrative acumen used by Nebuchadnezzar, Xerxes, Aterxexes of glorious history.. Islamic countries have not known what colour peace is wearing for a long time.

Cause of tension? Religious belief. Today, they of such areas do not have peace of mind suitable for research. War mongers would not allow them. Islam or nothing is their philosophy.
Even here in Nigeria, the sections not giving to mind development is Islamic north.

If today, Borno is to have peace, when will they catch up with the rest?

The struggle for recognition in Islamic world today is terrorism which clearly shows their inability to complete in evolving world order.

Islam might have started some science field ahead of others but the fact that other came up with inspiring works and even Islamic nations are adopting it instead of theirs speaks volume of the inferiority of the Islamic works. As advanced as tech is we should know by now the benefits of donkey urine for example and not just a blind cult-like followership people just hold on to.
Another is Pig, if pigs are dirty, how exactly are modern pigs dirty also?

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Wadoo... u need to stop spamming me desperately or I involve the mods.

Hmmm

Maybe the guy is insecure about his chances of a positive response and decided to make it so to add pressure on the girls part.

KrystosCJ:
And while we're busying praising a foreign university on insisting that students adopt clean standards of health, the same cannot be said for any Nigerian university.

That's Nigeria for you. They criticize private universities like Covenant who insist on students taking drug test when under suspicion but praise foreign schools for testing even those not under any form suspicion.

I feel u in a way bro but in whatever u do remember the govt subsidizes each students uni education with hundreds of thousand yearly, so be rest assured govt is on your side already and look for you own part urgently.

Now somebody should tell me this isn't a subtle invitation to ...

verygudbadguy:
Rumour has it.

Women get power sha. Our collective resources as a state, na him dem dey take play so.

A lot of states chose a religion over the others and sponsor religious activities so choosing a citizen over others isn't so strange.

HigherEd:
This is good...

if this is done in Obodo Nigeria and it happens to be a pri**** school?

Sunymoore:
University should not dictate what people put in their bodies

What if the substance being put into the body can affect others negatively?

It is like a face my I face you compound where they cook in the corridor and then one tenants attempts to mix kerosene and petrol in his/her stove. For the fact that he can harm other tenants with that act of foolishness alone, the landlord has the right to make a new rule barring petrol from cooking stove.