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rickleye:
Exactly my thoughts. Must be IBB. Cause I’ve been to Manhattan a lot and never knew this building existed. That’s a lot of foreign currency since 1993 in rent . 🤦

Then you've never done any govt stuff like renew passport

KenghisKhan:
E fine Sha, but why them no replicate this kind building for Nigeria?

That is world stage. Who will see it in Nigeria?

GboyegaD:
The house where they once called the cops to arrest us. Immediately the cops came, we all told them they can't arrest us as we were standing in the Nigerian soil.

This incident happened in 2020 December. I had gone to renew my passport and in the said day, they chose not to attend to us and had an agent that was collecting $350USD before you can be allowed in. At some point, some people started shouting and that was when they stupidly called in the cops.

Good thing is i requested a refund and I'm glad they did returned my money after about 6 weeks.

Thanks for sharing. I thought it was only embassy you can do this.
Does it mean any land owned by Nig govt is Nigerian soil?

NOETHNICITY:
How can problems ever be solved with this kind mentality

But this initiative is NOT solving any problems. It woulda made sense when there were no domiciliary accounts and apps

AfahaAbia:
The people commenting above are so daft!!! This is a very great initiative. I have been finding it difficult sending money back for some projects. Now not anymore. Thank you CBN

LIE. Dozens of apps remit money in minutes and at better rates than CBN

SmartyPants:
Can someone open a GTbank or Ecobank account from the US?

No

SpatialKing:
Yes oh..

I opened Ecobank last month from the comfort of my room here in the US....

My bio was captured online

Elaborate

Queenjoyce405:
One thing I sincerely like is how active Cardoso has been, more funds from diaspora surely mean more remittance stabilizing the economy, yall just criticizing the policy and not looking at the opportunities it presents

This will NOT bring a penny more from diaspora. It's already VERY easy to remit money and at better rates than CBN. Unless they ban apps

saintmm:
Please financial experts over to you.
Is this a booby-trap or something really nice?

It is TOTALLY unnecessary even if it works perfectly, which it won't (knowing Nig govt).
Apps provide better services at better rates.
They must first ban apps for it to make sense

Umarnuhu1990:
https://www.zikoko.com/announcements/cbns-diaspora-friendly-accounts-a-game-changer-for-nigerians-abroad-and-at- home

Nonsense. I posted a thread on this in this same Business section two weeks ago

https://www.nairaland.com/8315226/cbn-diasporeans-now-open-manage

Metrofox:
Most of them no get common sense na, Gowon said he had too much money send didn't know what to do with it. Completely visionless

Na YOU no get common sense. See my comment above

oxygeng:
shut up, what have you achieved with all the gathering since the time of John the baptist.

You're talking nonsense. The money would have gone into one Diezani Madueke's pocket. At least this is something we can see that belongs to all of us and makes us proud on world stage. Everybody knows it is Nigeria's. lt symbolizes us instead of in one Mama Peace pocket!

Jagaban2012:
This is one of Awolowo's legacy that Nigeria later claimed. It was previously known as Western Nigeria House and is located in London.

Awolowo? London? Our man don kolo o!

GothamCities:
You have a good point here. God begot a son by extending Himself. That's the only way God can have an offspring. Not through intercourse.

Just like cells. Cells don't give birth to other cells through intercourse but they reproduce themselves through a process called Division. And whatever comes out of that division is still called a cell. Whatever comes out of God's extension is still God. Not man.

Maxindhouse said Jesus was a created being. The confusion these people put themselves in can only happen after one has been bewitched..

Of course, strictly speaking, it's beyond time and space, which our understanding is constrained by.
But this is a very good way to put - as good as any!

Aemmyjah:
What you're saying does not even make sense to you
Or you're not making sense to yourself
You're a confisionist
Instead of humbly trying to gain understanding
You deserve yan nonsense

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Nnamdipapa:
Congrats.

I tried Australia, Canada, UK, Denmark, New Zealand. I eventually got the PR for Gambia and It is the best thing that happened in my life.

I thought you moved back to Naija from UK and live in gated estate where you do remote work and earn in dollars?

E2000:
What is wrong with you people why can't you keep this information to yourself and have to always come on social media to show off.

So others can learn

obaidan:
Nigerians are bitter sha, see plenty bitterness on this thread

Where's the bitterness? All I see is congrats everywhere

franchasofficia:
In as much as this sounds like a good news, we Nigerians need to do better by avoiding posting topics like this online, we are indirectly telling these countries that Nigerians are desperate to leave Nigeria and that obtaining their PR or passports is more than a breakthrough and dream come true for us, thereby making things more difficult for those coming behind us.


We really need to do better than all these sharing of unnecessary travel information.
Sighs

And why would we want to make it easy for them to steal our youth and productivity?

Janosky:
You pretend that the expression " through him" @ John 1:3 has no relevance in the passage.
Trinitarian devotees avoid it because it counters their TWISTING of verse 3 of John chapter 1.
"Through him ". is the same meaning as I built my house through him.

The house doesn't not belong to the one through whom that house was built.

"BY HIM"!!
See it below

Janosky:

You can be funny when you want to.

That statement of Jesus Christ does not mean what you think.

In the Bible, Jesus invited the man to come follow him (Jesus).

But the man gave excuse that he wants to bury his Father before he will decide to follow Jesus.

In reply Jesus said:
"Leave the dead to bury their dead"

Meaning
Leave the spiritually dead to bury the spiritually dead but you go abroad and declare the good news of God's kingdom "

To follow Jesus means being spiritually alive (minding the things of the spirit for the sayings of Jesus is spirit and life)) which a carnal man preoccupied with burial & ceremonies can not understand.
Same issue of carnality with the rich ruler who couldn't forsake his riches to follow Jesus

No wonder. You must be like 14 years old. One never knows who one's chatting with on NL.

Something taught in elementary school is what he is talking like it's a great new discovery!😅
How old are you?

Of course Christ meant spiritually dead, but what has that to do with my point?
If your dad is not JW he's spiritually dead in your parlance so you should not bury him. That's what's consistent with your strict constructionist view. That's my point!

Janosky:
Please Don't speak out of naivety or ignorance.

King James the British monarch who authorized the KJV is known to be into secret society.

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You are the one speaking out of naivety or ignorance. King James had little to do with KJV. It only bore his name

Janosky:
What did Jesus teach you at John 17:7?
Who give Jesus the title of Alpha and Omega ?
John 17:7 is the answer.
You forget that hierarchy begins from the spiritual, 1 Corinthians 11:3.
Read and study 1 Corinthians 3:23 & 1 Corinthians 11:3?

@ 1 Corinthians 3:23,Why do we and Jesus belong to God Almighty?
1 Corinthians 11:3 is the answer.
Paul ask a question: What do you have that you did not receive from God Almighty?

Let's ask the question again:
What did Jesus have that Jesus did not receive from God Almighty?
John 17:7 is the answer.

My friend even the "God" in Revelation 3:12 refers to Christ. See below

Janosky:
Don't get me wrong
JW's recognize Family ties & blood relationship - mother, Father, brother, sister, uncle, niece etc..
We didn't fall from the sky.

But our foremost Family is the household of faith, Galatians 6:10.
@ Matthew 12:47-50 & Matthew 10:34-38,
Did Jesus place family ties above the worship of his God and Father?

Emphatic no!



Galatians 6:10 is the norm that Jesus is talking about @
Matthew 12:47-50 & Matthew 10:34-38,

Well, in that case you're not strictly following the Bible as you say you must. I'm sure you also go and bury your fathers when it clearly tells you to leave the dead to bury their dead

Janosky:
You want to cling to worshipping 2 persons, that's your cup of ptea.

In the spiritual realm, Jesus revealed & called another Being "my God", Revelation 3:12.
Jehovah The Supreme Being Jesus called "my God" is the ONLY God in Heaven, not 3 deities invented at Nicene.
Did Jesus worship 2 persons?
Emphatic no!

It was Christ speaking to John in Revelation. Examples, see below

Janosky:
Madam, my adherence to Jesus teaching at Matthew 12:47-50 & Matthew 10:34-38 is what you label "brainwashed", yet you claim to follow Jesus.
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For your mind,following Jesus & the Bible is akin to shopping at Supermarket where you pick and choose.


2 persons worshipping devotee, pseudo -christian forming woke .

You are the one picking and choosing. I said from beginning the Bible says many things and needs to be nuanced in places. But you insist it must be strictly construed!
You can't cherrypick! Your mother is NOT your mother, neither are your brothers and sisters.
ONLY JW are your mother and sisters

Steep:
Even when clear Scripture is presented to them, they dance around it and never honestly consider it.

Na wa.
I sort of wouldn't blame them if it were only the Bible. But they also have 2000+ years of powerful movements and testimonies!

gohf:
the official bible announced from heaven by the very anointed apostle James who won souls and saved millions of sinners, the other versions are all fake. Only KJV, everyone that rejects it must be JW

That's the one everyone defers to when there is disagreement among other versions, and it wasn't produced by a vested interest

MaxInDHouse:
Now it's obvious you're just running from pillar to post.
God's word says we should love our neighbour as ourselves {Leviticus 19:18} that's why the Jews wanted Jesus to define what God mean by the word NEIGHBOR since they only view fellow Jews as neighbor. Jesus' parable really makes them feel uncomfortable because Jews don't take Samaritans as neighbors despite being descendants of Jacob like them. That's why Jesus proved to them that a neighbor doesn't need to be someone living next to me or someone i know rather anyone who feels concerned about the well being of people around him is our neighbor.

But when talking about BROTHER such ones must be a person with whom i share something in common so it may be blood brother, business associate or brother by faith. You and i aren't related in any way so you can't be my brother o rather you are my NEIGHBOUR!

Yiu are brainwashed. In everyday language who is your neighbor? Is it not ONLY in the Bible that neighbor has a different meaning?
Also, you said "God said...", so you agree Christ is interchangeable with God?

Janosky:
The point espoused by John 1:3 , Paul has explained it @ Hebrew 1:2, God Yahweh "created the world through Jesus His son".

I told my Engineer," Let us build a mansion."

I gave him the dimensions and measurements to work with, thereafter work begins.

The Owner of the mansion built edifice through his Engineer.
The Engineer (Jesus Christ) can not claim ownership (or Creator) because:
1. The idea to Create is not from Jesus initiative.

2. Jesus was working according to instructions given by God His Father/Creator.

The Greek word dia (meaning Instrumentality/Agency is @ John 1:3, Hebrew 1:2, Colossians 1:16,1 Cor 8:6.

gohf:
daddycool is a typical lying nigerian politician that only sees what they want and not what is true, so showing her or him dia is meaningless. Because not once have they admitted their goof on this thread

Janosky:
The Greek word @ John 1:3/ Hebrew 1:2, is "dia antou" (in English translation "through him/his son (Jesus)"


The Greek word "dia" (meaning Instrumentality/Agency) is @ John 1:3, Hebrew 1:2, Colossians 1:16,1 Cor 8:6.

John & Paul the apostles agreed that Jesus is the Instrumentality/ Agency NOT the Creator.

The KJV rendition "by him" distorted the meaning of Greek "dia".
"By means of " is more correct/ synonymous with "through him "

BUT that same person is called "mighty God", "Everlasting father", Immanuel (God with us), in both old and new Testaments; the Bible says EVERYTHING was created by him, and he himself says he's one with the Father, and once you've seen him you've seen the Father; and, though penniless, he was worshipped as God by his friends and is still being worshipped as God 2000+ years later!

The Bible is meant to be taken together. When you take all these things together, WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU??

MaxInDHouse:
So it's no longer dictionary but scientists shey?

Now it's scientists that's determining the meaning of English language!

There can be all sorts of meanings to words (I was just telling you about brother). But here we SPECIFICALLY mean "Produce from NOTHING" - as in Genesis

Janosky:
My relationship with my JW's brother is of paramount importance (Galatians 6:10) Jesus made that point at Matthew 12:47-50 and Matthew 10:34-38.

Paul the apostle @ Galatians 6:10 is in agreement with Jesus

Yeah, but how you know you're BRAINWASHED is when you CAN'T colloquially go "brah, bro, brother"

gohf:
If you believe Jesus was the one who created the world that's your business, you have been a deaf mule since the beginning only repeating what is in your own head irrespective of what any other person says.

John.1.3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

I thought you said you are NOT JW?
This is the authoritative King James Version below