₦airaland Forum

oneolajire:
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In my last article, Christians, Churches And Tithes Are Not Nigeria's Underdevelopment Problems . https://www.nairaland.com/4611907/christians-churches-tithes-not-nigerias  I promised to write on how churches and christians can help accelerate socio-economic development of Nigeria. Yea, the strength of the churches in Nigeria is massive because of the financial strength they possess as this can be harnessed to help more in nation building.‎

Agriculture: Agriculture is a major sector that the church needs to invest massively to help achieve rapid development. If each mega church can invest a minimum of 20 million naira into cattle ranching in almost all the geopolitical zone in Nigeria, there will be abundant meat for local consumption and export.

The terrorism perpetuated by Fulani herdsmen against the farmers and Christians would be a thing of the past as the evil monopoly of beef production will been broken when there is massive investment in modern cattle rearing. Other sources of animal protein should also be explored to create varieties.

I believe that if the church can invest thirty percent of her investment in university education and TV broadcast alone on cultivation of rice, palm oil, and other staple food items, the number of unemployed in the churches will also reduce greatly. 

I believe the church should learn much from a Nigerian called Rev Father Nzamujo, Songhai Farms, www.songhaifarms.org, Port Novo. He left his comfort zone in the US to start a multi-disciplinary farm in Port Novo after he was rejected in Nigeria. He succeeded at winning souls for Christ as well as meeting the physical needs of people.  ‎
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 Library: Library provision is another major aspect the church can help Nigeria achieve rapid transformation. Ben Carson, Thomas Edison and many other Americans achieved greatness because they made use of public libraries. For a nation to develop, I believe students should be more familiar with the libraries than the political parties and entertainers.

Technology hubs: Menlo Park, USA, was the world's  first privately owned research and development lab/workshop, established by Thomas Edison. Several products were developed there while Henry Ford later developed his first car from this same workshop. After then, several other people and organisations have built their own research and development centres. 

I have seen and read several prototype inventions made by Nigerians which could not be developed into commercial products.  So many ended up on the shelves while some were lucky to be developed abroad. It would be a great thing if the church can invest in creating few technology hubs in Nigeria to help commercialise technology prototypes, probably in association to the universities they have.

Installation of solar power facilities are have been discovered to be a potent solution to the problem of power supply in Nigeria. Unfortunately, solar power facilities are very expensive, but I believe if the church can use her technology hub to invest in the manufacture of this product  in large quantities, there will be cheap source of power supply for all.

Impact Makers: The most effective way the church can make tremendous impact in our society is to produce impact makers like Joseph, Daniel, Esther and Nehemiah. The political and economic situation in Nigeria  is terrible because it is filled with visionless and greedy people as a result of the absence of impact makers. We need more of the former NAFDAC DG, late Dora Akunyili who will courageously take their Jesus to workplaces and make generational impact.


Note to Christians: Christians must understand that their major duty is not just about evangelism and running other church programmes, but must learn to provide for the needs of the worshippers as well. In Act 6: 1-7, the apostles made provisions to meet the needs of the disciples. In Act 4:34-37, disciples sold their properties and the funds were used for evangelism and welfare of their worshippers. Thank God they sold their properties because persecution later dispersed them.‎

Today, Nigerian Christians do not necessarily need to sell their properties for social services because there is no persecution to disperse anylonger, but to engage in ventures that will be used to better the conditions of living. Christianity is not a state religion in Nigeria so this is the reason why total dependence on the government is dangerous. It must be understood that making economic impact in the society makes Christianity more acceptable.
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Finally, It is so unfortunate that Nigeria is now known to be the world's capital of poor people. Blame game produces no development. Poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment is a common feature of all tribes, religion and association. Therefore all hands must be on deck to turn situations around. ‎

baylord101:
Any northern candidate that's defecting/defected to PDP surely end his/her political career because the north will surely vote APC blindly for the love of Buhari.

TheGoodJoe:
It is time we stop the tribalism, partisanship or whatever means we use to cover corruption amongst our kind because we pay the price in the form of armed robbery, prostitution, online scams etc to survive. Thus, we end up hurting ourselves in the bid to support corrupt politicians.

Stop the whole APC or PDP blame game but speak against all because they are all birds of a corrupt feather.

#OurMumuDonDo

stubbornman:
Sorry, who sang this song

LivingFree:
If money isn't an issue then get her jewellery. We love jewellery.

moscobabs:
Where is Joseph


Where is Esther

But Im still confuse why God chose David as man after his heart and they say God is not partial ?

plessis:
Islam is a religion of terrorism and paedophilia.


This is a well-known fact.

Okoyeebos:
Those who make noise about their relationships are trying to cover up underlying problems.

Toto Decay made more noise than a colonial-era train when she was married to Churchill. Today, they're apart.

When you have something precious, you shut up your mouth and protect it be it money, gold, documents or bae.