₦airaland Forum

Ekehwinz:
They write and sell books

You really believe they became billionaires by writing and selling books? Wow!!!.
So how come our very famous writers like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, J. P. Clark, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, etc didn't become billionaires as well. And some of them are even read in Universities worldwide.
By the time those big Pastors started writing and selling books, they have already gotten wealthy from the regular contributions of their congregations.

Openbusiness:
No Christian is poor, we OWN the world! It is our inheritance from Abraham. We are the children of Abraham and God gave Abraham the world as a reward for his obedience, faith and loyalty. Then the best part is we are joint-heirs with Jesus Christ the son of the Almighty God, and God gave Jesus the entire creation, everything that exists and doesn't exist, because of his obedience, faith and loyalty. So there is no poor Christian. If you see a Christian struggling with poverty it is a a temporal situation, and if you see the heathens and pagans boasting in their possessions, this is also temporary. Everyone on this earth is a tenant and whatever possessions they claim for themselves, they will surely in a matter of time lose it all and it will be returned to the real owners, who are the Christians. They are the only people that are not tenants in this world. They OWN it! Everything in this world belongs to the Christian. A Christian is more than a billionaire. A Christian is the possessor of all things, including ETERNAL LIFE! And when everything in this present old world fades away, the Christian will still be around for all eternity and the new world is his possession too. That's WHO a Christian is!

Good to hear that no Christian is poor. Does that mean that there are no Christians in Nigeria. Nigeria is at least 40% Christian. Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. Do you want to tell us that all those millions of poor folks in Nigeria are non Christians?

Muyiwaipere:
Seems one bolt don commot for your head .....did you read the captions at all....

It states...GENUINE

NA YOUR PAPA BAPTIZE ABACHA ABI?

You are obviously not just a fool, but an uncouth one.

henrixx:
yes of course. my pastor in the church owns the biggest palm oil plantation in ogun state, he recently acquired a machine of around 88 million and gave testimony in the church about it and said ogun state government gave him some acres of land to boost palm oil production and in months time he could be talking of billions. this was around 2018. he inherited the buisiness from his dad.

its very possible.

It's good to hear that the Pastor is doing something productive to create wealth and possibly become rich.
Do you know what transpired before he could get concession from the State government? I will be surprised if money did not change hands. The Pastor and the civil servants involved will obviously not call it bribe. But I will bet that money changed hands. I don't know of any Nigerian government office you can go to transact business and not drop a little something here and there.
If that is the case, then some corners have been cut.

Fucsheetup:
Has nothing to do with mindset. Those are pure facts.

Keep deceiving yourself

Don't mind that naive guy.

Imustsurvive:
I have never seen a honest man like my father, I serious believer , he never tell lies but any reward for that? No!!

Nigeria is a huge criminal enterprise. It's very difficult for honest people to thrive in Nigeria.

kushe:
With all due respect,this mindset is mediocre.

Keep quiet if you don't have any useful contribution to make. Contradict what I said or keep mute.
Can you mention one Nigerian billionaire that can beat his or her chest and publicly claim to have gotten his billions without cutting corners?

Wesely01:
Whats your classification of been a Billionaire??

I thought it was clear what being a billionaire means. It means that the person's net worth is more than One Billion dollars (definitely not naira).

teemy:
If there are biblical records of those in the past being billionaires in today's terms, it surely can exist in our current time.

There should be no bias against rich folks especially if you desire to be one. You just choose the righteous path to acquiring yours and become a good examples to others that would in the future ask a similar question.

Cheers

Not possible in Nigeria. Nigeria as a country, is a huge criminal enterprise. If you want to stay upright and follow strict Christian principles in Nigeria, just forget about being wealthy.
You can be a Christian and get wealthy in Nigeria, but you can't be a genuine Christian and get wealthy in Nigeria.

BABANGBALI:
Yes! All igbo billionaires are Christians

The op did not say Christians. He said genuine Christians.

efembaba:
Absolutely it's possible. But we don't measure our value by the abundance of the things we have.. There are a number of Christian billionaires in history. The richest man ever in midern history, John D Rockefeller was a Christian

Was John D. Rockefeller a genuine Christian? He was one of the 'Robber Barons'.

enemona90:
Ask T.D Jakes, Bishop E.A Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo etc for this rethorical question

T. D. Jakes is not a billionaire.

Rozz:
why do people believe that true Christianity is attached to poverty,i mean you must be poor before you can become a true Christian.Where was it written?smh

You probably don't know your bible. Do you remember that saying that it's easier for an elephant to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven?
Look at the Ten Commandments. If you really follow the Christian principles, it will be almost impossible to become a billionaire, especially in Nigeria. Almost every Nigerian billionaire that I know of, attained that level by participating in the looting of the Nigerian treasury.

omonnakoda:
The question is not BECOMING a billionaire

The question is what did Jesus say about billionaires going to heaven?

Exactly.

LordKO:
Yes. Some people have been amassing wealth without being perfidious since time immemorial.

Give us Nigerian examples that we are familiar with.

SOJOSEPH:
Abraham was a friend of God and was the richest even during famine. He eventually made the heaven according to Bible

Leave the biblical era. Look around you and tell us which genuine Nigerian Christians are billionaires.

zeedof:
Does that mean those pastors ain't Genuine?

Of course.

Ekehwinz:
Papa Oyedepo and Chris are genuine Christian billionaires.

What products do they have in the market that are bringing them the billions?

AdaoraJoy:
Ofcos.....We have Billionaire Pastors

That doesn't address the question. Are those "billionaire Pastors" genuine Christians? How did they become billionaires? Did they set up businesses? Or they are using the Church to bilk their congregations?

Muyiwaipere:
It is left for God to bless who he wants

He blesses some with talents
He blesses some with riches
He blesses some with longlife

Remember Abraham Isaac and Jacob were very rich
Paul the most hardworking of the apostles wasn't rich ....na tent he dey make

So I guess it's God that blessed Abacha, right? Are you implying he wasn't a thief? Or God blessed Evans the kidnapper?

Maybe in developed countries, but definitely not in Nigeria. In developed countries, a brilliant individual can get very rich by invention and investment in the stock market.
Many early employees of Microsoft became multimillionaires and retired early. The ambitious ones could have become billionaires.
In Nigeria, it's almost impossible to become rich without cutting corners.
I don't even think all the listed stocks in the Nigerian Stock Exchange are worth up to $3b. I will guess that the vast majority of wealthy Nigerians are criminals, both in the public and private sector.

Thank you, Bruce Mayrock, for standing up for Biafra and Biafrans. I know you are resting peacefully in heaven. May God Almighty continue to bless your compassionate soul.
And thank you very much, Ada Igbo Bianca Ojukwu. I am proud of you. You are a true daughter of Igboland. May God continue to bless you.

RenaissanceGuy:
Lazy Nigerian youths celebrating university buildings they graduated from years ago, while working for ₦25K salary at a private sec school and selling airtime online.

Lol. And I bet none of them ever thinks of giving a dime to his/her alma mater.

princdebola201:
liar there was no 30b$ missing, what kachukwu said is 30b$ worth of contract not following due process, and NNPC is not the one release the fund for the contract instead it was the multinational companies involved

Naive Nigerian. Have you wondered why $30b contract was awarded without following due process? It is for Baru and Co to siphon a major part of the $30b. The due processes are established for a good reason. Why should it be side tracked?

Thief. I wonder if he will be buried with the billions of naira he stole from the NNPC.

JOHNSONSOLAFUNMI:
Declaring bankruptcy doesn’t mean they’re broke or in abject poverty, it’s just a way to avoid paying taxes

Not exactly correct. It means that their debts are more than their assets. They cannot pay their debt. They are broke.

Gloriagee:
He definitely will and dont give anyone access to hurt your kid again. I'm literally boiling on your behalf.

You need to hear both sides to know exactly what's up with the lady and her mother in law. She could just be rude and disrespectful to her mother in law. It's a common situation in our society.

BigTableShaker:
And you blame filling station for selling new stock at old price?!
It is your type that killing Nigeria.

SMH

You should actually be shaking your head for yourself. You don't seem to understand what capitalism is all about. Those rules will prevent a progressive and ambitious person from making progress.

Ebenezer2O2O:
sharap.
Biafra with with 5 landlocked States is the zoo rather.

There is no country called Biafra. But there's a country called Nigeria which characters like you have turned into a zoo.

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright



recording of the incident on his Facebook wall is not the right thing

What section of Nigerian criminal code did he breach by doing that?

Plead:
Most southern Nigerian women can’t relate because most of them only know how to collect....

In terms of 'collecting', the Northern women are actually worse. The men have to be buying everything in the house. The wives usually don't work. Among the Northern elites, it's a thing of pride for the wife not to be working.