₦airaland Forum

Princewill1:
The high successes recorded by dubious politicians, fraudulent pastors and ponzi scheme operators in Nigeria are living proofs that Nigerians can be so gullible. We can easily be deceived. The astronomical hype on Canada is the latest deceit in town. Here are things you need to know before immigrating.

1. The list of richest Nigerians is filled with Nigerians living at home. You're more likely to make it into Forbes if you live in Nigeria. At least that's what the stat shows, whether people making into Forbes in Nigeria are engaging in corrupt practices is a story for another day. The odds of becoming a dollar billionaire favours those at home . No Diaspora Nigerian has ever made it into Forbes billionaire list.

2. There are more money to be made in a developing economy than in a developed economy. That's why as you're rushing out of the country, Lebanese, Indians and Chinese are rushing in. Only few will understand. You're sitting on the biggest market in Africa yet you haven't realize this but the Lebanese and the Indians knew this.

3. If you are the type who don't fancy working for others, it's much more easier to own a business in Nigeria than in Canada/US. Western countries were set up for the 99% populace to work for 1% elites. Their education systems were designed to produce workforce for the rat race. Not to create employers of labour.

4. It's stupidity to resign from a high-paying job in Nigeria in a bid to relocate to Canada/US. Your eyes will get clear up when you start facing the hard realities in Canada. Those who had made this mistake in the past are ashamed to come on social media to talk about it. The ones talking on Twitter are 'freshers' who just arrived.

5. If you want to secure 2nd passport for your kids, you don't necessarily need to immigrate to achieve this. There are other ways, one method is overseas child birth.

6. You're 5x more likely to be shot and rubbed in New York than in Lagos. Poor neighborhoods all over the world has more crime rates. The thing is, when you finally made it in Nigeria,you can move to high brow areas with lesser crime.

7. Nigerians are spending up to 8millions ($21k) and above to immigrate to Canada/US whereas an average canadian or American citizen can't boast of $10k in their bank A/C's. They live pay check to pay check.

8. Some Nigerians claims that they ain't relocating because of the money but because of good infrastructure, good health care system, value for their money etc. That's a lie! 98% of Nigerians who're eager to travel out are relocating because of economic reasons. There are good infrastructure, good health care system and value for money in countries like Kuwait, Russia, Brazil, South Korea, Chile etc but Nigerians ain't trooping there, indicating that their preference for Canada/US is purely based on economic reasons.

9. It's cheaper to live in Nigeria. Canada/US promises higher minimum wage but the system will still take it away from you. It's like giving you with one hand and taking from you with another. $2k (N760k) will pay for your one year rent of 2 bedrooms apartment in a good location in Nigeria but same amount will only fetch you one month rent of a match box apartment in Canada/US.

10. This is not to stop you from traveling out but to inform you on the true realities. Economic immigration should be left for lower or working class who're struggling or to young lads who wants to school abroad and thereafter further their career overseas. Not to deceive Nigerians already earning good in corporate offices in Nigeria to resign and relocate where they will be employed as security guards or to deceive business owners who's businesses are thriving in Nigeria to close down business and relocate. Don't let them deceive you with the hype. Money don't grow on trees anywhere in the world.

MummyD2020:
Nigeria that doesnt have accurate data. Who took the stats? Mthewwwwwwww

Simplyleo:
Well, as long as they keep it to their areas, I don't think anyone will raise eyebrows.

If they like, they can destroy all the govt buildings, hospitals, schools, roads and indeed any privately owned property and businesses, that is entirely their business.

But most importantly, I repeat, they should restrict it to their areas.

Bodydiialect57:
Where did you get that philosophy from? This is obviously one of the creeds of grail message

Bodydiialect57:
The only Redeemer from our sins is the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone with His blood atones for our sins.

Divoc19:
All my life, I have always questioned the existence of human race and life in general.

I was born into a Muslim home, had Islamic foundation, relocated with a big sis of mine, became a Christian (dedicated one) at the age of 13 only for me to be forced (physical and emotional torture) back to Islam again by my parents and siblings at the age of 18. The experience made me to start questioning humanity and religion from that young age...I had to give up on religion since many years ago.

I couldn't understand how the Church believed they are the only way, the Mosque condemn other religions except Islam, when there are other religions in the world + our very own African traditional practice but these set of people(Christians and Muslims) are full of evil acts even to their nearest neighbour.

This was huge for me to comprehend. I started meditating on my own and got a conviction that the law of Karma is real, that I should forget the madness in this world and focus on doing good and being fair that my almighty creator will protect me.

I also became comfortable with the idea of death and fear of the unknown that as long as my heart is pure let the will of my creator be done.

@OP

Your teaching has made me more grounded in what I believe. I appreciate you a lot. May God continue to use you to bless those of us that seek the truth.

Nuttella:
I can't believe I read all these, you are really working extra hard to pull the church down but its just a total waste of time. I will advice you to find a job to keep yourself busy, Christianity is the number 1 religion in the world and there is nothing that you can do about it.

@gofuckyourself

dinodesmond:
It is what comes out of him that bursted him.

dinodesmond:
This is our truth that is not panicky, what is your truth?

Isaiah 53 vs 4 and 5
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
Isaiah 53:5

But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.

You have probably been mentioning another jesus and god to your students, mixing some nice words about spiritualism and some truth with it which they don't know to sway them.

The best you can say about this is to twist it as usual and call something else.

happy sunday

nedzuby:
One thing people fail to understand is God and Jesus are not Christians.

Christian is not the only religion God approved.

Religion is a means (Not Perfect) whereby people worship God

Religion is like different blind men trying to describe an elephant. They will only describe the elephant from the part they are touching.

God is A Spirit and those who worship him must do it in spirit and truth (Not religiously which Jesus show example by not following most of the Tradition of the Jews)

God accept other religions (Not those who Manipulate others in the name of worshipping God)

How will you explain a child born in Hinduism and leave all his life as a Hindu and never heard of Christianity do you think the person will go to hell fire? My answer is no.

Anointed is not restricted to only Pastors. Most Pastors use that quote to manipulate their members. For example during the time of Jesus, the Pharisees were to be considered as anointed but Jesus was always attacking them he even called them names and tried to correct them.

We have so many people in past challenging the status quo of Churches from time to time. Do you know that the Bible was only restricted to the head of church only and they used it to manipulate their members. For instance they tell you to forfeit your land in place of your sin forgiveness.
Not until the printing press was introduced in 1600 that men like Martn Lurter started speaking.

Do you know the Bible we see now does not contain all the activities of Jesus. Some stories were not included.

In conclusion, nobody knows God and you cannot understand God with your mind. God is a Spirit and can only be experienced. Don't allow another man idea of God be your foundation of God. God is always with you and always ready to communicate with you.

God is Love and for you to experience God you must be in the same frequency with God that's absolute pure Love

adenigga:
• If We Are Not Careful, We May End Up With VP Slot – Okonkwo

• We Are Thankful To Kalu For Premiering Bi-partisan Meeting – SEFORP

• Movement For Actualising President Of South East Extraction In 2023 Has Begun – Okorie

• It’s South East’s Turn To Produce President – Osita Okechukwu

Betrayals, disunity, mutual distrust, and backstabbing appear to have started diffusing the clamour for a president of Igbo extraction come 2023 going by signals emanating from the zone.

Specifically, vested interests, as well as the lack of synergy/unity of purpose among political elite from the region, many insist, would be Ndigbo’s greatest undoing as far as South East landing the plum job is concerned.

Within the last two weeks, three stakeholders’ meetings have taken place with each of them glossing over critical issues relating to making the aspiration feasible.

After All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders from the zone met in Owerri, Imo State on December 30, 2020, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held its zonal caucus meeting in Awka, Anambra State, followed by a bi-partisan leaders’ meeting at Camp Neya, Kalu’s country home in Igbere, Abia State.

The separate meetings brought together different camps aligned for dissimilar purposes, such that each group was seen as working across purposes with the other regarding the Igbo presidency project.

Peeved by the attempt to railroad them into the bi-partisan meeting convened by the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the southeast Governors Forum (SEGF) led by APC chieftain and governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, declined attendance.

While the governors boycotted the zonal bi-partisan meeting, they held a zoom conference where they not only dissociated themselves from the Igbere parley, but also condemned the inclusion of their names as conveners when they were not invited to the meeting.

The governors’ standoff energised speculations that the bi-partisan meeting was a scheme by National Assembly members from the zone to chart a different path to the Igbo Presidency, even as sources alleged that the meeting was Kalu’s scheme to promote a possible Ahmed Lawan Presidency that would have him as vice-presidential candidate.

In the notice of the meeting, Kalu, former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and governors of the five South East states were listed as conveners.

According to the organisers, who disclosed that the meeting was to kick off by midday, the event was to provide a platform for members of the APC, PDP, APGA, and other political parties to put their ideas on the table.

HOWEVER, Umahi, who spoke to journalists shortly after the virtual meeting, explained that the governors were not part of those that planned, or convened the bi-partisan meeting, and regretted that their names were included as conveners without their permission.

“The Governors of South East frown at such attitude and would want to disassociate themselves from such a meeting. If there should be such a meeting, which they feel is very necessary, the governors must be seen to be informed and be part and parcel of calling such a meeting. They strongly feel that Ohanaeze is in a position to speak on such issues.

“So, they want to say that the governors are not involved and they encouraged all their people to boycott such a meeting,” he stated.

Besides the South East governors’ grouse, some stakeholders in the zone are suspicious that the meeting was far from actualising the dream of the South East, but limited to the personal political interests of the conveners.

The aggrieved stakeholders equally question the wisdom behind holding such an important meeting at Kalu’s residence, and not in one of the government facilities scattered across the zone. Additionally, they also question the failure to carry along several other leaders in the zone.

“I am not an apostle of doom, but I have my sincere doubts about the intentions of those who convened the Igbere meeting. If they were not interested in what they would personally gain, I doubt what could have prompted them to call the meeting,” Chief Ikechukwu Okonkwo, a social critic said, adding: “The truth is that none of them is interested in becoming president. They will prefer to play behind another candidate and that is the sympathy they are trying to build in the guise of asking for an Igbo president. It is such that, if we are not careful, we may end up achieving the vice-presidential slot in 2023 as a result of the activities of our leaders.”

Okonkwo cautioned the people to be mindful of what he described as “mad rush” into the ruling party by southeast politicians, stressing that, “each of them that has moved from one party to another has done so because there is a promise of what to become in 2023.”

Justifying his position that those at the Igbere meeting had only a personal agenda to push in 2023, he said: “How come none of them has indicated interest to vie for the presidency? How come they are waiting until political parties cede their tickets to the South East? Has Tinubu hidden his intentions to run in 2023? Has he not been engaging in consultations across the country? It may even interest you to know that the assemblage may have people working for him.”

He continued: “Time has come for Ndigbo to decide what they want from the country. It is these leaders that we are looking up to lead the way and position Igbo appropriately in the scheme of things. The earlier they realise that they cannot play second fiddle forever, the better for the people of the southeast zone.”

BUT for the National Coordinator of the southeast for Presidency 2023 Movement (SEFORP2023), Rev. Okechukwu Obioha, more of such meetings should be encouraged as “it has made the campaigns of our group lighter.

“We are thanking Kalu for premiering this wonderful meeting and thanking the leaders for accepting the message that SEFORP has been propagating in the last two years. That meeting has put a cap on efforts that we have made so far and has given us confidence that our labour has not been in vain, and if our people have accepted us, then we can now launch out fully.”

Obioha added that SEFORP stood to benefit from the meeting as attendees “adopted our message that the two political parties should cede their presidential slots to the South East. So, this is one of the success stories of our campaigns, and it makes it lighter for us, and the leaders of our geopolitical zone to come together despite their ideologies and pursuits. It is a good omen. We are also asking them that since SEFORP has large followership in Nigeria, and in the Diaspora, the time has come for the group to be invited to such meetings.”

THE National Chairman of the defunct United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, while reacting to the allegation that Ndigbo has never agreed on any issue, and that the quest for the presidency in 2023 was already creating fault lines, said such posture was most uncharitable.

He said: “There has never been a time in our recent history that the people of the southeast geopolitical zone have demonstrated the unity of purpose on a common cause, as being done on the 2023 South East’s bid for the presidency.

“The meeting that held at Igbere, in Abia State on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, across party lines was unprecedented and a major milestone in the annals of the southeast political journey in Nigeria. Some critical stakeholders, in obvious overreaction, took out an advertisement in a national newspaper to distance themselves from the meeting on the grounds that they did not know the agenda of the meeting. It is possible that the conveners fell short in certain aspects of consultations that they made. This notwithstanding, the meeting was a monumental success. The communiqué released at the end of the meeting established the fact that the objective of the meeting was noble, altruistic, and not designed to promote the political aspiration of any one person. I am convinced that subsequent meetings will even be more successful as noticed lapses, especially in terms of consultation, adequate notice, and publicity will be taken care of. We need everybody on board. The important thing is that a movement to actualise the Nigerian President of southeast extraction in 2023 has begun. I am profoundly proud to be part of it.”

THE President, International Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights Initiative (ISPHRI), Comrade Osmond Ugwu, in his remarks said: “If there is any insinuation to the effect that the South East is not speaking with one voice, such insinuation may be emanating from mischievous politicians from the other divide to discredit genuine aspiration of the Igbo people. In the alternative, such insinuation might be coming from some Igbo brothers from the South-South, who are positioning themselves to take over the position if the major parties eventually zone the office to the Igbo nationality in Nigeria.”

THE Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, who said he was not opposed to the unity of Igbo people, however, stressed that it was a difficult thing for the people of the zone to be united on an issue, stressing that no ethnic grouping in Nigeria had ever being united on issues concerning them.

“For instance, I am one of the followers of President Buhari. From inception, to be sincere, he never had the support of a large segment of the northern elite in the four elections spanning 2003 to 2015. His base was mainly the Talakawas or the masses. I am also aware that when His Excellency, Alhaji Shehu Shagari of blessed memory was running for the presidency, he didn’t enjoy the support of all northerners. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s love loss with the Yoruba is legendary. Hence no reference to hang on, as Chief M.K.O. Abiola of the blessed memory defeated Alhaji Bashir Tofa in Kano.

“Accordingly, no pundit should fly the kite that Ndigbo will not produce Nigeria president of Igbo extraction because we are not united. And let no one buy in such bogey. It’s trite that when you want to deny a child his ripe apple you may concoct one excuse or the other. The truism is that it is our turn. And this will put paid to the issue of marginalisation. Our agitation in simplicita is premised on the zoning convention that commenced in 1999, which was based on equity, natural justice, and good conscience so as to engender national unity. All we are saying is that our baby should be treated like other babies to give Ndigbo a sense of belonging. We are true patriots that live and invest in all the nooks and crannies of our dear country. We have never presided over Nigeria from Aso Rock Villa. Given the opportunity, we will transform the country into a progressive state. Other Nigerians can choose whosever Igbo they like whether their girlfriend or boyfriend. We cannot impose anyone on Nigerians. It has to be people’s choice. That’s my humble position,” Okechukwu stressed

https://m.guardian.ng/News/2023-Scramble-for-VP-suspicion-rock-South-East

Nuttella:
Stop attacking the church and Christians. Your cheap attack won't work.

jesusjnr2020:
The devil's anointed you mean?

It's ironic that after you attack those speaking the Truth and when they respond you start playing the victim.

The devil is indeed a liar!

jesusjnr2020:
Thought as much.

jesusjnr2020:
Lol!

When an NL homosexualist now supports you, it becomes more obvious who you belong to.

Maybe you should now take their advice if you think it's wise.

Really funny guy.

I'm not as you who desperately seeks the backing of men that would make you to also back yourself with another of your monikers, but you can see from your thread that I have as much backing if not more concerning my posts. And I don't have to descend to your level to do so.

I just pity for those you're counseling if upon your lies, if they'd still have to pay for it. That's would make it even worse.

Please heed your advice of resting because you can't preach what you don't practice.

God bless.