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'As a church, we started paying tithes when we were worth less than 1 million naira a year; we are now in the billions; very soon, we shall bé hitting the trillions'

Dr David Oyedepo



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Donald J Trump

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hillsiderfak:
when CNN contacted Nigerian presidential aide Femi Adesina about her comments, he referred CNN to the Yobe State governor office. The state office in turn referred us to speak with the federal government

this apc government are not serious, playing ping pong with this matter

That Adesina is one bastard I seriously loathe.

How much was voted for education and health?

Howard is the black man tailored university in USA. I see why the black panther is giving the commencement speech...
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LagosismyHome:
N.a. so.... where is the source of this info

USA has >5,200 higher institutions. Every year only about 200 make it to top 1000 THE or QS ranking which is less than 5% of the total number. Therefore any Nigerian university who makes it to top 1000 is actually ranked higher than 95% of American universities.

Someone just wakes up and begins to release rubbish...

OAU that has never gone near the Times higher ranking(which is the reference for most govts and organizations) is now better than University Of Ibadan. How

And no I am sorry, redeemers is not the best private uni in south west. Covenant's research publications(SCOPUS) in Nigeria is more than all the remaining private university in the country put together. RUN is not even close to ABUAD talkless of Covenant. Smh

BlackManta:
Some of these things you accuse muslims of have been done by christians in the south.

Akwa Ibom state government is building an 8500 capacity mega church.

Lagos state once funded christians pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Islam is not the only problem.
Christianity has contributed it's own share of problems.
Both religions are guilty.

Nigeria is better off without religion.
We need total secularisation.

Ogbeni....
Would your ancestors be educated if not for christian missionaries?
Churches today are the second highest owners of hospitals in this country.
Churches are still one of the highest NGO funders of orphanages. Including Rehab and centers for the elderly
Thousands of Nigerians currently school at church universities.
So pls don't talk about what you don't know.
The case of Akwa Ibom building a church is isolated. But I can assure you that the church has given to Akwa Ibom more than Akwa Ibom has given to the church.

PaChukwudi44:
There is no country that has an RCCG parish that did not have a catholic church there before them so your point is meaningless.RCCG is not even the largest Christian church in Nigeria

You seem not to comprehend the difference between "fastest growing" and "largest". Rccg is easily the fastest growing church in the world. However the Catholics are the largest.

Nobody should come and say religion is this or that. Pls be specific and point at Islam.

Islam seems to be a state funded religion, something Christianity isn't entitled to even in the south. Their govt up there build the mosques, Quranic schools, fund the pilgrimage and even pay the sultan. Christianity on the other hand is privately funded by interested participants...

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seeker88:
Hey, keep wallowing in your ignorant....
And for your information, there’s no school as “Texas A&M the Kingston one” .....if you can’t do research about schools in the US, then just shut the Bleep up, and refrain from discouraging people here. Not everyone can afford to go to MIT and the likes.
And as someone has rightly pointed out, school ranking doesn’t automatically secure your dream job, you have to work towards getting such job irrespective of your school ranking.
For example, I came across a student from UPenn who’s looking for Summer Internship, meanwhile, many students from TAMUK which you perceived as a dead school got offers from Intels/IBM during the last NSBE convention/career fair in Pittsburgh.....
The bottom line is; u don’t choose school based on how it sounds to you. If MIT, Vanderbilt, etc are the schools that pleases you, you don’t have publicly condemn other schools that you don’t even know about. I repeat, If you are not informed, just keep shut....
If you aren’t ignorant, you would never try to compare any accredited university here in the US with Unilag and your Covenant University....you are only exposing your ignorance further.

Finally, my advice to prospective applicants. Just ensure that your school/program is accredited, get the right skill sets in your desired field, build a very good resume and you will be good for job/internships opportunities here. Those so called lowly ranked school will help you unleash your potential that you might never discover if you keep waiting in Nigeria to get into the top/Ivy League schools.

And why exactly can a Unilag, AUN, or Covenant not be compared to any university in the US You do understand that 95% of American universities do not meet the Times Higher ranking Of UI?

damosky12:
Why single out UNILAG?

UNILAG has served to her purpose of producing excellent graduates in their fields. If tech potentials have not been harnessed, it can't be the institution's fault.

How much has the government, corporate bodies and rich individuals invested to encourage technological developments in the country?

Of course much of the universities in Nigeria are vestigial. But we are saying Unilag has an opportunity to harness her Lagos environment which gives it access to industry and tech clusters. In that regard Unilag as failed to make an impart and is loosing the opportunity to make lots of money and be independent of FG allocations.

University of Lagos has truly failed to live up to responsibilities.

Temitope Osunrinde

While some technology entrepreneurs have stressed that Nigeria does not have a tech ecosystem, this may be unfair to the work done by the Co-Creation Hub in Yaba, which has become the model for innovation ecosystems across Nigeria.

Read the first part of this article here

Over the last eight years, more tech communities have sprung up across different locations in Nigeria, fostered by 30+ accelerators and hubs.

Though leading technology cluster in Nigeria, Yaba Innovation Headquarters (a brainchild of the Co-Creation Hub led Bosun Tijani) has been described as Africa’s most valuable startup ecosystem, it still doesn’t have all the required features of the ideal ecosystem.



The Yaba cluster enjoyed initial policy support during its early days (the project was a partnership between Lagos State, Technovision, the Co-Creation Hub and MainOne) which has since dwindled to a trickle. The sought after academia engagement, expected to source talent is sorely lacking despite the proximity of the Yaba cluster to talent hubs like Yaba College of Technology, Federal College of Education, Akoka and University of Lagos.

Fortunately, what iHQ lacks in government support and academia engagement, it makes up in its vibrant, youthful culture, abundant capital, and industry collaboration. A roll-call of partners at the Cchub reads like a Fortune 500 list: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Oracle, Nokia, Microsoft, Ford Foundation, Tony Elumelu Foundation and MainOne are only a few.

It is home to companies including Paga, Hotels.ng, BudgIT, Paradigm Initiative, Paystack, and the birthplace of Andela, Flutterwave, among several others. Cumulatively, Yaba has attracted millions of dollars investment and created thousands of direct/indirect jobs.

I believe that Lagos and by extension, the University of Lagos holds the key to Nigeria’s development. For Nigeria to be pulled out of poverty, Lagos must take the lead. And it has noticeably set the pace. Lagos is the seventh fastest growing city in the world, the second largest city in Africa and the largest economy on the continent.

Its Public Private Partnership (PPP) stance has been identified as the strategy to power the desired growth in physical and social infrastructure in the state. Politically, Lagos has also done well for itself. Seth Kaplan of Johns Hopkins University opines that whereas national elections in Nigeria are a squabble over petrodollars, local elections in Lagos favour candidates who show competence and pragmatism. The reforms in Lagos have also kick-started wider changes across other states.

As a result of its location, the University of Lagos must also step up its ante and actively engage the private sector and technology leaders. There is no evidence to show that this university of first choice has taken advantage of the technology ecosystem right in its backyard. And this is sad, a stirring reminder of how Nigeria does not take advantage of available opportunities.

Unilag must take advantage of Yaba. A collaboration between Unilag and the tech cluster in Yaba will benefit both parties, but more importantly, will further Nigeria’s technology trajectory. The ability to transfer out technologies developed at academic institutions is another benefit for the tech community.

Academic institutions produce intellectual property (IP) through research which are protected through patents, trademarks, or copyrights. Yaba iHQ can transform these IP into real products, and fine-tune them before showcasing to a global market. Ultimately, the more successful a university is at transferring technologies out of the laboratory into products, the higher its ROI.


Unilag must also revamp its curriculum to include STEM and MOOC courses, and attract sponsored research to address industrial needs. Koreangate may have left a bad taste in the mouth of its administration, but we must not throw the baby out with the bath water. Obafemi Awolowo University and Covenant are already leading in STEM education. A dalliance with Yaba offers Unilag the opportunity to wean itself off government funding.

Today, Universities are in dire need of Chief Executive Officers who have talents for maximizing resources that can be invested in priorities. Yaba iHQ is attracting top companies and significant FDI. Without Unilag’s presence, it may lack an organic succession. The failure of eCommerce players, if documented and codified would have stopped similar failures.

And when all this is done, Unilag will have a stellar reputation as the bastion of technology in Nigeria, with visits from far and wide. Its brand value will significantly improve with local and global recognition, more robust operating and research funding and national and international appointments of its staff.

More than ever, Unilag will be able to recruit top talent, as the go-to Nigerian school for global tech companies. Other Universities in Nigeria will come to see how Unilag has done it. More than any regulation, this pull strategy will create a demand for technology ecosystems and many State Governments will voluntarily declare the need for Smart Cities.

Broadband demand will explode beyond current capacity and InfraCo will finally be implemented. And finally, technology ecosystem development across Nigeria will simply be plug and play, with replication across Nigeria.

Unilag has a vantage position to quickly lead Nigeria’s educational institutions, transforming education with technology. New Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has his work cut out for him.

Unilag must partake in the real technology ecosystem and execute its responsibilities. Government and risk capitalists must join hands with the private sector and tech entrepreneurs in Yaba to mutually work towards enabling platforms and raise Nigeria’s profile. It is time for Nigeria. It is time.

https://nairametrics.com/unilag-as-a-missing-piece-in-nigerias-tech-ecosystem/

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Dayvidddrizzle:
Bloody lie! In Germany College education is free for both Citizens and international students. Do your finding before you come here misleading people.

It is free because citizens pay about 50% of their income as tax. So is it really free?

Mumu group always talking nonsense.

The Torah, Bible and Quran all recognise Jerusalem to be Isreali. Now today's Christians whose Church Of the Holy Selpuchre is in Jerusalem and the presence of holy sites to which Jesus walked and died have refused to name Jerusalem as a Christian territory.

Yet the Muslims who were the last to come(violently) are insisting they can't have the AlAqsa Mosque in the hands of Isreal. Even when Isreal has vowed to protect the Alaqsa mosque which was built on the ruins of the Temple mount, yet out of hatred they would never want to see Jerusalem in the hands of the Jews. For a certainty if the Muslims have exclusive control of Jerusalem they would definitely kickout both the Christians and the Jews out like they did in Mecca.



It is high time the Muslims realise that Jerusalem is a city that can't be claimed by one religion. Jerusalem holds sentimental value to Judaism, Christianity and Islam but the political owners are the Jews.

And all these Intl media houses trying hard to make Isreal look bad should try harder. The remnant of the temple mount is proof that Isreal was there before anyone presently.
How can a name like Hebron, Jerusalem even allude to a Palestinian territory

What is this senselessness? What do you intend to achieve? Young men just woke up and decided that they must die. The Israeli had released the protocol and response to violent protest before hand. You can protest from afar but if you come close to the border they would fire tear gas, if you get too close they fire ammunitions. Yet this people just decided to go and face live fire when they know it would achieve nothing..smh

The Middle east is a volatile place and even Isreal too is paranoid. They've had their neighbours and Islamic clerics call for their total obliteration and they and they are definitely not going to let you breach their border to harm their civilians...

bazkid24:
They are not at par on airforce at all. USA has the largest aircraft fleet in d world.

Well I was referring to the capabilities of their jets, rather than the number. In numbers I presume the USA outnumbers Russia in everything....

Well Nuclear weapons or Chemical weapons are not the only things that can significantly influence the result of a war between the US and Russia. More decisively it would be Alliances..

A declaration of war against US is an automatic declaration of war against 28 NATO nations of the world which includes France, UK, Italy which have very significant fire power. Also the alliances of the US gives them a global spread of their Naval, Ground and Air operations. The most significant of those alliancesthat would impact the war would be Poland, Turkey and the Baltics which gives US the ability to station its forces to attack and breach the Russian federation in a shorter time frame than Russia could.

Lastly America's annual expenditure at $700 Billion(avg) is more than that of the next four highest spenders on defense which makes america a truly deadly force.

On Ground Forces I would say the Americans have more experience than the Russians due to their several military activities across the world.

At Air Force they are both at par

At Naval power I think I would still give it to the Americans.

This is what happens when Christians choose to be politically relevant. I know the great pressure the evangelical movement had put on successive administration at congress and white house to ensure that Jerusalem must indeed be recognised in practice as the eternal, undivided capital of Isreal. God bless the likes of Pastor John Hagee, Perry Stone and Rob Paterson and of course CUFI: Christians United For Isreal for the great work done to ensure this was possible. And of course God bless D.J Trump. I'm truly convinced beyond doubt he is God's select for America.

As for the deaths that have followed, it is indeed very sad. I wish the palestinian authorities would do more to prevail on her people to be reasonable rather than trying to forcefully breech the border of Isreal. Isreal has sacrificed lots of its ancestral lands to the Palestinians but Jerusalem is not negotiable.

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This idea of zoning is pretty much stupid. When it is 2023 are you going to force all the non Igbo aspirant off the ticket or are you going to compel all the remaining 5 zones to vote Igbo candidates mandatorily. The only certain option is to make all major parties in the country raise Igbo candidates. If that is the plan it won't work because a smaller party can easily pick a northerner and hijack the entire electoral vote of the North..... The North don't vote parties they usually vote tribe and religion.

Someone might cite Falae and Obj as example of how power can be giving to south east. But remember that we now have about 30 political parties. And I know that if APC, PDP raise Igbo candidates there would be one party that would raise a Northerner....

We should just focus on good governance instead of all these ridiculous zoning. Buhari becoming president hasn't made Katsina the California of Nigeria.

The long term answer to this would be to restructure Nigeria into independent region with a weaker center which allows everyone to control his own destiny rather than scamping for Abuja where resources are stolen by the elite yet cloaked under the mask of tribal power.

NB: Ialso want to see an Igbo president someday, but I would vote for him/her because he merits it and not arrangee. So for me I zone both 2019 and 2023 to COMPETENCE.

Can't imagine what this girl is going through by now. I hope she hasn't been sold off or turned to a sex slave by these sick Islamic pedophiles.

Jkh

Leah Sharibu turns 15 today Monday 14 May 2018. She is still in Boko Haram captivity.

Let us all pray for Leah's safe release in the Mighty Name of JESUS. ��

Isaiah 49:24-26

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1344156162394918&id=444807728996437

I think there needs to be a law preventing Academic Unions from going on strike more than once in every three years.
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CodeTemplar:
Covenant University and other private universities have never forced anyone to pay tax or tithe and dont make profit but are under attack from dumbos who pay tax forcefully to a government that isn't profit oriented but they can't complain. They prefer to shout on pastors head. indeed cultism is a tool for social engineering and has really engineered our society in negative ways. Too many zombies in the system.

Thank you.

My own life no hard. Once I am not happy about doctrine I just move on and change church. Simple

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With 289 Bowen would make you Vice Chancellor