₦airaland Forum

Hezzyluv:
Plenty ppl wish they lose weight, you're here asking how to gain weight easily. Well, take Steroids or food that contains a lot of fat.

They should gimme theirs.

Perky20:
How can one gain weight easily without risk of obesity and unwanted fats?

Travel abroad...Wahala for Naija no go allow man fat sef....Secondly,do u have tendencies of getting fat?,someone like me and wizkid,we eat like lions after some good Arizona yet no single fat,we just maintain the same stature from time...eat stuffs like cakes,ice cream, yoghurts,port,turkey,,eggs,Shawarma etc..

ogododo:
https://punchng.com/were-prepared-to-rescue-nigeria-from-apcs-misrule-pdp-govs/?amp

They should rescue their useless dead party first... maggots!

kahal29:
Airport things

Chai...how much dem give these lunatics like this, 1k each...These ones should be thrown to wild animal to be devoured since they lost their senses already and sold their conscience for what can't even feed them for only 24hrs....F**LS...I hate Nigeria so much...I hate 90% Nigerians...it will never be well with those whom still support this evil government,infact,it will never be well with their generations to come.

Average9jaman:
Dis ur analysis sha...

If I lied...just tell me so I can retrace.

komodapson:
Mehn!!!...you've said it all. I often say to my colleagues, that we that were born in early 80s are the most " unprivileged" among the Nigerian Age strata since independence. It was in 80s that (apparently) Nigeria start to witness decline economically & socially. Name it, Military era was experienced till adulthood compared to kids in mid 90s - Y2K. Education, Health, Finance all abyss.
My heart saddens about this unfortunate incidence

You are correct....it's just sad we found ourselves in a failed system.

Bluntguy:
I only rushed to check the names of the Nigerian men. I am okay now.

Who do yahoo pass if not yorubas.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Gunmen-abduct-three-Obasanjos-workers-in-Ogun

Obj is even powerless under Buhari....only God fit bring Buhari down as it stands now cos even votes can't change anything,it's magic season with APC.

TheRareGem1:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/reducing-customs-procedures-can-lift-nigeria-others-by-250bn-osinbajo/%3famp

All they do is talk rubbish and nothing to show for...God keep me alive to see the end of these old demons in power.

EmperorTolson:
What baffles me most is the age of those suspect, 27, 23 and 20.
What'd have push those young lad into this.
Heart of many people are evil.

That's the age of foolish pple in recent times alongside those about 50 and above...Most sane ones are between 30 - 48 years,girls in 27,23 and 20 only Wana do olosho,boys at that age only Wana do rituals,yahoo,kill or steal to impress,then when asked by family and friends how they got what they had,they will say "Na God"....Those around 30 -48 years have come to realise alot about life and contentment,they only want to prosper thru legit means,they prefer a good name over money,that's why things are harder for them most..while those around 50 upwards are the crack heads,they can't think straight,always thinking backwards and awkwardly,Na dem full world power and government positions...May God help us in this time we are in.

HenryThegreat1:
https://punchng.com/passengers-strangle-lagos-doctor-turned-uber-driver-steal-car/

People get mind sha....Do I say God closes his eyes to the wicked and permits the devil to deal with good ones??...All this things doesn't make sense anymore...I rather die poor than stealing or killing to get money.

fergie0o1:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/07/14/47608599-9965817-image-a-17_1631022214072.jpg
A group of 70 women have married dozens of trees in Spike Island, Bristol in a desperate bid to block plans that would see them chopped down for a prospective £55million building site
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/07/14/47608151-9965817-image-a-18_1631022235987.jpg
Those 'marrying' the 74 trees wore bridal dresses from a range of cultures after being inspired by the 1970s Chipko Movement - after a group of women from the Mandal village in the Himalayas threw their arms around trees to protect forests from being destroyed

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/07/14/47608609-9965817-image-a-19_1631022267972.jpg
The application acknowledges some of the 74 trees require removal, but the Save Baltic Wharf Trees group and the Bristol Tree Forum slammed 'a lack of transparency' over the actual number of potentially felled trees. [File picture]


SOURCE

Chai...and I'm here waiting for one rich oyinbo woman to just look at me in admiration..

Brainard22:
We all have one or two gifts we place over others, mine's when i was down and dead broke, and needed just #30k for a project, I was hopeless till I ran into my current best friend.


I had 5 days deadline for the project and no hope from anywhere, I posted about it on my Whatsapp status and he replied (my nigga) and asked of my aza, I sent and he wired me #65k

Man I was mad with joy and thanking this nigga but he said I shouldn't mention, I even promised to pay back and he refused, I can proudly say God and this my nigga made me today because I got 1.1m after the project (real contract was 310k but I got two more jobs making 1.1m)



That's my story ........



What's yours?

Was in a deep shit with a client over a failed transaction worth about a million...my mum saved me from the biggest mess I would have landed myself in...she helped with 55k to sort the issue,if not I will either be In jail now or I will just be out of job...my mum is my wonder woman.

ogbiwa:
An Instagram model is tired of relying on men – so she decided to marry herself instead.



https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/model-marries-herself-after-embracing-24929983

And I'm here looking for a rich lady to kidnap me and use me...lol...so long I'm Gona be sleeping on a rich bed and my account balance steady increasing.

lalasticlala:
BBNaija ex housemate, Sinclair Timmy aka Trikytee is now married. Sharing his wedding pictures with his wife on his Instagram page, he wrote:


https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkcJRJMaAy/?utm_medium=copy_link

I remember the day I and this guy chilled out with friends and I gave him weed to chew...bobo just dey laugh like mumu...lol...from Fela shrine to one hotel at Allen round about..this should be like 2017

lalasticlala:
I am going to scatter everything - Annie Idibia cries out!!!

Tuface Idibia has ran away from home over Annie Idibia's wahala. 2face left his home for America after packing his items and lying to Annie that he was going for a shoot.

Gistlovers shared a voice record of Annie Idibia crying after 2baba left home and wrote:



https://www.instagram.com/tv/CTjrbc0ol7Pcpb9qo_GR-8tiqM9X9i5X9ZqiPk0/?utm_medium=copy_link

Recall that one Nigerian actress who is based abroad recently called Annie Idibia a snake.

Interesting gist...

Successionist:
Speak To Buhari In Language He Understands During Imo Visit – Activist Tells IPOB




http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/08/speak-buhari-language-he-understands-during-imo-visit-%E2%80%93-activist-tells-ipob

They should just stay home...locked...atleast Buhari and his geng of hypocrites
can't go knocking at people's doors forcing them to come out... orderliness should be maintained in all so no one will fall victim of this evil government.

BigCabal:
Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others will be bougie. All the time, it’ll be revealing.

What’s your oldest memory of money?

When I was 13 years old, my dad came home with a bag. When he called me into a room and opened the bag, I saw a lot of ₦5, ₦10, and ₦20 notes inside. We counted the money together and everything was about ₦120k. This was in the mid-90s. My dad worked in a government-owned tertiary institution, and the money was his students’ payment for an exam. He brought it home because they couldn’t take it to the bank that day.

We kept the money at home for a night, but it was such a scary experience.

Why?

I watched my dad struggle to raise me and my two siblings on his civil service salary. Let me put that into perspective: we ate rice and bread during holidays, but we drank pap every day. The first place I saw a colour TV and a VHS player was at a neighbour’s.

So, I was at a loss when my dad brought the money home. It was the biggest amount of money I’d seen at that point. I was pretty sure we were going to get robbed before daybreak.

Where was your mum in all of this?

My parents had a misunderstanding they couldn’t get past when I was younger, so my mum left.

Ah, I see.

Anyway, my view of money at the time was that only big people could have it. I didn’t understand how money worked, but it felt like you had to be born rich to make money. This perspective shifted when I made money for the first time.

Tell me how it happened.

When I was in SS 2, a lady in my compound pitched the idea of selling fruits to me. I didn’t have a full grasp of what she meant but I dropped a small capital and followed her to the market. We brought ₦20 worth of oranges and added our own markup. By the end of the day, we made about ₦50. I think this was my first lesson in the economics of money. Now, I knew I could make it if I worked hard enough.

Nice. What happened after?

Nothing significant until I finished secondary school. But before that happened, my dad became the head of his department, and things improved a bit at home. We could finally afford some things we had thought were luxuries. A memorable purchase was a VCD player because it meant that we didn’t have to go to our neighbours to watch TV anymore.

But there was still a lot to aspire to, and I had started thinking of what my life would look like after secondary school.

When I finished secondary school in 2001, I applied to a university in my state but didn’t get in. I had to wait until the following year to try again. During my gap year, I worked on an aunt’s poultry farm. She wasn’t paying me a salary, but I made some money for myself from selling cracked eggs. It wasn’t a lot but it was enough to hold myself together.

How long did you spend on the farm?

About eight months. In 2002, I got into a pre-degree program at the same university. I left home with some foodstuff and ₦1500. Not sure I would have been able to afford accommodation if a friend from secondary school didn’t house me.

Subsequently, my monthly allowance remained ₦1500. But things took a turn for the worse in my second year.

What happened?

The government restructured my dad’s place of work, and it affected him. He tried as much as he could to make sure I got something every month, but sometimes the money came late or didn’t come at all. I knew I had to find a way to survive.

What did you decide to do?

I can only speak about this now because so much time has passed. I was good at science subjects, so I started writing external exams for people. On average, I charged ₦1500 per paper. The exams were seasonal, so the money wasn’t even constant.

I was almost caught once, and it put things in perspective for me. The decision was easy: I quit.

I didn’t do anything for money until 2005, during the trial census. Someone I knew helped me get on the census team. The whole thing lasted for three weeks, and at the end of it, I got paid ₦13,500. This was the biggest lump sum payment I’d received at that point.

Do you remember what you did with it?

Haha, I bought a phone. The GSM buzz had hit and I felt inferior because I couldn’t afford one. When the money came in, it seemed like an important purchase. I went for an Alcatel phone, which cost ₦9900 and bought a sim card for ₦3500. Like that, the money was gone.

But hey, you had a phone.

See, I know it seemed like an important purchase at the time but looking back now, I don’t think it was. The money could have gone into other things I needed.

Ah, the power of hindsight. When did you leave uni?

October 2006. I was mobilised for NYSC in February 2007 and posted to a state in the south-south. My dad gave me ₦8k when I was leaving — and he struggled to get that money.

I spent about ₦4k on travelling to my state of deployment and had ₦4k left when I got to camp. The three weeks that followed were all about figuring out how to save the money I had left — I ate from the camp kitchen and didn’t visit mammy market once.

The federal government paid the first allawee at the end of the third week — it was ₦8500 at first, but it increased to ₦9775 before I finished my service year. I was posted to a secondary school in a small village on the outskirts of the state, and that was where I spent the rest of my service year.

The thing about the village was that there were no banks or ATMs. Every month, the corps members in the community would gather their ATM cards together and send someone to go to the state capital to withdraw money. If you finished your money before the end of the month, you had to go to the capital by yourself, and that was expensive.

Sounds hectic.

It was. Fast forward to 2008, I finished NYSC and started making moves to get a job. I would buy the Tuesday edition of a Nigerian newspaper and go through the published job opportunities. I don’t know how many companies I applied to, but one of them invited me for an interview, and I got the job.

Yay. What did the company do?

They distributed healthcare products, and I was hired as a marketer. My salary was ₦30k. My quality of life took a hit while at the job though. For starters, I was spending up to ₦8k monthly on transportation expenses. I knew I wasn’t going to be there for long. Luckily, I got another job at a bank six months later.

I had applied to a bank, written their tests, and attended an interview months earlier but I didn’t hear from them, so I moved on. Next thing, the bank called me to come in for my medicals. I resumed at as a graduate trainee in October 2008.

What was remuneration like?

I was earning ₦107k when I joined. The highest amount to hit my bank account prior to this was ₦50k, and now I hit the ₦100k mark. It felt like a breakthrough. When I got my first salary, I bought a Nokia phone for ₦77k. The following month, I bought a laptop.

Balling!

Haha. At the end of my trainee programme, I was posted to the internal control department. Three years and three branches later, I was transferred to the head office. That changed my career forever.

How?

The transfer came with a role change, and I started working in the regulatory compliance department. After a few months, I decided that’s what I wanted to do for the rest of my career. What remained was mapping my trajectory and I got started. But first, I had to leave the bank although my salary had increased to ₦200k.

Why did you leave?

It was time. I realised that the best way to grow in the industry was through job hopping.

I started interviewing for a new job in 2013 but I didn’t get the offer until 2014, which worked for me. When I finally resigned, they paid me my gratuity — about ₦1.7m — because I’d spent up to five years at the bank. I started my new job in February 2014.

How did that go?

My gross salary was ₦4.5m per year when I started working there, but my monthly net was ₦250k. At the end of my first year, I got a 30% raise.

In 2016, it felt like it was time to leave again. But before I quit, I started looking at certifications that would give me an edge — the industry is big on those too. I found one that was in hot demand and went for it. It cost $1500 and I was broke for three months after I wrote the exam.

After I got the certification, doors began to open. Someone recommended me to a payment company looking to set up a functional compliance unit, and they brought me on to head the department. The offer was ₦10.4m gross per year. My monthly take-home pay was ₦450k, excluding the bonuses.

Lit.

A couple of life events had happened by this time. I got married in 2013 and by February 2015, I had two kids already. So, I was doing a lot more long term thinking. Getting a property ranked high on the things I wanted, but I didn’t have enough money to buy a house. It was cheaper to build from the ground up. I started saving a minimum of ₦50k every month towards the project in 2015. As my salary increased, I put more money into it. Also, a portion of my bonuses and other lump-sum payments went into the account.

Back to my job. I spent less than a year at the payment company because I got an offer to head the regulatory compliance unit of a bank, and it was a senior role. So I resigned from the payment company and joined the bank. My gross annual pay was ₦14m per year, excluding bonuses and other lump-sum payments. And my monthly salary was ₦660k. I spent two years there before I moved again.


Where did you move to this time?

A telecommunications company. When I saw the job advert, I thought it might be a refreshing change for me. I applied, and I was hired as a manager in their risk and compliance department. I accepted their offer and my monthly salary grew from ₦660k to ₦1.1m. Between the time I started working there and now, I’ve gotten a few raises which has increased my monthly gross salary to ₦1.8m and my net salary to ₦1.3m. This doesn’t include the bonuses and other benefits. With benefits and bonuses, the number rises to about ₦30m per year.

Bonuses: ~₦4m

13th-month salary: ₦1.2m

Leave allowance: ₦1.3m

HMO: ₦600K

You’ve come a long way in the past 13 years, how do you move money around now?

Well, I’m a family man with three kids now — two of whom have started going to school — so my recurrent expenses have grown over the past five years or so. Let’s start with the monthly running costs, which is ₦400k.

Can we break it down, please?

About the salaries: I hired an after-school teacher for my kids, and I pay them ₦20k. There’s also someone who comes in to teach them Arabic and whom I pay ₦20k.

I have two domestic staff on my payroll: a gateman and a lady who helps my wife, and they earn ₦25k and ₦15k respectively.

Got it. Where does the remaining ₦900k go?

I divide it into two parts: ₦400k goes into things like my kids’ school fees and other small projects I’d like to take care of. The remaining ₦500k is for my savings and investments. Thankfully, I don’t pay rent anymore. I completed my building project last year. Do you want me to talk about it?

Yes, please.

I started saving for it in 2015, but I didn’t really act on it until 2018 when I bought a plot of land, which cost ₦550k. But I didn’t like the area it was in. Then I started having ownership issues, so I sold the land for ₦900k.

I had been putting the money I was saving towards the project in my mutual funds account and by 2018, it had accumulated to ₦8m. Later that year, I bought a half plot of land in another part of the city for ₦6m. Now, I had ₦2.9m to start the project — a four-bedroom duplex. Between the time I laid the foundation and the time we moved in, I’d spent more than ₦30m.

Whoa. Let’s break it down.

I’m still not sure how I did it, but let’s attempt to break it down.

I laid the foundation in March 2019, and the first phase of the project gulped about ₦5m. That bit was easy because I’d raised about ₦8m, thanks to my savings and a huge bonus I got at work. After we raised the building to the lintel level, I took a three months break to raise more money. In August 2019, I returned to the project and spent about ₦7.8m to raise it to the decking and roof level, then took another six months break.

I went back to it in February 2020. A month later, Covid struck, so it was suspended for a while. But I really wanted to complete it last year, so I asked the contractor to give me an estimate of how much I’d need to finish the house. The number they gave me was ₦15m, which I didn’t have.

How did you eventually raise it?

I approached my bank for a ₦10m loan, and they approved it. I gathered every other resource I could find to raise the remaining ₦5m. My wife and I agreed to cut down on non-essential expenses, so we could save more. I even sold one of my cars to hit the ₦5m target. Inflation affected the price of things, and I had to borrow an extra ₦2.9m from close associates to pump into the site. That was mostly it.

It took a bit of work and perseverance but we moved into our home in August last year.

Yay! Well done.

Thank you. Now, I have a bank loan to repay. The tenure is for four years, but I’m not a big fan of taking loans unless I absolutely have to. So I’ve been paying it off as fast as I can. I got a bonus at work at the end of last year and most of it went into servicing the loan. Right now, I still have a balance of ₦5m to pay. The plan is to clear it all by the middle of next year.

Man. You talked about savings and investments earlier. What do they look like at the moment?

It’s mostly investments, really. I also do a bit of mutual funds. The ROI is not as attractive as it was a few years ago anymore, but it’s a low-risk investment. I have about ₦4m in my mutual funds account at the moment, and that’s about it.

So how much do you think you should be earning?

I think my earnings are fair. I try not to live in a bubble, so I know it could be a lot worse. Millions of people in the country are not earning as much, and that puts things in perspective for me. I mean, I want more but I’m also content with what I currently earn.

This is a good place to ask how your experiences have shaped your perspective about money.
First, I believe the value of money is in how you use it. Second, growing your income is mostly about how you decide to take on and leverage opportunities. I grew up with nothing and worked my way up here. I won’t deny that I’ve had a lot of help and support, but I also did the work and knew when it was time to move away from a job. Privilege and luck are great, but they don’t work in isolation.

Is there anything you want but can’t afford?

I’m looking to get Canadian or Australian citizenship for my kids but I don’t want to do it via the migration route — it’s too stressful. Citizenship by investment is more straightforward although it’s more expensive. I’d really like that right now, but I can’t afford it.

Fair. What about something you spent money on recently that improved the quality of your life?

My house. The quality of my life has gone up in many ways since my family moved in. The peace of mind I have now is unbeatable.

That makes sense. How would you rate your financial happiness on a scale of 0-10 then?

7. I have all the things I wanted to have at this age — a family and a home to house them. Also, we can afford to do anything we want, which is a departure from my childhood. Canadian or Australian citizenship will shoot this number to a 9. But even if it doesn’t happen, I’m in a good place already.

Source: https://www.zikoko.com/money/naira-life/the-nairalife-of-a-family-man-whos-content-at-1-3m-month/

1.3m is sustainable depending on general management.

StagethemTVee:
Fuji maestro Pasuma and his wife pays a visit to their daughter's Naval base of operation at the United States of America. The video shows a real proud dad Pasuma while the daughter and wife appeared very reserved. Congrats to them.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpFQmY3g4no



https://www.instagram.com/p/CTi8o3grrhb/?utm_medium=copy_link

I want this for my daughter too,pilot,footballer or an entertainer.

Holiness2100:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9963685/amp/The-star-Wire-actor-Michael-K-Williams-dead-New-York-City-apartment.html

Something must kill a man either rich or poor..

kennosklint:
Correct score Cape Verde 0:2 Nigeria. Sell your house,car, use your school fees, house rent, etc to stake that score and thank me later

Never place a bet on Nigeria,u might shed tears of blood.

AutoChick4U:
Are u married with kids? If not, take a breather, allow yourself to breathe. And u need a prudent partner to help manage ur resources

Thanks.

ryloy:
https://punchng.com/basic-services-in-afghanistan-collapsing-says-un/

UN just filled with old clueless pigs.

Volkswagen90:
Na the RELATIONSHIP i see make me comment the thing tire me,relationship require money

Everything requires money bro...come out of ya house and zoooom!! 5k is gone,move from here to there 3k don go,...how much be small sardine sef ₦550 Abi ₦600,...lol...they will give u 3pcs of chicken for half kilo and tell u it's 1k...like e don spoil reach like that so fast??,not to talk of data sef lol,bro... Everything requires money now even relationships whatsoever.

AutoChick4U:
I always wonder why? Most civil servants dey carry gbese and immediately they get paid, they'll start paying up. Most their salary no dey reach 2nd week.

Bro... I'm tired, everybody is trying in Naija,but the country make am be like hustling guys are lazy,bills go choke making it look like we ain't making progress financially...imagine earning like 75k and spending over 100k monthly due to unforseen bills and high cost of things,from food to clothes,to housing to transportation to maintaining relationships and a standard lifestyle....E no easy...depression don build duplex for my head,Na everyday migraine dey knack me for one side of my head (left side)... I'm just tired, mentally exhausted, spiritually low, psychologically unbalanced atm...men are working yet nothing to show for when all earnings are used in paying one bill or the other....Na die just remain like this cos I'm tired of this long struggle.

slenjaman:
Dear salary earners like me, how do you manage your salary with the current economic situation and high cost of commodities (more than 50% and above), how do you cope.

Bro Na by God's grace cos as salary dey enter,bills don line up for assembly...I just feel sad about everything, I'm losing that lil hope I got...I just dey try gbe body anyhow,dey rough am anyhow.

Plut01:
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Ireland.....


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That's a beautiful country

supportnija:
See better road, if you construct this in Nigeria, one day youth go cook on it, burn it in the name of protest.

Hoodlums will turn there to mini camp for owo da...

robosky02:
EPL: Ronaldo breaks shirt sales record in 24 hours





https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/05/epl-ronaldo-breaks-shirt-sales-record-in-24-hours/

Still trash.

jaybenugo:
Tonto Dikeh In Thanksgiving Mood After Her Break-Up With Prince Kpokpogri (Photos)

Actress, Tonto Dikeh has shared new photos of herself in a mood of thanksgiving to God after she broke-up with Prince Kpokpogri, her ex-boyfriend, IgbereTV reports.

She captioned the photos on Instagram;


https://www.instagram.com/p/CTb6LfZofYX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Lol....This lady just needs a good D*CK like mine,good loving and attention....marriage ain't for her...I wish I can be that man to bring her happiness though,but mehn I'm broke,so she no fit reason me...lol

jesusjnr2020:
Is There Anything Like Satanic Music?

Some people believe that some genre of music, for instance, rock music was evil and of the devil, while that of hymns was good and of God.

But that is very wrong, because what makes a particular music, to be of God or of the devil, is not the style or genre of music, but the message it bears, because music is just a medium that can be used to serve different purposes and to propagate all kinds of messages, both good and bad. Hence it can be used to serve the devil or God.

For instance, even the hymn style of music could be used to glorify Satan, if the message it carries were those that glorify him or preach the message of the world which he relishes.

There's one particular song that comes to mind that sounds like a hymn. It even bears a title that's not just associated with the church, but with heaven. But that's all there is to the song that has anything to do with the church or heaven, because it's a song that preaches and promotes sexual immorality. It appears a satire, which was deliberately constructed to mock and mislead.

But when a Christian hears the hymn style of the music and the chorus of the song which is its most pronounced part, for the first time, they are usually deceived to think it's a gospel song. But it's only when they get to hear the full lyrics of the song, including the verses, that they'd suddenly realize that it has nothing to do with God but the devil and the world!

The song's title is 'Hallelujah" and I'm going to use some of its lyrics to illustrate my point:

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Ironically, this was the song a devoted and spirit-filled Christian couple who were about to get married, wanted to use as the Bridal marching song, so just imagine that they didn't know the truth about the lyrics, until the bride started marching down the isle. They would be getting the shock of their lives and I wouldn't be surprised if the bride stumbles on her way, because the shock would be more than enough to make someone loose her footing. But thankfully they were able to listen to the full lyrics of the song beforehand, hence any embarrassing situation that could have arisen from such as blunder was averted.

So that's an instance that proves that the style or genre is not what makes a music to be of God or the devil, but the message it bears.

Because just as that hymn style of music was able to carry the message of the world which the devil wants to be preached, a rock style of music which some see as being of the devil, can carry that which preaches the gospel of the Kingdom of God.

Even rap music which some also see as being of the devil, could also be used to preach the gospel and the Word of God. And being a song writer, I realized that perhaps the best way to preach the gospel of the Kingdom through music was by rap music, because rapping is just like talking, so there's more more room for words, to convey more of the message, in rap music than other styles of music.

Let me use this my Holy Ghost-inspired made-in-Nairaland hit track to illustrate:



So do you think it's possible for this rap to be satanic?

Obviously not, because it bears the message of the gospel of the kingdom of God, which is that God made them male and female in the beginning, so any idea of joining male and male or female and female is not of God but satanic and should be condemned. Hence, despite being a rap, it was used to preach the Gospel of the kingdom.

That's another illustration that shows that it's the message of a song that makes a music to be of the devil or of God. Hence it's not unusual that some of my best worship songs were rap songs because of the depth and weight of the message they carry. They've led me to tears severally.

So it's my belief that believers should not judge a style of music to be of the devil just because it doesn't inspire them as some others. I don't do that even though there were some style of music that doesn't inspire me as much, because I know that music is just a vehicle, it's the message it bears that's the most important thing, so even if it does inspire me, it may inspire others.

In these last days, music is going to be a very pivotal instrument God would use to great effect with regards His final move upon the Earth, hence it's important that those who were truly of God understand the workings of music and how powerful it is as a tool, and could be used to the glory of God, so they'd not find themselves opposing or working against God's interest and plans concerning these last days.

God bless.

85% of the songs we listen to are satanic...RnB,HiphHop ,name the genre or subgenre,but most people think rock n roll,heavy metal and blackened death metal are the only satanic songs....lol,I laugh at stinky hypocrisy..

Omooba77:
Why do God Allow Wicked Men to Prosper and live Long?
Example King Saul, Pharaoh, Mannaseh, the son of Hezekiah.

Some say he's giving em time to change from their wicked ways,but if they don't change then they die in their wickedness...Well,Satan grants prosperity also but it comes with a huge price that will suit only the wicked and mean in heart... Prosperity is of both ways,..Some prosper by grace,smart work,hard work, etc while some prosper via fetish things, sacrifices,deep occultic spiritual things,and devilment....(If there's a word like that though,lol).