₦airaland Forum

executive12:
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.

Mark 10:25 was probably referring to trusting in riches and not just being rich(Prob 11:28)
Jesus also said that it is possible for rich men to enter into God's kingdom two verses down (Mark 10:27)

executive12:
Was John D. Rockefeller a genuine Christian? He was one of the 'Robber Barons'.

His desire to create wealth as a mandate from God was actually what drove him.
The term robber Baron was coined by the press of that era because they couldn't wrap their heads around one individual controlling so much wealth.
They no carry gun Rob anybody.

Yonce:
A genuine Christian cannot be a billionaire.

There's too much poverty, hunger and class discrepancies in the world for someone who considers himself/herself an ethical genuine Christian to comfortably refer to themselves as a billionaire.

Wealth needs to be distributed.

Jesus said the poor you would always have with you and dined with the so called ungodly rich.
Poverty is a mindset and not an inescapable reality.

There are two extremes in Christianity about wealth,the evangelicals who go on and on about prosperity and the conservatives who equate holiness to poverty and extreme modesty.
The right thing however is balance following the instruction to seek first God's kingdom in sincerity of purpose and not because you hope to get something.
Being a billionaire is usually borne out of creating value, monetizing the value created and being able to scale it several times.So anybody can be a billionaire including a Christian,but a Christian with no value to give the world can never become a billionaire but he can remain a dreamer.

executive12:
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.

With all due respect,this mindset is mediocre.

Maybe you want to read about the founders of Chick fil A,Forever 17,Hobby Lobby and for a little controversy,the richest man ever John D Rockefeller .They are and we're born again Christian's.
One more,the owner of In and out Burger in America.She is only in her mid thirties and has kept the faith passed on from her grandparents.

A few more years,I will be touring the world not as a migrant but as a tourist.I will be traveling not to snap pictures but to experience the culture,the people and the food.I will not be going to New York,London or Toronto but to Bangkok,Bali,Tokyo, Mumbai,Mombasa,Kigali and I will travel with my children and hope they have an epiphany just like I did as a young adult that easy or west,home is best.

zomby:
As long as the estate is in Nigeria, it is nothing but a package of a senseless rubbish.

Does it make any sense to live in a million dollar estate, but when it rains your Range Rover has to swim in a muddy water to get home?

Every basic things in UK or yankee happens to be a giant deal in Nigeria.

Nigeria is the only country where poor people and rich folks are both suffering...but they are both too mentally blind to realize this fact.

Sorry you are extremely wrong.The millionaires and billionaires of Manhattan drive through poverty everyday.They see the garbage on the street corners and food carts scattered all over the financial district.
In San Francisco,if you no look well ,you will step on shit(yes,human excrement)on the sidewalk right where you have all the fancy tech companies.I doubt if Lagos has half the number of homeless people in Los Angeles talk less of California.

People are always quick to say how much they earn.200k monthly in a government job,2 million a month in an oil company.That is an employee mindset and that person will always remain a commodity to be traded whether abroad or in Nigeria.
On the other hand,we have pioneers,risk takers thinking how much value can I create in this economy.Abeokuta is untapped and so is Akure,Makurdi,Ilorin,Awka,Uyo.
I have never gone beyond Ore but every time I see pictures of Onitsha or Aba,I just shake my head in awe.The filth is someone's fortune if they can only help the residents to see that human beings shouldn't live like pigs.Aba is a gold mine for urban town planners and so is Mushin,Bariga, Ajegunle and every filthy part of this country.
To all of you that keep running away,London was filthy up to the early 1900s and my people had communal baths in the centre of London up till the mid 60s.
Inspite of the foolishness that is government, Nigeria is moving forward and only those with eyes can see that. As for me the only thing that will make me migrate from Nigeria is the rapture or death.This is my own promised land.

Nigeria is for visionaries,not for people who want an easy life.Hundreds of years ago,America,Canada and Australia were all part of the unknown world and you had to be reckless and an adventurer to venture far beyond the shores of Europe.They went from the known to the unknown cos Europe was the only civilized world they knew.
Fast forward hundreds of years and Africa is the new unknown.It takes a radical,visionary to live on this continent.You all want to run away but the Indians are cleaning out in this same country in every sector.The Chinese are migrating here in their thousands and all we do is complain.
Nigerians still suffer from a 'Spirit of Servitude',always perceiving abroad to be better mostly because they have nothing to offer.
Ask not what your country can do for you,but what you can do for your country.Let the sky fall down,we die here.Nothing dey happen anywhere abroad.

Kingpele:
why did u fail to snap the security guys, this lock down has thought me to be sympathetic to the plight of prisoners especially in Africa, how can one sit for one corner every day for 1 month? Talk more of spending like 15 to 30 years behind bars, menh is crazy, may God comfort all innocent people that are wrongly accused of crimes, who are languishing in jail.. Damn very cruel

Open prison is even better,they can have best friends that they talk to.Imagine solitary confinement in a small cell with only your thoughts 23 hrs out of 24 hrs everyday for years.
No kill pesin oooo,prison is torture.

AshipaEk0:
so you must gather crowd to bury your dead?

person die jejely, you turn am to frozen turkey keep inside freezer for years because of what exactly?

is the body what you are going to cook & eat at the party you are so bent on doing?

Abi what relevance does keeping the body have to do with you gathering to cry crocodile tears and tell lies about how wonderful the dead person was?

In actual fact,where the deceased will spend eternity is all that is important.
You spend billions to bury someone that has gone to hell.
THINK ETERNITY !!!

naijaschoolguru:
Yes of course, the nature of this world stated that, people's we give birth and people's we also die. Since dead is inevitable.

Finally found Oyibokoro on nairaland.
English bitter no be small�

Vision2045:
I am tired of the lockdown as well but I don't think it's time for the lockdown to be called off...

To those saying the lockdown didn't work.....I hope you are right...but I am sure it worked as it showed us an indication of what is ahead....Those people tested so far are those with traveling history and those that came in contact with them...

Can we be rest assured that all those that came in contact has been fully located and tested (definitely No, My neighbor is one of the medical personnel at the isolation centre in onikan..she said Lagos is really under testing...and I ask why she said the test kit are so limited in supply and that ventilators are as well limited).

If the lockdown is called off or relaxed, we all Sabi as Lagos dey....our bus na hustle..bus stop na hustle...market na hustle..church na crowd..mosque crowd..felashrine crowd...qulox crowd....malls crowd....

If people still disobey the lockdown when it was so called in full flight...do u think when it's relaxed or totally called off people will not just go straight to normalcy.

Can any state in Nigeria handle a surge if things go south ( which I pray it doesn't)

Have u watched the channels TV interview with the deputy coordinator for the covid 19 in their state...he said a reported 640 death in one week..though natural death join but we all know something is wrong...that's because their governor is not proactive enough...



What do I suggest.

- This coming week government should make effort to create local response team in all local government and train personnel to Man those centres...every local government has office already ..that can be achieved in a week...they will deploy trained personnel from the isolation centres and general hospital with adequate PPEs

- Full sensitisation at local level...A team of people go into street with their mega phone...and share safety tips and proper explanation and maybe a small pamphlet with pictures.

- Those centres at local level will be there to test and absorb if any case arise and might be transferred to a mother centre (Onikan, IDH and any other created ) in case of severe issues.

- Government should as well invest in Test kit and ventilators atleast divert some more money to the health sector...

All this is attainable in two weeks....Then the government can relax the lockdown ...But forget it relaxing the lockdown is like suspending it...We all know our kind of mentality in Nigeria here...

My humble Opinion

Too much sense dey worry you.Very intelligent submission.However, people have made up their mind that tomorrow is the last day.
I don't blame anyone who wants to hit the streets,but don't blame Buhari when someone you know dies of Covid.
Naa still fairytale till alarm go blow.

For everyone shouting billionaire this and that,very few billionaires have cash.
Only a very small percentage of their net worth is kept in fixed deposits.Most however is tied to the valuation of the business that made them billionaires.E.g Jeff Bezos is worth 100 billion today because his share of Amazon stock is worth that today.If Amazon share price should half,he automatically loses half of his fortune.
If however Jeff Bezos feels like buying an apartment in New York and a yatch at Monte Carlo,he doesn't need to sell any shares even if his total bill is 150 million dollars.
Enter private bankers like Credit Suisse and UBS,they will provide whatever amount he needs to splurge as long as his networth remains solid.So billionaires have debt too and a lot of it if they like the good life.

realest2:
she married him when he had debts running into millions, and even paid off part of it. she knew he was broke but still believed in him. how many of your likes will offer to do such. all slay queens like you care about is in the present riches he has. BTW, everyone has a past. As far as the present her is good, no one really gives a shit about her past. Real rich men with sense will never marry a lady with nothing to show for but her body and entitlement mentality. take it or leave it. Na side chicks sure pass for una

Kanye West was never broke.
Your networth is a summation of all your assetts minus your debt.He still has a debt of over 50 million dollars but he has assetts that outweigh his debt by 1.3 billion dollars.
Even when he released those tweets in 2016,his net worth was close to 200 million.He was so broke that he was buying and renovating some of the most expensive real estate in different states.

dominique:
How did he become a billionaire?

He invested heavily in kulikuli and introduced America to it.

Diffdeef:
It was his wife Kim kardashian who paid the debt off. When he was $53m in debt,Kim didn't run,He publicly asked for help,Kim didn't run,now he's a billionaire,This only happens when you got a supportive partner.
May we never get married to a liability,Fellas pls Marry well!

They still carry a joint debt of over 50 million dollars,so I don't think this is accurate.A debt is not a bad thing in America as they have a crazy credit rating due to their celebrity status and earnings from multiple streams.

Kanye was going bunkers and not necessarily begging for money the way people bombard nairaland to beg,so stop feeling inspired.
By the time of this tweet,he already was heavily invested into fashion which was why he was seriously in debt even though his music catalog and yours was still fetching him millions.
The only thing that should inspire anyone about Kanye is how much he believes in his ideas and talent even though a lot of people consider him an egomaniac and wacko.

Afolabimills:
Yet some wicked mofos can't help those in need that come online to beg for help I cried like a child yesterday morning when one very useless fellow insult me because I ask for financial assistance aka area4area where ever u are may God reward u n ur likes

Pls be humble.When you are going through stuff is a good time to exhibit humility. Pride and arrogance is very repulsive.

Buhari in my opinion is not culpable in most of these.He has done his bit,but he is no wartime general like Churchill or Eisenhower.

Online scammers dey multiply pass Covid ooo.Be wise with your money.Every Tom,Dick and Harry is now an online guru.SMH.

I was indifferent about Covid till the Italian numbers started dropping,and then Spain,the UK and the US.
I was still like naa their problem till I watched a news report on Ecuador.If you know your geography well,you will realize the climate argument has been debunked already.
A situation where cemeteries are full and coffins have to be wrapped in cellophane and kept at home till new grave sites are dug.Someone said there was a stench of death in the air because of all the decomposing bodies in the neighborhood.
All man dey shout,but just let 20 people die in Mushin,and everywhere go calm.

wickyyolo:
You don’t understand tech. Have u heard about 3D printing ? Read and watch videos about it.

How 3D printing take affect Naija economy,very soon you will mention AI and autonomous driving.
How many Tesla's have you seen in naija ?

All the looted funds cannot save your economy,it can only prop it up.
Make up is not the cure for ugly �.

Regarding Oil prices,a visit to your nearest filling station will educate you.We are not buying fuel for our cars and generators(because power has seriously improved most likely due to excess gas ).Tankers are loading less cos the underground storages of the filling stations are depleting at a very slow rate.The aviation sector is dead for now and so is most of global shipping.Naa to dey drink our oil remain as the world doesn't need it right now.
That is the reason for the unprecedented fall in oil prices.

Cash will be King in the next few weeks with the attendant risk more robberies.
Don't borrow money from loan sharks this period cos their rates will be cut throat and there might be no means to repay.
Most poorly capitalised lenders will be wiped out in the next few weeks as there will be record loan defaults.The online lenders are in big trouble especially as most loans are not collaterized.This is the time for them to be acquired by the big boys,hence Corona killed Fintech.

Though not covering the whole spectrum of possible events,the OP is absolutely right.
Multinationals like the IOCs will still pay their staff fully and so will the Nestle's,PZs,Unilevers of this world.The sound banks like GT,FBN ,Zenith,UBA,Access will still pay their staff even though profitability will seriously suffer.However, Keystone, Heritage and all those shaky brands might devise means of cutting costs.
The economic impact will be worse than the virus itself,but the hysteria surrounding the deaths and the lockdown has not made people realize it.
People are complaining about the lockdown,a second wave of self quarantine occasioned by job losses is loading.Sad but true.
If you know God,now is the time to hold him tightttttt.

Do you know in kfc ,chicken that has spent beyond a certain time limit on the shelf has to be thrown away.If you try that in naija,you have enrolled for BANKRUPTCY 101.No wonder almost all the KFCs are closed.Blame the terrible economy that makes opening a franchise in nigeria an exercise in futility.The solution,home grown brands that know the terrain.

as a franchise,the krispy kreme must have had a set target by what they refer to as 'CORPORATE' in the U.S or a regional office probably in India or Dubai.With the current hardship in Nigeria,they might be doing well below expected,hence the stacks of the mix in question.Some fraud was going on and even if nafdac didnt show up,theywould have eventually encountered problems remitting money they did not earn and hence the large unsold inventory.
This is just a sign of an ailing economy and nothing absolutely to rejoice about.

was the funny tasting peppersoup canned?

last week we heard about a woman who left her child in the vehicle and went in to pick something.Living in a terrain like Magodo,the last thing on her mind was the vehicle rolling out of her compound and into the gully outside the house.Hope the child is okay now but can we just be more careful as parents in this country.