₦airaland Forum

deleyi20:
Mr. Adedotun is one of the Proteges of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu... I know The Jagaban still has a lot of influence in this government.

seguntijan:
"I could not resist talking about this, early today. The number of registered churches in Nigeria is 23,216 according to the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria. Note that these churches have branches. There may be over 2,000,000 documented church branches in Nigeria. Add to this, all the Mosques and undocumented religious houses all over Nigeria, we may be talking of 5,000,000. It calls for concern. Our major business in Nigeria presently is religion or faith marketing. Yet this business is tax free and enjoy free entry. Juxtapose this with the production base in Nigeria, you will see why we are a poor nation with all forms of recession. Last year there are just slightly about 1000 manufacturing companies still hanging out there in Nigeria. Many of them are even threatening closure. Some of the old factory premises have been converted to churches and Mosques. It is sad. These companies who produce what we eat and use in this country pay tax and go through harrowing experience to do business. They cannot afford the limousines, luxury homes and private planes these faith leaders use, yet they are the ones that pay tax which we use to build roads that these faith preachers travel. We have got many things wrong in this country. Faith without work and expecting miracles is definitely a mirage. Time to have a personal relationship with God and focus on productive work. I am a Christian and a believer but I find it difficult to accept what is going on. The starting point is to bring all churches, mosques and religious houses to the tax bracket, tax religious organizations as we tax our companies. Give them tax deductions/benefits where they spend on charity as applied to businesses Nigeria.
According to one of my Wards whom I am proud to have mentored "Nigeria would have been such a great country to live in if the passion with which churches are created is the same way enterprises are established and industries developed by individuals. With this, meaningful and gainful employment would have become a thing of the past.
In a sharp departure from what I was thought in my home when I was growing up, I suddenly realized that nobody talks about industry and hard work anymore in Nigeria but miracle.
It is so painful that the teachings of hard work, honesty and industry have been replaced with the teachings of prosperity via a divine means in my dear country.
Professor Alan Rugman, of blessed memory, thought me at Henley Business School that key factors of economic growth in any country are the presence of viable industries and strong competition within the industries.
We must all imbibe the spirit of hard work, industry, patriotism and honesty for us to grow as a nation"
That is the view of one of the 24 young and promising Business Managers that I mentor. It is a food for thought as we start the new year."

keypad1:
Why are these men all yoruba?

Does it mean God is with the yorubas more than any other tribe?

What baffles me most is the level of tribalism displayed by this particular even inside church. In redeem for instance, 95% of their main pastors are from this same tribe.

I was at winners chapel some years back and i sat close to a woman from south west mumbling to herself that ''they started this church first before it became popular''. It could be she was not given a post in that church.

Why are the southwesterners tribalistic in place of work? Once they head a particular branch they will pack their brothers, as long as you can speak ''wa, ekaaro, mo fe jeun''. Abandoning others to do the dirty jobs.

And they claimed to pray yet commit all manners of atrocities before God.

For instance, before a yoruba man will marry a woman he would have given her ''belle'' before the wedding. If not no wedding. And the wedding is a church wedding for that matter. Descrating the name of God and also ''defiling the marriage bed according to the Bible:

hmmmm......na wa oooo

mind you am not igbo neither am i from south east or south south.

Be warned.

Rafidi:
while normal people appeal for peace and try to quench the flames of fitnah and bloodshed, a wahhabi fanatic your like tries to add fuel to fire. be mindful of Allah, if you truly worship Him. Allah/Islam/the Prophet/the Quran do not encourage oppression/arrogance/fitnah/aggression/intimidation/bloodshed even against a kafir. bloodshed and enmity among humanity is depicted as the scheming of shaitan in the Quran.

DCTrendy:
Middlebelter, your english nah gbon-ganun. na complete saka-bula..lol.. Cheers

deji15:
Any surprise at the names?
Prof Ben Nwabueze ?? Chief Proponent of Corruption.
Then you have long list of Yorubas as anti corruption crusaders even to the extent that SAN's are rendering their services free of Charge..
Pro Yemi Osibanjo SAN
Mr Femi Falana
Gani Fawhinmi
Tayo Oyetibo SAN
Rotimi Jacobs SAN

Etc..

deji15:
Any surprise at the names?
Prof Ben Nwabueze ?? Chief Proponent of Corruption.
Then you have long list of Yorubas as anti corruption crusaders even to the extent that SAN's are rendering their services free of Charge..
Pro Yemi Osibanjo SAN
Mr Femi Falana
Gani Fawhinmi
Tayo Oyetibo SAN
Rotimi Jacobs SAN

Etc..

4Play:
Excelled in Ogun state! [b]The state that required a bailout due to the unsustainable debt partly accumulated [/b]during Adeosun's era.

When people say someone has excelled as finance commissioner, they usually point to increases in IGR. But an increase in IGR accompanied with a borrowing binge - the latter magnitudes bigger than the former - is financial recklessness. This is what she achieved in Ogun state and this alone made her unsuitable for the role.

I suspect that a lot of decisions attributed to her is actually down to political pressure: whether under Amosun or Buhari. But a craven disposition to be a yes woman is not a feature suitable for a finance minister/commissioner.

NOI was minister of Finance and Head of Economics Management Team. Was she able to prevent the current recession by making reasonable savings for the country?
Kevin Adeosun is not our problem in this country. Let's stop playing petty politics with important matters and face the task of rescueing the sinking ship collectively by tell PMB, I mean PMB the truth.

Progressive01:
I've not said i'm omenka so yall should put a lid on that bullshiit.

That said, Ortom is just as confused as they come (apologies to Kyase). He should be more concerned about fixing rural roads whuch are in terrible state of disrepair, like the Achoho-Oju road. Drive down that road once and you end up at the mechanic's spending a fortune fixing your car, and there are dozens other such roads in the state.

Let him fix the roads, fix the state workers salaries and then prepare to retire to running Oracle group of companies from 2019, because no one is gonna retain him in the government house.


Edit:

You see what we keep saying here. The ignorance of some members of this forum is simply appalling. Some idiotic miscreants who never venture out of their immediate surroundings sit their ignorant bum in front of their first generation symbian abacus phones and type crap all over the net. They imagine Benue state is predominantly Muslim or Hausa while these people don't even make up to 1% of the state population.

The only place you can find a good number of indegenous Muslims in the state is the Agatu axis- just about all Muslims in the state are "immigrants" (if I'd call them that).

Someone tell these kids that the world is a lot bigger and intricate than they imagine. They should learn to go out every once in a while to interact with outsiders- it would do their brains a whole world of good.