₦airaland Forum

Mariangeles:
The Church will continue to grow and there's nothing you or anybody can do about it.

Amen, Amen and Amen.

Meanwhile, Churches must be taxed. It's unfair for churches to be registered as charities for charitable works and they refuse to do those charitable works.

How many Churches are taking care of IDPs? Its foreign charities doing their jobs.

Let's start from property tax on religious bodies. From there, who knows where next we'll move to.

stonemasonn:
How will they calculate the tax for each church/ mosque?
And what about churches/ mosques that don't generate a kobo?

They'll value the property and tax them based on the value. Mind you, the valuation is to be done by Government valuers.

powerkey:
The plot to repopulate Christianity in Nigeria is starting with Lagos state and sincerely I'm not surprised....

Yorubas don't repent at all. There is no true Yoruba believer. No matter how they claim, they can't do without their their otumokpo.

Lmaooooo
E really pained this one o.

Nwanne, your tears won't change anything. Cry yourself a river.

danvon:
So the House of God is now a business, not surprised at all though, always knew something was wrong with Ambode, it's now we'll seperate the Church from the Business

House of which God?
Even Jesus Christ and his apostles were taxed not to talk of your Churches.

Or is your church bigger than Jesus Christ?

Mariangeles:
Your writeup is filled with CHURCHES and PASTORS... why?

How many shrines have 10,000 capacity buildings in Lagos?

Shebi you're the light of the world? Now, you want to hide under a bushel? God forbid.

Go and pay your tax

pauljumbo:
The focus is church

Before nko, na shrine them for focus on?

Ye are a city set on a hill. Pay tax for that city o!

Desyner:
You are speculating. How does the church make profit? You will probably speculate further in answering that question.

The tax is one income and not profit. Or still you need me to define them for you?

Jupxter:
Absolute rubbish. The function of the church is already one that provides services

Which service does the church provide?

Building mega churches when the members are homeless,
Pastors living like Pontius Pilate when members are living like Lazarus the beggar.

Desyner:
The church and mosques(if taxable) will soon retject this injustice. Buhari son will soon be flown abroad with tax payers money while those who pay the tax can't afford such.
If it were to be a church member who can't afford a church school we criticize the pastors but here govt officials are taxing us against our will and enjoying what we can't enjoy. Any attempt to tax the church is an attempt to tax the people twice.

When you won't read the post before typing nonsense. The tax is not on the church income as that is exempt from taxation by the Companies and Allied Matters Act.

However, the tax would be based on the properties occupied by those churches. Na RCCG go suffer am pass. You claim not to make profit but you're buying multi billion naira properties. Meanwhile, your members are in IKEJA General hospital unable to pay hospital bills and waiting for divine intervention.

Beautiful

Churches should be placed in a special taxable category. The tax is not based on their income but on the property they occupy. You can't have a 12-storey church in Victoria Island and refuse to pay tax cos it's a church.

All these agbaya churches that have hundreds of parishes but don't have a single orphanage or hospital. Even their mediocre schools are designed to cater to the children of the rich.

Guys, you know the funny thing, these Muslims and Christian leaders would soon issue a joint press release. When money is involved, no religion o. Greed unites them.

Freeze freed the sheeples. Now, Ambode wan hammer the sheeples.

Senator1212:
Hello house, I need advise on this issue. My landlord gave me quite notice after my rent due at 31th of October and the letter was delivered to my house on 15th of November.
Now the man is calling me to pay my rent after I told the man have accepted the letter and I will move out by end of May.
I don’t have interest to renew the rent again and lawyer is calling me to pay before Friday.

OP, once your rent expires, you're entitled to just 7-days notice. You think you are entitled to 6-months' notice? Lmao

Let me tell you. they'll drag you to court and you'll pay for the extra time spent on the property.

xreal:
The same 'Chosen' people who swim inside gutter during evangelism on the streets?

Out of every 12 disciples, there must be a Judas.

heendrix:
god would not allow you fight a battle bigger than your reach. dont allow the fact your a lawyer or know a renowned lawyer shak up till forcing ur head into a tiny hole

Go and sit down. Even when churches have disputes, they hire lawyers to argue their matters in court.

lost24:
Is dat news

Case I dnt understand

News don finish.

Tithe matter don go.
Hijab own don waka.
Fuel don dey come down small.

Bloggers are out of nonsense to post.

People are asking fundamental questions and I see so-called Christians insulting and cursing those asking questions. It is when one loses an argument that he begins to shout and curse.

It is very valid to ask what the churches do as charity. Under the laws of Nigeria, churches are registered as charities and are therefore NGOs. They are tax exempt because it is assumed their funds are for charitable purposes.

Therefore, and Christian that finds such questions offensive is simply using feigned anger to cover his embarrassment at the shortcomings of the church organisation registered as a charity but not performing charitable acts.

DunlopTyrezone:
thanks for speaking for Nigerians. But am sure nigerians can speak for themselves.
Thanks you.

This is the difference between someone paid to post online and someone who has actually run a business.
From your post, I seriously doubt if you've ever run a profitable business.

While you were away, other brands took your market share. Sit down in your showroom in VI and expect customers to waltz in. It's like you people haven't learnt your lessons yet.

When crude oil prices were high, landing costs were low.
Now that crude oil prices are low, landing costs are high.

This government defies all rules of integrity, logic, commonsense and sanity in its dealings with Nigerians.

Sad

This morning, I left my house some mins to 5am to join the queue for fuel at NNPC in Oregun, Ikeja. After waiting for 3 hours without getting a single drop of petrol, I took a casual stroll around the filling station.

Just beside the NNPC station is a gigantic building with 4 cranes working on it simultaneously. I checked the board and discovered that it belongs to the Latter Day Assembly of Pastor Tunde Bakare.

The irony of everything is that Tunde Bakare supported PMB and also convened the Save Nigeria Group which tackled GEJ during the fuel price increase.

5 years after the Occupy Nigeria protests which I participated in and spearheaded by the Save Nigeria Group, Tunde Bakare is building a mammoth church structure and I'm in a filling station next door, wasting my hours over a few litres of fuel. Since Buhari came on board, Tunde Bakare and his fellow activists have become quiet. Imagine someone like Tam David-West keeping mum in a period of fuel scarcity. It's either they are complicit or they're ashamed of Buhari.

Guys, I won't lie to you, Nigeria can never get better again. This country is beyond redemption. Don't let our religious leaders fool you, our Pastors' kids are all abroad. Even Sani Yerima who introduced Sharia law im Nigeria ran off to the UK for his children to be born there. GEJ, Buhari, Yar Adua, Tinubu, Akpabio, Ekwueme etc all go abroad for medical trips, is that in our budget?

The only thing that can get better is your individual condition. As for Nigeria, it is finished, we're just fighting over the carcass.

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I don't know what is more funny to me: The fact that they beat Man Utd like a drum or the funny reactions of United fans.

Isn't it ironic that the court determines who should stand for an election, who got the majority of lawful votes cast, who the certificate of return should be handed to, who should be sworn in and who should be disqualified from an election.

We are in a Judicratic system of government. Do your best and let your lawyers handle the rest.

lilytender:
The report says that she had two Bureau de Change offices while she was a staff of Zenith Bank. That is how rogue bankers sink the country's economy and devalue our currency. She would get dollars at 180 naira during pilgrimage period illegally using her position and buy thousands of dollars. Later, she will take the dollars to her illegal Bureau de Change to sell at 400 naira. The thief will still queue behind her fellow pigs and idiots to accuse Buhari for the fallen naira.

I know because I worked in Zenith Bank for about three years. If you are coming here to quote and abuse me. I AM READY FOR YOU.

As for the idiot that killed her, the thunder that will fire him is the same one that fired the Lagos tout Oba Akiolu when he misbehaved to Ooni of Ife.

Bar man, give this guy a crate of whatever he drinks.
Put the bill in the 2018 budget.

That's Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State.

Aloma Mariam Mukhtar was an Alhaja who was a Chief Justice of Nigeria. She used a head covering which showed her hair as commanded by Islam and her ears were visible as commanded by law.

There are tons of Muslim judges, SANs, lawyers and magistrates who are Alhajas but didn't follow this madness.

What I see about this whole matter is just plain mischief. There are 3 compulsory dinners every aspirant to the Nigerian bar must attend while in the Law School. This lady didn't use her hijab to any of them but decided to wear it for her call to bar. If she wore hijabs to her dinners, she won't have been allowed to participate.

The idea behind wearing hijabs is to cover your unclothedness. When you do so, you're obeying the religious commandment. It doesn't matter if you're doing so with hijab, a nylon bag or you're wearing a canopy.

The Sultan is talking of hijabs here when his daughter who graduated from a University in the UK didn't wear a hijab. Since he's an Islamic leader, why didn't he allow her study law in Saudi?
Even Sani Yerima had his wife run to the US to give birth to his children after confusing paupers in Nigeria with his Sharia law.

These leaders would be pretending to be defenders of Islanm but they run to the US and UK when they want to give birth because they want to birth citizens. Why can't they go to Saudi?

NoToPile:
Lool most tenants and even landlords don't know this, you will see a tenant owing some months rent and still expect to be given a six month notice.


I have seen tenants that will deliberately not pay simply because they want to force the landlord to give them a quit notice thinking they will be entitled to a six month notice again.

There are a lot of evil people our there who's aim is to cheat.

I have someone who had a troublesome tenant who vandalised the house and threatened other occupants. Before the tenancy expired, the landlord was apprehensive, I told him to cool down. The tenant was saying he was going to stay there indefinitely if he doesn't get 6 months notice.

I told the landlord to calm down and wait for the rent to expire. Before the rent expired, I wrote the tenant that his rent had increased from 2M to 24M per annum. The tenant thought it was a joke, but once his rent expired, he was served with a letter of intention to recover premises.

Immediately the 7 days expired, the landlord took the tenant to court. One of the reliefs claimed by the landlord was that the court should order the tenant to pay rent for rent for the extra time spent in the house at the new rate. The implication was that the tenant would pay per extra month what he was paying per annum before.

Sometimes, bad people try to oppress good people through using the Law. It's left for good people to use the Law to protect themselves also.

alstacs:
I guess that time frame/limit of 7 days was set because the tenure of tenancy is monthly rather than annual as recommended by the Lagos tenancy law

Wrong.
The Tenancy Law does not recommend one form of tenancy over another. Annual tenancies are the most common particularly for residential properties.

alstacs:
By implication, the landlord is wrong for collecting annual rent as against monthly on the one hand

You're wrong here also

alstacs:
On the second hand, 7 days per month will give you roughly 3 months if you pay per annum. So I guess intent to recover and the vacation of the property by the tenant should enjoy the 3 months grace.

So, going by your analogy, if someone enters a lease for 3 years, he's entitled to 18 months quit notice?
You want a tenant to pay for 12 months and enjoy 3 months free?

For annual tenancies, once your rent hasn't expired, you're entitled to 6 months quit notice. If it's expired, the tenant gets 7 days.

Origin:
The law school should rise above its rules and recognize people have diverse human rights which they need to uphold.

A lawyers' wig is not affected by the wearing of an hijab. Especially when its not worn for the sole intention of flouting rules. Her hijab is her way of life and is worn 247.

How many Magistrates and Judges wear hijab?
Aloma Mukhtar was a Muslim lady, an Hajia and CJN, was she wearing hijab?
Does it reduce the piety of those not wearing hijab?

This is the legal profession and not pepper seller's union. Your opinion or otherwise wouldn't change the way things are done here.

raker300:
When they were killing igbos they were rejoicing

This life no be anything ooo

It is better to keep quiet and be presumed wise than to speak and remove all doubts as to your foolishness.

mangadm123:
Can i get a plot of land at 3million Naira at Ikeja area?
That's my budget and it must only be at Ikeja becos of my bizness. Genuine agents in the house, i need your input or if anyone has for sale within that rate should kindly quote me

Take a long look at your money cos it's about to leave you. The cheapest price you can get genuine land in Ikeja with complete documents is circa 40,45M.

You want to buy land for 3M in Ikeja when they're renting 4 bedroom flat for 2.5M?

AuroraB:
So, I'm trying to figure out how easy it is not to issue a quit notice before 'throwing one's things out' It's no longer a law or what?

If in parts of Lagos covered by the Lagos State Tenancy Law, once the tenancy has expired by reason of time, the tenant is entitled to only seven days Notice of intention to recover premises. It's in the Tenancy Law 2011, but most tenants don't know and that's what puts them in trouble.

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