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Samantha125:
What's so important in having a big and loud wedding to begin with? Is it because people want to show off or what?

people with inferiority complex often try to make up by impressing outsiders to their own detriment. It's a sign that the woman suffers from low self esteem and the man is weak unable to control his wife. Two bad combination

Gov fayose paid an Edo lawyer mike ozekome N75m legal charges for defending him against buhari govt in court while dasuki was under probe. The Efcc turned around to sue ozekome to recover the N75 million which it considered part of the N4billion dasuki gave fayose from office of the NSA account. The bank record was correct but EFCC lost the case against ozekome because ozekome stood his ground that he was paid for a service offered and he is not a law enforcement agency empowered to probe clients income nor does he have the legal right or resources to vet the source of the fund.

Under a sound justice system, unexplained personal gifts to a pastor private account for no services offered could make the pastor an accomplice in a financial crime. But if paid to a publicly available church account which is designated for receiving public donations, the church would have a strong defence line especially if there is a history of public donations recieved and if the money doesn't get re-wired back to the politician or their proxy or no evidence of dubious chats/messages between the parties.

Morally, the church is not obliged to reject. There is no biblical precedence. Money were only rejected in the bible from those who want to buy the miracles or miracle working power of God with their money. As long a pastor makes it clear that giving money to church is not their ticket to heaven, the pastor commits no offence. The pastor has no way to tell if a donated money was stolen or earned by the said politician. Look at it this way, you have a shop selling bags of rice, a yahoo boy comes to buy a bag of rice from you and intentionally dash you small extra money. Will you be committing a sin by accepting his payment knowing fully well that it's fraud money? What about the tip? Will you reject it? Or is it a sin?
Yahoo boys go to a hospital and after being attended to, they parcel thank you money in envelope and share for the doctors and nurses, is it a sin? Is it morally wrong to collect?

genkins:
Come and say that in the west..na jail u ko de

U have to declare all gift in excess of a certain amount and youl be taxed.

Those contributions u called would be accounted for...to the last penny and published for all to see.

The government scrutinizes ur books frequently.

bro, I have never been to the west but by reading the internet everyday, I know some of these things. I think laziness to read, Inexposure and poor university education has left millions of our people incapacitated. Too many cannot reason or see beyond their immediate pecuniary needs or beyond their local cultures/environment

2 of Nigeria big name pastors had problem in UK and USA for opaque financial dealings. One sold his books in the USA and asked for fund to be repatriated. The books were clearly marked not for sale to evade taxes. His pastor in the USA took advantage of that to involve law enforcement and break out. Happened many years ago. The other opened his business arm in the UK by registering his school as non profit to evade tax and was banned from the UK.

What we think is normal in Nigeria is abnormal everywhere else. But as the bible say, my people perish for lack of knowledge

splendournoni:
Like I said before your mouth is quicker than your brain... I used to be in that category before... You no even Yab church reach me before I asked and saw for myself

You are unable to express yourself or lay out your point. Or are you afraid to say what you learnt here in an intelligent way for others to learn? You have actually said nothing so far as far as this discussion is concerned. We are talking about the opaque way revenue and expenditures are handled by religious bodies particularly in Nigeria. Many churches outside Africa do present members with financial reports of their audited account. So what are you saying here. Even, some do write budget at the start of the year and they spend responsibility according to the budget known to all members or at least workers. So what are you defending about Nigerian churches that are unable to be accountable and transparent to their members on financial issues

Do you know the legal meaning of misappropriation of funds. You can do a project with money contributed by members for another project and it's a legal crime even though you didn't eat the members money. Politicians do this and you call them thief but once it's your church, you want to fight

Even self, any standard international NGOs that get donations do have financial reports. So I don't understand why many are being emotional and unreasonable here

constancefriday:
Real Life Gospel Church is in Nigeria, is for Nigeria and cares for Nigerians

Apostle Constance C. Friday refutes claims that RLGC is foreign based and promotes foreign interests ahead of all Nigerian interests.

I'm aware that some archaic minded and curmudgeonly acrimonious individuals are claiming that the ministry I oversee (i.e The Real Life Gospel Church) is foreign based and promotes foreign interests above Naija interests.
That's not true.
Such claims are false, such claims are malicious and they're ill intended to create bad feelings for us amongst Nigerians.
RLGC is in Nigeria, RLGC is for Nigeria and RLGC cares for Nigerians.
RLGC is a global or international gospel industry, but her roots are in Nigeria and your beloved General Overseer is a Nigerian.
How can a Nigerian not care about Nigeria even if he lives abroad, is that possible?
Shout out to all Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea fans who live on the mainland, and island we love you all. Arsenal fans are welcomed, in fact Arsenal fans have large rooms and can have a warm and comfortable home here with us in RLGC, we won't treat them bad. RLGC is for everyone.
If you're from Spain, or England, or Austria or Ukraine, you're welcome to RLGC and you are loved and cared for.

RLGC is available for all residents of Lagos Island and for all residents of Lagos island.

RLGC is available for all Nigerians, Africans and Global Citizens.

We won't surrender or vacate Lagos Mainland for any f**king body

Yours Sincerely;
Apostle Constance C. Friday

This is an end-time church marketing strategy

splendournoni:
Sometimes I know we are quick to talk but try dey ask questions before going public....

Don't get upset. I know any discussion about churches easily stirrs emotional reaction from you guys. But, can you genuinely answer these questions:

1) which of the multinational church corporations in Nigeria audits their account with the services of external and international auditing firms such as Deloitte, PWC, etc

2) how many of the multinational church corporations have you ever seen their yearly financial report published on their church magazine, their website or on a national daily before. Every other organizations registered under law publishes financial reports for transparency and accountability.

3) how many churches work on a yearly budget basis - a budget seen by its members and vetted by a committee that has non-yes daddies in it's membership

4) have you ever seen a breakdown of how much your own church generates from various channels such as YouTube, magazines, tithes, donations, etc before?

Religious organizations activities are opaque generally in Nigeria. That's why you have pastors diverting church fund to private real estate businesses like the one currently accused by efcc.

You sheeps enable prevention of transparency and accountability in your respective churches . But when law enforcement wades in, the entire body of Christ is embarrassed by a problem you could have prevented by just being transparent and accountable in management of public fund

Nkemosifo:
Make una manage the English I still dy vex
My friend went for a travel agent professional course after that, she opened a WhatsApp group adding 10girls saying we should get our passport and travel that she will get us a cheaper price. we should make it a girls trip we are all doing well for ourselves including her, I later found out that my only close friend in that group has paid already the other's are no more going and wanted to opt out but later changed my mind and decided to go cos of my friends. after several warnings and seeing cheaper options with planned activities online, when I asked the activities there she said don't worry we will have fun when we get there. On the day we left we found out we landed in dar Salam instead of the zanzibar promised with no activities planned down at all before we were even allowed into that dar Salam we had to pay $100 for yellow fever and visa on arrival for dar Salam, we asked the reason we landed in dar salam instead of zenzibar and she said it was cos we paid late and flights to zanzibar was already 2.something million. Which was expensive that she bought the tickets 1.9M i checked online that 24th and flights leaving lagos 25th of December was still being sold at 1.5M for round trip 10days gap the hotel she booked was at dar salam too when all the activities are on Zanzibar island we got upset and had to look for a new place that same day courtesy of me using booking.com we went there and paid cash cos madam came with her Naira visa card to pay for hotel in Tanzania. She went to Access bank Tanzania with same card and was told there's nothing they could do for her. She came back and was upset that we aren't sympathetic to her plight that how much did we pay that our money was finished and she's spending hers.so i sent her the cheaper flight options schedule i saw online and the cheaper agent options i also got and left using her thinking is better my friend eats my money than outsiders then i said let's calculate how much have you spent after calculations she found our side of money remaining and kept quiet the next day she was able to get someone to send money through western union and refunded me and my friend our hotel fee for 2 days. I told her that is dollar visa card that might work in international settings and she said she brought it so i said show it to me and she said she won't that since i already believe she's a liar i should take it like that. I brought $ 500 dollar extra money for food and tour activities o. MY BF already said that peer pressure and my GFs will kill me someday i no dy hear word inside that my $500 dollar that I won't finish 10days in Nigeria $100 is gone o, still had to spend another $100 for travel insurance and ferry to zanzibar and back to dar Salam for the travel back we got to zanzibar and stayed in 3 different hotels 5 different rooms in 7 nights, 6days nothing me and my other friend eye didn't see we couldn't eat their food so it was only chicken and chips with pancakes every single day we lost weight I had skin burns even with sun screen my face was peeling my skin was burning.this girl did only 2 activities with us in 2 days every morning she wakes up go out and come back in the evening, i asked so this is the fun you promised me leaving me in the hotel room. she comes back after we have slept daily the activities I brought up she will say take bike to round about take a bus going to where you want . Some days she will come back by 4pm shower pretend to be making calls and leave without telling us where she's going, Took us to club a club she has gone with the indigene the previous night left us sitting like idiots went outside to be making calls again i couldn't see but my other friend could she got upset and said let's leave i went outside told her thing's here are expensive let's contribute and buy wine and shisha like we do in Nigeria then i saw someone an indigenous person have told her i don't want to see again cos that guy took $25 from us for showing us where dy sell food something others where taking $5 for.immediately i saw the guy i saw red me that was persuading the other girl we should stay longer na me stop bike i was feeling like a charity case like she brought me here for free so I went to Kenya airways and checked our flight bookings and found that this stupid babe didn't contribute upto 500k for this trip her flight was booked with our money flight was 1.3M and she told us 1.9 sent her the evidence expecting an explanation I got non so I asked her while she was on a call cos she was about leaving again and she said someone bought the flight ticket show us the transaction receipt you sent to that person she said all her WhatsApp messages has been deleted and instead of her answering us she was telling the person on the phone can you hear what my friends are saying. I told her I already know say you go chop my money I use my open eye come this trip but I didn't know you will be so wicked as to take my money and do nothing and planned nothing. After that confrontation the outings without us got worse she wasn't even remorseful.I felt choked up everything I had planned to do on this trip I couldn't anymore no happiness only anger and regret I had to start budgetting me way dy spend anyhow on a norm i had $300 dollar left have to save for food for the remaining days i have here also couldn't tell anyone my sufferings them go laugh me die that's why I'm ranting here small videos I did before this issue came up is what's making the other girls say I for follow una o them no know say na house we dy 24/7. Still in Tanzania in my room writing this on Tuesday we go back to del salam flight back is Friday. Them.say na who know you go kill you I don experience am next time if my friends dy do anything I go remove eye if that my other friend didn't pay I wouldn't be on this trip in all this I'm blaming myself not her cos that's the kind of person I am if to say no be my guy way Ginger me only me for carry this thing for mind. I'm an over thinker in a foreign country alone wanted to be with my friends and left the trip my guy planned for us

always do personal research and don't ever use agents as far traveling from Nigeria is concerned. My colleague lost over N10m few years back to a friend and room mate who japa to UK. Her friend asked her to pay the money to her agent but it was a scam. If you need do-it-yourself guides on traveling please be free to contact me. Ensure you always do it yourself

The shady nature of church spendings, lack of external auditors for church accounts, no real charitable works, use of pastors as accountants rather than employing seasoned professionals, nearly all the churches will fail if tested for misappropriation, diversion of fund and embezzlement

Scam. You don't own that website. Just like claiming you want to sell wikipedia.com, or sell yahoo.com. Get a legitimate job please

Do you mean the ngo website was hacked or your online banking passwords were leaked out by insiders . Your money cannot be accessed from your own website but can be accessed from your banks website if you have online banking activated. Even at that 2 factor authentication and account pin is required. You were careless with your passwords or maybe you slept off when you were with a prostitute who must have registered her fingerprint on your phone. If you set your bank app to work with the finger print accounts on your phone, the prostitute can easily use her added fingerprint to transfer your money. You tell us say you don sleep with 30 women in 2024, na the ngo money wey you take dey decieve and lure them to bed. Dem don get you

Women lust more than all of Gods creatures. They lust for power, lust for fame and lust also for fucking even more than men. They use furkin.g to bargain for power and fame. They use furkin.g to bargain for money. Women Bleep for free generally, it all depends on what they are bargaining for

This man no be here o

jazzman7711:
Because Gen. Murtala Muhammed was a NIGERIAN PATRIOT who fought in defence of the country, and also ruled EXCELLENTLY as head of State before he was brutally assassinated in 1976, while Col. Ojukwu was a SECESSIONIST DICTATOR IN MILITARY JACKBOOTS, whom nobody elected to seize any part of Nigeria and rename it a new country.

Brenbentondiaz:
Murtala Muhammed was more or less like this too. He ended up being shot dead. Can you meet the US president this way too? I doubt it. Comparing different environments and all that.

civilians did not kill muritala neither was it thugs, armed robbers or kidnappers. It was the security - his inner caucus military officers. All the coups were done by their inner caucus security officers connived with their millitary caucus. So don't use that as excuse for ostentatious lifestyle of today politicians. If the military today are power drunk, na still tinubu personal security aides go kill am

Brenbentondiaz:
Murtala Muhammed was more or less like this too. He ended up being shot dead. Can you meet the US president this way too? I doubt it. Comparing different environments and all that.

civilians did not kill muritala neither was it thugs, armed robbers or kidnappers. It was the security - his inner caucus military officers. All the coups were done by their inner caucus security officers connived with their millitary caucus. So don't use that as excuse for ostentatious lifestyle of today politicians. If the military today are corrupt, ba still his personal security aides go kill am

You buy it in Nigeria, pay cash here and whatever you do with the oil in Canada is not our business

RandDigital:
You have power? Priorities. That's why you're hungry & stamped e-signed 🫤🫤🫤

you know Nigeria's problem is complicated. We hardly produced just one president wiho had a first degree. The others since 1960 had no degree and the current one allegedly forged his US education or impersonated because the high school he claimed to have attended back here in Nigeria didn't exist the year he claimed to have graduated. How can this kind of country make a reasonable progress? Ministers are mostly misfits appointed by illiterate presidents. And the educated folks amongst the 200million citizens are not bothered because they are preoccupied hating the other tribes. Internal hate blindfolds and holds down the entire nation

RandDigital:
Congrats black SA man. Nigerian white worshippers left the group.

guy, u re funny. From the onset, I knew ur motive was to mock "black" Nigerians.

Back to the topic. Kudos to south Africa. This SA power minister threw up a party upon his appointment. Merely watching the party, I thought he would fail because I was imagining that he is celebrating as one who won a jackpot or a ticket to loot SA treasury. But now, I am thrilled by his performance. Kudos

Many African politicians' behavior really makes me pessimistic about their possible outcome. It is good to have high performers up there

pazienza:
Ijaw men and women must have been infertile to be that old and have just over 2million people in terms of population.
Joke of the day.

As old as Israel, Iran is. Even Egypt that was the first known civilization and nation state. Is it infertility that makes china and India population more than 15 times higher? Yoruba folks generally lack critical reasoning. Very irrational and erratic and this their shallowness is why Nigeria cannot grow

If you have sense you will know that population may be diminished by history of wars, and may increase in favor of the more amorous tribe. Also migration pattern. The ijaws, urhobos, igalas, Ibibio may have had a part of their population who migrated away to Cameron or guinea. Like 1500 years back just the way Yoruba migrate to UK today. They may have lost their original language as well. No language on earth is newer than the other. Natural disasters, wars, economic migration happened to some and the population became tinier with time. Next time use your sense

Mohammad was born into a country where Christianity and Judaism were already being practiced. When he started his movement, he openly admitted that a demon possessed him, then flew to an Ethiopian community practicing Christianity for protection because the secular society he was born into rightfully tried to eliminate him for trying to kill or convert everyone else from their respective religion to his own newly formed religion.

Mohammad plagiarized some of the old testament bible texts, Arabian cultural dressing, church ethics of ringing bells to call for prayer back then in his local community, amongst others. What makes this villain infamous is the lies, deception with which he corrupted the bible original interpretation and the false claim that a fallen angel called jubril or so spoke to him. So this fallen angel was not able to tell you something new but had to start by corrupting your mind against Jews and 0christians through twisted interpretation of the bible.
Truth is Mohammad was mad at the Jews in Medina who rejected his false teachings. That's where his paranoia with the Jewish and Christian religion started. He was on a revenge mission to kill the Jews and evacuate christians and traditionalists from his home country for rejecting him He had to lie that a spirit was talking to him just to cajole his followers to support him

FutureFocus:
Bitter soul!

What is wrong if I said other state should emulate this, do you have brain issue?
How is that statement tribalistic ?

Guy, you need therapy
I’ll cover the bill.

Why are you triggered so easily? You need rehabilitation.

FutureFocus:
Beautiful , other states should follow suits by emulating Lagos state

Check my previous posts for cheap gadgets on Xmas bonus

did you see the name idahosa there. It's an film city being develop by a Benin indigene in partnership with Singaporean firm. Lagos govt here is just an enabler - they need land from the govt and that's all. You Yoruba folks need to understand that strangers drive development to a city and stop being tribalistic and stop fighting other tribes living in lagos

UncleAyo:
Something needed to be done urgently


The rising cases of ritual killings are deeply troubling and call for collective action from individuals, communities, and governments. Here are some strategies to address the issue:

1. Strengthening Law Enforcement

Enhance security measures: Increase police presence in areas prone to ritual killings.

Special task forces: Establish units dedicated to investigating ritual-related crimes.

Swift justice: Prosecute perpetrators promptly to deter others.


2. Public Awareness Campaigns

Education: Raise awareness about the dangers and myths surrounding rituals through media, schools, and community programs.

Engage influencers: Use religious, traditional, and community leaders to debunk myths and promote positive cultural values.


3. Address Root Causes

Poverty alleviation: Many people turn to rituals out of desperation for wealth or success. Addressing unemployment and poverty can reduce this desperation.

Mental health support: Offer counseling for individuals tempted by harmful beliefs or practices.


4. Collaboration with Religious and Traditional Institutions

Engage faith leaders: Partner with churches, mosques, and temples to promote ethical teachings.

Traditional leaders: Work with local chiefs and elders to discourage harmful practices within cultural contexts.


5. Legislation and Policy Reform

Stronger laws: Enact and enforce stricter laws against ritual killings and related activities.

Regulate spiritual practices: Monitor and regulate activities of individuals or groups promoting harmful beliefs.


6. Community Vigilance

Neighborhood watch groups: Encourage communities to report suspicious activities.

Empowerment programs: Train citizens to identify and counter harmful practices.


7. Promote Positive Cultural Values

Highlight success stories: Share stories of people who succeeded through legitimate means.

Youth engagement: Provide platforms for young people to express themselves and focus on productive activities.


8. Leveraging Technology

Hotlines and apps: Establish anonymous platforms for reporting ritual-related activities.

Surveillance: Use drones, cameras, and other technologies in crime-prone areas.


Addressing ritual killings requires a holistic approach that combines prevention, enforcement, and re-education. Everyone has a role to play in eradicating this menace.

unfortunately, nobody in this cruise nation found this educative writeup worthy of likes. Please anyone in govt reading through should put a call across to this uncle ayo on how to implement these pragmatic situations.

I wonder why people like these are not in power or why daft and inept people are more common in the place of authority

aribisala0:
You are illiterate and you lack humility
I corrected you
Don't say what you don't know
That is correction
Like I predicted you have come out now trying to save face with stupid rhetoric

I corrected you twice

I advised you
Spend obe hour of your time
Go online research and read
That will be time we'll spent
The information is out there and is no secret

Change this attitude
Don't say what you don't know

Because if you do and are called out your ego will lead you into more foolish talk

The lesson

When you don't know
Keep quiet
Learn that lesson before it is too late

be like say the name aribasala is associated with foolishness. I only know of you and one other proud and foolish man called pastor aribasala

aribisala0:
You are illiterate and you lack humility
I corrected you
Don't say what you don't know
That is correction
Like I predicted you have come out now trying to save face with stupid rhetoric

I corrected you twice

I advised you
Spend obe hour of your time
Go online research and read
That will be time we'll spent
The information is out there and is no secret

Change this attitude
Don't say what you don't know

Because if you do and are called out your ego will lead you into more foolish talk

The lesson

When you don't know
Keep quiet
Learn that lesson before it is too late

be like say the name aribasala is associated with foolishness. I only know of you and one other fool called pastor aribasala

aribisala0:
Nobody knows everything
If you don't know admit it to yourself then try to learn

Don't say things you don't know when you know that you don't know
What is the point? You back yourself into a corner where you start arguing foolishly to save face.

The truth is you have no clue on the tax rules in Nigeria as it relates to oil companies
Invest one hour of your time to educate yourself and stop talking crap

you are proud and have empty head. You don't know that oil companies share their profit directly with the FG in a ratio of 60:40 and that beside vat, oil companies pay 3% to host community, and other percentages to NDDC and contribute to funding of some government bodies. From your proud empty head, tell us what you know

Habbeyy:
so Bayelsa oil companies are paying tax to Lagos state government? Why?

Nigeria law says so. It mandates companies to pay tax where they built their headquarter. And FG mandated oil companies to move their headquarter to Lagos for that reason too. Their headquarters have been moved before crisis began in the south south but some Nigerians from the beneficiary region like to twist the story against the south south

chiommy123:
Everyone is manipulative. Just that when you are the one doing it you use a better word

you have been caught

Objectivist04:
My question about this tax reform which nobody has answered is " is it true that taxes will be collected from the states of consumption and remitted to the state where the business is headquartered ?

Eg , if I recharge my Gotv , the vat will go to Lagos which hosts the company headquarter instead of Enugu where I base ?

The present tax law forces companies to pay taxes where their headquarter is. That's why oil companies pay tax to Lagos govt not delta or bayelsa where exploration happens. Telecom companies pay tax to Lagos not any other state where call is made. Unconfirmed rumour seems to suggest tracking of origin state is figured into this new bill for tax purposes. But again, the northern governors are crying for that to be done. We are therefore unsure what really is in the bill. You know tinubu and propaganda - a man who promised 70k minimum wage in the media but paid 20k to 30k minimum wage to the bank account of federal workers cannot be totally trusted