₦airaland Forum

Better than buying video game.

I guess it was when they promised to end it under the previous govt. This statement is an insensitive one.

They made sense. Hunger and hardship is the weapon the two parties are using on their targets.

Karlovych:
He will continue to prey on the gullible sheep that cannot think for themselves, Jesus never owned a donkey or a school in Bethlehem, Galilee, Judea or Nazareth.
He fed the poor, healed the sick whenever he ministered to people unlike these ones that only need you to sow a seed to enrich themselves and their families.

Christianity is for all who believe. I mean all who believe have the potential to feed the poor, ride on donkeys, own a school.

He said the command has already mobilized his men to track down the hoodlums with the aim of bringing them to book.

Not even bandits but hoodlums. That is one step forward and two steps backwards.

Racoon:
Is the FG eating grass? A labourer is worthy of his wages for goodness sake

Civil workforce in Nigeria is more about reducing unemployment than being productive. FG income is low right now.

This covid trouble has given our leaders the perfect excuse for every failed policy they tried.

chrisxxx:
Other parts of Nigeria think this is Port Harcourt and environs problem and for that no action is being taken. There is hardly any child aged 10 and below that does not have respiratory problem in Port Harcourt. This is not to say that adults are not being affected. Of course our body has higher immunity but a time is coming when it will be overwhelmed. The breakdown will be catastrophic. Military men sent to PH to fight those sabotaging the environment got soaked with Petro-Dollars. They are the ones opening different illegal refineries presently in remote locations.
Nigerians help us. The effect us this will be like the devastating effects of COVID 19 in Euro and America if prompt action is not taking.

Most painful part of it all is that we are under a corruption fighting govt and there is open corruption.

Nightalan:
Bro, every sincere person appreciates the development El-Rufai has brought to the state, but you can't be celebrating shopping malls when we are almost in 2022, it's very clownish and embarrassing.

with the inflation we are seeing as a result of lack of good policies, these structures may end up as where poor suicide bombers meet the wealthier people to let off their frustration.

Apostle Paul among many.

Was he selling or using?

That confirms the part that says he was given a concoction to drink.

Aufbauh:
I can't factor why people who are supposed to be carriers of good news, hope and bright future has turned their selves to doomsday preachers & naysayers.
May Nigeria succeed.

Religious leaders cannot and should not replace good tidings with lies. When the govt of Israel was misfiring, the old testament prophets fired them appropriately.

It is all over the world and not a local thing.

SportsHD:
Fuvck the police.

Y'all quoting me, I don't even do fraud. I wish I did now.

If school was just a social gathering for show offs and fun, I would have agreed with you. Education is built around knowledge and what the students do now is detrimental to knowledge acquisition. I don't see it as jealousy or envy in any way.

Cooking gas is now triple the price it was a year ago. This makes a lot of sense.

He is right.

It is obvious there is a fraud going on in that subsidy. Can't the secret or plain clothes detectives infiltrate the smuggling ring to bring it down and save the masses. If protests can be infiltrated, why not smugglers?

IniAkpanMorgan:
The problem with the heads of Christian denominations these days is around their verbosity, and they see themselves as beyond humans: attitudes that are against the vulnerable nature of Jesus Christ during his incarnation - a sheep led to the slaughter. There are definite lessons in humility that every Church leader must learn of Jesus Christ?

When I say Pastors talk too much, it is not because they are preachers, it is because, in their preaching, they seek many validations for the erroneous motives they pursue, especially in areas where they need to defend their adoption of the Mosaic law to their replace the grace of God. There can never be any law where there is grace. Grace is the taking away of the law, and the Mosaic tithe is an instrument of the law of Moses. The major objective of grace is in the taking away of the law.

I am not here to talk about the tithe but to dwell on why Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo was in error for calling another man "a nonentity". It is not enough to call anyone a nonentity because he expresses his sincere opinion, and making reference to Elon Reeve Musk, who does not observe tithing, but against the insinuation of Church leaders that wealth comes from tithing, Mr Musk is about the richest man on earth.

I came upon Daddy Freeeze's response to Pastor Fatoyinbo's comment, referred above, and the challenege he (Freeze) threw for a debate with him (Fatoyinbo). This opinion wished that Pastor Fatoyinbo rather defended his taking of tithes materially in a new way, than he chose to muddle himself with name-calling, just to prompt those who pay monies to him against been persuaded not to. What was he afraid of?

His admittance that Elon Musk has someone to whom he pays his own tithes, however true this claims is, I am sure Pastor Fatoyinbo dwelled on assumption when he said this, because he does not know Elon Musk FRS so well to know his own "secret place". Pastor Fatoyinbo assumes that because Elon Musk is so rich, he would have someone to whom he shows his loyalty financially. That thought was wishful. Elon Musk owes his wealth to his creativity, and he pays his taxes for the collective good of all.

What flamboyant Pastor Fatoyinbo refused to identify with, was with the fact that tithing is a Christian principle, and the man he referred to as "a nonentity" expressed the truth that though Elon Musk FRS is not a Christian, and does not observe the principle of tithing, the principle should not be taught as what fetches material riches and prosperity. And I think he is right. What, in that opinion, made Pastor Fatoyinbo uncomfortable to cause him to name-call the man who opined thus?

In order to show Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo how wrong he was for calling another man a nonentity, even when such a man can get his own opinion published in a medium that got to Pastor Fatoyinbo, one thing the young Pastor failed to realise is that the man he called "a nonentity" is an intellectual, and he has a talent in writing. Is that something that should drive a nonentity?

I also write, and I know what it takes me to write an article that earns a place in public fora. Should both Pastor Fatoyinbo and the "nonentity" remove everything material on and around them, how better would Pastor Fatoyinbo appear than the monetity he named? Being a Pastor does not confer Pastor Fatoyinbo the right to be lousy, and it dies not indicate that he has a relationship with God afterall.

Being a Church leader does not authenticate anyone's relationship with God. Pastoring has become an all-comer money-spinning business. He should make his money and allow others do what they also enjoy doing - opening truth up for all to appreciate.

Pastor Fatoyinbo's sense of entity does not make him any different from the man he sees as a nonentity, just because he, Pastor Fatoyinbo, seeks validation for the sponsorship of his material pursuits and seeks to ensure that his greed is fed. He, clearly, refused to show himself as an example of Jesus. He could not contain his provocation from a simple opinion, which was defended by a given example.

If tithing makes a Christian wealthy, how would Pastor Fatoyinbo explain Elon Musk's wealth? And I think that before Pastor Fatoyinbo would accept Daddy Freeze's challenge for a debate on tithing, he needs to check out the following scriptures to help his limited knowledge on the topic he claims so much to understand.

1. Genesis 14:20-24 proves how, in response to the blessing with which Melchizedek blessed him, Abram gave Melchizedek "the tithe of all", and how in that process, the King of Sodom demanded to have the people of Sodom returned to him by Abram, justly surrending the booties he took, from the war he won, to him. Verse 23 to 24 clearly proves that Melchizedek received nothing material from Abram than his commitment to return what belonged to Sodom, as Melchizedek seemingly demanded from Abram.

No man goes to war with his own personal goods, and if Abram despised what was Sodom, would he then have given of the abominable to Melcizedek? No!

2 Malachi 3:1-12, when read with understanding, does not inform the Jews about observing the tithe, but dwells on their having departed from the covenant the Lord entered into with them. In these passages, Prophet Malachi was preparing the minds of the Jews about the coming of Jesus, the true symbol of the covenant of the tithe, and revealed how his coming will change the observation of that covenant, which the Jews had already desecrated. Using the passages of Malachi to authenticate the observance of tithe therefore is deceitful, whoever does so.

Hebrews 7:6-10: Finally, Apostle Paul was inspired to compare the 2 types of priesthood that brought about the 2 Testaments of God's word. These passages picture the drama in the observation of first tithe, observed in 1 above, where the commitment of Abram to return what was Sodom's was counted to him as "the tithe of all".

Interestingly, Levi, who took tithes from his brothers, is said to have given his own (imputed) tithes while he was in the loins of Abram (vs 9-10). Jesus took Levi's (imputed) tithe while he too was in the loins of Melchizedek, the King of Peace, because he is the Prince of Peace. It was the tithe that Jesus took that prepared him as "the Lamb of God" sacrifice for this world of sin. Verse 8 clearly shows that in the place of the monetary tithes people like Pastor Fatoyinbo impose on Christians, Jesus actually "receives the men to whom it is witnessed that he lives."

Tithing is therefore Biblical, but the New Testament tithing is devoid of any example from the Mosaic law. Even in the Mosaic law, money-taking was never a part of what God asked the Jews to give. The essence of the money-changing tables in the temple, which led Jesus into making a whip and chasing the operators out, was from the simplification made for those who could not carrying their tithes to Jerusalem because of the weight, so that they could use money to buy the needs of their tithes within the temple for presentation.

I, therefore, wonder where in scriptures the heads of Christian denominations find the approval to take anything from any believer to represent the tithe. Heads of Christian denominations only desire the parochial prestige of the Jewish religious leadership by loving their religious administrative style, which confers on them a severe-hold on the people, and their financial system, which accords them immense wealth from parading traditional lies in religion.

This was why Pastor Fatoyinbo had the guts to call another man "a nonentity", because he (Fatoyinbo) thinks it is his clothes, houses, and cars that make him an entity. Pastor Fatoyinbo's entity in Christ, and another man's "nonentity" in Christ, makes Christ in them both their Least Common Multiple (LCM) and their Highest Common Factor (HCF). Pastor Fatoyinbo is, himself, nothing without Christ. It is from his using Christ that he feeds fat, seeing himself as an entity. He rather needs to give thanks than to parade himself boastfully.

not impressed.

This is to much protein for one human in a seating. I hope it doesn't destroys her health.

Ryda:
Naija!
When are we going to start launching our own spaceships.

If they don't launch borehole, they'll launch flyover or one drainage that won't last a seven days rainfall.

individuals too go to space and not just nations.

Did he say the textbook purchase was used to award marks directly or he was alluding to the fact textbook purchase precedes study for good grades.

Aufbauh:
We'll keep on supporting our gallant troops regardless of the challenges and unpatriotic utterances from unscrupulous elements.

To habitually doubt good news, yet never hesitant about embracing bad news, is an eloquent proof of the state of mind of a self defeatist person.

The bold is more revealing of your own state of mind than you realize. For a regime-administration known to play dirty, I don't blame anyone who habitually doubts unusual good news and believes bad ones. One irregularity about this seemingly good news is the lack of pictorial evidences that normally accompanies such mission from another part of the country.

The move by the school and govt may look too insensitive but before we judge them, let us look at it from their own perspective. As a govt school, the govt must be spending some money there. Either on structures or on human resources. The students on the other hand after graduation are as free as bird to work anywhere. I think for too long, we lived based on a poor assumption that student will always work for the sponsors of their schools after graduation.
I will also appeal to the govt and school authority that they consider the students who have worked so hard to pay their fees so far and have no viable source of income to pay millions.

Even groceries too are getting reduced gradually. Premier soap of 65g is now 60g with a slight price increase.

Racoon:
After how many years? Lying government wey dem don take lies swear for.After promising new refineries but as usual failed to provide them? After embezzling staggering amount of monies in the name of running the old refineries @ great economic loss?

After that, they are budgeting $B for another round of revamping them same moribund refineries before privatisation? What a wastage. Now they are waiting on Dangote Refinery that will still continue the monopoly. Useless criminal government.



Was it not the same policy the previous government wanted to terminate in 2012-14 that the same wicked elements under this evil regime denounced as a scam.
Now they have been engaging in that same scam for the past 6years.They need to apologise for insulting the sensibility of this nation and leave our national life.

The same subsidy Jonathan tried removing and APC as opposition incited violent protest to oppose its removal. Back then, the subsidy jumped from around N0.3Tr to N2.0Tr and we said there was a scam. Today it is approaching N3.0Tr and we suddenly accept there is no scam. That means our consumption went up by approximately 10 times in a decade. Nigerians are wonderful thinkers.

Can't fault the editorial.

This is the best time to go into agriculture. If you plant and have food, with that you can have strength to forge ahead in other areas. This is most advisable for those with fixed & low or no income.

Maybe Boko Haram who once named him as their man for negotiation have turned against him and he needs an excuse to run abroad. No leader cares about recurrent expenditure.

anorexicmuster:
Well, when we put subsides on petrol, and put price controls on petrol as a result...there wasn't enough profit to fix and upgrade refineries...which led to them eventually breaking down (The sabotage by workers did not help...which happened in essence because they were not getting their salaries from the money made from the refinereis, but from the revenue from crude oil sales).

Today, we spend billions of dollars on importing fuel, and billions of dollars subsiding it...which means no profits, or not enough profits for the refineries and their upgrade...since all the money goes into imports and subsides.

We didn't do the same for the GSM companies, and we let them charge whatever they wanted to charge. As a result,,, they made huge profits which meant that the sector grew into what it is today, and prices eventually came down via competition, and via expansion of the market base.

Price controls may look like they are 'helping the poor' but long term, they harm the poor. And in some instances harm countries.

To be honest, I think we should have some form of price controls, but at the end, you still have to have enough money to pay the producers, the transporters of products, the suppliers, and the taxman, and still have something left over for workers, etc. And one can only do that by making enough of a profit, which price controls does not allow.

Keep in mind that many people , including a lot of poor Nigerians, depend on the profit motive to survive. Eliminate it, and things could get difficult for them

If subsidies are removed, then what does the masses get from the govt? Absolute nothing. Corruption won't let the elite deliver dividends of governance to the people so it is better they maintain subsidy.

He clearly presented it as a joke to avoid some strong backlash. Talking about landmass, it should be able to influence production level in agriculture and industry, so let him tell us what Kaduna IGR is and let's compare to the South Eastern states.

anorexicmuster:
Then at the end of the day you would have massive scarcity of goods and services.

Price controls on everything means no one would be able to make a profit...meaning you take your goods to where you can make a profit...which means outside the country or the black market.

Petrol has been under price controls...which means the profits have not been enough to keep our refinereis in good repair...which is why we have bad refineries, and have had to import fuel.

Profit in business is not for the businessman's pocket...it also helps him or her expand and upgrade his business.

If you brought in price control for things like coke or milo, it would mean that NBC, and Nestle Nigeria won't be able to make profits to pay their suppliers, replace or upgrade manufactuing equipment, and so on. Meaning they go out of business.

Likewise if YOU BRING Price controls on things like phone sellers, so that Iphone 12 can be sold at N20000 to help poor Nigerians get a phone, the phone sellers won't be able to make enough of a profit to pay their suppliers, meaning they go out of business.

Same for market foodstuff...traders selling food items won't make enough money to pay their suppliers and trransporters for service...meaning that they allclose down...or go black market...

There were countries that did what you are proposing. They were called the Soviet Union and East Germany. It worked...until there was no money, then the economies collapsed...with both countries.

You are dead wrong sir.
The case with subsidy of petrol and local refining is very different. If the local refinery was working 100%, price regulation can't stop them from making profits. They simply sell to FG at profit who then sells to the masses at loss or as subsidy. The refinery still makes profit just like their foreign counterpart are currently doing.