₦airaland Forum

Went to India for just wedding?

A ceremony of how many hours?

HigherEd:
I would tell you that there is little wrong in the prosperity that Oyedepo preaches

1) I have never seen Oyedepo on TV asking for anybody to give to his ministry, schools etc.....

2) I have seen Oyedepo's car before(the one he drives himself). He has been using the same silver car for about three years or so. While I don't know the model, it is a very average car. Seen his house too and sitting room - very very average.

3) As per jet, Benny does not have 6,000 branched churches, Schools to administrate over, Oyedepo does. Ghana branches of Living Faith alone is 150 scattered everywhere. In one particular month he visited 27 countries hence his ministry requires it not as a luxury but a quick means of transportation. So hey it depends on how large and centralised a ministry is and living faith leadership appears to be very centralise


Lastly as a Christian I won't criticize any other Christian for using a jet because I know fully well that if I had the money and require it then I would buy it. Whatever is unlawful for the pastor is unlawful for every other christian. If a pastor can't be rich then all Christians can't be rich either, if a pastor can't own a jet then no christian can own a jet.

For me, I maintain that a private jet is nothing more different than a private car6
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Catholic and Anglican has more branches. Their Pope does not need to visit all the branches before they can make impact.

That's jus an excuse.

There are other better use for the money

As a business man, like dangote, if you like own private jets. That's your business. But as a Shepherd who has lots of poor sheep's entrusted to you, private jet is waste of resources.

Olalan:
Like some rightly asked,he has been declared dead before. So who was killed then.

Shekau is not just a person. Shekau is a position and title. If you kill one, they elect another one to replace him

Hello people

Does anyone here know the solution to mouth odor?

UjuJoan2:
I hate stingy men with a passion, God Forbid!

Shame no even catch you to say no? I just feel so sorry for the girl and her family.

If they were wiser they would flee now that it's still very early.

Tuaaaah!

Is it your money?

They're not even married yet

https://www.facebook.com/LordScarce/posts/10212904063771215


I don't know if this really happened or a comedy

FFK asked a question the other day "The Fulani's are the least educated in Nigeria, how come they are always in power?"

He did not provide the answer, but that question has made me to think. There could be some factors that has been favouring the Fulani's as a group over others.


1. Fulani are the most organized group of people in leadership. I may lack some information, but at least I know they are more organized in leadership than the Igbo. The Igbo has no one man that can speak for them . The sultan, the emirs, these people have great influence. But an igbo Eze has no much influence on society. I also know the Yoruba Oba has great influence in leadership, but not as the Fulani emirs.

2. Fulani's have a vision. Their leader usman Dan fodio, gave them a vision to dip the Koran to the Atlantic, and they've been working with that vision. Others don't have vision like this. Any organization that has no vision cannot go far.

3. Fulani's are united in brotherhood more than others

akaahs:
So only guyz initiate break up in relationship abi

Its not only men that initiate divorce

In developed societies, when couple divorce, the man pays the woman for up keep/damages/whatever.

In our society today, young guys start and end relationships anyhow. Sometimes, these are relationships that has lasted for years.

Shouldn't there be some kind of compensations paid to ladies for break-ups? For time wasted/opportunities lost/etc.

At least this would make people take relationships more serious.

Whats your opinion?

Are you guys really making money by investing in bitcoin shares?

gudvibz:
It seems I'm having difficulty understanding this story, did you tell all that to your son? How old is your son?
Or perhaps you are telling it to us

Son must not be biological

And the churches were there and did nothing.

If daddy freeze talk now....

modernWays:
Lol

Finally Ooni has joined them in fabricated theories.
Some says they are jews, now this one claimed the said jews were created in Ile-Ife.

Adam and Eve are not Jews

Abraham- the father of Jews is far behind Adam and Eve

Somebody should be impeached for being incompetent

exlinkleads:
Better You Work Hard, Innovate & Be Creative Than To Do 50 Days Fasten & Prayer - Daddy Freeze Slams RCCG

OAP Freeze never left any stone un-turned when it comes to the way he feels about Nigerian pastors and RCCG church is indeed the one dearest to his heart. He never hesitate on any opportunity he has to throw tantrums against the church and its pastors, owning to the fact that they are the No. 1 in tithes and misleading of the "sheeples".

In a post he shared on Instagram, Daddy Freeze requested that RCCG should remove him from their mailing list as threy send him the prayer point for the "Day 2" of their 50 days fasten and prayer continues.

He also advised the church to teach their members how to work hard and make money rather than telling them they can pray their way to wealth.

See his post below....



https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd2K7MOnM26/

More @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2018/01/better-you-work-hard-innovate-be.html

Chai. What a pity.

I've come to realize why Christians cannot make an impact against corruption in Nigeria.

During a Sunday school lesson last Sunday on the life of Daniel, I asked members of the class what they would do if they find themselves in a corrupt establishment where they could be victimized for standing for the truth. Everyone answered that they will join the system to "chop" money.

Nigerian Christianity is corrupt.

Who can save us?

I just secured a land in Owerri. Can any builder give me an idea of how many blocks I need from foundation to decking for a two bedroom double flat building?

Thanks

Is the pastor dead?

Efcc should do their work then

Emerging Issues In Leadership: the role of African youths

Being a paper presented by Brian Reuben at African Youth Conference on Leadership and Social Transformation

A recent newspaper publication revealed that of the 87,000 medical doctors on the register of the Nigerian Medical Association only 35,000 of them are actively engaged in medical practice in Nigeria, the rest have fled the country. Nigeria with a population of over 170 million has only 35,000 registered doctors. Of this figure, 70 percent practise in urban areas where only 30 percent of the populace lives.

The implication of this is that Nigeria’s doctor-patient ratio is among the worst in the world currently hovering above 50,000 patients to one doctor rather than recommended 1:600 ratio. This limits access to quality healthcare to millions of Nigerians.

Nigeria needs more than 237,000 medical doctors to meet World Health Organisation (WHO) standard doctor-patient ratio but each year Nigeria’s universities produce less than 3,000 doctors. Experts say the vast majority of these graduates seek greener pastures abroad.

According to Folashade Ogunsola, a professor of medicine and chairman, Association of Colleges of Medicine of Nigeria, it will take the country 100 years to have all the doctors it needs to meet WHO requirement assuming none travels abroad.

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In 2012 the director of an international medical referral organisation in Lagos stated that Nigeria looses about 81 billion naira on medical tourism annually. This figure only represents travelling expenses.

The Nigeria medical situation is so sad; we lack modern medical facilities and well functioning multi-medical specialty, poor diagnostic services and poor infrastructure.

We lack national healthcare plan, and if there are any, it is not implemented to meet the needs of the people thus increasing the rate of medical tourism.

medium surgery patients spend as much as eight thousand dollars for treatment while a spinal surgery patient spends about $15 thousand dollars.

It cost about 20 thousand dollars to have a renal transplant in India without after surgery maintenance.
“An average cardiac surgery cost about eight thousand dollars for children and $15 thousand dollars for adult. A cancer patient spends more than $20 thousand dollars for the total cost of treatment.

“An air ambulance to Germany cost N20 million while an average ambulance charter to India cost N30 million.
“All these huge amount of money goes out of Nigeria everyday whereas, we can keep them here, if we do the right thing.

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Irrespective of the dangers that many Africans have encountered year after year many African youths end their lives in the Mediterranean sea in their desperation to travel to Europe through Libya by speed boat. Despite the several reports of migrants perishing at sea every now and then, a large numbers of Nigerians and other

Africans still embark on the very deadly journey, going through the same sea to Europe to seek a better living. The road and means of getting to their destination seem not to matter to them; they are just desperate and are ready to throw everything into it.

On the 1st of June, 2017, the media reported that at least 44 Nigerians and Ghanaians died at the Sahara desert when their vehicle broke down enroute to Libya from where they hoped to travel to Europe. Three babies, two minor children and 17 women are among the victims, the website reported.

Reports such as these keep making the headlines everyday. A recent report by the Nigerian Immigration Services indicated that over 10000 Nigerians died in the sahara desert or drowned in the Mediterranean sea between January and May 2017. Punch Newspapers quoted the NIS Assistant Comptroller - General, in charge of training, manpower and development, Mr. Maroof Giwa , as saying that 4 , 900 Nigerians died in the Mediterranean Sea while the rest died while going through the deserts in their bid to cross to Europe .

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What does all these mean. Simple it means that African nations lack the capacity to sustain the life of its citizens. Professionals flee the nation because they believe their practice cannot be sustained here. Sick people flee because the medical institutions cannot sustain their health issues. Even the education industry which is the bed rock of development is not sustainable. Reports from Exam Ethics International indicate that Nigeria spends over N1.5 trillion on students studying abroad.

The chairman of the group said, annually, Ghana gets N160 billion of Nigerian students’ funds, while Nigerians spend over N80 billion on education in the United Kingdom. This is not good for our society.

Why is African nations struggling? Why do we depend on foreign talents to build our roads, train our children and even teach us how to play football? It is not because we lack the drive or the talent to develops our market, build our education and health institutions, it is because we lack values that can sustain a progressive society.

Many time we blame our condition on the government. But something we need to understand is that African leaders do not come from elsewhere, they are our brothers and sisters. They are like the rest of us. The attitude of the government is simply a reflection of the attitude of the people. Many of the leaders we condemn today condemned others just a few years ago. How come then they are doing the very same things they condemned yesterday. People have to be leaders first before they can executive leadership responsibilities. If they are not, the position will not make them into one.

The fact is that there is a leadership crisis in the world today and Africa and Nigeria have their share of that crisis. In a recent publication by World Economic Forum, a startling 86% of respondents to their Survey on the Global Agenda agree that there is a leadership crisis in the world today. Why would they say this? Perhaps because world leaders has largely failed to address any major global issue in recent years.

And neither are African leaders doing that. It is difficult to think that African leaders don't understand the problems in Africa. One can't possibly think that African leaders are not aware that doing business in Africa is difficult and very risky or that our economic structure discourages entrepreneurship.

It is politics that drives the national development. In their book 'Why Nations Fail', Acemoglu and Robinson stated that the major difference between developed countries and developing countries is in their political evolution. While developed countries have political and economic systems that are inclusive and offer opportunities for most wealth creation, developing economies have political and economic systems that are extractive. Political leaders use political power to channel economic resources to benefit themselves and those close to them without much restrictions.

This is the reason why many African economies are not sustainable. Except this model changes Africa will continue to wallow in difficulties. England was much like Africa until the green revolution in 1688 that transformed their politics and thus the economics of the nation. People fought for and won more political rights, and they used them to expand their economic opportunities. The result was a fundamentally different political and economic trajectory, culminating in the Industrial Revolution.

So economic progress of African nations begins by our personal resolution to change our political ideology. Unfortunately, political ideology is hardly ever communicated formally. It is a transfered unconsciously from one generation to another. But by making the unconscious conscious we can begin the journey of transforming our political ideology to an inclusive model, just like England did years ago.

But the extractive political model is more than a political ideology. It is a way of life for us. We build our businesses with the same model also because that is how we think. So change will actually begin with us individually. There has to be a shift first of all in the way we think, in our value system and our how we reward performance.

The first step is to recognize the responsibility of solving the problems in the society as ours. We can't wish our challenges away. We can only wish that unemployment rate in Nigeria is not increasing, but the facts staring at us from the National Bureau of Statistics indicates that Nigeria's unemployment rate has increased from 13.3% to 14.2% meaning that about 11.55 million Nigerians are currently unemployed. And don't forget that 1.8 million Nigerians enter the job market every year according to former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala.

We can't wish away the fact that Nigeria ranks 127 out of 138 in global competitiveness report moving backwards from 124 in 2016. Now competitiveness is the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of an economy, which in turn sets the level of prosperity that the country can achieve. These problems are real and we have to solve them.

Besides this also is the fact that we now live in a globalized world and the definition of citizenship now goes beyond the the boundaries of our nation. The world now talks about global citizenship. Meaning that you much a part of what is happening in far away China, much affected by the activities of ISIS and al-Qaeda as much as you are affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. We have come to a time in our history of the world when the lines of national boundaries are becoming thinner everyday. Brexit, Syria nuclear threat, American trade policy, clean energy and the crisis in the middle east is your problem as well as it is mine. The new maxim for living effectively on earth today is collaboration.

As we sit here today, someone is at some corner of the universe plotting how to blow up a cinema full of people and kill all of them. Someone is planning how to use biological weapons and wipe out an entire community or how to hijack a plane and use it for a terror attack. As we sit here some African youths are probably risking their lives to cross the Sahara desert to get to Libya bound for Italy where they will accept conditions and jobs they never would have done in their country. May be some are right now battling the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean sea. These are our brothers and sisters and many of them will die, not because it couldn't have been different at home but because we have never accepted the challenge of leadership.

I will not forget the tears with which a man receives the painful news that his pregnant wife has died during labour. Not because she was supposed to but because we lack the expertise, the facilities and manpower to tame the tide. Reports from CIA World Fact Book indicates that Nigeria's Maternal Mortality Rate is 814/100000 live births excluding incedental or accidental causes. This means that Nigeria looses over 400,000 women as a result of child bearing related issues annually. A UNICEF report shows that every single day, Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five year olds. This makes the country the second largest contributor to the under–five mortality rate in the world.

Let's not forget about HIV/AIDS and how it is still ravaging lives. HIV / AIDS is a major public health concern and cause of death in many parts of Africa. About 15.2 percent of the world's population live in Africa of which about 35 million persons are infected and 15 million of these have already died. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011 according to various reports In the countries of sub-Saharan Africa most affected, AIDS has raised death rates and lowered life expectancy among adults between the ages of 20 and 49 by about twenty years.

What is our role in this? What can we do?
No problem in the world is personal any longer and we have to understand it, leverage on that and flush out evil in our world. The bible said that the evil shall bow before the good and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. Do not for one moment accept that our challenges defile solutions. If you will hold my hands and I hold yours together we can make a difference. You may have a song and I may have a studio, if we hold our hands and think beyond instant gratification, we will use your song and change the world.

As we talk here someone is sitting at one remote place in the world thinking about how to tackle some problems in the world so we can have a better life. He may not be in Washington or Silicon Valley, but beginning with his own world, looking at those around him, he thinks of how to make their life easier. Someone is sitting with his computer right now trying to create a new mobile app for the world. His mobile app might be able to help us sense a bomb and other explosives within a certain radius. He will create that app and somehow find a way to collaborate with other individuals and organisation to make his app available to us. This is the spirit of leadership. That's the attitude that works.

It is not so much about the project you choose to work on as it is about your attitude towards life. With the right attitude and considering the enormous resources we have been blessed with, our possibilities are endless. All that needs to change is our thinking. The responsibility for transforming Africa is ours, we can't wait for the government or some powerful nation out there. We must begin to look inwards to draw on our potentials and create change.

I'm not suggesting this is an easy task. No, far from that! It is work, huge work, huge sacrifice. It will take everything from us. But if we want to see an Africa where life will be easier for our children, an Africa where our children can find fulfilment to their dreams, African nations with good roads, quality education, good hospitals and responsible government, then we have to get up and stand for something. These are not days of small dreams, no its a time to dream big.

Remember, except we do something today, our situation will remain unchanged. It is easy to complain and blame but that will take us nowhere. Let's think about the future, let's think about our children, let's think about the generations to come and let us rise as one to defend our people against hunger, poverty, ignorance and incompetence. Let it be said in our time and day, yes, Africa leads the world. Let's make it happen.

Thank you.

Brian Reuben(@brianoreuben) is an advisor on strategy and leadership. He regularly conducts keynote presentations and senior executive workshops with companies around the world on strategy and leadership. He heads BusinessDay Training

I'm tempted to to say that freeze is on an assignment to liberate Nigerian Christians from blindness.

Its not giving that brings prosperity, but being productive. China, Dubai, Saudi Arabia are non tithers but are productive. Hence their prosperity. Dangote is also productive.

However, Nigeria is as productive as Saudi Arabia in oil, but is unfortunately plagued with corrupt leaders. Saudi Arabia would have been worse than Nigeria if they have the same corrupt leaders.

Our problem boils down to corruption.


Who can save us?

Not the pastors, because we already have a pastor as the number two man in aso rock

The guy don blow.

Another psquare loading

You don;t have enough reason to conclude that your marriage is over. Give her sometime to come back to her senses.

Its not that she's sleeping outside or that she infected you with std.

You just need to understand how to relate with your wife.

If you have a stubborn goat in the house, don't fight with it when it eats your yams. Thats who it is. Simply keep the yams beyond its reach. And you'll have your peace.

How will Biafra solve this kind of problem.

The same way some of us sabotaged the Biafra project for the love of money, is how we have succeeded to sabotage every institution in our land. Even institutions that are supposed to save our lives.

This is even an institution named after the Biafra hero Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Is ambode a Christian or a traditionalist?

So its this dangerous to use mobile phone near gas stations. How come nobody is creating the awareness?

tayooluwole:
I don't know if any body here is in my shoe... Since I was born I have attended many crusade and church services. During any of the services, any time the instruction is prescribed that all who wish to denounce sin and become born again should come out to receive prayers, me no they carry last to follow go out to be born again at that moment. The issue is, my being born again at any point in time doesn't take much time before it expires. Just at the moment I decide to be born again the holyholy will be there but by the time the holyholy run into 2 to 3 days it begins to desolve till I go back to the status quo. The logic behind this is that, if Jesus is to come withing the shortest time that follows the moment of my being born again that means heaven sure me die but if na after it has expired OYO is my case but Jesus will surely consider my seriousness by looking at the number of times I have come to him...

Pls how can someone be permanently born again without much sin ?

Note: he get some things wey Christians go count as sin and wey if ah no do na hunger go kill me...

Christian brothers over to you...

You are not born again the day you came out to be prayed for. But you are born again the day you decide within your heart to obey God's word.

For now, you don't want to let go of formication. Keep living in it, until the day you will realize that it leads to destruction, then you will repent anf return to God.

Is she also going to wear the hijab in the Court room?

dukie25:
Wow! What's the world coming to?
How dare they refuse to be raped by the mighty Fulani? Very soon people would expect Tinubu not to bow down when he meets President of the Fulanis.

And they expected Amosun to speak on the matter, irrespective of the fact he is the most loyal SW gov to Buhari.

Why should a wife deny her husband s3x. The southwest is the wife while the Fulani is the husband. Tinubu understood what is involved when he signed the marriage agreement.

So, they surrender themselves to their husbands every time. Whether in Ogun, Lagos, Oyo, ekiti, etc

OK. Just so that he can qualify to be the Chancellor of his university

lawman88:
Me and my wife did court wedding in Kano registry court in September 2017 and we were asked to pay 8,000 and come with one crate of can maltina to entertain court officers and our guests. I made the booking in August and did the wedding 21 days after. All the expenses were less than 20k

Lovely. Wow