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Police and investigation
Investigation that is always laden with roja

Aje ku iya

Let Nigeria break
Who e elp?

Naija I hail thee

He is a fake Islamic teacher

AmuDimpka:
now this is maturity. I am begining to admire this man

it take a level of maturity for an okay guy to own up


I just love FFK...he. is a man !

big ups bro

Are you alright?

Valueless' FFK' failed foolish kid

Aboks:
The midget wont agree to that

Giant Goliath Weldon Sir

ExBanker:
All of Buhari's appointees are being arrested left and right for fraud. So much for Mr Integrity and his band of thieves

Are you well?

nairavsdollars:
His First task is to discipline those aboki lawyers that formed that NNBA nonsense

You are sure you are okay?

ExBanker:
All of Buhari's appointees are being arrested left and right for fraud. So much for Mr Integrity and his band of thieves

These are the remnants of the left over by the PDP and they are being exposed unlike in the past

The abuse of this platform is becoming despicable to the matured minds

This Failed Foolish Kid has long been inconsequential

CAMA AND CHURCH FINANCES: THE BROADER PERSPECTIVE.

Olasiji Oshin

Issues surrounding CAMA and the Church in Nigeria need to be viewed from a broader perspective than the Nigerian Church leaders are currently looking at it. To start with, I do not understand why the church leaders had to wait until President Buhari signed the bill into law before they began to raise objections to it. No doubt the bill went through normal plenary sessions of open debates in the national Assembly before it was passed. Were there no members of any of the churches in the national Assembly? What is more, the Vice President is not just an ordinary member of a church, he is a Pastor of Redeemed Christian Church. They probably have their reasons.

More importantly, Nigeria, like the U.K. and the U.S. is a democracy. The government, having been elected by the people, has responsibility to protect the interests of all Nigerians regardless of their religious persuasions. The church and state have one common interest: the people. The church caters to the spiritual needs of it’s members, while the state caters to the physical, social and material needs of it’s citizens, including members of churches across the country. In more advanced countries like the U.K. and the U.S. Church and State do collaborate in the provision of what they see as essential services to their people. The Charity Commission, created by government caters to the needs of the disabled, motherless babies, the homeless and the poor.

The church from the beginning has taken the lead in ministering to the needs of the poor and the socially outcast. The work of churches as charitable institutions in Britain and America are well documented in Christian literature. Also the history of Christian missionaries in Nigeria is replete with accounts of their ministry to the poor and social outcasts. Churches in Britain and the U.S. are seen by government as Charities partnering with government in the task of caring for the poor. In recognition of their ministry to this class of people, citizens are encouraged to give to the Church. Those who pay tithes and offerings are compensated at the end of every fiscal year. Tithes and Offerings paid to churches are deductible from their tax to the government. The individual must attach proof of payment in form of written acknowledgement from recognized (licensed) pastor of his church whilst making his annual tax returns.

Money, the love of which scripture describes as the root of all evil, remains the bone of contention in churches, as in other institutions run by humans. To minimize conflicts and ensure church finances are in good shape, the Charity Commission periodically looks into the books of Churches. This in effect helps the churches to be on their toes and to maintain their professed integrity and probity. Unfortunately Nigerian Churches in these countries always fall foul of such demands on them.

What do we find in Nigeria? The Nigerian churches are law onto themselves. Until recently churches operate without recourse to Government. The judiciary occasionally got involved in settling financial disputes in the Church. The church became a platform where people of doubtful characters are free to assemble people together for the purpose of making a living out of the members.

The big established churches engage in business ventures aimed at profit making. Rather than minister to the needs of the poor, the established churches have become burdens to poor people especially in the rural areas. The singsong is tithe, tithe and tithe while Pastors/founders live in opulence, riding exotic cars and private jets. And whereas Malachi which is often cited to justify tithe payment state explicitly: “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple…” (Malachi 3: 10). The storehouse is a central place from where the Levites, the widows and strangers were to meet their needs. The Levites were set apart for work in the Temple, they were exempt from sharing in agricultural land, and so had no source of income. Now where is the storehouse in Nigerian churches? They are the bank accounts of our modern pastors and founders.

This would explain the strong objections from our notable church leaders to CAMA. Did you hear the head of one of the fast growing churches declare that those who fail to pay tithe will not go to heaven? It is appalling! I could not believe this is coming from a notable Church leader that claims to preach the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ. This is another gospel. It means that faith in the atoning work of Christ on the Cross as the qualification to enter heaven does not matter again. What matters to them is tithe. (Open your Bible and read Gal.1:6, Eph. 2: 8-10 as well as apostle Paul’s letter to the Colossians from chapter one and see the supremacy of Jesus Christ).

This is why the principle embedded in CAMA is welcome. The Church, like the Nigerian nation needs spiritual reawakening. Instead of the Church playing the role of light to the world, the world has taken over the church in Nigeria. As Christ said to the merchants in the Temple, the Church has become the den of thieves, instead of the House of Prayers

After collecting your taxes and levies from them?

I warned you about pushing his stupid rants to the front page all the time.
Now it's obvious he is such a stupid and an intolerant saddist

Now you have been exposed for your fraudulent nature with your rotten mouth.

Buhari has been your punching bag and the children of hate hailed you on to your public disgrace.

The guilty are afraid
Now you know how it feels to open that your gutter mouth
Those who kill by sword hate the sight of one held close to them
What goes around comes around

The guilty are afraid
Now you know how it feels to open that your gutter mouth
Those who kill by sword hate the sight of one held close to them
What goes around comes around

blinking001:
She rejected blessings destined for her by mother earth.

Typical of them from the yeast

It's not common in the yeast for lost items especially money to be returned to the owner unlike it is in the born to rule tribe

Many are mad but few are roaming
What about how she does on bed? You have not told us that?

Story for the gods

Charlatan

Greatest of the greatest

Let the looters governing south continue

Yankee101:
This dethroned guy should keep quiet
Failed banker
Failed Emir

See mumu
He is never your village's best equal in all ramification

LibertyRep:
May the best team wins.

Bayern may be ruthless, but PSG didn't get to the finals by sheer luck.

All we want to see is entertainment and not one-sided, boring final.

Go for English lesson
Read Brighter Grammar
Queens Premier to help your situation

Extortion is a worse sin than those

Racoon:
They packaged a catastrophe and forced it on this nation
and grounded it.Lawal-the grasscutter crook? Who is giving these shameless men the gut to continue to insult this nation like this?

You are sick

NBA with looters advocates

Churches are responsible for the high cost and scarcity of dollars, mopping up dollars for overseas investment and private jetting, they are frauds in every sense you can imagine.
The fraudulent pastors with No single anointing, just Jesters entertaining their gullible slowpokes.
They are behind most rituals in the country especially in the south west