The sad thing is that some stupid journalists were busy pushing this false narrative, as if Nigerians are so uneducated that they do not understand simple Economics.
Kemetian: This is why I keep saying that Infrastructure is food. The very process of building infrastructure uplifts and empowers thousands of Nigerians. It is not ghosts building all this infrastructure. It's ordinary Nigerians working and getting paid. So stop bad-mouthing infrastructural projects like roads etc, on the basis that 'people are hungry'.
Next time when you hear a church opening 5,000 new branches with the building of 5,000 new church buildings across various 5,000 locations, I hope you can point out that it is not spirits or angels that do the construction. The
TWENTY TWO professions (yes, you read that right...22) are required in the construction of any kind of building. Any nation worth its salt has to put money into housing and infrastructure spending to lift people out of poverty.
ocnovakmichael: Recently I was discussing with a brother, who is a Winner, and he said to me that he's not one to attend the community church. That he likes attending service in Canaan Land. This got me thinking: because ever since I became a Winner, I have not deliberated attending service at Canaan Land. Though I have had the longing to go but I'd not really giving much effort to it.
Recently, upon thinking about the words of that brother, that he's not one to attend the community church, I was like, is there something wrong about attending the community church? I looked around me and noticed that many around our community are like that brother. They don't like attending service at the community church. They rather go to Canaan Land to hear Bishop, which is good and fine. As that thought became preponderate on my mind, I realized that even some Winners who reside opposite the community church, on Sunday morning ,prepare to attend service at Canaan Land.
Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad in going to Canaan Land if you're resident around Lagos-Ota and environs. However, the local community churches also need people to develop them. They need the strength of all and sundry to make the local church as aesthetic as what we have in Canaan Land today.
Unfortunately, many who go to Canaan Land are, by my own submission, presumptuous that the local Pastors don't have the same anointing as Bishop, which is true: because the disciple cannot be greater than the master (Matthew 9:11). However, the same corporate anointing which flows from Canaan Land is the same in all the local community churches. But many don't believe this, and so many are not well established as a Winner in their local church communities.
At one time, Bishop said, God showed him fire, as in the anointing, coming down and splitting into several splinters. This the Lord said to him that the same anointing that is resident in Canaan Land, is resident in all the local assemblies and Home Cells. Now why many don't believe this and attend services in their local assemblies, but would rather go to Canaan Land, I don't know. Many perhaps do not believe in the words of the Bishop in this aspect, or they would rather see Bishop than the local Pastor.
2 Chronicles 20:20 [20]And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Notice scripture says, "... Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." You see, many are not prospering in their local assemblies because they do not take heed to the words of the prophet concerning the fact the the same corporate anointing in Canaan Land is obtainable in all local assemblies. For the Bishop had said, the same corporate anointing which is resident in Canaan Land, resides in all the local community churches, and Home Cells. That statement is scriptural. And until many a Winner believe in it, they shall not be established amongst their brethren in their local assemblies. Now why did I say that statement by the Bishop is scriptural? In 1 Samuel the thirtieth chapter, David speaking by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost says:
1 Samuel 30:24 [24]For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
Notice that text says, "... But as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike." Put somewhat differently in this context, 'But as the blessings and encounters of he that attend service in Canaan Land, so shall his blessings and encounters be that tarrieth in the local assembly: they both shall part alike.'
When I got this revelation, I decided there is no need heading down to Canaan Land, when I can have the same blessings by walking a stone throw from my house to the local assembly.
As a Winner, you are part of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, founded by Bishop David Oyedepo. While Canaan Land is the international headquarters of the church, attendance is not mandatory.
The church encourages members to attend services at their local assemblies or community churches, which are usually closer and more convenient. These local assemblies are still part of the Living Faith Church Worldwide and provide opportunities for worship, teaching, and fellowship.
However, attending services at Canaan Land can be a powerful and enriching experience, especially during special programs and events. Many Winners do travel to Canaan Land for these occasions, but it's not a requirement.
Ultimately, as a Winner, you should seek to attend services at a location that feeds your spirit and helps you grow in your faith, whether that's at your local community church or Canaan Land.
Don't hoard knowledge, propagate it!
Jesus is Lord
The greatest blessing you can have as a mature Christian is not just to attend the community churches, but to serve in those churches in a capacity that creates impact.
I was once the head of the Carer's squad in a Winners branch in another African country. That was where I learnt how to be a sacrificial giver. There were only four of us in that squad. We used to bring out money from our pockets to solve the needs of challenged church members. Routinely, while taking the community church in the bible reading, I would scan the attendees and make notes of those who looked troubled, dressed shabbily or who routinely looked ill. I would then task one of my usher friends to pay individual visits to some of these people. You cannot imagine the challenges people are going through which can be solved with small money.
The three years I was there were easily the best years of my Christian life. On a personal level, every single one of the four of us in the Carer's squad were blessed bountifully beyond measure.
Being a Winner is not only about going to Canaanland to hear Papa. You should at some point, be able to take what you have heard from Papa over the years and take it to a Community Church (especially the Rural churches established in the last three years) and bring the light to the communities where those churches are hosted. Then you will make those churches cities of refuge.
Jesus said: be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer.
I'm really mindful of the places I go these days because when people see that you dress well smelling nice, they conclude you have money and they start billing you. If and when I have money, and someone needs help, my conscience can never allow me leave without helping such a person. If I am unable to help, I feel really bad and sad within me. But when I don't have, nobody helps me. Life!
I try as much as I can to stay healthy and out of police trouble cos if I fall sick or fall into trouble, I have nobody to assist me... Them say cow wey nor get tail, na God dey drive flies from it's anus o. I don't look for people's trouble at all. Slap me, I leave u to God.
You are a blessed man.
There are people God has destined to be helpers. No one can help the helpers. God helps them directly because He knows if He puts resources into your hands, you will distribute them to the needy.
How you will know is simple: you will see that out of a crowd of people, you are the one that these ones will be directed to. It will also happen time and time again in various places.
BloomingDale: Very good. After 12years you get your first leaving school certificate. No longer I go school, but na primary school certificate you get. Who 6years epp?
It helped those of us who met the 6-3-3-4 system that was the brainchild of renowned educationist Professor Babs Fafunwa. Unfortunately, Gen Zs and Gen As like you missed out on the best time to be a child in Nigeria.
That's why you do not know the value of that system.
Remember GAME OVER starring Justus Esiri? Irosoanga acted as a white-garment priest in that flick. Early 80s stuff. I cannot remember if Comish Ekiye was in that movie.
She comes across as trying too hard to be more white than the white man. Too late for her...her ancestry will always speak loudly and nothing she does or says can wash it off.
Gazans will be surprised when the bulldozers will roll in and demolish everything there. That has always been the plan.
It has happened in so many countries that we have lost count. Even Naija. Ask Maroko residents when Raji Rasaki sent in bulldozers in the dead of the night to clear them all out. That place is now owned by the rich.
You can say "Mr a scores a win over Mr b," or "Mr b defeats Mr a in court".
Never "Mr A wins Mr B." That's bad English.
Please no one should come here and start talking the "English is not my language" BS! Most who do this can only speak one indigenous language. I speak three and two foreign ones as well.
Keep your language for your family, children and village people. If you are speaking to an international audience in the language of common expression or education, speak and write it properly.
foxman04: South Africa that has no experience of war, never been at war, trying to act tough Paper tigers .. I heard their soldiers are been butchered like meats in Congo
You do not know what you are saying. Go and read your history as to the activities of the South African army in Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, etc in the 70s and 80s.
South Africa was well on its way to developing a nuclear program before the US convinced F W de Klerk to dismantle the project in 1989.
The veterans of the South African army are the ones who make up groups like Executive Decisions and other mercenary armies that are very active all over Africa and other parts of the world. Google what Executive Decisions did to the RUF rebels in TWO WEEKS in Sierra Leone when ECOMOG was struggling.
The scenes you saw from the film Blood Diamonds as to how the Russian-made attack helicopters took out the RUF guys in the mine was not fiction: it actually played out all over Sierra Leone.
The South African army is the best trained and best equipped in Africa. Make no mistake about it.
Everything you see in Rwanda was built with the solid minerals in eastern DR Congo via the proxy operations of M23 and other groups. This is an open secret.
2special: He knew the people the money was meant for aren't getting the drugs.
The money is ending up in cars and plazas all over the country. Some of the officials in the agencies involved are under investigation. If you know, you know.
There are several audits which have shown that some other countries are having more impact in the AIDS fight with less than 10% of what Nigeria is getting. The decision was not made on a hunch...the US already has the data from the various audits.
The fact that this Adekunle Fajuyi's act and Victor Banjo's bravery hardly get any mention by Igbo historians, is the only proof i need to know who the real clowns and hypocrites are
Ojukwu and Nnamdi Kanu left their people behind and ran away to other countries, while Fajuyi and Banjo died for their people, but the last two are cowards while the first two are heroes
Adekunle Fajuyi is a prime example of why we should run away from these ethnocentric generalizations.
Tellmeastory: A Mexican who voted for Trump is devastated after Trump’s immigration enforcers stormed his house and bundled away his wife, driving her off to the airport for instant deportation back to Mexico.
There is a growing trend in America whereby those who voted for Trump are realising his policies are going to hurt them.
Some are even asking if it’s too late to change their vote to Kamala Harris.
ValCon888: Welcome to the new world order. The order of white supremacy. His black slaves in Nigeria will still applaud this initiative.
The US as it stands is already rigged against people of color. Abolishing DEI will further widen the already gigantic gap of inequality in the country.
Look at your own country. How are the hiring patterns in terms of ethnicity in MDAs?
Those travelling from Lagos to Accra by road would now need a transit visa, and it will empower the Togolese gendarmes at the borders to display more of their madness than what they are currently doing.
You exploit the oil there. Hand out oil mining leases to Northerners.
Yet you cannot give the people back 50% of the wealth under their feet.
America is lucky to have a sensible man as president. You come to the US with a product, make all the money and send back to China without paying a fair share to the government providing the infrastructure for the app to function.
No way. China must agree to pay half or they go. Coercive diplomacy at its best.
You are expected to have your full funding in place when applying for student visa.
All these fraudulent acts of using someone else's bank statements, borrowing proof of funds documentation, fake sponsorship and all...it will eventually catch up.