₦airaland Forum

Is that 1 dollar I'm seeing ?

genkins:
Thier hearts have been made hardened by the god of this world satan, who is the god of. Money,mammon.. You and your pastor should seek christ bro.

this is a satanic behaviour. You are not helping yourself by thinking this way.

HigherEd:
I'm back from Church, and I find myself laughing as people on nairaland are claiming that I am a PR person for Bishop Oyedepo and expect I would soon be back with a rebuttal. I wasn't intending any rebuttal before, as I am not a PR person for the living faith church. But I would do this in defense of the gospel because a non credible attack against one of Nigeria's most credible churches is unacceptable.

I think many of us generally get carried away with headlines and forget the substance of an article before rushing to comment.

I have gone through the entire article and I haven't seen anything indicting of the Oyedepo family. But I would address four observations from the article itself and from the surrounding comments.

Why Should Oyedepo Or Living Faith Avoid Taxes By Setting Up Offshore Accounts Giving The Bible Verse "Give Unto Ceasar What Is Unto Ceasar"?

1) For all the businesses the living faith church operates in Nigeria pays taxes to the Nigerian government. This includes the publishing business, and the other taxable constituent businesses around the universities which includes the microfinance banks, water and beverage factories, farms etc.

2) There are over 200 nations on earth eligible to receive taxes. So British Islands is also 'ceasar'. Every nation has the responsibility to make themselves tax attractive to welcome foreign investment and Oyedepo and his family are just as eligible as anyone else to search for better priced tax opportunities for their personal or ministry benefit.

Is Living Faith Investment Carriage A Secret?


Inside the Mantle book and under the finance section of the living faith church details to great extent the administrative procedure for the church, it is well cited that the living faith church can maintain asset management to protect the church's income. Or did you expect the church to warehouse millions of dollars with banks who would live large on the proceeds and expose the hard earned income of worshippers to inflation even before the church uses it?

Are Oyedepo's Universities The Most Expensive In Nigeria As Claimed By The Article?

We all know this to be untrue. The Living Faith university system runs one of the most pocket friendly private universities in Nigeria when comapred to secular varsities of equal standing. There's nothing unusual about the price of Living faith schools.

I suspect that the addition of this claim was just to make Oyedepo look further bad and horrible.

Does Living Faith Maintain Four Jets?


This is another claim that has been debunked several times by Leke Beecroft of Church gist and many others who cared to explain.
The living faith church has used four to five planes in the past to convey its church leadership. It regularly sells her older planes to buy new ones. Currently, the church uses more of its helicopter to shuffle the church leadership and that of the RCCG around the country. While deemphasizing on the use of the private jet.

However, the article presented it as though the living faith church maintains an active fleet of four jets on standby in a futile attempt to further make the church appear greedy and evil.

Bishop Oyedepo. Please add the title to the name. Good writeup though

genkins:
That is the fraud they propagate where ur god needs your money to propagate his gospel not love. What a powerless and hungry god?is everything in the Bible Christian?why didn't ur parents stone you to death as a stubborn child? Or is it not in the Bible?
This small god, his disciples and apostles live in opulence as a direct opposite to the true gospel where everything was shared and its apostles and disciples sometimes were poor and killed thru persecution.. Wake up

you need to wake up. Keep your money and do as you wish with it. Let me do what I wish with mine. Simple

LibertyRep:
Foreigners own companies in Nigeria.

Is there anything wrong in Nigerians owing companies abroad?

What law(s) have they broken in simple terms?

If there is/are, then drag them to court immediately and not the media.

I wanted to like this statement twice but that will just invalidate my first like. Very good point!!!

genkins:
What when you are fraudulently persuaded to pay.. Like.. Pay your tithe or things will be tight.. Or if u don't tithe u won't make heaven.. Etc... That a Yahoo boy did not force his client to pay, does that absolve him of being a fraudster?

nope it is a choice and voluntary. If I choose to follow my bible and pay my tithe and even give all I have for the furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that is my business not urs. If I chose to live a life of total sacrifice to God; everything I earn in this life, that's my life, is it yours?

Do what you like with yours, and let me do what I like with mine. Simple

genkins:
But they can collect money to buy rolce royces PJ living like kings here on earth... Clap for your self.
You don't pay tax but you are deceived to part with your money to pay ridiculous tithes, seeds, offerings etc. Yet you demand free schools from government

it is not compulsory to pay. The money is in your hand and you choose what to do with yours. If I choose to Give Mine to sponsor the Gospel, who are you to judge?

genkins:
Sorry bro, theve really brainwashed you. When the missionaries came, they provide free schools that our parents attended.they got contributions from the church abroad.. Who are we copying? The point I am making is that, CE should have provided atleast 100 free schools for only thier members by now if they were preaching the true gospel. A small church like Omega in PH has almost 10,do you even know Omega.? No.. In CE, Thier Go lives like a feudal lord when he is supposed to be the least.. Atleast his members feed him

it's not the job of the church to provide schools. That's your leaders responsibility and failures. It they do it's charity, not responsibility

genkins:
It's yours that is screwed. CE just did what it should have been doing 20yrs ago, by now they would have had upto 100 free schools and thier members would have enjoyed free education but they are just starting now.. I should clap for them.... Just the way u clap for government giving you roads in 2021..what a shame

first of all it is not the responsibility of the church to provide schools. They are not your elected leaders. Secondly, this is not the first school they are building. Thus should be about the 5th one, I think they are even more.

genkins:
Yours have been turned upside down

I said your mind is screwed because you don't even see good even if it's starting at you in the face.

genkins:
Mnn! Built by christ Embassy or Chris? What is Chris Oyakilome's job that he can afford to build a free school? Christ Embassy is a church where funds contributed by members built a free school.. Let's get that right

your mind is so screwed

The Nigerian government is sponsoring killings of their own citizens just to discredit the Biafra cause... Thesame way they tried to infiltrate the end SARS protest just to discredit them

After APC, where will this man put his head

Vaughanlanrewaj:
smh. Don't worry, go ahead and use short cut in life. You will learn las las sir.

there are shortcut to wealth.

mohims:
Even the Brazilian president will not come out and spew such thrash. Take it or leave it Brazil in a third world country. Even the Brazilians there will give you a good flog if you say such nonsense there. Go and educate yourself more about Brazil and stop giving us your baseless opinion. Brazil is a third world country. That's an undeniable fact.

have you been to Brazil before?

Bighead9:
Quit ranting. Respond to my previous post.

it's now obvious you don't have common sense.. no offence

Bighead9:
What will you say about this IGBO MAN?

this is a the foolishness I don't understand. is it about being Igbo or Hausa or Fulani? A child abuser is a child abuser. Who is talking about tribe or religion?

You guys reduce everything to tried and religion. You find yourself foolishly justifying something you should be ashamed of

Udenz:
YES! I already have contacted one the hospital there, JCI ACCREDITED and their maternity offer is marvelous and price friendly! Including all kind if birth, from virginal, to CS or water birth…

Getting reply aren’t easy that’s why I’m holding onto this hospital!

wooow this is great news

dehiero:
They're open now head there next week for info on tourist visas .. Do not forget to update us too

is the embassy open now??

Davash222:
$50 per hour.

Say they spent 5 hours, that's $250.

N130K in just 5 hours.

But, they're paying their ZoneBs here 30K in 30 days

BMC ZoneBs are worthless and piece of shiit!

come and hear oo

dre11:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/27/if-i-open-bandits-attacking-southern-kaduna-heads-will-roll-%E2%80%93-nigerian-senator

if you still think the dogs are sleeping, you have deceived yourself Mr senator

Raalsalghul:
I'm trying to fathom why a lot of Nigerians do this most especially religious leaders and family members.

They see a young man earning little change which probably is just enough to take care of himself and voila they start with their "Marriage Chants".

They won't give you job links. suggest business ideas, skills to learn or investment schemes. It's always "when are you getting married"?.

Haba!

Op, if you know what is good for you, your future kids and Nigeria at large, forget that marriage talk for now.

Peradventure, your finances are not enough for an education in Europe, then there must be some local certifications which you can use to increase your employment prospects in that same U.A.E.

Also start at looking at I.T fields you can delve into while working.

I repeat, flush away any thought of marriage from your mind at this moment, you still have age on your side. Don't let anyone hoodwink you with that "only son" talk.

I can't stress the above enough.

watin come bring religious leaders into this conversation

avrilwisedata:
Will you keep quiet? You are the wicked person here! How can u be supporting crime instead of you to chide the criminal?

Someone took a loan and is gladly defaulting serially with different loan companies and you're saying another person calling him out is defaming his character. What kinda yeye character does a person who cares less about paying back a loan have?

Do u even know what defamation of character is? Because what the op posted is not false, it is true that the person in question is an unrepentant defaulter of loans.

I do not see why we as Nigerians encourage crime, take advantage of the system to engage in criminal activities but are quick to call politicians criminals.

Be objective before taking a stance on a situation rather than supporting evil.

Cheers.

who have him the right to publish the name of a person owing on a website? Did the loan company ask him to do that? Is he the loan company? Is the person owing him money?

This is pure defamation of character. Even the debtor has his rights and you have no right to defame him. Do note that support evil because of useless sentiments

GetMeRight:
Yeah, except that you didn't give me his number and call credit to call him.



No, the wicked one is you defending a serial defaulter hurting people's businesses. You could care less, wicked human beings.

https://www.nairaland.com/6703108/share-experience-loan-app/3#105827025

you dont have credit to reach him, but you are quick to rush online to defame the guy. I hope you know what defamation is really?

You are a simply wicked person there is no way to sugarcoat that.

GetMeRight:
We lived together in the same hostel room back in 2005 in the Uni. Don't know why the dude is still keeping my number till now. I'm getting sms notifications every now and then about him taking loans and defaulting. Like a serial defaulter. But I get it, there are many like him even here on Nairaland, men and ladies alike

have you reached out to him? You must be a very wicked person.

You want to squeeze the boy till his blood dries out

Coming from Tonto dike with her violent predisposition, those words should be taken seriously.
This is actually grounds for child abuse.

paprika212:
Sure? Thanks

their embassy is in Cairo, not Abuja

apriko:
Oluwa don pick her Call...

This one has escaped.

Buhari 0:1 Good Nigerians

you will not hear Bihari commending Nigerians like this. It always takes celebrities and foreigners to discover them.

siofra:
Lalasticlala move my thread to FrontPage everyone needs to see this scam called DNA test being pushed by Nigerian men.

If Nigerian men could bring another woman's child into marriage without their wives knowing, they would have started doing it since 15 B.C.E

#youwillnotconductdnatestonmychild.

chai. One man will still go and marry this one?