TERROR RETURNS: Suicide bombings in Nigeria's Maiduguri kill at least 23, wound 100+ at hospital and market. Christian leader warns of ongoing religious persecution as suspicion falls on Boko Haram. https://t.co/RLanlRVTlE
Venezuela minimum wage is N200,000
Fuel is N30 per liter.
Libya minimum wage is N300,000
Fuel is N50 per liter.
UAE minimum wage is N2.1Million
Fuel is N300 per liter.
Nigeria minimum wage is N70,000
Fuel is N1250 per liter.
You all are being rulled by demons.
I hate to think I’m from here.
Truth take.
A nation (Iran) declares that its objective is to destroy another state (Isreal), what is that? Peace talk? Humanitarianism?
Let someone educate me, how is Iranian government not a genocidal government if its declared objective is to exterminate the state of Isreal?
The world is run by falsehood. Activism and radicalism driven by falsehood. How can you have a declared state policy of exterminating a people and you are not genocidal?
When Countries Fail to Plan
Many people wonder why any adverse development in the global economy quickly impacts Nigeria. A recent example is the tension involving Iran, which led to an increase in global oil prices and, subsequently, a rise in petroleum prices in Nigeria.
A few weeks ago, petrol was selling for less than ₦1,000 per litre, but today it costs over ₦1,200 per litre. Diesel, which was also priced below ₦1,000 per litre, is now over ₦1,500 per litre. These rapid increases illustrate how quickly external shocks can affect the Nigerian economy.
The reason for this is straightforward: most countries, whether they are oil-producing or non-oil-producing, maintain strategic petroleum reserves to cushion against supply or price shocks. This means that when there is a disruption in the global oil market, they can release part of these reserves to stabilize supply. However, Nigeria lacks such a buffer, so the impact is felt almost immediately.
The underlying issue is a lack of planning. Countries that engage in planning create buffers against shocks, while those that do not remain vulnerable to them. The old maxim remains true: when a country fails to plan, it has already planned to fail.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
210 Trillion Naira is unaccounted for by the ex-NNPCL CEO.
For the uninitiated, let me explain in context of how big 210 Trillion Naira is and what it can do for you and me.
1. The current national minimum wage is ₦70,000 per month. To legitimately earn ₦210 Trillion, a Nigerian earning this basic salary would have to work for 250 million years, and that’s assuming they did not spend a single kobo of their earnings.
Alternatively, you could use this money to pay the ₦70,000 minimum wage to 10 million Nigerians every single month for 25 straight years.
2. Depending on the market, a 50kg bag of rice currently averages around ₦60,000. With ₦210 Trillion, you could buy 3.5 billion bags of rice.
Because Nigeria's population is roughly 230 million people, this means you could personally hand over 15 full 50kg bags of rice to every single man, woman, and child in the country.
3. If an average car has a 50-litre fuel tank, this amount of money would pay for 5.25 billion full tanks of fuel. You could fill up the tank of every single commercial bus and private vehicle in Nigeria every day for decades.
4. If we assume it costs about ₦15 Billion to build and fully equip a world-class, 200-bed modern general hospital, with 210 trillion you can build 14,000 of those hospitals. If it were to be PHCs, you could build 1.4 million clinics.
5. With 210 Trillion, you could build 105,000 kilometers of high class roads at 2 billion naira per kilometer. And if you started building a continuous highway from Lagos, 105,000 kilometres is long enough to wrap around the entire equator of the Earth two and a half times.
Money has never been Nigerians problem. We are NOT poor.
We need a better version of an economy that has rich people and consumers
Don't give me 20 versions of dangote
Give me 20 % of the US economy where a young girl in ado ekiti can open a food truck business in her neighbourhood and sell $100,000 in one year
Where young people can launch businesses that consumers will pay money for without knowing the president and the Governor of the central bank... an economy where accessing loans with very low interest rate is easier without being a big fish
Nigeria needs an economy where people won't find paying $20 per month for chatGpt as an expensive thing
SPEAKING SOLEMNLY
Anyone living in sexual sins (fornication, adultery, pornography, etc), has no place in Christian ministry. Immorality is a very big deal, scripturally. The believer's BODY is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yes, the BODY. Therefore, what you do with God's dwelling place must be of colossal significance. Don't you see it?
And, because of the sacredness of Christian ministry, while you can legitimately be a struggling Believer for a season, you cannot be a struggling minister, if the struggle is that you have not overcome sexual immorality. In this regard, the category of a struggling minister does not exist, biblically considered.
This is not about being a "wounded soldier." But in any case, if a soldier takes a bullet during combat, we don't hand him over to the enemies, yes. And we also don't leave him in the frontline to continue fighting – with his wound. We take him out and away for treatment. Whether he can even return to active duty later on depends on the severity/impact of the 'wound' sustained and the assessment of the team managing his case. Taking him out of combat is a responsible act of love and not a case of "condemning our own."
Back from the digression. It is alien to the spirit of Christ, to say someone is a minister of the gospel, even though he commits immorality. The practice of immorality cannot coexist with legitimate practice of ministry. A fornicator or an adulterer is not a Minister. Cannot be.
A minister of the gospel MUST be above reproach. People MUST be safe under his care. Money, too, MUST be safe under his care. The bible insists that he sustains a high level of integrity – morally, ethically, socially.
This is why the Charismata, the gifts of the Spirit are never mentioned as qualification or eligibility for ministry. Check the texts.
So, the practice of equating giftedness with eligibility for ministry is unbiblical and should be discouraged. Being a gifted speaker, for instance, does not qualify anyone for Christian ministry. If you know all the Rhema in the book, and all the historic fine points of orthodoxy, but you're an intermittent fornicator/adulterer, you are ineligible for Christian Ministry. You need to be discipled, you should not be discipling anyone, at all.
Read the passage below carefully, to the very last verse, please: It says a Pastor:
"...must be a good man whose life cannot be spoken against. He must have only one wife, and he must be hard working and thoughtful, orderly, and full of good deeds. He must enjoy having guests in his home and must be a good Bible teacher. He must not be a drinker or quarrelsome, but he must be gentle and kind and not be one who loves money. He must have a well-behaved family, with children who obey quickly and quietly. For if a man can’t make his own little family behave, how can he help the whole church? The pastor must not be a new Christian because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and pride comes before a fall. (Satan’s downfall is an example.) Also, he must be well spoken of by people outside the church—those who aren’t Christians—so that Satan can’t trap him with many accusations and leave him without freedom to lead his flock"
On the last point above, many people who work in Hotels don't take the church seriously because the see the behind-the-scenes lifestyle of Pastors. A minister must have one life, must be not be two-faced. And he must be an example to both insiders and outsiders.
If the church is weak, Satan is only a remote cause. If the church is weak anywhere, the church is the reason why.
And now, may the glorious Lord of the church step into this seeming perpetual desolation, and pour us the blessing that is Revival.
#CryForRevival