The Babalawo pastors - Femi Aribisala

 

Bishop David Oyedepo says poverty is not of God. He insists a child of God has no business being poor and declares: “There’s a proven covenant cure for poverty.” If this were true and proven, all the world’s poor would have become rich Christians by now.

10 Reasons Why Some People Will Never Be Rich

 

There’s an interesting maxim about how long wealth actually stays with a person and their descendants. The saying is three generations, tops: one to make it, one to spend it, and the third to blow it. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but have you ever sat down and seriously thought about wealth and what it means to you? Or do you figure, “What the heck, I’ve always been broke, my forefathers were broke; it’s generational” – it’s just a rite of passage of sorts. If you feel that wealth is out of your reach, you aren’t alone.

Really? I’m richer as a farmer than a politician says Ekiti State deputy governor

                                 
Honest politician?

Via PUNCH:

Chief Paul Alabi was the deputy governor of Ekiti State during the regime of former Governor Niyi Adebayo. He shares his life experiences in this interview.

You seem to love farming so much; does it have to do with your upbringing?

Yes. I started farming at a very young age. At about five years or so, people used to come and hire me from my mother to work in their farms. That was even before I started going to school. My father wanted me to go to school but my mother wanted me to be a farmer. He was a trader and was always travelling, so my mother was in charge. She would hire me out to people and I started taking interest in farming. I had my own farm when I was about six years old in 1950 at the back of our house where I planted corn and other things.

Open letter to Sadiq Abacha by Ayo Sogunro

Dear Sadiq Abacha,

I do not know you personally, but I admire your filial bravery—however misguided— in defending your father, the late General Sani Abacha. This in itself is not a problem; it is an obligation—in this cultural construct of ours—for children to rise to the defence of their parents, no matter what infamy or perfidy the 

said parent might have dabbled in. 

Private Jet Lifestyle in Nigeria

Via BBC

Nigeria's rich elite are increasingly buying private jets to avoid flying on commercial airlines, reports the BBC's Tomi Oladipo from Lagos.

"There's an average of nine aircrafts fixed here in the hangar," says Peter de Waal of ExecuJet Aviation Nigeria, looking across at a line of sleek jets, as a team of engineers works on them.