"THE 5 IMPORTANT INDICATORS THAT SHOW THAT NIGERIA IS A FAILING COUNTRY"

A failing state is synonymous with the following political, social and economic symptoms:
(i) The central or the Federal Government of Nigeria is too weak today and she has also failed in its primary and constitutional duties to guarantee the national security of the life and properties of Nigerian citizens and residents. Lawlessness, human rights abuses and the rule of brutalities reign supreme in the Nigeria today, such as, the menace of Boko Haram, daily hired killings, many political assassinations, numerous unsolved murder and arson cases, regular religious riots, constant sectarian violents, ritual killings and daily kidnappings for ransoms.

(ii) The Federal Government of Nigeria that is currently headed by President Jonathan Goodluck has also lost its partial sovereignty over certain territories of Nigeria to the Islamic terrorists (Boko Haram), the militant groups and to the ethnic warlords (the Niger-Delta region is controlled by the oil militant groups and the Northern Nigeria by the brutal Boko Haram).

(iii) The national economy of Nigeria is failing, the nation's foreign debt profile is rising, the country's foreign reserves are gradually depleting, hyper-inflation of goods and services control the national economy thereby reducing the purchasing power of the Nigerian citizens. The value of the nation's currency is gradually depreciating against the various international currencies, foreign investments are not visible in Nigeria, the unemployment rate has risen above 47% amongst the youths, poverty rate has hit over 80%, the nation's manpower needs are affected by brain drain to the west and the majority of the over five million Nigerians in diaspora are mainly economic refugees.

(iv) The government of Nigeria has also failed to provide the citizens of Nigerians with their basic human needs, such as constant electricity supply, drinkable water systems, good road networks, modern national infrastructures, world's standard educational systems and the 21st century health care facilities and personnels.

(v) The life expectancy of a Nigerian today is about 45 years today, infant and child mortality rates remain one of the highest in the world. The nation faces negative human development indices in almost every important area that determines the quality of life as well as the standards of living for Nigerians. Will Nigeria as a nation survive for another decade or two in this terrible state? Only time will tell.

"THE EARLY CHURCH OR THE EARLY CHRISTIANS PRACTICED VOLUNTARY GIVING AND NOT TITHING"

If tithing as it is loudly proclaimed and taught today by the so called prosperity preachers is a divine mandate and a biblical requirement in the New Covenant or in the Church Age for Christians, then the following things would have happened in the Holy Bible:(i) Jesus Christ would have either tithed once or regularly and he would have commanded tithing to be observed by his Church (his bride) as a mandatory divine practice and a divine mandate for the Christian way of life. (ii) The 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ would have continued this practice throughout the Early Church in both the Jewish and the Gentile dominated Churches beginning from Jerusalem. 

(iii) The Early Church would have continued to practice tithing on regularly basis instead of voluntary givings that are seen, visible, documented and recorded in both the Jewish and the Gentile Churches throughout the New Testament Bible. (iv) There are no biblical evidences of tithing anywhere in the Epistles or the Letters that were written to the local Churches of the then 1st century world in the New Testament Bible. (iv) To command Christians to tithe when Jesus Christ and the New Testament Scriptures did not command it and by making tithing holy, required, mandatory, divine and sacred is simply an extrabiblical revelation that is a good example of a false doctrine or the teaching of men that is primarily designed and packaged together for financial returns to the preachers at the expense of those ignorant tithers.

Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7.

"THE 7 KEY QUESTIONS THAT THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL CAN NEVER ANSWER FROM THE BIBLE"

Below are the 7 important questions that the so called prosperity gospel and the prosperity teachers who promote this unbiblical doctrine can never answer from the Bible.:(i) Will Christians get back a "hundredfold return" on what they give as their tithes and offerings to their our Churches? (ii) Is "supernatural debt cancellation" biblical in all truth, honesty and in real life? (iii) Is the wealth of the wicked (the non-Christians) laid up for the just (Christians) to inherit in this end-time? (iv) Are Christians entitled to an "end-time" transfer of wealth from the world into the Church? (v) Is the  "naming of your seed" during Church offering time scriptural? (vi) Should Christians believe God for the "double portion" whenever they give their offerings and tithes? (vii) Is financial prosperity the true biblical sign of spirituality and spiritual growth for Christians in this journey of faith?

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation). 
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.

CAN NIGERIA CONTINUE TO SURVIVE WITHOUT HOLDING A SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE?

The 450 ethnic nationalities and the many religious groups that make up what is known today as Nigeria were all politically, historically, culturally, economically, socially and religiously autonomous and independent from one another for hundreds of years before the coming of the European powers to Africa as colonialists. 

Nigeria was formed and founded by the British Empire in 1914 without allowing all the ethnic nationalities and the religious groups to hold a national referendum to determine whether the various ethnic nationalities and the many religious groups were ready to live together or not, and if yes, under what terms of engagements would they be willing to live together as one nation to be named as Nigeria. This is the origin of today's major crises in Nigeria that started in 1914 and lingers till 2012 under the watch and the presidency of Jonathan Ebele Goodluck.

The successive governments (both military and civilian administrations) that have ruled Nigeria from 1960 to date have all refused to right these wrongs that were created by Britain by holding a national referendum or a Sovereign National Conference despite all the major crises and challenges that the Nigerian nation has faced to date. The Main Cries in Nigeria since October 1, 1960 to date remained the same issues under the military and the civilian governments. They are the following: "True Federalism", "Marginalization", "Secession into Independent Nations", "National Sovereign Conference", "Theocracy", "Resource Control", "Regional Autonomy", "Rotational Presidency", "State Police", "Devolution of Powers" and "Self-Determination".

The only way forward for Nigeria today under the presidency of Jonathan Goodluck is for this president to immediately send a bill to our national assembly to convene the much needed Sovereign National Conference of all the interset groups, ethnic nationalities and religious faiths in Nigeria that will then  determine the best way forward for Nigeria in this 21st century human universe. The biggest questions that are left unanswered today are the following:(i) Does President Jonathan Goodluck have the political will do it? and (ii) Will President Jonathan Goodluck be willing to do it?. 

The time is now fully ripe for all Nigerians from all walks of life to sit down together for the first time since the formation of this nation in 1914 by the British Empire and talk freely and openly about all their common regional and national problems or challenges and then fashion the best constitutional approach for a better and a working Nigeria that is going to be fair to all Nigerians of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.

"THE BIBLE REVEALED THAT JESUS CHRIST PAID HIS TAXES AND NEVER HIS TITHES"

Jesus Christ paid his yearly or annual taxes as required by the Roman law in the land of Palestine under the Roman government according to the New Testament Scriptures. Jesus Christ was born under the Law of Moses (Old Covenant) primarily to fulfill the Law of Moses concerning all that were written about him in that law and prophets (Old Covenant) and to redeem those that were under the Law of Moses (Old Covenant). Tithing before the law of Moses was not God's mandatory commandment. Abraham and Isaac that tithed before the law of Moses were voluntary tithers and they tithed only once.  Tithing was made a mandatory requirement by God for the nation of Israel under the Law of Moses (Old Covenant) for all Jews that were under the Law of Moses (Old Covenant). The tithing was established for Israel primarily for the daily upkeep of the Levitical priesthood, the widows, the orphans and the poor under the Old Testament. Jesus Christ was not a Levi and he could not have collected tithes as a member of the tribe of Judah.

The four canonical gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that covered the entire account of the birth of Jesus Christ, his early childhood life, his earthly ministry, his death on the cross at the Calvary mountains, his burial, his resurrection from the dead on the third day, his many physical appearances to his disciples after he rose from the death for 40 days and his final ascension to heaven did not record nor document any single instance where Jesus Christ paid his own tithes or collected tithes either once or regularly from his followers under the Law of Moses (Old Covenant). The same four canonical gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John recorded few instances where Jesus Christ paid his mandatory yearly or annual taxes to the Roman government.

The Relevant Bible References "Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words. When they had come, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Shall we pay, or shall we not pay?”
But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see it.” So they brought it. And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” And Jesus answered and said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at Him" - Mark 12:13-17.

"THE TRUE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF TITHING AND THE SO CALLED DEVOURERS"

God commanded the Nation of ISRAEL and the Nation of ISRAEL only under the Law of Moses or the Old Testament or the Old Covenant to tithe. From all the available biblical, secular and historical records, ISRAEL as a nation under the Old Testament lived in the era of FARMING or AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY (animal and crop faming) and the IRON AGE TECHNOLOGY (tools and simple machines were made out of metals).

Today under the New Covenant of Jesus Christ or the Dispensation of Grace and Truth (Church Age) and in the information technology age of the 21st century human world, the prosperity teachers or the money-preachers continue to teach erroneously and manipulate the Biblical truths deceptively for their own love for money, the material things of this life and for their financial gains by boldly claiming that the devourers of the Nation of ISRAEL under the Old Covenant will destroy the finances of any CHURCH AGE BELIEVERS in Jesus Christ that refused to TITHE today.

The true biblical DEVOURERS of the Nation of ISRAEL according to the revelation knowledge and plain interpretation of the Book of Malachi Chapter 3 were the massive swarms of LOCUSTS and the destructive PESTS that God sent to destroy their FARMING CROPS and their AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY for refusing to obey the mandatory and the compulsory requirements of the law of tithing in the law of Moses or in the Old Covenant for the daily upkeep of the Old Testament Levitical priesthood that we do not have today in the New Covenant or the Church Age.

IS RELIGION THE OPIUM OF THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF THE OPPRESSED NIGERIAN MASSES?

 Nigeria is a heavily religious nation in all ramifications. About half of all Nigerians are directly associated with the religion of Christianity and the other half of the population follow the religion of Islam or the native traditional religions.

The Nigerian elites that have ruled Nigeria from 1960 to date have acccumulated enormous ill-gotten wealth from the Nigeria's oil revenue for themselves, their families and their cronies. They have also mismanaged the oil wealth on the various white elephant projects across Nigeria that did not bring any true national development to Nigeria nor practical prosperity to the Nigerian citizens. This negative development has left the remaining 80% of the ordinary Nigerians with nothing to fall back, so they are forced by the situations in Nigeria to survive on $1-2 a day living budget and with the old, inadequate and outdated public infrastructures, collapsing health care facilities, 20th century educational systems, huge unemployment amongst the youth, insecurity and lawlessness as well as over-stressed social services.

Because of the failure of the Nigerian leaders to deliver on their promises to their fellow Nigerians year in and year out. These hopeless, vulnerable and helpless Nigerians are today left without any other alternative in their life but to turn to religion and to the religious leaders of the Churches and Mosques who promised them a way of of their present problems, but in all reality, these religious leaders are also doing the same things that the politicians are doing by deceptively and religiously exploiting these weak, ignorant, needy and desperate Nigerians of their leftovers (money and material things of life) with the false and unrealistic hope of good health and prosperity in return through their sanctified and religious ponzi scheme ventures.