One day, I decided to ask a friend abroad some pertinent questions. I said: “When last did you pray for journey mercies while travelling by rail? When last did you pray against power cuts? When last did you bind and cast the spirit of poverty? What about the prayers against your ‘village people’? I concluded and waited for a response. He struggled to give me a definite answer. He finally gave up with a smile.
Over time, I have concluded that most of us did things in Africa without any strong personal convictions about our actions. We are mere products of social conformity, groupthink and bandwagon effect.

Actions and inactions were regularly driven by the mentality of ‘Oh since people are doing it, then it should be right’. The challenge with this stance is that when the individual is taken out of the circle, they switch their colours to that of the new environment. This is what a chameleon does.

In my view, this is the major driving factor why Nigerians become less religious as soon as they leave the shores of Nigeria. In Nigeria, the efficacy of prayers (which is good) has been overemphasised. This has been done to the point that people even pray to occupy positions they are not academically qualified for. Someone might fail to prepare for a school examination and expect a miracle to happen. God frowns at magic and cheating.

For years, religious organisations have constantly raised prayer points for the advancement of Nigeria. But the country has been on a steady pattern of constant retrogression. This is what is easily obtainable when prayers go without work. Most Nigerians have grown to erroneously believe the key to personal and societal development is prayer and spiritual warfare. By the time they leave the shores of Nigeria and see their imagination of perfection in an advanced but starkly irreligious society, they let go of their core beliefs gradually and unconsciously. In psychology, it’s called Cognitive Restructuring. In the UK for example, I have seen former Nigerian pastors who pick extra shifts on Sundays due to the extra pay attached to it. Suddenly, the very religious ones no longer attend weekly church services. Evangelism is no longer on their To-Do list. The best they come up with is to repost or share religious messages on WhatsApp or other religious platforms. These people don’t pay tithes or give first fruits anymore. The growth of their finances, despite becoming less religious, has collapsed their belief system. They now believe somebody must have lied to them.
In terms of physical appearance, they are now open to funky hairstyles, earrings, and tattoos. Also, the so-called ‘worldly’ fashion sense has been attractive to them. A couple of them have changed their taste of music, stance on alcohol, smoking and the most controversial one - homosexuality.

The bottom line here is that whenever you find yourself in a working society, your prayer points will reduce. You tend to see life differently in a more realistic way. However, the level of societal advancement in the West is not an indictment on religion, spirituality or the existence of God. It only means we need formidable institutional structures in Africa. When viable structures, we can back up the process of growth and development with spirituality.

Prayers work and spiritual forces exist. This is known to the West knows but they will rather not build their lives around it. They only use these diabolical stories to sell books and movies. They tag them as ‘fiction’.

Osahon George Osayimwen is a UK-based journalist.

Moving abroad is the answer to all their prayers. You don't campaign after winning an election.

Ask the average Nigerian to describe their idea of God and Jesus and 99.9% of them would describe a WHITE man.

When they travel abroad, they are surrounded by white people. They are in heaven. The fact that 100% of the problems plaguing them in Nigeria has already been solved by the white people in the new country HELPS.

Religion reigns SUPREME where poverty and ignorance is prevalent. The poorer and less educated a people are, the more susceptible they are to religious MANIPULATIONS.

That's why the core Northern parts of Nigeria is a hot bed for religious EXTREMISM. Poverty and lack of education makes them easier to brainwash.

Namaster:
Ask the average Nigerian to describe their idea of God and Jesus and 99.9% of them would describe a WHITE man.

When they travel abroad, they are surrounded by white people. They are in heaven. The fact that 100% of the problems plaguing them in Nigeria has already been solved by the white people in the new country HELPS.

Religion reigns SUPREME where poverty and ignorance is prevalent. The poorer and less educated a people are, the more susceptible they are to religious MANIPULATIONS.

That's why the core Northern parts of Nigeria is a hot bed for religious EXTREMISM. Poverty and lack of education makes them easier to brainwash.

Not all Nigerians.over here in B.more alot of Nigerians don't joke with religious activities.infact they are the most religious Africans in diaspora.

Both on the right and left side of the Ibadan expressway is filled up with churches and other various worship centres who bought several thousand plots of land just for the sake of building a place in other to swindle people and you begin to think what is really the problem with us as country

Just imagine if those place are factories for productions or even farmlands, I'm not sure the country would be so messed up the way it is right now. Truly government have their own fault but we the citizens too have a lot of faults too especially those who are rich enough to site an establishment to help the economy but chose to build big churches all round the country.

It’s because most of the sermons preached in Nigeria have more to do with the preacher and his ideology, than God!

LordIsaac:
It’s because most of the sermons preached in Nigeria have more to do with the preacher and his ideology, than God!

OG.. Respect.. 🙏🙏

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I’m Agnostic but almost all the Nigerians i know still attend church or mosque. When these daddy GOs and gospel musicians come around its usually sold out. So this talk no follow .

Nat Bassey in Canada last year

ednut1:
I’m Agnostic but almost all the Nigerians i know still attend church or mosque. When these daddy GOs and gospel musicians come around its usually sold out. So this talk no follow

Do daddy GOs perfume miracles when they come over there?

Zonefree:

Do daddy GOs perfume miracles when they come over there?

it’s mostly testimonies - i got a good paying job after listening to daddy GO, the doctors said my ovaries has issues and it miraculously cured after listening to NSPDD or whatever its called. Sometimes they do like one or two sha. Which we all know is staged/fake 🤣

ednut1:
it’s mostly testimonies - i got a good paying job after listening to daddy GO, the doctors said my ovaries has issues and it miraculously cured after listening to NSPDD or whatever its called. Sometimes they do like one or two sha. Which we all know is staged/fake 🤣

I thought as much.

Daddy GOs don't perform miracles when they're out of the country. It's mostly concert for entertainment but when they're in Nigeria, miracles everywhere.

God is merciful sha.

The premise that Nigerians, especially recent japarians don't or rarely attend churches is not entirely true. Judging from Nigerian pastors' conferences and gatherings, the attendance numbers are very high and the venues are always filled. In Canada and the UK, church attendance increased largely due to recent migrants from Africa and the Philippines.

Additionally, for most recent first-generation migrants, the Church is the closest replica to home and a good place to dwell amongst their kindred and commune/socialise in a familiar environment. However, as years go by and these migrants acclimatise to their host countries, they gradually reduce their attendance, and this continues to the second generation. Compare those who emigrated during 2005 - 2010 to post-Covid.

Namaster:
Ask the average Nigerian to describe their idea of God and Jesus and 99.9% of them would describe a WHITE man.

When they travel abroad, they are surrounded by white people. They are in heaven. The fact that 100% of the problems plaguing them in Nigeria has already been solved by the white people in the new country HELPS.

Religion reigns SUPREME where poverty and ignorance is prevalent. The poorer and less educated a people are, the more susceptible they are to religious MANIPULATIONS.

That's why the core Northern parts of Nigeria is a hot bed for religious EXTREMISM. Poverty and lack of education makes them easier to brainwash.

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Correct to a larger extent 👍🏿

Namaster:
Ask the average Nigerian to describe their idea of God and Jesus and 99.9% of them would describe a WHITE man.

When they travel abroad, they are surrounded by white people. They are in heaven. The fact that 100% of the problems plaguing them in Nigeria has already been solved by the white people in the new country HELPS.

What is this one saying?

The God of Riches is the God of the Richest!

Only a fool will follow and worship a black god!

Imagine praying for Nepa to bring light.
Praying so your car won't spoil due to bad roads
Praying to get a job
Praying not to get kidnapped
Praying so you don't fall sick coz you know our health system is messed up and only the rich can afford quality health services
Praying so a lecturer won't put you eye and fail you deliberately simply coz you refuse to spread your legs for him
Imagine many more things we pray for and immediately you get abroad, you discover these things are available in their abundance, even if na u, will u still be prayerful?

They quickly realize only reason they were religious in Africa is because they were threatened with HELL FIRE

Remove hell fire from the picture... No body will go to church again

uche87:


Osahon George Osayimwen is a UK-based journalist.

Not all Nigerians, so you can modify the title to "some".
Until the realization and understanding that this walk with God is a fellowship and not "give me, give me", then it will dawn on many that irrespective of where you are, the fellowship continues.

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The issue is that, in Nigeria or
third world African countries, the
duties your government, father or
spouse etc are supposed to do, they
fail and instead of holding them responsible
you turn to God to perform the duties
of man.


Abroad, work is readily available for
you, therefore you don't need to write
application letter to take to your pastor
or imam to pray over it, apply anointing
oil and 7 days fasting to beg God to give
you the job.


In Nigeria, If your husband is irresponsible
and refuses to buy food and pay school
fees, you report to your pastor who may
call the husband for counselling and
also you the wife to pray to God to turn
his behavior around.

Abroad, you don't need pastor or God
to beg him. Just report him to authorities
and they will compel him to pay a certain
monthly upkeep to his family. If he fails
for just one day, na prison get am.

Again, abroad, Students seeking university education don't need to pray and fast to for JAMB to answer them, because schools are
everywhere and even if you no get money,
scholarship or students loan is available,
therefore God doesn't come into the
picture.

In fact, too much religiosity is a symptom
of a failed society and hopelessness on
the side of the citizens😢😢😢😢

Any society that is overly religious, you
will find that poverty is serious in such
societies. See Muslim northern Nigeria for
example. They are ready to slaughter and
burn in the name of their prophet, but are
the poorest, disease ridden, illiterate
societies in Nigeria.

See Afghanistan, Niger Republic etc.

Things work more so they need their faith less.

Because they see you don't need to pray to get things u want

U don't pray for healing u have free health care

You don't pray for job there are high paying jobs if u have the qualification

You don't pray for admission

You don't really pray for food, safety and the rest

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That's you don't need to pray to have basic necessities such as electricity, good roads, pipe borne water etc

There are more jobs and work places than worship centers abroad. So, you are more likely to get to work than church.
Unlike in Nigeria where you are paid fixed salary, in abroad they are mostly paid hourly rate. Work Monday to Friday and then make overtime pay ( usually time and half) on weekends. It’s good easy money that is hard to let go.
Any day you make going to church a priority, you sacrifice more than a 500k or more ( when converted to naira) . For instance if you are a nurse and gets 40 dollars per hour. Working that Sunday shift will give you 60 x 12 = $720 (less tax).
Everything is stress and bills abroad . Even the church wants you to give from the little you are managing. In abroad, money is managed and calculated to the last dime. So it’s better to avoid unnecessary stress.
Also most things people pray for in Nigeria is already available abroad. Except for real spiritual needs which you can settle with God through payers in your house. Even when you go to church, they don’t keep you for more than an hour, unlike in Nigeria. if you are sick, you can medical attention, hungry you can get food assistance, even housing. Structures are in place, provided by government to help those in need.

Becsuse, we serve God for solutions and not salvation.

uche87:


Osahon George Osayimwen is a UK-based journalist.

Easy. Govt over there provides solutions for most of their problems

Majority of what we pray for have already been provided for there.
Security, good welfarism etc.
But that doesn't dispute that God exists and in control of human government either you believe or not.

Because they now realise you don't need to even offer God 10% to be rich if the government did the right thing.

Take away riches from the dictionary of Nigerian church goers; both their daddy GOs and them will leave the church.

Sadly, the Catholic Church I used to admire is tilting towards that direction.

Everything basic they prayed for to get in Nigeria is already there.

Religion is quite complicated if you enlighten yourself on human history especially how medieval Europeans lived and the how cruel Arabs were.

Religion breeds values that help humans to live in peace, fairness and togetherness, unfortunately arabs and Europeans continue to twist it to suit themselves. Recently African pastors and imams.

Africans were the best of all. We had organised systems and we always believed in God in our way.