Controversial media persona Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly often called Daddy Freeze, opines that faith could also be hindering Nigeria’s improvement.
Talking throughout a latest episode of The Trustworthy Bunch Podcast, Daddy Freeze argued that regardless of Nigeria’s deep spiritual tradition, the nation continues to wrestle with key improvement indicators.
In line with him, faith doesn’t essentially translate into tangible societal progress. He pointed to nations like Japan, that are thought-about much less spiritual, as examples of countries which have achieved larger ranges of improvement and higher requirements of residing.
He additionally famous that Nigeria’s life expectancy stays comparatively low regardless of the inhabitants’s sturdy spiritual devotion, elevating questions concerning the sensible influence of faith on nationwide development.
He mentioned …
“How is faith working for us?”
“My drawback with faith is – it has no outcomes. The place is the prosperity? The place is the love? You say God loves us as a result of we’re spiritual so how come the Japanese are those having fun with their very own heaven on earth? They’re developed.
“We don’t have something however we’ve this ‘God that favours us.’ Nevertheless, once we really listing the issues what we are saying favour is – prosperity, well being… Do you know Nigeria has the shortest life expectancy on the planet in response to the 2026 statistics -54 years?
“We pay extra tithes than taxes on this nation but our prayers and sacrifices don’t appear to replicate on the situation of our nation..”