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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

Nigerians grapple with bitter pill of fuel price hike Nigerians have been lamenting following the announcement of deregulation of the oil sector which jacked up the price of petrol from N86 to N145 per litre. Some say this is tantamount to adding salt into injury as the cost of living in an already inflation-riddled economy will be further exacerbated. PAUL OMO OBADAN writes on this new reality.

efore the 2015 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari basically promised to turn around the dwindling economy. Even though oil prices were on a nosedive, PMB as he is fondly called promised to strengthen the naira against the dollar and reduce the price per litre of fuel. One year along the line, the reverse is the case. Like many of his predecessors, he has removed fuel subsidy. That increase came despite a global trend of falling fuel prices. It placed an untenable burden on the poorest segment of the Nigerian population of lowearning workers, the unemployed, and sundry impoverished citizens. The country is split on its retention or otherwise. For the majority of last year and this year, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was the sole importer of the products and NNPC could not deliver. Minister for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, followed up with the assurance that within six months prices will come down. However, social commentator, Prof Okey Ndibe,

wrote that deregulation in a free market as regard the oil sector should be taken with a pinch of salt. According to him, deregulation in a free market economy is a tricky business. He said if handled badly it would not lead to real competition nor would it deliver lower prices or great quality. “This is because deregulation can easily be distorted in the market place. Think Nigerian banking system, think aviation, think telecommunication, think electricity, and think postal service. In all these instances only one or two has delivered to some degree, in that case you might look at the telecommunication sector. Even then affordability and pricing is still an issue not to talk about quality of technology deployed and other service related issues. What is my point? A deregulated market demands two very critical pillars. Robust laws not riddled with loops and a deregulated sector policed by strong regulators. Nigeria has failed on the two counts, which is why deregulation here has often failed or led to oligopolistic market. Concerning petrol price deregulation, the risk is the same. We are going to find

‘INVESTMENT IN NEW REFINERIES NOW IMPERATIVE’ 4

that oligopolies are going to take over the market. Prices will not be competitive, it will be fixed and it will be dominated by a single market maker. By asking fuel importers to seek forex at the secondary market, which is the black market, you will find that few of the importers have the capacity to do this. What do you think will happen if for instance, a Dangote decides to go into fuel importation? He has the capacity to import massively, he has access to huge forex reserve and political connection to get forex at official prices—arbitrage notwithstanding. He lowers his prices—not necessarily to deliver market benefit, but to drive the competition out of business and then begins to dictate prices at a future date with our regulators looking hapless, defeating the whole point about deregulation. So what is the way out? “Realistically, there is little that can change as I am sure this market is going to be dominated by very few importers fixing prices amongst themselves to the detriment of Nigerians. The hope to be entertained is for Nigerians, labour organisaiton, NGOs to organise around making sure that the regulator in this case, the PPPRA, is made to do its work. There is the need to re-examine the laws setting up PPPRA. Does it really protect public interest? Secondly, the reason why a change in fuel prices creates such price shock is simply because there are no alternative infrastructure. It is bewildering that in a world moving away from reliance on fossil fuel economy, we are trapped in it. Elsewhere in the world, for example Europe with its efficient intermodal transportation system, no one will take serious note of change in fuel price because there is efficient transportation system that does not depend on fossil fuel. The trains, the trams, the mass transit buses most of which run on electric modules etc. In contrast, the government of Nigeria over time has failed to create this system that weans mass movement and transportation from fossil fuel. Nigeria is perhaps the only country this size that does not have an efficient railway system. Nor is our public power system any good. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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‘Investment in new refineries now imperative’ Kachikwu

NIGERIA IS AFRICA’S LARGEST OIL PRODUCER BUT STILL IMPORTS Buhari

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 There is no stable electricity and to that extent a change in fuel prices has such a huge spiral effect, because of generator economy. “These are the issues the labour movement and Nigerians must sit down with government and discuss and have a plan. The real issue is what to do with the savings. At the political level, PMB and APC are in a moral dilemma obviously. For years, they have been champions of subsidy retention. So why the sudden volte face,” he asked. But many Nigerians wonder why it is that those who run Nigeria never contemplate making any real sacrifice, but hasten to demand that the least fortunate of Nigerians take on more sufferings? They view it as a paradox as the president has not entertained the idea of selling off any of the jets on the presidential fleet… he has not sent any bills to the National Assembly to reverse the obscene allowances pocketed by under-performing public officials. For most Nigerians, the N18,000 take home pay called minimum wage is an aberration. Many earn even less. To ask any human being to live on that ludicrous amount is an example of what Americans would call cruel and unusual punishment. For them there’s no logic or humanity of asking anaemic Nigerian minimum wage earners to bleed more blood when the men or women who ‘eat’ in their name in state capitals and Abuja bask in opulent splendour? ‘Crisis times require bold reforms’ Reacting to the development, Executive Secretary Ojodu LCDA, Mallam Moyosore Jaji, in an interview with Sunday Mirror said that crisis times require bold reforms. The removal of oil subsidy, if properly done has inexhaustible benefits. Removal of subsidy from black gold in Nigeria is an awful tasting medicine, but the Nigerian patient is in dire need of it. “From the days of Obasanjo till date, I want to align with those people who feel that we should applaud this government for the removal by applying the very bitter pill to Nigerians because if we don’t do it now, then the big question is when would it be done? There are some Nigerians in court today who are being prosecuted because of this subsidy scam. The issue now is, is it appropriate to remove the subsidy? The circumstances surrounding that of 2012 by the out-gone Jonathan administration is different from what we have at hand today. As at that time, Nigeria was selling crude oil for over 100 dollars per barrel. Today, the country sells the same amount of crude for less than 50 dollars. And the rate of the naira to the dollar is not what we used to have. So the parameters are very different. For God’s sake, if it is agreed that some people are smiling to the bank to the detriment of the rest of the society, why not put a stop to it once and for all? I agree that people are going to suffer, that is the way it should be. In any revolutionary setting, some sacrifices have to be done. The argument now is let us ensure the betterment of tomorrow of our children and the ones yet unborn by sacrificing for them today, that is sacrificing our today for their tomorrow. I think it is the right step in the right direction. “The subsidy kept fuel prices low for Nigerian consumers, but was costly for the government. As in many oil-producing countries with high fossil fuel subsidies, it encouraged wasteful fuel consumption. An energy analyst, Bimbo Olaitan, told Sunday Mirror that Africa’s largest oil producer, Nigeria, had introduced

REFINED PETROL.

THE COUNTRY PRODUCES ABOUT 2.4 MILLION

BARRELS OF CRUDE PER DAY WHICH IS EXPORTED TO BE REFINED ABROAD; HOWEVER DUE TO YEARS OF CORRUPTION-FUELLED NEGLECT THE DOMESTIC REFINERIES ARE INOPERATIVE. fuel subsidies to keep prices at bay. “Since the year started, Nigeria has spent an excess of $5 billion (4.3 billion euros) on keeping fuel subsidies. The expert said the process of subsidising the petroleum industry was corrupt and hugely inefficient. She claimed that it does not alleviate the sufferings of low income earners nor end fuel scarcity. “We were taken aback by the government’s decision to remove the subsidy which we believe did not exist in the first place. Surcharge is what exists, not subsidy. There is too much corruption in the Nigerian oil industry. Nigeria started subsidising its petroleum industry in the 1980’s after the state-owned company, NNPC, had planned to unify the price of crude oil in accordance with the global market. But then incumbent president, Olusegun Obasanjo, said the average Nigerian would not be able to afford a gallon of petrol at the pump. Instead, President Obasanjo introduced subsidy plan to keep the price of petrol low.” Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, but still imports refined petrol. The country produces about 2.4 million barrels of crude per day which is exported to be refined abroad; however due to years of corruption-fuelled neglect the domestic refineries are inoperative. As a consequence, Nigeria imports 70 per cent of its gasoline (about 250,000bpd of petroleum products into the country for sale to its citizens. With the majority of Nigerians living on less than $2 per day, cheap petrol is viewed by many as the only tangible benefit they receive from the state, hence the widespread disapproval. In addition, the economy is heavily reliant on crude oil, the consequence of this is that other seemingly unrelated items are tied to the price of fuel as has occurred from previous price hikes. Due to the absence of stable electricity, gasoline generators are common energy alternatives for small businesses and residences. Ironically, the fuel subsidisation which should be a helping factor to the poor and the poorest of the earth has become an opportunity for public funds embezzlement by corrupt stakeholders in the downstream sector and has also become more beneficial to the wealthy in the society. The cost of living becomes higher than it has been. This must be frightening, especially to the deprived. Most Nigerians insist that withdrawal of fuel subsidy will create pains as a result of the rising inflation. They believe that the subsidy withdrawal will disrupt the smuggling of ‘cheap fuel’ out of the country to neighbouring African countries where they can be sold at high prices. Since ‘fuel subsidies encourage smuggling of fuel to neighbouring countries where selling prices are higher’, subsidy removal will contribute markedly to quenching the secret and illegal transportation of fuels across the borders. As Ndibe asked the problem now lies with how the ad-

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ministration will handle the accruing revenue and how she will fulfil its promises on setting up palliative measures. ‘The Ghanaians who ended subsidies since 2003, and are surprisingly still alive, eliminated fees for attending primary and junior secondary schools and funded health care programmes in the poorest areas’ Now that the subsidy has been finally withdrawn, will there be road rehabilitation? Should we hope for job creation for our unemployed youths? Will there be infrastructural development in power, education and other sectors of the economy that need such? These are questions begging for answers. This is not the first time that there has been disruption over the increase in fuel prices. They were a feature of the Babangida, Abacha, Obasanjo and Jonathan governments respectively. Each was accompanied by civil disorder among the populace and industrial action by the national unions, especially those in the oil industry. The problem with the rise in fuel prices is that most Nigerians live below the poverty level of at less than USD$2.00 per day and are dependent on low-cost fuel for transport, providing electricity to their generators in the absence of any regular power supplies, and for cooking. With fuel costs rising, almost every aspect of a Nigerian’s life is made more costly and uncomfortable. The price of fuel is a critical factor in the lives of the people. As Nigeria is one of the most important producers of light, sweet, crude oil in the world, they cannot understand why it should be expensive in the domestic market. The country has four refineries with a combined theoretical capacity of around 450,000 bbl/d. As a result of poor maintenance, theft, and fire, none of these refineries has ever been fully operational. In its formative years, Nigeria was not known for oil production, but the nation had a vibrant and fecund agrarian economy. Today, Nigeria is home to 180 million citizens making it the most populous nation in Africa! The country is also the 7th most populous nation in the world along with being the most populous black nation on earth! In spite of having fabulous economic potential, great human resources and a territory riveted with natural resources, Nigeria has not fared well economically! The consequence is the total annihilation of any form of advancement or development hitherto achieved! The social retrogression and the prevalent social decadence currently experienced is a lasting testament to this undeniable truth! Most observers believe that virtually every aspect of the nation’s socio-economic well being and national virtue CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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Sunday, May 22, 2016

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‘Govt should roll out palliative measures’ Barrister Monday Onyekachi Ubani is a human rights lawyer and social activist. He is principal partner of the law firm of Ubani & Co. He sheds more light on the protracted fuel subsidy imbroglio in this interview with PAUL OMO OBADAN. Why did the government of Nigeria decide to remove the subsidies now and is it the right step in the right direction? My take is that it is very painful and Nigerians have been suffering so far. Under previous governments we had been suffering, and also under this government. Our economic conditions have not actually improved. Now removal of the oil subsidy is deregulating that particular sector. And Nigerians are already complaining. So, what government should do in the light of the economic realities is to roll out palliative measures: Review issue of salary, reduce issue of inflation and maintain it at single digit level. Ensure that people are employed and those that are employed already must enjoy good working conditions. Nigerians are been oppressed by all these foreigners who come in here to invest. The employment conditions are not conducive and friendly. So the Nigerian government must be interested in the conditions of employment of Nigerian workers. Are there any positives from the removal? If you remove subsidy and you now free the money you use in paying subsidy to develop all the capital projects: the rail system, road system, the power sector and all other sectors. Imagine how much you are paying on oil subsidy. That money should have been used to develop our hospitals and our schools. They were not using the money for the benefit of the people; they were just sharing the money. So if we see a sincere government that would use that money to develop infrastructure, it will be to our own overall benefit in the long run. That is what government has done. The only difference is that the price has increased and affected everything tied to oil. Government themselves must show sensitivity that people are suffering. They must also belt-tighten themselves. You cannot have government when they are moving, they move in vehicles of 30, 40 cars with all manner of opulence being displayed and arrogance being shown while people are living in abject poverty. Government must reduce cost and cut down cost of governance in order to identify with the people. Government must also roll out what you call palliative measures to cushion the effects. It must deliberately roll out policies that will show palliative measures that will make Nigerians smile. The issue of light is key. Government must get the

WE ALSO DEMAND THAT THE COST OF GOVERNANCE BE CUT TO THE BAREST MINIMUM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

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NOTION THAT IT IS THE MASSES THAT MUST SUFFER THE INCOMPETENCE AND THE INEFFICIENCY OF GOVERNMENT MUST STOP.

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issue of energy correct. If you don’t get the issue of light, you will have problems with Nigerians. Nigerians want to work but there is no light for them to work. Nigerian government must also create employment deliberately. They must secure the environment and allow investors to come in and create jobs and allow Nigerians to get jobs. Those measures must be pursued by government in order to reduce the level of suffering and if Nigerians see that government has actually belt-tightened, and they are living just as we are living, and are really showing concern to our economic realities, Nigerians will actually appreciate what they have done. Government will now use the money freed from subsidy to build infrastructure and develop the capital projects and there will be a multiplier effect on the economy. Government must deliberately plan to reduce the suffering of the people. I totally agree with Nigerians that they are suffering. But the economic reality on ground is that there is no money in the treasury because monies were looted. So government is trying as much as possible

to stay afloat and carry out its responsibilities. We also demand that the cost of governance be cut to the barest minimum as much as possible. The notion that it is the masses that must suffer the incompetence and the inefficiency of government must stop. If ‘subsidy’ has to be removed, then the exorbitant cost of running the government has to be reduced too. While we continue to hope that the Buhari-led government has not begun to take Nigerians for granted, the patience we have had in suffering for the last one year and our resilience, we implore all Nigerians to keep the hope of the possibility of a better Nigeria, if not now, but in the years to come. What is the lasting solution to all of this? For us to find a true and lasting solution to the domestic energy needs and the fuel supply problems in Nigeria, we will have to effect and mobilise a critical overhaul of current practices, restructure our institutions and get rid of gaping loopholes and the inherent culture of corruption and graft that is prevalent in the oil industry and the national government as a whole! For true and effectual results to be realised, the government must steadfastly implement a total reform of its rules, policies and practices while maintaining a high degree of common sense measures in delivering and attaining the worthy aspiration of the people for power and energy sufficiency, independence and affordability.

‘Buhari’s government is insensitive’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 have been completely eroded and thoroughly devastated! It is also interesting to note that the beginning of this perennial problem was set at the onset of the devaluation of Naira in 1986 when the Babangida administration adopted and implemented the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). It was apparently not so long after this moment that the nation’s refineries started experiencing operational and maintenance issues! It goes without saying that the nation’s journey from that moment on, especially as regard energy or power, became a quick downward spiral! Policy analyst, Mr Obe Enakpene, is alarmed as to why the refineries are still in a state of disrepair and neglect even after more than 20 years of epileptic performance and under-performance. He queried, “Knowing the strategic importance of the refineries and the need of reducing governmental deficits and payouts, especially with regard to the ‘fuel subsidy issue’, should the government not have made the overhaul and realignment of these refineries a national priority? “The result is that subsidy money goes into unproductive side of the economy encouraging the production of pure water billionaires like those rated from Nigeria by Forbes. These people are opportunists who end up sponsoring Boko Haram, Hajj, and Sharia with their profits while the majority wallow below two dollars a day.” ‘Good policy, bad timing’ KOWA Party, one of Nigeria’s opposition parties has described the increase in fuel price and removal of pet-

rol subsidy as a good policy coming at a wrong time. In a statement made available to journalists, and signed by the party’s National Youth Leader, Jude Feranmi, the party maintained that it was opposed in totality to the new fuel price regime as announced by the Buhari-led government. “Today, we have finally decided to respond to the incompetence and incoherence of this administration in what has now turned out to be a repeated act when it comes to issues of national importance affecting the daily lives and indeed the lives of Nigerians both at home and abroad. To be crystal clear, KOWA Party is opposed in totality to the new fuel price regime as announced by the Buhari government. We condemn the insensitivity of this administration and the lack of empathy on the situation that Nigerians currently face, not for a disagreement in the need to remove totally the cankerworm that manifests itself in what we call ‘subsidy’ or the need to deregulate completely the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. Our condemnation arises out of rational and emotional consideration on the experiences and the situation that Nigerians are currently facing. It is unbelievable and almost inhuman that the Federal Government after subjecting Nigerians to almost a year of suffering in different shades of queues, sweat and commodity price hikes decided to subject Nigerians to more suffering just a few days after a form of hope was restored when the controversial budget was finally passed.

“Present Buhari was quoted as saying that he feels the pains of Nigerians and that he hears our cries. We are forced to ask if this quote was indeed Mr President’s original thoughts or the thoughts of the speechwriter whose job it was to draft the ceremonial speech. “In the same vein that we understand that the budget for ‘subsidy’ was not included in the signed budget for the year 2016, we also understand that plans for an increase in the minimum wage was not included in the budget thereby ensuring that the suffering that Nigerians have endured for the past one year for both lack of policy direction and incoherent policies is about to be doubled owing to the almost doubled price of Nigeria’s most important commodity in demand without any inch of corresponding increase in the average Nigerian’s salary/wage. This is simply a scenario of good policy with a bad timing and KOWA Party would not have overseen this kind of policy move. “Nigerians must now rally together to demand accountability, palliatives and viable alternatives from this government. We must begin to ask that a detailed plan of projects in the ministry of works, power, housing and transportation that have the ability to provide jobs and create easing measures from the effects of these policies be provided and unlike the Minister of Information who thinks he owes no Nigerian any explanation, Nigerians must begin to demand for explanations, project sites openings, results and the implementation of the budget and accept nothing less.”

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PDP bigwigs sack Modu Sheriff as party chair

…as parallel conventions hold in Abuja, P’Harcourt

Makarfi heads new caretaker committee, zones presidential slot to North OBIORA IFOH, ABUJA AND DENNIS NAKU PORT HARCOURT

he crisis in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, appeared far from over yesterday as the party held parallel conventions in Port Harcourt and Abuja, even after the Acting National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, had declared the convention cancelled in compliance with court orders. A powerful faction including the party’s 12 governors and members of the National Assembly had gone ahead to stage a national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, after sacking Sheriff and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC). Sheriff had earlier in the day cancelled the convention, citing court injunctions obtained by aggrieved party members to stop the process that would have produced a new set of executives to steer the affairs of the embattled party. Instead, powerful party members at the Port Harcourt convention set up a national caretaker committee following a motion moved by Minority Leader of the Senate and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, which was seconded by Gombe State Governor, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwanbo. The caretaker committee is expected to be in office for not more than 90 days, and was saddled with the responsibility of conducting a proper convention for the country’s main opposition party. The committee has senators Ahmad Makarfi and Ben Obi as chairman and secretary respectively, while senators Odion Ogbesia, Abdul Ningi, Barrister Kabiru Usman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and Alhaja Aisha Aliyu are members. Our correspondent gathered that the governors and members of the National Assembly drove straight to the venue of the convention shortly after a closed-door meeting, which ended in a stalemate at the Government House, Port Harcourt. The sack of members of the NWC came less than one hour after Sheriff addressed journalists at the Le Meridian Hotel, where he announced the suspension of the national convention, citing orders of two federal high courts. Also, the motion for the removal of members of the NWC was moved by former deputy speaker, House of Representatives, Chief Austin Opara, while the immediate past dep-

uty speaker of the House, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, seconded it. Another motion for the zoning of the party’s Presidential candidate to the North in 2019 was moved by former Niger State governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, and seconded by Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa. In his acceptance speech, chairman of the PDP caretaker committee, Senator Ahmad Makarfi, called on all aggrieved members of the party to give peace a chance in the interest of the party’s growth. His words: “I humbly accept the challenge and I do so on behalf of other members of the committee. I assure you that you have no cause to worry. None of us is contesting for any office. “Please, give peace a chance, so that we can rebuild our party for the benefit of not only Nigerians and Africans, but the entire black race.” Earlier, Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Convention Committee, Nyesom Wike, had said the Markafi-led caretaker committee was not expected to contest for any position at the next convention, saying, “You are only to plan and organise the next National Convention of the party in three months time where the national officers will be elected.” Besides the PDP governors, dignitaries at the event included Chairman, Board of Trustees, PDP, Wali Jubrin, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and former Senate President, David Mark. Others were former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang; former deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Austin Opara; former deputy speaker of the House, Emeka Ihedioha and former Rivers deputy governor, Tele Ikuru, among others. In Abuja, the situation was similar as a parallel convention called by another faction tagged ‘Concerned PDP Stakeholders’ Forum’ led by former minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana, insisted on the immediate sack of Sheriff as the national chairman of the party as well as institution of a caretaker committee to pilot the affairs of the party. They also insisted that the chairmanship of the party must come from the South since the presidential slot had been zoned to the North. The group said it was discussing with the other PDP leaders who were in Port Harcourt for another convention with a view to resolving the differences between them.

Those at the convention were mainly PDP ministers, founding members and former governors and the event which started at 10 a.m. lasted for only two hours, ending abruptly without much ceremony. The Concerned PDP Stakeholders said it decided to hold non-elective convention in deference to a court order stopping the party from electing new NWC members. However, a 57-member steering committee co-chaired by former deputy president of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu and former minister of Education, Professor Tunde Adeniran, was set up to oversee the affairs of the forum until the court order was set aside and a proper convention held. Mantu in a speech said the stakeholders “resolved to rebuild, renew and rebrand” the party to anchor the dreams of the founding fathers. “This becomes a non-elective convention in respect of court order, and also to enable us have a tete-a-tete with our brothers in Port Harcourt,” Mantu added. He reiterated that the deci-

sion to choose Senator Sheriff as chairman of the party was in gross violation of the established procedure for the selection. A member of the steering committee, Hajia Inna Ciroma, noted that PDP in Borno State suffered for 16 years under Sheriff. “We won election and he scuttled it. Is it a way to pay us back by imposing him on us?” she asked. Former special adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan on Public Communications, Dr. Doyin Okupe, in an interview added, “We are not ruling out reconciliation, we are open to setting up a caretaker committee. Speakers from the six geopolitical zones who addressed the convention called for justice and a level playground and kicked against imposition of candidates. Among party leaders at the convention were Prof. Gana; former national chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo; former minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed; outgoing PDP Na-

tional Vice Chairman (SouthSouth), Dr. Cairo Ojougboh; former chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Mrs. Esther Audu; former governors of Imo, Adamawa and Taraba states, Achike Udenwa, Ahmadu Finitiri and Garba Umar, among others Senator Sheriff had explained that the suspension of the national convention was due to a series of court injunctions against the exercise. He pointed out that the party was also confronted with the issue of the court order directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to supervise the election of the chairman, secretary and auditor of the party. He said, “We have been meeting since morning, we are confronting a lot of challenges; we are facing a series of court orders, issues of the court order that INEC should not supervise the election of chairman, secretary and auditor of the party. “As a result of these, we hereby say that the National Convention has been suspended. Taking into consideration all these, we will not hold the convention.

“We have three different court orders in Abuja, Lagos. INEC also said they will not supervise the election. If we go ahead with the convention, we would be contravening the court order and we would be charged with contempt of court.” He maintained that the best way out of the current situation was to suspend the party’s convention, adding that the party had advised delegates to return home. “We went to court, but we were denied permission. We will do it (national convention) as soon as we get them vacated. We’ve told all delegates to go home. There is no space for election,” Sheriff stated. But before the announcement of the PDP national convention by the acting national chairman of the party, there had been doubts about the possibility of the exercise holding in Port Harcourt. Major stakeholders of the PDP, including the Rivers State governor, were said to be in a meeting for several hours, even as delegates waited for hours on end at the Diette Spiff Sports Complex in Port Harcourt.

L-R: Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun; Director, Human Resources Management in the Ministry, Mr Daniel Tifato; Chairman, Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA), Mr Dapo Abiodun and Managing Director, North-West, Petroleum and Gas Limited, Mrs Winnie Akpan, during a meeting of DAPPMA executive with the minister in Abuja at the weekend.

Catholic bishop appeals for release of abducted priest, 2 sisters

ishop of Ekiti Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, yesterday called for the release of two Reverend Sisters and a Reverend Father who were kidnapped while on official assignment.

Ajakaye, in a statement sent to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said that Rev. Fr. John Adeyi, the Vicar-General of Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, had been in captivity since Sunday, April 24. The bishop said that two

Sisters of St Louis, Rev. Sr. Perpetua Apo and Rev. Sr. Bukola Familade, and their driver, Mr Zwugwa Zibai, were also kidnapped on Thursday, May 12. “For over three weeks, Rev. Fr. John Adeyi, the VicarGeneral of Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, has been in captivity. “According to the report, the humble parish Ppiest of St Bernard Catholic Church, Okpoka, Okpokwu Local Government Area, Benue

State, was kidnapped on a highway. ``He was returning from an outstation of the parish, where he had gone to celebrate the Holy Eucharist (Mass). He is the first Catholic priest from Otukpa,’’ he said. Ajakaye disclosed that since the abduction of Adeyi, there had been no information concerning his whereabout. “Last week, Thursday, May 12, two Sisters of St Louis, Reverend Sisters Perpetua

Apo and Bukola Familade, and their driver, Mr Zwugwa Zibai, were also abducted. “The three of them were travelling from Kaduna to Ijebu-Itele in Ogun State for a programme when their vehicle broke down at Kajola on Ore-Lagos road. “They then called some Reverend Sisters in the neighbouring town for help. By the time the Sisters and others got to the scene, they found the vehicle but the three were nowhere to be found.

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Abducted Kwara APC Chair, Secretary freed WOLE ADEDEJI ILORIN

he abducted Kwara State Chairman and Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Ishola Balogun-Fulani and Chief Bode Adekanye, have been released. The duo were abducted by gunmen on their way from Abuja at a location between Lokoja and Okene in Kogi

State on Friday. They were reportedly set free at about 6.30 p.m. yesterday. Kwara APC Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Sulyman Buhari, who broke the news of the release of the party chieftains, said no ransom was paid to their abductors. However, the freed men were expected to pass the night in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital and return to Ilorin today

Neither of the two APC chieftains could be reached yesterday as efforts to speak with them on their phones proved abortive. Earlier, reports had indicated that the kidnappers had demanded N50 million as ransom. The kidnappers reportedly made the demand on Friday night, about 12 hours after their abduction when they allowed the APC chiefs to speak with members of their

4 FUTA students die in road accident

our students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, yesterday died in a road accident on the Akure-Ilesha expressway, in Ifedore local council of Ondo State.

Spokesman of the Police Command in Ondo State, Mr Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident and said that 11 others sustained various degrees of injuries. The News Agency of Ni-

geria (NAN) reports that the students were returning from Ibadan after attending a religious programme. Joseph further confirmed that the remains of the students were deposited at the Ondo State Specialist Hospital, Akure, where those injured were hospitalised. No fewer than 15 students were in the Hiace bus when the accident happened.

The police spokesman said that preliminary investigation had revealed that the accident involved a Hiace bus carrying the students and a motorcycle. “The accident happened when the bus’ driver lost control while trying to avoid the motorcycle that suddenly appeared on the highway. “The bus somersaulted several times after trying to manoeuvre its way,’’ Joseph

families. Balogun-Fulani and Adekanye were kidnapped on Friday en route Ilorin from Abuja. An aide of Adekanye who had confirmed this development to newsmen yesterday said they had offered to pay the abductors N10 million which was agreed to by the kidnappers. He however did not confirm whether the money had been paid.

said. He said policemen and marshals of the Federal Road Safety Commission were at the scene to assist the deceased and those injured. Mr Segun Oladele, President of the FUTA chapter of the Students’ Union Government (SUG), who also confirmed the deaths, said that those injured were responding to treatment.

A member of Government Secondary School (GSS) Iddo Sarki Cultural Group performing with a live crocodile during the World Culture Day in Abuja PHOTO:NAN yesterday.

NASSI woos BoI on SMEs financing OLUFEMI ADEOSUN ABUJA

he Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists, NASSI, has sought for more financial support from the Bank of Industry for the nation’s Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs.

NASSI President, Ezekiel Essien, who made the plea at a meeting with BoI Acting Managing Director, Mr. Waheed Olagunju, in Abuja, said the association had developed a blueprint with a clear path to the nation’s industrialisation goal. He said the move, spanning the next one year, was aimed at intensifying efforts at bringing to frui-

tion the plans of the Federal Government to diversify the economy and give more leverage, support and opportunities to growing businesses. According to him, as part of the efforts to reposition the association, the group has begun the process of registration of SMEs across the country in a data bank after which they would be clustered into group of fifties. He said the association believed that the module would allow for traceability and accountability such that business owners in Nigeria would be compelled to repay bank loans rather than see such interventions as national cake to be

shared. Responding, Olagunju urged the association to put its house in order to benefit from the bank’s loan portfolio, complaining that NASSI was reputed to defaulting in the repayment of loans. He noted the development finance institution was ready to undertake initiatives that would fast track the development of the country. He lamented the situation where the bank had to return loans that failed to be accessed by SMEs in the past. The BoI boss advised the association to do a proper and convincing business plan and indicate how it intended to sanitise its operations in the event

of its member defaulting in payment of loans. His words: “The bank had returned money even to the World Bank in the past because SMEs could not access it. This is not what we are happy about, the truth of the matter is we are kept in business when SMEs take loans. “They don’t have collaterals and it is a mistake for people to compare Nigeria with other countries. Those countries have individual data even with their phone numbers, but we don’t have such here. Talk is cheap, we want to see clear evidences that money given to your members would be paid back, we don’t want to run out of business too.

His words: “In fact, our people are on their way to Okene-Lokoja axis for a possible location of the abductors’ hideout with a view to paying the ransom and securing the release of our chairman and secretary.” Earlier, the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, had described as atrocious, despicable and unfortunate the kidnap of Fulani and Adekanye by unknown gunmen along the Abuja-Lokoja road. The governor, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, urged security agencies

in the country to ensure early rescue of the APC chiefs. He had promised on his part the readiness of the state government to render required assistance to security agencies in ensuring that both men regained their freedom. Ahmed had pleaded with anyone having useful information that could lead to the rescue of the men to avail security agencies. He had also assured citizens of Kwara that the state government would always do the needful at all times to guarantee the safety of their lives and property.

Buhari begins two-day visit to Lagos tomorrow FRANCIS SUBERU

he Lagos State Government will formally welcome President Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow on a two-day working visit to the state. This would be the President’s first official visit to the state since he assumed office about a year ago. A statement issued by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, stated that this was the first time in about 15 years that a sitting President would be visiting the state on a working visit. The commissioner said this is a testimony to the landmark achievements in the last one year of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as well as the good working relationship between Lagos State and the Federal Government. Ayorinde added that Presi-

dent Buhari, during the visit, would formally commission the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Rescue Unit in Cappa Oshodi built by the state government to ensure prompt and swift response to emergency situations in the State. He said the President would thereafter commission the newly constructed Ago Palace Way in Okota, Isolo after which he would pay homage to the Oba of Lagos, His Royal Majesty, Oba Babatunde Rilwanu Aremu Akiolu, at the Iga Iduganran, Lagos Island. Ayorinde disclosed further that the President would later in the day be hosted to a reception rally by the state government at the Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, Lagos where he would also commission and handover security equipment and vehicles contributed by the Ambode-led administration to securities agencies to beef up security in the state.

Ogun Muslim Pilgrims Board increases hajj fare

gun Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has called on intending pilgrims to augment their 2016 interim hajj fare from the initial sum of N800,000 to N1.18 million.

Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Sefiu Rasheed, made the call yesterday while briefing newsmen in Abeokuta. Rasheed said this was to enable the board to remit the required funds to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Abuja, before the deadline. According to him, the board had resolved to fix the fare at N1.18 million tentatively, pending the Federal Government’s

final decision on the concessionary exchange rate. He said the board took the decision as the Federal Government was yet to take a definite decision on a concessionary exchange rate because ‘the Hajj fare is being projected on a current Central Bank Dollar Exchange rate’. “Let me assure you, however, that the board will refund excess deposits to offset Basic Travelling Allowance whenever the Federal Government grants concessionary exchange rate. “The board has fixed June 17 as deadline for payment by all intending pilgrims,” the executive secretary said.

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WHO sounds alarm as Zika virus hits Africa MARCUS FATUNMOLE ABUJA

few months after global efforts culminated in clipping the claws of Ebola virus disease in Africa, the

World Health Organization, WHO, Friday night announced the presence of Zika virus strain on the continent.

In a message made available to Sunday Mirror, WHO informed that Zika virus had been raging in Cape Verde,

located in West Africa, where Ebola virus disease had killed over 11,000 people and destroyed health systems of Liberia, Sierra-Leone and Guinea that were mainly affected, within two years.

WHO proclaimed that the strain of Zika in Cape Verde is the same as the one circulating in the Americas, Asian and the Caribbean. Presence of Zika virus in Africa validates earlier fears

L-R: Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, wife of former Head of State,Mrs. Victoria Gowon, Bride’s Mother/Chairman, Guardian Newspapers, Mrs. Maiden Ibru, former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Mrs.Caroline Sodeinde, at Maiden Ibru daughter’s wedding in Lagos, yesterday.

Local industries critical to national development–FG OBIORA IFOH ABUJA

he Federal Government said yesterday that it was prepared to review any policy not favourable to the operation of local industries in the country, saying unless development was taken to the rural areas, every effort aimed at improving and developing the country will come to nothing. Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh who disclosed this while performing the ground breaking ceremony of Rico Gado Nutrition, an animal feed factory owned by former VicePresident, Atiku Abubakar, said the nation must protect its local industries. Chief Ogbeh said the Nigerian economy got to the level it was today because

it had been practising ill digested economic polices, adding that free trade and globalization need the capacity to compete, an opportunity Nigeria had never had. He said: “We will have to defend local industries. In the preaching of free trade and globalization, Nigerian economy got to where it is today because we have been practising ill digested economic theories. “Free trade, yes. Globalization, yes. All of these need the capacity to compete and we have never had that capacity to compete because we have never taken the steps which other countries took to be strong enough to compete. We said free trade, but nobody mentioned fair trade. “We proclaim growth

for seven per cent all on the back of oil and gas and when the oil and gas have dried up, we now recognised that we were actually growing less than two percent, with a population growth of about 3.5 percent, we are really not growing because we did not invest in the strategic sectors which have made other economies flourish. “In fighting insurgency, our people have to be busy in the villages, the rate of anger and alienation among the youth has to reduce and the prospect of feeding a population of nearly 200 million. “Our population by 2050 will stand at 450 million. In a world population of 9 billion, we shall be the third most populated country on earth. Ask yourself how do

we feed this number, if we do not make real and valid investment in agriculture?” He lamented that for over 40 years, Nigeria had been a dumping ground for products from other countries for over 40 years, adding that investment such as the animal feed factory would attract a lot of investment into the agricultural sector. Ogbeh said: “For the last 40 years, Nigeria has been a dumping ground for other country’s products. Rice worth an import bill of five million dollars per day arrive this country from other economies, fish accounts for almost six million dollars, sugar, tomato paste cookies and biscuits, even toothpicks worth 80 million dollars per annum arrive from other economies to dominate the Nigerian market.

that the disease might return to a region where it was first discovered in 1947 – Uganda. The disease is caused by the Zika virus, which is spread to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. Should the disease spread in Africa, as it has done in other regions, the continent may face huge crisis, given large population of mosquitoes, among which are aedes species, Sunday Mirror observation revealed. Among others, Zika virus transmission results in congenital malformations, such as microcephaly, as well as Guillain-Barré syndrome. This is the first time that the Zika strain responsible for the outbreaks linked to neurological disorders and microcephaly has been detected in Africa, the organization noted. According to the organization, as of May 8 this year, there had been 7,557 suspected cases of Zika in Cape Verde, while three cases of microcephaly had been reported from the country with one case reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), after being delivered in the United States. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, was quoted in the release as saying the findings were of concern, as according to him, it is further proof that the outbreak is spreading beyond South America and is on the doorstep of Africa. He added that WHO’s message would help countries on the continent re-evaluate their level of risk and adapt, and increase their levels of preparedness against the disease. The organization appealed to countries on the continent to heighten risk communication to pregnant women to raise awareness of complications associated with the Asian type of Zika virus and

promote protection steps to avoid mosquito bites as well as sexual transmission. “In addition, countries should increase their surveillance for Zika transmission and congenital malformations, such as microcephaly, as well as Guillain-Barré syndrome. “Activated since February 2016, WHO Zika Virus Disease Incident Management System in Brazzaville and at headquarters will continue to review existing risk assessments, increase surveillance, and assess laboratory testing capacity and support community engagement and risk communications in priority countries. “In addition, WHO and its partners will support the countries in the African region to step up preparedness efforts for early detection, confirmation and management of potential complications related to Zika infection. The response will build on investments in strengthened systems made in West Africa during the Ebola emergency,” the agency stressed. Before 2007, at least 14 cases of Zika had been documented, although other cases were likely to have occurred and were not reported. Because the symptoms of Zika are similar to those of many other diseases, many cases may not have been recognized, according to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency added: “In May 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) issued an alert regarding the first confirmed Zika virus infection in Brazil. On February 1, 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Local transmission has been reported in many other countries and territories. Zika virus will likely continue to spread to new areas.”

Fuel subsidy: Minority groups urge NLC to call off strike ADEOLA TUKURU ABUJA

inority tribes in Nigeria in conjunction with the Nigeria Unemployed Youth Vanguard and 35 other civil society organisations in Nigeria have called on the factional Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to immediately suspend her actions or face the wrath of the ordinary Nigerians.

The National Co-ordinator, Conference of Minority Tribes in Nigeria/Chief Convener, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi,told newsmen in

Abuja, that with the unpatriotic actions of the Waba-led faction of NLC, Nigerians are angry with him. He said “The Nigeria Labour Congress genuinely is not protesting the subsidy, but because of the faction in it, Waba is seeking for recognition that he may be known by Nigerians. We do not have to toe the path of cheap popularity to the detriment of our people. “We shall lead Nigerians in a one million man solidarity march in Abuja and major cities in Nigeria in support of government decision that

removed oil subsidy on Monday, 23rd May, 2016. “Mr President is a man of his word. He promised to end Boko Haram and today Boko Haram is almost a history, we are confident that Mr President will not reverse himself on this subsidy removal, besides, there is no provision for it in the nation’s budget. “We call on all well meaning Nigerians to stand with the Federal Government to end corruption being perpetrated in the name of oil subsidy. He commended Nigerians for their trust for a working

government whose interest is for the common man. We are not very poor as a nation, but some certain elements called cabal hitherto hijacked the system in the name of oil subsidy. “Successive governments had tried in removing the oil subsidy, otherwise known as deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry, it’s either the previous governments lacked the political will to salvage our dear country or lacked the confidence of Nigerians in implementing such idea. “Today, Nigerians are

happy for having a President who enjoys the confidence of Nigerians and as well has the political will to redefine the history of our country, by alleviating the sufferings of the common masses. We must commend a leader with zero tolerance for corruption whose regime is restoring hope for the hopeless Nigerians and as well redeeming the image of our dear country before the international community. “In 2012, we mobilised ourselves as civil society bodies against the decision

of the then government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan to remove subsidy because we do not trust him, basically because he did not take practical steps that convince Nigerians as President Buhari did by excluding oil subsidy from the 2016 appropriation bill which is the working budget of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “It shows that Mr President belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody. We must support a true idea that promises hope for Nigerians.

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abbath in Christianity is the inclusion or adoption in Christianity of a Sabbath day. Established within Judaism through Mosaic Law, Christians inherited a Sabbath practice that reflected two great precepts; namely the commandment to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy and God’s blessing of the seventh day, Saturday, as one for rest in the Genesis creation narrative. The first of these provisions - keeping the Sabbath day holy - was associated in Judaism with the assembly of the people to worship in the Temple in Jerusalem or in synagogues.

The position now dominant in western Christianity is that observance of the Lord’s Day, Sunday, supplanted or superseded the Sabbath celebration in that the former celebrated the Christian community’s deliverance from captivity to sin, Satan, and worldly passions, made possible by the resurrection of the saviour of the world, Jesus Christ on the first day of the week. According to Wikipedia account, early Christians observed the seventh day with prayer and rest, but they also gathered on the first day. By the 4th century, Christians were recorded to be officially observing Sunday as their day of rest, and not Saturday. Beginning about the 17th century, a few groups of Protestants were said to have arose to take issues with some of the practice of the churches around them. They also questioned the theology of Sunday as the day of rest that had been so widely accepted throughout the centuries. Mostly Sabbatarians, people who broke away from their former churches to form communities that followed Sabbath-based practices that differed from the rest of Christianity, often also adopting a more literal interpretation of law, either Christian or Mosaic. A sabbatarian movement within Oriental Orthodoxy allegedly began in the 12th century in Ethiopia and gained movement in the 13th century, eventually establishing itself as the norm in that region. Also the modern Orthodox Tewahedo churches till date is said to observe a two-day Sabbath, including Saturday and Sunday. The Hebrew Sabbath is often spoken of loosely as Saturday. Wikipedia further recounts that in the Hebrew calendar, the Sabbath coincides with what the modern civil calendar identifies as Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. Similarly, Sunday coincides with Saturday sunset to Sunday sunset. It also claimed that though the Sabbath remained on the seventh day in the early Christian church, to this day, the Sabbath continues to coincide with the Hebrew Sabbath timing in the church calendars in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy. As early Christians continued to pray and

Sabbath, a weekly day of rest or time of worship biblically observed on the seventh day of the week (Saturday) as observed in Judaism and some denominations of Christianity, was first mentioned in the Genesis creation narrative (Genesis 2:2-3). It is set aside as a day of rest and made holy by God. Most Christians, however, observe Sabbath on the first day of the week, Sunday, the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Those who observe Saturday as the biblical Sabbath regard it as having been instituted as a perpetual covenant for the people of Israel which those coming behind should also follow, while those who choose to rest and worship on the first day of the week believe that since Christ’s resurrection occurred on that particular day, then Sunday should be a significant day for Christians. ODINAKA URUAKPA spoke to clerics and got their views on this seeming controversial issue in Christendom. rest on the seventh day, they also observed Sunday, the day of the week on which Jesus had risen from the dead and on which the Holy Spirit had come to the Apostles. Paul and the Christians of Troas were also recorded to gather on Sunday to break bread, and as time moved on, Christians were observing only Sunday and not the Sabbath. Patristic writings attest that by the second century, it had become commonplace to celebrate the Eucharist in a corporate day of worship on the first day. A Church Father, Eusebius, stated that for Christians, ‘the Sabbath had been transferred to Sunday.’ In his noteworthy book ‘From Sabbath to Sunday’, Adventist theologian Samuele Bacchiocchi contended that the transition from the Saturday Sabbath to Sunday in the early Christian church was due to pagan and political factors and the decline of standards for the Sabbath day. According to the Director of Social Communication, Catholic Diocese of Lagos, Monsignor Gabriel Osu, Sun-

I AM NOT A SABBATH MAN; I AM A CATHOLIC, A CHRISTIAN; A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. CHRIST’S RESURRECTION; THAT IS CHRISTIANITY ITSELF BECAUSE IF CHRIST HAD NOT RESURRECTED, THERE WOULD BE NO CHRISTIANITY. day is a sacred day for Christians, as he claimed that it is the day on which Christ resurrected from the dead and the beginning of Christianity. He added that without Christ’s resurrection, there would be no Christianity. “I am not a Sabbath man; I am a Catholic, a Christian; a follower of Christ. Christ’s resurrection; that is Christianity itself because if Christ had not resurrected, there would be no Christianity. So, Sunday for us is sacred because it is the day of Easter which is Christ’s resurrection and beginning of Christianity. Those whose worship day is Sabbath i.e. Saturday, do they believe in Christ, are they Christians? If they believe in Christ, they believe in the resurrection on the first

day, they believe in Jesus Christ, they believe in God, then I have no quarrel with them. Ours is very clear; every Christian knows that Christ resurrected three days after death; we have no problem with our belief, we have no problem with our faith; we believe in Christ suffering, death on the cross, He resurrected on Sunday which we chose as our day of worship,” he explained. Monsignor Osu stated that if one believes in the Sabbath and worship on Saturday and they also believe in the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then there is no cause for worry, as he claimed that Christ is the important factor in Christianity and not the day people choose to worship.

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day “The day people choose to worship is not the issue; the issue really is Christ who came to redeem us and because of His cross which has redeemed us, we give thanks to God. Christ died on the cross and resurrected after three days and this is what we follow. Before He ascended into heaven on a Sunday, Jesus told the disciples that He would send the Holy Spirit to them, and this came to pass on Pentecost which is also Sunday and the beginning of the church,” he said. However, giving account of Jesus crucifixion, death and burial on Friday, and his supposed rest in the tomb on Saturday which is the Sabbath day and a day of rest according to God’s commandment as received by Moses on the Mount at Sinai, Elder Sam claimed that Saturday is the recommended day of worship and not Sunday as many Christians observe now. “We all know that Jesus was crucified and died on Friday. Every year we recognise this day as Good Friday. On that day Joseph of Arimathaea took Jesus’ body from the cross and buried it. Luke 23:50-24:3 describe this event and tell us that the next day, Saturday, was the Sabbath, a day of rest according to the commandment. So, Jesus died on Good Friday, rested in the tomb the following day, Saturday, which was the Sabbath, and then rose early on Sunday morning, the day we call Easter Sunday. Today, nearly the entire Christian world goes to church and worships on Sunday. Why is this? When was the day of worship changed from the Sabbath, which we just saw is Saturday, to Sunday? He asked. He claimed that Christians go to church on a specific day of the week because of the Sabbath commandment, adding that in the Sabbath commandment, God has not only given us a command to keep the Sabbath day holy but has also told us how to do it. “God did not only give Christians a command to keep the Sabbath day holy, but has also told them how to keep it holy. The Ten Commandments can be found in Exodus 20:3-17. This commandment I spoke of is found in Exodus 20:811 which states ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger that is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day wherefore

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IN THE DAYS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, IN ORDER TO REMAIN IN FAVOUR WITH GOD, YOU HAD TO KEEP THE SABBATH. the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.’ This commandment tells us that God’s Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week. God’s holy Sabbath day is Saturday; Sunday is just the first day of the week”, he asserted. Giving reasons why Christians now observe Sunday instead of Saturday as the day of worship, Pastor Afolarin Adebola explained that only nine of the 10 commandments were reinstituted in the New Testament, adding that the one that was not reaffirmed was the one about the Sabbath as that has been replaced by Jesus Christ who is the Lord of the Sabbath. “Of the 10 commandments listed in Exodus 20:1-17, only nine of them were reinstituted in the New Testament; five in Matthew 19:18, murder, adultery, stealing, false witness, and honour to parents, and in Roman 13:9, coveting, and worshipping God properly covers the first three commandments. The one that was not reaffirmed was the one about the Sabbath. Instead, Jesus has replaced that as He said that He is the Lord of the Sabbath in Matthew 12:8. Some people are of the argument that upon the completion of Creation, God rested on the seventh day. Yes. However, since God is all powerful, He doesn’t get tired. He doesn’t need to take a break and rest. So, they may ask, why did the Bible say that He rested? The reason is simple; we are told in Mark 2:27 that Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. In other words, God established the Sabbath as a rest for His people not because He needed a break, but because we are mortal and need a time of rest, a

time to focus on God. In this, our spirits and bodies are both renewed. Adebola also claimed that the Old Testament system of Law required keeping the Sabbath as part of the overall moral, legal, and sacrificial system by which the Jewish people satisfied God’s requirements for behaviour, government, and forgiveness of sins. “In the days of the Old Testament, in order to remain in favour with God, you had to keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath was part of the Law in the sense that it was required in keeping the overall moral, legal, and sacrificial system by which the Jewish people satisfied God’s requirements for behaviour, government and forgiveness of sins. If it was not kept, then the person was in sin and would often be punished as recorded in Ezekiel 18:4, Romans 6:23, Deuteronomy 13:1-9, Numbers 35:31 among others. But with Jesus’ atonement, we are no longer required to keep the Law. We are not under Law but grace as we are informed in Romans 6:14-15. The Sabbath is fulfilled in Jesus. He is our rest. We are not under obligation by Law to keep it, and this goes for the Sabbath as well. It is not a requirement that we keep the Sabbath. If it were, then we would still be under the Law, but we are not”, he said. Listing verses from the scripture, Adebola further claimed that the New Testament has ample evidence that the seventh-day, Sabbath, is no longer a requirement for the Christians. He added that if Saturday i.e the seventh day was a requirement, then it would be God’s choice to make. “Romans 14:5-6, states, ‘One man re-

gards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Let each man be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day observes it for the Lord, and he who eats does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.’ The entire section of Roman 14:1-12 is worthy of a careful study. Nevertheless, the instructions here are that individuals must be convinced in their own minds about which day they observe for the Lord. If the seventh-day Sabbath were a requirement, then the choice would not be man’s to make but God’s. Colossians 2:16-17 states, ‘Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day; things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.’ Here, a time sequence is mentioned. A festival is yearly. A new moon is monthly. A Sabbath is weekly. No one is to judge regarding this. The Sabbath is defined as a shadow. The reality is Jesus. Jesus is our Sabbath. Acts 20:7 also states, ‘And on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to depart the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.’ The first day of the week is Sunday, and this is the day the people gathered. This passage can easily be seen as the church meeting on Sunday. It has two important church functions within it, namely; breaking bread which is communion and a message i.e. preaching”, he noted.

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It’s better to give than to take –Sandra Azana Delta State-born Oloye Sandra Azana is the reigning Miss Curvy Nigeria, Photogenic. She is a graduate of Theatre Arts. This plump model in this interview with ADAEZE AMOS speaks about her lifestyle and dress sense.

queens represent different brands and organisations. They are all stunning queens in their own way. So, I don’t think there is anything I wish to correct because though the crown is glamorous, they have their struggles.

which I call ‘Plus Is The New Sexy’. It is a project for fabulous and thick ladies to come out from their shell and love their body.

What lesson has life taught you as a queen? Life has taught me that it is better to give than to take. Beauty crown has taught me that it is good to be your brother’s keeper.

You won Miss Curvy Nigeria, Photogenic beauty crown, what thrills you most about this pageant? Winning the crown, Miss Curvy Nigeria, Photogenic is just a stepping stone in my dream. The most interesting thing about this pageant was meeting plussize models that do not shy away or hide themselves in shell, but they are proud of themselves in what they do and are ready to motivate one another. I’m a determined person in whatever I do. I love my job as a model so I put myself out there, and most of all I love the camera. What have you used this platform to achieve for yourself and humanity? Becoming Miss Curvy Nigeria, Photogenic has helped me a lot in terms of recognition, confidence and of course meeting people with intellect. I’m currently planningmypet project

Beauty, they say, is a great door opener; do you share this belief? I believe that beauty is a great door opener but that depends on our concept of beauty. I am beautiful, you are beautiful and everyone is beautiful in their own way. I believe a person’s beauty should reflect in everything she does and not just in appearance. For instance, your beauty alone would not get you a crown. There are beautiful ladies everywhere who do not even have a single crown attached to their beauty. Your character, self discipline, ability to serve, dedication and intelligence are great door openers as long as great opportunities are concerned. I have learned However, what stands me to be reserved as a queen. Howe out in the midst of other beauties is my dedication to what I do.

What do you think are some of the things Nigerian beauty queens are not doing well which you wish to use this medium to correct? N i g e rian beauty

What is your philosophy? My philosophy is whatever that is worth doing is worth doing well. To mothers who feel that beauty pageant is unnecessary exposure to the girl-child, what’s your advice for? To such mothers I still maintain that if your daughter’s dream is to become a beauty adqueen, I would ad vise you to give her the freedom to pursue her goals because you never can tell when/ where her star would shine. You could be that beautiful mother singing haleluya on the altar when she brings

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home fortune and fame. Fashion is meant to cover your flaws and flaunt your good sides. What part of you can you flaunt proudly? I’m a very fashionable person in my own way. My style varies with the season. The part of me I can flaunt proudly any day, anywhere, anytime is my smile because of my beautiful dentition. Thanks to my mother for that special quality.

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If you are asked to model a product, what would be your tactic/concept you would use to make it the best? If I’m asked to model a product, my tactic and concept would depend solely on the type of product but my first step would be to make good my research on it and learn everything about the product. p What’s your beauty ritual? ritual is my My foremost beauty ritu nap. I don’t joke with my afternoon a rest. It is always my best form of relaxation. The other one is i a facial wash in the evening. I don’t don’ miss it. Who do you admire much muc in the beauty world? In the beauty world, the person defiper nitely would be Miss Collette NwaColle dike, ex-Miss Tourism Nigeria and presently the reigning queen Exquisite Face of the Universe. I have ha never person but I met her in pers positive vibes feel her positi and her hard work. And who are the beauty Nigerian you esqueens y teem? The Nigerian queens beauty admire or esI admir are Miss teem ar Collette Nwadike, N I have mentioned m her before. I also admire Queen Shelly Ogbise, the current Miss Curvy NigeCurv ria, Culture. I adCultur mire Miss Ezeinne Akudo, ex-Miss Niex-M geria beauty beaut queen. I also admire admir Queen Siaka Nimat, the Nim Miss Curvy Nigeria, Tourism. These laT dies have contributc ed positively positivel to the lives of Nigerians N in one way wa or the other. They are Th great role rol models in the field and f hard working what they in w do.

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ima Ikyor, a diva, hails from Benue State. This Sociology graduate of Kogi State University did her one year compulsory service at the Nigerian Port Authority in Lagos and worked with Globacom Nigeria for some years before she took a walk to pursue her passion in music. She once bagged an award for the Best Artiste Video of the year and nomination for the Best Reggae Dancehall Artiste.

Now that she is a wife and a mother, she still remembers very vividly her childhood with great nostalgia. Even before she became a teenager, she remembers that she had been blessed with a stunning figure and extra large boobs. “When I was much younger, I had hair all over my body, I knew something was abnormal and my boobs made me looked older whereas I was barely 11. That was when I started wearing bra because a lot of guys at that age kept staring at my boobs and not my face and I didn’t like it. I got very uncomfortable that was why at that age when my mates never knew anything about bra, I had already started wearing it,” she recalled. How about music? What else does she remember about music at that tender age of 11? “I used to listen to my daddy the late honorable Ikyor sing songs by Don Williams, Kenny Rogers and lots of country music. So, I started loving songs like that and understood deep music even without beats. Growing up, Tony Braxton was on my mind, Brandy, Macy Gray and generally people with unique tunes, but now as a grown up, I get inspiration from so many successful good artistes and I don’t see myself competing with them, I just want to excel in what I’m doing. Be different and not try to be exactly as another,” she nodded. The first time she performed on the stage was awesome. “The first time I performed, I still remember vividly, it was a Power Hoarse Event in Lagos and the event was well attended. The reception was good. I did my thing and right afterwards people came over to interview me. Paparazzi were all over me, they took some shots of me. It was simply great and I felt great too. I have always had passion for music and that was why I resigned my job with Globacom to pursue my dream which of course is music. The money I made from Globacom, I didn’t use

it to buy a car because I already had a car before I got the job. Rather I invested the money in music and I have no regrets till date that I did,” she said. The aspect of her person she likes most is her heart. “I love my heart so much. I have a good heart and I believe that my good heart sure would take me to places. That is why I see a successful and fulfilled artiste, a mother and a wife in me,” says. Whenever she is out for a glamorous outing, she puts some things into consideration just to be red-carpet ready. “I don’t do much. I believe that sometimes too much of make-up and accessories make women appear a little trashy. This is my advise to women to let them know that small is beautiful. So, to be red-carpet ready, I just wear a dress or outfit that fits. Not too much make-up and not too much chains. I love to see very heavy stuff like that on people but I don’t feel comfortable wearing them. But I can slip into very short outfits, or very long apparels and I’m good to go,” she enthused. Her dress sense on stage? “On stage, I can wear anything, as long as I’m comfortable in it. If it is an RnB song that I want to do, I opt for a dress most of the time. I mean tight-fitted dresses that are classy. But if it is a danceable song where I won’t be comfortable in a dress, trousers go perfectly. The style doesn’t matter so long as it is good to look at. Then my style signature is sexy and trendy. I love to appear as a lady all the time but more importantly a sexy lady,” she stressed. People she admires are celebrities so to say. “I admire 2face Idibia a lot, I admire P Square and a whole lot of Nigerian artistes who have made Nigerians finally accept the fact that music is a decent career. In fact, I generally have respect for all the talented Nigerian artistes home and abroad,” she gesticulated. When she had a heartbreak “all I did was sing about it and the song came out great. In fact, my Benue people really loved the song. The song is the titled ‘Kanyi’. It came from my heart. I didn’t write it. I went into the studio that day to make a different song and as the producer was playing around with some instrumentals the song just came out and that was how I sang my heart out in the song,” she said, finally.

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Pulpit Sunday May 22, 2016

That enemy shall not escape

General Overseer of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry, Pastor Lazarus Muoka, in this piece, explains that enemy shall not escape. Excerpts:

xodus 14:9-14, “But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots ofPharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.’ And Moses said unto the people, ‘Fear ye not, standstill, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.’ The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”

Many people are been tormented by devil and his agents. These agents of wickedness follow them wherever they go to terrorize and ruin everything that is associated with their progress. These enemies are the cause of sicknesses, diseases, poverty, madness, barrenness, paralyses, stillbirth, etc which people suffer in different stages of their lives. But assuredly whoever that is behind the reason for your problem shall not escape the wrath of the Lord today. Since you became born again, or since you were born, your situation may have been worrisome, and if you can reminisce you will discover tons of thorns tormenting your life and posing as threats to your future. But today that battle is being taken away from you for it is not yours but of God. If you can allow God takes control of your life today, your life will never be the same again. I am assuring you that all the problem your enemies brought against you shall be swallowed up today in Jesus name. You remembered how Pharaoh’s magical snake was swallowed up by the rod of Moses, I am assuring you that every pharaohic snake after your life and everything projected against you shall be returned to the sender and today shall be the end of their work against you.. I do not know the serpent terrorizing you which has brought no peace, joy, stagnancy of life and pain, today there is a rod that will swallow them. So get ready for your freedom. Isaiah 45:23 says, “I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.” God possesses absolute author-

ity over all things and He will exercise it throughout eternity. He has the right to order reward for the wicked, thus your enemies that have decided to give you no rest shall not escape His wrath today in Jesus name. The enemies and the fact that they shall not escape Beloved, our chief enemy is the devil. Your father, mother or siblings are not your enemy although sometimes they are influenced by your arch enemy the devil to harm you. Revelation 12:7- 10 states, “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, ‘Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” I want to let you know the dragon (devil) had his angels fourth but they were defeated and cast to the earth. Now one may ask what are his angels doing on earth, the truth is that they go about afflicting injuries pain, sicknesses, problems on the people of God and on humanity, these are their primary assignment on earth, but God has come to deliver you and they will not escape the sledge hammer of God today. I want you to understand that devil operates in many ways and uses so many weapons and strategies to make human’s life unbearable,, and the Bible e says in John n 10:10 (a) “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:” All his works are to steal, to kill and to de-

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stroy. So, he uses poverty, sicknesses, and afflictions, barrenness, lack of favour, delay in marriages, and miscarriages to afflict the children of God. That is why failure has characterized the life of many but today my father will fight for you. I do not know how many years these enemies have been fighting you, and want you to be discouraged and think there is no God to deliver you. But God has decided to step into your situation at His time and will arrest your enemies and they shall not escape in Jesus name. I don’t know what they are using to afflict you, may be poverty, frustration, broken marriage, lack of favour, unemployment, evil dreams, hatred from people, backwardness, etc. I do not know what they have release to afflict you and everything is working against you, even when you do good to people they pay you with evil, I really may not know the strong opposition against you, but honestly today the Lord will deal with your enemies. Indeed there may be enemies, but one thing that is certain today is that they shall not escape. 1Thess 2:18 says, “ Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.” I don’t know where they have hindered you, from making progress, getting your spouse, having children, enjoying your marriage but whatsoever they have done against you today must be reversed. Whenever it seems something good is coming your way the demons and satanic human agents will arise and begin to fight in order to close the door against you so that your condition will continue to deteriorate. . 1Corinthians 16:9 says, “For a great door and and effectual is opened unto me, and there are are many adversaries.” When it appears that it is going to be well for you, the next thing is for it to become worst. When it appears you have gone the right way, suddenly you

will find yourself in the wrong way. When it appears you want to surrender your life to Christ and become born again, there will be so many enemies after you to frustrate all attempts to join the Lord’s army. But don’t bother yourselves again by this message no matter how many of them after your life, progress or family, one thing that is certain today is that they shall not escape. God will destroy all. God who preserves you till date in spite of the opposition against you will do it again. Same God who has not let them to kill you will deal with your enemies not minding their arsenal. • Malachi 3:6 says, “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Beloved, that God that kept you alive, has not changed, that God of yesterday that gave you husband or wife is still the same God today, that God that saw you through in all the battles when you were a toddler has not changed, that God that is giving you all that you demanded never changes, that God who delivered you in time past, that performed miracle even in the Bible days has not changed, that fought for the Israelites as of old, that divided the Red-Sea, and brought the children of Israelites out of Egypt, caused their enemies to drown, divided the Red Sea, that God has not changed. Today that God will never change because of you, and therefore no matter what they have cast down to follow after you shall be swallowed up today in Jesus name. The same way Pharaoh and all his armies did not escape the Red Sea on their pursuit of the children of Israel, the same way your enemies shall end up in Jesus name. Exodus 14:13 says, “ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.” Whatsoever they are using to pursue you, my advise is that you should stand still and fear not, for that problem, poverty, spiritual prison shall end today. That pain, sickness, delay in marriage, delay in conception, rising and falling, poverty, which you have been having, shall be seen no more forever, that is why I am telling you that the Lord is the same today, tomorrow and forever. Exodus 14:14 “ The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.” My friend the Lord is still fighting for His people and if He still fights for His people today He shall give you victory. Exodus 14:19-20, 23-25 say, “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, h ho rses, his chariots, and a d his an horsemen.

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From the Pulpit

Sunday May 22, 2016

Serve God diligently, says Oloruntimilehin General Overseer of Omnipotence Mission of God, Prophet Joshua Daramola Oloruntimilehin, in this admonition, explains how to serve God diligently. Excerpts:

t has become pertinent to bring to the notice and acknowledgement of people of the world, particularly the believers that serving God diligently is fundamental. There are some things people need to know and do in the process of serving God. These have been mentioned several times before but still need to be emphasised so that people can embark on a journey with God and see His favour. If people fail to follow and observe those things, then on the day of resurrection they will not rise during rapture.

Some of these things are little but some people are not courageous to allow truth to prevail in their lives and fear God. Anytime temptation comes and the person(s) is not saved, then he or she will wonder and complain why the unpleasant thing is happening to him or her while he or she is serving God. I want to advise and appeal to people to be prepared, and counting their days, watching their neighbours falling and dying. They should note that they are not strong or healthy than the person that died. Also be thinking or saying that the person that died was righteous than you do. Therefore people should think that they can die within a minute. They should compare themselves with a person that is hale and hearty, no medical history indicating any sickness but stumbled and died. Then let people have it in their mind that they can die any moment. Be prepared with amour because the owner of life can claim it anytime. If He claims it, where are you going? Some

people call God but they are not serving God. On the day of difficulties God will not answer them. Some people are serving God the way they like and God cannot be served anyhow you like. God needs to be served the way He wants. People need to serve God when it is inconvenient and not when convenient. The Bible says in 2Timothy 4:2 ,“Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season…” When it is time to serve God, no problem whatsoever should debar people from doing so. Whether a person is in a pleasant or unpleasant condition, he or she should serve God at the right time so that He could save them from a difficult situation. A child of God serves him when he or she is hungry, afflicted, in sorrow etc. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 10:37-39, “He who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me…” Also a person that loves his wife than Jesus or loves her husband than Jesus is not worthy to be for Jesus. So if a person is experiencing hardship or any of his family (wife and children) is at the verge of death, at the time of service definitely as a person of flesh the person will prefer to see to the person at the point of death. But what Jesus was emphasising is that serve God first and He would take care of your sick person. It is difficult for a person to abandon a sick child and go to serve God. Many people think or

believe they are serving or worshipping but in actual fact they are just paying lip service to the work of God. The Bible says in Isaiah 29:13-14, “These people are near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me, their worship of me is made up only of rules and taught by men…” Brethren, let your service of God include doing good because a day will come when goodness will not be with you again so that God can stretch His hand of goodness to you. If you do good very well, you will receive it very well, but if you do good in a lazy manner, then you will receive it in the same manner. Therefore, serve God in good manner and truly so that you will receive God’s goodness. The Bible says in Galatians 6:7-10 “Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction, the one who sows to please the spirit, from the spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not be weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up… All these are tools needed to prepare people for tomorrow so that the favour of God would be upon them. People should realise that God owns us. Psalms 100:3 says, “Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are his, we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” People should take any matter concerning God seriously. Also, you should hastily do what will make God to hastily reciprocate to people’s need. Let service of God

and doing good be paramount in our lives because He owns everything. He directs and controls both the universe and heaven. I pray that the power and spirit to do the will of God shall be bestowed on everyone in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Prophet Oloruntimilehin

News

Cleric blames laziness among youths for high level of unemployment

he General Overseer of Ascension Prayer Ministry, Pastor Caleb Anyaele has blamed lack of creativity among youths for the high level of unemployment in the country.

Anyaele made this claim at a youth programme organised in recently in the church He said lack of creativity could be traced to the way children were brought up by their parents and urged the youths to make frantic efforts to develop themselves rather than waiting for government jobs. While imploring youths to shake off laziness and go for information that could be of help to them in conceiving good business plans, Anyaele advised that they should know their areas of strength, as well as identify problems affecting people in such areas and develop a solution which could generate income for them. He claimed that god has deposited the talents every human needs to make it in life, as he added that some parents do not allow their children to develop their talents as they are prone to handle them with kids’ gloves. “God has deposited talents and the spir-

L-R: Venerable ASP Abiodun Omolaja, Chaplain, Lagos Police Command; General Secretary, The Bible Society of Nigeria, Rev. Dare Ajiboye; Assistant General Secretary, Publishing, BSN, Pastor Victor Damilare and Assistant General Secretary, Finance, BSN, Pastor Kola Sokunbi, during a courtesy visit by ASP Omolaja to BSN recently. it of creativity in every human being, but parents kill those gifts ignorantly with the way they handle their children.

“Parents are the first teachers for their children, therefore they should encourage them, guide them, allow them to ask ques-

tions, let them discover their environment and makes mistakes without shouting at them,” Anyaele stated.

Opinion

Sunday May 22, 2016

Uncensored U nc

Sheriff S Folarin

E-mail: sheffie2004@yahoo.co.uk 08094217972 (SMS only)

t had not been clear how much of hatred the name Buhari commands in some quarters until the news broke out, of the rescue of one of the Chibok girls, Amina Ali. We have, since March 2015, been having a major running battle on social media with a group of people shocked and saddened by the emergence of Buhari as president, that they openly and recklessly express their distaste and pour out their venom in unguided statements, which, after a while, naturally earned them, on social media, the name “Wailers” or ‘Wailing Wailers”. The Wailers had been on the loose since their “hero of democracy”, Jonathan performed poorly in a free and fair but heavily lost elections that showed how unpopular the former president had become. After the elections, it never really dawned on this group of Wailers that there had been a major political change. They refused to accept the change and had wild imaginations that the game still remained the same. They could probably have woken up every morning to sulk or rue the game-change. But even Dr. Jonathan, the gentleman that he was, had shocked them all by promptly calling his victorious opponent to congratulate him- a bitter reality that many had hoped had not happened. They wanted at that moment, as demonstrated earlier by “Elder” Orubebe, a suddenly dictatorial and overly ambitious Jonathan that would use his powers to manipulate the electoral process, turn things upside down and deny

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Jonas Agwu

Email: j.agwu@Ofrsc.gov.ng Tel: -8033026491, 8077690055

ast week, I forgot to inform you that between February and April 2016, 70 road traffic crashes were recorded, attributable to tyre burst. I also forgot to inform you that tyre related crashes were responsible for 5,288 vehicles involved in road traffic crashes from 2011 to 2015. However, I did not forget to inform you about my excitement on the stakeholders’ forum on tyre put together by the Federal Road Safety Corps, which I described as a refresher classroom experience for me. The Director- General, Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) Dr Paul Angya, like Leicester’s hit man and United Kingdom Premiership new sensation, Jimmy Vardy caught my attention with his exhaustive presentation titled, promoting tyre safety in Nigeria through quality identification and classification. He shared the worry of FRSC and other stakeholders on the prevalent tyre ignorance and narrated his experience when some years back; he stumbled on a motorist who had studded tyres with steel studs sticking above the tread meant for ice and snow. When he confronted him on the dangers of such act, the motorist laughed it off, saying that he loves the noise of the steel studs when driving, oblivious of the fact that these steel damage the road quickly. This is just one of many odd things people do that shows the high level of ignorance on the use of tyre. In a survey conducted by the Corps on the use of tyres on Nigerian roads,

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On the rescue of the Chibok girl

Buhari the handling of the mantle. Jonathan, heroically (although left with little or no choice), surprised them all and rather quit the office after six years of being at the saddle of national affairs. He acted like a civilized democrat and this earned him a place in history. But the Wailers, a wrong group of supporters for such a responsible former president, took to the social media and all other avenues, to begin a new campaign, called calumny against the new president. They made heroes of persons who could use foul language to boldly call the president all sorts of unprintable names. They celebrated redoubtable and irresponsible characters, as long as such persons could challenge the new administration, justifiably or stupidly. They also towed the steps of Governor Fayose of Ekiti State, wishing the president either death, or fatal errors, that would fit well into their mood and desires. They, consciously or unconsciously- but more probably unconsciously- hoped for policy failures, bad governance and missteps of the new president, no matter how badly such missteps would affect them- just to celebrate their ousted hero and mock Buhari and his supporters, with the beautiful opportunity to also justify their previously expressed evil wishes for the man. Nothing Buhari says or does is good. It must be bad. Every step is fatal error and suspicions continue to trail even Buhari’s personal lifestyle. His looks are arrogant or timid. The prime minister of Britain left him out in the cold on 10, Downing Street. He looks lost in discussion or referred to Germany as ‘West Germany’. Ridiculously infantile observations from people of a respectable country. Also, the president’s foreign trips, economic policies, anti-corruption, fight against insecurity, manner of talking, what he looks at or does not look at, the way he walks and how he responds to television interviews- everything- were either derided or maliciously and

most expectedly, cynically examined. And Buhari himself has been vulnerable as he perfectly plays into their hands. His delay in fulfilling or denial of promises, padding of the 2016 national budget, delayed signing of same, taciturn approach to Fulani herdsmen’s attacks on communities around the country, keeping of some alleged chronically corrupt persons in his cabinet, inconsistent fuel policy and general decline of the economy under him, have presented to the Wailers sufficient and perfect grounds to justify their legendary venomous outrage. But areas Buhari has got right, including anticorruption and victories against Boko Haram, which should shut the mouths of the Wailers, have also been downplayed. For instance, Buhari himself is corrupt, they say, as he used stolen funds donated by political cronies for campaigns and electoral victory; looks away from corrupt friends and hunts down only political opposition; and the Boko Haram victories are a scam because Buhari himself is the engine-room of Boko Haram, which he had used to run down Jonathan and seize power. This line of thinking brings us to the rescue of Amina Alli, the Chibok girl that was found last week, with a Boko Haram “husband” and a baby. First, the rescue was termed fake; the visit to Mr. President was described as arranged and the entire venture now has been totally discredited by the Wailers, who call it another Buhari scam. But some interesting and legitimate questions have been asked too, bothering on how the girl would be in bondage in a thick Sambisa forest for two years only to return well-fed and clean, why the terrorist that abducted and raped her to become a mother would be celebrated as her “husband” and not treated as a common criminal, and why this sudden rescue is coming barely two weeks to May 29, when the President would be looking for what to celebrate after one “wasteful” year in office.

However, the social media have particularly been abuzz with all sorts of deriding comments that come from only one source- the same old group of Buhari haters, the Wailers, as social media users call them. There has even been a disputation, which I personally find very dumb, that there was no Chibok abduction in the first place. All sorts of logic and illogic are thrown into idle arguments and dissipated to discuss the conspiracy theory behind a fake abduction and search and rescue that followed. We would recall that it was this same doubt that pervaded Aso Rock two years ago, which made government response and rescue operations terribly lame and too little too late, when it came. The whole thing was politicized, described as a mere enterprise to discredit and run down Jonathan’s administration. The First Lady at the time, even cried on international television, shouting ‘There is God” to imply that political opposition perpetrating such a Chibok girls lie against her husband had their divine punishment awaiting them. The same dumbness that kept us embarrassed for two years in international eye, is still what some persons, all in the name of hating a president, want to perpetrate and uphold as sacrosanct. There was no Chibok girls’ abduction. It was an APC lie. Yet, fathers and mothers are crying and suffering emotional wreckage after not seeing their children for years. And the main proponents of the fake abduction or conspiracy theory are the educated youths, the most vibrant section of the population of the world’s most populous black nation. With this declining humanity and a new and attractive tradition of dumbness, do we still need a soothsayer or dibia to tell us what the future of Nigeria holds?

• Sheriff F. Folarin, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Still on know your tyre these ignorance was demonstrated; in the survey,2,486 vehicles and 10,024 tyres were considered and the result showed that, on expired tyres accounted for 39 per cent while expired tyres stood at 61 per cent. The survey on the percentage of vehicles using tokunbo (used imported), re-bore and new tyres also showed that the percentage of vehicles using new tyres was 50 per cent, tokunbo 35 per cent while re-bore was 15 per cent. In the case of the percentage of vehicles with all tyres worn-out, it showed that vehicles with complete worn-out tyres was 9 per cent ,not complete worn out tyres 91 per cent- some of the tyres that were not worn-out, were expired. In the case of vehicles with same front tyre brand, it showed that vehicles with mixed brand was 22 per cent while those with same brand was 78 per cent. Alternatively, vehicles with same front and back tyre brand, showed that those with mixed brand was 39 per cent, same brand; 61%.In the case of vehicles with same back tyre brand, mixed brand accounted for 22 per cent, while same brand was 78 per cent. The survey equally looked at the critical issue of correct tyre pressure and found out that pounds per square inch (psi) rating, showed that correct tyre pressure (psi) was 60per cent, incorrect tyre pressure (psi) 40 per cent. Unfortunately,26 per cent of the tyres were over inflated and 14 per cent under inflated. On the number of drivers with knowledge of tyre expiration, those with poor or no knowledge stood at 42 per cent as against those with good awareness was 58 per cent. The survey revealed these as some of the reasons for non compliance with instructions on tyre-many of the local vulcanizers use nonproperly calibrated measuring tools while some

lack basic knowledge of measurement of tyre pressure. There is arbitrary gauging of tyres without recourse to manufacturer’s specification which is common, ignorance, inability to interpret basic tyre manufacturer information, manufactured /expiry date -load index -speed rating, control challenge, control of tyres coming into the country is made difficult as there are no longer tyre manufacturing companies in the country, re-boring/patching of worn out tyres instead of purchasing new ones and costs. If there is anything consolation, I must tell you that these findings are not peculiar to our clime only as the DG SON, in his presentation informed us that a survey supported by Michelin in the United Kingdom has revealed that six percent of drivers never check their tyre treads. Arguably the most worrying statistic is found in the 35,700 tyre study referred to spare tyres; 13 per cent (13%) were below the minimum tread, 34 per cent were damaged and 66 per cent were wrongly inflated. The results of a study during a tyre safety week in Scotland found five million illegal or near bald tyres, showing a rise of 50 per cent in the past three years. Fifteen per centof drivers checked during the week had at least one tyre below the legal tread depth on 1.6mm. Similar survey done by the FRSC reveals that - tyre technology international, 2001. I have today chosen to continue with information from the Dr Angya lead paper which tried to explain to us what a tyre is and most importantly that it is only through the tyres that vehicles make contact with the road. I don’t know if you are like the friend the DG told us about? if you are not, then you should know that not all tyres are meant for your vehicles as there are classifications for tyre which should

always guide you; the road conditions the tyre is suitable for, is marked on the tyre-the tyres could be for the tropics such as ours or for mud and snow; it could also be for animal driven vehicles, commercial/passenger etc as described below: ADV: tyres for animal driven vehicles ,A/S: all-season tyre ,A/T: all-terrain tyre ,C: commercial; tyres for light trucks which is Similar to LT which is also for light truck, ,H/T: highway/terrain tyre for suvs and 4x4s ,lt: ,M+S or M&S: mud and snow tyre ,P: commercial/passenger car tyres ,RF: reinforced tyres ,TL: tubeless ,TT: tube type, tyre must be used with an inner tube .Other tyre classifications: snow tyres with large rubber cleats to cut through snow ,studded tyres with steel studs sticking above the treads for improved traction on ice and snow. This is an off-road tyre as they damage the roads quickly. Besides this vital information, you should know what to expect from a tyre and these include comfort, grip, ability to carry load (strength) long- lasting, cost saving .You must also know the quality of a good tyre and how to read a tyre. All of these will save you from unscrupulous tyre dealers and ultimately protect you from avoidable road traffic crashes, injuries or deaths. Before I conclude this week, keep in mind that the Speed rating shows the maximum service speed for a tyre. H means that the tyre has a maximum service speed of 130mph. Please note that this rating relates only to tyre speed capability, and is not a recommendation to exceed legally posted speed limits; always drive within the legal speed limits.

•Agwu, an Assistant Corps Marshal, is Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone 7HQ of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).

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Opinion

Sunday May 22, 2016

CHARIS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP

Godwyns Ade’ Agbude, PhD E-mail: godwyns10@gmail.com Website: www.cslng.org Phone no: 08034854242

GODWYNS ADE’ AGBUDE PHD

eadership is a form of social influence or what Warren Bennis refers to as social architecture. It is getting involved in the lives of others with the intention of increasing their capacity for the fulfillment of organizational or societal goal while they (followers) are allowed to realize their own goals. This implies that a leader does not overrule the goals and the aspirations of the followers (so long as they are not injurious to the collective goal of the organization). The leader ought not to be a killer of the followers’ goals and aspirations.

Not too long ago, I had an interaction with some workers of a particular organization. I was amused as I saw the gap between leadership practice in the organization and the claim of the organization to leadership development. In other words, the gap between the theory and the practice of leadership was obvious. The level of disengagement of the workers became very obvious as every meeting with the Executives and the Management team is always riddled with threat to retrench the workers. The workers became de-motivated because they live in the fear of losing their jobs. This of course is unhealthy for employ-

Leadership 101 ees’ effectiveness and organizational productivity. Three dimensions of Leadership All types of leadership can be broken down into these three, namely toxic leadership, instrumental leadership and societal leadership. All leaders in all sectors of human society fall into any three of these categories. In the same vein, these three dimensions of leadership correspond to three types of organizations. Toxic Leadership The word toxic comes from the Latin word ‘toxicus’ meaning poisoned. Thus, toxic means poisonous, deadly, lethal or contaminated. When taken literally, toxic leadership means poisonous leadership or deadly leadership. Toxic leadership implies harmful leadership. It is a leadership style that is detrimental to the wellbeing of the followers or/and the organization. For the sake of achieving corporate targets, some leaders initiate and implement policies that are injurious to the wellbeing of their followers/employees. His/ her main objective may be any of the following: attain a higher level in positional leadership, get wider recognition, and make more money or get more power. It may be the combination of all of the above. When you stand before a toxic leader, you will lose respect for yourself because he/she treats you as though you are not human. The features of a toxic leader: i. Extreme egoism – very selfish ii. Overambitious iii. Intolerant to humanly possible errors

iv. Destructive criticism v. Overestimation of self – proud vi. Extreme self-glorification vii. Vindictive –unforgiving and revengeful viii. Extremely ill-mannered - rude Instrumental Leadership Instrumental leadership is less dangerous compared to toxic leadership. While toxic leadership is harmful, cruel, malicious and extremely egoistic, instrumental leadership is not that harmful but just that it focuses on achieving personal goals. It uses the followers to advance his/her own course not minding whether the followers are better or worse for it. An instrumental leader cares less with the goal of the organization except when his/she benefits either directly or indirectly from it. An instrumental leader considers others but just as an afterthought – after he/ she has achieved his/her own goals. The organization and the employees are used only as means to an end which is the leaders’ personal goals. An instrumental leader is: i. Self-centered ii. Not necessarily cruel iii. Cunning – deceptive iv. Dishonest v. ambitious Societal Leadership This is the ideal form of leadership because it juggles all the goals, interests and aspirations of all the stakeholders of the organization. The leader has his/her personal goal, then the goals of the employees/follow-

The quiet revolution going on in Lagos GBOLAHAN AKINTUNDE

n the heat of the campaigns for the gubernatorial primaries of the APC, Lagos State, in 2015, I had no doubt that Ambode, who was endorsed by Asiwaju Tinubu, would emerge and this came to pass. I voted for Ambode during the April gubernatorial general elections for the simple reason that, when Tinubu preferred his then Chief of Staff, little known Babatunde Fashola to other candidates in 2007, there was disquiet from many quarters because the ability of Fashola to perform was in doubt, but we later discovered that Asiwaju saw what the rest of us did not see in Fashola. The rest is history today. Fashola performed beyond the imagination of many Lagosians including cynics, in fact, Lagos State became a reference point of what good governance should be. So when Akinwumi Ambode got the endorsement of Asiwaju Tinubu, I got a de javu feeling and I remembered that just like Fashola, another performer may have emerged. Like many Lagos residents, I was a bit apprehensive in the first few months of Ambode in the saddle as everything seemed to be turning upside down in the state. In less than two weeks in office, about four major fire outbreaks caused by fuel tankers were recorded in different parts of Lagos State; there was upsurge in armed robbery, kidnapping and other sundry crimes. As if these were not enough, there was water shortage in the State for about one month due to a major fault in the equipment of the Lagos State Water Corporation and as the government was battling this, the traffic gridlock in the state became horrific while traffic robbers had a field day. There were complaints in almost all sectors and Ambode received bashing left and right while he was accused of ineptitude and incompetence. Like a workman ready with his tools, Ambode set to work and instead of being disillusioned with the myriad of problems and bashing, they became the tonic he needed to confront the problems headlong. He gave succour to the victims of tanker fire incidents and took steps to prevent re-

occurrence. He tackled the security problem of the state by purchasing and handing over security equipment worth 4.8 billion to the security agencies. These include, 100 4-Door Salon Cars, 55 Ford Ranger Pick-Ups, 10 Toyota Land Cruiser PickUps, 15 BMW Power Bikes, 100 Power Bikes, Isuzu Trucks, three (3) Helicopters, two(2) Gun Boats, 15 Armoured Personnel Carriers, Revolving Lights, Siren and Public Address System, Vehicular Radio Communicators, Security Gadgets including Bullet Proof Vests, Helmets, Handcuffs, etc, Uniforms, Kits and Improved Insurance and Death Benefit Schemes for officers. Ambode’s effort yielded immediate result as crime was reduced to the barest minimum. One robbery incident that Lagosian will never forget in a hurry is the Ikorodu bank robbery where the robbers escaped through the waterways with a speedboat but were apprehended few weeks after the incident. Similarly, the prompt and professional rescue of the abducted Ikorodu school girls six days after was unprecedented. The kidnappers were apprehended and the girls were unhurt. This drew a lot of applause from Nigerians home and abroad. He also adequately tackled the problem of cultism and land grabbing which had become menace to Lagos residents. The traffic gridlock in the state was tackled with all seriousness with the governor himself apprehending traffic offenders. The Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASMA) was overhauled and the officers re- orientated with a view to making the agency have a human face and at the same time, ensure free flow of traffic. Major stakeholders such as members of various transport unions were incorporated as members of the task force. Recently, mobile courts were inaugurated in the state to summarily try recalcitrant drivers and this has made the traffic situation in the state better. Tackling the Apapa traffic bottleneck holistically, a task force was set up to ensure free flow of traffic while he personally monitored this. He called on the Federal government to mobilise the contractor awarded the Apapa road network to

return to site. Ambode, a civil servant of 27 years wasted no time in re-organising the civil service for more effective service delivery by realigning some ministries and scrapping others while appointing 19 new Permanent Secretaries. In the area of Infrastructure, about 600 kilometres network of roads have either been rehabilitated or reconstructed across the 57 Local Council Development Areas including two new roads per LCDA under the Ambode road revolution. Under his “Operation Light Up Lagos State”, Ambode had rehabilitated and erected streetlights in 366 locations across the state while 37 rural communities around Seme border are to be electrified immediately. In the health sector, Ambode commissioned 20 Mobile Intensive Care Units Ambulances and 26 Transport Ambulances deployed across the various General Hospitals and 24 hour primary healthcare centres in the state. While more paramedic staff and medical coordinators were recruited, the General Hospitals were upgraded with manpower and equipment with standby generators purchased for each of them. In August 2015, Ambode approved N11 billion to offset arrears of pensions owed since 2010 thus bringing smiles to the faces of the retirees of parastatals, state and local governments. Recently, N64 billion has been contributed by the government into the pensions account. Mrs. Ruth Uche, the mother of three sets of twins whose husband absconded from home was rehabilitated and reunited with her husband. Similarly, there was a lifeline for the 2015 baby of the year who was diagnosed with a heart defect and underwent surgery. The Operation of The Single Treasury Account (TSA) has tremendously improved the internally generated revenue (IGR) in the state with the state saving N3billion monthly. In his bid to attract investors to the state and make it the foremost investors’ destination, he received the President of Namibia, Dr Hage Geingob the second day he was sworn in, whom he had

ers, and finally the organizational goals and other stakeholders representing the society at large. He/she sees his/her self as a servant of the people. He/she considers the happiness and progress of others as his/her own priority. This kind of leadership wins followership’s loyalty and faithfulness without struggle because they see their goals and aspirations articulated by this leader. A societal leader: i. Is not self-centered – considers others first ii. Is Friendly and Flexible iii. Values and respects others’ opinions iv. Builds consensus and understanding v. Connects and communicates effectively with the followers vi. Promotes followers’ welfare and wellbeing Toxic leaders are cruel and injurious to the followers; Instrumental leaders use the followers to advance their own course without minding the impact of their decisions on the followers’ wellbeing. Societal leaders are selfless, people-oriented, empathic, resonant, caring and fun to be with. Yet, they have well stipulated moral principles. Quote of the Week True leadership lies in guiding others to success. ---Bill Owens Godwyns Ade’ Agbude, PhD CHARIS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP Leadership, Management, Conflict Studies Scholar e-mail: godwyns10@gmail. com Website: www.cslng.org Phone no: 08034854242

fruitful discussions with about the desirability of Lagos State as investors’ destination. Since then, the Governor had met several groups of local and foreign investors including President of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, investors from Dubai, United States of America, as well as envoys from several European and Middle East countries. The government has received approximately $43 billion investment proposition in the last one year. To stem the tide of sexual and domestic violence in the state, the Governor conveyed a meeting with the Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) with a charge to intensify sensitization against the dastardly act to give a voice to the victims and also bring perpetrators to justice. The Governor approved the use of the 112 toll free line report cases of rape, defilement, domestic violence, child abuse, neglect, maltreatment and other sexual assaults. What has worked for Lagos State in the last 17 years of Nigeria’s democratic experience is continuity in government. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who was the trail blazer as governor of Lagos State in the third republic laid a good foundation on which his predecessor, Babatunde Raji Fashola built. The unbroken chain of progressive governments in Lagos State made Ambode keyed in to the State Development Plan spanning 2012-2025. The plan is structured under four pillars: (1) Social Development and Security; (2) Infrastructural Development; (3) Economic Development and (4) Sustainable Environment. There is no doubt that the choice of Akinwunmi Ambode, a man of few words as Governor of Lagos State, may not have been misplaced considering his background and history of sound financial management. Lagosians should expect more stellar performance from the Ambode administration in the remaining three years more so, that Lagos has now joined the enviable league of Nigeria’s oil producing states. Akintude, a public affairs analyst wrote from Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.

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Germans love fuji music –Adigun Berliner Olaniyan Johnson, popularly known by his fans as Adigun Berliner, is a Fuji musician based in Germany and also a native of Aramoko in Ekiti State. In this interview with VICTOR UDOH, he speaks about his passion for Fuji music and why he prefers Germany to Nigeria. Excerpts What motivated you to stay in Germany? What motivated me to live in Germany is because they are very strong people, they are very caring a lot, they also care for human life, and above all they develop so much interest in building talents. In my own case, they were the one that helped me when I was sick, the German government took good care of me, and they make sure I was in good condition before they could allow me go back to my music business. How have you been coping with Fuji music in Germany? This year makes it nine years that I have been playing professionally in Germany and to God be the glory everything is a success. Do German dance to your Fuji music? Yes they do, they were even the one that motivated me to start this Fuji music in Germany. Also the Yoruba people in Germany always call me for occasions and other ceremonies. Apart from Germany, Yoruba’s in Belgium, Italy and other European countries always invite me to perform for them at any occasions. How would you relate singing in Germany to Nigeria? In Nigeria, i have people that are promoting me. One of them is Fola Ayedun, the Managing Director of Apex Media Network entertainment. He is the one that advised me to come and sing in Nigeria, in other to gain more popularity back -home How long have you been living in Germany? I have been living in Germany for the past 17 years and the place is like a home for me now. How have you been coping with racis over there, been a black man in a white man’s country? I have to be sincere with you, Germans are very friendly, they are trustworthy people, they don’t tolerate nonsense, and above all they care so much for humanity. If you are very hardworking, honest and law abiding citizen you will enjoy your stay in Germany. Germans are not racist, they respect all human race and give individual his respect. They treat everybody equally. Is it that you have never experienced any disappointment since you have been to Germany? Yes of course, you cannot stay in a place for 18 years and say you will not any disappointment because it is also part of life. The disappointment I had was the tedious process I went through when I first got to Germany. Though, it is not really a disappointment but I never planned for that. Germans are my friends. All they demand from people is honesty and truth. Also, they are strongly against drugs trafficking and other illegal acts. If you have opportunity to leave Germany

tion; it is the Apex Media Network Entertainment Limited that invited me. I thank them for this great opportunity because they made my music to be more popular in Nigeria. Berliner

now which country would you prefer to go? I don’t think i can stay in any other country apart from Germany, because of the kind of help I received from Germans. Before I left Nigeria, I was seriously sick to the point of death, it was the German government that took care of me, they gave me drugs and make sure Iwas in good condition before they discharged me. They were even the one that advised me to think of what I can do to make myself happy and live in good condition.

music. There is no problem with my family. As an intelligent man I am able to put my house in order despite my travelling from one country to another.

Are you planning to come back home? The best person to answer this question is Mr. Fola Ayedun, the Managing director of Apex Media Network Entertainment Limited.

How was your first experience when you first sing on stage in Germany? The first time I sang in Germany I was in a large crowd at the playing ground. The Yoruba people leaving in Germany massively turn out for the event centre. I was happy. For instance, the likes of Aliyu Babangida my patron, Dr Takur Joseph Ekponbang (Big Joe) and Mrs. Marry Olabamigbe, Mr. Apart from music what else do you do? For now, I don’t do anything apart from mu- Stanley Mayowa, Mr. Stephen Joseph and sic. I have worked in several places, also I have Oluwaseyi were the people that stood beworked in German airport before, and it was hind me. when I left the place that I started singing. Your latest single ‘focus’ what inspires it? Who is your mentor in music? The reason why I titled it Focus is beMy mentor in music is Sir Shina Akanni, I chose him as my mentor because is the best cause Germans always focus on everything Fuji musicians. I will also like to recognize the they do, that is why I came up with that good work of Wasu Ayinde, He is also my men- name. I will also advise everybody to emulate this gesture. tor.

How would you compare Germany and Nigeria? There is nothing to compare. The German are very strong, this is because the country is built on truth and honesty. For Nigeria to be like Germany, Nigerians must be honest and be truthful .The government must be transparent in its doings.

How was your growing up? Growing wasn’t easy, I grew up in Aramoko Ekiti State being my home land, I try as much as possible as a man to make myself relevant to my society, and today the rest is history. I could remember the first time I travelled to Germany I find it very difficult to speak their language, but today I can speak the language fluently compare to my own language.

What is your advice to those looking up to you? My advice to those looking up to me is to work hard and be focused. They should know that one tree cannot make a forest, so they should try to collaborate with each other when necessary. They should make sure they compose songs that will inspire people. They should compose songs that will bring unity and not disunity; they should compose songs that will make Nigeria to be great, Songs that will promote Nigeria’s image locally and internationally.

Where do you see your Fuji music in the next five years? By God’s grace, I see my music all over the world. In the next five years, I also see great nations inviting me to come sing for them. I see my music as the number one music in the world in the next five years. Being a musician, how are you coping with music and family in German? To God be the glory, I am married with my wife for almost 18 years, we both leaved in Germany. She is also a musician and into gospel

Who invited you to Nigeria? My present in Nigeria today is by invita-

What do you advise government to do for the musicians in Nigeria? I will advise government to do away with sentiment. In Germany, the government helps the upcoming musicians by providing enabling environment and funds for them. They did not do this based on sentiment but based on merit. So, I will advise Nigeria government to emulate this kind of gesture so that Nigeria’s talented musicians can really develop.

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Charity begins at home -Pastor Iluyomade Pastor Idowu Iluyomade is the Regional Pastor of RCCG Region 20 and head of RCCG, Apapa Family. In this interview with journalists, he spoke on the church’s preparation for its 2016 Excel celebration, the church’s involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility among other issues. In what way has Apapa Family helped in equipping people around them? We have projects like leadership school and we have Bible training school. We have various other programmes that teach people about skills acquisition. We have partnered with Microsoft and in for one week as we prepare for our 2016 Excel celebration, they are going to give free training to those who are interested in up-scaling their skills in Information Technology. We are strong on teaching because through it, you can transform a lot of lives and build leaders for the nation. Virtually, all Apapa Family churches have a skill acquisition and improvement scheme under their wings. Arise Women Conference is a teaching conference. All our churches have various aspects; for example, there was a leadership programme recently held with the theme “Leading women leading change”. Are these things open for church members alone and how do you raise funds these projects? Everything we do is for the people; Christians, Muslims, anybody that is in need; we do not discriminate. We feed and treat all and sundry, and there are a lot of people that have been referred to us for free medical treatment whom we took care of their health needs. We realize that about 30million Nigerians were in need of dialysis intervention and the nation needs about 12,000 machines but has less than 200 operational ones presently. So we established a hospital that has 10 dialysis machines to contribute our own quota to the improvement healthcare system in the country. Every month, we offer 30 free dialysis sections. We have partnered with some hospitals and foreign partners and we have done about six kidney transplants. We have a cancer screening centre in Surulere to screen people and we also treat people at a subsidized rate in our hospital. For those that cannot visit our hospitals, we have mobile clinics; we go to schools, we go to hinterlands to give free medical care to people. Church members fund all these things we do but something happened when we wanted to start our Mobile Clinic. We bought the first one, but because of the impact and also the publicity we get in what we do, corporate organizations like Shell, Cadbury, MTN, Indomie, First Bank and others that normally discriminate or do not want to partner with religious organizations, they started partnering with us because they feel that we are transparent; they checked us out and found out that we are really doing good work. For the other mobile clinic that we bought, some partners put down money, about N28million to buy it. I think the culture is changing and once corporate organizations see corporate governance and transparency and the fact that we are truly doing the work, they come in. And this helps increase the amount of people that we touch. How far is the scope these projects? Apapa Family is in five continents of the world and we replicate what we are doing all over these places. We have feeding programmes and many other things that we do. Anywhere there is an Apapa Family church, whether in Ibadan, Abuja or any other place, you see them being replicated in all these places. These projects are not limited to Lagos, but because we started from Lagos 25 years ago, and we have about 1500 churches under the family, which is a critical mass, I believe that is why there is a lot going on in the state. The bible says that we should be witnesses first in Jerusalem, then in Judea and then to the uttermost

Pastor Idowu part of the world. And as the saying goes, ‘Charity begins at home.’ We have done traffic lights in so many locations in the state. We have done street lights in five streets in Mushin; we have installed solar-powered lights in the whole of Kirikiri Streets; and we have found out that it reduced crime and increased commerce- night trading in these areas. That is why we are so glad to identify with what the Lagos State governor is doing by lighting up the whole of Lagos. It is a good and laudable initiative. We also partnered with our General Overseer, Pastor E.A Adeboye and we endowed a Professorial Chair in mathematics in his name in Five Universities in Nigeria at the sum of N250million and we do it every year. The fifth one was done last year and it is called Pastor E.A Adeboye Professorial chair in Mathematics. What is City of David’s role in media and entertainment? Media space is very important. For the past 12 years, we had a soap opera, Heaven’s Gate that was showing on television. It is an evangelical soap. The one that we have now is called Oasis, and right now, it is one of the top-rated soaps on television. Our next plan is to shoot a movie so that we can have a greater reach. We are working on some movies now. For example, we are working on a movie on Bishop Ajayi Crowther, the Oasis movie, which would help impact that space. I must not leave out the God’s Children Got Talent which is an intervention in the area of media and entertainment. The winner last year has produced her own C.D under the Excel Record. We sign gospel artistes from everywhere. You know that it is essentially whoever has the record label that controls whoever is singing, and in the world, you find out that the record label may be making 80 percent of the money and giving the artiste just five, 10 or 20 percent. We want to change all that; so, we are changing the culture in that area and our record label is becoming quite a force. We are open to all gospel artistes that will come and they will get a better deal using excel record label

than all the other labels that they have been using. What has City of David done in terms of Social Responsibility? If you came in from Ligali Ayorinde, the dual carriage way that connects the road to our church was done by us. We also contributed to the alternative route that comes into the church through Lekki axis. Anywhere Apapa family Church is planted, we impact in that society, because we believe that if your church closes down and people rejoice that you have gone, that means that you did not impact lives in that society. But if they miss you, it means that you touched lives there. So anywhere that we are, we sink boreholes, clean the gutters, do roads or put street lights. We put our footprints in anywhere that we go. What is the significance of the Excel celebration? This celebration is very significant because God has kept and sustained us, the work and the vision for the past 25years. We are celebrating 25 years of existence of the Apapa Family. The theme for this year is “Sustaining Change.” This is because we believe that one of the things that can best describe Apapa Family is change. We have been talking about change for so long; transforming lives, transforming society and doing things that endure. So, we are so excited that God has kept us together as a body and 25 years on, we are still relevant in the scheme of things. This year’s celebration will start on Saturday, June 4, with a musical conference featuring some of our members i.e. those in the music department and choir when we started. The programme will also gospel acts such as Nathaniel Bassey, Chioma Jesus, Wale Adenuga, Cobhams Asuquo, and many other guest artistes who will be performing for three hours and it is going to be awesome. The main celebration comes up on Sunday, June 5, which is the Excel celebration service to be ministered by our father in the Lord, Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, who it was his vision to start the Apapa Family up

25years ago. This will take place at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos, by 7.00am. We are expecting some of our members. Last year, we had both the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibajo, who is a member of Apapa Family and the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. We are expecting them again this year with other dignitaries and members from all over the globe because Apapa Family is all over the globe. On the day of the Excel celebration service for the 25year anniversary, there will be free feeding for everyone that comes, there will be free medical checkup and free transport all over Lagos to bring people to the event. What should people expect from Apapa Family after the Excel celebration? We are going to continue with our signature project. Every year, we have a signature project, which is a Community Social Responsibility (CSR) because we are strong on CSR and we believe that churches should be give back to society. So, we have institutionalized some of the things that we are doing. For example, we feed 60,000 people every week in Lagos and this has cost us well over N3billion in the past three years. And that is just an aspect of what we are doing. We have soup kitchens all over Lagos and we want to amp that up by having a food bank. We also have rehabilitation centres. Over the years, we have been doing all kind of things; we have the prison ministry too. What programme does the Apapa family have to encourage the younger generation? We have God’s Children Got Talent’ is for children between the ages of 5-21. We are in Season Six now. We seek to change the face of the lyrics and songs that are out there through this by ensuring that they are songs that edifies, inspires and encourages. Through our record label called, Excel Record Label, every year, we encourage children all over the globe to participate in the talent hunt. It shows on DSTV, Channel 154 and other media houses and online. As part of the celebration, on June 30, we will be having the grand finale of this talent hunt and the winner will go home with N5million. It doesn’t stop there; we also encourage them, mentor them and the musical piece that they do, we wax them and it carries our record label. What has the church done in the area of education? In the sphere of education, our project for this year is to equip 500 public primary school libraries in Lagos State in partnership with the state government. It started last year and we have equipped about 300 schools and believing God that we are going to complete the remaining ones before the celebration.We are a group of people that reach out to the less privileged in the society and we are operating under what we call the Eight Spheres of Spiritual Governance. We make impact on Social; Healthcare; Education; Media; Business and Economy; Art, Culture and Entertainment; Government and Politics; and Sports. It is instructive that we have a professional football club and our women are in the Premier League. We are not only focusing on playing, we are about transforming that space.

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Sunday May 22, 2016

The presence of God in Christianity and Nigeria

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Macaulay Email: profkunlemacaulay@ yahoo.com (08023032698, sms pls)

have been finding it difficult to talk about Christianity without mentioning Nigeria.Jesus said that where two or three people gather in his name, he will be there, so, it is impossible to talk about Christians and Christianity without talking about God. Where Christianity is, definitely God is there, since Christianity is in Nigeria it then confirms that God is here in our great black African country. Many religions are searching for God but in Christianity, God reveals himself. I want my reader to know that you cannot know God but you can know about God. The Bible said, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever…” Deut 29:29. In order to know about God deeply, it will be necessary to study the Bible which I always refer to as the mind of God. In it, we shall read about what God wants us to know and also about records of experiences of men and women who told us that they had seen God in action and heard him speak. When Israelites demanded for a leader apart from God, God told them he would speak through individuals who will interpret his message to them. This is the beginning of prophetic ministry. Many books of the Bible are revelations and historical events in which God was active. These lead to authentic knowledge of God. I am not going into the date, origin or historicity of these books but the presence of God and how his presence can be identified. Sincerely speaking, Bible is the record of the living experiences of a living people who had contact with a living God. God revealed his will by word and deed in a historical situation. This revelation becomes a timeless message to all

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generations of human beings. Only God can speak the truth that is unchanging. The Bible reveals that God created the heavens and the earth, therefore, people do not need to ask whether God exists rather they should talk about his presence and how he can be known. The Bible said that the fool denies God Ps. 14:1. This does not mean that God is non- existent but because the fool decides to live without considering God Ps 10:4. As I said earlier, God discloses himself through revelation. He makes himself the object of human knowledge. In the Old Testament of the Bible, God is considered as the God of experience and not of speculation. The Jews in Judaism experienced God in the sanctuary because they believed that it was where he could be found. God told Moses, “Then have them (Israelites) make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them” Ex. 25:8. This confirms that sanctuary was the only place where men could meet with God. Ark a kind of box that was used in leading Israelites into battle confirmed the presence of God with his people. Theologically, the words used to describe God who created the heavens and earth and makes things work at his command are anthropomorphic. God is “Spirit” and as such cannot have legs, hands and face, as he is described. David in his song said, “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?” Ps. 139:7. In Judaic system, the sacred area of the sanctuary was “holy” because of the presence of God there and to be near the sanctuary was to be close to God. Later, the prophets of Israel taught about the “coming of the God’’ which transformed into the language of an eschatological hope. Prophet Isaiah prophesied that “…the Lord himself will give you a sign. The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel” Is. 7:14 Immanuel means “God with us”. Jesus actually came. He was born in Bethlehem. He grew up and walked in the streets

of Jerusalem. His message was the “Kingdom of God”. God was physically present in Christ and Jesus said that if you have seen me then you have seen my Father. We must share in the thought of God as living and active, real and present in all human life. Jesus told us that God will give us a comforter, Holy Spirit who will be with us and will live in us. Although Jesus came and left but this does not stop God’s activity in the world. Those who believe in Jesus Christ will still confirm the presence of God in them as he directs their lives. God is still creating and sustaining through the power of Holy Spirit in man. It is true that God cannot be physically experienced but those “in Christ” experience his presence daily as they commit themselves to his way of living, his set of values and accept him as their leader or Lord. They know the graciousness of God and experience his peace through Jesus Christ. Nigerian Christians are trained to concentrate on the things of the world hence they lose focus and abandon the God in them. Their mind-set has been corrupted by the teaching of the modern Christian leaders who refuse to prepare people for the coming of Jesus Christ. God’s activity cannot be denied in Nigeria. If God is not present in Nigeria, we would have been consumed by militancy, religious extremism and BokoHaramism. The ceaseless divine energy of God is everywhere in Nigeria lovingly active. We may be experiencing discomfort, the presence of evil which we allow voluntarily and misunderstanding of human situations in Nigeria but sincerely speaking, only a perverse fool, immoral and without understanding will say to himself, “There is no God in Nigeria”. When Nigerians, especially our political and religious leaders are ready to appreciate the presence of God, he will make them exercise his authority over the nation. We must not forget that God created the world including Nigeria. He is active, self revealing and personal.

Nigeria must depend on God who makes all things work according to his will. When God appeared to Moses, he made the bush burn without being consumed – Ex. 3; to rescue Israelites from the hands of powerful Egyptians, he drove back the sea with a strong wind Ex. 14; the story of Job proclaims the majestic monotheism of the only God, maker and sustainer of the whole universe, deliverance and righteousness come from him. God is anxiously waiting for Nigerians to recognize his presence and turn to him. God controls the lips of men and speaks peace and comfort. He can create a new heart, anew soul, a clean heart and a peaceful Nigeria. We need to trust the responsive God who makes and controls all things. Nigerians should stop using politics, religion and tribalism to divide Nigeria. God who created the heavens and earth and all things in the world is one. He used Cyrus who was not a Jew or Israelite to release Israelites from captivity while he said, “With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people…. And I give it to any one I please… now I will hand all your countries over to my servant Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon…. If however any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke I will punish that nation…” Jere. 27:5-8. Please note that Nebuchadnezzar was not a Jew but God called him “My Servant”. We are Nigerians and Nigeria belongs to all of us therefore let us all work for the good of our great country. The future of Christianity and our nation begins with our understanding of the present human situations and the recognition of the presence of God in this nation.

•Prof. Kunle Macaulay is the Director of Studies of United Bible University, Lagos. Phone: 0802 – 303 – 2698; email : profkunlemacaulay@yahoo.com; Twitter. com/Kunle Macaulay1

The works of our hands

he LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settestthine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow(Deuteronomy 28:8&12).

God is very much interested in what you do for a living. The legal means of generating income for yourself is of concern to the Lord, so, He wants to bless it and make you prosper in it. There are majorly two ways of generating income for a living, you may be working as a salary earner or have your own business or better still combining the two. However, the difference between the two is that what you can get as a salary earner has been relatively fixed in respect to your grade and level in your place of work; which is not the case as a business owner. As a salary earner, you cannot be richer than the system that pays you because you only get from the outflow (profit) of the system. But there is no limit to how much you can make as a business owner even as supported by the word of the Lord in Deuteronomy 28:12. What I am saying is simply this, it is the business that you own that is refer to as the work of your hands, the paid job you are doing belong to the one paying you and you cannot refer to this as your own business. When Joseph was working for Potiphar and God bless him for Joseph’s sake all the increase belonged

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to Potiphar not Joseph and also when Jacob was working for Laban all the increase they realised belonged to Laban. Jacob had to start his own business to realise the blessings of God in his own life. So, if you want to enjoy this kind of blessings you must have your own business upon which the word of God rest for increase. Someone may asked, how can I know what to do? I will just mention two ways out of many others; (i) you can pray to God to show you what to do. (ii) you can also make an intelligent observation about your own life, what is that you can do very well that may lead you to what you can do for business and still under that, you can also make a careful observation about your environment to see that services needed in that area and pick on one of them. You may start a business of your own through any of these. However, some may be working so much and realising so little. There may be many reasons to that but I will be addressing

the spiritual aspect of that is this message. There are several ways the evil ones can manipulate a business to yield frustration instead of profit. You need to know there is always a spiritual dimension to any business and that is the reason the unbelievers can go any length to make their business prosper. As a Christian you have to know this and use it more intelligently to your own advantage. Some of the ways theymanipulate business include: • Spiritually closing the door to a business and this may lead to low or no patronage. It is not all the time that you blame the economic situation for your low patronage but sometimes it may have a spiritual undertone. It may be as a result of evil manipulation over your business. • They may also manipulate business opportunities away from you and divert them to some others. You may begin to realise that those people that have been calling you for contract before suddenly stopped and cut off from you, do not take it slightly, it may have been spiritually designed. • Some people are being manipulated to either employ bad workers or do business with bad people. Why do you always have bad partners in your business? You may need to pray seriously for deliverance. • Some businesses are manipulated in such a way that they will be losing vital machines needed for production or their products are just getting spoiled. I have heard about a poultry famer who kept on losing his birds because of evil manipulation. This was not due to poor management but pure demonic manipulation. This manipulation can come in any form

but the main aim of this is to frustrate you and impoverish you so that you will be having setbacks in life instead of progress. This is not to magnify the works of the devil but to open our eyes to the effect of demonic manipulation in a business. However, the solution is what is more important for people suffering such. You need to go to God in serious prayer and put the devil and his agents were they belong. In addition to prayer, doing the following will also connect God to your business and make it impenetrable to the kingdom of darkness. Committing certain portion of what you realised from your business unto God and the service of God. This is one of the ways you can continued to establish God’s presence in your business as a child of God. Be honest in all your dealings. When a Christian is not honest in doing business, God cannot be committed to such a business. You should use just weights and measures. Always ask God for what to do, how to do it and help to do it. God is interested in your business because it is part of your life and destiny. Your business could be a tool to fulfil God’s purpose for your life. So, take it very seriously and do not ignorantly allow the enemy to limit how much you can display the beauty and glory of God. Shalom! Bishop Joshua K. Opayinka Glorious Tabernacle International, Behind AdegbemileCul. Centre, Akure, Ondo State. 08060297831 glorioustabernacle@gmail. com

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Sunday May 22, 2016

Do not be afraid! (2) Miracle Arena with Bishop

Theo Ugochukwu

ast week we discussed how the Lord through His Angel appeared to Zacharias to deliver a message of good tiding to him, telling him not to be afraid for God was about to visit him and his wife, Elizabeth. The message of “Do not be afraid” continues this week. This time God is visiting and talking to a little damsel, Mary. Note here that God cannot visit and deal with anyone without a reason.

For instance, in the case of Zacharias and his wife, Elizabeth, God visited and dealt with them because they were upright and devoted to the services of God. But what attracted God to a little girl like Mary? Most likely, it was because Mary was an undefiled girl, one who had not been contaminated at all. So God saw her as a golden vessel fit for the Lord’s use, hence the sudden and unexpected divine visit to her. Luke 1:29-30 tells us that the Angel of the Lord appeared to Mary, she was

troubled (afraid) and the Angel told her as he told Zacharias, “Do not be afraid”. Why did God visit Mary? Was it to take away reproach from her as He did unto Zacharias and his wife? No! Mary being a little girl had no reproach to take away. Life was going on well for her. Nothing was biting her yet. She was in the mood of getting married to Joseph, a man from the Jewish upper class family, the family of David. Therefore, if Mary was bothered about anything at all, it was about her intending marriage and the follow-up honeymoon with her beloved Joseph. Definitely, Mary was not in her wildest imagination thinking of God’s visitation to her. Therefore, when the Angel of God came to her she was afraid. And the Angel of God quickly calmed her down, saying “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God”. Earlier in Luke 1:28, the Angel of God told Mary, “Rejoice, highly favoured one, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women”. I can see a Mary reading this message. If you are the one, then God is telling you now through me that you should rejoice, ‘highly favoured one’. As the Angel said to Mary, I am now saying to you

that you are highly favoured, the Lord is with you and that blessed are you in your family, community, country and in the whole world. God is saying that the manifestations of this divine favour will be so great that you will have cause to be afraid. And that like little Mary, you will ask yourself, ‘why me?’ And people of all generations will reckon with you and call you blessed. When you suddenly find yourself in such an unimaginable glorious situation, do not be afraid. You should not be afraid when the heavenly glory suddenly overtakes you because the Hand of the Lord is in it and so the glory will not ruin your life but will rather announce you and make you the man or woman of the moment, a household name across the nations of the world. Remember that the Bible says “Nations shall call you blessed”. This is exactly what happened to Mary when God visited her. Hear Mary in Luke 1:48, “For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed”. By the reason of the anointing, this shall be your portion. God will pay you a sudden visit this year which like Mary will change your social status. Note

that Mary was nothing but a little girl in her village whom nobody really reckoned with. But when the Lord visited her things changed for the best for her. She became a girl blessed amongst women and not amongst girls. This implies that God’s visitation to her automatically moved her from the status of a girl to the status of a woman. Again, God’s visitation to her bestowed unto her a blessing that all generations and not her generation alone will hear and reckon with. And this will be your portion. Get ready child of God to receive God’s divine visitation like Mary. God bless you as you stay in touch with us next week in continuation of this same topic. I love this God! •For more information, contact: Bishop Theo Ugochukwu – General Overseer, Miracle Assembly Bible Church, a.k.a. The City of Joy, 80, Ajose Street, Mende, Maryland, Lagos; Tel: 08033461482. Email: bishopgracemiracle@ ymail.com

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Nigerians urged to imbibe holiness

…as Anglican Communion ends 33rd synod

igerians have been urged to imbibe holiness as a way of life and Christians expected to return back to the traditions of the early Church as laid down by the Apostles in fellowship, prayer, as well as giving pride of place to the Word of God.

This charge was given in a communiqué presented at the end of the 33rd Synod of the Diocese of Lagos, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion tagged “The Marks of the Church”, presided over by the Most Revd. (Dr.) Ephraim A. Ademowo, Diocesan Bishop of Lagos and Dean Emeritus, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion). Synod recognized that the Marks of the Church to include preaching of the Word, prayer, fasting, evangelism, fellowship, worship and breaking of bread, as it enjoined Christians to imbibe these practices. It also emphasized the need for citizens to imbibe holiness as way of life as the Creator is Holy. It commended the Executive Governor of Lagos State; Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode for his appearance at Synod and sustained giant strides in infrastructural development. It took cognizance of the anti-corruption measures embarked on by the Federal Government and charges it to intensify the effort being made until corruption is drastically reduced to the barest minimum possible in Nigeria. Showing concern at the economic downturn of the country, it urged government at all level to rapidly deploy more resources to agriculture and to provide incentives that would make it attractive to the teeming populace especially the youths. It claimed that ad-

herence to biblical principles of honesty, contentment, fairness, and reward for hard work remain the panacea for solving the economic problems of the country. Speaking on the current state of the nation’s finances, and inability of states to pay salaries of workers despite the bailout package provided by the Federal Government, Synod expressed deep concern over the mass unemployment of youths and loss of jobs, as it called on the attention of government on the need for job creation. While sympathizing with victims of terrorism and violent crimes including those recently murdered by suspected herdsmen, Synod demanded that serious measures be taken to apprehend the perpetrators and bring them to justice. It also emphasized that measures be put in place to stem this unwholesome tide. Synod showed concern over the report of cattle rearers who were found with sophisticated weapons as it urged government to commission a security team to dispossess them of the weapons and monitor them closely with the aim of preventing a re-occurrence of the mayhem already recorded. Condemning plans by the Kaduna State Government aimed at to demolishing the historic St. George’s Anglican Cathedral, Sabon Gari, Synod decried the proposed bill to replace the subsisting Preaching Law, aimed at censoring and marginalizing Christian’s rights to worship and practice evangelism. Synod expressed deep appreciation to God and all the people He used to secure the release of the kidnapped students of Babington Ma-

caulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos. Taking cognizance of the provision of Section 14 (2) (b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 Synod urged government at all levels to ensure life and property protection, as well as creating an enabling environment for meaningful economic activities that will guarantee the well-being of the people. Urging concerted action by stakeholders to bring the perennial scarcity of petroleum products under control, Synod appreciated efforts of the Federal Government for beaming its searchlight on all sectors of the economy in the course of which some shocking revelations were made. It enjoined Government not to relent in its efforts until crime is made totally unattractive in the country. Expressing concern on the distractions that the National Law Making exercise has suffered, Synod called on the National Assembly to settle down to its constitutional duties of law-making that will impact positively on the country. Showing disapproval on delay in passing and signing into law of the 2016 Appropriation Act, Synod advised executive and legislative arms of Government to avoid a repeat of this to ensure a virile and prosperous economy. Synod noted that incessant power failure has been the bane of economic progress and development of the Nation and calls for urgent, focused and radical upgrading of energy generation, distribution and transmission facilities throughout the country. Synod recommends that Government should create an

enabling environment that encourages private participation in the generation and distribution of alternative source of power, such as solar, wind and waste-bio-gas. Synod charged parents to encourage and promote morality among young people by keeping their intimacy away from impressionable young ones, to help reduce the level of immoral conduct and improper sexual behaviour such as rape, assault and other social vices in our society. The Synod expressed concern over the increasing human activities that impact the climate negatively and encouraged relevant government agencies to initiate environmental friendly activities including tree planting, reduction of tree felling, elimination of bush burning, environmental pollution, recycling of recyclable materials, and turning waste to wealth. Identifying with the policy of the Federal Government directing employees not to travel abroad for medical treatment at expense of the government, Synod challenged government t to show greater commitment to the enhancement of the country’s health care facilities. Those present at the official opening ceremony included the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope Adefulire, the Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Samuel Emeka K. Uche, Archbishops, Bishops, and a host of dignitaries from across the country.

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Ashflame storms airwaves with Sekosi

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udding afro-pop artiste Olugbenga Samuel a.k.a Ashflame is set to stake his claim on the very competitive Nigerian music scene with his hot new single, ‘Sekosi’. Blessed with raw stage energy and vocal prowess, the talented act who was born into a family of music lovers has been actively honing his musical skills since he turned 18 and later decided to go professional at the age of 23. Ashflame, who is signed a music contract with international platform, Desbor Heartbeat Empire (D.H.B.E) took his musical career to the next level when he officially dropped his much anticipated debut single titled ‘Sekosi’ on the 5th of May, 2016, to the critical acclaim of industry critics and music buffs. Throwing more light onto himself and his kind of music, Ashflame who says he has a rich repertoire of songs also informs that music is a means of communication for him. “I am an expressive person and I have found a veritable tool to express myself, through my passion which is music. I have a serious thing for music such that, I had been toying with the idea of taking up music as a profession for a very long time before I de-

cided to take it up officially at the age of 23. “But before then, I had always followed and allowed myself to be influenced by great musicians like George Benson and Fela Anikulapo Kuti. I love Jazz too, and you can also find traces of it in most, if not all of my songs. Ashflame who looks forward to giving back to society when he becomes and established artiste says he hopes to serve as a role model and an inspiration to youths through dropping conscious and inspirational songs and not just commercial tracks. “I hope to serve as an inspiration and a role model to youths in Nigeria as I gradually grow my young career in music. My record label has been there for me all this while and they are the backbone and heartbeat that makes me aspire and dream to become the best I can be as an artiste. “The label owner Mr. Desmond Edobor understands the music terrain and he is using his resources to help build a strong career for me in the music industry. The most inspiring part of it is that, on the Desbor platform, there are other talented artistes lining-up to storm the music scene after me.” Ashflame added.

Uche Elendu welcomes second child after 7 years

Uche Elendu

even years after she had her first child, Nollywood actress Uche Elendu has been delivered of a baby girl. The movie star delivered a baby girl at West Houston Medical Centre in Houston, Texas. The actress was full of gratitude to God for the bundle of joy. Uche Elendu who kept her pregnancy a secret, recently came back to social media to break the news and release some beautiful pictures of her baby shower organized by her close friends. The actress got married to her Owerri-based billionaire husband, Mr Igweanyi popularly known as Nku nine years ago. The movie star has a grown up daughter, Delphine Walter. Elendu had taken a break from the movie industry to focus on her family and the Owerri-based movie star in 2015, returned to produce a hit movie titled ‘Enemy At The Gate’ and has ever since remained in the movie industry. Amidst several rumours that Elendu relocated to Lagos because of marital crisis, the thespian revealed that the main reason, she moved to Lagos was her acting career and also because she needed a change of environment. Elendu informed that, she was happy with her marriage and her husband had been her friend and the pillar of her strength so far.

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Nonso Diobi recuperates from stomach surgery

ecently, actor, Nonso Diobi received a lot of goodwill messages from fans after disclosing he was undergoing a major surgery at Maitama District Hospital, Abuja. He had uploaded a picture of himself in the theatre with a message on how his friends and colleagues have abandoned him at a time he needed them the most. Reports have it that, Nonso, who captivated movie fans had been discharged and he is recuperating. Hope Nonso gets back on set and shows the stuff he’s made of even as the industry gets more competitive.

Mr. 2Kay releases Ladder

rafton Records artiste, Mr 2Kay, releases ‘Ladder’, the second single off his ‘Count It All Joy’ EP released in February. The track, now made available for free download, was produced by Cordless and mixed and mastered by Brain. Ladder is a very narrative and relatable song. Mr 2Kay gives life advice using his unique storytelling style. It is an infectious Highlife tune that talks about the realities of life. The song tells different stories highlighting the need for one to never forget his/ her humble beginnings. In classic 2Kay style, the song is as danceable as it is introspective, and it comes with a message.

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Seyi Shay named brand ambassador for Samsson

Omoni

Seyi

op female superstar Seyi Shay has done it again! The “Pack & Go” crooner yesterday sealed a deal with Middle East is telecoms company Samsson, to become an ambassador for the brand. Samsson who are service providers for Etisalat & Cloud 9, hosted Seyi Shay at their headquarters in Lagos where the contract was signed and celebrations followed. Seyi Shay was signed on as the official celebrity for the “Cloud 9 Celebrity Hangout” which is a service provided by Samsson for Etisalat. She will be hanging out with one fan every month; the lucky fan will be selected after answering a series of questions about Seyi Shay correctly and will get to hang out with Seyi Shay for 30 minutes whereever she is on a chosen day. They will take pictures together and Seyi Shay will present a special gift to this lucky fan. Instructions for how subscribers can participate will be sent out by the network soon. This deal sees the ties between Seyi Shay and Etisalat bond even stronger as she signs on to yet another affiliate of the telecoms giants.

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Akay unveils Parachute video

ne of Nigerian finest musician Oshodi Akinola popularly known by his fans as Akay, has just released the video of his long awaited single “Parachute”. The video which was directed by Adasa Cookey, shows a glimpse of professionalism in the production. The video talks about a wealthy young man who falls in love with a maid he met in a hotel during his wedding preparation to his very ill-mannered celebrity girlfriend. This visual by square ball will keep you entertained from inception to the end. According to Akay “When

I wrote ‘Parachute’, I felt so many girls had been lied to in the past and needed songs of reassurance. So the inspiration came from that thought. I have been amazed at the response since its release.” The graduate of Lagos state university also speaks about what really inspires him to sing “I had a pretty exciting musical experience while growing up, my dad had a library of amazing artistes from Micheal Jackson, to Lionel Richie and the rest. So I grew up listening to these artists. Every now and then my father would play them back when he got back from work or during weekends

when he was home. Back then one of my favourite artists was Lionel Richie” he said Today Akay pursues a music career of his own. Boasting a diverse vocal range his newest track ‘Parachute’ is an ode to woman and love. The upbeat rhythm finely compliment the catchy romantic lyrics from the chorus, “I need a parachute because I dey fall for your love”. The beach side video for ‘Parachute’ was directed by Adasa Cookey who was behind Burna Boy’s ‘Like to Party’ and Mavin’s ‘Adobi’ that both reflect the paradisiacal romanticism cinematography in Akay’s latest visual.

he is among the latest to join the bandwagon of bloggers. But anything actress and movie producer cum director puts her hand into becomes successful. Just the likes of Linda Ikeji is raking in millions of naira from blogging, Omoni Oboli also opened her blog to educate and inform her fans on things in the industry about her and her brand. The ‘Being Mrs Elliot’ and ‘1st Lady’ movie producer is sure to make something great out of this. The mother of three sons has been an award winning actress having shown her role interpretation skills in movies like Figurine, Anchor Baby and now FIFTY. The actress turned blogger now runs omonioboliblog.com.

African Union to unveil AFRIMA 2016 calendar in Gambia

he African Union Commission (AUC) will unveil this year’s programs and calendar of the annual continental awards, All Africa Music Awards tagged “AFRIMA 3.0” at an AUC-AFRIMA music/cultural and media conference scheduled to hold on May 21-25 during the commemoration of the 10th African Union Youth Charter in Banjul, Gambia.

Simi dazzles in new film igned to X3M Music label, Simi’s meteoric rise in the industry emphasises the label’s reputation in building music superstars. Again, Simi wows her fans with her artistic talents in the new music video of ‘Love Don’t Care’. Released this year, on Valentine’s Day precisely, the love ballad speaks of a love that soars above tribal and social prejudices. Since its release, the ballad has received massive airplays due to its compelling narrative and beautiful harmony of the traditional instrumentals. Known for her comedic storytelling lines with evocative messages, Simi showcased her artistic taste in this video. The use of space and African prints in the video perfectly balances the folktale imagery of the song. The video starts with Simi lying on a bed. Another character playing her mother is also seated on the bed making a call while Simi beautifully sings. The video follows similar narratives, carefully making the characters glued to their part without direct communication with the singer. The video ends with Simi returning to her bed. Simi also dazzled her fans with her ballet dance steps, proving once more that she is multi-talented. Directed by Clarence Peters, the video is subtly embellished with iconic images of Nigeria’s history, reminding us that in our diversity lies our unity.

Omoni Oboli turns blogger

Akay

At the event, the AUC and the international Committee will reveal the dates and timelines for submission of entry and Guidelines, adjudication process, public voting and nominees’ announcement for the 2016 edition of the awards as well as dates for this year’s main AFRIMA Award ceremonies. In a letter of invitation addressed to AFRIMA delegates from the African Union Commission (AUC) signed by Dr Marie-Goretii Harakeye, the Acting Director of Social Affairs, it states that the conference will bring together award winning music stars, creative/entertainment industry stakeholders, cultural enthusiasts government officials, corporate sponsors, and media practitioners among others. There will also be a robust and intellectual session on the theme: “Using Music, Culture and Entertainment as Tools for a New Africa”. It will be a forum for discussion on how to engage the values and spirit of Pan-Africanism for greater collaborations in culture and music for sustainable development, in line with the African Union cultural agenda for peace, integration, democracy, economic advancement and social development. The 10th African Union Youth Charter Conference featuring a high level roundtable and intergenerational dialogue and cultural presentations will witness a convergence of participants including President, Islamic Republic of Gambia, His Excellency, Sheikh (Dr.) Yahya Jammeh Babili Mansa; Vice President Dr. Isatou NjieSaidy; Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon. Alieu K. Jammeh; Commissioner for Social Affairs, Africa Union Commission, Dr. Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko; and President, Pan African Youth Union, Ms. Francine Muyumba. Others include Director, Culture Division, Africa Union Commission, Ms Angela Martins, Chief Brand Strategist, PRM Africa and President/Executive Producer, AFRIMA, Mr. Mike Dada; members of the International Committee of AFRIMA; Africa Union Commission executives, AFRIMA 2015 award winners representatives that include Award Winner in the Best Collaboration category in 2015, AKA (South Africa); Revelation of the African Continent, Adekunle Gold (Nigeria); Best African Rock, M’vula (Angola); Best Artiste in African Reggae, Ragga and Dancehall, Stoneboy (Ghana); Best Female Artiste in Eastern Africa, Tsedenia (Ethiopia); Best Artiste in North Africa, Ahmed Sultan (Morocco), and Best Artiste in Central Africa, Stanley Enow (Cameroon) among others. Speaking on the event, AFRIMA boss, Mike Dada said: “The cultural and media conference organized by the African Union Commission and AFRIMA holding during the 10th African Youth Charter in Banjul is to provide a platform for music practitioners, recording artistes, cultural experts, policy makers, corporate sponsors and media practitioners working in the creative and culture sectors to interface within Africa’s rapidly evolving music scene and contribute to its transformation narratives.”

From the Pulpit

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with Dr. David

Oyedepo

e are in the latter days, the era of supernatural favour in the body of Christ. As a result, there shall be an unusual release of supernatural favour in the church of Christ before Jesus returns. Also, the church will begin to possess the land and wherever the soles of our feet shall tread upon shall be given to us. As it is written: We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them (Psalms 44:13; see also Psalms 102:13-15;Haggai 2:3-9).

What entitles us to favour? v Redemption:Redemption is a product of favour. It is written: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). Grace, which also means favour, is the heritage of the redeemed and everyone that is born again is listed among God’s beloved.As it is written: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6; see also 2 Corinthians 5:21). ‘Beloved’ here means to be favoured or a favourite. That means every child

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Tioluwani Email: letsgobible@gmail.com

etting married is one of the biggest decisions you will ever make. If marriage is a lifetime commitment, then why not have a “trial run” before making it official? More than 50 percent of couples do exactly that. In fact, living together before marriage is becoming increasingly common, even among Christian couples. They reason that living together before marriage just makes sense. This is particularly a strong argument for those who are hesitant about a lifetime commitment. Having witnessed the pain divorce creates in many families, they know that a fairy tale wedding in a packed church doesn’t guarantee happily-ever-after ending. Dr. Juli Slattery To answer this, If your goal is to someday have a loving, stable relationship, living together before marriage is far more likely to sabotage life-long intimacy than be a stepping stone for it. Here are a few reasons why cohabitation isn’t the wisest decision. 1. What the Research Says:In spite of those who say cohabitation is a wise test drive, the research indicates that living together before marriage may actually increase your risk for divorce in the future. Many experts believe that the “squishy” approach toward commitment represented by cohabitation sets

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Unlocking the Supernatural through Favour!

of God is God’s favourite on the earth. Thus, we have our roots in divine favour by redemption. The Bible says: For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield (Psalms 5:12). As a result, everything about our lives attracts favour. v The ‘church in the wilderness’ was cladded with favour: The ‘Church in the wilderness’ (the Israelites) was a highly favoured and struggle-free church. The Bible records: This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us (Acts 7:38). During the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness for forty years, they experienced the tangibility of favour. They enjoyed manna twice daily and the Bible says that: Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years (Deuteronomy 8:4). There is nothing in the Old Testament that can compare to what is available to us in the New Testament. If the church in the wilderness was that favoured, how much more shall the church of the Living God bought by the Blood of Jesus be favoured. Furthermore, concerning the Israelites, God said: And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty (Exodus 3:21; see also Exodus 12:36). God is committed to giving His people favour and we are privileged to be His people by redemption. Hence, we are entitled to divine favour.

v The church in the upper room enjoyed favour: As it is written: Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved (Acts 2:47). Favour was the identity of the first church. That means the church of Christ is ordained to swim in favour. Furthermore, Jesus Christ, the Head of the church was robed with favour. The Bible says: And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man (Luke 2:52). Jesus said:As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world (John 17:18). We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. That means whatever pertains to Christ pertains to us. Thus, we are highly favoured individuals (Romans 8:17). What, then, is in Favour? • Favour terminates tears: Favour turns our tears into testimonies. It is written: For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled (Psalms 30:5-7). It is favour in a man’s life that defines the quality of his life. • Favour is the cure for man’s struggles: Joseph didn’t struggle; favour positioned him from one level to another (Psalms 105:17-22). • Prosperity: And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that

the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand (Genesis 39:2-4).It is impossible to secure favour with God and not have favour with man. How ver, we However, we must understand that without redemption, we cannot access this heaven’s order of favour. Are you born again? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord? If you haven’t, you can do so as you say this prayer: “Lord Jesus, I come to You today. I am a sinner. Forgive me of my sins. Cleanse me with Your precious Blood. Deliver me from sin and satan to serve the Living God. Today, I accept You as my Lord and Saviour. Thank You Jesus for saving me! Now I know I am born again!” For further reading, please get my books: Wisdom that Works, Walking in Wisdom, All you need to have all your needs met, Winning Wisdom and Excellency of Wisdom. I will conclude this teaching next week. I invite you to come and fellowship with us at the Faith Tabernacle, Canaan Land, Ota, the covenant home of Winners. We have four services on Sundays, holding at 6:00 a.m., 7:50 a.m., 9:40 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. respectively. I know this teaching has blessed you. Write and share your testimony with me through: Faith Tabernacle, Canaan Land, Ota, P.M.B. 21688, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; or call 7747546-8; or E-mail: feedback@lfcww.org

Can cohabitation be used as a test-run for marriage? a couple up for bailing on marriage when things get difficult. Holding sexual fidelity and the marriage covenant as sacred before God impacts your willingness to work through the challenges of life together. Research also indicates that couples living together are more likely to experience sexual unfaithfulness, domestic violence, and higher levels of relational unhappiness. If you are living with your boyfriend with the hope to avoid heartbreak, you are likely setting yourself up for failure. 2. Cohabitation Is Intimacy on a Man’s Terms:Glenn Stanton, an author believes strongly that the growing trend toward cohabitation is putting women at risk. While women have great power in the marriage relationship, they have relatively little leverage as a live-in. Stanton argues that cohabitation puts men in the driver’s seat. They get what they want (sex and companionship) without giving what they fear (commitment). To a large degree, men are convinced to commit to marriage because they long for companionship and a sexual partner. When a woman makes marriage the condition for giving herself to a man, she may lose a guy who has no interest in commitment, but she will challenge a “good man” to take the step of a marriage covenant. Feminists tout that cohabitation gives women freedom and independence rather than being tied to a man. However, women are far more likely to flourish economically and emotionally within the stability of marriage.

3. Cohabitation Is Taking Yourself out of God’s Will:There is nothing to fear more than being out of God’s will. There is enough pain and devastation in this world to know that you need God—every hour of every day, his wisdom and comfort. There is tremendous comfort knowing that you can cry out to God and trust him to give you wisdom no matter what comes your way. Even whkno you don’t feel His presence, just know that he is there. Why? Because He has promised that He will draw near to us when we draw near to Him. Access to God’s wisdom and comfort is largely dependent upon our willingness to abide in him—to walk in obedience. “So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin,” 1John 1:6–7 says. By choosing to ignore God’s teaching on marriage and sexuality, you are electing to walk in darkness and to do life on your own terms. You can’t claim the rich promises of God while living in stubborn rebellion against his expressed will for you. By living with your boyfriend, you are rejecting the fellowship of God. Romance, marriage, sex, family—these are complicated and dangerous aspects of life. Don’t reject the Counselor who can give you the wisdom and strength to navigate them well. Now What?

Maybe you are convinced that a “test run” is a bad idea, but you’re reading this article snuggled up against your live-in boyfriend. Now what? Pressing the issue of marriage or moving out now would be more complicated than an episode of Lost. The good news is that God is a master at working out messes when we bring them to him, for Jesus says to the adulterous woman in , “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more” (NASB). Taking a stand to be sexually pure when you’ve already crossed that line takes a step of faith. Frankly, it means that you might lose your boyfriend. It means that you may have to temporarily create an earthquake in your life. The ground that seemed steady will shift. But it’s better to bring in correction now for a better future than to leave on a situation that will lead to total destruction. Jesus told a story in Matthew about building a house—one built on the sand and the other on the rock. Both houses looked great when the weather was calm. But when the storms came, the house on the sand crumbled while the one built on the rock stood. Please consider that you are building a house. The decorations and the style are negotiable. But the foundation you choose is absolutely critical. •You can send in your QUESTIONS and the Holy Spirit will be set to give you the ANSWERS. Barr. (Mrs.) Favour Tioluwani Tel: 08050272259 or 07062738213. Email: letsgobible@gmail.com

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Hell is real with Pastor S. A.

Asha

he Bible is full of wonderful promises, but perhaps the most wonderful of all is this: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). There are many things we do not know about what heaven will be like, because it is beyond our ability to comprehend. But one thing we can be sure of is that it will fulfill our greatest longings, it will dazzle us with its beauty, it will obliterate our greatest problems with its power and splendor, it will be greater than anything we could imagine or dream, it will be a place where love and joy will reign unspoiled. God is busy preparing all of this for us. For the last two weekends we have been busy keeping our granddaughters. Last week it was Lisa and Jeremy’s daughters while they led the youth retreat. This weekend it is our oldest daughter’s children as she and her husband are away on a combination business and getaway trip. In preparation for their coming, we stocked up on ice cream, cookies and candy. Sue bought finger paints and little plastic smocks. She went to the Salvation Army and bought dress up clothes for the girls to play in. I bought a chil-

Priesthood House with Pastor Bola

Bello

“ n our previous discussion, we highlighted

the draconic and wicked activities of antiChrist, and his determination to stop the followers of Christ from spreading the message of the kingdom.

The shrewdness and resourcefulness of anti-Christ would endear several people and anti-Christ would flatter many into covenant of allegiance and submission. His brutality against the saints of Christ who stands firm and resolute to affirm the supremacy and Lordship of Christ would further aggravate killings and maiming of the faithful saints. Anti-Christ will proclaim himself as God and a Deity to man and this will elicit resistance and, several people will rise up against such offensive statement. The epic centre of these events, the Middle East, will witness terrible unrest and almost all the nations of the earth will gang up against the nation of Israel in battle. This gang up will be based upon the resolute stand of the Jews with some faithful believers to challenge the false claim of anti-Christ, and they would fight him to a standstill. We must remind ourselves of this, all that is and all that is coming to be is a repetition of what has previously being. “Is there anything whereof it may be said, see, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us” (Eccl. 1:10). In other words, what will take place is the reality of what had previously happened in the past. The angelic hosts under the leadership of Michael had previously warred against Satan, and Satan was cast

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A New Heaven and a New Earth dren’s video, and Sue planned some small cooking projects for them. We made all kinds of preparations to make their time with us memorable and enjoyable. Why did we do all that? We did it because we love our grandchildren and want the best for them. The point is, if we make those kinds of preparations for our grandchildren’s visit, how much more does a God of love prepare for the time his children will come to his eternal home. The Bible says, “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:11). Jesus said, “I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am” (John 14:2-3). Unfortunately, heaven has met with bad press by those who do not understand what God has prepared for those who love him. People see heaven as sitting on a cloud wearing a halo, while little angels play harps as they float through the heavens. Others see it as an unending church service, or singing hymns for all eternity. Some think of it as a sort of a celestial retirement city. It all seems like an apparition — so unreal. No wonder so many people see heaven as a place of numbing boredom, or secretly say to themselves, “Is that all there is?” There is so much that could be said about heaven, but first let me say that: Heaven will be real. Heaven will not be some ethereal existence where we float about as spirits without bodies. Why would God take the trouble to create a new earth if there was not going to be anyone to live on it? Why would we be given new bodies if we

were not going to live in a material world? It is my understanding of Scripture that we were originally created to live as earth dwellers in a material world. Adam and Eve were not placed on a cloud, but on the earth. Heaven will be Eden restored. We have been living east of Eden since Adam and Eve sinned, but the day will come when the original paradise God intended us to be a part of will be restored. The new Jerusalem is not floating in space, but comes down to earth. The Bible contains this promise concerning the earth: “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God” (Romans 8:19-21). Heaven will be a real place with real, meaningful and rewarding work for us to do. Heaven will be the fulfillment of what we pray in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” The Bible says, “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. . . . But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness” (2 Peter 3:10,13). The old earth will pass away and God will create a new earth which will be the home of righteousness. Dallas Willard assures us that “The life we now have as the persons we now are will continue in the universe in which we now exist.” It will not be a strange apparition, but the

real world we have known, only new and better. T. S. Elliot wrote: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. If this fallen world in all of its brokenness can be so wonderful, what must heaven be like? So here is the second truth about heaven: Heaven will be right. It will be a place of righteousness, or right-ness. All the wrongs of the world will be made right. It will be a place where everything evil is absent, and everything good is present; everything sad will be gone, and only joy will exist; everything disappointing will disappear, and everything exciting will appear; everything depressing will be gone, and everything hopeful will come; everything violent and hateful will be gone, and everything born of love will be prevail; every unfaithfulness will be in the past, and steadfast loyalty will be present; everything detestable will be gone, and everything desirable will abide with us; every sickness will be gone, and complete wholeness will take over our lives; every struggle, frustration and failure will be over, and only success will be possible. “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4). Every wrong done to you in this world will be made right. Every injustice will meet with justice. Every sorrow will be reversed, and joy will wash over you like a waterfall. Continued next week

Church as God designed it – The harvest of the last day (18) out of the heaven unto the earth. “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceives the whole world,…(Rev. 12:7-9). This shall be the nature of the battle of the end time called the Armageddon. It’s warfare between the terrestrial and the spirits. Yes! The terrestrial will confront the spirits in warfare! We have seen such situation again and again. Jacob being a terrestrial being warred against the celestial being and prevailed was a rehearsal of what to come. As Jacob prevailed, so shall the soldiers of Christ will prevail against the dragon and her anti-Christ. This is what David said about such epoch fight; “The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies” (Psalm 110:2). Saints are the rod the strength of the Lord in this earth. The terrestrial men, who have obtained eternal life, would be able to align with the celestial beings, which will descend from heaven for this great onslaught. It shall be like the day of Deborah, the Prophetess, and the wife of Lapidoth. She was helped by the celestial bodies to defeat Sisera, the replicate of Satan. The concept of Armageddon is derived from Hebrew word “har” meaning mountain. “Magedon” implies Megiddo, the biblical meaning is “where many battles were fought”. The battle between Israel and Sisera was at Megiddo (Jud. 5:19). It was in this same place a fatal struggle between Josiah and Pharaoh-necho, the king of Egypt and Josiah slew the king of Egypt at Meggido (11 Kings. 23:29). There is therefore an apocalyptic event which is the destiny of the saints in which the soldiers of Christ will Marshall in array against Satan and his cohorts. I can feel the excitement in the air. Fighting alongside with the host of

Christ is fun, it is exciting and there cannot be any better experience than that. In this warfare, no loss, no hurt and no struggle, all is a one off experience and without canal weapon. It is a battle of words and knowledge. Saints should take note of this; the present trial, struggle, temptation and experiment bring an eternal weight of glory. No soldiers is sent to the battle without being equipped, trained and without tasking exercise. “For our light affliction, which but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (11 Cor. 4:17). The tool of war however, is a reconfiguration and alignment of our position with the scriptures. We must not continue to believe the lies and move with falsehood. Our present sense of escape mentality must change to that of soldier prepared for war. Our enlistment into the body of Christ is for warfare and battle against the Satan. As angels rose in heaven to the challenge, and defeated Satan so shall the saints of the earth rise up to the challenge and dethrone this old dragon. The advantage we have over the Satan is the support of the angelic host descending with the Lord of hosts. The destruction of that terrible day would be none in history. It would be more disastrous than the day of Deborah when river Kishon washed away several deaths. Hitler war would be a child play in compares. However, winning this battle comes with a caveat. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony: and they loved not their lives unto death” (Rev. 12:11). This was obvious experience of the angels who confronted the treachery of Satan in heaven. Three principal rules of engagement before they can overcome. The first rule is the blood of the Lamb. Blood obviously bespeak life; while lamb is a figure of Jesus sacrifice. In other words, willingness to forfeit one’s life after the order of Christ must be our experience before we can overcome Satan. This was pen down for the example of the army of Christ

who will be involved in this battle. The selection would be based on those who can make sacrifice, those who can lay down own life and those who are ready to take risk for the purpose of the kingdom of Christ on earth. The second principle is the testimony of the faith of the son of God. Such testimony exceeds the testimony to acquire things but testimony that despise the threat of death and uphold the name of Christ in spite of dreadful situation. Of course the anti-Christ will demand a denial of the name of Christ from the faithful followers; and only those who uphold Jesus lordship, confession of his supremacy, son-ship and testimony of his resurrection to the end, will overcome. The third rule of engagement is preparation to die for the course of the kingdom of Christ. The angels who engaged Satan in the first celestial warfare were prepared to die for God. People like Apostle Paul saw death and was ready to embrace it for the furtherance of the gospel. Such men are those who will be raised and recruited for the battle of Armageddon. This is the more reason why Church must align and begin to train saints, equip and prepare them for the coming confrontation. This warfare is not a carnal one but mighty through Christ, in which stronghold can be uprooted. We desire more messages that change our mentality from mortal to immortal. Messages that will give us sense of pilgrimage and journey to arrive to a point of eternity, rather than the message of convenience. This is the design and the architectural plan of Christ for Church. Awake, all that are slumbering and work the walk of righteousness for this day is at hand. We will continue with this discuss next week. Do worship with us at Power and Glory Tabernacle, FUTA South Gate beside Solab Hotel, Akure, you will be glad you do. God bless you and keep you. Shallom.

•Pastor Bola Bello – The Priesthood House, bolabelo@gmail.com 08033704564

From the Pulpit

Sunday May 22, 2016

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Nigerian singer, Korede Bello, came up with a hit song in Pidgin English titled: “God Win.” Permit me to glean portions of it. He insists that no matter what happens to you, “na God win!” Ordinary things like waking up, paying your rent, getting alert, passing exams, escaping robbery, buying a vehicle, and “selling market,” “na God win!” When enemies conspire to make you fail or kill your joy, “na God win!” He avers: “Anything dem do, na God win! Oh, na God win! Oh, na God win oh! God go win oh. My God go win oh. My Lord go win oh.”

Apostle Paul avows: “Now thanks to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place” (2 Cor 2:14). God wins in all the battles in the lives of His faithful children. When you are in Christ, all the battles in your life are the battles of the “gods.” Your Almighty God wins! “Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him” (Rev 12:7-9). This was how Satan rebelled in heaven and there was no place for him there anymore. God wins! Satan came to this earth with a third of heavenly angels who became demonic agents. He became “the accuser of our

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Reasons why God have not delivered many from their bondages 1) Many have chosen to complain to people around them instead of reporting their matters to God through prayers. 2) Many are seeking help from wrong places, there by aggravating their situations. 3) Many are seeking for the man of God who has greater anointing instead of seeking the face of God and his mercies. 4) Many have become church prostitutes, they run from one altar to another seeking solution of their problems, they do not care whether such altars has the presence of God or not. Majority of them have in this manner entered into greater problem than the one they had before, thereby bringing more loads upon themselves. 5) The Bible says, signs and wonders shall follow them that believe. Those who believe their prophets and put their trust upon God. Provided they are sure that the altar where they worship carries the glory of God. But instead of them to believe God where they are, they run after signs, wonder, prophesizes, visions, thereby making their situations worse than before. 6) Those who go for deliverance prayers, but refuse to confess and forsake their besetting sins. 7) Those who have the property of the devil in their possession and refuse to deliver it back to the devil.

brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night” (Rev 12:10). Thus ensued the great conflict between light and darkness, good and evil, God and Satan, truth and error. This great controversy occurs on the individual human level in each heart as both forces battle for supremacy. The good news is that God wins! He has won. He wins. He forever wins! Just surrender to Him! God gave Joseph dreams of victory. He told his parents and they rebuked him sharply. He told his brothers who became jealous of him, hated him, and sold him (Gen 37). Joseph went from the pit to Portiphar’s house before landing in prison, but God wins! Pharaoh later sent for Joseph and made him the Prime Minister over Egypt because God wins (Gen 41)! All this drama orchestrated for God to preserve the seed of Abraham from extinction in time of famine and incubate and preserve the nation of Israel (Gen 46). The Egyptians challenged the God of Israel, as represented by Moses and Aaron. God answered by sending ten plagues upon the Egyptians to the total exclusion of the Israelites. God win! (Exod 7-12). The Egyptians pursued and confronted Israelites at the Red Sea. While the Israelites crossed over on dry land, the corpses of the Egyptians and their horses were washed off the sea (Exod 14). God wins! During their wilderness sojourn, God cooled them from the scorching heat with the “Thermocool” of the Pillar of cloud and provided the “home heating system” of the Pillar of fire by night (Exod 13:21). That was their compass and navigator and “GPS” throughout (Num 9:15-23). God win! As militarily untrained as the Israelite people were, God remained their war General who never lost any battle (Num 21).

God wins! Even the machinations of their enemies were turned into their blessings, because God wins (Num 23-24). Our God is mighty in our battles as the Jehovah-Nissi, The Lord Our Banner (Exod 17:15-16). Gideon tore down the altar of Baal and erected God’s altar in its place to the wrathful reactions of his townsmen. His father defended him: “let Baal plead against him;” but my God wins (Judges 6:23-32). The Ark of God was the symbol of God’s strength and presence among the Israelites. It was the symbol and pledge of strength from God for all Israel’s need. It signifies that God wins! Before it, the waters of Jordan parted asunder and the walls of Jericho fell down (Joshua 3-4, 6). When the Philistines thought they captured the Ark of God, they did not know it was the Ark of God that captured them. Placed beside the idol-god of the Philistines, Dagon, the Ark shattered it (Judges 5-6)! God wins! God does not conquer by majority was demonstrated in His victory over the armies of the Midianites and Amalekites described: “as numerous as locusts; and their camels innumerable as the sand by the seashore” (Judges 7:12). Gideon’s army numbered only three hundred (300). The ratio and match-up was infinitesimal. God won, not man! God wins! Similarly, Prophet Elijah at Mount Carmel was one with God against 850 false prophets. God answered by fire because God wins (1 Kings 18:20-40). Jonah rejected God’s will and replaced it with his personal will. God wins! Consequently, Jonah repents (Chapter 2), Nineveh receives God’s will and repents (Chapter 3), and God’s loving and forgiving character prevails over Jonah’s attitude (Chapter 4). God wins! In his providence, God wins. His loving kindness, long-suffering, and faithfulness cause Him to win over human ob-

stinacy, presumption, and attitude. The Babylonians enslaved Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego but God wins. They became wiser than the people who enslaved them. They ate simple food and yet are stronger, healthier, and wiser than those who ate the king’s delicacies offered to his idols (Dan 1). Indeed, God wins. They threw Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace but the fire became air-conditioner to them because God wins. Jesus was the fourth man in the fiery furnace. Eventually, the pagan king got converted as he saw Jesus in the fire with those Hebrew boys (Dan 3). They put Daniel in the lion’s den for praying to God, but God wins. The lions became vegetarians and vegans while Daniel tarried with them. Maybe they had Bible study, prayer and fasting all night long! “So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God.” In exchange, his accusers and their wives and children were thrown into the same den with the same lions. “The lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den” (Dan 6:23-24). God is the Lord of history and in spite of earthly rulers and their actions; God wins over evil in the end and saves His people! No matter what may betide you, God win! Hold up your head high, God win! Fear not, fret not, and fuss not! God win! Tunde Ojewole, PhD, is the Babcock University Pastor in charge: Division of Spiritual Life. Get your copy of the newly released book: GOD’S FOOTPRINTS. For enquiries, contact: ojewolea@babcock.edu.ng or call/SMS 08058299434/08060376577.

Marine spirits (11) 8) Those who are indebted to the devil, either by promise or vow and refuse to confess it. 9) Those who refuse to renounce the devil and his works. 10) Those who the Holy Spirit have asked to confess something during deliverance prayers but they refused. 11) The hypocrite who have refused to tell themselves the truth concerning the Genesis of their problems. 12) Those who keep enemity and refused to forgive those who offended them. The testimony of deliverance cannot be overemphasized. However, this testimony can only be shared by those who have experienced conclusive deliverance. Anyone who went about claiming he/she has done deliverance should first study the conditions that makes God silent in deliverance as enumerated above. If the person could testify that the above conditions were avoided, them such a person must have the testimony of deliverance. Which testimony is that there must be evidence of breaking bondages, yokes and drains? Which means, those symptoms you used to observe before must not be there anymore. For a deliverance to be thorough, the nature and scope of the bondage must be critically analyzed. If the bondage is age longed ancestral and deeply rooted, aggressive confrontation in prayer and fasting must be administered. Minimal effort on this regard will only result in the problem of inconclusive deliverance. Dear child of God, what is the nature of your case, decisively go to a deliverance church, which has their foundation on the word of God, and give the devil the violence he needs. In deliverance, three parties are actively involved. A) The Holy Spirit who does the deliver-

ance. B) The deliverance minister. C) The deliverance patient. These three must be in agreement. The Holy Spirit standing by ever ready to cast out the devil and brake the yoke, at the command of the deliverance minister. While the brother / sister is ready in his/her heart to receive the touch of the Holy Spirit. The heart of the deliverance patient must be so clean, already sanctified by the Blood of Jesus, waiting for the move of the spirit. Therefore there must be no dissimulation. There are times when it requires consistent pounding and bombardment, for an appreciable length of time, before the resident power in the victim can be evicted. Beloveth, if you have gone through deliverance exercise in any living church, and the symptoms for which you went for deliverance are persistent, you can go for another around. There must have been a hitch somewhere. But this time check and clear yourself of everything that could be of hindrance to the deliverance either physical or spiritual. May God help you in Jesus name. Please read this scripture seven times over before you pray the prayer points below. Jeremiah 51:25 “Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain” Testimonies – yoke of two mounts paralysis broken My name is Dr. Nwaka. I went to my farm land in the cool of the day to check some of my plants. While I was going round the farmland observing the development of the plants, suddenly a torn entered into my heel. After two hours, I

could not walk again. The pains I was receiving was terrific and excruciating, I could not walk home. A bike was brought which carried me home. Brethren that was just the beginning of my story. My two legs became paralyzed. I could not use them anymore. I was taken to F.M.C. Owerri diagnoses and necessary laboratory test were conducted but nothing was found. Visions, and dreams of death were coming. A man of God came to my house and told my wife she should pray, that he saw a coffin in the house. All forms of medications were given to me but none helped my situation I called the man of God he told me there was a programme being organized in Imo State branch that he was coming for it. He promised to come and see me if he come. I was in the dream, one day, the man of God came, and ordered me to stand up I stood up and walked. When I opened my eyes it was a dream. I believed God that if the man of God should come to my house, I shall work. Brethren, it happened just like that. Friday evening the 13th day of May, the man of God came to my house. He saw me, he said to me it is not the will of God for you to remain on this sick bed anymore, get up in the name of Jesus. He stretched his hands and helped me up. Brethren immediately I felt strong, the pains disappeared, I began to walk everywhere in my compound. Since that day I have been walking, praise the Lord! Dr. Nwaka, Imo State Branch Address: Pastor Kingson I. Bona, General Overseer Chapel of Holiness and Testimonies Ministries, No. 6, David Egbetuyi Street, Fagbile Estate, Ijegun, Ikotun, Lagos. Tel:08023404926,08075598531,08038206508 website:wwwchapelholiness.org facebook: pstbona@chapelholiness.org

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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

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I’m happy to be back -Omeruo Musa

igeria international winger, Ahmed Musa yesterday won the 2015/16 Russia Premier League title with CSKA Moscow. CSKA beat Rubin Kazan 1-0 on the final day of the season to claim their 13th league title. Alan Dzagoev scored the decisive goal on 19 minutes in the tense game decided at Kazan Arena. Musa who took part in the contest was eventually substituted in the third minute of second half stoppage time with Alexei Berezutski taking his place. The Nigerian

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helsea defender Kenneth Omeruo, who is on loan in Turkey, said he is happy to be back to the Super Eagles and will be at his best in next week’s international friendlies against fellow West African country Mali and Luxembourg. Omeruo, 22, has been out of contention in the Super Eagles over the last few games owing to injury, and had to pull out of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt in March after he suffered another injury setback. The Nigeria international defender was also supposed to be part of the Coach Siasia led Olympic team b declared unavailable to play at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio because of a groin problem. He has since returned to full fitness and has starred in Turkish club Kasimpasa’s last four games, even creating an assist in a 6-0 thumping of Trabzonspor on Thursday. His recovery, prompted Super Eagles caretaker Coach Salisu Yusuf to include him among the 26 players he invited for the international friendly match against Mali on May 27 in Rouen, France and Luxembourg on May 31 at the Josy Barthel Stadium, in that country’s capital city and he said he is excited to be back in the national team. “It feels good to be back and I am happy I have been given the opportunity to return to the team and as always, I hope to give my best,” he said. “I am also happy that I have overcome the injury that made me not to be part of the Rio 2016 Olympics which I had hoped to be part of and

striker has enjoyed a hugely-successful season with CSKA as he netted 13 times in the league and 18 goals in all competitions for the club. He also helped them reach the Russian Cup final where they eventually suffered defeat to Zenit St Petersburg as well as the group stages of the Uefa Champions League. He has now won three league titles with CSKA since he joined the Army Club from former Eredivisie outfit, VVV-Venlo. CSKA Moscow also have another Nigerian, Samuel Aaron Olanare, in their books.

contribute my quota towards Nigeria winning Gold in the Games but am happy that I have overcome those challenges and now looking forward to do my country proud. He admitted he was looking forward to playing at the Games, especially after the Super Eagles’ failure to qualify for the 2015 and 2017 African Cup of Nations. On next week’s international friendly match against Mali’s Les Aiglons and Luxembourg, he stated that Nigeria need the game to prepare adequately for the Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers which will commence very soon, noting that the game will allow the technical crew have a good assessment of the players and prepare ahead for the qualifiers. “The friendlies are coming at the right time and the quality of the opposition is also good. A country like Mali is a force to be reckoned with in African football and right now they have already qualified for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals, having garnered 10 points from their first four matches of the qualification series, in a Group C that also has Equatorial Guinea, Benin Republic and South Sudan while Luxembourg is an emerging power in European football and so it will be a good test for the team”, he concluded Omeruo, a bright Nigerian prospect and dependable defender, was first called up by Nigeria in January 2013. He has played 31 times for Nigeria, winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations as well as appearing at both the Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup.

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Sunday, May 22, 2016

I’m not in a hurry to hire new coach –Murray

Murray

orld number two Andy Murray says his form means he does not need to appoint a new coach before the French Open. Murray who separated from Coach Amelie Mauresmo this month defeated Novak Djokovic for the first time on clay last week to win the Italian Open. Mauresmo has described the Briton as “complex” and suggested his behaviour on court was a factor behind the split. But the presence of Jamie Delgado in his team means the 29-year-old is in “less of a rush” to replace Mauresmo. “I’m playing very well so there’s no need to make a change a few days before the French Open,” said Murray. Murray said he had not spoken to any prospective coaches but was open to the idea of bringing someone new into his team.

Copa del Rey: Iniesta warns Barca ahead of Sevilla clash

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rsenal is close to completing the signing of Borussia Monchengladbach captain, Granit Xhaka. The clubs have reached an agreement on a deal reported to be worth £30m for the Switzerland central midfielder. Xhaka, 23, has flown to London to finalise personal terms and have a medical. His arrival will strengthen a midfield depleted by the departures of Mikel Arteta, Tomas Rosicky and possibly Mathieu Flamini. Xhaka will become Arsenal’s first acquisition in what is expected to be a busy transfer window at the Emirates Stadium.

arcelona captain, Andres Iniesta says they could be made to “suffer” by Sevilla in today’s Copa del Rey final. Iniesta is aiming to lead his team to their second domestic double in a row, having won La Liga last Saturday. Sevilla, though, can also complete a double, having beaten Liverpool in Wednesday’s Europa League final. “We have to play a complete game against an opponent that will make us suffer in key moments of the match,” Spain midfielder Iniesta said. The 32-year-old has played down a controversy over pro-Catalan independence flags appearing at the final. Iniesta said: “I just want the people to go and have a good time. Winning the cup could make everyone happy, regardless of what you think of a flag. “The club has given their opinion; I will keep mine to myself because what I say could be misinterpreted.” Manager Luis Enrique has taken a 24-man squad to Madrid, with forward Sandro passed fit after a recent hamstring injury, and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo over a calf problem. Sevilla have won the Europa League three times in a row ; coming from a goal down to beat Liverpool 3-1 in Base, Switzerland on Wednesday for a record third successive season.

Terry’s contract G extension Mazzarri named Watford coach excites Cahill

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atford has announced that former Inter Milan boss Walter Mazzarri will become head coach from July 1, after the departure of Quique Sanchez Flores. The 54-year-old Italian, who has also managed Sampdoria and Napoli, has signed a three-year contract at Vicarage Road. Watford finished 13th in a season where they also lost in the FA Cup semi-finals to Crystal Palace. Mazzarri is the Hornets’ eighth manager in the past four years. Watford’s chief executive Scott Duxbury told the club’s official website: “Walter has been the target of a number of approaches for his services, so we’re delighted to secure him as head coach here at Watford. “We’re thoroughly looking forward to working with such a highly regarded coach, with the progress and development of the club always remaining the highest priority.”

Terry

ary Cahill says Chelsea’s players have welcomed the decision by John Terry to remain at the club for another season. At one stage it appeared the former England defender would be leaving Stamford Bridge after more than 17 years and more than 700 games. But the club later offered Terry a oneyear extension and central defender Cahill is pleased with the outcome. The former Aston Villa and Bolton player said: “All the players are very happy, I am sure the fans are very happy, so it is a great end to the season in that respect. “But, for us, I just echo what everyone is thinking: A great boost for the club. “Although it dragged on for a while, it has been sorted now and we look forward to him being part of this squad like he has been for many, many years. It is fantastic news.” Terry, 35, made his Blues debut against Aston Villa in October 1998, when he came on as a second half substitute late in the game.

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Victor Moses pulls out of Eagles friendlies

helsea forward Victor Moses is out of Nigeria’s friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg to be played next week. The Chelsea forward was one of 26 players called up for the international friendlies by interim coach Salisu Yusuf, but it was understood he has now withdrawn from the games. A top source at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirmed yesterday that the 25year old will no longer be a part of the games. “Victor Moses is definitely out of the games against Mali and Luxembourg,” the source informed. It remains unclear why Moses has pulled out of the games, but the official said the player cited an injury for his withdrawal from the games. “I understand he withdrew due to a

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knock he suffered for his club,” the source informed further. Moses’ withdrawal brings the number of players who have withdrawn from the games to five.

CSKA Moscow striker Aaron Samuel is out through injury, while William Troost-Ekong has club engagements and will only join up after the Mali match.

U-20 AFCON qualifier: Flying Eagles win in Burundi

BA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin has been handed the WBC title after Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez vacated the belt. Alvarez, 25, stopped Briton Amir Khan in the sixth round of their Las Vegas bout on May 7 to retain the title. The WBC had given Alvarez a deadline of May 22 to begin negotiations with WBA and IBF champion, Golovkin or face being stripped of his title. But Alvarez says he will now target a fight against

the unbeaten Kazakhstani. “I’m hopeful that by putting aside this ticking clock, the two teams can now negotiate this fight,” said Alvarez. Alvarez, whose only professional defeat came against Floyd Mayweather in 2013, added that he had instructed his promoter to “finalise a deal as quickly as possible”. Golovkin, 34, who now holds three of the four major middleweight crowns, has won 32 of his 35 fights by knockout in an undefeated career, and was invited into the ring after Alvarez’s win over Khan.

IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion, Gennady Golovkin exchanging punches with Dominic Wade during his title defence Flying Eagles celebrate after scoring a goal in a match

oach Emmanuel Amuneke led Nigeria’s U-20 boys, Flying Eagles, to a 1-0 win over the Young Swallows of Burundi in a 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations second round, first leg qualifier in Bujumbura yesterday. Chukwudi Agor scored the match’s only goal 17 minutes from time as the

Flying Eagles, made up largely of last year’s FIFA U-17 World Cup champions, dominated in all aspects at the Stade Prince Louis Rwagasore. The first half ended goalless. The Flying Eagles delegation is expected back in the country tomorrow, with the UJ Esuene Stadium, Calabar

set to host the return leg on Saturday, June 11, with the overall winners setting up a clash with Sudan for a place at the final tournament in Zambia next year. Nigeria is the defending champions having won the continental crown a record seven times.

Rangers get N34m for Fed Cup campaign

he Enugu State Executive Council has approved N33.8 million for Rangers International FC to spur the club to excel in the 2016 Federation Cup campaign. Disclosing this to newsmen in Enugu, the state’s Commissioner for Information, Godwin Udeuhele, said the gesture was to support the excellent performance of the Flying Antelopes.

The commissioner said the State Government was keen to give necessary support to the team to do well in the current season. “The Enugu State Executive Council has graciously approved N33. 81 million as additional funding to enable Rangers International FC prosecute the 2016 Federation Cup,” he said. Udeuhele said the council also ap-

proved the payment of additional N28 million for the clearance of the remaining 28 players for the club. “We want the club to remain on the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) table and will do anything to give them that sense of belonging,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria. Rangers are currently topping the NPFL table with 31 points from 17 matches.

Ikoyi preparatory school holds sports clinic In continuation of the sports development program at Lagos Preparatory School Ikoyi, the Sports Faculty will be organizing a three day sports clinic. According to the school’s Director of Sports, Yusuf Ojeyinka, the clinic will take place during the mid-term

holiday starting from Monday 23rdWednesday 25th May, 2016 between 9.00am and 11.00am each day. He state that It is an opportunity for students to be engaged wisely while observing the mid- term break and to also equip them with the current rules and regulations governing

sports as well as skills progression in their chosen sports. The three days sports clinic will feature Football, Tennis, Swimming and Gymnastics. It will be coordinated by well experienced coaches from the State’s Sports Council as well as the school’s Physical Education team.

Abraham gets July 16 date

ormer three time champion, ‘King’ Arthur Abraham (445,29KOs) will have a date with Scandinavian star, Tim-Robin Lihaug (15-1, 8 KOs) on July 16 at the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin, Germany. Abraham who will be returning to the ring for the first time since his defeat to Gilberto Ramirez will be hoping to get back to reckoning with a victory against the 23 year-old Norwegian ‘’My goal is to become World Champion again

and I will not let anyone stand on my way,’’ said Abraham. ‘’Tim-Robin Lihaug is a good, young fighter but he will learn the hard way what it takes to make it to the top. ‘’I never underestimate any of my opponents and I will prepare myself to be in top shape. I want to put the disappointment of losing to Ramirez behind me and prove I still have more to give. I’m looking to the future now and that starts with a good win on July 16”, he concluded.

Price seeks redemption against Gospic

ormer British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion David Price will face Jakov Gospic on the May 29th card in Liverpool that will be headlined by Tony Bellew-Ilunga Makabu for the vacant WBC cruiserweight title. This will, of course, be Price’s first fight back

since being stopped inside two-rounds by Erkan Teper last July. Teper, like the only other man to have beaten Price, Tony Thompson, later failed a drugs test. Price is now convinced he can make it to the very top and that he was beaten only due to cheating on the part of Thompson and Teper.

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Business FRESH BUSINESS NEWS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Sunday May 22, 2016

U.S., Chinese investors eye Nigeria’s industrial parks –Minister posed regional industrial parks. The proposed parks, which are expected to provide one-stop shop for Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises, SMEs, and other industrial outfits, are designed to enhance industrialisation and, therefore, boost the na-

tion’s non-oil export base. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, who made this revelation while addressing officials of the ministry and the agencies under it at the on-going two-day retreat with the theme: ‘Addressing unemployment

and poverty through the development of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises, SMEs, organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, UNIDO, at the Free Trade Zone, Onne in Rivers State. The Minister also hinted that in response to

the huge infrastructural gap, the Federal Government was working on the creation of indushe Federal Governtrial parks across the six ment has said that it geo-political zones of the is currently discusscountry, which is part of ing with some foreign inthe National Industrial vestors from the United Revolution Plan NIRP to States and China, who industrialise the country have indicated interest to and also boost her export invest in the Nigeria’s probase. Under the new plan, the government would concentrate the few available infrastructural facilities within the industrial zones and regions to be created since the nation currently lacks the huge financial resources to spread this infrastructure across the entire length and breadth of the country. He, however, disclosed that he had received proposals from some Chinese investors, who have indicated their interest to key-in to these proposed industrial L-R: Mr. Abdullahi Maikano, Director Consumer Affairs Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); Prof. Umar G. Danbatta, Execu- parks to be created across tive Vice Chairman NCC and Mr. Tony Ojobo, Director Public Affairs NCC during the Telecom Consumer Parliament Programme in the six regions of the naAbuja, recently. tion, thereby helping in the government’s drive to boost export base. According to him, this is one of the fallouts of the recent visit of Presifident about Nigeria’s future culture is a key ingredient in wanted to succeed, we would dent Muhammadu BuOBIORA IFOH and about our future. I think our nation’s future fortunes, have to offer our customers ABUJA hari and some top governI speak for my partners in and I’m proud that today, the best possible product at ment officials including ormer Vice-President, this joint venture when I say: we’re taking another small the best possible price, in the himself to the Republic Atiku Abubakar has ex- We know what we are getting step on our long walk to a quickest possible time. And of China. pressed optimism that the into, and we’re doing it be- more diversified, more pro- because we want farming to The minister, who also economy would soon begin to cause we believe in Nigeria, ductive, and more competi- once more, become profitable. disclosed that during the “We are contributing to job tive economy”. because we believe that Nigeflourish, despite the various “When we set up Rico creation, technology transfer trip to China about two negative forecasts about Ni- ria will overcome its current difficulties, because we be- Gado Nutrition Nigeria, we and progressive change in geria’s economy. months ago, the NigeriAbubakar spoke on Satur- lieve our nation will change decided to invest in advanced farming culture. We believe an officials visited some state-of-the-art facilities be- there is a future in farming. day in Abuja at the ground- for the better”, he said. of the industrial parks “We went against the usuAbubakar added that in cause we wanted to be in a pobreaking of an animal feeds in China, which he said factory, Rico Gado Nutrition, spite of cynicism surround- sition to meet farmers’ needs al way of doing business in were already getting to ing the establishment of agro- and also have the capacity Nigeria because we did not Nigeria. their saturation points, “Despite the doubts about allied industries, he decided and flexibility to quickly re- just want to build a factory; thus the quest for some our economy because of cur- to go into the venture because spond to the needs of the we wanted to build a value Chinese businessmen to rent challenges, we are con- of his firm belief “that agri- market. We agreed that, if we chain. invest in Nigeria. “It is not all about China, I have also received calls from some businessing task. According to the confer- internet user in Africa.” n international InforInfoSecurityNigeria Con- men in the US, who have Out of the estimated mation Security Confer- ence Director, Mr Kayode Eyence, named Ngsecure inade, “New and innovative 3.5billion internet users in ference (NgSecure) 2016 will requested me to arrange 2016, is billed to take place at surveillance and monitoring the world, Nigeria records bring to the table, all security a meeting between them issues. Four Point Hotel, Lagos in systems have become very im- 67,101,452 in a population of and the Nigerian PresiThese critical issues will dent with a view to investperative with the increasing more than 170million, which July 2016. The highly anticipated sophistication of criminal and is about 37% internet penetra- be highlighted, discussed and ing in the country”, the dissected by thoughtful lead- minister said. conference will set the pace in terrorist acts. Globally, next to tion. The non-existence of a na- ers and professional players in socio-economic understanding and tackling terrorism, It was gathered that CyberSecurity in Nigeria and wise, CyberSecurity chal- tional policy on information the field of ICT, telecommunimost of these investors across the globe. In today’s lenges pose the next major security or even the guide- cation, financial services, civil are interested in setglobal village, there is the need threat to humanity. Nigeria is lines on monitoring and cen- services, national security, law to address issues of security strategic to the CyberSecurity soring internet content etc. enforcement agencies, judicia- ting up Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs,, campaign, being the largest makes CyberSecurity a daunt- ry, and the legislature. in the cyberspace holistically.

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International cyber security conference billed for Nigeria

which experts believe would help in diversifying the nation’s export base, thereby moving away from the current mono-product economy with the attendant overdependence on crude oil exports. The minister, however, told officials of the ministry and the agencies under it to brace up for the challenge of enhancing ease of doing business in the country, which is a centre-point of attraction to any genuine investor. He warned that the officials cannot continue to do things the same way and expect a different result, urging them, therefore, to embrace the new way of doing things that would bring the expected change in the country. He pledged the commitment of the government towards ensuring the welfare and well-being of the workforce, which he argued was the best way of enhancing customer satisfaction through high quality service delivery. On the role of the Presidency in bringing these initiatives about, he insisted that President Buhari had the political will to transform the nation’s economy, which was lacking in the previous administrations and also warned that the nation should not take this political will for granted. Enelamah, therefore, called on other development partners to join hands with the Federal Government in its genuine commitment to develop and industrialise the nation’s economy. In attendance at the two-day retreat were heads and top management staff of the agencies under the ministry comprising the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Nigeria Investment Promotion Council, NIPC, Nigeria Export Promotion Council, NEPC, Bank of Industry and the National Automotive Design and Development Council among others.

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You can’t coerce residents to join strike, police warn labour ABIODUN NEJO ADO-EKITI

he Police in Ekiti State have warned labour leaders in the state against embarrassing or subjecting any innocent resident to inhuman treatment over the on-going nationwide strike to protest against hike in the price of petrol.

The state Police Commissioner, Mr Etop James, said the threat by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) to disrupt business activities in the state capital could undermine security and give hoodlums undue advantage to wreak havoc on the people. Labour leaders in

the state had on Friday threatened to compel traders and other businesses operating when there was supposed to be total strike to comply with the directive of NLC on the industrial action. But the police boss, represented by the Police Public Relations, Mr Alberto Adeyemi, told journalists yesterday that the

state command viewed the threat to enforce sitat-home order at all cost with seriousness. He said that the security agencies would not tolerate any act of indiscipline or coercion of innocent Nigerians to join the strike, saying people should be given the liberty to associate freely without being forced or molested.

The police commissioner also added that the labour leaders should take cognizance of the fact that hoodlums could hide under such situation to unleash mayhem on the people. He said: “We are sounding a warning that we won’t allow act of illegality. People should not be forced to stay at home when they have lawful businesses to perform”.

However, the NLC State Chairman, Comrade Ade Adesanmi, said labour decided not to compel businesses to be part of the strike yesterday because the strike had been politicized in the day. He said labour was wary of the political division in the state and that people could hide under their lawful and peaceful protest to perpetrate evil.

Ohakim blames Okorocha for Owerri monarch’s death Olumba Obu to build N1bn CHRIS NJOKU OWERRI

ormer governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has accused the Imo State Government over the death of the traditional ruler of Owerri, HRM Eze Emmanuel Njemanze, saying that the monarch died in exile following the quarrel he had with the government.

Speaking to newsmen in Owerri, the state capital shortly after his condolence visit to the family of the late monarch at the weekend, Chief Ohakim, said that Eze Njemanze died following the balkanization of his kingdom. Describing the late monarch as humble, he however, regretted that Eze Njemanze died untimely death and in exile. “My re-

gret is that Eze Njemanze died a day after his case of injustice to his kingdom was to be heard in the High Court. The turtle nature of our justice system frustrated him; he was unable to experience justice before he died. According to Ohakim, the late royal father was a man who could say something inciting that could cause crisis, but he never

misused it because he believed in the rule of law. “He could open his mouth and heaven would fall, metaphorically speaking, but he did not do any of those ones, he rather supported and believed in government, but again, he was visited with injustice; his meagre salary was denied him, his kingdom was balkanized and he was allowed to die in exile.”

temple in C`River RICHARD NDOMA CALABAR

rrangements have been concluded by the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star Leader, Olumba Olumba Obu to erect a N1bn ultra modern/state- of- the- art temple to be called Supreme Temple at the World Headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, BCC, Ambo Street in Calabar.

Spokesperson for the organization, Bishop Princely Ibeabuchi, disclosed this while fielding questions from journalist in his office yesterday in Calabar. The BCC spokesperson maintained that the temple when completed shall look like the one built by the biblical King Solomon in Israel. “The proposed temple shall be dedicated to God Almighty”, he added. Ibeabuchi urged the government and well meaning individuals to come and Minister of Power, Works and Housing,Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN (left) and former commissioner of Physical Planning and Urban Development in Lagos State, TPL. Toyin Ayinde at the Nigeria Urban Design Forum in, Lagos recently.

Ekiti community groans under Fulani herdsmen’s attack ...one killed, four injured

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esidents of Oke-Ako, a community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti are mourning, groaning and as well seeking security beef-up following an attack on the town on Friday night allegedly by armed Fulani herdsmen.

The attack, which allegedly left a member of the community dead and four others nursing various degrees of injuries, took place at about 8pm when residents of the sleepy town were preparing to retire to bed. Eye-witnesses alleged

that the Fulani herdsmen who brandished dangerous weapons like guns, bows, arrows, swords and machetes invaded the community in their numbers and launched the dastardly attack. According to them, the invaders shot sporadically into the air and killed the victim simply identified as Lekan, while four others sustained various degrees of injuries and are said to be receiving treatment at a private hospital in AdoEkiti, the state capital. A witness who narrowly escaped being killed, Adebayo, described the incident as a reprisal attack, saying that the herdsmen

•soldiers drafted had previously fallen out with the villagers over their grazing activities in the community. According to the people, police in the area had been docile in handling the situation. However, the residents have blamed the Police in the area for failing to act swiftly when the case was reported to them during the attack. One of the residents, Muyiwa, whose wife sustained machete injury, alleged that the case was reported to the police in the area, stressing that there was no response as the police claimed their van had no fuel to move to the

scene. According to him, but for the prompt response of a team of the Nigerian Army, even before the arrival of police in the area, the situation would have been worse. He called on government at all levels to beef up security in the area in order to avert a re-occurrence of such development. The Divisional Police Officer in the area who confirmed the attack in a telephone interview, said that he could not ascertain yet, whether the incident was perpetrated by armed robbers or Fulani herdsmen.

identify with the 4000 capacity temple which when completed will have seven auditoriums which will be built for salvation and purification. “With the temple, Calabar is going to be rated as the city-centre of the whole world”, he said. The spokesperson maintained that the Supreme Temple, when completed, shall accommodate all men and women who used to gather at the headquarters for mega events, irrespective of race, tribe and religion. “It’s going to have pillars with rooms to accommodate anybody who comes here with any problem irrespective of race or sex, for his or her problem to be solved. It is estimated to cost over one billion naira. He said that the duration of the building was going to take about one year adding that it was expected to be ready by April next year.

Methodist primate charges youths to embrace peace OARHE DICKSON BENIN

he Primate, Methodist Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Chukwuemeka Uche (JP) has charged Nigerian youths to embrace peace and be ambassadors of good governance to ensure development of the country.

Chukwuemeka gave the charge in Benin City at the weekend on the occasion of the commissioning of 14 classroom blocks built for John Wesley Cathedral Nursery and Primary School, Benin by the Methodist Church of Nigeria Diocese, Edo-Delta branch. The visit of the pri-

mate was stimulated by the commissioning of the ultra modern structures that have facilities covering pre-KG 1-3 and daycare for kiddies as he urged the wards to be good emissary to their family and the society at large. “This is to the glory of God that we are commissioning this edifice today. We, therefore, urge you to embrace peace and be a good ambassador to the society,” the primate urged. On his part, chief host and the Proprietor/Board Chairman of the school, Very Rev. Dr. Prince Ukaegbu thanked God for using the primate, Dr. Uche, to commission the school.

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-- The amount Lagos State Govt earmarked for ocean surge control.

Vol. 6 No. 21

Sunday, May 22, 2016

N4.8bn-

The sum INTEL spends on diesel for Onne Port yearly.

N150

A government interested in refineries…

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jimunahlive@gmail. com Unah is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lagos

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am yet to see any change whatsoever in government policy thrust on the revitalization of existing national refineries and the creation of new ones; except the old story of hiking fuel prices, regime after regime, on the excuse that government cannot continue to subsidize the price of pump petrol; that subsidy removal would attract investors to put their resources in the business of refining crude for both local consumption and export, and that funds accruing from subsidy removal would be used to finance public infrastructure and vital social services like roads, rail transport, electricity, pipe borne water, education and healthcare delivery. A few years ago, licenses were granted to private investors to establish and operate refineries to ease the difficulty and hardship experienced by Nigerians and the man hour lost in petrol stations to justify the government’s insistence on the removal of oil subsidy at that time. But no private refineries came on stream. All the funds sunk into the resuscitation of the old

national refineries did not produce the desired result of having domestically refined Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, for use by consumers. All the promise of deploying funds retrieved from subsidy to boost electricity supply through the Independent Power Projects, IPP, did not materialize. The former President Goodluck Jonathan’s January 1, 2012 oil subsidy removal is a recent example. SURE-P was established to manage the funds accruing from subsidy removal for social infrastructure provision. Education, road, electricity, rail infrastructure, among others, were listed to receive attention from SURE-P. A total of 12 Federal Universities and 36 Amajiri schools were built and put to use. The railways were resuscitated and some Federal roads received attention, how-be-it, haphazardly; amidst the widespread allegations of oil subsidy scam, and general care-free looting of the treasury by public officers and state actors. It was also widely reported that enormous funds were squandered on the effort to revitalize the refineries. Again, the refineries did not become fully functional to produce refined petrol for domestic consumption. Worse still, privately licensed refineries fail to spring up, contrary to the promise at the time that subsidy removal by whatever margin would encourage

the upsurge of private refineries. But when the price of crude fell in the international market, the then Jonathan government reduced the price of pump petrol from N97 per liter to N86.50 per liter. From all of these, no subsidy removal ever ended the regime of subsidy. Just when you were told that subsidy had been removed, you got to hear, whenever government is hard up and wants to generate resources for political activities rather than real infrastructure provisioning, that it wants to remove subsidy. What this means is that anyone who thinks that the hike in the price of pump petrol from N86.50 per liter to N145 per liter would put an end to fuel scarcity permanently in the country may need his mind examined. Nothing like that is going to happen. Only a government interested in the creation and growth of private refineries could truly boast of ending the subsidy regime. If the government does not take the bull by the horn by way of embarking on aggressive resuscitation of existing national refineries and supporting and promoting investment in private refineries, it could never hope to put an end to the petrol subsidy regime and the periodic scourge of fuel scarcity experienced in the country. Only a government that can allow private refineries to spring up on a small scale basis could truly begin

to encourage local refining of crude oil for domestic consumption and ultimately for export. The destruction of the so-called “illegal refineries” by government through the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, is ill-advised and counter-productive. No government of any European country would destroy its people’s domestic effort at refining a local raw-material, such as crude oil, and label it “illegal”. A progressive government of change should lead in breaking the jinx of the supreme idiocy of constituting itself into a Pharisee in the petroleum downstream sector. A government that could not refine its crude and take effective control of its oil economy, and goes about labeling the effort of its people to refine crude oil “illegal” is a Pharisee by all standards; for it not only lacks the political will to take control of its economic destiny, it has become a pathetic hindrance in the way of its resilient, resourceful, citizens in the enterprise of crude oil refining. My point is that the Buhari government should take urgent steps to legalize the so-called “illegal refineries” and put a full, final, stop to the mindless importation of refined petrol into the country. That is the only time it can truly put an end to the oil subsidy baloney!

10-man United win English FA Cup

anchester United came from behind and survived Chris Smalling’s sending-off to beat Crystal Palace and win the FA Cup at Wembley through Jesse Lingard’s extra-time strike. As Wembley was awash with growing speculation this would be Louis van Gaal’s final match as United manager, he was able to add English’s football’s most glamorous cup to his honours list. United looked on course to end the season empty-handed as well as missing out on Cham-

pions League football when substitute Jason Puncheon’s powerful far-post finish put Palace ahead with 12 minutes left. It was harsh on United,

who had hit the woodwork through Marouane Fellaini and Antony Martial, but they responded within four minutes with a brilliant run from Wayne Rooney that ended

with Juan Mata scoring from close range. United lost Smalling to a second yellow card for hauling back Yannick Bolasie in extra time but Lingard took

the trophy to Old Trafford when he lashed home a first-time strike from Damien Delaney’s half-clearance after 110 minutes.

Man United players celebrate with the FA cup

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