Saturday, 21 October 2017
Buhari Must Publish APC Looters too -Sen Shehu Sani
Publish APC, PDP looters too - Senator Shehu Sani told Buhari -
“The Federal Government’s decision to publish the names of looters is commendable. Hope the ‘call-up’ list will not be limited to the ageing ‘Umbrella United’ players, but will include those in the ‘Broomers FC’ and ‘Paris Saint Germain’ and ‘Dynamo Cabal FC’ players.”
He wrote this on his Facebook account.
Covenant of Prosperity - Copeland
Covenant Prosperity
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant.
– Deuteronomy 8:18
What is God's reason for prospering His people? Is it so we can watch bigger TVs? So we can buy finer houses and more luxurious cars?
Establishing God's covenant on the earth and giving to those in need: Those are God's purposes for prosperity!
I've had some people tell me, "Well, Brother Copeland, Jesus' ministry was poor and He got along just fine." That's ridiculous. All the way through the Old Testament God promised material blessings to anyone who would walk perfectly and uprightly before Him. If God had failed to bless Jesus financially, He would have been breaking His own Word.
Jesus never built a worldly empire for Himself. But that doesn't mean He was poor. It means He was the greatest giver who ever walked the face of this earth—and it's about time we started following in His footsteps.
If we'll start giving, if we'll start taking care of the needs in people's pocketbooks, we'll be far more likely to win their hearts.
What do you think will happen to the heart of a starving nation when you bring in a 747 full of food, clothes and medical supplies to them in the Name of Jesus and His love? The hearts of those people are going to soften! They're going to be willing to listen to what we have to say about Jesus.
Don't you ever let anyone tell you it's wrong to want to prosper. It's wrong for you not to want to prosper when that prosperity can mean the difference between heaven and hell for millions of people.
Forget about your own little needs. Raise your vision and set your mind on giving to meet someone else's, on establishing God's covenant in the earth. Then stand fast in faith and get ready to enjoy the greatest prosperity you've ever known.
Kenneth Copeland
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 8:11-18
© 1991 Eagle Mountain International Church, Inc. aka: Kenneth Copeland Publications All rights reserved.
Friday, 20 October 2017
Buhari Lies on Payment of Biafra Ex-Servicemen - Chidi
OPINION
Buhari & Lies Of Paying Biafra Ex Servicemen.
As an expert in bursting Buhari and his handlers lies, I intentionally allowed this tale by moon light story of his 'Approval' to pay 167 Igbos that left the Nigerian Police force and the army to fly for days before I bins it.
Buhari has NEVER build anything as a public servant,nothing as a former state governor, Oil Minister/NNPC Boss, Head of State, PTF Chairman and nearly 3 years in office of President.
On this Pension and gratuity payment to Bifran ex-service men that left either the Nigerian army or the Police, below are the facts with timeline.
In May 2000, former President Obasanjo pardoned Igbo soldiers and Police officers that joined the Biafran security service at the outbreak of the war. They were deemed to have retired instead of the sack notice from Gen Gowon.
This decision was gazatted.
In August 2014, for Preisdent Jonathan instructed the Military and Police Pension Board to rectify the retirement process. He added that not minding the number of years they served, they should be treated as if they have served for 35 years.
This caused a lot of rift in the Military, but the president stood his ground.
By end of August their gratuities were paid and they annuity (monthly pension) triggered.
This decision was gazatted.
Last week, the Executive secretary of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Mrs Sharon Ikpazor's office stumbled into names of 167 ex-Biafra officers that were Biometrically cleared for regular payment in 2014.
As usual the lying by nature government went to town with drums.
Action by PTAD was just a normal civil service routine job. If Buhari took this decision out of the wood, he should have notified the National Assembly or FEC.
Just like claiming the introduction of TSA, OBJ pardoned this folks and GEJ enlisted them in the Pension scheme.
Ask Buhari what is his role here.
FACTS REMAIN FACTS. - FB.com/chidi.cali. (c)
There is Hope For Nigeria - CAN
The Women Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN) presents her 2017 Annual Convention with the theme "THE LORD'S RETURN TO ZION".
The Rivers State Governor and Deputy Governor have been duly invited as they are by divine providence to host this epoch event in the State.
In the Scriptures, the book of Zechariah 8:3 says "I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain." Then again, Psalm 126:1 "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream." So shall these prophesies be fulfilled in our land, Nigeria in Jesus Matchless Name. Amen.
We therefore say congratulations to us all as WOWICAN branch in Port Harcourt, hosts the Convention from Wednesday 18th. - Saturday 21st. October. 2017, this weekend at the REDEEMED CAMP, ALU, IGWURUTA, PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE. NIGERIA. All Christian women are enjoined to graciously attend this event by the grace of God. BE THERE PLEASE! MORE GREASE AND MORE GRACE TO US ALL!
Therefore, WOWICAN wishes to use this opportunity to remind all Nigerians that yet again, in spite of the prevailing situation in the country, "THE LORD SHALL YET RETURN TO OUR ZION- NIGERIA". The Women Wing of CAN reinstates that this is to assure all, that there is hope for this nation as we all continue to pray that God’s perfect will be done in our nation, that there be peace, unity and progress and the upliftment of Nigeria to higher development pedestal, as well as a new dawn of our country, Nigeria in the Mighty Name of Jesus. Amen!
Long live WOBICAN
Long live Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
Long live the federal republic of Nigeria.
Signed:
Pst. Dr. Mrs. Mabel Oyin
Sowoolu
National Chairperson
Pst. Dr. Mrs. Comfort Ebun Adu
National Secretary
Women Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN)
Publicity:
Maranatha!
Bishop Prof. Funmi Adesanya-Davies
Nigerian Supreme Council for Eccle
We Must Not Fail to Protest - Fani-Kayode
THE MARCH FOR FREEDOM AND THE MONSTER FROM FUTA JALON
The greatest crime that man has inflicted on his fellow man in the last 50 years is the evil concept of unrestrained globalisation coupled with the incremental evolution, unacceptable espousal and wholehearted acceptance of the artificial, man-made, mongrel nation-state which is made up of ethnic and religious incompatibles.
Yet thankfully there has been a backlash.
The forces of the far-right and ethnic nationalism are marshalling and are on the rise all over the world. Consequently a laudable, unprecedented and irresistable counter-offensive has begun.
We see this in Trump's United States of America, Putin's Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Israel, France, Holland, Hungary and many other parts of the civilised world.
We have witnessed it in Catalonia, Biafra, Scotland and Kurdistan where the oppressed are fighting for the establishment of their own nation.
All over the world we hear the cry of those that are struggling for their emancipation and deliverance from alien and foreign oppressors with whom they share no history or have any cultural or religious links or affiliation.
Throughout the comity of nations we hear the desperate lamentations and compelling words of those great and noble patriots and souls who take pride in their history, cultural heritage, ethnicity and religious faith and who refuse to allow their identity to be redefined, watered down, eradicated or decimated in the name of unrestrained and unfettered racial integration with those that they have nothing in common.
We hear the voices of those who refuse to be robbed of their heritage and persona by a godless horde of ranking unbelievers, murderous religious extremists, barborous aliens and desperate usurpers who come from a distant land and we acknowledge the concerns of those who refuse to be ensnared by false, bogus and long-discredited notions of political correctness and the wholesale adoption of discredited and nonsenical liberal values and philosophies.
The bottom line is as follows: there is no crime in flying the flag of ethnic nationalism, in rejecting the idea of a nation of hybrids and in wanting to take your nation back for its people. There is no sin in the desire to re-establish pure and unpolluted ethnic bloodlines and racial stock.
There is no shame in chanting "blood and soil" whilst marching in the streets with torch in hand as others once did many years ago.
It is indeed the procession of the faithful: it is the march for freedom and the song of liberty.
It is an attempt to restore, defend and preserve the very essence of who we are. It is an attempt to break the shackles of bondage and the chains of slavery. It is an attempt to liberate us from those with whom we share no history, no heritage and no values and yet who insist on imposing their will on us, controlling and dominating our very lives and insisting that they were born to rule.
This is all the more so given the fact that, in the Nigerian context, we are saddled with the most bloodthirsty, sadistic, sectional, extreemist, bigoted, tribalistic, vicious, bitter, narrow-minded and ignorant President that our country has ever known.
This is a man that was once a profoundly good man but that has now become one of the worlds greatest ethnic cleansers. I say this because under his watch more Shiite Muslims, northern Christians, Igbo youths, Middle Belters and southerners have been slaughtered and butchered than at any other time in our history other than during the civil war.
Worse still, this is a man who, according to the
President of the World Bank, Kim Yong Jim, said that his organisation should concentrate their efforts on developing northern Nigeria alone as if the rest of our country does not even exist.
Yet why am I not surprised? After all as far as Buhari is concerned the people of southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt are nothing but low-lifes, vassals and slaves who are only relevant at the time of a presidential election.
This is a man who had the sheer effrontery and nerve to insult us all by addressing the entire nation in the Hausa language on the occasion of the Islamic Ramadan observance.
This is a man who boastfully and openly told the world that he would favour those who voted for him in the 2015 Presidential elections (meaning his core Muslim northern base) and that he would not favour those who voted against him (meaning the predominantly Christian south).
This is a man who the celebrated writer Bashorun Akin Osuntokun rightly described in his latest column as a President "who is firmly wedded to the politics of division and of pan northern Nigerian Muslim irredentist politics".
This is a man under whose watch as Minister of Petroleum in 1977 $2.8 billion dollars went missing.
This is a man under whose watch as Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund in 1997 $500 million dollars went missing.
And this is a man under whose watch as President of the Federal Republic and again as Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 2017 $26 billion dollars has gone missing.
A leader must put the good of his country before his own inclinations and that of his party. This is something that is clearly lost on Muhammadu Buhari and his core northern Hausa Fulani supremacist supporters.
Nigel Farage MEP, the founder and former leader of Great Britain's United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and one of the most formidable and potent
voices behind BREXIT recently said,
"The establishment media across Europe and the West despise me. They cannot accept that people still believe in the nation state".
I know precisely how he feels. The walk of the ethnic nationalist in todays globalised world is more often than not a lonely one. Farage places his English heritage and identity before he does his British one. He also places his British heritage before his European one and he out rightly rejects the concept and notion of a fully integrated and amalgamated European super state where various and disparate ethnic nationalities are merged into one.
I share his vision and ethos and I superimpose it on the Nigerian plain. I am an Ife before being a Yoruba, I am a Yoruba before being a Nigerian and I refuse to have it any other way.
This is especially so when one considers what has been going on in the last two years in our country. A monster from Futa Jalon has been foisted upon us. And that monster uses misplaced notions of ethnic supremacy, religious bigotry, intellectual intolerance, radical Islam, selective justice, hidden agendas, vicious coercion, secret and ruthless cabals and state-sponsored terror to impose his will and effect his purpose.
Consider the events in Plateau state a few days ago.
No less than forty (and according to some reports as many as one hundred) innocent and defenceless indigenous Christians, including women and children, were butchered in their homes by Muslim Fulani herdsmen.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who is himself a Muslim, a Fulani and indeed the Life Patron of the Fulani Herdsmen Association (Miyetti Allah) has offered no commiserations to the families of the dead, has refused to visit the state, has expressed no genuine regrets or remorse, has failed to arrest any of the perpetrators and has refused to declare the Fulani herdsmen as terrorists. Instead of doing any of the above he said there must be no reprisals against his Fulani kinsmen after which he promptly flew off to Turkey for a D8 meeting.
Is that the behaviour of a President of Nigeria or the heartless and insensitive actions of the imperial master and overlord of a conquered people and a subjugated vassal state?
That is where Buhari has brought us. One is compelled to ask, is this the kind of leadership and country that we deserve. Is that what Lord Lugard's amalgamated super state with its anointed Fulani overlords have to offer? Is that what I am supposed to subsume supress and sacrifice my Yoruba heritage and my Christian faith for? I think not!
One thing I know is this: Buhari is a man-made President and not a God-made President. He is the biblical Saul. And like Saul, he will end in defeat and shame and his wickedness shall not go unpunished. The good news is that with every Saul comes a David and I have little doubt that sooner than later David will appear on the scene and he will rise and rule.
Permit me to end this contribution with the words of Sir Winston Churchill, an Old Harrovian (like yours truly) and the greatest Prime Minister that Great Britain ever had. He said,
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never: in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy”.
These words inspire and I commend them to every man, woman and child in our country who refuses to bow to tyranny and be enslaved and who takes pride in who they are, where they come from and what their ethnic heritage, bloodlines, racial stock and true nationality is.
Though Buhari's darkness has covered the light and glory of Nigeria and his evil empowers cruel men, heartless women, troubled souls and evil spirits it will soon come to an end because joy comes in the morning.
I conclude with the following counsel.
There will be times that we are powerless when we face evil, injustice and tyranny but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
This man Buhari is a cancer that keeps growing and the only proper thing to do is to cut it out.
Some say that the path of uncompromising and relentless opposition that we have chosen is a dangerous and unpredictable one. They forget that the wounds of honor are self-inflicted.
If you want to be set apart and regarded as a man of courage, truth and honor or the champion of the oppressed and the voice of the voiceless you must be ready to take the blows, wounds and oftentimes dire consequences that go with it.
William Shakespeare wrote "cowards die many times before their time but the valiant die but once" whilst our very own Wole Soyinka wrote "the man died in him who remained silent in the face of tyranny".
The great American patriot and hero of the war of independence, John Mchenry, told King George 111 of England to "give me freedom or give me death" whilst George Washington, the leader of the American forces in that war and the first President of the United States of America said,
"the thing that sets the American Christian apart from all other people in the world is that he will die on his feet before he will live on his knees".
To top it all one of the most courageous souls of the 21st century, Edward Snowden, who is the American spy that defected to Russia two years ago, wrote "speak not because it is safe but because it is right".
Given the circumstances that we have found ourselves in Buhari's Nigeria, EVERY single person in our country has much to learn from the profound words of these deeply courageous men.
Some of us have chosen to be courageous and valiant and have refused to remain silent. We made a choice to stand up and resist the chicanery and wickedness of this administration and we are prepared to pay the price for the choice that we have made.
I for one would rather live a short life and die as a free man than live a long life as a slave. The Bible says "he who holds on to his life will lose it and he who is ready to give up his life for my cause will gain it".
I do not fear any man or any circumstance because I know the God that I serve. I am a servant of truth, a warrior of light and a child of the Living God: I bow to no man and I do not tremble before tyrants.
I will endure anything and pay any price to liberate my nation and deliver my people from the chains of perfidy, ignorance and oppression and from the tyranny, evil, manifest corruption and double standards of the Buhari administration.
Finally I will resist the inequalities, cruelty and bondage of the unconceivable vassal state that Nigeria has been transformed into in the last two years with every fibre of my being in the full knowledge that in the end we shall prevail.
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister and the DG, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2015 general election.
Prescription for Life - Copeland
Prescription for Life
If any one intends to come after Me, let him deny himself [forget, ignore, disown and lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and...follow with Me. For whoever wants to save his [higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it...and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel's will save [it].
– Mark 8:34-35, The Amplified Bible
When Jesus said those words, He wasn't just giving us a prescription for getting to heaven. He was telling us how to live a superior life right here on earth.
You see, there's a high life that we can live right here, right now. But to get in on it, we have to lay down the way of life that most of us are accustomed to. We may have to let go of the very things we've been trying so hard to latch on to. We have to set our hearts instead on doing what God wants us to do.
That's what Jesus did. He didn't live His life for Himself. He lived it completely for God. He did only what the Father told Him to do—and He lived in total victory.
It's time to realize that getting born again is not something we do just to miss hell. Our purpose is to please God—to lay down our lives in order to fulfill His desires. To be His special possessions in the earth and to do whatever He tells us to do. Our top priority is to give ourselves to Him and to live in communication with Him. To spend enough time with Him that we can hear His voice and respond in obedience.
Only when we do that will we be genuinely fulfilled. Only when we do that will we be able to live the high life we've been longing for.
Gloria Copeland
Scripture Reading: Acts 20:7-24
© 1991 Eagle Mountain International Church, Inc. aka: Kenneth Copeland Publications All rights reserved.
On Military's Nationwide Vaccination
On Military's Nationwide Vaccination.
According to the WHO - World Health Organisation, A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and "remember" it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency through the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Nigerian Medical Association and other donor agencies like UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others has been at the forefront of providing vaccination to children from age 0-59 months especially and others in the country over the years. They provide services ranging from oral polio vaccines, measles vaccination, hepatitis vaccination, malaria vaccination, thyroid vaccination among others.
The Nigerian Armed Forces involvement in this act however, is a laudable one and worthy of commendation. The military has shown that they care for the nation through this civil-military relationship.
Meanwhile, there are serious questions that are begging for immediate answer as to the recent hullabaloo in the nation coming from this kind gesture from the military to certain school children across the nation.
1. What kind of vaccines are being administered to these children.
2. What are the benefits to the age bracket in focus.
3. What is the history of military's vaccination in public schools across the country.
4. How did the military acquire the vaccine(s).
5. How prepared are the target group:
a. Information
b. Permission
c. Supervision
6. Is this a militarys sole decision?
7. What is the position of the Federal Ministry of Health on the happenings around the nation.
8. Why are there widespread rejection on a daily basis of these kind gesture from the military.
As soon as the above are answered, I would like to beg the Armed Forces not to deter in their efforts at helping the nation in times like this that constituted authorities and institutions have not performed adequately as to provoke others to rendering a helping hand.
Future campaigns should be properly advertised so as to avert widespread misinformation.
I want to also propose that such gesture be taken to the IDP camps all over the nation where such is desperately needed especially in the Northern part of the country before spreading to the Southern parts.
I will like to pause here.
Thank you for your attention.
*Oluwatoyin Afonja*,
toyinafonja@gmail.com
Peace, Conflict, Security and Development Analyst.
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