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Vanguard is a useless newspaper.. headed by Tribal bigot

Nice to hear for the shareholders

PDP will never repent from their devilish ways

PDP crises...PDP may not win Bayelsa Governorship Election in November

Beat123:
When people talk they should be sure! Who told them that united evangelical was inaugurated 17 years ago

The story of Qua iboe Vs united evangelicals if you don’t know the truth then shut up!

It’s a story of a society!

And it wasn’t 17years ago pls.

Since when

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The police have sealed off a church in Uyo where the Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel, worships.

Armed police officers in 10 trucks arrived Qua Iboe Church at 112 Ikot Ekpene Road early Sunday morning and barricaded the church entrance, preventing worshippers from entering the premises.

A woman with her two children who wanted to get to the church was seen stepping down from Keke (a commercial tricycle). She and her children walked back and then disappeared into a nearby street, apparently frightened by the presence of the police officers.

Later in the day, around 10 a.m., some members of the church began gathering by the roadside, while the police continued to mount the barricade.

The police action is due to a lingering factional crisis at the church, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

“The police have padlocked the main gate of the church, they don’t allow anybody to enter the church,” a security guard in the church told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday morning.

The guard, who gave his name as Attah, said he and a colleague were the only ones inside the church premises at the time he spoke via telephone with a PREMIUM TIMES reporter.

“The policemen came here as early as 6 a.m., and locked the gate after ordering people who were sweeping the church to leave,” he said.

Our church is not a police station, they should not be doing this! They should leave the place and go back to their station!” Samuel Magnus, the church youth leader, said angrily on the phone while preparing to leave home for the church.

Onofiok Ettang, the chairman of the church council, was unaware of the police presence in his church when PREMIUM TIMES called him in the morning. He was still at home, preparing to leave for the church.

“I’ll be going there now to ascertain what’s going on,” Mr Ettang said.

“The major problem in the church is that the United Evangelical Church wants to take over the church from Qua Iboe (Church), and they are using all means to do that,” he said.

The Qua Iboe Church

Qua Iboe Church was founded around 1887 by an Irish missionary, Samuel Bill, who served in Ibeno, in present-day Akwa Ibom State.

The church, whose headquarters is in Akwa Ibom, derived its name from the Qua Iboe River, which flows through the state into the Atlantic Ocean.

The 131-year-old church split into two factions in Nigeria about 17 years ago when some members, uncomfortable with the name Qua Iboe, pushed for a change of name to United Evangelical Church.

Some of the church’s branches across the country have embraced the new name, while others, mostly in Akwa Ibom, have stoutly rejected it because of a special affinity with the name Qua Iboe.

The Akwa Ibom governor, Mr Emmanuel, is a member and a deacon of Qua Iboe. He used to worship with his family in a branch of the church in Lagos before he moved down to Uyo on his appointment as the secretary to the Akwa Ibom government in 2014.

Mr Emmanuel, since he relocated to Akwa Ibom, occasionally worships at the church branch that the police have sealed off.

Governor’s Meeting

The governor a few days ago held an emergency meeting with the leadership of the branch of the church to find ways of resolving the lingering crisis.

Mr Ettang, the chairman of the church council, who was present at the meeting with Governor Emmanuel, said the governor’s approach to the conflict was not helpful to the church.

He said the governor wants one Ibup Emah, a former pastor of the branch, to return to the church against the wishes of the majority of the people in the branch.

Members of the troubled branch are accusing the former pastor, Mr Emah, of prosecuting an agenda of the United Evangelical Church. They say he is among those who want to change the church’s name from Qua Iboe to United Evangelical Church.

The women in the church carried out a peaceful protest at the church premises on Saturday, voicing out their rejection of Mr Emah.

“The church issues should be settled in the church. We have elders, we have a hierarchy in the church. We know our problem, and we can solve our problem. Let us come back home (to the church),” said Mr Ettang who alleged that “outsiders” were influencing the problem in the church.

Mr Emah declined to comment on the issue when PREMIUM TIMES contacted him, Sunday morning. “I don’t know what’s going on, I am no longer there, I have left the church,” he said.

Mr Ettang said the pastor was not being forthright in his remark here. “At the meeting with the governor, he (the pastor) was indirectly appealing to the governor that he wanted to return to the church,” he said.

After their meeting with Governor Emmanuel, Mr Ettang and the church secretary, Sylvester Edem, including the pastor, Mr Emah, signed an undated press statement which implied that the pastor had been accepted back by the church.

The statement, which claimed that normalcy had returned to the church, asked the people “to feel free to return to the place for worship as their safety in the course of normal church activities is guaranteed”.

A member of the church who did want his name mentioned in this story for fear of victimisation said the church elders who met with the governor were not allowed to speak at the meeting.

“The governor just told them to allow the pastor to come back. He didn’t give them a chance to say anything. If he did, maybe he would have known that we don’t want the pastor back in our church,” the member said.

Some of the members of the Qua Iboe Church standing by the roadside on Sunday, while police barricaded the church entrance
Some of the members of the Qua Iboe Church standing by the roadside on Sunday, while police barricaded the church entrance
Members of Qua Iboe Church being locked out by the women who protested at the church premises on Saturday
Members of Qua Iboe Church being locked out by the women who protested at the church premises on Saturday
It is not yet clear who invited the police to seal off the church premises.

Mr Magnus, the church youth leader, said Governor Emmanuel could not have directed the police to seal off the premises.

“The governor, in our meeting with him, warned that nobody should take policemen to the church,” Mr Magnus said.

Police Keep Mum

The police spokesperson in the state, Odiko MacDon, did not respond to calls from PREMIUM TIMES.

Two members of the church, however, blamed the crisis on the governor’s adviser on religious matters, Daniel Akwatang, who is also a member of Qua Iboe Church.

Mr Akwatang described the church crisis as “embarrassing” when PREMIUM TIMES contacted him, Sunday morning.

“We are not sleeping, we have been working very hard, and the matter is still escalating.”

The governor’s aide refused to speak further on the crisis.

Meanwhile, the traditional leaders of Oku clan, the indigenous people who donated the land for the building of the church more than 10 decades ago, have cautioned against changing the church’s name from Qua Iboe to United Evangelical Church.

The traditional leaders under the auspices of the Oku Clan Council of Traditional Rulers and Chief said in a statement that they are willing to donate another parcel of land for the building of another church that could be named United Evangelical Church so that peace could reign in Qua Iboe.

Their forebears gave the land to Qua Iboe Church, and not to the United Evangelical Church, they said.

Governor Emmanuel had made a few attempts in the past to resolve the rift within the Qua Ibo Church in Nigeria.

“We’ve gone very far on the reconciliation and we will soon be there,” Mr Emmanuel said in July last year when he visited a branch of Qua Iboe Church in Etinan.

The governor, in February 2017, had convened a peace meeting at the Government House, Uyo, with the factional leaders of the church.

Those present at the 2017 meeting included former Chief of Air Staff in Nigeria, Nsikak Eduok, and a retired major-general and former director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Edet Akpan. Both men, who are very influential in the church’s affairs, belong to different factions.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/355024-police-seal-off-governors-church.html

What is all these nonsense making fp

Nice activated

She is cheating. Period

Joblessness

That is serious profiling... Not good

OgboAto:
LOL nobody wants the Ibo people anymore.

Not even Ibo people want to marry Ibo people.

Stop this bro. Thought you are more matured

Offpoint:
Doctors in the house, I don't know what's wrong with me for the past 5 days now.
Anything I take in I have this urge of vomiting, even water.
It all started when I drank garri with Merinda plus groundnuts+fried fish.

I was only trying to Jaye ori mi

Post in health section

It is only PDP MISCREANTS that carry anti Osibanjo matter for their heads. Do you know what they have in common? JOBLESSNESS
Osita.... Jobless
Reno.... Jobless
FFK.... Jobless
Deji..... Jobless
Timi... Jobless

The father of a Florida middle school student is outraged after his daughter was given a test that depicted President Trump as "an idiot."

The test was administered recently to a group of students at Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach County. The test described Trump as a businessman, a Republican and an idiot.

This was an actual question on my daughters middle school test today. Furious," the angry dad wrote on Twitter. "Going to raise some hell with the principle. Indoctrination

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-test-depicts-trump-as-an-idiot-one-more-example-of-schools-as-indoctrination-centers

AuwalYusuf812:
i thought Northern Universities has join. ABU of all people far, the skull Suppose been close for a while self!!

You need an English Teacher

Nigeria shall overcome

The minister disclosed that N200.176billion was also approved for construction of link-roads, connecting the second Niger Bridge to Asaba and Onitsha. “Secondly, for the link-road that connects the second Niger Bridge to Asaba and Onitsha. The Asaba link-road was awarded to Julius Berger and the Onitsha link-road was awarded to RCC Construction at the total cost of N200.176 billion.

Every part of the country included

Work in Progress Apapa - Oshodi- Toll gate Express Way
Work in Progress Second Niger Bridge
Work in Progress Onitsha--Enugu Express Way
Work in Progress Kaduna - Kano Express Way
Work in Progress Lagos - Ibadan Expressway

God bless BRF
God bless Federal Executive Council
God bless PYO
God bless President Muhammadu Buhari
God bless South West
God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

See this yeye incompetent lawyer that was sent back to Law School during Tribunal Judgment

Trump in soup

Obasanjo was and is everything wrong with Nigeria

Snapshot moment

Messi is Selfless

Obasanjo, all he preaches against today,he actually did ten times worse. Arrogant and full of himself

[[s]quote author=healthserve post=82536884]Couldn't be more proud indeed

Sentimental freaks who occupy stage by theft and deceit. Ask for meaningful contributions and you wouldn't get more than " I assure you ".


The stage doesn't matter much. The show doesn't. The impact is what matters. I heard on clouded entity was calling people backyard economists, albeit because they assume some hidden k owledge to themselves that others aren't privty to have or can't take it that people besides themselves could be brilliant and make better judgements.


Nonsense[/quote][/s]

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This is GLOBAL PODIUM, and 3/4 on the podium in this picture are Nigerians, couldn’t be more proud - BA