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Next2Bezee:
Please just keep quiet. Issues about tithing don't shame Christianity, it shames the greedy 'men of god' that profit of their congregation in order to live lavishly. What is worse is that the congregation has taken to worshipping these pastors and defending them.

I am Christian, have been from birth. I read my bible and pray and use my money to help those in need that i can. I serve God and not these pastors, like you and the other sheeples.

Next2Bezee:
Another confused soul. When you die ehn, just wait for Suleiman or your preferred 'men of god' to guide you to heaven ode, as you've forgotten you serve God and instead begun serving these self entitled 'men of god'.

Abeg which lightning has struck Freeze? Which curse has reached him? You are a confused soul.

chiefbidemi:
At just 74 views, a topic that makes mockery of Christianity makes front-page.

Seun, if you are not careful, your end will be so bad. You will be a point of reference for evil

Ishilove:
I don't hate eating snails. I simply just don't. It's a taboo in my place of origin

You men and your naughty slangs. Cunnilingus is eating snails, ehn? Lmao!

Danladi7:
LIKE THE SYSTEM THAT BROUGHT GRADE 2 HOLDER born to rule SHAGARI ABOVE PHD HOLDER EKWUEME IN 1979 AND BSc YARAADUA ABOVE GEJ PhD in 2007.

you Igbo should know politics is beyond 2015 election!

And Igbo voted overwhelmingly for shagari even against their fellow southerner and a lawyer Awolowo.To the yorubas na normal politics,to the Igbo such act will be betrayal

baski92:
bro make we just get faith and pray say may the country beta. We belive in One nigeria

alexistaiwo:
I pledge to Nigeria my country to be faithful, loyal and honest as long as the National team keep winning.
So help me God.
Amen

baski92:
What happen yesterday was more like a miracle, i could not belive my eyes. I even thought i was dreaming but i was not, with this kind of playing level we do have chance's of winning world cup. I belive in nigeria

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BankManager:
Idowu scores on debut! Iwobi braces! Iheanacho FK! Ebuehi reliable! Uzoho Number One! Ogu tireless! Mikel the leader!!

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ochallo:
the competency tests should be given to Buhari, if he passes then sack the teachers, if he doesn't the teachers should be redeployed. We all know the northerns are not educated, that is what makes it annoying when the want to rule and lead the educated.

CaptainJeffry:
With all his ethnic bigotry, I still like this guy, El Rufai and I believe he can take Nigeria to the needed height. You can hate him but his reforms are simply awesome.

El-Rufai - It's Time to Restructure Nation
10 AUGUST 2010

For Nigeria to move to the next level, the issue of true federalism must be addressed, according to former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. He shares his thoughts with Imam Imam.

Apprehension about the composition and workability of the Nigerian nation-state will subside if the country tilts towards true federalism, according to former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. He said the present situation of things where all the component units get monthly allocations from the Federal Government only makes the states lazy and unproductive, adding that lack of foresight, financial discipline and lackadaisical approach to governance has played huge roles in limiting the country's march to greatness.

https://allafrica.com/stories/201008100105.html

Updated June 29, 2017

Many Of Those Calling For Restructuring Are Opportunists, Irresponsible – El-Rufai

The Kaduna State Governor, El-Rufai has described recent calls for the restructuring of Nigeria as political opportunism and irresponsibility.

El-Rufai, while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily said President Buhari’s administration has done far more in practical terms than past administrations and that many of those calling for a restructuring rather see it as a means of opportunism.

He stated that some of the practical steps taken towards restructuring included the fact that state governors are now more than ever, involved in economic policy making at the national level.

According to him, things that have always been hidden from state governments are now much more open as they are now more involved in investigations of finances of the excess crude account, among other things.

“We meet every month under the auspice of the National Economic Council and working together with the Federal Government we chart directions of economic policy and that is part of shifting the federal- state balance.

“A lot of the talk about political restructuring is political opportunism and irresponsibility in my opinion

“It is popular and people that have presidential aspirations think there is a platform upon which they will exploit this. As I said, if you look at the APC manifesto, all the elements to divulge power to the state to change the balance in the federation are there and we are committed to that as a party.

“The National Chairman of our party will restate that commitment and we are discussing it and as I said President Buhari and Osinbajo’s government has taken very concrete steps rather than rhetoric to actually move in that direction and we are going to move in that direction but we do not believe that the basis for it is rhetoric and opportunism, we do not believe that the 2014 CONFAB report is a sensible basis to even begin.

“We all know the circumstances in which the so-called CONFAB was put together, we all know the composition, how lopsided it was, how important stakeholders were not taken to account, how even the composition and numbers do not reflect the demographics and the diversity of this country and we took a position as a party not to participate but to encourage our state governors to be there at the table.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2017/06/29/many-calling-restructuring-opportunists-irresponsible-el-rufai/

raker300:
My guy, pls stop lying

Am currently in the south east and no one single fg road is getting tarred.

Pls stop all this..

These are human beings you are lying against

thedondada:
The 15 people who liked the comment nko?. Making 16 who just agreed with the title.

Anyway ekiti people. Highest number of professors in the country.

spongeisback:
Only enemies of Nigeria will support fayose. I don't like Buhari, we all know he's the worst thing that has ever happened to Nigeria but fayose will never and can never be an option. What has he done in his state so far?! Jumping bike and eating in bukas doesn't make one a leader.
We've had a fair number of mediocre leaders please no more. I don't want rice and 200 naira. I need favorable economic policies in a safe environment.
NO TO RECYCLED LOSERS
NO TO FAYOSE
NO TO ATIKU
NO TO WIKE

sixtuschimere:
Former First Lady Maryam Abacha on Thursday Dec 22 attended the foundation laying ceremony of new structures at Maryam Abacha American University,Niger by the First Lady of Niger Dr Lalla Malika Issofou.

Check out her new look


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francizy:
Nigerians and their archaic beliefs sha..

Spirit husband kor, Demon husband ni!

majekdom2:
how does this relate.. and who says Tithing is all about religion. Pls understand posts

majekdom2:
like I said her advice should be about entertainment and media. Thats her area of expertise and clearly what I meant by achieved little or nothing. See, the rich has got many friends, no one remembers the poor.. think twice if you think wealth is not a measure of success. Listen to wealthy/filthy rich men if you want to be successful financially, listen to an OAP/ actress if you want to go into entertainment.
Has the richmen/ billionaires come to dispute the principle of tithing/ charity giving? Get into the billionaire's club club learn more!

anochuko01:
its only a foolish man that expects clean water from a dirty cup.
thanks.

weownthewest:
Can any good come out from demonic apc?

weownthewest:
When I said that yorubas are demon possessed some people did not understand. This thing is a testement to that

CampuChan:
It was done to hoodwink the gullible.

KAYD007:
I was about to make reference to pastor Chris, and okotie

RICHIEBOI1:
Tioluwani, alleged love child of Rev. Chris Okotie.According to a report by Aristocrats, funky man of God, Rev. Chris Okotie has been alleged of having a love child from a woman he put in a family way some years ago.

As it was reported, after his first crashed marriage to Tina in 1998, some women jostled to become the woman in Okotie’s life. Those highly rumoured to have been in hot romance with the ‘Patrick Obahiagbon grammar brother’ man of God were former Miss Nigeria, Vien Tetsola and one Pastor Elishanmah Ideh.

The report further said that many thought his romance with Vien would lead to marriage as he was said to have played a very influential role in her life. He was said to have bought a Volkswagen Bug Tetsola was driving then Also, Okotie was reported to have been instrumental during Vien’s 30th birthday party held at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, a few years back where he even cut the cake with her.

It was on July 2008, as reported, that Chris Okotie announced to his church that he would be getting married soon.

The report further said that Stephanie was a widow of Pastor Chris Okotie’s friend. He was said to have rented an apartment with a round-the-clock security for Stephanie at Marwa Gardens, Ikeja, Lagos for Stephanie.

He was also said to have also given her a security escort attached to his cars; a black Mercedes Benz Jeep and a black S Class Mercedes Benz.

As reported, not long after Rev. Okotie and Stephanie married, one woman named Remi Odutola surfaced alleging that she has a 9-year-old girl for the singer turned pastor and politician.

Quoting room the report, “My name is Aderemi Odutola, a granddaughter of Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu-Ode. I met Reverend Christopher Okotie in 1997. I was a young Pastor desperately looking for a good church where I could worship and God led me to the Household Of God.

“Then, I had a music ministry, and because he was an ace musician, I took him as my mentor and strongly believed that he would help me one day. Along the line, something happened. We started seeing each other and I’ve done abortion for him three times before I decided to leave the last one”.

Why did she leave the last pregnancy and why is she coming out nine years after? (Aristocrats)
“I left the pregnancy not for anything, but for the fact that he proposed to marry me. Initially, I didn’t accept his proposal because of his wife, Tina. I couldn’t have married a married man. But he told me that his marriage to Tina was on the brink of collapse. He lied to me!

“Trouble, however, started immediately I got pregnant. He started behaving funny, unlike the amiable Pastor I met sometime back. At times, I would call him, but he wouldn’t pick or return my calls.”

‘It dawned on me when I gave birth to our daughter that he was just a player. Ever since I gave birth to Tioluwani Okotie (our daughter), Reverend Chris has abandoned us in my family house in Opebi. It has not been easy at all taking care of our daughter all alone.”

Does he send money for the child’s up-keep? (Aristocrats)

“Money? Whenever I call him that his daughter needs something, he will be dribbling me, giving me one excuse or the other. I was highly disappointed when I heard he eventually married Stephanie Henshaw, his late friend’s wife. He did not marry me with all the things I have been through because of him.”

Aristocrats further reported that the church was visited by them and some church members who do not want their names to be mentioned confirmed that they have seen the little girl (Tioluwani) who shares a striking resemblance with the Pastor.

It was also reported that some have wondered at the resemblance the girl has with Rev. Okotie especially at the church’s children’s department at Household of God Church. The report also claimed that effort to contact Pastor Chris Okotie to confirm the story proved abortive as he did not pick their calls.

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/18047/27/shocker-rev-chris-okoties-love-child-expose-claims.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=nigeriafilms


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holluphemydavid:
dis guy just nailed it, its scriptural God dnt support divorce, so lets freeze to fix his broken marriage b4 Nigerians will consider taking him serious

Marchman:
Although a high court in the United Kingdom has dissolved the marriage between funky and controversial pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, and his wife Anita, a new line of controversy has been opened between the now divorced couple.” On the whole, it was for long stretches a joyless, sexless marriage. What held it together was hope. Even hope finally gave way to a steady stream of philandering and abuse by the husband”.

Nigerian Times has exclusively gathered that Pastor Anita is seeking the services of lawyers in Nigeria to help recover several properties she had donated to the Christ Embassy church when the going was rosy between her and now ex-husband, Oyakhilome, fondly known as Pastor Chris by his followers. Pastor Chris leads the Christ Embassy Church, AKA Believers LoveWorld, while his ex-wife Anita was a senior member of the Church’s Central Executive Council, its highest-decision making body and was also in charge of the international office based in London before the trouble with her former husband began.

A Nigerian Times’ investigation reveals that Anita, who had since reverted to her maiden name Ebhodhage inherited the said property from her father, the late John Ebhodhage who was the MD/CEO of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation between 1989 and 1998. The property includes a duplex at Isolo in Lagos, an apartment at Ekpoma in Edo State, amongst others. We could not confirm if any of the property is overseas.

“She donated the property to the church believing that she was furthering the gospel and at that time truly believed in Pastor Chris, who in addition to being her husband was also her pastor,” said a close family source to Pastor Anita who has chosen to be anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the issue.

Divorce
The couple’s divorce was finalized on February 8, this year but it was after much legal drama and fireworks in the English court. The major contentions were the sharing of their mutual property as well Pastor Anita’s right to speak freely about life with her former husband, which he had challenged, wanting the court to bar her from disclosing details of the divorce and their life together. He was however willing to consider a sufficient compensation to her, if she agreed not to speak about the matter.

On the matter of compensation, we gathered that Pastor Chris declared a total sum of 120,000 USD and a house in Johannesburg, South Africa and that he was only the spiritual head of the Christ Embassy Church, not its administrative or legal head, and so its funds were communal and not personal to him. Our source, who described the claim by Pastor Chris as a blatant lie, revealed that this was particularly distressing to Anita as she had invested the better part of her life, including finances in the Christ Embassy Church. “She was particularly saddened by this claim, and had to go on vacation to Switzerland, her mother’s country, because of the stress,” he said.

That incident happened in October last year, shortly after which Pastor Chris donated the whooping sum of N1 billion to the Benson Idahosa University.

The court held in favour of Pastor Chris that the funds of the church were indeed communal and so would not be a factor in the divorce, to his great delight and the coterie of aides, hangers-on and senior pastors who accompanied him to the High Court of Justice Principal Registry of the Family Division in October 2015. So much so that it was learnt they threw a party at the Christ Embassy, Bermondsey branch to celebrate ‘the victory.’

The court however did not bar Pastor Anita from disclosing any detail of the divorce or life with her ex-husband, and we have learned reliably that she is getting prepared to write a tell-all about the misery she suffered at the hands of the so-called man of God.

What broke the camel’s back
Talking about misery, our source disclosed that the woman had a difficult and sexless marriage for much of the time they were together but bore the pains because she believed it was the necessary sacrifice for the success of their ministry. She was transferred to UK to start off the international arm of the ministry in the late 90s, when the church had a programme there and Pastor Chris asked her to stay back and kick-start the international arm of the ministry. At that point, our source said, Pastor Chris’ word was life and death to her and she considered him next to God. So in spite of family and friends who cautioned against taking up the offer and that it was not ideal leaving her relatively young marriage for an oversea country, even for the cause of the gospel, she packed her bags in obedience to her ‘man of God.’ She took their two children Charlene and Sharon along with her.

In no time, her hard-work had paid off and the international arm of the ministry was booming, with numerous churches started in the UK and mainland Europe. But this success might have invariably cost her marriage, for while she was away from Nigeria, a few women had allegedly grown close to her husband and were living in the same housing complex known as ‘White House’ as he. ‘White House’ is an exclusive multi story building at the Church’s Oregun-Lagos branch where Pastor Chris stays whenever he is in Lagos. It has several luxury apartments, a swimming pool, and open only to Pastor Chris, and his closest aides, who incidentally are beautiful but unmarried top female pastors such as Pastors Yemisi Kudehinbu, and Deola Phillips, whom his ex-wife was uncomfortable with.

With rumours swirling around town about some suspicious activities bordering on infidelity, our source said Pastor Anita insisted on returning to Lagos, to her matrimonial home, and requested the sack of the strange women – Pentecostalspeak for home breakers , around her ex-husband. The man however refused, insisting that she was more useful to the ministry in the Uk, than in Nigeria and that the women were indispensible to the growth of the Christ Embassy Church.

“What really broke the camel’s back happened after IPPC (the Church’s flagship program for its partners and pastors) in December 2013. While sleeping in their room, she woke up to discover that her ex-husband had exited the room, and locked the door behind him. She was distraught and could not fathom why he would lock her inside the room and left with the key!

“On returning, she queried him and he confessed that he had gone for a meeting in the apartment of one of the controversial women pastors around him, Yemisi Kudehinbu. This enraged the wife and she vowed to leave and never to return. She subsequently filed for divorce on returning to the UK,” our source revealed. “It wasn’t just that he was doing it; but that he couldn’t forgo that one night she had planned to spend with him in Lagos.”

The Family
The ex-couple were blessed with two children, Charlene and Sharon, both of whom were raised by their mother in the UK. That has not however made them stick with their mum in these trying times. “They both currently live with their father, and she has not seen or spoken with them in a while,” the source said, explaining further that “the man is very charismatic and can convince anyone, also I believe the children think they are better off being with their multi-billionaire dad than with their mum who is just trying to get by now.”

http://nigeriantimes.ng/news/exclusive-the-messy-details-of-pastor-chris-divorce/

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anochuko01:
everyone knows that.
your question wasn't sincere Sir. you wouldn't have asked same thing if it was from other schools.
I'm sure Harvard started from somewhere too. and its unfair comparing Harvard with a school that's less than ten years.
with this structure, students can easily get work experience and possible employment too, indigenes would make a living from selling also....that's enough problem to solve especially in our country.

chibabe259:
Pls before You retire, tell freeze that Jesus didn't marry and his disciples didn't divorce their wives.

chibabe259:
Freeze has nothing to offer and can't be my role model. Jesus and his disciples didn't pay tithe but did they say we shouldn't pay?.

anochuko01:
Sir, you're old enough to reason like a human being please.
what do you expect them to do with thousands if eggs and chicken naa. should they fry and give you
unilag just got a TV license....would they be broadcasting classes with it? isn't it for training and as well make money for the school?
don't most schools do almost the same thing?
I fear for your wife and kids o..coz they may lose you to hatred soon.

chibabe259:
Lol, God has power to do all things.

chibabe259:
He that comes to equity must come with clean hands.

Luke 6:41 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.