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isaiah4life:
Mat 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

The Bible didn't record that they were three wise men. The Bible only recorded they were wisemen that came to worship the King of kings.

The Bible also didn't place more emphasis on each names but collective called the wisemen "MAGI'

MAGUS is singular while MAGI is plural. It means the names called was Magi.

MERRY CHRISTMAS. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIEND.

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The service chiefs yesterday got a fresh marching order from President Muhammadu Buhari to crush the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), which has overtaken Boko Haram in the North East insurgency, before he leaves office in 2023.

Buhari handed down the order at a meeting of the Security Council in Abuja 24 hours after the group rained rockets close to the Maiduguri airport shortly before the President arrived in the city.

Several people were killed by the rockets.

Police Inspector General Alkali Baba Usman said some of the masterminds of the attack have been eliminated.

And in his Christmas message yesterday, the President told Nigerians to invoke the “indomitable spirit in us and see the present order of things as a phase that will also pass, just like other unsavoury situations in the nation’s history.”

The Nation gathered that Buhari, during the Security Council meeting, directed that no inch of Nigerian territory should be ceded to terrorists.

Buhari wondered why ISWAP insurgents kept striking from the same corridor unchecked and told the Service Chiefs to be prepared to win the war against insurgency before he leaves office.

The President’s second term expires in May 2023.

Buhari said he meant what he told the troops in Maiduguri on the need to rout Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgents.

A top source, who spoke in confidence with one of our correspondents, said the meeting was a “frank appraisal session.”

“No one was happy with how the ISWAP insurgents struck on Thursday and took the shine off Mr. President’s visit.

“The President could not understand the recurring assaults from the same corridor or axis,” the source said.

“We had a similar incident on December 4. And before the President’s visit, a security /intelligence evaluation was done with a caveat that there should be a subsidiary operation to cordon off this axis.

“Yet the insurgents fired rockets from the same axis and targeted the Maiduguri International Airport.

“Although the President did not betray emotions during his visit, he was certainly not happy with the situation of things.”

Responding to a question, the source said: “The President asked the Service Chiefs not to give terrorists, especially the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), a breathing space. He directed that no inch of Nigerian territory must be occupied by terrorists.

“He warned against the reversal of the gains the military has made. He also sought a more proactive campaign to rout the insurgents, whether Boko Haram or ISWAP.

“He said his administration is prepared to win the war against insurgency.”

The Nation also gathered that top Army Generals were yesterday deployed in Borno State to “review the situation and boost the war against the insurgents.

Another source added: “Many Army Generals arrived in Borno State on Friday to review the situation and improve on the operational strategies.”

Buhari at Christmas: How we can end this unsavoury security situation.

The President in his Christmas message as Nigeria joins the rest of the world today to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ asked Nigerians to invoke the “indomitable spirit in us and see the present order of things as a phase that will also pass, just like other unsavoury situations in the nation’s history.”

Similar goodwill messages came from Senate President Ahmed Lawan, House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, state governors, the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Dr.Ignatius Kaigama, who said the hearts of Nigerians are heavy with suffering arising from the situation in the country.

Buhari said Nigeria is yet to overcome its security challenges “despite the remarkable successes generally recorded.”

He said: “Our courageous security forces, bolstered by the necessary support from this administration, daily confront the wicked ones amongst us, who continue to to threaten the peace of the land.

“Recently, during the meeting with fellow Heads of State of the ECOWAS, I discussed the need to intensify efforts to jointly confront this menace causing instability in our sub-region.

“I am confident that with the renewed commitment and empowerment of our committed security personnel, all these issues which inflict pain and trauma on us will soon be history.

“Let us utilise the opportunity that this festive period brings to encourage ourselves so that the machinations of the wicked ones in our midst will find no place to thrive.

“Christmas is a season when hope is rekindled. Hope, Peace, Joy, Love are the recurring themes of this time.

“It is in the midst of hardship that the true test of a nation emerges.

“I urge Nigerians to invoke the indomitable spirit in us and see the present order of things as a phase that will also pass, just like other unsavory situations in the nation’s history.”

He pledged that government would not abandon the promises made to Nigerians for a better lease of life, while it would continue to “create opportunities for our teeming youths to ventilate their tremendous energy.”

Buhari said this is the second Christmas running that the world “will not be able to celebrate as we used to in years past,” on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He appealed to Nigerians to “embrace vaccination, which is the best scientifically known bulwark against the pandemic.”

He asked those that have taken the two doses to go ahead and take the booster as advised by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC).

APC: We’re solidly committed to innovations to improve Nigeria’s electioneering processes

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it remains solidly committed to “constitutionally permitted and practical innovations and processes that will improve the transparency and credibility of Nigeria’s election eering processes and internal democracy.”

The National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Dr. John Akpanudoedehe, assured Nigerians of the Buhari administration’s “capacity, intent and urgency to check and contain all criminalities so that Nigerians could go about their legitimate activities across the country safely.”

The party urged Nigerians to “use the joyful season to give and show love to our fellow men, particularly the needy and vulnerable among us,” while also urging “prayers and support for our selfless security and other essential services massively deployed around the country to ensure safe travel and yuletide festivities.”

PDP to Nigerians: Let’s reinforce our determination for national rebirth

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) advised Nigerians to use the Christmas to reinforce their determination for national rebirth.

The party’s spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, also stressed the need for Nigerians to unite and show love to one another, in line with the party’s mission to “rescue and rebuild the nation from misrule”.

The party said it was “deeply worried that in the last six years, Nigerians have been forced to mark Christmas in gloom, pain, anguish and utter despondency following excruciating economic hardship and worsened insecurity.”

It added: “The PDP is saddened that while people celebrate in other parts of the world, many Nigerian families could not afford the basic items of celebration or even travel, as they did in the past, to meet and bond with their loved ones due to high costs, worsened insecurity and deplorable state of roads which are now death traps in our country.

The PDP however urged Nigerians not to allow the suffering they face today to dampen or destroy their inner personalities as happy people so as not to lose sight of the message of hope, salvation and brighter future which Christmas offers.

National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, charged Nigerians to keep hope alive in spite of daunting circumstances.

Ayu, in a Christmas goodwill message, said although the occasion symbolises love, hope, sharing, celebration and thanksgiving, the gloomy economic situation has made such very difficult.

He said: “But I charge Nigerians not to lose hope. Keep hope alive. There is life beyond the APC gloom. The day will break after this long night. Do not let the sorry state of the nation dampen the Christmas spirit”.

Atiku Abubakar urges Nigerians to sow seeds of unity.

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The Anambra state government has described the news that herders invaded the newly-built airport in Umueri, as a fiction taken too far.

In a statement, Anambra State Commissioner for Information & Public Enlightenment, C Don Adinuba, said there was no record of herders entering the airport.

Adinuba said the cattle being bred in Umueri belong to Anambra farmers and investors.

He said “We refute with all the emphasis at our disposal the report that a group of Fulani herdsmen and their herd of cattle invaded the newly-built and commissioned Anambra State International Cargo and Passenger Airport, Umueri.”

“Nothing could be further from the truth, even by the standard of sensational journalism, the report took fiction too far.”

He said those who filed the report did not bother to cross-check with the Anambra government that built the airport, the airport security or even the police.

“Some envious elements within the political firmament have gone to great lengths to run down the landmark achievement of building the state-of-the-art airport by Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State in record time, but it goes beyond the pale trying to manufacture fictions about a fanciful Fulani cattle invasion. The cattle being bred in the Umueri area for many years belong to Anambra farmers and investors, not to any imagined Fulani invaders.”

“The perimeter fencing of the airport is up-to-date and cannot be breached easily, not by man or even far less by cattle. The security is sophisticatedly electronic and manual. The reckless journalism of inventing fictions and appealing to the base indulgencies of opposition partisan political elements deserves condemnation by all Nigerians.

“Two of Nigeria’s most reputable airline companies, Allen Onyema’s Air Peace and Obiora Okonkwo’s United Nigeria Airlines, are already running regular flights to and fro Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport, and the passengers have never ever complained about security at the airport.

“The public should be conscious of attempts to spin fibs to run down well-constituted projects designed to enhance Nigeria’s development. Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport remains an eloquent testament that uplifting things is possible in the Nigerian public space, and no amount of reckless journalism can drag down a plane already up in flight.”

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hunter, Ismaila Ojo, has shot dead another villager at Ita-Merin village, near Ore in Ondo State.

SaharaReporters learnt that the hunter dead shot his 70-year-old neighbour, who was defecating in the bush at the back of the house.

Ojo had claimed he was testing his gun.

Parading the suspects to newsmen in Akure, the recently deployed Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Oyeyemi Oyediran, said the hunter was arrested with his locally made gun.

The suspect while speaking with journalists confessed to have shot the aged man around 3am but insisted that he mistakenly took the victim for an animal in the night.

Ojo, who claimed to be a registered hunter, said he was the one that raised the alarm after he mistakenly shot the aged man and he afterwards took him to the near farm settlement for medical attention.

He said if he did it deliberately, he would not have raised the alarm for help.

The suspect who said the victim few died days after the incident, pleaded for mercy, saying he could not have killed his neighbour for nothing.

“I have never committed a crime in my life; everybody knows me as a hunter; I don’t know how animals turned to human being. Have mercy on me,” he said.

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Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has encouraged the people of Benue and Nigerians to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari.

The governor also urged Nigerians not to lose hope in the country but to continue to work together to build an indivisible country.

This was contained in his Christmas goodwill message to Benue citizens as well as Nigerians issued in Makurdi on Friday by the governor’s aide, Mr. Nathaniel Ikyur.

He said that it was an opportunity for all Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic, political or religious affiliation to come together and work consciously to dislodge the terrorist forces destabilising the country.

Ortom regretted the pain the terror groups had wrecked on the political, economic and social life of Nigerians.

“We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, let us celebrate as one big Nigerian family with love and care for one another.

“Let us avoid divisive tendencies where religion, ethnicity and political differences have eaten deep into our lives.

“We must not allow this criminality by terrorists and their sponsors to continue and destroy our nation.

“Let’s come together to end it now for the benefit of our children and future generations,” he said.

He said that the yearly commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ signified the love God had for mankind.

He further said that the season had presented a unique time to share love genuinely irrespective of political or religious differences.

He encouraged Christians to pray for peace, harmony, urging them to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors, members of the National Assembly as well as ministers, and all those in positions of authority for the peace of the country.

He also admonished Benue people to be security conscious and to be at alert during and after the festivities.

“Given the recent security alert raised by security agencies, Benue people should be conscious of their environment now.

“Let them report suspicious movements of people to the security agencies so that together, we can fish out the bad eggs amongst us,” he said.

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Six power plants under the management of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company have stopped operations due to a breach in the supply of gas to the facilities.

A letter from the NDPHC to the Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc stated that the breach was reported by the Nigeria Gas Company, the supplier of gas to the plants.

The letter, which was dated December 20, 2021 and titled, “Re: Notice of gas shortage from Nigeria Gas Company”, stated that five of the power plants were impacted by the gas curtailment, while one was forced to shut down.

It read in part, “We (NDPHC) have been notified on December 18, 2021, by the Nigeria Gas Company, via an email (Annexure I) of a breach on their gas supply network as well as technical issues affecting gas suppliers on the western axis.

“These challenges have led the NGC to issue the notice of gas curtailment arising from the abysmal system pressure levels that must be managed to avoid collapse of the gas grid.”

It added, “According to the NGC, the Trans-Forcardos Pipeline was breached on December 17, 2021 and has impacted Seplat’s production and may affect other producers if not immediately repaired.

“Also, the NGC reported that the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company’s Ughelli East Plant is currently down, while Chevron Nigeria Limited had also lost a compressor because of technical issues.”

It noted that the combined impact of all these issues was a deferment, unavailability to off-takers, of about 250 million standard cubic feet of gas from the pipeline network.

On plants that were affected, the power firm said, “The NHPHC has five of its operational power plants viz, Olorunsogo, Omotosho, Sapele, Ihovbor and Geregu impacted by this gas curtailment, while Omotosho NIPP (National Integrated Power Project) has been forced to shut down.

“Geregu NIPP and Ihovbor NIPP are only receiving limited gas volumes thus leading to part load or low generation operation.”

The letter, however, stated that the management of the NDPHC was monitoring the situation and was committed to ensuring that the plants return to full operations as soon as gas supply improves.

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