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What is Igp going to say about this, maybe, they are police from Mali and Libya. What shame to the Nigerian leaders. Just asking, how many group should the ordinary Nigerians mobilise against?

If you really mean this, tell us detail by details on how you will go about it. Yes, there is money in Nigeria for all the Nigerians masses can benefit from, but the stealing politicians and riches just decided to punish and make the downtrodden their slaves. Get other good youth to together and get ground rolling. I'm much aware you have been on this route for years getting ready for 2019. I can only wish you sincere good luck. No evil will stand in your way, not even the vampire politicians. Please don't go under any pastor because we all being sustain by the Grace of God and not pastor. My one pence.

Pa Tony Momoh should tell his people to take heart because it is the Mali people that killed and not the Fulani herdsmen who are blood family to the Edo's.

delikay4luv:
Today is my birthday. Happy birthday to myself.
Note: I don't have any relationship with Miyett Allah or Buhari's cows. Thanks.

Happy birthday, may you celebrate many more year in good health. Amen.

VBCampaign:
Biodun Fatoyinbo aka "Robust Reply" Visits Ibadan

by Deji Yesufu

A few weeks ago, I saw a billboard that announced that Biodun Fatoyinbo was coming to Akobo, Ibadan. He would be guest minister to Gbeminiyi Eboda’s church – the Harvest House Christian Centre. I made up my mind that I was going to attend.

At least to behold this gentleman who had long promised Nigerians a “robust reply” but whom somehow has refused to speak on the matter almost five years after the allegations of his sexual philandering hit the news in this country.

Gbeminiyi Eboda is the reigning “man of God” in Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, this moment. Mr. Eboda has not always been big. He used to pastor a tiny congregation in Basorun, Ibadan, in a certain building called “Iya Ni Wura House”. There his church shared the building with two or three other churches within the office complex. Today he pastors the “Alpha Cathedral” in Akobo.

The one and only time I listened to Mr. Eboda was when he was a guest speaker at the Vine Branch Church, Mokola; where he ministered at a Tuesday service – about 7 years ago. That day I was not impressed with his preaching at all. For whatever reason best known to him, he chose to preach like T. D. Jakes. Mimicking his manner of speaking and all that. When I saw Mr. Eboda this last Wednesday, he had indeed “evolved and increased”. He was no longer preaching like T. D. Jakes.

Gbeminiyi Eboda and his congregation have built something close to a cathedral at the Iyana Olopa Bustop at Akobo, Ibadan. It is arguably the fastest growing congregation in that vicinity of Ibadan. Populated mostly by young people, some of whom are young and rising professionals in various fields of occupation in the humble city of Ibadan.

On the street that Eboda built his church, there are no less than seven other churches – all competing for members. I noticed that even the break away Bishop Bolu Martins, who left David Oyedepo a few years ago, also has his church facing that of Eboda. I also noticed the conspicuous absence of the pastors of these churches in Mr. Eboda “revival” meetings.

I arrived the opening night of the meeting on the 14th of March, 2018 on top of an Okada at exactly 6pm. It was my first time at Mr. Eboda’s church. As I paid my fares, I noticed Mr. Eboda arrive the same venue in a Pajero Jeep. Two rows of about 30 young men and women had been set up, in the midst of which Mr. Eboda walked into the church. As he walked, these young men and women were singing his praise, while he waved at them like a newly elected government official.

That night, Mr. Biodun Fatoyinbo was to be the guest preacher. Mr. Eboda introduced him to the congregation with fanfare and after a short “worship” session, Fatoyinbo launches into the meat of his discuss for that night. Usually in meetings like this, the invited minister spends the first few minutes of his message to “praise” his host; stating that he is the best to have happened to that congregation since the invention of pounded yam.

Fatoyinbo said nothing less; just that he said a little more and I just could not but wonder at how things have deteriorated in these charismatic assemblies since I stopped attending them some four years ago.

Fatoyinbo said “I knew that Pastor Eboda will make it…” That statement is pregnant with meaning because Fatoyinbo goes on to explain how he had always been friends with Eboda when he was little known.

How he used to visit his home when he was a student in Ilorin. He states that this was his first time visiting Eboda’s church. And I just could not but wonder at the dichotomy of these words: you never visit your “friend”, until this friend of yours built a cathedral – one large enough to contain your person.

These prosperity preachers never change, I said to myself.

Fatoyinbo continues: “Heaven has come to Ibadan…” I say to myself: I can imagine. “Eboda is a great man. He oozes out wisdom. He is a genuine man of God. Pray for the gift of such a friend… This is a church to cling to… Only beautiful people come to my meetings… I have come to master three things in life: what I say, what I think and where my money goes to…”

The last remark elicits a lot of laughter from the congregation as the guest minister invites us to take our seat. He launches into his text for the night and this is where I must make a point. Fatoyinbo is preaching a message in this opening night of the meeting themed “evolve and increase”.

It is incumbent on him to find a biblical text that will support this theme. The trouble however with preachers like him is that they go into the Bible, find a text that supports a particular theme or topic, reap it out of context and make that text say what they want it to say; not what it really says.

Fatoyinbo goes for the mother text of all Faith Preachers: Mark 11:24. It reads: “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”.

Mr. Fatoyinbo closes his Bible, turns to the congregation and asks: “when do you have them?” He goes on to answer: “You have them the very moment you pray.” Then he ditches the text and proceed to tell the congregation what he wants them to know and not what the text is saying: “You are made for movement… God expects you to go forward… You need to continually evolve and increase… There is more out there for you… Everything you will be, you are already… Not one person here will miss their destiny… This is the least that you can be… The Lord has instructed me to declare things… Prayer is not only the key, it is the master key…”

Preaching the same sort of nonsense that prosperity preachers long before him have been preaching, Fatoyinbo fans the embers of the congregation’s ego and self, and positions their mental state to believe that God exists to satisfy their lusts.

He takes a perfectly spiritual tool, prayer, and uses it in a clearly unspiritual manner, to bring about the desires of the congregation. The prosperity theme of the meeting remains: evolve and increase.

It is the same with all the other big churches in Nigeria, including the “Open Heavens” and the “Shiloh” or whatever “Experience” that people are seeking in these churches. The aim is to use God to satisfy human lust. God somehow has lost control of his world and he is now depending on men to make him do certain things: particularly to brings blessings and prosperity on all men, so preach these men.

To drive home his point, Fatoyinbo laces his messages with anecdotes that will arouse the greed of the congregation. He explains that he does not think he has arrived. He has a friend in the USA who pastors a big church – this guy is just 36 years old. He explains that Beyonce once visited this church and gives this young man $10 million to advance the gospel. In the midst of the hues and cries, I wonder at the congregation and thought to myself: do these people know who Beyonce is? What has Beyonce done to ever advance the gospel through her music that to plainly glorifies sex and vanity? Will a gift of $10M suddenly absolve her of all her ways?

Fatoyinbo is not done with stories. On his second night preaching, he tells the story of how he was given a beautiful car which he discovers that his five year old son loves so much. So one morning, he calls the boy and gives him the car. He told that story to say that although his son owns the car, he cannot drive it. He wanted the congregation to grow in maturity to be able to own and use the things God wants to give them.

While the congregation hails his point, the other fact of how pastors subtly or directly compel members to give them things is carefully overlooked. The vision of the pursuit of mundane things etched on the listeners is not seen. And the disguised pride in his own wealth comes out in a veiled form. He tells us of how he had to silence a proud preacher once. He simply took the man around his congregation and showed him his wealth. The congregation was just like “wow!”

I have intentionally reported Fatoyinbo in the negative in this article because I am hopeful that Nigerian young people would some day discover the deceitful manner ministers like him can defraud them.

But Fatoyinbo was not all negative in the two nights encounter I had with him at Eboda’s church. He came out to me as a man that has minimum education: he speaks very well. His father was a politician and he and his siblings were raised with some silver spoon.

He regarded himself as a “rich kid”, who got away with certain things in the home of his relatives when he visited them in the village because his father had money. After making that statement, Fatoyinbo prayed that the congregation will have the kind of money that will make them “somebody” in society.

It was at the second night of his ministration that Mr. Eboda introduces Fatoyinbo as “his lordship”. Where I sat, I just cringed at the manner to which these men take the praise of other men to.

I have long suggested that two of Nigeria’s leading trouble are her politicians and her preachers – especially those of the Prosperity/Pentecostal ilk. While Nigeria’s politicians defraud her, the preachers lend legitimacy to their actions. Fatoyinbo himself alluded to this when he said that what most young ministers do now is to come to Abuja and be errand boys to politicians. He says these young men will spend hours praying for politicians and when they are done, they are rewarded with some cash as honorarium. As he recounted this story, I say to myself: but, sir, you also left Ilorin for Abuja at some point too now. It is working for you; hopefully, it would work for these boys too.

I end this essay by stating emphatically that there is nothing Christian in many of the gatherings that call themselves “revivals” in Nigeria Pentecostal churches today. They are simply the gathering of a people to rub the ego of one man and to source for more membership for him. Pentecostal churches are ponzi schemes that cause the people at the top to increase in wealth as their base line followership increases.

These gatherings are devoid of the Christian gospel and the foremost call of the Christian church, which is to make disciples for Jesus, is not even a motive for them. The whole motive is to get members, so as to grow a church, that will have people “sow” into the life of the “man of God”.

In late 2013, a young woman by the name of Ese Walters came out to accuse Mr. Biodun Fatoyinbo of indulging in months of sexual philandering with her. She claimed that they both carried out the acts in hotels far away from this country. She had severed relations with the pastor as of the time of making these allegations. Her own way of finding healing was to make the whole matter public.

Mr. Fatoyinbo came under fire from that moment on. The Sunday after the scandal broke out, he promised Nigerians to give a “robust reply” to the allegations. Five years down the line there has been no response. Rather, Mr. Fatoyinbo has only continue to “evolve and increase” in ministry, bringing his friend, Gbeminiyi Eboda along with him.

These men are in their early forties and they are the new face of Pentecostalism in our nation. As they continue their business, some of us will continue to track them and hold them accountable to their words and ways. The only people one pities in this whole drama are the young men and women, whose mental faculties these men eat into with their nice words. Their judgement lingers not (2 Peter 2:1-4).

I spent fifteen years of my youth in these environment and I know the toxin these people are instilling into the life of young people. I advise that parents should guard their children and wards, and keep them from these people.

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/biodun-fatoyinbo-aka-robust-reply-visits-ibadan/

Not only the youths but also the adults are ready to reap you off when you, only, tell them to slow down. Since they now refer their pastors as god, what we can only do is to wish them what they wish themselves and wish it will not be too late for them to understand the truth.

Thank you to the Nigerian union in Kakata, may God bless you all.

He is so happy swimming on a road he have worked on. This man is pretending to care in the eyes of the world after he intensionally created the carnage by using his citizens as a collateral to get favour from the top. A leader who fails to act rightly will be used to overwhelmed himself into unimaginable frustrations. I don't see Bello as serious person with this visit, it is just a camouflage. I am campaigning for the Youth, with the likes of Bello, Dino, Dimeji Bankole, and few others, where are the Youth?

Mrchippychappy:
You mean to tell me this man is the governor and the road looks like that? Him and his convoy are proud to drive through that road or river?

Six month he was sworn in, he used the money he should built the road with to first built himself a Victorian mansion.

Do we ever think of how wives and husbands treat their maids, do we starve, beat, tie, burn or rape them? When you employs these sets of people you make them feel at home. though no matter how good you are some of them are bad. Treat them well and allow he judgement of god to be on them and not on you.

Caustics:
if she needs qualified house maid she should spend money and import from nigeria and stop complaining

Are Nigerians better?

Abba Kyari's daughter, thank you for making Aisha's appointment possible. At least, good turns deserves another they say.

So sad, with due respect sir, what benefits are you getting from the Fulani's that at your age you are afraid to tell the truth? I am very sure the herders have visited Edo and left their foot prints, even though your area is not visited yet, be rest assured they will one day do, unless you are also paying the Fulani herdsmen to allow your poeple free access to their own farm just like Okowa is in support that the Deltan farmers should pay the Fulani herdsmen. The Fulani herdsmen are from Mali and Libya, yet they are not arrested and prosecuted, is it the truth, then that the president and other Fulani's are not Nigerians? It is more sad the spirit of Midwest has long been dead and buried that Bendel now carry last because of these sets of people. Pa Balarabe Musa, Pa Junaid Mohammed, may your old age stay till midnight time for always standing on the very truth. Amen.

Dreambeat:
The fact is that Ifeanyi Okowa and his likes are greedy and selfish.They know what to do but would not do it because of their political interests.He is running for a second tenure hence does not want to jeopardize his chances by stepping on the toes of the power that be,the presidency. His interest him is more important than the interest of those he was elected to serve.Shame!

If only the Deltans will disgrace him by refusing 50n salt, 1derica cup of rice and vote the ugly man out. May all the deities in the land humiliate you Okowa for using Deltans as collateral to get to the top. Ise.

Ngokafor:
Mumu Okowa..

.go and take some much needed lessons from Ayo Fayose on how to take charge of your state against those homicidal fulani herdsmen,instead of whinning and 'reporting' the matter like a child....gosh Southern Politicians are just sickening!!

They are all gluttons, thieves and vampires.

Okowa, who are you reporting the issue of your state to, is it the security operatives who are already instructed not to touch the Fulani herdsman no matter what they do? Okowa, you can only use your wife and children as collateral to get position from pa Buhari and not the Deltas. What kind of governor are you, oh, only to steal? You are empty up there, otherwise, how can the farmers pay the Fulani herdsmen before they enter their farms and you are stupidly voicing it out? Okowa, you are a shame to that stay, may all the evil you are intentionally heaping on Deltas catch up with you no matter the jazz that you do. Since the indigenes themselves have refused to protect themselves because Okowa is afraid that was he told Deltans not to fight back, Okowa is a Fool. Don't worry because your immediate family will partake in Fulani herdsmen massacre, di you see Ortem today? At the early stage of carnage in Benue, Ortem left for solidarity in Aso Rock while Benue was burning and today his rice farm was breakfast, lunch and dinner for the herdsmen and their cows. How beautiful it shall be when your turn comes weather you have farm or not, you have investments you stole to acquire.

NwaAmaikpe:




It's not so much of a big deal as long as it is not on Adebayo Road.
The cost of 2 plots of land in Ado Ekiti will not even pay six months shop rent in Enugu.

(You can get a plot of land at Aduloju for as low as 180 thousand Naira.)

I don't want to know the cost of the land because the cost is immaterial here. The land is everything good to the given.

ManirBK:
Only a blind man wont see improvement You and your type that didn't vote for him are tired of staying without looting, but the majority that voted for him are still with him, and they will votes for him again and again

Just like the majorities in Benue, Taraba and others.

Hemanwel:
So last last, Dangote daughter's wedding over-shadowed that of the VP? God dey oh!

Why is it that most of these elected public office holders want their wards to get married during their tenure? What do they stand to gain other than having it on record that they spent lavishly for the weddings - with tax payer's money? Pls I need clarifications.

The greedy leaders/the rich do this to get Cars, Houses and millions in gift to their children. Armed rubbers they are for always piling up cursed gift into their children's homes.

Sincerely speaking, this show of destruction was not necessary at all, you should leave and talk to him later, his response then, determines when to move on. Though it hurts, but you have to move on and leave him with the guilt, that is, if he ever had genuine feelings for you. You made your pain more painful by your actions. You should have been more patient with him. But how did you know the girl is the main girl? You just lost so cheaply with your temper which you could not control. You may have failed the guys cheap test by your hot temper. Be wise next time.

This is beautiful, Otedola, do you still wear to match danshiki also made with your shoe?

GoroTango:
Point of correction esteemed Nobel Laureate, Buhari did not declare IPOB a terrorist organization because he lacks the power to do so. It was a legitimate court of law with legal jurisdiction who did so. IPOB are terrorists.

The legal man said what the fathers. sponsors and backers of the Fulani's herdsmen asked him to say. There are so many people now using other peoples heads to operate.

I say big thank you to the couple, may God's grace continue to be with you both and your children. Amen.

Sapele?

You can now see why the maids are beginning to revolt against their madams, that is not to say it was right for the 11yr old girl to kill the little boy. If only these sets of women which it now seems they are in large numbers now will learn with the little boys death to turn a new leaf on how well to treat order peoples children be you maid or stepchildren. Most women are becoming too heartless on the treatment of their maids and they are quick to call the maids devil without saying their evil parts. Her husband can only run but would not hide because he is part of the torture the girl suffered. Just telling these evil women that their own innocent children will continue to suffer from these maids if they don't charge from Vampire nature to human.

This massacre is away of telling Bello thank you to agreeing to surrender his people for colony by Fulani herders. Bello should be dancing now that whatever he is asking from the president will come to him after using his people as collateral.

Ambode and Tinubu are not to be believed. the book manipulators. Ambode just allowed Tinubu to push him to the gutters, what a pity Ambode is sending himself back to Ondo already.

What kind of nonsense is this, how did a mental person entered inside school premises with guards around?

Senator Akume, what is Buhari my people is not happy with you, does Pa Buhari care if your people exist or not. Talk like a leader and your know you are on their side and not that you want to use them as collateral to get favour from the president. Mr Akume, tell the president that henceforth your people will fight back because everybody have that sense of i don't care what happens to the next person. While he was in Plateau and Benue the herders had the guts to kill because they know Pa Buhari, Emir Sanusi, Sultan of Sokoto and Ango Abdullai
are solidly behind them.

Mr Okiro and Idris the IGP, please pay them their salaries and don't lie. Do you think Nigerians will believe your lies. You people are busy stealing their money to buy choice houses, cars, marry many wives and to carry concubines. Please pay them so that they will stop killing innocent Nigerians over 50n.

General will sign it, it is not a fraud. What are the police, Dss and others are afraid of? Pa Buhari must sign it for the youth to get employed. When it is signed same set of useless people that are standing against it will be the first to send the names of their failed children. Hopeless leaders.

His employed cabal have destroyed him to unredeemable status.

spartan117:
President Muhammadu Buhari has denied knowledge of days which the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris spent in Benue State after he was ordered to relocate to the state.

President Buhari said this on Monday during a meeting with some stakeholders at the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital.

On January 9, the President had ordered the Inspector General of Police to immediately move to Benue State to restore law and order and prevent further loss of lives and properties, from escalating and spreading in the state.

Although Mr Idris obeyed the President’s directive, he reportedly left Benue State for Nasarwa State.

Addressing stakeholders at the Government House in Makurdi the President said he is just learning of the alleged noncompliance by the IGP but as a loyal leader, he will engage the IGP for inquires upon his return to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

“What I did was to call him and give him the directive. I didn’t know he moved here (Benue State) and didn’t spend … and then moved to Nasarawa. It’s only now that I am knowing that.

“But I know I dispatched him here,” the President said.

Buhari made this explanation following demands by Governor Samuel Ortom that the IGP steer clear of partisan politics as a Police Chief and desist from holding an opinion on which law to implement or not.

Buhari said further that as a leader loyalty is very important.

The President said he operates with this watchword. According to him, the IGP is slow in using the intelligence and resources available to him but as a loyal leader, all he did was give the directive to the IGP instead publicly exposing his incompetence.

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/03/12/i-never-knew-igp-moved-to-nasarawa-after-i-sent-him-to-benue-buhari/

Pa Buhari is always never knowing what his are doing whenever he gives them instructions. Yet it was made public then that IGP left Benue immediately he got there, yet, the president said he just knew of it. He keeps defending his evil men.