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Q: That sounds like celebrity Christianity.


A: It is. What should happen is when they mention the Redeemed Christian Church of God, you should think of a people that believe in what God has given as a vision to that place and are willing to defend it with their lives. We have many churches, but a negligible amount of righteousness in our land. The recent banking crisis revealed that some prominent Christians were among those who caused it.
And so you wonder what is the benefit of holiness, of sanctification and righteousness. We are supposed to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth.
Why would this happen? Because pastors don’t even care where their people get the money. Just bring it and let life continue. How many pastors ask for the source of the money followers give? Most of these treasury looters and robbers sit in the front row of our churches and donate the largest amounts and pastors don’t care. They’ll even be praying for them like some people pray for armed robbers. That’s why I said the church has become a theatre: a place where people come to amuse themselves. Because they don’t know that the church is a war zone, where soldiers of the cross are trained. It’s where the standard of discipleship is raised; where you become an agent for change in a nation. I’m not talking of rascality. I’m not saying let’s go on the streets and be displaying rascality. I’m talking of constructive engagement and constructive dismantling of the oppressive forces over our nation. It is not only about praying, but having a head-on collision with them and calling a spade a spade. If that’s the role the church had been playing in Nigeria, we wouldn’t be in this mess. But we’ll rather take them to a side and tell them to come to a particular location once a week or once a month to get special prayer and lay empty hands on empty heads. That’s not Christ, that’s not church.


The once-a-month special prayer you mentioned brings to memory your criticism of the Lekki 98 programme of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.  You’ve also criticised the yearly Shiloh programme organised by Bishop Oyedepo’s Winners’ Chapel.


How did I criticise that? You have to remind me because[i] I will not even dignify that (Shiloh) by a comment[/i]. I’m not criticising them. For the Redeemed Church, the theme was the visitation of God or something to that effect; so that you don’t miss the day of your visitation.
And I said this is how you know if people are backward. Is He visiting us now or does He want habitation after He had died and He has risen from the dead and He’s now in heaven and the Holy Ghost is here? It’s no longer time of visitation that you might be built up a habitation of God. A visitor is different from one who is inhabiting. Because He’s a visitor, He comes and goes. That’s why people don’t have His presence to carry Him in their hearts. It’s not an empty criticism, it’s just that you know how we as a people are. That’s all.

OAM4J:
check this link (But am not sure if u need to register before the site uploads - Registration is free, requires only username and email)

http://thenewsng.com/cover-story/why-i-quit-redeemed-church/2009/11

The interview spans through 12 Pages, The link you posted contains a section of the Interview, The News magazine never publishes full stories/interviews Online.

Q: In an interview published a few months ago, you were unflattering in your assessment of today’s church, describing it as a theatre. Why did you do this?

A: You go to the theatre for amusement or relaxation. You want to be entertained. But the Church of Jesus Christ was not designed to be a theatre where one celebrity performs and the others are just spectators. In most churches today, one lone star rises and others come to watch him perform. That is not church the way Jesus established it. The purpose of the five-fold ministry that he handed over to the apostles, prophets, evangelists and pastors is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry so that they should only come here (church) to refuel and go out to actually carry out what they have learnt. If you run a church where on Sunday, people come for service; on Monday, they come for special meeting; on Tuesday, they come for another thing; on Wednesday, they have Bible study; on Friday, they have special prayer and on Saturday, they have house fellowship, where are they going to live the life? Everything is tied around the building. You know a good church if the building does not exist and the church continues. And I’m not trying to say one church is better than another. When they mention Latter Rain Assembly, what name comes to your mind? Tunde Bakare. When they mention the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, it is Adeboye. If they say Deeper Life, it is Kumuyi. That is not church. That is superstardom.

Q: Many Nigerians are worried that the country is adrift. What are your fears about our nation?

A: I have no fears about our nation. What I have are concerns because fear itself is the antithesis of faith. And it is not that I’m trying to be super-spiritual or over-religious, but because I have faith in God that Nigeria will flourish again. I don’t entertain fears. But I have deep concerns because it appears that the worst set of people are often thrown up to steer the ship of the nation. They are either uncooked, untrained or just don’t care. So you have the worst of us leading the best of us. The problems that we have are not peculiar to Nigeria. But it appears the brightest in other nations have the frame of mind, the intellectual capacity, the energy, the resolve and the will to get results. They attack their problems and they begin to solve them. We have ours compounded and often, we just leave the substance and chase the shadow. That is my concern.

Friendl that was fast !!!  I wish you a quick recovery !!!

No2Atheism:
Okay thank you , unfortunately i don't have access to the publication as we speak.

Thank you for appreciating my effort to bring out this news hot and fresh, the total interview is not available online and im trying my best to bring them in bits, thanks again for appreciating our altruistic journalistic endeavour

God bless you !!!  

[quote author=Busy_body link=topic=355636.msg4973774#msg4973774 date=1258853817]^^^Lol, I hit a nerve and truth is bitter right Nkita oshi [/quote]https://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-fighting-smileys-382.gif

friendl, ill suggest you send an email to the owner of nairaland, so that he can sticky this topic on the front page His email address is

[quote author=Busy_body link=topic=355636.msg4973764#msg4973764 date=1258853557]Hey i like you What a way of stating the fact that Gestapo is a blockhead who can't relay messages properly, I was gonna voice the same feeling too, but i can't stand women and their PMS [i]ish[/i]and was scared of her wrath [/quote]Olodo rabata Oshi. Anukpam, Anuofia !!! 

No2Atheism:
@gestapo

Can you please provide the link to the full interview . . . i want to read the interview myself and draw my own conclusions instead of reading it through you. . .

This is the Current Edition of The News Magazine released 2 days ago.

http://thenewsng.com/cover-story/why-i-quit-redeemed-church/2009/11

Dr Kitaun:
interesting development . . .

some have heads no caps, some have caps but are HEADLESS

Exactly !!!

Q: President Umaru Yar’Adua is into his third year in office. How would you rate his performance?

A: That’s a question I wouldn’t even want to touch or answer because for the first time in my life as an adult, looking at his antecedents: his late brother, his father–a First Republic minister– and his level of education, I was so excited. But I must admit my humanity here that I was fooled. This is the first man I said I am willing to call my own president, looking at what he left behind in the treasury and his attitude to life. This is the first Nigerian graduate, not to mention a lecturer as head of state. Now, I’ve found out that the hood does not make the monk. Because if you ask me to rate him, I have only one rating: Umaru Yar’Adua, go home. You’re a round peg in a square hole; totally unfit in this day to lead this nation.

Q: You were once with the Redeemed Christian Church of God and you were among the youths who started the model parishes. Why did you leave?


A: I had kept quite hitherto. And because if you don’t let sleeping dogs lie and you don’t allow lying dogs to sleep, they will continue to bark. Let’s back-track. I got born-again on 24 September 1974 in the Baptist Church. I remained in the Baptist Church until I became a youth pastor. And if you go to Yaba Baptist Church, you will see my name on their plaque. While I was in there, I started attending Monday Bible study at Deeper Life, just to deepen my knowledge. Deeper Life was not a church then. And I stayed in Deeper Life for five years. While I was in the University of Lagos, I was attending Foursquare, being mentored by Dr. Odunaike. I knew him at close range, up to his bedroom. When Deeper Life started as a church, I was invited to be among the core leadership and I stayed there as national legal adviser for five years before I left for the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG.  My first visit to the Redeemed Church was on the first Sunday of March, 1984. It was my photographer who invited me. At that point in time, I had reached the point where I said I was tired of churches. It was as if what they were saying  and what they were doing were miles apart. I told myself I would not go to church any longer. I remember Brother Kumuyi sending for me and saying: ‘You left Deeper Life for the Redeemed Christian Church of God. You have just jumped from frying pan to fire.’ This is the first time I’m saying this in the open. I said if the fire burned me, I would warm myself in it because I was tired of what I was seeing here because I didn’t see them in scriptures. I didn’t get born-again in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. I didn’t get baptised in the Holy Ghost in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. I had served in leadership capacity in different churches ever before I came to the Redeemed Church. That’s why I say you can’t say I am one of the youths that started this. That is one.
Two, the first day I got to RCCG, Pastor Adeboye was looking for professionals. And when they said all God’s children should wait, I told my fiancee, now my wife, that they were talking to their members. And she said we should wait till the end. I sat there, at the back. Pastor Adeboye said: ‘That brother in blue white blue.’ I said: ‘Me?’ He said: ‘What’s your profession?’ I said: ‘I’m a lawyer.’ He told me to see him that day.
I was running away from responsibilities in the church and I ran into another one.  I went to see him and he said the church had some cases in court. I handled them free of charge. His approach was really gentlemanly and I thought I should give him a chance. That was how I started in that church. The first house I ever built in my life is at the Redemption Camp. I built it in 1986-87. I built it to just live there and serve God. I didn’t want to be a pastor. I’m a trained lawyer. I trained under Gani and trained under Rotimi Williams. I wanted to practise my profession. I had three things at the back of my mind in my life: to be a successful legal practitioner, to get to the peak of my career and to be a successful millionaire. And by 1986/87, I already had seven lawyers in my chambers, working full-time. I won my first Appeal Court case on my 21st day at the bar. I learnt under the masters. That’s why Gani’s death shook me. If you see some of the books Gani wrote, you will see my name in them. He dedicated some of them to me, to our industry while we were with him, before I crossed to Chief Rotimi Williams’ chambers and later to start my own practice. I was doing business. I brought Skoda into Nigeria. I had factories in Nigeria and I was doing well in international trade. I wanted to use both law and business to go into politics. That was my triangle. I feel lazy souls look for ways and means of manipulating people for what they cannot get through their own skills. God blessed what I was doing. And if it’s the other way round, time will tell because the records are there of my giving to the church. I remember my external auditor, Mr. Dupe Adubiaro, who is still in the Redeemed Christian Church of God and who is the chairman of their building committee in Festac. I took him to Redeemed. He’s my external auditor till today. He’s the one preparing my tax papers. He came one day and said at the rate you’re going, you will go bankrupt because every cheque I see is to the church. I said I don’t give people my money; I give it to God, whenever there is need in the house of God. Secondly, the vision for the model parishes was given to me, not to Pastor Adeboye, regardless of all propaganda and lies you have heard. It was on 3rd of May 1988 that God gave me the vision. There was no other person in the place where God gave it to me. I went to Ladipo Oluwole Street. And I have witnesses. One of them is dead, two are alive. Babalola, who was electrician in the church; Olufunlayo, who was the builder that built my house at the camp; and Olugbemi, a painter in that church, who has left now to start his own church. They were the three people I took to this building and we started. It was the fourth day and I said, wait a minute, I’ve not told Pastor Adeboye what God told me. And they took me in their car and we rushed to the camp and Pastor Adeboye came the following day. And when he saw what I was doing, he said: ‘What would you call this?’ God is witness and let God be the judge of every man in life. I said: ‘Sir, I have no desire to be a pastor. I received this vision that what you are doing can never catapult the gospel to the nations of the earth. Because everything is marooned in Ebutte Metta among the old (what they called classical). And it’s like reading the Bible upside down.’
I asked how we could reach the next generation and suggested that we should call this Model Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The concept then was to have one Model Parish in every city. So, we did one in Lagos and we did one in Ibadan until 1 October 1988, when God said my time was up. And I told only two people that day. Tony Rapu and Niyi Adefowope, who were MC’s at my annual El-Shaddai Day for my chambers. And we do that El-Shaddai feast once a year. Instead of giving bribes to civil servants, I’ll call them together once a year, give them a feast and bless them. I’m writing my memoirs and one of the chapters is titled The Model Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God: Fiction and Facts. If you have heard all kinds of lies and propaganda that were issued out, falsehood may go for years, when the arrow of truth shoots, there will be no trace of falsehood. That’s why I will mention persons and names so that these things can be verified at the right time. I left them when God said it was time to move. And I went to  Adeboye to tell him. And what he said to me, which we call the 14 points, are all written. He had a copy, I have a copy. That’s why when I publish my memoirs, you will not find me saying ‘I think God said’ and ‘I think this is it.’ I would tell you what happened.
I am a student of history and I am a lawyer by discipline. I’m not trying to expose anyone, but we better leave lying dogs to sleep or allow sleeping dogs to lie or else when they begin to bark, they will bite. I remember immediately I left, they quickly groomed Tony to take my position. One professional has gone, then another.

EXCERPTS OF THE INTERVIEW

Q: We’ve seen churches setting up universities with contributions from members, most of whom are unable to afford fees charged by these institutions. What do you make of this?

A: A good leader does not make unnecessary comments. And I’m not trying to say amongst thieves there must be honour. That’s not what I’m saying. I do not know where they got their resources from. It could be bank loans. They could have sourced funds to do it. I am not aware. If you have proof, let me know.
However, I was asked this same question by Newswatch. And I said it is not a new thing. Emory University was set up by the Methodist Church. Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, were all established through Christian initiatives, to raise the standard of education and create an environment that would not be permeated by occultism. That’s the reason for Christian initiative in education. If the government cannot deliver in that sector properly, private initiatives must place. And these universities don’t charge pittance.
But if these universities are missionary endeavours, they should have a human face to the extent that even pastors labouring in such ministries should enjoy some benefit and scholarship for their children. Because they labour side by side with you, I would think that’s what a normal, rational person would do. But these, if you examine them, are not missionary endeavours to raise the standard of education and to benefit people. I think they are just a business venture. And every man in business wants to maximise profit.

I reside in Germany and i have to tell you even when you are a legal resident, racism is still inherent, there is a glass ceiling for immigrants, stay in Nigeria and achieve your maximum potentials. there is no place like home.

SUMMARY OF 12 PAGES OF THE NEWS MAGAZINE

1", In Nigeria the worst of us are leading the best of us!,

2, Umaru yar'adua our first Nigerian graduate/lecturer president is a round peg in a square hole, he is totally unfit to lead this nation!,

3, Yar'adua could not careless whether Nigeria is sick or healthy as he is battling with his own health, an honest man would have thought that he owes his nation the duty to say that he does not have the mental capacity or the energy to continue to lead,

4, I am still watching and waiting to see where, this tree of ibori will fall, until those daylight robbers who have stolen this nation blind are dealt with don't listen to anyone who says there's a campaign against corruption,

5, The PDP will be derailed one of these days,

6, Bishop Oyedepo engages in occultic practices with all that mantle,oil,handkerchiefs etc.  I tore his books to shreds,

7, Any pastor who tells you that things will be tight for you because you don't pay tithe wants to cheat you, your contributions to any church should not be guided or programmed, unfortunately many church leaders go into projects God never asked of them and in the process make life difficult for their members,

8, Church service on sunday, special meeting on Monday and Tuesday, bible study on Wednesday, night vigil on Friday and house fellowship on Saturday, when are you going to live the life you are being taught?, that is the sign of apostasy it also shows that your leaders are only interested in the gospel of wealth!"

[quote author=Busy_body link=topic=354151.msg4966535#msg4966535 date=1258743754]Tis the PMS season again


Innocent question - Comrade Gestapo, are you always on, I is just asking as a confidant [/quote]Comrade B_B, No PMS, I ended my period last night, and i am very normal, just that i have been tailing that Asswipe for sometime and he just had it full, i will submit the report of my investigation to the admin. 

toba1909:
Arrow!
Jumping into issues you don't follow with your senses has showed the kinda brain you have up there.
Your response shows u're a pilot for real.


Real biz,

Olodo Oshi, did you follow your senses before you jumped on this thread without understanding the topic like a mad dog caged ? Odensin !!!

toba1909:
Goof!!!
Do a proper spelling lesson before joining issues you're not called into.
Busy body!

I know you like the palm of my hands so i am not surprised, fhemmmy gave the OP a honest advice and you called it unreasonable, then you tell us you are an engineer, who gives a rats arse !!! how does being an engineer correlate with Vehicle finance scheme.

I am a Pilot too. Idiot.

Fhemmmy please dont dissapoint me again,  this toba1909 guy is one of the deranged and mentally sick members we have left on this forum and our sanitisation broom would still sweep him off too. no need to trade words with him please. he is sick in the head.

Anambra State is one of the most sophisticated State in Nigeria, the home of many of Nigeria’s greatest and finest souls, a state where the sons and daughters have scored many firsts in wherever fields they find themselves. At Chief Anyaegbu’s (Chisco) Book (YOU TOO CAN DO IT) launch recently in Lagos, Governor Peter Obi took time out to celebrate the many firsts Anambrans have scored in Nigeria’s political landscape.

The list was almost endless as time failed him to complete the chronicle. Because of the huge success of our big time traders, other Nigerians think Anambra people are foolish money bags, foolish traders who do not know their lefts and rights but the truth of matter is that Anambra people have succeeded in businesses and in politics. We have not been cheated politically since the inception of that state in Nigeria. Anambra people have always known their rights and have always fought for it. Anambra people have never been conquered politically.

NPN tried to do it but failed. PDP cheated Anambra people in between 1999 and 2003 and in 2003 elections, our people rejected PDP. Even though they stole our people’s mandate for three years, our people fought and retrieved it. PDP used the stolen mandate in the State Assembly to illegally impeach Governor Obi, but Anambra people resisted the criminal impeachment.

Today PDP is returning to Anambra State, a State that has totally ejected the useless Party to try to impose Professor Soludo on the people of my beloved state. But this cannot work in the 21st century in Anambra State, the land of the wise. Anambra people do not want PDP and their so-called candidate, Professor Chukwuma Soludo. I just came back from the East on 19th October 2009 and I saw motorcycles, rice, Hollandis, money being distributed to our people at the instance of Chukwuma Soludo. But the truth must be told that Anambra State is not for sale. The state has been in the news for years now for the wrong reasons, and this must stop. If Soludo gives you cloth, motorcycle, Hollandis, money, take it because it does not belong to him. It is the people’s stolen money.

We saw the process that produced Soludo as PDP candidate in Anambra. We saw how the invaders led by Chief Tony Anenih stormed the state to rob our people. Tony Anenih, the PDP’s ‘Mr fix it’ which is another name for stealing people’s votes for his party, PDP has relocated to Anambra State. Having been worsted, disgraced, humiliated and politically routed in his home State, Edo State by the big boy, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Tony Anenih has shifted base to Anambra State but he will fail. This man who sold the mandate of his party, SDP to IBB and Abacha in 1993 and caused the deaths of 5000 Nigerians including Chief MKO Abiola and his wife, Kudirat think Nigerians are fools. Now, Chief Tony Anenih must hear this: Mr Tony Anenih please in the name of God quit politics now! Tony Anenih quit now!! Tony Anenih quit politics now in your own interest!!!

As I write this Soludo is chasing his fellow contestants (46 of them) with 35 million each (some are getting more depending on their capacity) to step down and accept him. Now, where is all this money coming from? This kind of money circulated during Soludo’s bid to seek a second term as CBN Governor. And part of the reason why he failed was that President Yar’Adua was stunned by the volume of money Soludo was throwing around to seek a second term and decided to close his chapter as CBN Governor. I swear the huge sums of money came from the fraudulent and disgraced bank CEOs. I challenge Nigerian security agencies to investigate Chief Tony Anenih accounts. He cannot come to Anambra State to rig Soludo to power without collecting millions.

As Soludo is distributing his stolen funds (the Nigerian people’s money) the new CBN Governor Mr Lamido Sanusi is releasing gamut of information on a daily basis that continously indicts Soludo as the former CBN Governor who came, saw and failed to conquer. If Soludo is wise he would have withdrawn from this race to go and clear his soiled, discredited and abused name. Othello in Shakespeare says; he who steals my purse steals nothing but he who tries to steal my good name robs me of the immediate jewel of my soul. Meat sellers, groundnut sellers, pepper seller, drivers, conductors, farmers money was stolen by the banks Chiefs and a huge some of them released to Soludo to look the other way while the rot continued. Now Soludo thinks that these monumental revelations will just be swept under the carpet and he will just be rewarded with the governorship of Anambra State? No, no, my brother, it will never, never happen. Go and clear your name as the former CBN Governor first!

Lamido Sanusi has been doing his job without saying anything about his predecessor, but his silence on Soludo speaks volumes. Professor Soludo has been keeping quiet on the huge and mind boggling revelations about his tenure at CBN but silence is not golden at this point in time. If Soludo fails to understand that the trouble in the banking industry today in Nigeria is an indictment on his person, he is the biggest fool of the century. If Soludo thinks that he can ignore Sanusi’s revelations and pretend as if nothing is happening, I pity him and his ambition to rule Anambra State. I implore Lamido Sanusi to extend his investigations to the stock market scam Professor Soludo presided over in the years of the locust. The banks CEOs, stock brokers, and their cronies criminally worked together to rob Nigerians including this writer of their hard earned money.

They connived, schemed, and fraudulently manipulated the stock prices just to rob Nigerians and after they brought the prices of the stocks down and put the blame on global meltdown. And I ask; which global meltdown? Do we manufacture anything in this country? I mean do we manufacture cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, electronics, airfrafts, industrial machines etc? So what concerns Nigeria with global meltdown? They just stole our money with Soludo presiding. Please Sanusi investigate the stock, market scam!

As I write this in the morning of Tuesday October 20 2009, my vendor brought in the papers and I saw the FrontPage story with the caption, Soludo: I am ready for probe. I said; good, the man is thinking. Soludo must go the whole hog. Reveal everything, tell the truth and nothing but the truth. This is the path of sanity. This is the path to redeem your battered image, this is the path to reclaim your terrible and badly rubbished name. Withdraw your inordinate ambition and go and sanitize your name and your father’s good name. This is the path of truth – the hallmark of civilisation, the hallmark of leadership.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/244703/1/why-soludo-cant-rule-anambra-state-now-by-joe-igbo.html

Phemmy,

do you know who akuya is ?

our favorite old dealer based in the usa who was nabbed with fake vehicles[b] enroute to Nigeria[/b] and tampered vin number on a 2010 vehicle LOL 

Akuya is back as Cmectrouble


The war has started on the section again 

[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=335699.msg4710361#msg4710361 date=1255244400]This must be fake document, because I believe the nigeria government can not be stupid not to know the nigeria constitution clearly state that nobody has the power to do that. They can impreach Yar Adua based on this if the story is true. See the constitution.

No nigerian can be denied his citizen and his right. All you yahoo boys. It cant be true or is it. It is impreachment if that happen for any president. Read constitution.
you people much have made it up. show me prove.[/quote]Punch Newspaper is lying too and it must be a fake document

http://punchng.com/Artic.aspx?theartic=Art200910102362065

Olodo. 

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=335699.msg4710463#msg4710463 date=1255247625]why una dey waste time with dis kind article? nobody dey implicated here, especially yar'adua. de letter no mention president anywhere and all dem need to do na to say de document false and case closed.

if government claim say de document fake, how sahara go prove am? sahara reporters and sowore need to grow up and take their journalism to de next level. many of their stories dey too journalistically uncivilized.

de foolish government sef! dem forget say dem get sovereignty inside any of their embassies for any country.

if dem wan catch el rufai, make dem just lure am say him passport don ready, but make him come pick am up or tell am make him come for another interview. once him enter embassy, dem go arrest am. shikena!

nobody for dat government fit touch el-rufai or ribadu. ribadu enter nigeria dem no arrest am, una sabi why? na because if court case start, de accused go reveal damaging information wey fit bring de whole government down.[/quote]My Friend Junju, how is Akuya amd Ms Kike ? and the numerous other names I cant mention cos of time

Punch Newspaper has confirmed this Story today

http://punchng.com/Artic.aspx?theartic=Art200910102362065

What a sick President

Saharareporters has obtained documents which confirm that the Yar'Adua government did give specific instructions ordering Nigerian passport officials not to renew the passports of the former Minister of the Federal Capital territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and his EFCC counterpart, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

The first document is a letter signed by S. U. Abdulazeez on behalf of the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on 15 September 2009, and addressed to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign affairs, Ambassador Joe Keshi.

  Referring to a “continuous and unyielding campaign of calumny against the Federal Government abroad” by the two men, it said a decision had been taken “at the highest level” to deny them “consular assistance of any form.”

The second document is a cable signed by Ambassador Keshi two days later, on 17 September, addressed to the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom and copied to “All Missions.”  Referring to the substance of the order from the NIA, it notes El-Rufai’s application in the United Kingdom.

“Consequently, you are hereby directed NOT to reissue the former FCT Minister with a new passport,” he said.

Recently, Mallam El-Rufai’s request to renew his passport at the Nigerian consulate in London was turned down.  His wife and children were also subjected to intimidation by security agencies at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport in Abuja as they returned from a visit to him in Dubai.

The unusual action taken to curtail the liberty of the duo to renew their passport is aimed at preventing them from traveling across the globe, where they are often in demand to speak about their experience in government and comment on the government of Yar’Adua, which faces tremendous criticism at home and abroad for its mediocrity.


Much like the Abacha regime of the 1990s, the Yar’Adua government has become an international pariah amongst the comity of nations on account of its shielding of corrupt international fugitives and its high level of disregard for human rights.  While the government has become paranoid about El-Rufai and Ribadu, it also has harassed bloggers it considers hostile.  Analysts say the effort to deny nationals their right to passports anywhere in the world is a worrying new trend.  

Recently, Yar'adua was conspicuously missing from the annual UN General Assembly. Instead he went to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, but lied to Nigerians that his mission was to attend the opening of the King Abdallah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).  While Yar'Adua did spend a few hours at that event, he was in Saudi Arabia for four days.

Our first decoding challenge is to figure out who made this vehicle, found in the digits: 1ZV

The first digit in the make code will always be the country of manufacture.

We're going to use the VIN: 1ZVHT82H485113456 from the photo above as the sample VIN we work from. By the end, we'll know a lot about this "mystery" vehicle.

The first digit in the VIN will always be the country of manufacture. There are numerous country codes, but the general ones are:

    * USA: 1, 4 or 5
    * Canada: 2
    * Mexico: 3
    * Japan: J
    * Korea: K
    * England: S
    * Germany: W
    * Italy: Z
    * Sweden: Y
    * Australia: 6
    * France: V
    * Brazil: 9[b]

This thread is a Revelation, We shall highlight the step by step to decoding a vin number
BUYERS BEWARE !!![/b]