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Prostitute or not. No one deserves to be raped. Hence, the victim being a prostitute doesn't reduce the weight of the offense. He should go to jail for 14 years.

America has lost 60,000 factories in the past 10 years, yet i don't see trump or his people calling on TD jakes or copeland or anyother of the 380,000 churches to come and build industries. The leadership of the country put on their thinking cap and went to work.

If you are waiting for churches to build industries in nigeria you would wait till Jesus comes

Covenant University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are partnering on a pathway to MicroMasters Degrees in some programmes of both world-class institutions.
While explaining the workings of the programme, the Director, International Office and Linkages at Covenant, Dr. Ada Peter, noted that students of both institutions would have the opportunity to earn a Master Degree in either of the institutions after obtaining a certain level of credits in programmes which include Business Administration, Economics, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science.

Dr. Peter explained further that Covenant would offer the credential holders of the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management (SCM) the possibility of earning 6 credits toward the completion of the Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

In Economics, Covenant, she said, would offer the credential holders of MITx MicroMasters in DATA, Economics and Development Policy (DEDP) the possibility of earning 14 credits of the total graduate credits toward the completion of Master’s Degree in Economics.

Holders of MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing would have the possibility of earning 18 credits toward the completion of the Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, while holders of MITx MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science (SDS) the possibility of earning 3 credits toward the completion of Master’s Degree in Computer Science.

http://m.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/News/Covenant-MIT-Collaborates-on-MicroMasters-Pathway#.W_49W3Mo9Aj

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manny4u:
While I think you are trying to defend your religious belief as most Nigerians would do, metele was a national tragedy no reasonable and sensitive person should make a joke of or even make reference the way you just did.

Noted. I have corrected it.

Praise God! This has been a great week for the church.
No one should tell us how the money could serve better use in public schools. The federal universities this year had over 300 billion in allocation plus hundreds of billion in tetfund.

Billionaire businessman and Chairman of Forte Oil, Femi Otedola, has donated a multimillion-naira complex to the Augustine University’s engineering faculty.

This was made known yesterday at a sod-turning ceremony to mark the first day of construction for the university’s faculty of engineering’s complex in Epe, Lagos State.

On hand for the occasion were the Proprietor of the institution and the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Dr. Alfred Adewale Martins; Otedola’s octogenarian mother, Lady Doja Otedola; the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university, Sir Steve Omojafor; the Vice-Chancellor of Augustine University, Prof. Steve Afolami; a member of the fundraising committee, Chief Sena Anthony, among other dignitaries.


They all commended Otedola and his family for the financial assistance and otherwise they had rendered to the university from its conception to date.

Speaking during the event, Otedola said, like his father, he was passionate about education and development of the country.

“My father was very passionate about a university being built in Epe because he was very passionate about education. Rather than spend my money on building more houses or buying a jet for myself, I decided to spend the money to support this laudable cause by the Lagos Catholic archdiocese through the Augustine University,” the oil magnate told journalists.


Speaking about the importance of the building, Martins noted: “With this engineering faculty, we’re delighted that it’s taking off because it is one area that we think with the kind of technological development that Nigeria needs we can begin to find the realisation within that faculty – that’s not to say that the arts and the social sciences are not making contributions. We have had those contributions for many years. We are truly delighted that we have this beginning.”

He recounted how he was encouraged by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to donate towards the completion of the Ecumenical Centre in Abuja and the former president’s rejection of his desire to make a private donation.

“I went to his office; he had arranged for a press briefing and I said, ‘Please, let’s make this a private affair.’ But he insisted that he needed to make this public so that when the Dangotes and the Adenugas saw me contribute towards the building of the church they also would be encouraged to make similar donations.


“So, it is with this project – I want all my friends to know – because the hand of God is in it. It is a worthy cause. My mother persistently encouraged me to support the Augustine University project. Subsequently, I decided to build an engineering faculty for the university – which would be my home – for the glory of God. I can assure you that this project will be completed in good time,” Otedola explained.

The university which began operation in 2015, is already running at least eight courses subscribed to by 200 students up to 400-level.

Expressing their delight regarding the donation by Otedola, Afolami, Omojafor and Anthony stated that the business mogul had once again set a fine example for other philanthropists.

Sharing their sentiments, the billionaire’s mother, Lady Otedola, stated: “I think I’m the happiest person today and I’m sure I’ll always be happy. It is always on record that this Augustine University was meant to be built at Odo-Ragunsin. Sometime in 1994 my late husband, Sir Michael Otedola, was approached to make financial donation to them. He was able to help get this large parcel of land for the university through the supports of the then-Alara of blessed memory.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/11/28/otedola-donates-engineering-faculty-complex-to-augustine-university/?amp

It seems this is the week of the church. Any one who is angry is free to take the next bus to metele

princfred:
Later they will say the school is not for profit but to instill Christian values and groom Christians. Are they deceiving themselves or the sheeple? Well we are supposed to go deaf, dumb and blind to all that I forgot.

Read your comment and read his comment and ask yourself what correlates.
CU has rules for its students and it ends there. The rules doesn't extend to visitors or guests of the university. Even if they are from alqalam university katsina they would be allowed to express their religious mode of dressing.


Feel free to believe oyedepo smiles to the bank every year that is ur problem.

Zoroaster:
This is not something to be proud of

Saying a pastor shouldn't be happy over church attendance is like saying a teacher shouldn't be happy more ppl are attending schools.

cosby02:
With highest number of criminals and sinners as well.

I am a Nigerian and i am not a criminal. I know several Nigerians that are not criminals. Shove your stats back to where u brought it from.

princfred:
No those who proposed such earlier must be devils. So you know all these the power of humanitarianism yet seek to demean those who point it out earlier. Abi you just learnt it after much exposure to it recently. Na wa. Hope you will reread most of your earlier comments against those canvassing for same things and weep.

Only those who love the church are credible to criticize it. Not those who use condemnation to lure people away from Christ.
Every statement is as important as the inspiration that birthed it. If you catch the devil saying the truth, ignore it. When the devil said the truth at the garden of eden it was to ultimately destroy the human race. Eve thought she was having an honest conversation but she couldn't discern motivation and that caused tremendous harm. Jesus on his own temptation looked beyond the credible things the devil said and attacked his motivations.

Before i engage any body on matters relating to the church i discern their motivations. I only criticise the church where God and church lovers are in hope that it would spur us to become better.

Amen to the employment part. So all these "industry lovers" can let us breathing space.

NIGERIA HAS THE HIGHEST CHURCH ATTENDANCE IN THE WORLD

Bishop David Oyedepo

Statistics have it that Nigeria has the largest church attendance in the world.

Every Sunday:
Nigeria, 89% of Worshippers gather.
In USA, 42% of worshippers gather.
In UK, 27% of worshippers gather.

Every time the Church of God grows, God’s people and their levels change.
The destiny of this nation is in our hands.
Our prayers can shape any shapeless thing.
Our rising profile as the body of Christ shall add to the glory of this nation.

The largest employers of labour in Nigeria will rise from the Church.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1523678481109351&id=444807728996437

Lalasticlala

Great advise.

BISHOP OYEDEPO CAUTIONS PASTOR PAUL AND BECKY ENENCHE

The greatest headache of the devil is the growth and expansion of the Church.
There is a deliberate plan by the gates of hell against the Church.
We must live a spiritual battle ready life.

When Israel was growing in number in the land of Egypt, all hell broke loose including killing of children.
That did not stop God.

For anybody to imagine that people gathered like this in those days was unthinkable.
Those days if ‘500’ people came to Church. We would say ‘the whole world came’.
Now if 1000 attend, some will say ‘this Church is not growing’.

However if you don’t celebrate God for one, you won’t see 2.
If you don’t celebrate God for 10, you never see 100.’
The Church is the light of the world and the greatest threat to the existence of darkness is light.
The greatest enemy of Church Growth is the devil himself.
1 Thessalonians 2:18
I release the supernatural Church Growth Grace on every Ministry and Denomination.

Whatever cannot stop the Church from praying cannot stop the Church from growing.

God hates waste! If he won’t fill this building, he won’t have built it.
God will fill it with your cooperation and participation.
The day you stop engaging the forces of Church Growth, God will stop.

Be careful with this pulpit.
Jealously guard the mandate of God upon your life.

It does not take time to scatter.
It only takes time to build.
Your Father (David Oyedepo) is on the go and he is still on the Go.

Be careful!

I know what God sent me and I am answerable to Him.
Canaanland is filled 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th times on Sundays.
Tents outside carry more (52,000) than inside the Tabernacle (50,000).

The Church of Christ in Nigeria is by Divine Privilege leading the Global Awakening Today.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1523665567777309&id=444807728996437

Mad ppl everywhere.

grandiose4ever:
Oh i see. I met with their student union president when they visited CU some months ago. Cute African American boy.
Was just wondering how CU would hv suspended me if i appeared with the guys curly hair, yet the officials were grinning left and right

Same way they turned a blind eye when arab and hausa girls came adorned with Hijab during hult prize.

Highered come and see, our school is going global.

There is a difference between student and guest. Personally, i don't have a problem with Muslim students wearing Hijab in a Christian university so far the permission was granted by the University not because of any grandstanding by MURIC and the likes. Christian universities in the West open themselves to diversity.

This is important because Christian universities are powerful tools for gospel outreach - some people only ever have the chance to encounter the Christian way on Christian campuses.

CU managed to make the campus uncomfortable for non christians thereby loosing the opportunity to evangelize. And what's the point i have met a number of Atheist in the school.

The missionaries of Old had Strategy the Churches of today lack it badly. Only the gospel of Christ can change Nigeria for better. Until we turn Boko fighters to jesus, then feed, educate and clothe the Almajiri and turn back south to reset all the malfunctioning Christians we have done nothing.

Can we the Church build world class IDPs in safe places in the North East, welcome the Muslim and Christian women - feed, clothe and educate their children and watch as loyalties shift from mohammed to Jesus. And more importantly they will shift their children's loyalty.

The Missionaries didn't succeed in Christian izing half the nation because they had better preachers than we have, but they succeeded because they treated ppl better than the indigenous gods. People weighed it, "A God that provides Education, Healthcare and claims to love me to a god that wants human blood and collects my tubers of Yam every season". Sure enough the illiterate idol worshippers abandoned their burdensome gods and followed Jesus.

The Church must begin to think and act strategically.

spongeisback:
Yet again with this government blah blah blah. Shebi your "government" was special guest at the opening of this monstrosity, why did your holy pastor invite those that are keeping his members in poverty? Why did he give them the best seats? Why did he take their donations when he knows very well where it's coming from? Why did he accept the land from the government when he knew the real owners didn't want to sell? Your so called pastors are parasites they only want to survive on the host but they contribute nothing. Have you ever asked why all the churches in Nigeria only build schools?! They build schools so the money will keep circulating within.

Hogwash
Honour must be given to who it deserves. The leaders you appointed may be of questionable character but they are the ones you elected. Oyedepo does not like buhari but certain things cant be done without inviting Buhari to Canaanland. Whether he comes is a matter of his choice. It wasn't winners nor dunamis that selwcted your leaders. So deal with it.

uboma:
What happened to building standard missionary schools for children to learn?


What happened to looking after the needy in the society?


Spending that much to build a Church is a waste of resources which should have been channeled into improving the lives of the ordinary masses in the society.


The government should start collecting taxes from religious bodies.

You are deceiving yourself. The church of Jesus will never be taxed in Nigeria. Even the US can't tax churches talkless of a corrupt government of Nigeria.

When you hear 100,000 congregation you are talking about politicians, judges and many more people that directly influence happenings in this country.
And i assure you we would frustrate every single plan to frustrate the church.
The Pentecostals are growing in numbers while you keep waging your tongue in futility. Nigeria and everyother Nation is a tool for the Church, the Church would never be a tool of any country.

Vatsyayana:
I don't blame the builders of the church,I blame govts who approved the building. No country with development on it's mind would encourage uncomtrolled building of churches at the expense of factories and industries...

Are you even serious at all. In what way is churches being built in expense of factories. Pls i would like you to lecture me.

Lol comparing apples and oranges.

Lol pastor Enenche leave them alome jare. With all the noise about Tithing since over a year ago i thought most of these ministeries would have crashed instead they are growing bigger and stronger.
If anyone wants Enenche to build industries for them then they should elect Enenche as president.

Why don't you try this with Islam. Everyone just takes Christianity's peaceable nature for granted. From that mental case called freeze now to this one. Just thank your stars Jesus is a peaceable man with a peaceable message.

Planetzoom add a source to ur post.

The Oyedepo clan is really going to cause many people to have heart ache

Lalasticlala

Drchristian:
That's the problem with these coward soldiers is that, the Bokoharram sect are the ones bringing the war to them.
The Nigerian soldiers has been avoiding the sects otherwise the war would have been won

You people are ridiculous. Why don't you go and join the battle. My friend in the military posted to borno told me that the average weapons boko uses is anti aircraft guns. Their range and intensity is superior to the AK47 Nigerian soldiers.
Until Nigeria starts procuring F-16s and the like capable of giving cover then Nigeria may continue to lose this battle.

It might be time for us to call in the US Airforce for assistance in this war.
Lalasticlala

The North West region, despite having the highest population, has only two out of the 75 private universities in the country, the National Universities Commission (NUC) said yesterday.

The Executive Secretary, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, made the statement before presenting application forms to Alhaji Musa Majia, the promoter of Khadija University, the first private varsity in Jigawa State, at a brief ceremony in Abuja.




He said in spite of the fact that private universities compliment the efforts of the public, North West and North East regions have two private universities each out of a total of 75. South West has 33 private universities, South East 13, South South 14 and North Central 11.

He said the commission had recently completed the procedures for the approval of four additional private universities and their papers were forwarded to Federal Executive Council for approval.


He said there were about 2 million university students that represented only 1% of the Nigeria’s population.

Prof Rasheed called on the promoter to bring the strategic plan of the university to life. He said private universities should have higher quality than public ones “and we don’t expect a private university to recruit all kinds of teachers.”

In his remarks, Emir of Kazaure, Dr Najib Hussaini Adamu, said while government cannot fund education alone, private higher education was highly competitive.

He said though a university is not meant to be easy “we shall ensure that Khadija University is run efficiently.”

Jigawa State Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar represented by the Commissioner of Education, Hajiya Rabi Ishaq said government would support any effort in providing high quality education.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/n-west-has-least-number-of-private-universities-nuc.html

Barbilius:
Lol, ui is using old glory yet Times higher education ranking placed it among the top 601-800 in the world alongside covenant university, your futa was nowhere to be found, in fact Times does not recognise futa as a university...
Ui is using old glory yet their scholars are one of the most published scholars in the country, an old glory that has the highest number of fellows in the Nigerian academy of science, ditto for academy of letters... If ui is using old glory then futa had no glory, currently has no glory and will never have any glory...

this got me cracking

princfred:
What is the difference between building industries for commercial purpose/gains and building schools for that?

There are a many other non-profit things the church can do to impact society other than the two for gains. Missionaries and apostles changed the world effectively without profit driven ventures. That's Christianity and the power of charity/humanitarianism that is missing (as its not the major practical focus) and limiting the ability of African Christianity to fundamentally improve/impact Africa. From where will/do people practically learn not to over clink to their gettings and reduce covetousness?


" If the church goes into establishing for profit companies, then the church may just lose it's focus" How come this does not apply to private schools they establish?

The private schools are not for profit but only charging the cost of education. Most church universities are the cheapest of private universities for what they offer. If profit was the motive, no one would be stupid enough to build a school.
I'm sure oyedepo is knowledgeable enough to realise that none of the top 500 richest people in the world are in the ranking because they own any university.

NPComplete:
Unfortunately, most times in Nigeria church money is not private. It us actually Nigeria's money given to the church by thieving politicians for prayers and favourable PR by the pastors.
Only a dishonest person will deny this.

Feel free to report the politician you know that looted funds to EFCC for recovery from the church. I mean that's what sensible and developed nations would do.

And by the way much of your countriy's looted funds can be found in Switzerland, USA, Dubai, UK and many Hotels and Clubs. Only in exceptional cases does some give money to churches.