Ngwamankillyou:


Accept the new job in your town now, your new level trade moni of baby factory boy.

Ngwamankillyou:


This is osun stop attaching lagos there, it's a known trade for your lots.

Ngwamankillyou:
Woow, so osun is this bad.

Barely a week after a-week-old baby was recovered from an illegal trade syndicate in Isheri-Osun, a Lagos community, the police have rescued 19 pregnant women at another baby factory.

unohbethel:
How are u sure that this is the real buhari we all know post election 2015?

Shepherd00:
Inter-faithing with other religions is fornication and adultery.
[b]Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.[/b]Exd 34:15

Committing fornication refers to
contaminating the good things taught
by the Word and falsifying its truths.
Like Budaatum is doing.

khanzazz:
Igbos and Yorubas are not the same people...they don't look alike, don't reason the same way, one shows love, the other shows evil, envy and wickedness for no reason. Lets stop this propaganda. The earlier we separate like Pakistanis and Indians the better for us all. US scientists have studied and made it clear that Igbos are a rare breed of black people, different from Africans. Their brain structure as seen below is different from that of Africans; so trying to compete with them, is a waste of time because you are two different sets of human beings. Go and read the book by Dr. Sowell to learn more

princemillla:
When I stumbled on this I thought it worthless, but read to some point and I want to believe the long epistle. I need someone who knows deep history to prove this.


I wonder why history was taken away from our acada calender sef. It a shame how people far away from us knows what we we don't know about ourselves.
Nija which way

Omojudy:
One day I spoke to the petty trader in front of my house and asked her what she will add to her shop if she had someone borrow her 10k without interest to be pay N500 back every few days till she paid finish and if no issues it could be raised monthly. Well she names a few more food stuffs. I then offered her that loan. You need to see how happy she was. And she never failed payments willingly. I increased the amount monthly till I left that neighborhood. The sad thing is that the money never even made her stabilize. She was still back to her empty shop the last time I was in her neighborhood.

https://astrongnigerianwoman.com/2019/08/30/child-sexual-abuse-and-incest/

docadams:
Hmmm
The coastal segment should have come first before this ibadan/kano line.

Chinatown1759:
More real life pictures for confirmation. This government too de like lie upandan

blueAgent:
The trinity doctrine teaches that God the Father, the Son and the Holyspirit are equal and one and the same God.
   Although a very popular and widely accepted doctrine among christains the trinity doctrine is unbiblical and not in accordance with the word of God. The word Trinity does not appear in the Bible neither was such doctrine taught by the Apostles or known to the early Christains.
The trinity doctrine was instituted by men at the Council of Nicaea in AD325 and at Council of Constantinople in AD381.
The trinity doctrine has it's origin in pagan Sun god worship that was started by Nimrod and his wife.

Who is God and Jesus?
The Bible is clear on the identity of God and his Son, Jesus they are 2 different beings or persons
Although one in unity and purpose, their relationship is that of father and Son.
The Apostles always identified God as the father who has neither beginning or end ,who alone has immortality,all power and authority  they also identified and distinguished  Jesus as the only begotten Son of God  and not God the Father himself here is an  example.
2John1:3  Grace be with you, mercy and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
The identity of Jesus was well known to the discples of Jesus
Peter  in Matt 16:16,Martha the sister of  Lazarus, the  Centurion man,the high priest and many others  including the   Demons all identified Jesus as the son of God (remember Demons are fallen Angels)matthew8:29.
It is important that we understand who Jesus is, as  Jesus himself was interested in knowing whom people said he was. Luke 9:18

All through the Bible the personality of God and Jesus has been established and clearly stated.
It will be illogical for Jesus while he was on Earth to teach that he was sent by his father if  he himself was the father.
The question is who sent Jesus?
who did Jesus pray to when he was on the cross or when he raised Lazarus from the grave?Who was Jesus pleading to  to take away the cup? John 12:27
Whose will was Jesus referring to when he said father not my will but yours, mark 14:36
The evidence shows that Jesus was not the Father acting as the Son here on Earth but was the Son of God sent by God to the Earth to die as a ransom for man,John 6:38

Jesus, Son of God

The trinity doctrine teaches a 3in 1 god, that there are 3 but equal gods.
It denies the word of God that says Jesus is the BEGOTTEN Son of God. the same way a biological father proceeds his son so also God the Father proceeds his son, Jesus  Christ.
The Bible refers to Jesus as the first born of all creations Colossians 1:15,proverbs 8:22-end,Rev 3:14.
Jesus was brought into existence  at a certain time by his father before the World was created. Acts 13:33, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

John5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; so it was God that gave Jesus life and not Jesus having his own life independently as claimed by trinitarians.
here are Jesus own words on his origin and existence.
Proverbs 8:22.
Unlike the Angels and other created beings who were made by the hand of  God, Jesus proceeded or came out  from his father John 8:42,16:27&28,17:8
He had the very nature , image and substance of his father, God. which no other created being has. Hebrews 1:4 Being MADE so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?  1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

Note: Angels are sons of God by creation,born again Christains are sons of God by adoption (Romans 8:14-15) but Jesus Christ is the Son of God by inheritance Heb 1:4,

Are they Equal?

The trinity teaches that Jesus and the Holyspirit are co-equal with God but the Bible is abundantly clear that the son is not Co-equal with God.
No where in the Bible did Jesus  ever call himself God or equate himself to the father rather he reiterated the fact that he was sent by the father to do the will of the father and that the one who sends another is greater than the one sent.John13:16-20.
John 17:13, Matthew 10:40,John 10:18.
Rather than claim equality with God as fasely  taught by the trinity doctrine Jesus declares that his father is greater than him in John 14:28,he also calls his father his God Matt 27:46,John 20:17, here are some other verses to clearify this point
1Corinthains11:3,Colossians 1:14-19,John 5:19-47,John 5:19 & 5:20,John 5:27, Isaiah 53:11,Isaiah 42:1,Isaiah 49:7 Luke 24:19,
Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 2:6 Who, being in the form of God(nature of God, of cos he was born by God so he will bear God's nature), thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men :2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name.

God Honours his Son.

After the ressurection and Ascension of Jesus to Heaven  God exalted Jesus and gave him a name above every other name Philippians 2:9.
It will be illogical for God to exalts and give power and authority to Jesus if he was co- equal with God and already had those privileges.Ephesians 1:20-23, Mark 12:36.
The Bible also teaches that at the end of the great controversy between good and evil when all power and principalities have been subdued for the sake of Jesus. Than Jesus will subject all things including himself to God 1Corinthians 15:28.

Who is the Holyspirit.

The Holyspirit is not a person or being as taught by the trinitarians but the the Holyspirit is the spirit of God and his Son Jesus, Ephesians 4:30, 1Thessalonians 4:8,God is a spirit who has a spirit which is his  mind,will,purpose,power,  and presence Genesis 1:2, Zachariah 4:6, 1peter 1:1.
It is this spirit  that God sends to us that dwells in us and enables us to do his will,Romans 8:9&11, 1john4:13, Isaiah 63:11, 1Corinthains 3:16, 1 Corinthians 12:8-11,John 7:39,14:17, Ezeikel 36:27.
Just as we showed earlier that Jesus did nothing of his own will or desire but that of his father so also the Holy spirit can only speak and show what it is instructed to say . This is evidence that it is not a being Co-equal with God that has it's own power and will.
There are few verses  that have been taken out of context and are used by  the trinitarians to promote their false doctrines
E.g is that the Bible refers to the Holy spirit as HE this does not prove  anything because  there are examples in the Bible where non- living things are personified or expressed with words like he or his examples are in proverbs 1:20,7:4,8:1,9:1where wisdom and knowledge are reffered to as he,his,she this also applies to the Holy spirit.
The Holy Spirit is likened  to a gift
In Luke 11:13,God pours out his Holy spirit Acts 2:18.
The identity and function of the Holy Spirit will be treated in subsequent articles.

Implications of the Trinity doctrine.

This doctrine has severe implications and consequences as it teaches that Jesus is not the literal Son of God,that Jesus is the same age as the father and has always existed along side him but this will make them twins and not a real  Father and Son it also teaches that the holyspirit is a being  Co-equal and  co-eternal making them triplets.

Thus the trinity doctrine denies that both the father and son are two different persons thus it denies their personality or persons.

Apostle Paul taught Christains that the Antichrist is anyone or teaching that denies Jesus is the son of God and thus denies the father and son  1John2:22-23,1john 4:3
It distorts who God says he is.
The doctrine of trinity also lends credance  or promotes the Catholic teaching that Mary is the mother of God  since it claims Jesus is   God and Co-equal to God. It is not surprising that this trinity doctrine was instituted by the usual suspects the Catholic Church and they claim it is the foundation on which all other of there teachings is based on.

Note:The angel that delivered the message  to Virgin  Mary  told her that the  child will be called( the Son of God) and not God. Nothing stops God from describing Jesus as God or his twin or avatar, rather he  used the adjective SON of God to distinguish him from the Father.

Conclusion.
The trinity doctrine cannot be proved in the Bible neither does it have any divine origin or inspiration.
It is one of those man made doctrines that have crept into Christaintity. it is unacceptable to God and contracdicts God's word about himself.
A lot of lies have been sold to us as Bible doctrines which are not Biblical, I urge the readers to do more research on this topic and to diligently search the word of God  2 Timothy 2:15, just like Paul said that we should prove all things through the scripture, rightfully dividing the word of God and not depending on men or some few Bible verses that have been lifted out of context inorder to suit a preconcieved  belief or idea.1Thessalonians 5:21

Thank you.



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Sonnobax15:
Thouqh i'm a buharist but i must say that atiku's son didn't lie on this one...we all know who buhari truly is.

Commentor:
Would be nice if it becomes reality.

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helinues:
Summary please

Calls to diversify Nigeria’s economy has become a mantra over the years. In 2016, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the Roadmap for the Growth and Development of the Nigeria Mining Industry to position the sector as an alternative to oil revenue. How has this policy document impacted the economy since it came into effect?

Experts have, for years, cautioned against Nigeria’s overreliance on oil and drew attention to its rich solid mineral deposits as an alternative.

The huge deposits have been largely ignored only to be exploited by illegal miners, often at great risk to their health and well-being, while shortchanging the country of precious revenues and employment opportunities.

The Roadmap for the Growth and Development of the Nigeria Mining Industry, approved by the FEC in November 2016, is an intervention meant to grow the industry and diversify the economy using solid minerals as one of the strategic pillars.

The document is also designed to enable the sector emerge as one of the best global solid minerals destinations in a few years, according to the then Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

However, since he resigned to contest elections in Ekiti, which he won, the Minister of State, Hon. Abubakar Bawa Bwari has championed the policy.

In the last four years, the ministry has made efforts to change the narrative as regards ease of doing business in order to encourage foreign investment in the sector. With improved funding, including a N30 billion intervention fund out of which N15 billion was for exploration projects to generate geosciences data to entice investors, the mining sector’s GDP contribution has risen from 0.33 per cent in 2015 to 0.6 per cent in 2018, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, NMGS, Prof Silas Dada said the improved funding has strengthened the exploration potential of the country in line with the roadmap.

“This fund is very significant for the growth of the sector because without geological data, it is difficult to grow the sector,” he said. “I am sure that when the exploration is complete, Nigeria will boast of accurate data in terms of solid mineral reserves. We will also be able to discuss the grade of ores and analyse the component of ores more scientifically.

“Within the past three years, the sector has made significant progress. Before then, there was no accountability in terms of record keeping. In the past, there were too many artisanal miners working without guidance and direction, but this administration came on board and changed the narrative. To this extent, Nigeria has made enviable progress.”

Part of the fund was to scale up exploration on mineral resources to ensure the generation and dissemination of critical geoscience data in order to increase investor confidence and help reduce risk in the sector. There is already the Integrated Exploration Programme (NIMEP) with the award of N15 billion contract to five exploration companies for the purpose of exploring priority minerals like gold, lead, zinc, iron ore and earth metals.

One area where this progress has been recorded is in terms of royalties and fees revenues generated by the ministry, which has risen from N2.08 billion in 2015 to N3.92 billion in 2017.

As at November 2018, over 50 companies exported minerals to Malaysia, China, UAE, India, Switzerland, Thailand, Portugal, Russia, Cameroun, United Kingdom and USA with royalties to government amounting to over N270 billion.

For years, the right of royalty valuation had been an issue. Hon. Bawa Bwari, while speaking to stakeholders recently, emphasized the ministry’s commitment to drive this growth by encouraging more investors to go into the mining sector while taking into cognizance the environmental impact, hence royalties for mineral trading exporters are pegged at 5 per cent to 8 per cent, with the extra 2 per cent to be deployed for environmental remediation.

Industry watchers have credited the leap in revenue generation in the last four years to the ministry’s focus on doing the right thing.

According to a Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) report, between 2007 and 2016, the mining sector had made a paltry contribution of $1.78 billion to the $476.8 billion the sector recorded in the extractive industry, with over $475 billion contributed by the oil and gas sector within the last 10 years. This amounts to a meager 0.41 per cent from the solid minerals sector.

A National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report in the fourth quarter of 2017 showed that coal mining has grown by 2.86 per cent in the fourth quarter (4Q) of 2017, from 38.49 per cent in 3Q of 2017 and 0.44 per cent in the 4Q of 2016, while metal ores grew by 31.86 per cent in 4Q 2017 from 10.70 per cent in 3Q of 2017 and 7.03 per cent in 4Q of 2016.

With the revenue profile of the mining sector in 2017 alone improving by 500 per cent over the preceding years, experts credit the changes to a clear policy document and the minister’s commitment to strict adherence.

This is the view of the Sole Administrator, Ajaokuta Steel Company, Engr. Sumaila Aka’aba. “Having a committed minister like Hon. Abubakar Bawa Bwari and the total implementation of the roadmap has helped to yield desired results. The vigour with which he continues to implement the roadmap is already unlocking significant values,” he said, adding that the sector needs consistency and continuity so as to meet its potential of becoming a labour guzzling, revenue generating sector.

“A remarkable difference between the solid minerals sector and the oil industry is that the oil industry has the capacity to employ few people while creating wealth, but the mining sector is able to increasingly employ several people as well as create great wealth,” he said.

It is in the spirit of consistency that the appointments of industry insiders like Simon Nkom, an experienced mining engineer, as the Director General of the Mining Cadastre Office (MCO) responsible for the issuance of all mineral titles and licenses and Dr Abdulrazaq Garba as Director General of the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency have been lauded.

The MCO, alone, has within the last three years, realized over N5 billion as revenue generated through processing and other licensing fees.

“There is a paradigm shift achieved in the area of licensing due to the significant improvement in the mode of operation of the Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office, which is a major impetus that will speedily develop the sector,” Mr Ayedun Fasina, Chief Executive, Multiverse Mining and Exploration Plc, said.

But despite the gains, the sector still must overcome certain challenges, analysts say.

For instance, the Ajaokuta Steel Company, generally adjudged the bedrock of Nigeria’s industrialization, is yet to take off fully, something the minister must pursue vigorously to fully help diversify the economy.

A major setback has been the need to construct external infrastructure, such as railways needed for transportation of bulk materials from the National Iron Ore Mining Company to Ajaokuta Steel Company, and finished products from the steel company for local use and export.

With this administration’s drive to construct various rail lines, analysts think that hinderance will soon be a thing of the past.

This will be timely with a new export guideline soon to come into operation to address issues of mineral exportation without due permits.

While drastic shortfalls in concise geosciences data constituted the biggest impediment to attracting major investors, the Mining Cadastre System is being upgraded with the introduction of online mineral title administration aimed at making the operations of the MCO more transparent, efficient and accessible. This, experts say, will cut mineral title processing from 45 to 15 days.

With the gains made and the right kind of consistency, analysts believe the solid mineral sector could be a major revenue earner for the country in the not too distant future. That future cannot come soon enough.

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday unveiled fresh plans to revive the palm oil value chain to enable the sector to generate foreign exchange and reduce the level of unemployment in the country.

The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, unveiled the strategies while speaking during a meeting with stakeholders in the Palm Oil Value Chain.

The meeting, which was held at the headquarters of the CBN, was attended by Governors of Akwa Ibom, Edo and Abia states and chief executives of companies operating in that sector of the economy.


Emefiele said as part of the apex bank’s Anchor Borrowers Programme and its Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme, the CBN would work with large corporate stakeholders and smallholder farmers to ensure availability of quality seeds for this year’s planting season and agro-chemicals in order to enable improved cultivation of palm oil.

In addition, he said the bank would also work to encourage viable off-taker agreements between farmers and large-scale palm producing companies.

He noted that loans would be granted through the ABP and CACS programmes at no more than nine per cent per annum to identified core borrowers.


With an estimated three million hectares of land under cultivation and abundance of suitable arable land, the CBN governor said the bank would need the cooperation of state governments in the oil palm producing zone.

He said their cooperation would make land available to investors with proven financial and technical capabilities, who will be able to support developments of large scale palm oil plantations in the country.

He announced that all the states in the South-South and South-East regions had agreed to provide at least 100,000 hectares for the initiative.


The programme, he stated, was also expected to accommodate the smallholder farmers.

He said, “This renewed focus by the CBN to support improved growth in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in Nigeria, is clearly in line with the Federal Government’s determination to diversify the base of Nigeria’s economy away from a reliance on crude oil, so as to insulate our economy from the vagaries and shocks associated with volatility in crude oil prices

“Let me stress that we are not unmindful that our current focus to make life difficult for smugglers of the products being targeted under our intervention will be resisted by unpatriotic and recalcitrant beneficiaries of the status quo.


“We will not be deterred by their criticisms but will appeal to Nigerians to support these initiatives.

“No doubt, there will be initial pain caused by this new focus, but the medium and long run benefits remain unassailable and glorious for our dear country.”

Emefiele said that resuscitating the country’s palm oil sector was vital to the government’s growth objectives as it would assist in creating jobs for Nigerians.


He said the meeting was an important one as it brought together key players across the palm oil value chain, state governments, banks, and officials of the CBN, in order to examine the challenges faced by palm oil operators.

He said the need to meet the stakeholders in the sector was borne out of the conviction that revitalising the sector would enable Nigeria to regain its position as one of the leading global producers of palm oil.


He said currently, Nigeria still expended close to $500m on oil palm importation annually, adding that time had come to change the narrative.

He said the apex bank would support improved production of palm oil to meet not only the domestic needs of the market but to also increase exports in order to improve forex earnings.

He said, “As some of you may recall, in the late ’50s and ’60s, Nigeria was not only the world’s leading producer of palm oil, it was also the largest exporter of palm oil, with close to 40 per cent of the global market share.


“Today, we are a distant fifth among leading producers of palm oil; we barely produce up to three per cent of the global supply of palm oil, with an estimated production of 800,000 metric tonnes of palm oil, while countries like Malaysia and Indonesia produce 25 million and 41 million tonnes of palm oil respectively.”

“We have also become a net importer of palm oil, importing between 400,000 – 600,000 MT of palm oil in order to meet local demand for this commodity.


“Despite the availability of over three million hectares of farmland for palm oil cultivation, production remains low at close to two tonnes per hectare, relative to a global benchmark of 25 tonnes per hectare.

“This is as a result of the maturation of existing palm trees, as some of these trees were planted in the ’50s, as well as low investment in replanting high yielding palm oil seeds. As some of you may know, the usual lifecycle for optimum palm production is 25 years.”


The CBN governor said if Nigeria had kept pace with its peers in supporting improved cultivation of palm oil, at the current global market price of $600 per tonne, and an assumed production level of 16m tonnes, Nigeria could have generated close to $10bn worth of foreign exchange.

This analysis, he noted, did not take into consideration the number of jobs that could have been created in rural communities from large scale smallholder developments.

In due course, the CBN governor said the bank intended to also address challenges in the cocoa, cassava, beef/cattle ranching, dairy and fish sectors.


He said soon, every region of the country would feel the positive impact of the CBN intervention in the agricultural sector.

These efforts, he stated, would not only enable the bank to conserve foreign exchange, but also create jobs on a mass scale.

He expressed optimism that as the measures began to bear fruits, states would become more economically viable, given the massive economic activities that would occur from catalysing activities in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors.


He said, “Today’s meeting was enlarged to include Executive Governors and other top government functionaries from the oil palm producing states to elicit their buy-in and set a partnership model that would, with immediate effect, stimulate investments in the palm oil plantations, such that within the next 3-5 years, the global share of the country’s oil palm production would more than double.

“Our ultimate vision is to overtake Thailand and Columbia to become the third largest producer over the next few years.”


The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, said that there were a lot of factors that were making the country uncompetitive in oil palm production.

He said for the intervention of the CBN to achieve the needed results, there was a need to have a very clear plan that would provide the right infrastructure for the land to be given out by governors.

He also said there was a need to determine where to get the planting materials that would serve as input for oil palm farmers.


He added that the issue of farming practices and training of smallholder farmers must also be considered, noting that to attract any meaningful investment, there must be some form of incentives to attract investors.

yungsmart:
Arrogant son of a bit*ch. You are still second to Messi the GOAT las las.
This is to show how insecure Ronaldo is and feeling threatened by messi who does his talking on the pitch

mrZENographer:


How did I insult you?
Excuse me, you lack understanding. Ask God to give you one.
After all the rubbish and gibberish words/allegations you spilled out against my pastor and the church you think you don't fall into the bracket?
C'mon

Or perhaps you are unable to rebutt my answers to you as I thought the case would be.
In my years of experience, lies/falsehood could not defeat the truth. They simply improvised into silly conclusions and excuses with great disdain.

Who really is Ibraheem Yaqoub El Zakzaky? Yes, you know he is a Shiite, but what do the Shiites stand for? In what way is a Muslim Shiite different from a Muslim Sunni?

El-Zakzaky, 65 years old native of Zaria, Kaduna state is a fiery Islamic preacher who first showed his true colours at the Ahmadu Bello University, in his Zaria home town, which his followers now call The (Islamic) Holy City. Please, do not ask me how El-Zakzaky who never attended a formal primary school but had his early education at the Provincial Arabic School, Zaria (1969-1970), the School for Arabic Studies, Kano (1971-1976) gained admission into ABU and achieved the rare feat of earning a First Class degree in Economics, because I too do not understand it.

To get a full grasp of that issue would entail a treatise on the three variants of Islamic schools (Islamiyya, Madrassa and Traditional Qur’anic Schools) that have evolved in the core north. Yet, despite having completed his educational pursuit (1976-1979), and obtained a first class degree in Economics at ABU, he was denied that degree due to his red-hot Islamic activities. That is a big surprise really for by 1990 El-Zakzaky would be welcomed into ABU’s Arewa House to say the same things for which he was denied his degree. Or did anything change? If it did, why is the man now in trouble with the government?

And why did the man become a radical in 1979? Now, remember that 1979 was a watershed year in the modern day development of Islam as not only a religion but also a political force, for that was the year of the Iranian Revolution—which saw Iran’s monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi overthrown in February 1979 from his Peacock throne and replaced with an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. The Shah, whose beloved title was Shahenshah (Emperor) died in July 1980. Zakzaky was not only impressed, he believed that the establishment of a Republic along similar religious lines in Nigeria was not only feasible but desirable. So, to Iran he went. And Nigeria’s first Shia cleric was minted.

Then he imported the Shia branch of Islam into Nigeria. He quickly made inroads into the Islamic establishment, despite the fact that until his return from Iran, Nigerian Muslims had embraced the undiluted Sunni beliefs.

His political ideal has remained turning Nigeria into an Islamic Republic based on the Iranian model, where the Ayatollah is the highest political authority ahead and above the President. This is why he opposed the application of Sharia Law in certain states in the North, as he wanted its total application and the country devoid of other religions.

What would that entail for Nigeria? Well, look at Iran for the answer. At the top of Iran’s power structure is the Supreme leader, who holds power until he dies. He is Commander-in-Chief of the Armed forces and controls the Islamic Republic’s intelligence and security operations; he alone can declare war or peace. He has the power to appoint and dismiss the leaders of the judiciary, the state radio and television networks, and the supreme commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He also appoints six of the 12 members of the Council of Guardians, the powerful body that oversees the activities of Parliament and determines which candidates are qualified to run for public office.

The Supreme Leader’s sphere of power is extended through his representatives, an estimated 2,000 of whom are sprinkled throughout all sectors of the government and who serve as the Leader’s clerical field operatives. In some respects the Supreme Leader’s representatives are more powerful than the president’s ministers and have the authority to intervene in any matter of state on the Supreme Leader’s behalf.

May we please contemplate Shiites and Sunnis. Non-Muslims should not kick themselves for not knowing the difference, for even the British World War I leader, the great Winston Churchill—in 1921, while busy drawing razor-straight borders across a the Middle-East—asked an aide for a three-line note explaining the “religious character” of the Hashemite leader he planned to install in Iraq. He asked: “Is he a Sunni with Shaih sympathies or a Shaih with Sunni sympathies. “I always get mixed up between these two.”

What caused the original divide?

The groups first diverged after the Prophet Muhammad died in 632, and his followers could not agree on whether to choose bloodline successors or leaders most likely to follow the tenets of the faith. The group now known as Sunnis chose Abu Bakr, the prophet’s adviser, to become the first successor, or caliph, to lead the Muslim state. Shiites favoured Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law. Ali and his successors are called imams, who not only lead the Shiites but are considered to be descendants of Muhammad. After the 11th imam died in 874, and his young son was said to have disappeared from the funeral, Shiites in particular came to see the child as a Messiah who had been hidden from the public by God.

The largest sect of Shiites, known as “Twelvers,” have been preparing for his return ever since.

With this unpopular agenda for the Nigerian state, El-Zakzaky has always been an adversary of the government, both military and democratic.

Another difference between Sunnis and Shiites has to do with the Mahdi, “the rightly-guided one” whose role is to bring a just global caliphate into being. As historian Timothy Furnish has written, “The major difference is that for Shiites he has already been here, and will return from hiding; for Sunnis, he has yet to emerge into history: a comeback versus a coming out, if you will.”

In a special 9-11 edition of the Journal of American History, Appleby explained that the Shiite outlook is far different from the Sunni’s, a difference that is highly significant:

… for Sunni Muslims, approximately 90 percent of the Muslim world, the loss of the caliphate after World War I was devastating in light of the hitherto continuous historic presence of the caliph, the guardian of Islamic law and the Islamic state. Sunni fundamentalist leaders thereafter emerged in nations such as Egypt and India, where contact with Western political structures provided them with a model awkwardly to imitate … as they struggled after 1924 to provide a viable alternative to the caliphate. Yet, Osama bin Laden was a Sunni Muslim. To him the end of the reign of the caliphs in the 1920s was catastrophic, as he made clear in a videotape made after 9-11. On the tape, broadcast by Al-Jazeera on October 7, 2001, he proclaimed: “What America is tasting now is only a copy of what we have tasted… . Our Islamic nation has been tasting the same for more [than] 80 years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated.”

Last line: Shiites are in the majority in just three countries: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. It will be a mighty task for El-Zakzaki to make Nigeria the fourth one.

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mrZENographer:


These points you've raised only show I talking with a clown, a hater or an ignoramus. Perhaps any of the two above.

Point of correction

1) In my years of Worship in Chosen, my pastor has never accepted any form of worship or praise. Rather, he ACTIVELY rebukes people (kindly) who tend to ascribe praise, thankgiving to him for what God Almighty has done for them. If I should count the rebukes, 100 times will be a joke of a number.
Moreover, he has made it clearly known on several occasions that it is the ANGEL OF GOD appearing in his form and not him. Infact he is not aware of anything the angel of God did until he is hearing from the testifier.

2) Any form of knowledge acquisition is an act of Brainwashing. Question is are you brainwashed with wisdom/truth or could it be lies and deceptions.

3) Again you are so aroused with folly. My Pastor and the Lord's Chosen Church condemns any form of sexual act outside marriage. (One man and one wife).
From the days of Abraham, God had always demanded offerings. It never went up physically to heaven. It was eaten by the priests and Levites. The same God performed great miracles before them that they will belive him.
In Chosen, the offerings/tithes are used for crusade events, transportation and spreading the gospel/ministry. These runs into millions. My Pastor makes it clear he made a covenant with God NEVER TO TOUCH CHURCH MONEY, for personal needs. He has his own business. Moreover, became he became a Pastor, he was a multimillionaire in full time business. When God called him, He abandoned his business and went into evangelism full-time. He spent all his money on evangelism to the extent he became a laughing stock. Many people who knew the preacher can testify to this.

4) The Lord's Chosen is the best hospital in the world.
The best medical hospital in the world CANNOT, CANNOT CURE HIV, deaf and Dumb, cripple, SS genotype etc.
And paradventure they could, it would only be afforded by the wealthy class.
In comparison, there is no incurable sickness God has not healed in the Lord's Chosen. And that is without the people giving the church money or the Pastor touching them or asking them to go to bar beach, buy goat, fowl and other nonsense.


My prayer for you is, May Almighty God deliver you and save you from your sins and falsehood in Jesus name I pray. Amen

mrZENographer:


For a moment let me ask you.
Who told you my church is a cult church?

mrZENographer:


Unfortunately, you didn't know that what you were perceiving is your folly. Gosh, it stinks.
I can smell it too

Anyways, SUIT YOURSELF