I am sorry to say sir, SWAT will still not work.

The primary motive of the men, who were personnel of SARS, joining the force was to have an official cover for their attitude to robbing innocent people, believe me! I am persuaded by their acts and modulations that they did these criminally before finding themselves in the Nigeria Police by the unpopular, corner bending methods deployed by recruitment supervisors. And they have become your nemesis.

Not that I blame them though: taking an uncommon and unnatural look at the souls of majority of Nigerians, Mammon, the god of the love for money, has seared their souls, draining our communal humanity from them.

We have several replicas of SARS operatives in every sector of our national life. Very soon our public servants would be protested against. Did I say staff of establishments alms-trail the vistors they receive? Sometimes, like in my case, they leave their posts to stop taxis for me.

I think it is time for the Buhari administration, which has shown a trying-will to reform our national business life for the common good, should sign an executive act to repeat what he did in 1983 - change the face of Naira and restrict bank accounts from accessing the new Naira values to certain amount depending on what churns out the savings to be regulated.

Whatsoever I say now, and is ignored, will be what I will implement when I become Nigeria's President in the future that only the Almighty God, Subahana Wata'ala knows. I have his words in the stories of Joseph Jacob and of David Jesse: "a man's talent will make way for him" - this is the words of the lord, thanks be to God.

I am insinuating "wealth redistribution" by my suggestion. It is a divine law. This is what I mean - lets take vehicular traffic in Abuja and Uyo for instance: while the roads in Uyo are filled up with orange coloured mini buses, the roads in Abuja are empty of branded buses but milled up with private vehicles.

A silent consideration of the stationary wealth in Abuja explains the poverty in our federating States, including Lagos, where Molues are still in acceptable vogue. The VIO office in Abuja is bee-hivedly beseeched, while that of Uyo seeks relevance. Abuja must free up some financial space.

Coming back to Oga IGP's SWAT, I think the best thing to do is to discountenance any personnel of lower ranks in our police force having anything to do with interfacing with our civilians population. The IGP should park them like scrapped vehicles somewhere please!

Only Inspectors of Police should be assign to public duties because, for these ones, there is a consciousness of their building a career, and with what has happened to SARS, the peoples' power is now surely uncontestable. Governor Wike, how market today?

How this country "go take good again" needs a determined, policy driven leadership. This is all about the collapse of our public institutions.

So Oga IGP, if your SWAT will work at all, establish an elitist team made up of officers whose ranks are not lower than those of Inspectors of Police. And why is your organization still not talking about e-inteliigence, e-policing and e-patrols - what does it take?

When Ramoni Abass (Ray Husspuppy) was taken into custody in the UAE, we admired, and clapped at what the agents did. That is public policing Oga IGP. This is why I say that the #EndSARS protests across the land is a protest against the institutional collapse.of the Nigeria Police.

It is not enough to arrest citizens, you must have congent reasons to do so because the Almighty God, Sallalehu Alehu Wa'Salam (SWA) is a God of justice. You will pay gor every injustice somehow one day, in life or afterlife. Human blood speaks up to the Almighty God, this is why, for some of us, our lives are like that of a lamb - it is for divine sacrifice.

And I put it to all men of force, that the day another Army man slaps a civilian, Nigerians will close our military barracks. We must at this juncture remember the USSR revolution. We must remember the "Arab Spring".

Why it has not happened here in Nigeria is that the organizers of public struggles have not been able to filter out the cultists, kidnappers, armed robbers, and rapists (a lady on twitter complained how a guy in the protest was touching her bum bum throughout - so sad - such should be exposed and lenched immediately) from among them who use such opportunities to vent their frustations against the Nigerian State. Our protest have always turned out to be "bad debts".

The reason why public protests fail in this country is the allowanace given to governmemt to quench it by force because of the violence introduced into it by miscreants and hoodlums who ultimately hijack them, not recognising, and being ignorant of the truth that a genuine public protest is carried out to attract international sympathies and their pressure on government.

My final word: Oga iGP, your police personnel are after the money they can extort from the helpless, they have no love for the job. And I suggest that roles should change - send your SARS personnels into the labour market and employ the "Yahoo boys" to help you set up workable platforms for e-policing, e-intelligence and e-patrol and cabinets, and they would make your job easier. Your men are too crude and uneducated.

I come in peace!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes temporarily from Abuja, Nigeria. Send feedback to Whatsapp number 08102466347

Unfortunately, what I have discovered about majority of Nigerians who complain about one thing or the other is that those complainers, given the same opportunity as those they complain about, would do worse things than the ones over whom they complain about.

In the video holding on the link shared below, which shows how those who were protesting police abuses, were themselves harassers of two Nigerians who needed to enjoy their rights of way, in spite of their being in military uniform. What happened in the video is absurd and very very disrespectful of the limits of the protesters' rights.

I find it difficult to accept that the major drivers of the #EndSarsNow protests have no links to criminality or the relatives of criminals. In Nigeria today, I can hold my head above deep water to sustain my believe that we may be entertaining a grave national problem on our hand. And I really cannot shut my mouth at this auspicious time.

This is therefore to call Mr President, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to be personally involved in the reformation needed to be implemented by the Nigeria Police authority. He should not allow the Police authority to handle the matter internally. I suggest the raising of a Presidential Committee to deeply look into the various aspects of public servants.

Now this is my dilemma: how do we know if some of the protesters were not members of some "brotherhood" who have risen against the Nigerian State, camouflaging it as a protest?7 And like I suggested in an article, evening yesterday, it is possible that majority of policemen in this country are products of armed robbery and other heinous crimes?

It is not enough to disband SARS and redeploy the agents: a bad character remains a bad character anywhere he is. The sickness in SARS begins from the commanders who assign the agents: they should all be investigated. And this problem stems from the recruitment model employed by our police authority, who monetise civil opportunities.

I am a village man, and in my village I have seen young men who seek to join the police, not for the love of the job but for the power they envisage they would acquire by it. And so they do not mind selling their farmlands to raise the "price" they claim they need to remit to actualise their aspirations.

A young lady who had issues with members of my family vowed to "sleep" with sponsors who would get her son into the Nigerian Army, and he is a school dropout. This is how bad it is.

As a means of moving forward, Mr President should raise the afore-suggested committee mandating them to investigate every personnel of the Nigerian Police who serve in special units having to do with our civilian population.

Let them be made to submit their Bank Verification Numbers, and their homes be searched and combed out. The presidential committee to be set up, must be made to work with the Corporate Affairs Commission, The FIRS, and the banks. And I think the submission of BVNs should also involve that of civil servants from GL 06 to the Head of Service of the Federation.

All organizations seemingly registered, or unregistered, which is suspected to be cult-related, and since cultism is a criminal activity, should be required to submit video evidences of their activities, and under no terms should our authorities allow meetings of any group outside private residences after mid night. Our bushes should be combed at night by helicopter patrols across the country.

More importantly, our present police formations concentrates on serving the privileged and sometimes the very exploiters of the people. I do not see why we should have 1 IGP and require more than 2 DIGs and 6 AIGs, then the ranks of Commissioners can be proliferated to cover the duties handled, through spill-overs, by those above them.

It is also important to calm the pressured need for State Police by Mr President, further devolving the police formation to having Police Unit Headquarters at the equivalent of the electoral polling units across Nigeria.

It will take the federal government nothing to build National Centres (mini presidency) with the portrait of Mr President, each State Governor and the respective LGA Chairmen hung in the town hall within such centres. It brings government to the footholds of the very vulnerable and the forgotten. Government must no need the people only when they need to be counted and when they need ink on their thumbs.

Such centres will accommodate: a census office, an INEC office, a facilitated police unit with good internet connectivity and patrol vehicles, an equiped dispensary with an ambulance, a federal information unit and a detention centre. No citizen should be made to pay to seek justice or a hearing. These should be available within a walking distance

Like a fabric being washed, for Nigeria to start the journey to national prosperity, our leaders must ensure an inside-out turnover, starting with filtering some escaped criminals pretending to be making laws in our sacred chambers across Nigeria.

Our electoral system must be prepared in such a way that it could throw up men and women with bad and evil records. The saying about bad apples has never been a joke. we are sinking deeper in every shade of national failure. Our people have an engraven love for money on their souls.

The employment to fill the vacancies created by these national centres would be raised through local content, the government: federal and states would send all junior cadre staff of the ranks of GL 01-06 back to their villages to work at the national centres.

That way, we will achieve the pyramidal security structure and architecture needed to curb the present gaps in security dissemination, and it would hand over official security needs to be provided by the very people who truly need it - this is community policing, sort of Citizens On Patrol (COPs)

We seem not to have a serious people's responsive security architecture and structure, we have a very redundant civil service where money sharing, dedicated from our commonwealth, is the vogue. Adultery among personnels is an entrenched norm in our public service, leaving junior workers as alms-trailers of visitors to their repsective organisations. Our country is under a demonic attack by the rulers of darkness and principalities in high places.

It takes the eyes of the Almighty God, Subahana Wata'ala, to see the depth we have sunk into, as a nation, and as a people, and I think: every Nigeria-loving citizen, and Mr President himself, with his teams, should all be spiritual about this issue, starting with a national fast, asking God for his mercies and benefits.

We can't go on pretending day-by-day that someone, somewhere, will soon make a change. We're all a part of God's great big family, and so the truth, you know: love is all we need. We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving. There's a choice we're making, we'll be saving our own lives. It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me.

We are Nigerians!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Abuja, Nigeria. Send feedback to Whatsapp number 08102466347.

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By Thomas Thomas

The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, PhD said his party, the APC, would win the 2023 governorship election in Akwa Ibom State.

The former Minister made the statement earlier today during a courtesy visit on him by a cross section of Unit Coordinators of his 2023 governorship campaign in the State in his Chapel Villa residence, Afaha Offot, Uyo.

He said his teeming supporters should not be deceived by the outcome of the just concluded Edo State governorship election, saying that "Akwa Ibom State is not Edo State". His words:
"Let me tell you: we will win the governorship in 2023 by the grace of God... We are just waiting for them to present their candidate so that we beat them blue black. Akwa Ibom State is not Edo State, and there are many things to tell the people when the time comes... Keep doing your best. God shall reward your steadfastness...."

The Uyo maverick commended his supporters for standing by him and working tirelessly without money.
"God shall not allow your efforts to be in vain... You are supporting me, not because of the money I throw around, but because you believe in me. You use your money to do the things you do for me because you all know that once I become the governor all of you shall benefit directly or indirectly. You even use your money to pay your way to see me. Keep doing it. I am happy".

Dr. Udoedehe, however used the occasion to informed his supporters that the APC in the State is one indivisible family. Adding that all the leaders of the party are together.
His words: "Don't let anybody deceive you to believe that we are fighting in the party. I don't have any problem with Senator Godswill Akpabio, Obong Umana Umana, Obong Nsima Ekere, Atuekong Don Etiebet and the rest, and they don't have problems with me. We are together. Tomorrow all of us shall attend APC Stakeholders meeting together. So, discountenance such rumour of fighting within the party "

Over 500 Coordinators attended the event.

At the risk of sounding like a troublemaker, a tag I have worn from childhood because I grew up "tearing" at my mates, and confronting gangups against me, by biting one of them very hard, and feeling less of the pains of my beatings.

People enjoy employing various versions of demanding public respect: some employ wealth, some employ the access they enjoy, some employ other means, but I employ my consistency in my insisting on the good and prosperity of all Nigerians, defined by our national peace and progress, to earn my own respect. I deserve mine, if others do..theirs! I shoot trouble for national importance. I am divinely prepared for this time.

I am a registered member of the APC, and a frontline leader of the party in my Ward, I am at the forefront of causing the emergence of the political leader for my local government area, and working for the emergence of the next governor of my State. This is why I am coming in, with this article, seeing myself as a troubleshooter. My trouble shooting is a progressive one - the Asiwaju type: contributing my best to changing the narrative I attack and reject.

This same attack-needing narrative is around the present irresponsibility left to perpectuate itself within the ranks of those who are the total beneficiaries of the political power collectively snatched from the stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.

It is unfortunate that in a house where those who enjoy the best rooms, meals and public servitude are the same people who feel that such a house should be destroyed because they are not the ones who built it. Clearly, they have no intention in building any house but they keep prospering by destroying other peoples houses. Are we blind? Are we fools? Who are they?

And before I begin, let me beg All Nigerians to help, and join me in watching the men I am about to reveal. When I decided to be a politician, public service was on my mind, and yes! I know that if I work, I deserve my wages. I have never worked having my wages on my mind.

A third term FedReps member and erstwhile major contender for the seat of the Reps Minority leader, then a Commissioner of Environment in Rivers State, commissioned me to supervise the Rivers State Government Scrap to Wealth Project. That has remained the greatest privileged I have enjoyed in life. It gave me access to Governor Rotimi Amaechi's governement, and i handle one of his policy directions - sustaining wealth, creating one through the exports of refined scraps.

Financial records in that Minstry would show what my allowances were, what monies I signed off for the project's administration, and the administrative letter allocating a brand new Rivers State Government branded Hilux van, allocated in my name, and not in any other, indicating my "take home" benefit. But nowhere in the entire government would any dicumemt be found that I negotiated any privileges. They all came with prevailing needs.

I am not a Historian but I major in being an excellent history student, because something change me completely. "Guyana's Tragedy", how a man led a people into mass suicides and murder. At the end of that true life movie, was a signpost that changed my perspective of public leadership: it must be selfless to make the people count. So I read that "those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it." Forgive me if your ass is gored: this is my divine call. It is my life.

I supported the emergence of this incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, I remember having a social media contact - a young vibrant Lawyer, who was then in the Law School, - in that struggle, but he became who I saw as a young man with an impatient hunger for national relevance, and I wished him well. He is a now national officer of a political party - see what I mean? But I am stuck with President Buhari because I am people-drivenly consistent with my decisions. I follow through my decisions through to the end, no matter how unpleasant. I am consistent because I have no "devil" - neither do I have anyone - to blame.

I am one Nigerian who still regrets the withdrawal of President Buhari from the initial merger Asiwaju Bola Tinubu sought with him in 2009 against the 2011 general elections - it would have put a lie to the insinusions of some political oppotunists. I still believe that what happened in 2015 was destined to have happened in 2011 but was postponed for the Almighty God to score a great point over everyone else. That postponement took President Buhari having to retire from active politics, and it took a very strong persuasion for him to return, at least for the last time - herr we are today. We are not strange to the story. Now lets take it from there.

The bad idea in the heads of some politicians, who left the PDP for the APC in August 2014, in their illusion that it was their defection to the APC that helped the party attain her victory in 2015, is therefore their usual way of stealing the glory that belongs, only, to the Almighty God because:

1. If Atiku Abubakar had been patient to fly the presidential flag of the ACN in 2011, as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu had proposed, Goodluck Jonathan would not have won the 2011 presidency. I have not forgiven Atiku since then. I say this with absolute certainty. Atiku lost his best chance at being Mr President to his inconsistency and desperation for the office, in my opinion. A very brilliant man, a great social asset to Nigeria, but who may never again be graced with Nigeria's presidency. What mattered in that election was who gets the South West votes, wins!

2. The same would have happened if President Buhari had accepted the alliance with Tinubu. First, the presidency was "the turn of the North", and for Buhari to win, he needed an entire region in the South. It was only Asiwaju Tinubu who saw this calculation among the leadership cadre in this country. Goodluck Jonathan was therefor a better candidate for the South West in that election, and he won.

This is why I see the Asiwaju suffering from the same lesson he taught a son, who is now prodigal, using his father's lesson against his own father. If Absalom succeeded over David, he will, but I pray that when he fails, he will remain alive to regret it because Absalom died as a rebellious son. Bola betrayed nobody, he only proved a point that Buhari fell for when he had retired from politics, when he was desperately needed by the progressives. This is the truth. Nobody is going anywhere to succeed in the APC without Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is like the APC in Akwa Ibom State without Senator (Dr) John James Akpanudoedehe.

What these people are doing is to undo what Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done. They are not doing anyrjing to show their own ooo! And for what reason are they trying to "kill godfatherism? Ask them to be sincere. May God strike all their heads if they have ever recommended people for political offices, and if they have claimed leadership over regions in this countfy. This is annoying because the very ones who are our problems think we are all blind and, fools.

Abridging all these history, lets take a slim peep into the Buhari administration so far: no one would deny that the APC was one house before the interloppers jumoed into the party from the PDP, and obstructed the free flowing evacuation and smooth running of the APC masterplan, especially in terms of office sharing, for which the Asiwaju, who actually, was responsible for driving the vision of the new government, was handling. Now he is at home, and it is still Asiwaju abi? None of them can kill that man. If he dies today, he has surpassed all of them. He will die as the hero of democracy, greater than both Awo and Abiola put together. He has never told anyone he wants to be President. The others died seeking to be president.

When Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu recruited President Buhari into his vision, I am sure he did not see him as an expert in any sector of political governance - he studied his Idiagbon relationship and designed that takeover. The Asiwaju only needed Buhari's PUBLIC FIGURE/IMAGE and his ANTECEDENCE.

So if, like Senator Rochas Okorocha sees... If the APC disintegrates today, as he has forecast, it will never be from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, it will be from the scheme that started with those who left the APC when "Tenure Elongation" failed and collapsed in their ugly political faces - they have since not forgiven the best political brain God has gifted Nigerians.for planning thqt out. He did not have to gangup with anyone to get there. He showed intellect and command.

Those who left the party then, included the same man who lost his presidency to his Alakiri Al'Ajala, the wanderer, leading those who failed to secure political offices, and those of them in the national assembly who had no future hope of treachery in the APC, left for good. But those of them who can never be anything outside political office, who were members of the executive arm, never dared leaving the APC. The same hope their colleagues lost, now stares them like "ooorbiii" in the face, and this "Tinubu fighting" is nothing, but appears like "panic buying" of petroleum products during scarcity scare.

Today, the angst from the failure of "Tenure Elongation" is what these powerless men are driving to sink the ship of the APC, yet they are ignorant that no vision is a ship yet, until it has been translated.

The translation of the APC vison was yet, and so the seeming failures of the incumbent government is from the unborn APC mandate because those who took over the governance Intensive Care Unit of the Buhari administration, know nothing about the vision that drove the need for the progressives takeover and the.progressive change we all craved. Any borrowed development from the Chinese is not an achievement please. It is a betrayal of national trust.

If they knew anything about progressive governance, they would not be fighting Asiwaju Tinubu, they would be learning the progressive culture and ideology at his feet. But good governance has never been their target. Their target has been to keep political relevance for nothing, but for primitive accumulation of parochial wealth. Let them count how many years they have been in public office, and today they are borrowing from the Chinese. Should they not accept their ganged-up failures?

For God's sake, we borrow Chinese money to develop our infrastructures, but we churn out obscene billions of Naira, from nowhere, to buy electoral votes. This is not the APC that was thrown at Nigerians. It is a reminder of the days of the PDP when bags of raw cash was struggling for space with the Nigerian Mace before our national lawmakers.

These PDP men would have come to nothing except that they had one small man who left them some time ago, and pretended to be a progressive, snitching to the side of Mr President, he hijacked the mandate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

It is for him that the presidency is divided on the outcome of the Edo governorship election. Imagine! It is not just a division in the party, but also in the presidency. While one division congratulated Obaseki, the Personal Assistant to the President insinuated "going to court". His Excellency, Hope Uzodinma, is actualizing it. What is happening?

This is why I am calling Nigerians out, to see that their unjust pointing of finger at Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, how it is a distraction from the problem with the APC. What is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu holding that is the property of the APC? Why should he be the problem? I am saying this at the risk of losing my political base.

Severally, I have received calls asking me to prepare for national assignments but none came through, but I see these oportunities as nothing compared to my desire to see to Nigeria's national good - as God lives, I won't entertain any need - he supplies all my needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus - why should I care? If this nation was prosperous, political patronage would be for low class people. People who need jobs because they have no skills, nor capacities for other things.

So the major problem of the APC is one man who joined the CPC from the PDP, who positioned himself privilegely behind Mr president and keeps telling him lies. He is the problem of the APC. He is some various NOUNs to various people. He hates the Asiwaju bitterly, because he is no match for him. A godfather himself but hates godfatherism. Lets wait and see if Godwin Obaseki will love to be a godfather too, himself.

They lie to distract from what they major in. We are crying for peace so crucially in some north western States. Who is he who has proved incapable of solving a local problem and is eyeing solving a national one? Lets all watch out for him, he may not be tall enough to see the overwhelming outcome for him: let us agree to throw him out, together with all the brands he will bring. He is up to no good.

Nigerians must see who are responsible for the seeming failures of the Buhari administration: a diehard PDP man in the federal cabinet who matches soldiers into elections, and a governor who wants to work Nigeria out when he can not handle the State he desperately took to govern. These two men must be rejected by Nigerians, cautioned by our party leaders, and I will be here to expose their every diabolical-looking moves. Their intention is to enslave us.

PDP brought "ballot box snatching," Buhari says "shoot ballot box snatchers at sight". Now, they are "buying votes". In the thick of the desire of Obasanjo to take Lagos State from the Asiwaju, he failed without a gunshot. In the desires of these two men: one is from the South, positioned to deliver the South, and he has delivered the South South already, and the other from the North, misguiding some northern governors to tear down the APC, using his surrogates from the CPC. One pretending to be serving, and the other pretending to be governing.

APC has no other problem, and Nigerians have seemingly lost faith in the APC presently because of the activities of these two men. Like I said my neck is against their blades, and my life upon the altar of the Almighty God.

"Purify me as gold, that I might be bold to say my body is your sanctuary" Oh God, my father!

My present target is not to be assigned in any capacity. If it comes, it is service I see, not the meal on the table. In my village, I have seen people eat at gatherings and return home to die. I have seen a man who swore oaths to take money to be rich from politics, but at his best moment, he gives up his life. My target is to be a part of the emergence of the next Governor of Akwa Ibom State, whoever governs my state from 2023. I will NEVER MISS THIS TARGET. It is divine.

"What shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and lose his soul?" Let this question guide our acts. Amen!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only). Follow "ini Morgan" on Facebook via 08102466347. I am a DOJ.

An Opinion by Verified Opera News Hub Creator, Arc Ini Akpan Morgan with Kate Hensley Hansel

My virtual friend, Mrs Kate Hensley, this morning, posted a mind blowing revelation of a vital business opportunities provided by Fast Food vendors and outlets, with her reference to the environs of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where she noticed new entrants into food vendoring in the State.

Kate, as I call her, being a much younger sister who appreciates positive contributions to societal growth, and prosperity; herself, a life coach, a great motivator and a rights militant. A business conscious advisor, a mother and wife, Kate also opines on politics and leadership.

With her reveleation, she offered a very sound, and a "point blank" instruction to redundant youths following after "money for spending" from politicians, and identified the "money for spending" as the acts of these lazy but money loving youths patronising these food vendors and outlets with young women of similar redundant and privilege loving "class".

Kate posted, thus, on her Facebook page:

"Another one has join the league of fast food vendors in Uyo, while some jobless youths are preparing to go there and flaunt class with crumbs from politicians.

Know this: that most of these vendors are still outsourcing their major raw materials (inputs). Key among them is poultry and beef. The last time I checked, I was told that these vendors and proprietors of food centres, buy their chicken and meats in tonnages, and the legal requirement for their processing, in terms of dressing and packaging, MUST be mechanized by law, to meet recommended standards.

I don't know of any farm, or how many farms should there be any, that can meet up these standard in Akwa Ibom State currently. It is time that our youths patronising these places think of how they can also make business out of them too in order to establish a network of money circulation within the State. They need to learn to work for the lifestyle they live, or admire. They should not just be spenders on borrowed funds."

Added to what Mrs Hensley posited, an idea, which generated from hers, that it may require investors cashing in on the intervention required in closing the gap in the mechanical requirements for processing chicken and other meat sources, for the Akwa Ibom fass food markets, principally to checkmate capital flights to other States especially Lagos, and to cut the cost of their end uses, due to logistics and overheads.

In the face of politicians encouraging our youths to be redundant, lazy, and criminal in nature, progressing from their greed for money, while yet they are with no personal value, nor potential for making money, it is important that goverent uses the examples of what happened to Mohammed Yusuf of the "Boko Haram" fame and Terwase Akwasa, "The Gana of Gbitse-Benue", to know that our politicians contribute, immensely and violently, to the insecurity we suffer as a nation and as a people.

It is sad that some politicians can do anything to win in elections and make their victories an end on its own, leaving the people, and those they desperately used, out of it, destroying the lives of the ones they used to perpetrate violence, and when they are "too hot to handle", and become too wild", these politicians expose them to be hunted down, and officially killed.

Wherever the punishment for crime is not processed through the law, such punishment becomes illegal. This illegality is what transmutify a crimnal into a hero: here is where a terrorist is seen by his own people as a freedom fighter. Are we intentiinally building a nation which deifies criminality, and pontificate criminals?

Kate has brought us today, face to face with reality, and in her own words, here transcribed, says: "stop giving our youths "money for spending", and think of what happens when they cannot have their usual "money for spending". Should we be wondering why crimes are attractive to our teeming young, but unengaged working population in this country?

Now, why would a State government, for example, which engaged more than 900 redundant youths as "Special/Personal Assitants to Governor" without a job value to be vacated, except that they were government's merchants of "vote buying" in elections, placed on a minimum monetary monthly take home for being redundant and unproductive.

Why would such a government, in her policy drive for food sufficiency, availability, and affordability; and for job creation, in collaboration with major but necessary stakeholders, not provide soft loans and consultancy services for these youths who, in some instances, are taken, 3 per electoral wards, to deployed into poultry farming, and animal husbandry, in their ward, and ensure that they succeed.

In a public, private partnership arrangement, government can also collaborate with investors to establish meat processing and packaging factories to ensure that the raw needs for food making and food consumption in the State is contained within the State, drawing revenue and boasting our GDP.

Not only that, it will also provide jobs for the unemployed, and the unskillful, eliminate capital flight from the State by cutting down the cost of logistics and overhead, and cleaning up our urban areas of potential armed robbers, terrorists, prostitutes, cultists, rapists, and especially, internet fraudsters, promoting our national security value chain.

We must deliberately, and collectively help our commatoes economy resurrect again, and we must dutifully encourage the breeding of a good society of genuinely prosperous people.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only). Follow on Facebook with 08102466347. Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

I seem to hear a shrilling voice from a land far away, challenging some "sons", saying "you are all there pretending not to be concerned by the insults a young man hauls on me consistently..." and Pronto! 3 years was dug up to address a current matter having nothing to do with "insults". Please come inside with me:

As one who is on the "hot seat" of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", a program anchored by ace television presenter, Messr Frank Edoho: as a self-confessed Apostle, Teacher and Prophet, and the vision bearer of "The Apostolic Vision International", I feel a responsibility to offer my "final answer" to the quarrel between two Nigerian clergymen, Pastors David Ibiyieomie and Paul Enenche, both of "Salvation Ministries" and "Dunamis International Church" on one hand, and an On Air Personality, "Daddy Freeze", on the other.

While I frown at Daddy Freeze's name-calling on/of Bishop David Oyedepo, which happened "secretly" about 3 years ago, which was truly uncalled for, if it was "the Church" Daddy Freeze was defending, I must, however, shower him much of my support for rising against teachings, for which, he seems not to find scriptural derivatives. As long as no man is an authority over/on scriptures, but the Holy Spirit, I agree that any man teaching on scriptures can, and should be challenged when the need emerges or arises.

Again, I put it to Pastors David Ibiyieomie and Paul Enenche that God may have positioned "Daddy Freeze", like he positioned Scribes, Pharisees, Saduccees, rulers, and lawyers along the ways of Jesus, to provoke and to tempt him, to prove him as a man acquainted with pain, a man of sorrows, but while Jesus silenced his attackers by sound admonitions, these two Pentecostal Pastors failed to live up to public expectation of them, and rather offered to kiss their muds.

When I listened to all the public vomits and licence-taking in the "curses" listed by these men against Daddy Freeze, men who should hold out their lights to him, and saltily preserve humanity from decadence, I remembered Jesus say, "unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees..."

They have both shown themselves to be bad examples of Jesus in tolerance, quietude and perseverence. Only the Jewish Sanhedrin were as callous, vengeful and braggadocious as the two clergymen have shown of themselves in this review.

Like the present experience in Daddy Freeze's spiritual reality - that of a man demonstrating the infantile exuberance triggered by the "hearing by the word", and being availed with a strong communication tool - the radio - in propagating his spiritual newness, he behaves like any of us when we, too, first had the experience.

But I am sad that the two "men of God" could harbour the grudges of an insult meted on "their father" for about 3 years running, bringing out "the beast" in them when, and only after the same man questioned "their father's" morality on scriptures.

Those who would quarrel with Daddy Freeze should first come into my story: when I started ministering on the error in the observation of "Tithe paying", qualifying it as 10%, in the "simple interest" fashion of Arithmetics, inherited by "Church leaders" worldwide, I shared my "revolutionary articles", in which I called all 10-percental "tithe takers, 'liars and thieves'", walking all around the city of Port Harcourt. I would have appeared like Daddy Freeze if I had a voice on radio.

It is novel to question clegymen because they are "touch nots", now is the time to exposed doctrine-driven hypocrisies. It is time to question some "anointing" and "prophesies", and expose them for "touching" and "harming", because they are all fake.

The overwhelming passion of Daddy Freeze is impulsive, and what these clergymen have shown of themselves, by their disharmonious sounds, is their lack of this personal "driving" experience in their own spiritual lives - they should know! So they appeared like men answering to an infant child who is still learning to talk. Only a mentally challenged adult will get into fits with a child who cannot ordinate his speech, not realising the help he should offer with the infant's pronounciation.

This is all I will say on this, and let me share my persuasions on Ephesians 5:22-33, the passage which seems to have drawn the present shame-full and gory-filled melodramatic inuendoes of two unlearned claimers to following Jesus, and having nothing to show about him but obscene earthly wealth, and a beyond tolerable degree of boast-full and self-filled advertising of primitive and parochial materialistic high-ego.

Simply put, anyone teaching on that Ephesian passage, and refuses to take his context from Ephesians 5:32-33, but chooses Ephesians 5:22-24, is establishing the "traditions of the fathers", which continually puts our women irresponsibly UNDER THE MAN. In verse 32, Apostle Paul is clear and frank about his position on "a man and his wife", confessing that it is a "great mystery", which is only explanable by the relationship status between Christ and his Church. Should anyone discount on this revelation to hinder the drive towards the understanding of the subject?

Why is marriage and matrimony "a great mystery"?

Those who teach on marriage and matrimony are quick to always jump on Genesis 2:20-24 to promote the adoption of "their father's traditions", by their concepts, but have always failed to take note of how that origination in Eden was affected by the updated downgrading of that divine institution in Genesis 3:13-19.

Again, we must recognized how the accomplishing environments between both (between a lushed greeny Edenic garden, and a howling barren wilderness) also affects the impact, putting instant pressure, on human marriage and matrimony.

To bring this home, we must understand why Jesus said that the Jews divorce their wives (treat their women painfully) because of "the hardness" of their hearts - nothing more. This is because "the curse upon the woman" put the woman "under the rule of her man", not necessarily by/for reason of her fault:

Eve was never "accused" but she was cursed. The serpent was accused for having "...done this", and Adam was accused of "listening to" his wife. Nothing accused Eve. Eve was therefore deceived, but Adam was not.

Now taking another look at the relationship between Christ and his Church, we will realise that the Church enjoys a status of one who is "more than conqueror" in Christ, her husband. Ephesians 5:29 sums up the success of marriage and matrimony, and making it depend on the man "taking care of his wife", as his does "his own body," in order to receive her into his own warm embrace.

Marriage therefore happens when a man deliberately pulls his wife into his own embrace, and the wife also wraps her arms around him. When one partner embraces the other, and the other's arms are down, the embrace is incomplete. Nevertheless, as the head of the woman, the man is her eyes, nose, mouth, ears, brain, tongue...every duty of the head is who the man is to his wife. Sin came when the woman instructed the man, and it was not her fault that the man was irresponsible enough to heed her.

Irresponsible men therefore do not make good husbands. No matter how a woman is, her excellence or failure depends on her husband. So any teaching putting a burden of success in a marriage on the woman is in error of the example of Christ and his Church. As Apostle Paul logically postulates, therefore, "a man should lay down his life for his wife" without thinking that if he dies for her, "his office...another takes".

Daddy Freeze did nothing wrong in challenging Oyedepo's sermon on this passage if he stressed too much on the woman. No leader should promote domestic violence and unstable marriages by putting anything in marriage on the woman. The woman was made for the man and not the other way round. Some men do not really show that they need a help meet for them.

This is the truth! The rule of the man over his wife was a curse taken away in Christ. Adam refused to die for Eve and made Eve to "suffer". What he failed to do for Eve, his wife, Christ did for us, his Church - this is the message of Apostle Paul. Period!

God bless his Church with his truth.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Follow on Facebook with 08102466347. Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

Exodus 20:22-25

The "stone” upon which God imprinted his social and devotional (the perfect) laws was hewn by the hand of God, meeting the specification of Exodus 20:25.

Moses broke that one in the face of a forbidden act.

The imperfect and temporary law, which became a school master to lead us, believers, to the perfections in Jesus Christ, was hewn by Moses and then imprinted upon by the finger of God. How Moses carve out his own stones without tools is naturally impossible. Get wisdom!

Moses was chosen to be the Christ and God came upon Mount Sinai to personally announce Moses as his "final word" to mankind (Exodus 19:9), but the Jews pushed that away because of their inability to accept the overwhelming presence of God among them - they distrusted the God who showed himself in all their deliverances.

Please we must stop acting out our Christianity like the Jews. They are awaiting us for their own redemption. This was the revelation of Apostle Paul in Romans 9.

And while Moses was away to pick a copy of the spoken law, now engravened for documentation, they did exactly what, from which, God forbade them - making a likeness of him in gold or silver, and were found in worship:

Una don mumu reach that level?

Yet! These were the people God loved with everything.

That which we observe in the Old laws today, after we have been led by it to Christ, makes us become like the Jews, believing a religion.

Moses who commanded the Jews against marrying foreign wives, himself married a foreign wife. So at that time, grace had started to be very sufficient.

This was such that, on their way back into Egypt from the Medes, Zipporah, Moses' Gentile wife, the daughter of the Median priest saved Moses from the lord's sword by a ritual of blood.

I hate to see Christians bearing the "living for Christ" as a big burden - if it is his burden, then it must be light, not heavy.

It is a burden in the first place because - instead of exercising this burden as the responsibility to want for your neighbour what you want for yourself - a 50/50 relationship across the world - we choose to exercise it in being busy working ourselves to meet the "standard set".

Who set any standards?

Standards were broken, after faith realised that the law does not deal with the thoughts of our hearts and the words of our mouth, which must first and foremost, be acceptable in God's sight (Romans 14:22), it wrote a new law: do unto others as who would they do unto you. So the law of God has been transfigured from all abuses unto God himself - Love.

Love for God, and love for your fellowmen. To further simplify it, he said "hey, guys! forget about me, just love that brother of yours that you can see because that is the way I can know that you love me that you cannot see.

So why are we pretending to do all we are doing for and to a God we cannot see and in the face of his delegation of our love for him to your fellowmen? Why?

A lot of people who know me, and do not see me as a mystery do not know me at all. My life is a mystery. I can fight if there is a need to fight. I dey craze sometimes ooo! Na my DNA!

I am a very content man. I am so full I have no space - e even show for my body: body wey God dey do him rounds like doctor, on me, daily. I always talk like I am from the presence of God, to put it humbly. And I always pray that people can think like me and talk like me.

Don't seek Christianity in my lifestyle, it upi.e. dont seek to be judgmental of me: you may get it wrong and I will feed your error very well. Seek Christianity in the products of my thoughts expressed in my words. You are a Christian not by your accomplishnents but by your confession of, and your believe in Christ - this generates the faith (spiritual energy) we need for our spiritual growth.

This entire created tendencies came by the word and not by works. This is the "ABC" of Christianity.

God bless the readers and the believers.

Ini Akpan Morgan is called an Apostle to Teach truth with the vigour of a Prophet.

It calls for the character of the sheep. (John 10.27). The fact that Jesus chose five men by election, not been called, was because his work was yet to be accomplished, however, this category of choice ceased with the accomplishment of his work. Significantly, Judas Iscariot and Thomas belonged to this category.

THE SPIRIT OF MEEKNESS

The second ingredient of whom God chooses is meekness. A meek spirit will not do anything hastily. A meek spirit gives way to self-examination. When the word of God came to Jeremiah, he said “Ah Lord God! Behold I cannot speak: for I am a child”.

He confessed his inadequacies to God. We must be inadequate, intimidated, inferior, and humbled before God’s word to enable it influence our lives. We must continually decrease in personal worthiness and allow God’s word to increase worthily in us. The same thing happened to Moses. Scripture witness that Moses was very meek above all men who were upon the face of the earth (Numbers 12.3). Although Moses grew up in the palace of Pharaoh, he was unbothered by the pomp and pageantry of royalty (Hebrews 11.24-27), he chose rather to suffer affliction by wandering in the Median desert, until he found God.

He was a man of great contentment (Exodus 2.21), yet when he met God, he felt unqualified to be His errand boy. The greatest strength of a meek spirit is that it does not despise little things (Matthew 18.5), and would not ignore any detail. A meek spirit is a curious spirit (Exodus 3.2-3). Most people may witness the same scenario that Moses witnessed, and under the same circumstance, rather than turn to see as Moses did, would make haste, without discernment, and leave the vicinity to look for people to bring to the scene to "see", only to be liars at the end. That scene was for Moses’ sight alone, and he did not miss the purpose, because he had a meek spirit.

PASSION FOR SERVICE

When God demanded that Abraham sacrifice Isaac, although it was nearly naturally impossible to consider, yet because he had a passion to serve God, Abraham prepared and executed God’s demands. Moses found God, and being convinced that God was going with him on his assignment, left to meet Aaron in the wilderness, in the face of a death penalty that was awaiting him. To have a passion for service is to place ourselves at God’s disposal.

Romans 12.1-2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service and do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, THAT YOU MAY PROVE what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” because we pray always "thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven". It is necessary to understand that just as there is a second death (Revelation 21., there is also a second birth. When John the Baptist commenced his ministry, he made it clear that he came for a purpose; he located himself, by his mission, in the word of God. When he found the word, it sparked off his passion to fulfill scripture. He went out saying he was the one who Isaiah prophesied about as preceding the Messiah’s entrance into the world (Matthew 3.1-4).

It is only the man with the passion to serve who will locate God in scripture and hear him calling. The hearing fuels the passion. That passage in Isaiah that John the Baptist referred to made sense to him, and in it, he found a calling which by faith he took hold of, reinforcing his position with the prophesy of Malachi (Malachi 4.5-6). An Jesus said he is the greatest among earthly men.

The Jewish rulers were usually heard saying “the traditions of our fathers” and this did not go well with God’s arrangements. John the Baptist saw a need and took responsibility. He saw his mission as the messenger, to prepare the way of the Lord, and this fell in line with Malachi’s prophecy that Elijah would come before the Lord’s Day.

When two scriptures agree, conviction will take over. John saw his life woven around Prophet Elijah’s ministry. He came according to the calling and mannerism of Elijah (II Kings 1.7-. Elijah was quick to rebuke rulers, and never hesitated to pronounce consequences for national iniquities. This mannerism put the life of Elijah in danger, and cost John his life. It is all about passion for service. We have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us even as always (Hebrew 12.1).

John the Baptist pointed to Jesus Christ and his type of baptism, which brings the second birth. The first birth ensures salvation from death and the gift of grace to live. It admits into the Church. The second birth ensures power to live the life of faith and it admits into eternal life. The second birth makes us see ourselves in the past according to the vision we find in the word of God, this helps us know our mission for the present and find assurance for our place in the future.

We have become all things and all things are ours. We can prepare a place in the future for ourselves. Passion to serve comes in the second birth; it comes after self-examination and realization.

LEARNING TO PREVAIL

We must build up our experiences (II Corinthians 12.9). This is a process as learning is. Until we realize that our salvation is by grace and that it is a gift, we may not learn how to prevail. It is only in weakness that God demonstrates his strength, and his wisdom, he demonstrates in foolishness (Genesis 32.26-28)

James 5.16-18 “…the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man subject to like passion as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on earth for three years and six months. He prayed again, and the heavens gave rain and the earth brought forth its fruits”.

We must learn to stay our trust on the Lord and pray earnestly to sharpen our faith hold on him.

BEARING A MESSAGE

A man chosen of God must have a vital life-changing message from Jesus for the lost world. This is booking a place for the future (I Corinthians 3.11-15). A confession in a soul-moving movie says that of all the armies that have marched the earth, of all kings that have ruled, of all the navies that have conquered the seas, no name has affected human history like the name of Jesus, yet he was a solitary preacher who had no home, nor raised an army.

Romans 1:14-16 “I am a debtor both to the Greek, and the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, to the Jews first, and also to the Greek”.

Apostle Paul pointed to three things: the vision he caught, his response to the vision and his determination to accomplish the mission in the vision. He caught a vision to preach, which made him a debtor and he was not ashamed of it.

Therefore, the five ingredients of a man chosen of God are:

He must be located, found and CHOSEN. God respects freewill.

He must POSSESS AN ATTITUDE OF HUMILITY, which enables learning

He must CATCH A VISION IN THE WORD OF GOD, for a personal experience (encounter, if you wish)

He must EXPERIENCE THE VISION, the mental development of the vision into a mission

He must INITIATE A MISSION, moving out into the neighbourhood with a message.

Without a personal message from God, you are not "in Church" even if you "go to Church".

God bless you all, Amen!

Culled from the book "Mystery of Unbelief" by Ini Akpan Morgan, CEO, The Apostolic Vision International (AVInt.)

Recent happenings around leaders of Christian denominations in Nigeria, intensely engineered by, first, the Nigeria's 2020 CAMA Laws, and the most recent verbal altercation, involving Pastor David Ibiyieomie and OAP "Daddy Freeze", has necessitated this enlightenment, which will begin a series of expositions on "the Church", and her members. This is to expose Christian denominations - a creation of the self-will, by the self-claimed "calling" of men - as the carnal spirtualisation of the celestial body of Jesus Christ.

Before one enters into a city, he must legally do so by gate into the City or climb over the walls as a thief. So it is with the City of God. This literary piece comes to show us the exact picture of what leaders of denominations carnally spiritualise because they, themselves, do not know - having inherited "the traditions of their fathers", and abusing the decency they inherited in it - who the Church consists. But nothing is forever. Christians deserve the truth. And here is where we will begin.

Revelation 22:12-16 makes it important for every believer to understand how the price for making heaven had already been accomplished in Christ Jesus. There is no price to pay for our admission into heaven that was left unpaid. Everything was fully paid for. However, two passages of scriptures tell us what we must do to ensure that the price that Jesus Christ paid for our admission into heaven, and that, which takes away our sins from us, and make death powerless over us, is not wasted.

Matthew 7:13-14 and Luke 13:24 both tells us about “finding our gates”, which Jesus said very "few shall find", and being “able” to enter therein as Jesus said many who desire to enter therein “shall not be able”. So, it is very possible for a believer to feel safe in Christ while here on earth, but because he has not played his own role of personal development so very well, making all efforts at personal spiritual development, he misses heaven via his missing his gate, or not being able to enter into it.

Let us understand this by the revelation that Jesus Christ gave to John upon the Isles of Patmos (Revelation 17: 14): We shall be considering the 3 classes of believers the passage talks about, starting with “The Called”, then "The Chosen" and finally "The Faithful". This will be delving into my book "The Foundation of Unbelief".

It is possible to believe that you are a Christian when you are actually only attempting to be a Gentile-Jew, believing Moses at heart, and in acts. There was the first beginning, which started from Genesis and ended in Revelation. How many Christians know that there was a New Genesis that began with the Revelation of John - that everything outside the Bible has the opportunity of "the New Creation"? For whom old things are gone, and EVERYTHING IS NEW. We must see ourselves in a new walk with God, not as Moses taught, but as the Holy Spirit now teaches, using Jesus as our example.

"THE CALLED": THE HOLY SPIRIT TESTIFYING

The call of faith is to bring the child of God from the darkness of the world into the light of spiritual reality and intelligence. The move from darkness into light removes ignorance and fear. In darkness, one knows and sees himself only; but when light shines in that darkness, every other thing around is exposed, then discernment of whom from what, and whose from which would be clear and convenient. From this exposure, the mind garners and gathers needed experiences.

In darkness, the mind wanders aimlessly, but in light, it is actively engaged (John 12.35). It is under the light that one can work, no one can work in darkness (John 9.4). The original mandate of man, what mandate remains for any child of God, is to work and keep the earth and its resources, as a steward of God. There are good works and there are laborious works.

God has called us onto good works, which He has accomplished for us from the foundation of the world pertaining to the earth and its fullness. These works are Sabbath works, the type to which Adam and the Israeli Priests were to work (Genesis 2.15), and the type to which Jesus gave himself to accomplishing finally (John 5.16-17).

Jesus made it clear that it is from the abundance of the heart that the mouth makes utterances (Matthew 12.34). Jeremiah 1.4-5, 9 “Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet unto the nations. …then the lord put forth is hand, and touched my mouth; and the Lord said unto me Behold! I have put my words in your mouth”.

Jeremiah was to speak whatsoever he heard. He could not say anything until it was in his heart (Matthew 12.34). He first learnt the words by heart. Towards the end of the ministry of Jesus, he began to teach his disciples on abidance, instructing them by the imagery of the vine: how the branches must abide in the vine if it must produce fruits (this means staying, or remaining in Church, and not "going to Church". He chose and ordained these men to go and bear the fruits that will remain (John 15.16). Our call is a call to learn. It is not a call to "preach", nor a commitment to abidance; the believer must progress from learning to abide in Christ, in the Church. When learning endures, character builds up; when character becomes grounded, it speaks for itself (Colossians 3.15-17).

Every child of God who speaks does not speak because he heard another like him speak, but speaks by the experience the fellowship of the word had caused him to obtain in God (John 16.25). The word of God in our hearts brings the righteousness of Jesus. This is a gift, and having obtained this gift by faith in the word, Apostle Peter admonished in II Peter 1.5-9 that we add virtue to faith i.e. making conscious effort to conform our lives to the word. It is a conscious effort, exercised at conforming to Jesus in our relationships with others (always asking, “What would Jesus do?”).

To virtue we must add knowledge i.e. we are to continue studying to discover more of the inexhaustible Jesus. As we know more of Jesus, we add self-control to knowledge i.e. we must use the knowledge we gain to test the virtue we added to faith; patience must also come to play as pertaining to the promises of God. Endurance (the immediate advance stage of patience) is the root of faith (Hebrews 11.1-39; 12.1).

Hope does not have an end, it is like tomorrow; it will not fail. Furthermore, to our patience, we must add godliness; godliness is the recall to our original mandate, working the Sabbath works. Doing this shows that we have come to (Sabbath) rest. To godliness, we must add brotherly kindness; this brings out the purity of our Sabbath works. With brotherly kindness, we would not exploit others, we would not defraud, despise, and manipulate others, and we would not see other people as our problems.

We would learn to thank God for everything because we have learnt to see his will in everything that happens to us. This is to give us an expected end. Jesus associated with the less privilege and he was also a man acquainted with pain. It is only when we have come to these that we can reasonably show love for one another. This is what our election exemplifies (II Peter 1.8-11).

During the earthly ministration of Jesus, many followed him through his ministration of the word he spoke, and the communal welfare he provided, but he personally called seven men. From among the multitude that followed him, Jesus also appointed seventy-two men, and sent them out in twos into every city. He commanded them not to go from house to house, but to enter into the city and abide in the house into which they shall be welcomed. They were to preach the kingdom and to heal the sick among them (Luke 10.1-11).

He had earlier chosen five men by election, from among them that followed him; adding these to the ones he personally called, the number of his Apostles came to twelve men. He sent them out with power and authority to overcome demons, and to cure diseases. The difference between the Evangelist and the Apostle is strictly in the fact that the apostles were delegates, delegated with the power and authority of Christ (Luke 9.1-6). The seventy-two evangelists were ad-hoc ministers who returned from their assignments to keep following Jesus (John 6.60-66).

Mathematically speaking, and to establish what the ministry of the seventy-two exemplified, Jesus clearly demonstrated that the ratio of the twelve to the seventy-two is one to six. Six symbolizes work and imperfection: for God provided for man six days to do his work and to perfect this work by the Sabbath rest he has provided. Never again did we hear about the seventy-two, because they refused to enter into the rest of God, these were the men, who in John 6 departed from Jesus because, according to them, his words were too hard to hear.

However, let us not forget that these men cast out demons and healed the sick when they went out in the power of Christ; an experience most believers have not yet had, nor seen what they saw, yet have believed. It is clear here how a believer is "the called", yet his work is not perfect because he is yet to abide in Christ.

The seventy-two men sent out in twos were men of no titles, and did not receive the type of training the Apostles received, yet Jesus assigned them. This is to say the call of Jesus led and directed them, and Jesus, by the spirit of the call, did the works, the spirit quickening the works by their obedience.

However, the Apostles had the conferred spirit of Jesus upon them. Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven to a man who sowed good seed in his field (Psalms 24.1; Matthew13.24-29).

The word of God is living and powerful (Hebrews 4.12). Every unit of the word of God has life in it, and until the life of the word influence you, you cannot be lively disposed to the word. Until a passage of scripture jumps out at you, you do not have a sow-able seed.

Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven to a grain of mustard seed, and noted that it is the least of all seeds. The shortest verse in scripture is John 11.35. You would be astonished at the degree of impartation this verse bears on anyone to whom God chooses to minister it. This verse could be the grain of mustard seed; it may be any other. A grain of mustard seed is a unit, and if sowed in the field grows to be the greatest among herbs; birds also lodge in its branches (Matthew 13.31-32). It is about the categories of stewardship in Christ, the potentials, the possibilities and the services rendered.

Jesus taught that even the least considered scripture when sown in the heart provides spiritual shelter for those with whom it convokes. So it is required of us to abide in the word until we find in it life to influence others (II Timothy 2.15). In Matthew 13.44-45, Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven to a treasure hid in a field, which when a man has found, and for the joy of it, sells all that he has to buy the field. Jesus asked the rich ruler to sell off all his possessions and come to follow him.

The rich ruler found the hid treasure, desired it but refused to pay the price to acquire it. In Matthew 16.24, Jesus said “if any man will come after me, he should deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me”. The lesson here is that there is no how one receives the word of God with joy that he would not give up anything to retain it. It is a fundamental breakthrough in life.

I have walked several times with Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem, waited with, and among the Jews as Jesus addressed Zacchaeus, and I see little details that the Apostles missed, because the word of God is the same yesterday, today and forever more. Yes, it is possible to play back the life of Jesus picturing yourself in his congregation - this is the Church, and we congregate in scriptures. This is my reality - remaining in Church. This message is scarce.

Whoever wears the shoe knows where it itches. Those who feel it, know it. Yes! I figure myself in the multitude that followed Jesus. I was in his loins! Learn to talk like me brothers and sisters. No one who would finds life by the word would be able to restrain the joy of letting everything else go (Matthew 19.27-29). Jesus pictured the Church and her content in the Parable of the Net.

The net was cast into the sea and it gathered every kind of creature, which; when drawn to the shore, men sat down and gathered the good into the vessels, but cast the bad ones away. He said every scribe who is instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who brought forth out of his treasure things new and old (Matthew 13.52).

Scribes were high-ranking temple (Church) officials like those who sit in privileged seats in churches, in some congregations, they seat on elevated stages, looking down on the congregants. Jesus, here, admonishes these ones to receive instruction humbly (like David Ibiyieomie is resisting in Daddy Freeze) because things hidden to the wise, God always reveals to suckling. This is the wisdom of God.

A Scribe is the custodian and expounder of the old Law. When Maggis came to Herod in Jerusalem and inquire concerning the birthplace of he who is born King of the Jews, it was to the Chief Priests and the Scribes he deferred for revelation. Jesus was therefore referring to teachers and custodians of God’s oracle. He talked about their receiving instructions concerning the kingdom.

This shows that issues of the kingdom are not with them who appear to know about them; but if they give themselves to instructions, not building strongholds around their attainments, they would be able to compare the old treasures with the new ones (I Corinthians 2.13).

In Matthew 18.5, 10 Jesus said “And whosoever shall receive one of such little child (to instruct) in my name, receives me…take heed that you despise not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, that in heaven, their angels do always behold the face of my Father, who is in heaven”. Concerning conversion, Jesus said in Matthew 18.3 “Verily I say unto you, except you be converted and become like children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven”. This is a call to humility, and a teachable spirit, and the first among five characters of "the chosen".

This is a wakeup call for the clergy

A HUMBLE AND TEACHABLE SPIRIT

Take note that a call is not an ordination, and until you are ordained, God will not confirm his choice in you. This ordination is not by the anointing oil and the laying on of human hands, nor has it to do with man’s activities. This ordination is by the Holy Spirit, and it comes when scripture comes alive in the soul, and a chosen one is prepared with revelation and ministry for the Church. Primarily, we must understand that the most important period in our relationship with God is when he chooses us, and not when he calls us - His Call is to all who may come.

God called Abraham when he was yet uncircumcised and gave him a promise, but he did not establish a covenant with him until he was circumcised. Our circumcision is of the heart (Romans 2.29). Circumcision was to Abraham what grace is to us today.

The circumstance of the covenant of circumcision was without an oath, it only brought about the gift of a son, it gave faith a holding, but God required Abraham’s submission and obedience for the covenant of deliverance and friendship to birth, this brought the oath of God for the everlasting blessing of man through the presentation of a “Son Offering”.

You must ascend the Mount of the Lord before you can find deliverance (Genesis 22.14), but grace is available everywhere, as a gift of God to all men. He is the one who causes it rain upon the roof of the poor and the rich, the good and the bad, grace distinguishes not, but deliverance is the Children’s bread, it is only for the Household of Faith. In the Covenant of deliverance, God confirmed Abraham’s participation and involvement, and made a surety by an oath (Genesis 22.15-18). Until we train our hearts to hear God by the ears of our spirit, we may not hear him, lest we obey him. Obedience to God’s voice is therefore the upholding of his word inwardly, not outwardly. This is why I choose outward rascality, so that men can judge me in vain. Like the "curse of David Ibiyieomie" - empty, ungodly, boastful and vain.

Psalms 1.1-3 “Blessed is the man…whose delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in it does he meditate day and night, he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf shall also not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper”. Therefore, the first ingredient for the chosen of God is their ability to submit in obedience to God’s word. God will not choose anyone who has not submitted in obedience to His word, because His words bear the mechanism for discerning the thoughts and the intents of the heart, and nothing hides from Him. The word of God can therefore not apply transformation to the life that does not submit to its demands.

Culled from "The Foundation of Unbelief" written by Ini Akpan Morgan, CEO, The Apostolic Vision International (AVInt.)

This opinion emerges to contest the trending illogical falacy that political elites from the north are not disposed to a Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency in 2023. For observing no reason to hold such opinion, this article opens up to the actual intent of this imaginary fear, which might not, actually, be from the north, but from apparent beneficiaries of our zoning framework, and it was issued to take undue advantage of the Asiwaju.

This opinion is not advertising Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in anyway: it is a contribution to the debate on "who the cap (best) fits" to lead Nigeria after President Buhari. This opinion deserves a free conscience, and liberty, without speculatively attributing the parochial to it. It should be seen as a duty: to see what is truth, and to speak it out boldly without fear. This is a calling.

It is insinuated that political elites in the north cannot trust Asiwaju Bola Tinubu with presidential powers because of his air of independence and international influence, fearing that they may not be able to control him.

This opinion contests this illogical fabrication of literary deception targeted to take political prisoners, issuing the lie portraying the Buhari presidency, as been controlled and dictated to, by northern elites. Nothing can be far from the trut

It should be an alarming wonder where such fabrications could come from. Nevertheless, this opinion can trace one fear, those who have it should have about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu winning the next presidentil election, and that is the fear of him ultimately becoming the undisputable "father" of our nation - the man, whom everyone loves to talk, and to listen to.

Nigeria has enjoyed the emergence of great political leaders, dead and living, but none among them earned, or earns the sobriquet: "The Father of the Nigerian Nation", in the same garb addressed to Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kwame Nkuruma of Ghana, and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. We only have regional champions.

So if Nigerians need to fear anything in a possible Asiwaju Bola Tinubu presidency, it will be his emergence as "The Father of Nigeria". And what is wrong with that? It is certain that it is not every Nigerian that want to see him get there, and Nigeria now needs a "Father" figure more urgently than never before. If other nations have had their ground breakers of character and vision, why not Nigeria? This does not say that those with character and visions are foulless, flawless and beyond human weaknesses.

This opinion however concedes to the fact that our First Republic political leaders were selfless, development-oriented and people-driven, but no one would rule out the fact that they, individually, contributed to our present region-driven and the clannishness of our politics, which threw up structural cancers upon our body politics, like "federal character" and "zoning" - policies which seem to, and makes apparent how these, help us with managing ourselves as "one people". This is why our bonding is weak, built upon divisive policies.

Having gone through the surge in the push for a Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency, especially recenty, by some northern elders, and their general acceptance that the presidency should retun to Southern Nigeria, rather than northern elites being apprehensive of any Southern candidate aspiring to receive the power batton from President Muhammadu Buhari, they need to join other Nigerians to trace the past achievements of all aspirants, and judge them from their individual contributions and their selfless sacrifices for our democracy, and their inputs to our demonstrative democratic advancements.

Nigeria currently needs a leader who can die for the people, because whether we like to accept it or not, some of our heroes past died to save this nation from dismembering catastrophies: people like Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Pa Alfred Ruwane, Kudirat Abiola, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Aguiyi Ironsi, and many others like them. Apart from these, there are those who escaped the political assasinations and persecutions of their days, and are still politically seasoned today, to continue in their quest to see a better Nigeria emerge for all of us.

If, therefore, there are those, anywhere other than northern Nigeria - because news reports can come from anywhere, saying anything - who are scared of, and fight against a Bola Tinubu presidency, then they must be those who stopped him from emerging as Nigeria's Vice President in 2015. They have every reason to fear his emergence as President, just as they were of his Vice Presidential opportunity.

And what is this fear?

Only one federating State in Nigeria can singularly depict the picture of the entire Nigeria, especially the cumbersome nature of her challenges, in terms of population, diversity, pressure on infrastructure, and the largeness of its governance: that State is Lagos. Looking at Lagos State and what Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made of it, his competitors fear that he would remake Nigeria, like he made Lagos State, and "took control" of its governance. Is it easy?

And looking back at what Asiwaju Bola Tinubu did in Lagos State, one would see his achievements in his selflessness with governance. Three areas of note considered and credited to him by this opinion are:

1. Drawing up a long term sociopolitical master plan, and economic blueprint for Lagos State - the covenant for every incoming governor of the State to actualise with the people.

2. Disindigenization of political appointments and strategising an outreach of political leadership for South West Nigeria. The leaders he recruited are some of the best Nigeria has today.

3. Instituting the Governor's Advisory Council as the highest political organ for Lagos State. By these he made the highest political power of Lagos State to reside with the local leaders of the people.

And Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by his pedigree, is the only politician self-developed to help Nigerians out of her incumbent neocolonialism, self-inflicted geopolitical divisions, clannish-driven nepotism, and religious intolerance; and he is the best prepared to make inroads with Nigeria into Africa. Nigeria must take up her responsibility as "The Father of Africa".

This opinion chips in that at a point, the vision of the APC was hijacked, and this is why Tinubu was "cut to size" in 2015. Our present dissatisfaction with the Buhari administration started when that happened. The Asiwaju went back home in his "new size", and Nigeria is now under intensive care: and every subsidy MUST GO!

Other politicians fight Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu because his presidency will retire a lot of them from politics, especially those for whom politics is a career. Nigerians must only trust those who left their lofty careers to help us. Those who laid down their lives for us, and still took it up to continue with the struggle today. Nigeria must have enough of those who have no democratic credentials to show in, and for their leadership.

More than what is needed to be accomplished in Nigeria, Nigeria has much more to accomplish in Africa, and Nigeria has the oppprtunity, of straightening out the crooked paths to the realization of this lofty continental responsibility, only in Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

So, our national target should not be limited to liberating Nigeria alone, but to also advance a continental target of Nigeria liberating Africa, and only one man is needed, with the right tools, to achieve this. Maybe...just maybe, Madiba Nelson Madela, may his soul find peace in God, would have, if he had Nigeria as his tool of access.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

As we have been championing this course over the years, we wont relent in informing the masses that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the only Nigerian worth leading after President Buhari.

He knows what it takes and to govern a Nation like Nigeria.

A politician of repute who all Africans political parties lean on and learn from his political school of thoughts; even those opposing him are one way or the other still learning from his political science class.


My fellow Nigerian, until we eliminate or uproot the differences in the ethnicity and religion completely we can't get it right.

When we are to consider good governance, base on the antecedents of all the politicians, we all have to agree and come to terms with Asiwaju Bola Hamed Tinubu to take the mantle of leadership from President Muhammad Buhari, come 2023.

Tinubu is the most tolerant and accommodation politician in the length and breadth of our political arena.

Whoever is looking for a way to thwart his political sagacity, is toying with the unity, loves and the liberation of this country.

He has been a talent hunter.

Tinubu a political prophet and teacher that teaches how to be generous and rescue the less privileged of this country. He understands the problem of this nation and he has a Godly designed structure to tackle it.

As we speak, 60% of the opposition knows he is the best but because of their interest, theycan't come out to support him wholeheartedly.

Comrade Abdulhakeem Adegoke Alawuje is the National Leader, Disciples of Jagaba (DOJ)

It is obvious that there are several interests always tending to retard the wheels of the progress government attempts to attain, hindering the delivery of good governance to the very helpless of citizens - we are living today with an example of how very common people, at their own levels, also understand why "the rich also cry".

There are several "fallen" establishments for good governance, where government has done everything almost impossible to turnaround unsuccessfully, because of how the human interests in these establishments, on a continuous bases, are, and must be protected, to keep a sociopolitical balance, against the general prosperity of all Nigerians.

With our refineries and crude deposits, the federal government should be affording Nigerians fuel to consume at no cost at all. In the face of our two-way allocation of crude: international trade and local consumption, it is my opinion that there are manners that our international trade can be managed and made to augment for the needs of local consumption.

But Nigeria is a country whose leaders prefer to save-out funds meant for our development stached in their private accounts, saving them for "sharing" to the people during elections, while they prefer borrow other foreign "development funds", from international lenders, at "very affordable interest" considerations, and expect our children to pay these loans in the future, to develop us now.

How are we raising our children now, to pay for the loan we have been utilizing in the future? Truth has no borders, and cannot be enclosed.

Until erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo took the bull by the horns to liberalize the government's communication sector, access to telecommunication, and information technology were out of the reach of the common people, unlike today when even my aged mother enjoys social media interactions across the world, and she is not blaming government for her not being able to afford recharge vouchers.

We can tell the same story, especially about our petroleum, health, and power sectors, and make the citizens investing and consuming from these sectors independent of government patronages. Who are the petroleum marketers who depend on government to do business? Who are the generators sellers who depend on government to import generators? Who are the medicines and medical equipment dealers who depend on government for subsidies, waivers on licences and duties? They rob Nigerians!

These are those, in these sectors, that government urgently needs to divorce as business partners. Government must begin to deal with third party (middlemen) operators of facilities and utilities of government in a way to prevent them from depending on government, in anyway, and for anything apart from implementing the right policies, and providing environments conducive for business. Paramount to this condusiveness, is "the market", and Nigeria provides the biggest and largest market, in terms of patronage, in the whole of Africa, and the 5th in the world.

Nigerian leaders are never conscious of our successes to repeat them, they, rather, always, love to repeat our history, as a people condemned to repeat the sad parts of life. Can we imagine the success the liberalization of our communication sector has engendered, are we conscious of it?

More than 32% of our unemployable youths are now self-employed, especially from "phone-charging", "voucher sales", "network marketting", all these, in very simple instances, and in an advance example, let us look at what "Big Brother Naija" is racking in financially, solely from software applications. All these, dealing with just one area of our economic investments, the quantum success, and the expansion of the ecomomic access for the prosperity of all. More than 97% of Nigerians have access to telecommunication and infotech.

It is therefore my advice, that the Buhari administration must urgently take up the power sector first, and liberalize it like the communication sector, and then health and finally the petroleum sector. It will not be easy to adjust to the drastic changes in the market econonies, until they stabilize, just like it was not when the cost of "Nokia 3310" could pay for an "Infinix Hot 8 Pro" android phone today. The cost of "sim card" then, could pay for 5000GB SD memory card And the cost of weekly calls then could pay for 15,000MB of data today. Yet both phone and its usage limited us to only calls and SMS. We have indeed made obvious advances.

But the story has changed today, phones and sim cards are at no price, and I believe that the story can still change for our health, power and petroleum sectors. Government only needs to possess the will to govern the people well. Unfortunately, Nigeria is a country where "interests" are defined to benefit individual leaders and this makes for the robbery of our national and collective interest. And this will not stop until the people rise to change the aberration.

I pray the Almighty God helps us with eyesalves to heal our mental blindness, so that we can see where government is taking us for granted and rise with the peoples power against the bad and derelict approach of our leaders to governance.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347(Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com.

While this opinion supports the widely accepted truth concerning the abysmal performance - frowning also at the unacceptable and shallow coverup to shield the lack of ideas about governance and the working of government - by the Akwa Ibom State government, as held by the major opposition party in the State, and expressed in a press conference recently addressed by the Acting Chairman of the party in the State, Dr Ita Udosen.

Nevertheless, what the people of Akwa Ibom needed to know about their government, a government established upon a compromised mandate, and installed by the moral violence of one man, has been effectively published already, by the APC Acting Chairman in the State, Dr Ita Udosen during his recent press conference held to present his "State of the State" address.

However, this opinion proceeds to address the visible flaws in the elements making up the address of the respectable Acting State Chairman of the APC in Akwa Ibom State. Apart from the lying claims of the Acting Chairman concerning the individuals responsible for actualizing the victory of Akwa Ibom State in the battle for "Resource Control", individuals who won the battle by reaching a political solution with erstwhile President Olusegun Obadanjo, which restored to the Sate and people, all that was lost in revenue and privileges.

Find the false claim of the Acting Chairman following:

"Let us remind the governor that Senator Ita Enang’s numerous accomplishments are well known. As a member of the National Assembly, Ita Enang was deeply involved in the struggle for resource control spearheaded by the then Governor Obong Victor Attah." - Dr Ita Udosen

Evidently, the letter hereby published, which was despatched by the Akwa Ibom State government, endorsed by Hon (Bar) Christine Akpan, the Government Special Representative, Bureau for Legistlative and National Assembly Matters, Abuja, to Senator (Dr) John Akpanudoedehe, is to put a lie to both his claims, which awarded such a landmark political and economic milestones, by robbing Peter to pay Paul. It is a very unfair lie, and it must not be allowed to thrive.

During the heat on the resource control debate, it was Senator (Dr) Akpanudoedehe, against the desires of the Akwa Ibom State government, who led leaders of the Akwa Ibom Elders Forum to reach a political solution on the resource control debate.

Senator Ita Enang may have, in his usual strides, made so much noise, gyrating without making movement about it and that confused Dr Ita Udosen after Senator Akonudoedehe hd breastrd tge tape of success. However, the man who does not talk when he has achievements to pursue, won the victory, which Dr Ita Udosen, first erroneously attributed to the Akwa Ibom State government, who itself was a painless beneficiary of the victory, and then had to import his namesake into the glory illegitimately.

This opinion holds Dr Ita Udosen responsible for impugning a selfless man's achievement, and demands that should he realize his mistake, he should see the need to publicly apologise to Senator (Dr) Akpanudoedehe for robbing him of his selfless sacrifices for the Akwa Ibom people, and for illegitimately donating same to Senator Ita Enang. Could he have been carried away by identicallity in their names?

Nevertheless, Dr Ita Udosen's address gave him out more, and unnecessarily as the Spokesman for Senator Ita Enang, more than it was a "State of the State" address, and this opinion believes that the office of the Chairman of a national ruling party in a State deserves to be critical and not harsh, in dispensing alternative governance, but Dr Udoosen gave none and made a party issue personal.

It is therefore the believe of this opinion that Dr Ita Udosen was not prepared to assume the office of the State Chairman of the APC in Akwa Ibom State. His first outing was poor in performance and he needs to sit up if he must lead people like me. Having recognised that Senator Ita Enang engaged the Udom Emmanuel in his "private capacity" and as an "indigene of the State", it was enough to have informed Dr Ita Udosen that defending Senator Ita Enang was not his business.

As a Senior Special Assistant to the President, Senator Enang is entitled to a media aide who should be responsible for his media defenses, and would have saved the party the public ridicule the office of our State Chairman has been put to. How many leaders is Dr Udosen prepared to defend against the State government? Is that the work of a state party chairman -.to pick the "private" fights of his members or is he deminstrating a partisan interested in favour of Senator Ita Enang? He cannot use the office of the State Chairman to do that.

Hear him:

"Like many other indigenes of the state who are equally worried by the NBS report, Senator Ita Enang in his private capacity had expressed concern over the high unemployment problems in Akwa Ibom state. He said that he was embarrassed as an indigene considering the monthly revenue earned by the state"

"We have very strong reasons to believe that Mr. Udom Emmanuel bears deep seated grudges against Senator Ita Enang and holds him in malicious contempt. We could feel this in the governor’s tone and tenor during his media chat. This is not the first time the Governor will try to embarrass the Senator."

"We can also recall the scene sometime in March 2017 at Obong Victor Attah International Airport on the visit of the then Ag. President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to Uyo for a consultative meeting with Leaders of the Niger Delta region. At the instruction of Udom Emmanuel, Senator Ita Enang was noticeably denied access to the VIP arrival zone where he was expected to join other dignitaries to welcome the Ag. President to the state"

"Senator Ita Enang is highly respected and admired by the APC family. For that reason, we will not have any “accidental public servant” open his mouth and pour venom on him. APC shall stand resolutely firm in justification and defence of the senator having found that his criticisms of government was not offensive. In fact, they were within the ambits of his inalienable right as a bona-fide indigene of Akwa Ibom state" - Dr Ita Udosen.

I am used to choosing my leaders or making them align with universal best practice when they are imposed on me. God gave me a voice to prosper with it. And with all due respect, the effort of this opinion here, is to prosper the advancement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, and to redress and regulate the excitement visibly residing in Dr Ita Udosen's brand new office. He can do better than he has begun.

I bless him, I bless his own, and I pray for his success in record breaking, as the Acting Chairman of our great party in Akwa Ibom State, Amen.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com.

My position is better, if you think that the "CAMA will not work", because I think that as long as the spiritual body of Jesus is concerned, CAMA laws is non-existent, inconsequential, null and void. A carnal law can never regulate a spiritual entity.

This has been my point and blind men keep telling me I am not a Christian though I appear like a Bible Student. What do they mean? Imagine, allocating Bible Studentship to me but robbing me of adoption into Christianity. How did I come to being a Bible student yet I am no Christian. Imagine the arrogance of alloacting divine orivikeges by men on earth. This is why "Church going" is a terribke spiritual pandemic.

This is my point: I am Iniabasi Akpan Morgan. I live by divine law, established in LOVE, as a member of the spiritual body of Jesus Christ, and this body is a government of its own, with the "head" living in heaven, and the "body" living on earth.

This means that the body which is the Church is, has no part of her eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tongue, teeth, eyelid, lashes and balls, and everything that makes up the head on earth. How then can any carnal government recognize this body to regulate it, if a man's face is the only means of identifying him? How else should this meat be meshed for toothless men-babies who are beyond taking milk?

Neither is Bishop Oyedepo, nor Pastor Adeboye, or any other anywhere on earth is my measuring stick for the righteousness of God in Christian. All of them are incompetent to allocate me. Jesus is my measuring line and the Holy Spirit allocates me.

And from this, I dare say that every Church leader linking the CAMA laws to the Church is a Satanic agent. No man can spiritualize carnality by celebrating his years of exploiting "weavers" from his romance with carnality. Any Church leader linking the Church (a Spiritual body) with the CAMA law (a carnal law) is attempting to serve two masters at a time. It is not possible.

The CAMA law is a business law in Nigeria, and only have to do with people who have business relationships with the Nigerian government via the government business registration arm, the "CAC". The Church should be quarreling with why she should be under government supervision, and not about the laws the supervision confers on government to issue to regulate the relationship.

Is this explanation, and illustration still as shrouded as it is in the mystery of the body of Christ, as to retain me as the only "bad guy" for the Church or should it release me to the Church as an heralder of Truth? I know that I have sounded strange to all "Church goers", but I have work to do. I must work the wroks of he that sent me whike it is day, for thw night comes whwn no man can work

Bishop Oyedepo, and others, have problems with the cAMA laws law because he, and others, are business men too, apart from who they claim to be, before us. If they were not, that CAMA law should not have bothered them that much, as to demand one "swearing on his life". Can he make a strand of his hair? Why go that far...no moderation by a Church leader? All for his earthly investments?

Can't we see it?

By the way, how does "the Living Faith Church", particularly, filter the money paid to the church from proceeds of kidnapping, armed robbery, stolen money by politicians, etc - when the corruption war of this present administration requires that "Church leaders" should not be channels of money laundering for criminals in this country.

Jesus did not ask for banks filled with money, he asked for the earth filled with regenerated human souls! Get the vision right. How many Muslims and pagans are converted by our Church leaders daily? But here are they in a fearsome panic about an imaginary Fulani authority over them. And here is where the success or failure of the church is determined. How would Bishop Oyedepo amd others feel if, by God's appointment, rapture happens NOW? Will CAMA Law matter any more...then why should it matter now? This world is not our home...

CAMA law came to expose the hidden secrets of the criminality of leaders of Christian denominations who misrepresent their creations for the Church of God. The buildings and the wealth made from these denominations helps their owners, and those around them, it adds nothing to the saving a lost soul. Let the Holy Spirit bear me witness today against those who resist truth.

Laretta Onochie revealed how Bishop Oyedepo took N20m in one day from a House Committee Chairman...how much does that Chairman earn officially, when he should have resigned from every other commitment he had before holding public office. How did the payer of N20m in one day make his money? This is why the renewed CAMA law came into being.

Church leaders contribute to the inflation and the economic bastardasation in this country. They are no better than Husspuppy - taking from people illegitimately by telling them what they love to hear, abi no be wetin Raymond Husspuppy do?

Leave me alone please!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

I have been dealing with feedbacks from the article in which I suggested that Bishop Oyedepo needs to learn "brokenness" from Pastor Adeboye. In this piece, the feedback threw at me the whole article of Chief Dele Momodu, and I am grateful, I finally got to read it.

The reading of Chief Momodu's article was recommended to me in another feedback, but I insisted that my contributions to the issue rests not on the 2020 CAMA Laws Chief Momodu dealt with, but on what led to the "marriage" between "Church Leaders" and the business sector of the Nigerian government.

And no one will understand the message I carry on the matter, until he attempts to answer the questions I have raised:

Enjoy my third party reflection on Chief Dele Momodu's piece.

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NIGERIAN PASTORS

They are running their churches 100% better than the way the president is running the country. The fact is many Nigerians are loosing it. They can't think beyond going after pastors.!In what way has pastors prevented Nigeria from owning an airline. In what way do pastors prevent Nigeria from having industries

Less than 0.0001% of pastors own Jets in Nigeria. ----but no, let us forget the over 70% that earn less than 50k/month and focus on the 0.0001% than own jets.

If you run your governments the way church leaders are running churches. Nigeria might be a Qatar right now. In all these argument Canaanland has had stable electricity and water supply for its over 15,000 residents since 1999 and is already on the verge of converting waste to electricity. RCCG is producing 25MW of electricity. Yet your ... govt you pay compulsory tax, vat, CIT, Pet Tax has not been able to give you light decades after independence.

Living Faith has more than 25,000 Staff and has never owed any of them salary! Yet your state govt that collects Allocation plus Tax cannot pay full salary.

Living Faith, a single Church, is schooling 16 thousand of your Citizens in Higher institutions and many more at primary and Secondary levels yet you think you have the capacity to waggle your tongue

I went for Shiloh all through and stayed in the staff quarters, yet it was electricity all through; for one second, water did not go off in spite of thousands that were present. On a normal day you won't walk 20 metres before you find a segregated bin to dispose your waste.

The entire area was fully covered by different layers of Security with multiple CCTV and IoT enabled barrier gates. And yet your Abuja, capital of the Nation does not have CCTV yet you open your .... mouth to talk down on pastors!

Between the guy that calls himself Area father and Bishop David Oyedepo Ministries International who resigned a federal job and started a Church of 3 people and has widened it to over 6,000 churches globally, over 200 schools, 2 hospitals, Over 1000 hectares farm for livestock and crop, Another farm in Igbesa and CU. With 15,000 housing Estate in progress, Water factories, Zeolite factory, One Research center, a scholarship fund, Beverage factories, 10 million books, Publishing house, Radio Station etc who has had more impact or who will have better capacity to govern the nation...??

Canaanland hosts hundreds of thousands of people every week yet no stampede ever. Government gathered people at stadium for recruitment exercise and before it even began, many were dead!

Living Faith already has a master plan till 2032 yet govt does not have a plan for 2020!

You know Illogicality is the trademark of most Africans. They fail to think beyond their prejudices and sentiments hence Africa has remained on the ground.

Can we imagine how developed the nation and would have been if we have people with the right mindset at the helm of the nation’s affairs? God bless all our pastors.
THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR TONGUE."

Mine: Believe me sir, this piece only shows the catastrophy of denominationalism, and as it represents the "Church' falsely.

What Dele Momodu is openly showing us is the picture of "a successful government" coming under "a failed government" - do you see that picture with me?

Now, my question has been: "how did the 'spiritual body of Christ' (a government like Dele Momodu has clearly pictured) come under the authority of another government that is human, and poorly driven?

At what point did government start having a say in how Churches are ran? What happened from the beginning? I just think that what the Church is doing today, should have been done from the beginning - to protest government involvement with them.

I seem to love Sheik Ibraheem El Zakzaky in the face of the practical cowardice of "Church leaders". The man refused to recognize the authority of the Nigerian government over him and his flocks, and insists that he rather dies than give in to what he does not believe. i think "Church leaders" should do better than making this present noise.

At no time, since I was born, have I heard that government and Church leaders are having problems, such that it now demands that most Church leaders now avail themselves to die for their "denominational holdings", and those who are afraid to die for theirs, assured that they would fast and pray for "government" to die instead.

I am surprised that just like the Jews suffered a blinding ignorance when Jesus was among them, so is this present moment for me, and this notion is fed by the unfortunate responses I have received for insisting that the denominations, to which believers have been compartmentalized, mistaken for the Church, has weakened the "unity of the body", whether we like to accept it or not.

How do you bring a government under God under the authority of - lets be frank now - President Muhammadu Buhari? What Dele Momodu revealed is "the evidences of the failure of 'the success God promoted for Nigerians', but which has been shortchanged by the "leaders" of our various "denominations".

As Dele Momodu revealed, the "Living Faith Church Worldwide" grew from 3 members to an umbrella organisation covering most part of our world, and I wonder how such massive success came under the head-mastership of President Buhari to insist he would take it over. And people quarrel with me fit seeing the impossibility of such "take over"?

The 2020 CAMA laws are business related laws: what "businesses" do our "Church leaders" have with government? Who went first to the other to facilitate the "marriage"? What was the initial agreements which has now changed introducing a confrontation? Why is the confrontation coming now, and not when government needed to register the "denominations" as business bodies? I hate to call these denominations "Churches" - as they are abberrations!

When I started to frown at the type of "tithing" imposed by our Church leaders on ignorant believers, I was fiercely attacked, but today, some Church leaders have caught the bug. They are preaching a renewed "tithing". And now that the revelation of the calamity of "Church going" has been committed to me, give this newness a few years, and you will see how God is preparing his Church for the rapture.

Dele Momodu has spoken very very well, now let him relate his revelations of these successes to the possibility of the rapture hppening NOW! What happens to everything? Is there "carnality" in your observations? Therefore let us agree that Dele Momodu has both revealed the capacity of the Church, and its compromise by denominationalism.

For God sake if "the Church" is as successful as Dele Momodu paints it, Christians would not be killed, no Christian should lack electricity...why should the Church record 0.0001% success in 100%, and just one denomination grew from 3 into a world class "Church", but over 80% of others earn less than N50%. What caused the difference if "the Church is one body"?

It was Abraham who gave the first recorded tithe, and he received the Levitical Priesthood bequeathed to his great grandson, Levi. It was Mechizedek, the King of Peace and custodian of the eternal priesthood of god, who received Abraham's tithe to bequeath the temporal priesthood to Levi as "the Guide to the Guard".

Jesus, the Prince of Peace and heir of the eternal Priesthood, received the bequeathal of the tithe of Levi, in Abraham, and allowed for the time until his coming in flesh amd blood, to relieve the temporary priesthood, and institute the everlasting priesthood.

Today, we are all priests in Jesus Christ, and he is the Chief Priest. The Head of the Church who is in heaven and having his body on earth. Is this truly the Church that "Church leaders" fear that "a Fulani Alhaji will take over?".

Let us understand the propaganda of "Church leaders". All that Dele Momodu has reeled, are material and carnal successes of denominationalism. All those successes are for "The Living Faith Church", and a few members of the business vision of the denomination. More than 80% other members of the same church across Nigeria still live in darkness and struggle with portable water supply. We are tired of cosmetics.

I dont write to be paid, getting paid for writing is Dele Momodu's business. He therefore cannot see as much as this matter needs spiritual insights, otherwise, even "the very elect will be deceived".

God bless you.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only pls). Email: time.subsidaties@gmail.com

What is God using the 2020 CAMA Laws and the COVID-19 pandemic to tell his Church?

The 2020 CAMAct is inconsequential to, and in how the Holy Spirit leads and manages the Church, the spiritual body of Jesus Christ.

The true problem here is that those who have created socioeconomic establishments around the finished work of Jesus Christ by establishing "the traditions" of those who put Jesus to death, in the name they all chose, for their denominations, submitted and applied to be registered with government.

These men give their establishments "the outlook of the Church", and call themselves "Church leaders", and those who follow them are blind to how these leaders are "the abomination that makes desolate" which scripture says we shall see "standing in the Holy Place".

The heads of Churches take the place of the Holy Spirit as the authentic "Head of the Church" - the spiritual body of Jesus Christ. These men distract other men from giving personal attention to hearing the Holy Spirit, individually. They take his place, as "the Best Man" of the Bridegroom.

This is why you see their followers prepare like students to their denominations, with writing materials - to write the "words of God" on notebooks, when the Holy Spirit seeks to write the same words upon the tables of their hearts, like he has done on mine, and I am making great sense, as it was prophesied in the old law, of the consequences of the accomplishments of Jesus. Can anyone deny the "newness" in my words?

Like it happened to Jesus: no one on earth taught him "his words", and no man on earth can, except the delegate of heaven on earth, who teaches us what we know, and teach others to know him.only, and not any man. He says "wait...", and "they that wait upon the lord shall renew theor strength, they shall mount up with wings like the eagle..." Open your Bible and just stair at the pages, even if you cannot read it, that is all the Holy Spirit needs to "spiritualize" a man.

If a body-dip in water and its bringing out can eternally confitm the equity of the dead and resurrection of Jesus in a human life, the same miracle of relationship happens when an illiterate stares upon an open Bible: the Holy Spirit, like Philip to the Ethiopian Eunuch, visits him with a whisper in his heart. You can do without those men leading denominations in the name of "the Church". "Church going" is a tradition we were all born into.

My call is for the rejection of these men who build huge earthly empires for themselves, playing on our intelligence. I have the gift of the Holy Spirit for the Church, showing the truth in "tithing". Anyone can call for the soft copy.

No man is clean who brings the symbol of Mammon (money) into the Holy things of God. No one can serve two masters at the same.

Today the CAMA laws has exposed all of them as business men. They need not make noise abeg, that is my protest. A wise man, who is one of them, and our Vice President - una see as dead body come get accident here? - has advised well, in parenthesis, "no Fulani man is responsible for the CAMA laws".

We have a national assembly, and lawmakers, and CAMA is from them. President Buhari only signed it into law: so, Osinbajo tells them "go to the national assembly, and discuss these things". He continued, in parenthesis, "why should the Church leaders go to sleep, and have 'the enemy sow the wrong seed', and you are here, showing shame for your redundancy?" So meant our Vice President. A very clever Pastor, not like his leaders.

This is my story: should we cry more for CAMA Laws? Tell me the noise and brimestones Bishop Oyedepo brought down on government when a Pastor of his Church was slaughtered like a ram in Adamawa State some years back. He would not die for a living man, but can die for intangible earthly things. Make I hear word jooo!

I feel the shame very near, otherwise I would not have bothered. Take it from me, Bishop Oyedepo is a very troublesome man.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

Reno Omokri, an ungrateful loud-mouthed Ijaw political apologist, who continued from the place of his fall to find a scapegoat in Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for his present irrelevance, but for his social media blabbing, appears very childish and unreflective in his evil bias against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. So what...if in 1997 Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu said he did not believe in "One Nigeria". So what?

I am a learner-democrat, I know what it means. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a proven forebear, and a well earned democrat, who has demonstrated his contributions to the vibrance of our politics, but Reno Omkri is a lying self-acclaimed pastor, who is only known, and good at preaching clannish politics instead of the Christian philosophy he tags himself to, to attain primitive entitlements. it is

I hereby affirm to Pastor Reno Omokri that as at 1997, it was difficult for any Nigerian from southern Nigeria to believe in "One Nigeria". General Sani Abacha owned Nigeria as at then, and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was at war with him: how can a man who swore to remove the government of Nigeria, believe in "One Nigeria", as at when he was in an intellectual war with those who held Nigeria captive, wearing military booths?

And if we must be sincere to ourselves, we cannot claim to have appreciated this "One Nigeria" chant as the reality experienced by every Nigerian, otherwise, Boko Haram will not be asking for everyone to be Islamised, IPOB would not be asking for an allowable Peoples' Republic of Biafra, neither would the South West be establishing "Amotekun" to confront their alleged Fulani herdsmen.

As at the time Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu made this statement, mortgaging his believe in "One Nigeria", the benefactor of Pastor Reno Omokri was a redundant civil staff of the OMPADEC, and was owed so much in arrears of unpaid salaries. It was Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who, upon that same privilege, was thought to have died twice, imaginarily, in the eyes of the Abacha administration: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed...left this country with 2 hangman nooses chasing his neck, for fighting for what we are enjoying as democracy today.

Nooo! Reno Omokri cannot be a Pastor, he can only be a self-acclaimed one, otherwise he would have been grateful for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's benevolence, in cheating death twice, staking everything he could afford, to facilitate the bringing back of our democracy.

He fine tuned our opposition politics after that, and was the only one who beheld the vision that it was possible to break PDP's intended "60 years" to 16 years, creating a deficit of 44 years for them.

Here is from where the true nightmare Reno suffers arose, and its true, the Asiwaju caused it, unfortunately, for no fault of his.

A man who did not believe in "One Nigeria", did not say he did not believe in a "workable Nigeria". He knew there was work to be done to Nigeria to make it "ONE", before thinking of making it "One". A man should not hate anither for hating lies and liars.

It was his believe in "Nigeria" that drove Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu through the "valley of the shadow of death" in order to contribute to the delivery of our present day democracy. The Almighty Allah, Sallalehu Alehu Wa'Salam bless him richly.

What was Reno Omokri's contribution to making today's Nigeria? Let him answer this question first, before we can find the grounds to ask him about his contributions to making his "One Nigeria" dream come true? I am sure he is not breathing thevair in Nigeria. Does Reno Omokri believe in "One Nigeria"? Reno breathes the air of the United State into his life, how can he truly understand our pains.

I see an imcompetent man, who is not qualify to define his interest in Nigeria, because he does so with mere unproductive words, and desperately expects to outshine the man who put in a life's struggle. Let it be known, now, that the man who saw the lie in our "One Nigeria" when there was much work to be done to get there, did nothing wrong.

And if we look at it very well, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has never being in a hurry to become Nigeria's President like every other Nigerian politician. It would not have been hard for him to have assumed the Presidential Candidacy of his party in all the Presidential elections after 2007, except for the ones he midwifed?

Pastor Reno Omokri, as a regional kinsman of mine, is here advised to understand how the Asiwaju is sorry for outrunning his benefactor outs it upmartingly. The Asiwaju understands how it is his right, in politics, to be insulted. Not very many politicians think in that manner, and I am not sure, Reno is a politician, but I know he can never reason as the Asiwaju would. So he needs to move on, nurse his wound well, and if he needs some assistance, the Asiwaju hands are always very open to him. Let him ask, and he shall receive.

I wish him well!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

This opinion has always shown critical concerns about the outlook of Christianity in Nigeria, especially from how the attitudes of self-professing, pubic photoshoots-loving Christians, has drawn the desperate maligning of Christians by the unbelievers who see, and call us "Kafirs", meaning Pagans! This is understood: we are better off being persecuted for our good works - not for our dubious manipulative dispositions.

Mahatma Gandhi was recorded in his lifetime to have confessed that he "loves the teachings of Jesus, but regrets the attitudes of his followers". What did he mean when he said "attitude"? Nicholas Etor, an oil-haulage worker-client of mine, for whom I designed a residence in Port Harcourt, on his return from an overseas cruise, recounted his encounter on the ship in which he worked under a Buddhist, and he said the man's character is "faultless", before asking me if such people would still go to hell.

I told him that any freedom that is freely given is always taken for granted, however, hell will be for those who have not confessed Jesus as their personal saviour, and have believed that he came in human garb. However, most Christian, even in the face of this privilege, still remain mentally stunted, and spiritually challenged.

How do I mean it?

Since the raising of unncessary dust around the upgraded Corporate and Allied Matters Act, (CAMA) 2020 by Bishop David Oyedepo, this opinion has insisted that the soured "romance" between our federal government and our "Church leaders" must be traced from source, to get in it, a beneficial context for the understanding of all concerned. I must choose who represents me.

I have benefited from the humanly, and naturally undeserving imputation of the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, by the election, and through the sealing of the Holy Spirit of God, and from the unnaturally seen, but naturally unseen realities of the truth that a believer in Christ is "a new creation", who has Christ "living inside him: this is my story, this is my song!



No man calls himself into any divine privilege, every natural man in it, was adopted into it by the power of an unending life. It is on this ground that we can say, like Apostle Paul, "the life I live (on earth), is no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me"

What grounds, therefore, has anyone, who has engaged the pleasure of vilifying this opinion for choosing to "occupy" at the location(s) to which the Holy Spirit has applied me, as a "member of the Church (the spiritual body of Christ) on earth"? If, then, the Church is a spiritual body, and a "Church leader" struggles, as a member of the body, with things that are clearly, transparently, and openly carnal, then he needs to answer to some very simple questions.

And for you who has problem with this opinion, for taking responsibility, as a very active member of the spiritual body of Christ, the Church, and one who stopped "Church going" over 15 years ago, who in February 1997 was elected as one of the blocks "built-up into the house of God" on earth, I live daily under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, and not that of any man on earth. No man! The Holy Spirit is my own GO, I leave you to yours. I am practically demonstrating my liberty in Christ Jesus.

My opinion on the 2020 CAMA laws, and what results from it on the present "system of world Churches", has been exposed, first by the COVID-19 pandemic, which identifies one question to every believer: "what is God using these happenings to tell his Church"? This is from whence this opinion started his journey of overcoming the present cover-up attempted by our Church leaders on the sizzling romance they have enjoyed over the years with government. The Priests and Pharisees did this also with Rome. It is understandable only in the context of "the fathers"

The Church cannot just be lawless! The Jews never confronted Rome, and the Apostles did, through their pains and ego-denting, overcome authorities. Should the Church fear persecution? It is therefore, in this fear of persecution that the carnality of Church leaders in Nigeria is fully fed.

They are protesting against an intended persecution of "the Church", yet scripture was clear, that just like I am in Christ, and I have peace, but surely, "...in the world, YOU SHALL HAVE TRIBULATIONS". This is what is playing out! They all jammed the world. And who can deny it?

As a member of that spiritual body, one who, daily, confesses "let your kingdom come, let thy will be done ON EARTH, as it is IN HEAVEN", this opinion cannot find another, more soothing job on earth than "to promote the will of God on earth", as his Ambassador. And it is my pleasure to confess that I represent God on earth better, without having to "go to Church". I am in a good position therefore to see the present "systems of Churches" better than those inside it, including all these big names we call, and worship: men-worshipers it.

Permit this opinion to remind us of the event at Antioch, when the brethren "gathered together", and let us recall that it was those who observed the brethren from the "outside", observing the attitudes on the inside, who called them "Christians".

This opinion was called out of that system, by the Holy Spirit, into the "True Church", in order to understand how "the traditions of the fathers" has become "the gates of hell" that is rising to "prevail" over the "fake Church" - a system of Churches, because it is not authentic.

The "Churches" Pastor Adeboye and Bishop Oyedepo oversee are the "spiritually Intangible" Church. They are "the abomination that makes desolate, which stands in the Holy Place", taking the office of the Holy Spirit, and spiritualizing carnality.

This is why God has used, first, the COVID-19 pandemic to "bend" church leadership the world over, to obey "government rules" before holding their service to God.

And this opinion thinks that the leadership should be worried, and give up their system, and liberate their slaves. Now, it is CAMA laws in Nigeria. And the reactions of these leaders, instead of being reflective, meditative, and supplicating, have continued to be confrontational, and against those who they have been in very hot romantic relationship together for a very long time: 2020 CAMA laws is an adjustment to their "marriage certificates" - all of them "married" to the Nigerian government. it

Just before the 2019 elections, I saw Bishop Oyedepo in partnership with Atiku Abubakar in erstwhile President Obasanjo's residence in Ogun State. It was the gathering of the Peoples Democratic Party. What we do not know is how much "tithes" he took from them, if he did at all.

This has brought this opinion to identifying Pastor Adeboye's response on the 2020 CAMA laws matter, and to use it in mirroring Bishop Oyedepo's, and to relate it to that of Reverend Oyekunle, the CAN President.

Perhaps we may see why we must choose the Holy Spirit to teach us - he is the appointed Teacher, Pastor (Comforter), Prophet (show (you) things to come), Evangelist (take from Christ for you) - and to be our "Church Leader". He did not separate us into the hands of "leaders" and stood by to watch them, nooo! He deals individually with us, and we deal collectively in him.

The Church was delegated to the Holy Spirit, and the Bible was given to us as our spiritual meal, and the Holy Spirit, as our spiritual blood - this is my reality daily, and my reality as a member of the spiritual body of Christ. Government, please come and "take (me) over", and see if I will be useful to you...but the system of Churches is already in a fight for "physical properties", while I hold my peace - who is the Church?

Both Bishop Oyedepo and Pastor Adeboye cannot represent me, nor do they have the competent to validate me as a Christian. They have no such powers.

If government would take over anything at all about "the Church", all I see them do is being able to take the physical properties used in identifying what the "system of Churches" has been selling out as "the Church", and the taxless profits they make from their enterprise. Government, therefore, cannot, and can never take "the body, it is of the souls of regenerated men, sealed by the Holy Ghost", over. We are God's building, and we are the Church, God's most prized possession on earth.

I, the living word of God (the Bible, scriptures) and the living Holy Spirit of God, are always "three gathered together in my (the) name" of Jesus Chirst, from whom proceded the word of God like the human bread, and the Holy Spirit like the human breath, who left his word for our meal and gave the Holy Spirit for our blood: both, evidences of the physical presence of God with us - Immanuel! It is the bread and breath that enables the living by a man.

If the above therefore is clear, then we can now draw this very long reading to its conclusion. In simple pictorial terms, no one can ascertain that it was Bishop Oyedepo only, who knew about the CAMA laws, but we are sure he was the major voice to provoke its confrontation. He has remained provocative and confrontational of the Buhari's administration because his prophesy of a Jonathanian return failed during the stages leading to 2015 presidential election.

Pastor Adeboye, who, unfortunately, has children, and a son to protect in government, was cautious with his response, and awaited to align with the positions of CAN and the PFN, respecting the constituted order over the system of Churches, which he also submitted to - he has a lesson herein to teach: perhaps if Bishop Oyedepo was "broken" like Pastor Adeboye is, no noise would have been made at all.

Bishop Oyedepo is not the champion of Christianity as he meant himself to appear, he is the coward who fears to lose an important earthly reserve he has created for himself. Scripture tells us of the Parable of the Rich Fool, that has many sheds.

It then came to this opinion to ask: is Bishop David Oyedepo the publicity director of CAN or of PFN? If he is, why did both the CAN and the PFN Presidents need another statement? And if he is not, why was he so loud and vicious, threatening on his life - was that carnality?

Unlike Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo has a problem with being "broken" as a Christian, and he needs to learn "brokenness" from Pastor Adeboye.



I bless him, and I bless his ministry.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

A theatrical opinion:

For the sake of just one man living in Uyo who is very close to the governor, I have refused to say anything, whether good ooo, whether bad ooo, about the Udom Emmanuel administration. It is not for the lack of what to say, because dem plenty:

I fit even give am sleepless nights because of Nsit Atai, a Local Government Area, from 1976, which has no bank, neither a general hospital, and people who live well in better places, die here, for the lack of intermediary heath care provisions. And are bedevilled with an enlightened local government leadership that is visionless...I say not a bank eehhh...40,000sqKm in area.

But for now, though the governor has fallen into the trap of his predecessors, to assume to arrogate to himself the powers to determine who or not, contests in an election: the laws of Nigeria actually frowns at criminals being allowed access to leadership, but they must be convicted. Has the governor secured the convictions of those he feels to exclude?

But I cannot deny the presence, likely in large numbers, of cult influence in our politics in Akwa Ibom State. We, as a people, know when it began, and if this observed social evil that the governor seemingly inherited, and benefitted from, is what he thinks should be chased out of our politics, then it is very commendable of the governor.

He is a man who has rejected a very bad inheritance, but with who would he secure the political victory for the un-cultist governor he thinks should take over the reins of the government of Akwa Ibom State from him?

All the electoral victories the governor enjoys were secured "technically" "financially" and "mechanically" by the system implanted by his immediate predecessor, than electorally. I think he now needs a new machine of political victory in the State - the APC!

If murder is criminal, then cultism is criminal. If kidnapping is criminal, then cultism is criminal. If rape is criminal, then cultism is criminal. I say this because, all the above crime-brands are products of people who gather together in dark places to plan evil against law abiding people: people who think that they are laws, advocates and judges in their rights.

Cultism, in simple terms, is the planning stage of social crimes: why it is societally distinctive is because of the brandings: in name, colour, and insignia: like from Boko Haram, like IPOB, to all the "nights travellers at sea", all of them are "cults". The dictionary meaning of cultism will prove this simple illustration.

What Governor Udom Emmanuel has focused on is ideal, but I think he should secure court convictions of those he must exclude from our democratic process. However laudable and commendable the governor's political drive is, in this regard, democracy demands "due process" from the governor, otherwise he will appear undemocratic.

But for scoring one good point around his desire to see to the emergence of a godly governor, as successor - this opinion is sure that the desires of the governor are all embedded in one man, who deserves to fit his picture - Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, Ph.D - and for this, he has won a bunch of plantain from me.

Congratulations, Governor Udom Emmanuel, for winning my Prize on "The Governor of the State of Excellent Social Intensions". May I therefore ask His Excellency to ask members of his Executive Council, about who knows me, and Mr Governor can ask "my guy" to bring him to my house to recover his Prize!

Congratulations Mr Governor!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com.



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Some feedbacks have attributed financial attractions to my writings, and this is very unfortunate. I know that I have confessed severally that I have learnt to love the pursuit of humanitarian services in life, than to give myself up to pursuing wealth.

The other day, I posted the email communication I received from "Ad Sense", a Google platform that pays content owners in order to take the rights of posting adverts on their writings. That electronic mail notified me of my establishment of my "user code", to enable me export my works to them for collaborations.

l just felt I was not ready to attract money to my work, though, I still have my code. Likely, my disattraction to draw financial attention to my writings was an unspoken instruction. I said it openly that I have not received the permission from "source" to attract adverts to my works. My life is more precious to me than all the monies in the world. I dont have respect for money - I love to be "counted in as the brain", more than I love to be "counted in as the bank".

I am therefore permitted, by my "source" to write, and seek avenues for people to read-me-out, and like it is in my partnership with "Opera News Online", I get paid for every reasoning of mine published on the platform: this is different from "attracting adverts" with the gift. When I am allowed to, I have my "code" already. I am a "wordsmith", and I deserve my wages. I give before I take: I will never set myself up to take, because I give.

I risk many things doing this thing I love to do, but do I care? I can perceive the feedbacks I get from my opinions: some, scary, because some people believe that I am paid to write, and feel offended, but should I fear? This is why I "condemn every tongue that rises against me in judgment", everyday!

My life is more precious to me than gold. I embraced this "right of being insulted" when I chose this path, and I also know that I insult others too - this is the fun, but threats...? Nothing, however, will dampen my passion to write, and I will write according to the inspiration I garner and deserve.

Two things, therefore, to note about this leader - Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagabàn Borgu - from the shared video:

1. His humble outreach to everyone, even when his "owners", including Senator Chris Ngige, attempted to stop him, and tried to redirect him to his appointed seat. Other politicians, whom I know, would just walk straight, eyes up, using vain waved palms to acknowledge supporters. Tinubu touched almost everyone, big and small in the gathering.

Each time, you see him point his index finger ahead, he insists to the team of protocol officers that that was the direction he would love to go, just to touch as many people as possible.

What does it tell? It tells that the Asiwaju LOVES touching people's lives.

2. Check out the high table, it is near empty. This shows that though his seat is provided at the middle, he is able to understand his sense of protocol, that becsuse the hall is filled to capacity, he does not need to await the majority of dignitaries meant to grace the occasion. He would not mind awaiting others with those waiting and enjoying the bond of fellowship.

What does it show? It shows a man who is at ease in the presence of those who support his cause. He shows he is not a boss but a leader - the National Leader.

While other leaders occupy the political offices that make them politically relevant, it is only Bola Ahmed Tinubu that gives his "National Leader's office" its prominence, because "the office of the national leader" is not available in the APC. What is available is an ordinary member of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, giving relevance to that imaginary political office.

It shows us a man who is bigger than political office holding, but who believes in the "Office" his mission in life provides him the opportunity to serve in, and a man who believes that it is "Only God" who gives political power, and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won his prize, by paying the price of excellent leadership.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

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Herein is one of the numerous feedbacks this opinion generated on the referred subject matter. It deems necessary to help with a follow up on its points, in case seekers could assess their spiritual directions, in case they are "lost", they could find a redirection.

First, let this misunderstanding be addressed: this opinion has never fed the believe that the new 2020 business edict of the Nigerian government - which is suspected to be "against" the Church - is a good law - this opinion did not allow itself to get to what government has done first - enacting the 2020 CAMA Laws.

Doing that would inequate the whole balance, and pull counsel "out of context", until it understands what led to the partnership in this instance, between the Nigerian government and Church leaders.

Christians should never stop at spotlighting the government, but...in case it is the English use by this opinion in edifying itself that is the problem, let me use pidgin English to define my point: make una ask una pastors wetin been join them with government, wey make government wan rule over them?"

Did the Church sit on its own and government came to trouble them, or is there, at any time, these church leaders went to government and requested from government, and asked to be documented as a business entity, to do business in Nigeria?

If that is what they did, then they must answer to where they took the permission of the Holy Spirit of God from, who is given the charge of the Church on earth, for them to "sell the Church" to the Nigerian government, and now protesting the "take over"? Should we not be asking this very vital question?

This opinion expresses itself as "reality for Christ". It would rather remain so than become a "business for Christ" or be a "cult for Christ", as some people who profess Christ have chosen to identify themselves with him.

Here is the feedback-dialogue:

"I went through your online article on Opera News Hub, titled "On El Rufai NBA's Invitation and 2020 CAMA laws..."

I don't see any tangible reasoning in your article. Even the scriptural passage is shallow, and has very light spiritual connotation.

To me, and may be to majority. It is not following up the church accountability that is the issue, but the taking over of a Church (as you said - a spiritual entity) by a government, or her agent (who is physical, and non-spiritual).

Even, an unlearned foolish person knows it's a back-door policy aimed at silencing the church, thwarting its growth, and cause religious war.

So, a muslim, Hausa or Fulani man could be a supervising ministers that will take over the Church of God built up by spiritual and physical sweat of leaders and followers for say 40yrs or more or less. And you don't see anything wrong in that? Don't you think that has gone beyond checking church accounts. Islam has already taken over?

We are where we are today in Nigeria because of the simplistic approach of some Nigerians, and the lopsided view of some myopic writers. The worst thing is that the same government that is trying to curtail the church, are deeply corrupt, and are ruining Nigeria with reckless abandon.

What has happened to the NDDC fund, Covid 19 fund, Magu's Case, Malami's case, National Assembly Contractors, NNPC mega billions, INEC rigging, Bullion Vans in a politician house?

An airplane fully loaded with billions landed in Abuja in the heat of last election, have you seen killings of christians in Kaduna, and other parts of North. Has Boko Haram and bandits been tamed? Have they not tamed IPOB?

If you want to be a celebrated writer, please, always write with an unquestionable intelligence, so that people will respect you. Here you sound like a paid writer, or a Fulani apologist. We are not saying you shouldn't criticize, but separate criticism from facts. I score you very very low in your write up.

All those who embezzled church money or our Nation's money should be prosecuted, there are laws already on ground. All these impunities thrive because of govt's insincerity about fighting corruption.

No government can take over church leadership or administration. It is an aberration.

Those two politician/priest, which picture is displayed, are not good ethical examples our youth need to emulate.

Pls, go and develop well, and come up with better articles.

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This is my response:

You will permit me to respond to yours in the same number of paragraghs that it would need such responses, and according to your feedback. Permit me pls.

Your not seeing anything tangible in my article is exactly like a blind man complaining that the light around him is not bright enough for him to see well. And if you were the one taking the blind man's complaint, how would you help him? But I will attempt that possibility with you, because I believe in miracles.

Let me address you like Jesus would the Scribes and Pharisees of his time: you are blind for considering any part of divine scriptures as "shallow". Between your opinion and the "shallow" scriptural passage, which is superior? Answer that to the Almighty God whose word you have referred to as "shallow".

"Only the deep can call to the deep". If you try it, you will drown, as you have shown to have suffered with this opinion.

How did government come about "taking over the Church"? Can you hear yourself? Now you think that government can prevail over the Almighty God, who has now chosen "the Church" as his prized possession on earth, and made us his own habitation? How can government take that body over, mbok?

Here is a Christian confessing that a human "system of order" has the powers to "evict God from his habitation". How is that possible...that Nigerian government can ask the Almighty God to pack out of his residence? byI think something is wrong, which the Nigerian government, neither the Church is the problem.

This opinion sees everything wrong somewhere, and the wrong has to do with the people who call themselves after God, who have chosen to establish a system that is defined by the subject matter of this article. and that was the error of their fathers, who were in the days of Jesus: they also romanced with government.

Jesus, referring to these same class of people, "the people of God", in his days, in the closing verses of Matthew 23, cried out: "O! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou whom I have chosen to cover like a hen covers her chicks, but you would not allow it. Now, your 'house' is left to you desolate, until you say 'Blessed is the he that comes in the name of the lord.'"

Now, take the picture of how the hawk steals the chick for its meal, and you would understand the implication of what Jesus meant by that outcry!

If you think government can "take over the Church", then see a stubborn chick who has gone outside the cover of the hen, and it is been threatened by the hawk for its hungry consumptions.

This opinion only tried to put your words back to you in a new perspective, like Jesus always did. You demean the scriptures I volunteered but you have not volunteered any to me in your feedback to support your error.

You are dodgy, and overtaken by the foolishness you have attributed, and allocated to another, because at the end of my dignosing your spiritual disease, you will seek treatment from where it would be affordable for you.

You are "kindergarten" in not understanding how "unborn" you have shown to be in spiritual matters: you are confused "when you talk about government "policy"...you look pitiful. How did the spiritual body get entangled with a human government in the first place to attract her taking over?

For God's sake "the Church" is someone's bride, and her bridegroom has proven his power of death. What can Nigerian government do to a strong man's wife? This opinion, hereby, confesses its faith in scriptures, that Nigerian government "never born, to seize God's habitation", but foetal Christians are forcing their deliveries, and tormenting their mothers. Stubborn irresponsible embryos.

This opinion was taking your feedback one after the other until it came to meet where you have shown an unchristian attitude by using the langauge of fools, I regret having to start this discussion with you in the first palce. This opinion should have read through yours, to understand how you do not deserve a response. And I dont care if you understand me at all: you are a product of the spiritualization of carnality by the carnlization of spituality.

The character (abundance) of your heart is less than that which churns out good things. You have shown to be a good academic spiritualist, and that results from your "Church-going".


Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

An Opinion:

The feedbacks from the "opinion" suggesting our "leaving religion out of our national equations", and how it sees it viz-a-viz the present system of "Church administrations", arising from the tradition developed by "our fathers" in "Church going", and the numerous responses received from some members of MURIC on NBA invitation, has necessitated this clarifications.

The opinion on CAMA laws holds that, if "Christians" do not "go to Church", the administrations of "Churches" would not have been necessary, and I have said it severally that the intention of Jesus Christ in instituting "worship" and "fellowship" to replace "animal sacrifice", was not to lump both together in a program designed for certain days and at given time-frames.

This is what Christianity appears to be, but it is not the spiritual body of Jesus: the Church is a spiritual body because her eyes, nose, ears, brain and every aspect of its head, was lifted from the earth at the Resurrection.

We insult the Almighty God when we lump "worship" and "fellowship" together. We must distinguish between the two: one is a personal spiritual relationship resulting from the sense that "God (is) with us" - Immanuel! By being a member of the Church, it means we go about carrying "God with us", in our lives, acts, we and speeches, by his words indwelling us.

Below is a feedback dialogue this opinion had with one of its readers. And it loves to engage in such mental exercises, and using its strength to expound Truth. This is better than giving time to pursuing money. It is the pursuit of this opinion to gain human minds to become sound, by losing money.

There is one more bank, other than those we have on earth, and every talent, according to scripture, MUST be accounted for. So, this opinion (mindset) carries the presence of God as its habitation: and it sees this God presence "within", as its reason for "worship".

And this opinion "fellowships", when, like in this case, it falls into the presence of my fellow men. This world is nobody's home. It is heretic to design any permanence for this life.

My reader, Samuel Benard wrote:

Ini Akpan, you are so simplistic in your reasoning? So long as you don't see anything wrong in government controlling and sacking a Church BOT at will, you have shown you don't have understanding of the matter. You talked about Rome & Jews, but be reminded that Rome never meddled in religious matter of the Jews.

It's obvious you are not a Church person so you are bound to be indifferent or unable to see the danger in such law.

Even Apostle Peter and his friends dared human authorities each time they dared controlling the practicing of their faith. just keep your mouth shut.

We that have stake in the Church see beyond just the law, but a grand design to gag, intimidate the Church and set her up for compromise. We are saying, 'no' to that.

Here is my response:

This opinion has, therefore, chosen to use "Samuel Benard's comment to answer to a wider pool of feedbacks received, and this is to further enlighten those who have problems with the position and how the opinion arrived. And seriously, we must learn to "leave religion out of our national life".

This opinion, therefore, heartily suggests that the federal government criminalizes every public appearance of religion in our national life, including "opening prayers" at secular meetings. Religion has grossly abused our national laws.

Who are we deceiving?

Otherwise, we ought all, to accept to ntroduce religion into our constitution through due process. This is the argument. This opinion is Holy Spirit driven and recognises that Truth has no borders.

Of truth, neither should anyone, especially Muslims, think that every outrageous show of insensitivity, callousness, indecency, and obscene madness, is a Christian practice. One thing about religion is that it confers cheap privileges on its adherers. Everyone, including the Atheist believes his own is right. So we need avail pockets to purse religion in our public space, in respect to our national constitution.

It is very wrong to lump the chosen characteristics and dispositions of an individual with those of the people he professes to flock with. Only "like birds" do so. No one can trust the human nature. No like bird would stab another's back.

That a "professing Christian" acts anyway in the eyes of a Muslim watching him, does not make him a "believing Christian", and it is important to tamper how Muslims generalise things individual Christians do. Muslims must understand that between the professing and believing Christian is one who is nominal, and the one who is true.

So if NBA takes a decision and a Muslim protests that decision, then which religion took that decision? This opinion refuses the "hiding behind and under the eyes" of our constitution. It is gross inequity and the majoring on mental assumptions.

If a Moslem is known and accepted as a Muslim because he says he is a Muslim, then that is the case in Islam, I dont know about that, but this opinion shares a Christian's mindset, and it knows that in Christianity, we have the "professing Christians" and the "believing Christians".

No Muslim can distinguished between these, because he is not given to be able. And it is "Haram" for anyone to justify what he knows nothing about.

Instead of Muslims seeing issues, and judging them through the eyes of religious, it prefees to see it through the eyes of humanity. It helps the opinion to feel the human pains in the matter, and wear the human shoes also, in order to know where it pinches.

This opinion knows nothing about Islam, and just as a Muslim feels disgusted to see wired callousness, offensive indecencies, and reacts to it, so does this opinion. But instead of seeing through the eyes of humanity, MURIC chose to see issues through the eyes of religion, in order to mock the act, instead of having godly sympathy for such kinds of mindsets. As if God consigned his judgment to them.

This opinion also feel disgusted about what MURIC feels disgusted about, after the fact that it feels that the NBA suffered an unnecesaary public indecision. Not that only, this opinion also feels disgusted for how the MURIC reacted to it, howbeit against the constitution of the federal republic, which frowns at promoting superior religious beliefs over the state. That was lawlesness, period!

Religion makes people appear arrogant and childish on its own. We must, therefore, learn to use religion for sociopolitical development, and not for trouble shooting.

This is Nigeria, and what rules is the constitution of the federal republic, it is our book of laws, and it rules every aspect of our national lives, and if it is true that we are one nation, then we must abide by our laws. Is this not the "one nation" that we have agreed that we are? Who is deceiving who, if religion is allowed any featured prominence in our national lives?

It is time to speak out!

Every Nigerian must learn to keep his/her religion out of our national life, it is a very big clog in the wheels conveying our national progress and prosperity.

If anyone does not like it, let the person not be an hypocrite, to hide behind religion to behave unconstitutionally, he should call for his religion to be recognized as the national religion, and not grudgingly accept a thing, and pretend to hate it "behind closed doors" - it is irreligious. There are no sentiments in the submission of this opinion.

Lets leave religion out of the Nigerian life. Let our religion occupy us as our personal houses, our personal cars, our personal households, and our near and far relatives. Let us limit our religious outreaches in public to those who will understand us.

NBA cannot understand "Islam," because NBA has no mind of its own, and cannot entertain, or reason with any religious beliefs in this country.

To force our position on another person is the worst kind of slavery in humanity, and any kind of slavery is expressed as "man's inhumanity to man". This opinion was not forced to embrace Christianity, it was a willing decision. Why should this opinion force another person to be a Christian, against his persuasion?

Even the Almighty God, Sallalehu Allehu Wa'Salam, does not force himself on people. He is beneficial, merciful and long suffering: is that not who we say he is? The Atheist does not even believe he is, but he breathes the air we claim God made. This opinion also believes the claim: so, what is the difference between "us" who believe in God: who is in a competition for God?

This opinion here, also summarises the issue of the disagreements between the nigerian government and Church leaders, and how it sees it:

Majority of Christians were born into "Church going", first, before those who do, like in this opinion, seek the understanding of "who the Church" is. Apostle Paul, in his teaching about the spiritual body of Jesus, who is the head of the Church, and her bridegroom, illustrated "The Church" as a human body.

In response to my reader, Samuel Benard - whose comment I have brought up, all he needs to know is the primary knowledge of Biology, or of "common sense".

Every member of a body "remains in the body", no member of a body "goes to the body", indicating a "to and fro" relationship of members with the body - the word-coin of the act, makes the act an error of judgment. You are who you believe, and preach.

It was in the provisions of the Levitical Priesthood to locate the "presence of God on earth" in a building, and people "go to..." and from the Temple in Jerusalem to "worship". This has been from where the present church leadership "copied" the act of "Church going".

It is from this concept of "Church going", instead of "remaining in church", that the needs for "congregational buildings" and "fundings of 'the Church'" arose, in order for these leaders to find fuel to administer what they personally established, this is in spite of "evangelism and missions", which are understood by this opinion. It is even wrong to claim "a personal call", when "the call" is to "whosoever wills..." to come.

What the CAMA laws has exposed about Church leadership is purely about their carnalization of the "spiritual body of Jesus", a body whose head, eyes, brains, nose, mouth, chin, cheek and ears are no longer on earth; and this is for whom some "left-hand fingers", somewhere on the body of Christ, are behaving like Lucifer, forming himself into "Church leadings". What are we talking about?

It is elementary knowledge in Nigeria, that if anyone is in use of the Nigeria Naira for business, it is lawful for him to "register the name of the business entity" with government.

No body has business with the Corporate Affairs Commission, which body, organisation, or association is not seen to be a "business entity" in this country. And what this opinion tries to achieve is to question what led "the spiritual body of Jesus Christ" into her registration, as a business entity, with the Niherian government? It is this answer that this opinion seeks.

It is time, now, to let our common sense help us all. It is very, very important! The requisite spiritual knowledge (eternal life, according to John 17:3) for spiritual growth, is completely lacking in the act of "Church going".

The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the calamities of "Church going", and it appears that the "gates of hell" are taking pre-eminence over this "system of Church leadings", while the True Church is waxing stronger in Christ, because "where the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together", and "unto the lord - who is the word of God, expressed in scriptures (and not to church buildings), shall the gathering of his people be."

Let us all get our spiritual senses to act on earth from the one who is the head of the body of the Church, by "seeking him" where he has made himself readily available to us - in his words.

Thank you! And God bless you all, Amen.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only please). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

A mental opinion:

It is not that I know Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as much as I have positioned myself now, to attempt to talk about his very important moment, which is NOW!

The sudden surge in the number of northerners accepting power shift to Southern Nigeria in 2023 has doused the initial gravity I exerted against the initial idea of the north insisting on staying in power after President Muhammadu Buhari's completion of his terms of office. It just has to be very gentlemanly, and this opinion is happy about it.

And again, the early herald of Elder Babachir David Lawal, erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and that of the frontline northern leader, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, who both opined near divine rebuke, and a certain certainty, as it is, first, in Elder Lawal position, which had it that the Asiwaju should be allowed to freely contest the 2023 Presidential, as if anything seems to be enroute that time to stop him.

And in a futuristic hope, our elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai hazarded the unnecessary guess of how a Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration would do better than the present Muhammadu Buhari's administration. He is, however, entitled to his opinion.

In the face of the fact that government is a continuum, and a Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration would only be building and expanding upon the foundations laid by the present administration, just like this administration is a continuation of the Jonathan's administration. In spite of partisan differences, the Nigerian Presidency is a single monolithic governing entity.

Nevertheless, while some are projecting Asiwaju Bola Tinubu very excellently, as the possible next President Nigerians will admit, some others are doing everything to pull him down, and make him likely illegible to participate in the next presidential elections, but the truth is that until the Asiwaju decides to contest in the 2023 Presidential poll, and he openly declares his interest in the race, let no one expect that the Asiwaju will contest the next presidential election.

Why am I saying this?

The Asiwaju appears as the only politician in this country who understands the advantage of winning elections, and he remains the biggest political strategist in our polity. He knows the elections he would win in order for it to be beneficial to him in his always futuristic and advance political permutations.

The Asiwaju is a progressives' politician, who believes in the progress of partisan politics than he sees political power in occupying political offices. The Asiwaju remains the most powerful Nigerian politician today, who holds no office, but welds the greatest political influence in the politics of our country.

In 3 political re-equationing in this country, in order to position his political party to win elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has had to give up his interest in becoming a senator after he was governor in 2007, and when in the 3rd Republic, he was coasting to becoming our Senate President, the Old Breed/New Breed of Ibrahim Babangida's political dichotomy, which disarmed Shehu Musa Yar'Adua presidency, and threw up MKO Abiola, had Bola raised Dr Iyorchia Ayu to take his place, as senate president, just as he also did, a few years back, with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

One thing that I know mentally about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu - though I have only been opportuned to sit with him once, in a 2am "Alliance for Democracy" meeting concerning Taraba State, when my brother, Rimamnde Bitrus Nuhu was primed by him to fly the AD governorship flag for the State. The meeting, which held in the Governor's Chalet in the Lagos State Government Guest House in Ikeja, Lagos, in 2002, was the only opportunity I had to meet the Asiwaju bodily - is that the he will never contest in any election he knows he would not win.

So, it is possible for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to support another candidate of the APC to win the next Presidential election if he believes that he will not win the presidential victory for his party.

But if he shows an interest in the election, he, then, would be persuaded that he is the best option his party has, and in this case, this opinion does not see any other politician in the APC contesting that can succeed in standing against him. And nothing would stop him from winning the election to which he submits himself to contest.

More than office occupation, Bola Tinubu believes in enjoying the victories he wins at elections. He would not mind returning home to await the next victory for his party. This is what many Nigerians do not know about the Jagaban Borgu.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only pls). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com.

This opinion is a Sunday message for, especially, Church leaders who are always quick to attempt to educate government about "spiritual things", when they all know that there is no way government can understand "spiritual things".

Government is operated by human laws, and the Church is operated by the Holy Spirit. Unless government can receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, no one should expect government to understamd spiritual things. The operations of both laws are different: they are equal but opposite - one rules the human natural order, and the other rules the supernatural order.

Now, the following are a few questions this opinion has generated, which are based, entirely, on the scriptural provisions our Church leaders profess to preach - Church leaders protesting the CAMA laws should examine themselves under the following light, in respect to their protests - references taken from the Holy Bible:

John 16:33

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

Church leader - ARE YOU OF THE WORLD?

2 Peter 2:20

"For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning."

Church leader - ARE YOU ENTANGLED WITH THE WORLD?

1 John 4:4

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."

Church leader - HAVE YOU OVERCOME THE WORLD?

1 John 5:4

"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."

Church leader - ARE YOU BEHAVING LIKE MEN OF FAITH?

In a human proverbial folktale, this opinion learnt of a story of how the hawk took the young of an owl for food, and while blessing it as meal, God came to the hawk and asked "come ooo, before you thank me for your food, what was the reaction of the mother-owl when you took her young?

The hawk replied "she only watched me..." And God ask the hawk to return the young owl to the mother, revealing that he "cannot bless the revenge that has been committed (to me) against you".

Again, the hawk returned and took a chick from its gathering together under the hen, and while blessing the meal, God returned to the hawk and asked "how did the hen behave when you took her chick?". The hawk replied "it attacked me..." And God said, you can have the chick because the hen has shown the capacity to personally deal with the matter.

Only Bishop David Oyedepo spotted the new CAMA laws, and raised his voice against it before the others, especially CAN, did. This opinion has no problem with that. He must protect his interests and investments against unnecessary hierarchichal seizures.

Unfortunately, the initial agreement in the business partnership between Church leaders and government, which allowed them to "make money" without producing anything tangible to help our "economic production index" - makes government see them as "charity takers", and they are also not "taxed" for the money they "make". Now government says we want to know how you use these "charities" and if you err, we will punish you.

What is wrong with that? Is anyone afraid of the consequence of flounting unmeasured wealth in the face of dying children in Africa, who die from hunger and diseases, yet you say you take ""charities"? And now the government wants to know who these "charities" are taken for. They are saying "it is for God", who is a Spirit. How would government understand that in the face of their personal lifestyles? Are they God?

Many Nigerians do not know the cooperations, in terms of "waivers", Church leaders enjoy from government. They use their spiritual fitness to "obtain" physical advantages over others. This is not what Jesus taught us.

Like I said, I do not have problems with Bishop David Oyedepo "fighting" a human law when he should be overlooking it. It has left no one in doubt that it is all about Government seeking to "cut off" some of the "goodies" the Church leaders initially enjoyed from them, in response to international best practice. President Buhari has never being a "Father Christmas", though some "thieves" still work under him.

But this opinion excuses Bishop David Oyedepo for questioning the government for altering the initial agreement they had, which gave Church leaders so much room to use the Nigeria Naira, just for anything they wanted to buy in the name of God. Church leaders have tended to assume the seat of God on earth, taking and using what belongs to God for themselves - imagine the roguery!

They steal people's spiritual liberties, and use them to amass personal wealth for themselves, by just speaking sweet radicalizing words to the love-hearing of those who enjoy to sit and hear them, in huge, heaven-looking buildings, and government says: "we will begin to look into that."

That sitting down in buildings, and watching a man who smartly dishes out different emotions by his words, is actually the Christianity, traditionally specified to, and adopted by these practitioners. Christianity is nothing physicality of a human being, it is everything about the mentality of a human being. It is a personal mental development, no matter the instructions anyone receives outwardly.

My disappointment in Bishop David Oyedepo's outburst - not his protest ooo, he has the right to protest "bad laws" - is from the words he used: "I cannot be alive to see..." Who is Bishop David Oyedepo really, to use such a language while claiming to represent Jesus Christ? "Of the abundance (character) of the heart, the mouth speaks". You are your words, no pretence.

I think the Muslims would understand the analogy about why Jesus Christ is called "the Lamb of God" better than my Christian brothers and sisters, because they have observed the attitude of the ram, from the example of the atoning sacrifice exemplified on "Mount Moriah," where a ram replaced a man upon the altar of God, after a man was already lain on it, but was substituted.

The character of a ram when the neck is placed on the slaughter, against the blade, is that of submission. It always submits itself to its killer. This was what Jesus did: he accepted to be "led to the slaughter" when he had every successful power to resist it. He is the example for our Christianity. He was notedly slaughtered as a "lamb", the young of a ram.

This demonstrates the powerless submission of Jesus to his killers to fulfil an eternal purpose. Do Church leaders know the powers embedded in silence, and in submission? I dont think they have the humility needed to.

I am so sure that Bishop David Oyedepo is not defending Christianity in his recent outburst, otherwise he would show the example of Jesus. And for those who think that I am fighting the Church, I ask, that, just like I have quoted scriptures to support my point, let them also defend Bishop Oyedepo's outburst by scriptures, and assess his use of words that sounds like "I will defend MY OWN CHURCH..." and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

He is right when he is talking about "The Living Faith Church" because I know that he has no business "dying" for the "Redeem Christian Church of God" - another man would need to die for that Church. And at the end of all the dying, we will be left with counting how many Church leaders died for their Churches, yet they claim that it was Jesus who died for the universal Church. Here they are, individually, saying they would also die...! Haba! Die for what naa?

Do we then need other saviours apart from him whom God has given, of his son? Who among them, the Church leaders, was born according to the virgins birth, and where in scriptures were their messiah-ship prophesied? It was the Jewish heritage.

All I know is that God gave his only son to die for a dying world. And Bishop Oyedepo is a self confessed beneficiary of that death, and if he must die, let him die to protect his wealth. He should not claim...he is fighting for "the Church", which builder is Jesus Christ.

Bishop Oyedepo's death is not needed by the Church, but this opinion calls him to respect constituted authority if he had, at any time, registered a name called "The Living Faith Church" with our Corporate Affairs Commission, to recognise him to do non-governmental businesses and to "take charities".

The Corporate Affairs Commission was set up by the human laws of the ruling government, and regulates the activities of those registered with it. Why did Church leaders submit to the constituting law of the commission, but are now protesting its "new-improved" application?

This opinion prays that all "Church-goers" would appreciate how they must prepare very well at home first, before taking themselves to another man like them, whom they have believed represents God in the buildings they built for God. Are we not ashamed? Why should we not also represent God to other people, and nurture them? We are Christians, always in need of milk, like infants.

"They that wait (at home, not going about) upon the lord (bending down over their Bibles) shall renew (pls speak in tongues for me here pls) their strength (their capacity to rub minds with the Almighty God): who can instruct a man except he who knows the mind of the man; but we have the mind of Christ. We are all responsible to think like him if we are the ones to occupy till he comes.

Except for salvation, there is nothing about the kingdom of God that is personal to each Christian, and when this opinion says "Christians", it only recognizes the believing ones, not the professing ones.

Those who profess Christianity own the physical Church, but those who believe in Jesus Christ own "the Church" mentally, by their renewed mindset. Christianity in not in our active visible runs, but it is in our characters that make us able to relate helpfully with our neighbours.

Just like this opinion condemned the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) for "Islamising" Governor El Rufai's withdrawn NBA invitation, I strongly also condemn the rejection of an authorized law by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), all of them, for bringing religion into secular matters.

Let CAN print their own legal tender, and stop going to government for understandings. How did government come into controlling "a spiritual body" if the body was not "sold" to them?

That was what the Jewish religious leadership did, and they were respected by their Roman Colonialists - they accepted the Roman legal tender just to pay the Roman tax only. Not even Caesar attempted going into the "Holy of Holies", for fear of dying.

What is wrong with our Church leadership today? Bishop Oyedepo would not need to die because of CAMA laws, if he knows who he actually is.

And MURIC should, first, ask the National Assembly to change Kaduna, from being a federating State in Nigeria, into becoming "an Islamic Caliphate", then I would understand why a common secular invitation that was withdrawn from the holder of a secular office, would be their business, enough to attract the divisive, Jihadist initiatives of the leader.

Everything happens for good. God knows why the NBA has fallen into this kind of disrepute. This opinion thinks that the leadership of the NBA should resign, a caretaker committee set up, and the 2020 NBA Annual Conference should be suspended in the interim.

If you ask this opinion what its business is in the matter - it sees the outrageous bloodsheds, it sees the inhuman dishonesties, and all I am asking, is for our religious bodies to spare us their own calamities in our secular matters. I no send any of una any message.

Just leave religion out of our present predicaments, in the name of the ONE NIGERIA, we all lie to ourselves about. Allow us enjoy the lies of our unity in peace, or get ready to discuss our oneness, which our law forbids.

Truth has no borders. It is eternal, and this opinion cannot deny its source.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Amen!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp text only). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

Opinion with Okafor Princewill Ugo

Tomorrow, Sunday 22 August 2020 is the UEFA Championship 2020 Final Match between PSG and Bayern Munich. 2hat are the chances of victory for each of the teams?

PSG may have nothing to lose in the forthcoming Uefa champions league final not because they are minions by any stretch of the imagination, but given the way Bayern Munich has conquered all comers, PSG may as well play with their head held high.

However, what the Parisians cannot do is fail to give a good fight and stay in the game. On account of their superstar players and huge budget, surely that should be a minimum expectations and PSG cannot afford to “do a Barcelona” (pun intended).

Also bearing in mind the time tested maxim that “everything is possible” I hold a very unpopular believe that all things being equal (when have all things ever been equal?) PSG may be just the team with adequate setup to stifle a rampant Bayern Munich attack and perhaps become successful at the counter attacking that both Barca and Lyon failed woefully at.

I don’t predicate my belief on the abilities of PSG’s poster boy Neymar, time and again in his career at PSG, he has proved unreliable at very strategic footballing moments; even though with his recent performances, one may say he is finally coming of age.

This Bayern Munich team is no ordinary one, they have metamorphosed into a winning machine, a wholesome and well oiled machine at that with each player complementing the other and defeating them will also be a product of a very well coordinated team work, the likes of which players like Neymar with a well publicized ego and an apathy for the defensive side of the game may find hard to fit.

However, I see in the PSG team a defensive solidity that may finally be resilient enough to cage the free scoring German machines. They have conceded the least goals since the restart of the champions league (1) , played with gusto and more importantly, have so much pace forward – which makes for a good counter attacking football.

HOW PSG CAN BEAT BAYERN MUNICH

How do you stop a team like Bayern Munich on the grandest stage of all?
Three things PSG must get right to stand a chance:

1. DEFENDING

For PSG, This is not an “attacking is the best form of defense” moment. In all of Bayern’s recent matches, they have scored an early goal. This is a team that attacks from the whistle and PSG must not concede an early goal if they are to have any chance whatsoever.

We have also seen that opposing teams seem to open up a lot more when Bayern get that first goal and then start spinning their passing carousel. So PSG must defend from the whistle until their midfielders find their feet in the battle. This is gonna be for PSG, “defense is the best form of survival”.

2. POSITIONAL DISCIPLINE:

If there’s anything we have learnt from this Bayern side in the last couple of weeks, it is that when they are attacking, they do just that. Their attackers switch sides and sometimes roles seamlessly like a well drilled orchestra making them somehow difficult to mark.

Also the they operate with wing backs who fly down the flanks looking to stretch defenses and create chances. Therefore PSG players must maintain a compact rigidity( starting from their midfield to the defenders) and void being dragged all over the field by the Bayern attackers.

3. COUNTER ATTACKING

This is where I believe PSG stands more than a good chance to upstage Bayern. Pacey (and boy do they have lots of it) attackers are a delightful essential for a team to play on the counter. Fortunately, very few teams can boast of the abundance of very fast forward players available to PSG.

Coupled with the fact that the Bayern defense likes to play with a high line, pushing high up close to the centre circle and have wing backs who push up very high up the field to stretch their opponents; it will take just one long ball to get behind them.

Think Kylian Mbappe, think Di Maria and Neymar. If PSG are going to get anything out of this game, they must greatly rely on a perfect execution of counter attacking football.

Whatever happens on Sunday night, we are posed to see a great UEFA Champions league Final Match, will history be made for the Parisians, or will the German machines go all the way again? Whichever way, it promises to be a very interesting encounter for the neutrals.

News Opinion

The response by the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) to the withdrawal of the invitation extended to Governor Nasir Ahmed El Rufai of Kaduna State, which listed him to "speak" at the Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for Year 2020, continues to reflect the kind of undue and unconstitutional religious advantages some Islamic bodies usually, and deliberately take over the Nigerian Christian population. The federal government needs to watch this dangerous error of judgment.

No one has the right to interprete any secular decision taken in this country, or anywhere else, as a decision supposedly representing the consideration of Christians - it is "giving a dog a bad name to hang it - it is unjust, and the regretable act must be discouraged. For God's sake, nobody has the right to lump secular decisions taken in this country, by, especially those which are not in anyway associated with the doctrinal principles of the Christian scriptures, on Christianity.

It is this usual error, which leads, and motivates some Islamic fundamentalist groups to come out in an unnecessary massacre of Christians in this country: citizens are obligated to respect one another. It is on citizens watch to note where one's personal rights begins and stops, and the recogntion of where another citizen's rights, apart from personal, also begins and ends.

This opinion presupposes that MURIC joined the incumbent argument with NBA because Governor Nasir Ahmed El Rufai is a Muslim. This opinion also presupposes that MURIC would have lost its voice to say anything in the matter if Governor El Rufai was a Christian. In these presuppositions, this opinion finds MURIC deliberately heating up our polity for no just reason, and striking a religious cord of division that is in discordant tunes with Nigeria's national peace and prosperity.

What is happening in Kaduna State is more clannish, yea! secular, than it is relgious, as seemingly and erroneously portrayed by MURIC. Governor El Rufai operates his office secularly, as provided by the constitution of the federal republic, which instruments regulates every program, decision and operation of government in Nigeria, even including religion, as demonstrated in the recent signed CAMA laws.

The Nigerian Bar Association, as a body, also represents no religion. So where is MURIC coming from with the defence of a Muslim instead of a servong secular governor managing a State in a murderous crisis?

Here is where this opinion thinks that MURIC has seemingly, and selfishly turned a mere secular matter into a religious outcry, striving to imprint a fallacy that the decision of the NBA to withdraw Governor El Rufai's invitation to speak at the conference is a "call for war". Which "war"?

Rather than see the NBA's withdrawal of El Rufai's invitation to speak at their annual conference as a "call for war", this opinion chooses to see MURIC's misunderstanding of the NBA's executive act, and the attempt to Islamize it as a severe blood thirst akin to "Jihadists tendencies".

While this opinion chooses to caution MURIC's illogical allusion of religious sentiment to a pure secular consideration by a secular institution, in order to achieve everything other than peace, it also, here, calls to instruct the NBA leadership to be very wary of such embarrassing indecision. It shows a clear lack of leadership and a daunting deficit in popular consultation.

Neverthelss, unlike MURIC, this opinion recognises the truth that there are members of the NBA's national executive committee, the body which took the initiative to withdraw Governor El Rufai's invitation, who are also Muslims. Is MURIC, therefore, saying that the Muslim members of the executive committee of the NBA are a a part of the body of warmongers, because they were a part of that decision?

We must never think to lie to ourselves about the UNITY of the Nigerian State: all hands must be on deck, and all notes on desk, otherwise, our loss would be a national one - a collective failure at building a nation of peace loving people. The work must never be a one-sided one.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatspp only). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

In a behind-the-scene-like recount of how the 5 years old crisis in the All Progivessives Congress (APC) in Cross River State was resolved, the Special Assistant to the National Secretary, Barrister Udeme Ekott, in a rare revelation, offered a glimpse into an early morning telephone conversation he had with his principal, on the day on which the peace was reached.

Addressing Senator John Akpanudoedehe as a "carrier" of God's "grace", Barrister Ekott required to know from him how he to "manage this reconciliation meeting for the resolution of the crisis in APC Cross River State", expressing how "worried" he was. In his response to this concerned, Barrister recalled how Dr Akpanudoedehe told him with equanimity: "Barrister, 'calm down'", and paused briefly, before adding, "the Holy Spirit will take care of it".

Recalling how "over the last 5 days since the National Secretary of APC had taken steps to give effect to the resolution of the Caretaker/Extraordinary convention planning committee, which was to resolve the 5-year old leadership crisis in APC in Cross River, Barrister Ekott revealed how he "personally received over 20 text messages/calls", which all threatened "fire and brimstone"; and the throwing of "accusations left, right and center." According to him, the pessure the National Secretary facied, but he remained unfazed, was best "imagined".

According to him, "the atmosphere was charged" such that "one could reach out and touch the tension in the air." Revealing the dramatis personae as Hon. Minister for Power (State), Jeddy Agba; Fmr. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani; Senators Victor Ndoma-Egba, Owan Eno, Bassey Otu, M. T. Mbu Jnr; and the erstwhile Vice Chairman of the party (South South), Ntufam Hilliard Etta. Also present in the reconciliation meeting were Chief Eteyen Umana and 20 others, who all had "their peculiar interests."

After several hours of "heated exchanges and name-callings", Barrister Ekott recalls the "sweet victory for the APC", as both factions agreed to sink their differences, and to "work together to put the party on a sound footing so we can win elections". According to the revelation, the National Secretary of APC, Senator (Dr) John Akpanudoedehe successfully mid-wifed the peace process, which produced Senator M.T. Mbu as the consensus Chairman of All Progressives Congress in Cross River State, until the forthcoming congresses.

Confessing how "very humbled" he was "by the wisdom the National Secretary", Barrister Ekott observed how very calm he was even "at the height of excessive intolerance, by some big names". Barrister Ekott recalled that Dr Akpanudoedehe "was completely in-charge".

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp only). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com

The federal goverement did nothing wrong in determining the direction of the chanelling of this country's legal tender by individuals and organisations. The monetary currency used in the programs of Bishop David Oyedepo's Christian denomination, "The Living Faith Church", in Nigeria, is the Nigerian government owned "Naira". Neither does Bishop Oyedepo, nor his denomination know how much it cost the Federal Government to print her currency notes and where these are done.

Unfortuntely, the problem of denominationalism around the world is that of the leaders "photocopying" the Jewish religious style of administration, and their financial system in part and leaving out their establishments. It appears like "Church leaders" around the world love the pecks of the "holding powers" the Jewish religious leaders welded over "the lives and the finances of their followers".

Now let me collaborate this assertion with two complementary examples:

On their powers over the lives of every Jew, we can remember two encounters - the woman whom Jesus rescued from being stoned for adultery, of whom Jesus asked to "go and sin no more"...that demand to stone the woman was from the Jewish religious leadership. And left to those murderous men, the blood of that woman woulf have been shed.

And what about the death of Jesus: left for the Roman government, Jesus would have walked home free, but the Roman government "obeyed" the needs of the Jewish religious leadership to put Jesus to death for Pontius Pilate to avoid Caesar's anger for annoying "his friends". According to them "it is expedient for one man to die than for 'our place' to be taken by Rome". This is the picture of Bishop Oyedepo's current battle: he is battling with government so that "his place" will not be "taken".

And the illustration of the financial recklessness of the Jewish leadership, same as you see "Church leaders" appeal for donatiins just to spend them frivolously on intangible, primitive and parochial materialialism. We will recall Jesus "overturning the exchange tables" in the Temple: it was because of the black market currency operations undertaken by proxies of the Jewish religiius leadership, within the Temple. In anger, Jesus chased the merchants out with whip, crying after them, saying "you all have made my father's house, the den of thieves".

Presidential aide on New Media, Lauretta Onochie, went too far to ask Bishop Oyedepo to leave the country if he cannot respect the new CAMA law. She went too far because Bishop Oyedepo does not need to leave Nigeria in order to avoid the CAMA law.

What the Jewish religious leadership operated around their finances that liberated them from the economic slavery of Rome that Bishop Oyedepo copied but was ignorant, or pretended not to know about effecting his financial freedom, is that the Jewish had their "Temple Shekel" with which every financial transaction is undertaken within the Temple. This is what Bishop Oyedepi refused to do to attain financial independence from the Nigerian government.

The Roman monetary denomination was only required by the Jews for the paymemt of the Roman domestic taxes. No Roman monetary denomination, nor that of any other nation's currency was acceptable in the Temple service: this was the reason for the exchange tables within the Temple - to enable the conversions of money into Trmole Shekels, and to make purchases from the "Temple Storehouses" - where the purchases bought are as seen holy and acceptable - all na wash!

Bishop David Oyedepo should, therefore, take note and learn well from those from whom he learnt "to stand before God for man" and to "stand before man for God", and to take from men what "offerings" they have for God, and to stand in the place of God "to meet the needs" of those who show some care "by faith." He must accept that his financial breakthrough from omset was from monies he took on God's behalf from Nigerians, but not in God's currency, but in Nigerian currency and taken from Nigerians.

Does Bishop Oyedepo's denomination called "The Living Faith Church" pay government taxes for taking Nigerian Naira from Nigerians - that is business already? Now assuming President Buhari decides to change the face of the Nigerian Naira, and refuses to allow "the Living Faith" accountants have any of the new notes, what would Bishop Oyedepo do?

Its time every Church leader sees the error they have entrenched, and retrace their steps. We must respect constituted authorities, whereever we find them.

I recall Jesus, having declared "woes" on "the Scribes and the Pharisees" in the entire Book of Matthew 23, as he stepped out of the Jewish Temple, he said "now, your house is left to you desolate, until you shall say 'blessed is he that comes in the name of the lord'". And as he left the Temple, his disciples turned and beheld the manificience of the building (Matthew 24:1-2). Calling his attention to the beauty of the building, Jesus said "verily, I tell you, not one stone (on this building) will be left upon another that shall not be thrown down".

I say it again in the words of Jesus Christ that all the denominational monuments, called "Church auditoriums", built in the name of God, and in the face of the hunger and diseases in Africa, will have no stone left on another that shall not be thrown down, and "Church leaders", eho short changed love for public relevance, will be confronted with answering for the deaths from hunger, diseases and slavery in Africa - ehat they used "God's momey" for.

My advice therefore is that Bishop David Oyedepo is rich enough to create his own money and be free from Nigeria's financial laws.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria. 08102466347 (Whatsapp only). Email: time.subsidaries@gmail.com