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Your visit to the Sultan of Brunei…

As a top model they asked me; ‘who do you want to see?’ I told them the richest man in the world. Because that was what I wanted. You have to depend on something. It’s either you depend on your mind, or you depend on God, or occultism.

You can’t function without believing in something. And we depend on voices. Without voices, you can’t get up. There has to be a voice that tells you something before you act. It’s either the devil or God, or yourself.

Without voices, you can’t move. And that’s why God wants us to depend on His voice. In yoga, the first thing you have to understand is that the exercises open doors in your mind.

Once you’re doing the exercise, at a point, through your imagination, you can start doing the exercise. With that, you open doorways to different types of demon to enter. When they now enter, then you’ll start the meditation.

There was a day my brother took my car and drove away, and I got angry and the car had an accident.

It can get to that point where you become so powerful in the spiritual realm. But that kind of power is not the real one. When you’re practicing yoga, you have nothing to meditate upon except wickedness, your plans, your wordily things, the way you want to see yourself, and then how you can manipulate people.

This thread is now in the travel section?



We've traversed politics, property and now travel?

@naptu2, blank, remii, x2x

THREE MORE ROUNDABOUTS TO BE REMOVED IN LEKKI NEXT WEEK – AMBODE

…Says Ajah Flyover Ready By May

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday assured that his administration will complete the ongoing construction of Ajah Flyover by the end of May 2017, just as he revealed the plans of government to remove three more roundabouts in Lekki-Ajah corridor to ease vehicular movement.

Governor Ambode, who spoke at Lagos House in Ikeja when he received the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited led by its Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. Jeffrey Ewing, said the roundabouts would be removed starting from next week, adding that the action was in line with the resolve of government to totally eliminate traffic in the axis.

The affected roundabouts, according to Governor Ambode, are Igbo Efon, Chevron and Third Roundabout.

He said since assumption of office, his administration had tried as much as possible to improve on the business environment, and assured that government would continue to invest in security and infrastructure to make life comfortable for residents and investors.

“We have tried to improve services within the State and the area of operation of Chevron which is the Lekki axis is not left out. Few weeks back, we improved on the traffic management towards that axis and we believe that the move would also enhance productivity of the people.

“I also like to use this opportunity to say that because of the impact that we have seen in the elimination of roundabouts in the Lekki axis, we have actually approved another exercise and starting from next week, we will commence the elimination of additional three roundabouts in the axis most especially Chevron, Igbo Efon and Third Roundabout. We believe doing that will totally eliminate traffic in that axis and we hope to also open the Ajah Flyover before the end of May,” Governor Ambode said.

He noted that the essence of government is to create the enabling environment for businesses to thrive, assuring that he would continue to do his best to provide safe and sound environment.

“Security will be improved upon; we don’t think we have gotten to the ideal state but we will continue to expend resources efficiently on security to ensure that the businesses that come to Lagos and the ones existing in Lagos will continue to thrive,” he said.

Besides, Governor Ambode commended Chevron Nigeria for provision of jobs for people in the State, sound Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as well as being dutiful in the payment of taxes, and expressed readiness to partner with the organization in the interest of the people.

Earlier, Ewing said he was at Lagos House to further advance the partnership that had existed between Chevron and Lagos State, saying that the organization has had a robust relationship with the State for over five decades.

Ewing particularly noted the significant improvement that the present administration in the State had carried out in various sectors of the economy such as road construction, investment in security and education, among others.

He particularly expressed willingness of Chevron to scale up partnership with the State Government in terms of CSR especially on healthcare delivery, education, among others.

lagosstate.gov.ng/blog/2017/03/22/three-more-roundabouts-to-be-removed-in-lekki-next-week-ambode/

Are you saying you were using your mind to control people?

Not that I was using my mind to control people. If I go for a meeting now, I will visualise the meeting, I will see what the meeting will look like before I go in for that meeting.

Like coming to this place, I will visualise the person I’m coming to see in my mind’s eye. After visualising the meeting, I walk into the meeting and it works out exactly like that, the way I wanted.

I never believed the way to any church. I was a kind of person that believed that I had to depend on myself for everything. My father was a professor who never had money and I wanted to have everything.

But business is business, they say…

No, every human being on this earth, God created us with conscience. If somebody says he's living wrongly and he doesn't know he's dong that, he's a fool. Let us be realistic about these things.

There's no way you steal and you don't know you have done wrong. Some people do it and use the Bible to support themselves. We all know the truth.

I personally knew the truth, because I remember then I don't go to native doctors, I don't go to Celestial Church. I just believed in the power of the mind. I was reading books on the power of the mind, Seven doors of the mind.

What was the driving force? Was it the beauty at that time or something else?

One, was the beauty. I got carried away with my beauty. I was very beautiful, and then of course, everybody will be telling you, you're very beautiful.

That got into my head. That was the driving force, number one. Even when I was married, I still felt I was beautiful.

And at the end of the day, you're heading towards destruction. I was not reading the Word, I was not going to church, I didn't believe in any other thing. Let me tell you what happens when you're dating a married man; when you're dating a married man, you open door ways to demons.

It's like a young girl that is not married committing fornication. Why did God say we should not commit fornication? He said so, for our own good.

When you do that, you open doorways to demons to come into your life and start destroying you. And once there's demon inside of you, you become self destructive. The thoughts you're thinking start moving you towards self destruction.

Girls do all kinds of things and they think they're cool….

Number one, you're in a world where there are laws. When you are disobedient to those laws, everyone that is committing fornication, adultery knows they are working against God.

The sinner doesn't often know he/she is living in sin. You feel that you're on top of the world.

At that time I was like that. In my own case, I knew that there were certain things in my life that were not right.

There's no human being that doesn't have God inside of him/her. We all have conscience.

There are certain business deals I will do, I know that I'e really done bad but I'll just say that's the way of life.

When you say doing things right, what do you mean?

Like a young girl, for instance, then I was going out with a married man. When you're doing that you are working against the Word of God, so there will be curses that follow that kind of disobedience. When you're disobedient to God's Word, you are cursed.

Even after I've gotten married, I still went out believing that I am beautiful, I have everything, everybody is looking at me. There is a force that is controlling you, making you to just depend on yourself instead depending on God.

You're in disobedience to God's Word. I was in disobedience, and because of that, going out with a married man…that's why I went through what I went through. I'm just telling you the truth.

What was the driving force behind the then Jennifer?

(Laughs). I've said it many times as it is. I've been counselling a lot of women and when they come, I tell them the truth of who I was.

When you are not living your life according to the Word of God, of course, the driving force will be the devil. When you look inwards, you will see that you're the manifestation of the devil, if you're not obeying the Word of God.

The only way a young person can have peace and enjoy the quality of life I'm talking about is surrendering his/her life to Christ.

How was it then and how is it now?

I can't even imagine how I was living at that time. It must have been hell, character wise. Today, I have a lot of contentment, I have peace. I am serving God with everything that I have.

I love this God. I'm not looking at my circumstances, I don't look at situations anymore. The quality of life that I'm living now is what is bringing me all the good things of this life.

The quality of life in the sense that when you’re talking about holiness, purity, righteousness, without which we can’t see God. I’m working out my salvation.

Before now, I was used to youthful exuberance. At that time, not knowing who I was then, not being able to lay hands on people at that time. I will say I didn’t have a sound mind.

When you talk about sound mind, talking about Christ, salvation. When those things are not there, you become a terror, everything is all crisis. But in Christ, there’s a kind of confidence that you have.

I believed in the existence of God; but when it comes to really appreciating the existence of God, you discover that it was lacking.

Look into all the churches, you’ll see that people are not really living what the Bible says, because they are not living the Word. They cannot appreciate the quality of life I’m talking about. Even as a Christian, a lot of churches are not obeying the Word.

When you look into the congregation, you’ll see a character of the General Overseer. When you look into the Church, you see the character of the person, but when you really look at them, their lives do not express what Christ stands for.

It was a compelling battle to get her to reflect on her past, if only to teach some lessons to the growing army of young girls in our campuses today, who are currently on the fast lane.

The pair of Chioma Gabriel and Sam Eyoboka managed to get her to reminisce of her past and what she is doing currently after we told her to “compare your new life with the old one and allow our young people learn from your experience.

Excerpts…

No man ever bought me anything – Jennifer Madike

By Chioma Gabriel, Deputy Editor and Sam Eyoboka


JENNIFER Madike!

Yes, the same ravishingly beautiful Lagos socialite who easily became the erstwhile drug czar and Rivers State governor, Police Commissioner Fidelis Oyakhilome's Achilles heel.

She was in our corporate headquarters in Apapa, Lagos recently, a very transformed 54-year old woman, still looking beautiful. She was driven into our premises in a white Toyota Urvan bus, she donated to the women's ministry of her church, the Spirit and Life Bible Church with headquarters in Benin City.

Now a pastor, who now talks and preaches Jesus at any given opportunity.

All her efforts, though, to sell her new found name, Pastor Rejoice, had not made the needed appreciable success.

Ms Madike went on to become a pastor after her release from prison.

In this interview with Vanguard, she reflected on the vanity of life and her experiences as a person of considerable influence:

Jennifer Madike used to be a traveller on the fast lane.

So dizzying was her speed that she arrived at her various destinations well ahead of her peers.

By the time she was 16, Jennifer was married. At 34, she appeared made. Despite her early marriage, she got a degree in microbiology. She branched out into private business with her Biofrika Ventures.

At the same age, she claimed to be the owner of 40 houses within and outside Nigeria.

Then came fame, in bucketloads. From 1991, Jennifer Uju Madike, was a prime fodder for society journals.

Www.allafrica.com/stories/200206080021.html

But at that critical moment, the body language of the Babangida administration indicated that it was becoming embarrassed by the whole saga, more so that while he was governor of Rivers State, Jennifer was said to be in charge of Oyakhilome’s public relations activities. Besides, when he was made the NDLEA chairman, Jennifer it was, who organised the first media luncheon for Oyakhilome.

And so, on March 8, at 11pm, an announcement came on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) that the Federal Government had ordered the immediate removal of controversial Oyakhilome.

Www.nationalmirroronline.net/new/oyakhilome-jennifer-saga-how-ndlea-boss-got-the-boot/

His sack

As the crisis festered, the Oyakhilome saga had engendered camps of interested parties in the Babangida government. While one group wanted the NDLEA boss to be immediately removed, another opposed the idea, saying that it would encourage blackmailers to seek after people in position of power.

Yet, some persons advised Oyakhilome to lie low and refrain from further speaking with journalists on the matter, so that the case could die a natural death.

The police also confirmed their claim, saying there was circumstantial evidence that Jennifer collected money from the trio, and that already, she had bought a one-story building at 27, Obalodu Street, Off Coker Street, Ilupeju, Lagos, for N125, 000.

But in all, Jennifer’s statements were contradicted by Opara, Ejiogu and Linus, the family members and friend respectively, of the detained drug baron, Odilibe.

In their statements to the police, they said it was Jennifer who offered to help them get Odilibe “off the hook of the drug offence for which he was declared a wanted person.”

But what tended to help Oyakhilome a bit initially, was a surreptitiously taped conversation between him and Jennifer which they had on January 9, 1991.

There, Jennifer said she was being pressured by the drug barons to make a statement to the effect that she obtained money from them and gave the bribe to the NDLEA boss, to implicate him.

In the same vein, on January 16, Jennifer’s sister called on Oyakhilome’s house to deliver Jennifer’s message that it was the Assistant Inspector General of Police, in charge of the Federal Investigations Bureau (FIIB), Adamu Aliyu, who asked her to implicate Oyakhilome.

She said Aliyu promised to release her if she did his bidding.

To worsen things, Jennifer accused Oyakhilome of actually being in touch with the family of the drug barons and that she was a mere smokescreen in the theatre of the absurd.

She said out of the N800, 000 she collected from the family of the fleeing drug baron, she actually gave N600, 000 to Oyakhilome. But the NDLEA boss denied the allegations, describing them as mere blackmail.

Furthermore, Oyakhilome tried to puncture several other allegations of using the Biofrica Ventures Limited to collect juicy contracts, and of treating drug barons with kid gloves or with no punch at all.

Again, Jennifer exhumed many correspondences between him and Oyakhilome, which indicated that the duo might be in a steaming hot love affair, before the bubble burst.

For instance, in the letters written by Oyakhilome to Jennifer, he started with suggestive compliments like, ‘My Sugar’, ‘My Dearest’ and ‘Darling.’ Why? Oyakhilome responded: “They contain absolutely nothing, because that is the parlance that we use at my level. It is just like calling somebody ‘my darling daughter’.”

SirJeffry:
Waiting

I was in transit.

On his alleged ownership of Biofrika Ventures Limited, Oyakhilome said his involvement in the company came about following his retirement as a DIG.

He said Jennifer approached him with a proposal to establish a company. “I accepted the idea as thoughtful and appended my signature to the memorandum and article of association of Biofrika Ventures Limited because I was no more a public servant.”

He said when Jennifer offered him the position of chairman in the new company, he had replied with a joke, “Where do I fit in when you are already the president?”He said he was in the process of taking up the offer when he was appointed NDLEA chairman, and that he quickly told her to let them put his involvement in the business in abeyance.

Oyakhilome’ defence

But swiftly, Oyakhilome came out to clear his name. To start with, he admitted knowing Jennifer intimately. He said he had known the subject since 1981, when she was brought to him by her parents in company with his cousin, Ani Kadiri. “Her parents said my wife and I should look after Jennifer like our own child,” he further claimed.

According to Oyakhilome, at that time, Jennifer’s marriage was almost breaking up as her life was allegedly being threatened by her husband and his family members, thus making him to come forth as a foster parent to the married woman.

But shortly after her detention, Jennifer, through one Doris Obi, who claimed to be her sister, filed a suit at an Ikeja High Court in Lagos, challenging her detention. In a supporting affidavit, she deposed that her sister and Oyakhilome had a long personal and business relationship.

According to her, Oyakhilome is the actual owner of Biofrika Ventures Limited and that Jennifer was only fronting for him. They were using the firm to handle major contracts for the NDLEA, she claimed.

At that stage, to the government, the cup of Jennifer seemed full. The Vice-President was duly informed and he asked the police to probe the Jennifer involvement in the drug saga.

Eventually, she was arrested at her Biofrika Ventures Limited office and detained by the police.

naptu2, remember this saga?

With the growing pressure from Jennifer, Oyakhilome put a call across to Maryam Babangida, who distanced herself from the whole saga, saying she had never known Jennifer Madike or her drug baron fellows.

At this time too, the Inspector-General of Police, Aliyu Attah called Oyakhilome, informing him that Jennifer came visiting, to tell him (Attah) that Oyakhilome might soon be removed because he could not comply with a directive from the president’s wife to let off the detained or hounded drug barons.

Madike

Oyakhilome then

But Oyakhilome expressed doubts as to the interest of the president’s wife in the case. The ding-dong continued, culminating in Jennifer telling Oyakhilome that Babangida himself was in the know, and could remove Oyakhilome for proving stubborn, by not releasing the detained drug suspects.

She told him that late Maryam, the wife of military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, had interest in the case.