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donnie:
Look at hilarious buffoon. You cannot even hide your pain and frustration as your counterparts are doing.

Rhapsody did not start with his wife. It started with the Lord who spoke to Pastor Chris, telling him to put his teachings in a book and that He will cause the book to be read around the world.

And it was Pastor Anita who insited and even threatened
through her lawyers to have her name removed.

It is paining you because what you and your ilk hoped to see in his life and ministry as a result of your hate campaign, you are seeing the opposite.

E pain youuuuuuu.

asuustrike2009:
God was communicating with Abraham because he has already agree to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He only reveal it to Abraham because he was righteous and wanted to spare his nephew's life because of him.That's a prophecy because in Amos 3:7 it says "“For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets". Same God did the same to other prophets when the Israelites were derailing. You forgot that from verse 20-32 of Genesis chapter 18 Yahweh was seeking for a righteous man to spare aside Lot but he didn't see. Had it being there was a righteous person there,he wouldn't have destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Did same God hide anything from Isaiah when he ask him to tell Hezekiah to put his house in other? Definely no instead Hezekiah cried to God for help and Yahweh changed his mind.
What's the essence of prophecy to humanity? It's to bring men closer to God, like the case of Hezekiah. To reveal things that would happen ahead like the case of Joseph being made a second in command after Pharaoh to assist the Israelites and Egyptian in farming.
Who gives the prophecy? Yahweh, who decides when it comes to fulfillment? Yahweh. Who decides whether it comes to pass or not? Yahweh. So fake prophets can not be judged by mere prophecy. Fake prophets doesn't lead men to Christ instead they take them far off.They teach what people love to hear and not the true word of God

INEC Receives Petition For Recall Of Kano House Of Assembly Member, Abubakar Kuki
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the receipt of a petition for the recall of Mr. Abubakar Galadima Kuki, the representative of Bebeji Constituency in the Kano State House of Assembly. The announcement was made in a statement signed by Mr. Adeddeji S. Soyebi, Chairman, INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC).

According to the electoral body, the petition was received on Friday from Mr. Kuki’s constituents. INEC added that in accordance with its guidelines for recall, it has acknowledged the receipt of the petition and has written to inform Mr. Kuki of the presentation of the petition. INEC equally stated that a time table and schedule of activities in respect of the petition will soon be released.

I Am The Last Hope Of Anambra State - Yul Edochie
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As the realities of Anambra State Governorship election begin to dawn on every indigene of Anambra State, the intrigues and lies of Politic have begun to manifest; and it seems our dear actor have been told that he lacks political experience and the actor is seriously mad at such comments that he has taken to social media to reach out to elderly politicians accusing them of bringing Nigeria to it deplorable state.

He said the problems of Anambra State has come to an end so long as he is elected as governor.

Here is what Edochie had to say “They say I have no political experience, that I have never held any political office in the past, I agree. But I ask them, the ones with political experience where have they gotten us to?

The ones with so much political experience are the ones who loot our state money on a daily basis leaving the youths, the people to suffer and die in poverty, the ones with political experience are the reason why our county is in recession today, the ones with political experience are the same ones who arm the youths with guns, turn them to thugs making them kill each other while their own children school abroad, the ones with so much political experience are the reason why fuel is sold for 145 naira per litre and one dollar exchanges for 360 naira today, the ones with political experience do not care about the people, they care only about themselves, enrichings themselves with our money at the expense of the poor people, leaving the people to wallow in misery, poverty, hardship, suffering.

So I ask my people, do we still need those with so much political experience? The answer is NO.

We need good people with good hearts. Credible people, names that can be trusted, young, vibrant, intelligent and decisive, people who care about the masses and will not rest until the problems of the people are solved. I am one of such people.

asuustrike2009:
Clap for yourself very well. Which means the ones op pasted are stories too. If mine are stories as alleged by you then All the prophets in the Bible are fake

asuustrike2009:
Clap for yourself very well. Which means the ones op pasted are stories too. If mine are stories as alleged by you then All the prophets in the Bible are fake

Nigeria: Why Jonathan Could Not Accuse Me of Corruption - Amaechi


Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria's Minister of Transport
interview
Rotimi Amaechi, speaks on the challenges and advantages of Nigeria's latest rail transport system, Rivers State politics and the ruling All Progressives Congress.

In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES,Why Jonathan Could Not Accuse Me of Corruption - Amaechi Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, speaks on the challenges and advantages of Nigeria's latest rail transport system, Rivers State politics and the ruling All Progressives Congress.




PT: What are the challenges you have faced in this ministry?

Amaechi: Money has been the basic challenge. The contracts that you need to deliver on a railway are in tonnes of naira. Take for example the approval by the president that we should do a railway from Abuja to Lokoja to join Itakpe to Warri as well as a sea pot in Warri; that project was put at $3.1 billion, which is nearly N1 trillion. Where will you get the money from?

PT: When you say that money is your problem, what are you doing with the private sector?

Amaechi: I don't know why people engage in this debate without looking at the realities. Everywhere in the world when it comes to real operation, people get involved. Like we are having a real operation investment in the narrow gauge in which GE is bringing about two million dollars to revive the old narrow gauge and run them by themselves.

But when it comes to real construction, it is usually the government because they are in trillions. How many persons can raise that? The contract from Lagos to Kano is $8.3 billion, the contract from Lagos to Calabar is $11.1 billion dollars. At N300 per dollar, that is N3.3 trillion.

PT: You have just explained that one of the reasons why government takes charge of real construction is because of the requirement for huge sums of money. Yet you had stated that the River Niger dredging costs this government only N100 million. Were you referring to maintenance dredging there or capital dredging?

Amaechi: Maintenance dredging. But what is capital dredging? It's the same 2.5-meter draft. The work has been slow because the dredgers were rented out. Next year I have told them to include it in their budget to buy a very big dredger, so you don't need to award the contract. What will a contractor do other than to use a dredger to desilt the river; which you can do if you have your staff?

PT: So, what you are saying is that because dredgers are not adequately available, the contract was outsourced?

Amaechi: I said NIWA is handling the contract. Nobody will do it for you at N100 million now. The only way you can do it at N100 million is that you are paying the staff their regular salary and you are buying diesel to fuel the dredger and the dredger belongs to NIWA.

PT: Recently when you announced that with the improvement in patronage of trains, the Kaduna Abuja rail now generates N30 million monthly; you added that the operational cost is N56 million per month. Does that mean the rail is being run at a monthly deficit of N26 million?

Amaechi: Of course. Because you are subsidising. Where will you run a rail transport for N1,000 and then the business coach is N1, 500? The passengers themselves are the people begging that we should increase the cost of transportation and we are hoping that by October, when we receive more coaches, we will increase the price. I don't know how much we will increase it to. But we will increase the price so that even if we do not pay the entire cost of operation, we can at least reduce the loss.

We expect about 10 to 17 more coaches by October. I think by the time the new coaches and locomotives arrive, we will be doing 130 kilometres per hour. The current speed is 80 kilometres and the train has a capacity of 150 kilometres per hour.

PT: We understand that some people are already taking advantage of the scarcity to extort money from unsuspecting passengers by purchasing these tickets for the normal price of N1, 000 and selling at high prices as N3000. What do you intend to do about this?

Amaechi: There is nothing you can do about it. Ordinarily, what law is the man breaking? The man is trading. He buys a ticket and he offers you at N3000. If you don't want to buy, you don't want to buy.

The man is not creating scarcity, the scarcity is because government is not able to bring in more coaches. So, the solution to it is go and bring in more coaches, the man won't have a business. As soon as we bring in more coaches and have between 10 to 17 coaches; there will be too many space for the man not to have that market. We currently have only four coaches. These four coaches can only take 120 passengers. So, if you have about 800 passengers, that means there is a deficit of about 600 and something. So, some passengers will pay more if they must go to Kaduna.

PT: Having completed the Kaduna Abuja rail, would you consider it part of your achievements, given the fact that it was not originally your project?

Amaechi: That will be very unfair. For instance, why is the Itakpe-Warri not running? It was awarded 30 years ago. Now, we are focusing on it and if N100 billion is required to complete it and we bring that; then they say, 'no it's not your project'. You see, that's why politicians don't complete projects if it is abandoned, because you will go and say; 'it's not your projects. It's like what I told my supporters in Rivers State; that it doesn't matter if Wike completes a project I started and takes the glory. We did not believe in the principle of commissioning projects. He believes in the principle of commissioning projects, then let him go ahead. We believe you are employed by the people, your salary is paid by the people; and then you do your job and call the people to come and dance with you, because you have done your job?

Let us consider the Kaduna-Abuja rail that you talked about. It is part of the Lagos-Kano. It was close to 90 per cent competed. But key is that there were some things that we needed to address: we had to deal with the obstacles. One of them is that the Catholic Church needed land and compensation for their land and the buildings we were going to demolish. We paid the compensation. Personally, I went to the Minister for FCT and got the approval for a Certificate of Occupancy and handed it over to them and we got government to fence their land for them and they vacated. So, you cannot say it is not our project. We are not laying credit. What matters is that business is running.

The Itakpe-Warri rail was awarded in 1987, and up till today, it has not been completed. About 50 kilometres have been vandalised - from Itakpe to Lokoja. Now, we are awarding a fresh contract to CCECC to enable us rebuild from Itakpe to Lokoja. Hopefully, cabinet should be able to discuss it once we send a memo.

PT: Among the various allegations against you by Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike, he accused you of admitting to have taken $39 billion for the construction of a specialist hospital in your state, which was never built. Would you comment on that?

Amaechi: That is not completely correct. To the extent that we paid, yes! That is correct. Our contribution to that project was three billion. So, we had given them that money, which they utilised. I arrested the man and handed him over to the police, because if he knew from day one that he wanted me to award him contract, then he should have said so. I would have looked for the money. I would use the public procurement process. But he came behind and said, 'bring 10 per cent, we will bring 90 per cent'. And that excited me as a governor and I brought the N10 per cent he promised and then he came to me and said; 'I have done this; I have done that'; they do not have money, and that is what we disagreed on. So how does that constitute corruption? They had finished the foundation, 18 floors.

I am not too happy that it is now that Nigerians will say I am so corrupt. Why did Goodluck not prosecute me or even accuse me then? When I was accusing him and shouting corruption. Don't forget I was the first person to shout that $49 billion was missing from NNPC. Sanusi wrote the letter, but kept quiet. I stumbled upon it and went public. The CBN president wrote in September and then I saw it the next year. A lot of people tried to compromise me and I refused.

When I spoke up about oil subsidy; do you think I was not tempted? Under Obasanjo, oil subsidy was N300 billion, under Yar'Adua oil subsidy was N300 billion. Under Jonathan's first six month in office, oil subsidy rose from N300 billion to N1.7 trillion! You think they did not invite me, that nobody spoke to me? You think nothing happened behind? I will write my book. Nobody accused me of corruption all that time. Then, suddenly one young man comes up and says, 'Oh! He is corrupt! Two years after leaving office, they have not prosecuted Amaechi; I have no immunity.

PT: Are you sure you were not prosecuted because you were a governor at the time? That's considering your question that the Goodluck Jonathan administration never prosecuted you.

But why did they not even accuse me? I was not prosecuting him, I was accusing him. They know; Goodluck Jonathan knows that I don't like money, if they want to be honest.

PT: Can you tell us about the recently reported practitioner's operating fee for ports officials that was introduced by this administration?

Amaechi: It was there by law. The only thing that happened is that when I came, these people were collecting the money that the law says government should collect and give them a percentage. When I came in, I told them that we should implement the law. They refused. They took me to court. You don't come and threaten me. The only person that can threaten me now and I will kneel down is my wife. Not men. Let him pull out, other people will come in. The law says you will pay x y z first, then government will split it with you. But first, you will pay that money to government.

PT: Given the economic recession and its effects on the masses, coupled with the controversies that have trailed the president's medical vacation especially in recent times, would you say that the ruling party still has nothing to worry about in the next election?.

PT: But as a member of his party, would you say that the cabinet is not bothered, for example about the president's health and other related issues?

Amaechi: What should bother us should be the President's health. He has left everything in order. Once we know that he is alive and is recuperating, that calls for celebration.

Shouldn't we be thankful about where we are now? Have you checked our rating in Transparency International's list of corrupt countries? Is anybody chasing you out of the roads now because somebody important is passing? We are not high-profile ministers. The challenges were fait accompli. Apparently, we were going to go into recession. Now, we are walking out of this recession. A lot of indicators show that we are. The only problem we have is the cost of food production. We were importing about 3 million tonnes of rice, now we are saying let's produce at home.
Give it the next 10 years and the price of rice will go down

donnie:
See below article on the above Subject from Rhapsody of Realities
by Pastor Chris...


TEST THE SPIRITS.
Aug 1, 2017
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world (1 John 4:1 NIV).

Some people have asked how they can distinguish between false prophets and true prophets or ministers of God. Well, it’s very easy to know a true minister of God. First, a true prophet or minister of God draws people to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the Word, not to himself or to some other gods.

Secondly, he walks in love. 1 John 4:8 says, “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” Walking in the love of Christ is very important. In addition, there has to be a consistency of the Word of God in his mouth. A true man of God doesn’t falter on the Word of God. He sticks to the Word, consistently maintaining and upholding the integrity of the Word. He proves the Word, first in his own life.

Another distinctive factor of a true minister is that the things he says come to pass. Now, that’s a little tricky, because sometimes, you could have a true prophet, pastor or evangelist make a mistake and say the wrong thing. Such a mistake could arise from his over enthusiasm or expectations of those around him or even because he’s not paying attention to the Holy Spirit. This, however, doesn’t make him a false prophet.

That’s why it’s important for you to know the Word for yourself. Part of the ministry of the Spirit in your life is to teach you the Word. Rely on Him and you’ll never be deceived. “I have written these things to you because you need to be aware of those who want to lead you astray. But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you all things, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So continue in what he has taught you, and continue to live in Christ” (1 John 2:26-27 NLT).

PRAYER
Dear Father, your Word is a light to my path and a lamp to my feet. My steps in life are directed and ordered by you, through the Word and your Spirit. I’m positioned in the right place and at the right time for your purpose, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:
Matthew 7:15-16 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

asuustrike2009:
Even with the explanation of scriptures you have made up your mind to believe what you think. Tell me which prophet is true in this world and I will tell you the area they're false.The earlier you know this the better for you.The Bible didn't you should condemn or judge God's servants

Jonathan replies Osita Okechukwu for asking him to apologise to Nigerians
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- The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu lambasted ex-president Goodluck Jonathan recently

- Okechukwu was not happy about some comments Jonathan made on Saturday August 12, at the PDP convention

-The ex-president advised the VON DG to stick to facts

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to the verbal tirade against him by VON DG, Mr Osita Okechukwu.

In a statement posted on his Facebook page by his aide, Reno Omokri, on Sunday, August 13, Jonathan advised Okechukwu to stick to facts.

NAIJ.com had reported that Okechukwu said, rather than plug the loopholes that allowed for corruption, Jonathan opened them up further.


Jonathan debunked claims that his government was corrupt. Source: Twitter

Okechukwu also said Jonathan and the PDP“railroaded” Nigerians into “abject poverty, food insecurity and deficit infrastructure” via“planlessness and squandermania.”


Part of the statement read: “It may surprise Mr Okechukwu and his boss to know that the last time Nigeria made progress on Transparency International's annual Corruption Perception Index was in 2014 under former President Jonathan when we moved eight places from number 144 to number 136.

“That year marked the most improvement Nigeria has ever made since Transparency International began publishing the annual Corruption Perception Index in 1995.

“Transparency International took note of the Jonathan administration's e-wallet system that cut out the corruption in Nigeria's fertilizer procurement system, the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) which weeded out 50,000 ghost workers from the federal civil service, the cashless policy and the fact that the Jonathan government promptly fired two ministers (Professor Barth Nnaji and Stella Oduah) mentioned in corruption scandals.

“Ever since 2014, Nigeria HAS NOT improved in Transparency International's annual Corruption Perception Index ranking and has remained 136 in 2015 and are still 136 on the latest CPI ranking released in 2017.

“If it were true that the Buhari administration was really fighting corruption, why hasn't Nigeria made progress in the CPI?

“The answer is because you can deceive some gullible Nigerians but you cannot deceive Transparency International.”

The statement also said under the Jonathan administration, CNNMoney projected that our economy was the third fastest growing economy in the world with only China and Qatar ahead of us.

“The fact remains that under Jonathan, Nigeria experienced unprecedented growth. I leave it to Nigerians to determine what they are experiencing today,” it concluded.

Meanwhile, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will take over Aso Rock from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019.

Fayose said this at the PDP national convention which held at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Saturday, August 12, 2017 shortly after he campaigned for presidency.