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bcomputer101: Indications emerged on Tuesday that the Founder and President of the Gospel Apostolic Church, Pa Samuel Sadela, has passed on.

He was aged 114.

Although a senior pastor in the church reportedly claimed that the man described as one of Nigeria’s oldest pastors could still be receiving treatment in a hospital, he was said to have died in the premises of the church in Lagos.

As of the time of this report at 9.15pm press time on Tuesday, an official statement was still being awaited even as the church was said to have opened a condolence register for the man of God who remained sensational even as a very old man.

Sadela was of the Apostolic stock of Christianity.

His pastoral calling started in 1928 when he visited the famous Prophet Moses Orimolade of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church.

When he marked his 113th last year birthday, the aged pastor had expressed hope to live up to 200 years of age.

He had said “I feel happy to be this old. Actually, I feel like a young man. I still enjoy my meal of Iyan (pounded yam), Eba and bush meat. I sleep whenever I want to and wake up stronger I want to live longer to prove to all that God remains the same as He was in times past. If Methuselah could live for 969 years, God can make me live well beyond 113. If Noah could be 950, it is not too much for Him to make me live up to 200.”

Even if that wish was not granted, Sadela left an indelible imprint in the hearts of his members and admirers around the world.

The cleric, who claimed angels taught him to read the Holy Bible when he was only two years of age, raised not a few eye brows when he married a 30-year-old woman in 2007.

“The Lord is my strength. I am very strong and energetic,” he was quoted as saying after the wedding in Lagos.

According to reports, he first got married in 1934, with the marriage lasting for 21 years, but none of the couple’s seven children reportedly lived beyond their infancy. A second marriage, said to have been consummated in 1965, was blessed with four children, but only two survived. His second wife died in 2001.

A native of Ondo State, Sadela attended St. Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Ifon, Osun State, but had to drop out when he travelled to Sapele, Delta State to work as houseboy to one Captain Pullen, a District Officer. Sadela however retraced his steps in 1918 and completed his Standard six education in 1920.

Meanwhile, reactions from clerics have greeted his death. The Osun State Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Elisha Ogundiya, in a phone interview with our correspondent, expressed shock at Sadela’s passing.

He prayed that God, ‘will comfort his family.’

Similarly, the founder of Christ Overcomer’s Assembly, Rev. Dipo Filani, described Sadela as a highly respected man of God.

“He was one of the oldest pastors alive in Nigeria. There was a time he said miracles started taking place in his ministry when he was 90 years.



Source: www.punchng.com/news/nigerias-oldest-pastor-samuel-sadela-dies-at-114/

RIP

A pity his god failed him

In anticipation of the Sango Festival which will run from August 21 till 30 in Oyo, a one-week bi-lateral conference was held in Brazil recently where the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, presented a paper titled, ‘Preserving Shared Cultural Heritage.’
The royal father, in the address, traced the
historical background to this cultural
phenomenon that has resonated in the
Diaspora especially in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad
and Tobago and the Caribbean. While
highlighting the origin and attributes of Sango.
according to oral narratives, the Alaafin
remarked that Sango is central to the
sustainability of the cultural values of the
Yorubas.
Aspects of Yoruba customary practices that he traced to the Sango heritage include praise poetry, otherwise known as Oriki, and
drumming. Both traditional elements have since spread to different parts in the Diaspora. Oriki and drumming were said to have arisen from the routine royal court praising for Alaafin Sango Atanda Olubambi. Alaafin, in the Yoruba tradition, should be praised throughout the day as a mark of distinction.
While reflecting on the impact that Sango had on Yoruba and indeed world civilisation, the Alaafin eulogised the great Yoruba warrior.
“Being the king of justice and not understood by his people, he decided to hang himself in a tree called Igba, but was discouraged to proceed by his friend Mogba,” he explained.
According to him, Sango Alaafin disappeared into the earth, leaving his spiritual crown, amongst other things. Mogba, the supreme head of Koso, a suburb district of Oyo that is generally considered as a sacred place where Sango laid his power, is the custodian of the ancestral crown Sango. He is also responsible dor the coronation of the new king. Therefore, no king is installed without performing all the rites of coronation inside the temple of Sango in Koso.
Oba Adeyemi described the Sango festival as the most significant festival in Oyo, since it is deeply linked to the survival of identity, culture and history of the people.

drestoneokuta: Even you will bow @ the mention of the name of Jesus Christ of nazareth. The demons in you know this and they themselves are afraid.

why not bring your Jesus name here let's see it move a stone

I think the most important thing is to get it into her head that sex before marriage is immoral as Africans.

Dating is not the problem

my bro Fulaman you seem to be everywhere.
I never imagined you fancy Cartoons

Fulaman198: Book 3 just ended and Korra is in a wheelchair, I feel for her.

In any case, in my opinion, I did not like Korra at first for her brash spoiled attitude. But over time she truly did mature and she is an amazing character now. I actually think she is more powerful than Aang because she can metal bend and took on much tougher opponents than Aang.

Aang was a cool character his speed was something else as an airbender watching him run in one episode. However, as a 12 year old it took him too long to gain mastery over all elements (especially earthbending, just like it took Korra a long time to airbend). It would have been cool to see Aang be able to fly though like Zahir (Although wasn't he flying in his fight with Fire Lord Ozai?)

Korra in a wheel chair how did that happen?

I always liked Korra, she could fire bend(or was it earth bend..maybe both ) when she was still in diapers

but to me right now, Aang is better than her, Aang had too much pressure right from the first minute of his avatarship, having to deal with the entire fire nation and the loss of his entire race, such pressure on a young child is too much.
Korra isn't fighting armies here, jst some individuals(terrible strong ones tho)

Yh I guess we can call that flying

Ekundayo7: I have never understood why Yoruba who are in traditional position of power and supposed to uphold Ifa tradition will marry Muslim wives. Her "dracula" fang is from going on Haj and getting a gold covering put on her incisor. Anyone with the means to do so, women, do it to proclaim to all that they have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, perhaps to make themselves seem an even better catch to some Muslim suitor. If I had my way ALL OBA, ALL TITLED POSITIONS WOULD BE FILLED BY IFA TRADITIONALIST WHO TRULY FOLLOW THE WORD OF IFA. NOT CHRISTIANS, NOT MUSLIMS - IFA MEN THROUGH AND THROUGH. AND THAT GOES FOR THEIR WIVES TOO.

True.
This Obas going around professing foreign religions are a disgrace.
Shame on them

iwonbaoko: 1.Factually.
I do not agree that Alaafin approved establishment of Awujale of "Ijebuland" . In reality the word "land" is not Yoruba and there is no such thing as a "de facto" Ijebuland any more than there is a Yorubaland. Those eulogies are used for other Obas as well
2. Everything you say about the "authority" of the Alaafin stems from force or capacity for violence in a particular era. So to talk of superiority is like talking about superiority between Abacha and Babangida. Neither of them had any right to rule and there is no historical,canonical or spiritual basis for Oyo supremacy FOR ALL TIME. Empires come and empires go.Once the Romans ruled the world or most of it as did the British and now the Americans. In short the man with the biggest sword or gun in any era is king.
In all likelihood Ibadan which is a baby,historically speaking, was a bigger force at the time of colonization and was poised to be the dominat force in the area.

More important is the word "Yoruba". That word means a very different thing today from what it meant during the Oyo empire. The very fact that Oyo is considered "empire" tells the whole story. Ijebus,Egbas,Ekitis,Ondos etc were NOT Yoruba Yes they considered themselves Omo Odua and spoke mutually intelligible languages but then so did the biblical Israelites(in relation to Abraham) and many of their neighbours with whom they had endless wars. Often it is a mistake to assume that because peoples speak a language and have similar customs they are one. Much of Northern Nigeria today speaks Hausa and are Muslims but that is the purpose and intention of empire and colonization.

In my life I have encountered Ekiti and Ijebu people(now deceased) who would specifically refer to Ara Oke as (Yoruba) They would never refer to themselves as such nor even to their language. Nigeria and its prevailing context has created the need for a "Yoruba" nation and no doubt this has utility but the idea that we all share in the Yoruba glory of Oyo is funny. In fact at the very moment when Oyo were having problems in Ilorin other "Yoruba" nations saw that as an opportunity to attack Oyo.
To my mind The Oyo people are very distinct from the Ondo Ekiti and Ijebus. They were more of a colonizing force than a fraternal one.These peoples have other less illustrious origins/stories that have been airbrushed from the official story

Great piece.
especially the bold

Yorubaland area is old, being inhabited by our ancestors for thousands of years even before oduduwa.
But here you see many Towns have lost that pre-oduduwa history

Ekiti and Okun people are said to be the oldest by some articles I have read, only being mixed with other later movements from Ile-Ife, so is Akoko
Some Towns are extremely old but at the establishment of a new dynasty by some iconic individual, the history of the old dynasty is forgotten

how much of our history is known?? as only few Towns with dynasty less than 1000yrs have been able to keep their old records

Jaymaestro: Book 3 is over . There will be Book 4 and it probably would be the last book of the series.

Wow I don miss.
Am still in book 2

CharlieMaria: Ezekiel 18:3 I do not wish the death of a sinner says the Lord. Do you just do literal translation of the scriptures? I worship God not god. And you think that by referring to him as 'ur God' he is not your God and creator too? You've got another think coming. Your life is just like a breadth friend.

everybody must die. Death is not evil...infact lemme stop trying to think like a Christian and state the real fact here...

There simply is no such thing as evil in reality, it Is all in our heads, so we take one thing as evil and the other as "moral holiness"
Back some 300yrs ago in Calabar, twins were evil now they are not

I say ur god because anything u read in the Bible is the law of ur god
When ur god said you Must kill witches, I expect Christians to be a killing army against all witches of the world..

The same God said you should nt kill but he has instructed to kill witches...in other words KILLING is not the sin, rather KILLING WHAT GOD DIDN'T TELL YOU TO KILL

alexleo: This is more of your theory and its meaningLess to me. My guide is the bible and I ve experienced the reality of the bible ssverally.you can Keep your theories to yoursself and those who care.

Then you should also keep your Bible to yourself and stop shoving Jewish/Roman mythology to Africans here

@iamord

I totally agree with you. our traditional systems have a lot to profit us as a people, economically and spiritually.

We should develop our old knowledge which is the heritage of our ancestors and make good for ourselves but just a few people can't do this.

This country Nigeria is too large and diverse for that
But the real problem is that 70% of our entire population is either Muslim or Christian with High ignorance and hatred for matters concerning our tribal heritage

I blame christianity and Islam...these two religions need to be dealt with if Africa is to grow on it's own
And we can only grow if we choose to set our priorities straight...foreign religion has absolutely nothing to offer us

igbodefender: Igbos and other Eastern people like the Ibibios and Ijaws have done so many great things in the past. For instance, Opobo = Igbo + Ijaw; Aro = Igbo+ Ibibio/Efik. So, why cant Igbos be the Proto-Bantus? Are they not in Eastern Nigeria?

It's just a pity that there's no common term for the ibibio, efik, ekoi etc. which are all sister tribes

The use of eastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon is all that is used to describe their geography.

Don't confuse Eastern Nigeria as Igboland

ngozievergreen: U don't know anything about Igbo and family system, dude.
Celebrating an ancestor is not the only way to show unity, our extended families unite for other reasons .
First of all, u guys pretend a lot in the front and stab in the back, we just don't pretend and that's what u see as envy. Its all about competition, that's all.
Do u host regular kindred meetings irrespective of location?

Competition is what you call taking your brothers property and leaving his widow out to rot

Competition is what you call not inviting your extended family over

Competition is what you call not helping a brother in need with the little you can

These I have seen with my eyes

Don't think you talking to someone who doesn't know how Igbo families roll. There's jst so little bond, everyone is hustling his own leaving family behind

kingston277: That is a ceremonious and isolated incident. Kind of like a mother eating her placenta. My link still states that many West Africans during those days regard cannibalism as anti-social behavior.

Yes that is ceremonious and isolated.. Am not even sure it's true

In general cannibalism is strange to Yoruba, I guess other West Africans too

mcfynest: God has a plan for everything, a time is coming and the time is near, when the blacks would rule again, only the saints would survive to see that day, even among the blacks, many of us may not make it.

Who are we to question God the all knowing

O shut up you wacko. God has nothing to do with this.

People should pick themselves up and work instead of screaming God

The caucasians who built the successful America system of today despite the despicable treatment of Amerindians and Negros, did so without thinking of God.

Is legend of Korra finally over?? Or just book 2?

Op pick yourself up and dust yourself.

Start doing something you haven't done before, try a new path...not criminal or illegal o.

try using ur head to be productive as a self employed individual or something

You are waiting for an imaginary being That would never lift a finger

Caracta: I don't wear my hair natural because the Nigerian weather isn't good on it. It breaks easily and hurts.

Most Importantly, I CHOOSE to go un-natural because I look tidy and cute when I get my hair done. I don't need to go everywhere with a comb or brush. Its economical and weather-friendly...attractive, protective and easy to maintain. It's not healthy to have your hair unprotected at all times, especially in seasons of Harmattan.

If it's about slave mentality, then why wear clothes and shoes? Afterall, your ancestors never had designer shirts and shoes.

Whoever hates it should humbly take a dive into the Mediterranean sea

First of all most Nigerian tribes have had clothing industry for thousands of years.
My ancestors aren't known to walk around naked or bare footed.


ur comment on this jst proves beyond doubt that you suffer from gross inferiority complex...you go to the extent of cooking up lies

Go learn your history lady and stop this caucasian worshipping

cbrass: I don't remember telling you am Oyo, however Ooni and his Ife has always been a seating duck, even the war you mentioned wasn't a popular war, mind you those towns that broke out of Oyo only fought for independence and formed a soverign state of which Ijesaland broke out too with the help of Ogedengbe "agbogungboro" then was the prestigious and historical ekitiparapo war that finally put a stop and end to the persistence attacks from Ibadan. Even the Egbas fought, almost all this great Towns fought for liberation purposes but that can't be said of Ife

and when did military prowess relate to The legacy of oduduwa?
Did ur people tell u ife was built to be a warring people?

Oyo was built for the sole purpose of creating an army but answer my question since you have been on about war since

When last did oyo win or even partake in a battle?

Kiriji war didn't see Oyo flex it's powers

Olusanya333: It will be wrong since you are using ur 14kg brain to interprete d Mysteries of God d things of d Spirit. U can continue in ur confusion till d day u will see Him coming in d Clouds The King of kings and The Lord of lords den u will mourn nd say "Had i known i would have repent". Even now Christ say Repent of ur sins and believe in my name dat yee may have eternal life

A dead man has no business in the clouds

CrazyMan: True!

But look at it this way...if your son at age 10 gets into trouble in school, you would be the first to rush there and bail him out.

But suppose that child becomes nuisance to himself and the society and is about age 30, believe me, you would be the first to disassociate yourself from him, least he drags your name on the mud.

When a christian is saved, God permits others to pray for you, fast for you...etc.

But after a while, God expects you to grow, walk and start doing things for yourself. Unfortunately many won't. Most people still want to remain babies, doing naughty things and expecting God to over look them.

If your matured son refuses to grow up and face life as a man, after hundreds of efforts you've made on his behalf, believe me you would abandon him... same applies with God .

Wow!

God has the same attributes of Men

LandLord1: Nice...I have learned certain things from chrisviral and alexleo, but couldn't understand where macof stands. All the same. WHAT A THREAD.

When you don't understand the nature of the universe, how can you understand God??

I make my observations and theories from my search and experiences

Olusanya333: I believe the Bible dat everything is written by God.

a god that only knows how to write books
Ur god must be a Man in disguise

Olusanya333: A soul is the seat of decision where u decide btwn good and bad. Since d fall of man, a soul can either do good or bad i.e Sin or Live holy

Wrong! The brain is the seat of decision where you decide between what is good and bad.

Man never fell we live in a balance of holiness and Evil, they all around us, and even in us.
It's nature.

alexleo: All the troubles we are having in the world came as a result of the rebellion of lucifer and disobedience of man which brought curse upon these entities and the earth.

In heaven there will be no more curse. And this means there will be no condition that ll bring curse again.

Read Revelations 22:3

3 And there shall be NO MORE CURSE: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

Smh

How people can't use their gift of intelligence these days

1. Lucifer doesn't exist,
not only does the name mean "morning star" in Latin, which Jews don't speak. It is also not a character of Jewish beliefs.
where did Christians get Lucifer from
The Romans are sly bastrds I tell you

It is also impossible for spirits to feel greed, and all that you ascribe Lucifer.
Emotions are things of living organisms, even among organic beings not all seem to possess this basic emotions of humans

And then it's impossible to rebel against the consciousness of the universe(which is God)
Everything is just one big body, how can the legs rebel against the head??


2. Man's only law is to be human...keep your humanity and make use of it.
There are many things that make up the human essence but lets summarize it to: the body and brain power...this two are what we need to fulfil how mission on earth and return to where we came

3. There's no curse, there's only nature.
The world is a place of ups and downs, the beautiful nd the ugly.
ur heaven won't stop human life from being human life or the world from being the world.

This ebola sef

I heard there's a vaccine the federal government is testing

dont8: But do you know that Oba Adesida III didn't like to take pictures during his reign, I was in the Palace when he died and they have to take the picture in that state he was.

I guessed so.

I was so shocked to see his image wasn't in the photo

cbrass: Did the Ooni even fight any wars except the Ife-modakeke clash

Yes, Ife took part in Owu's defeat at Orile-Owu

But then when has war become a factor for superiority in Yorubaland? what happened to age and origin?? Didn't Egba defeat oyo?
Didn't Dahomey defeat Oyo?
Didn't Ilorin defeat Oyo?

When last did Oyo fight a battle?
Talk less of the last time they won one

Abi Your people have forgotten what Lisabi did to you?

Oyo's imperialism is over, it's jst a rich and proud HISTORY that shouldn't blind you from reality

hercules07: The Alaafin is superior to the Ooni on all fronts, it was the politics of the AG that elevated the Ooni, who was the Ooni to talk, hell, even the Modakekes sacked Ife several times, even when the Ibadans disagreed with Alaafin, they did not have the temerity to attack Oyo.

The Ooni had been superior even before 1300AD that Oranmiyan established the Alaafin dynasty

I don't why you people have lost ur senses like this.

Where did Alaafin get his crown? From Ooni
Where does Alaafin trace his origins? From Ooni(or better Olofin, as it was then)

Why was Oranmiyan so determined to return to ife despite having Benin and Oyo?? Ife throne is superior

5thNOTE: Who told u they sold themselves, when they where tributries of the ancient Benin Kingdom time of no records then they were sold, meanwhile no main Benin or Edo ppl were sold as slaves. The Oba of Benin could trade the subjects(yorubas) at the edges of his kingdom to slave traders and 4 ur info there were only representative chiefs of the yorubas. Infact thats why yorubas could spread mightly becuse they hate burden or lording and had no king and even if they tried to have a kingdom, it was always subject and obedient to the Benin kingdom.

cbrass: its you that should read and not me cos
everything was mere politics who the hell is
the bloody stranger called Ooni...FYI OOni is
a complete stranger in yoruba land

Two madmen
keep living the dream

RebelLeader15: Alagba, it seems your Library is different from other people"s own, go back to a real Library and read about the history of Yoruba very well, Ile-ife is the ancestral home while Oyo is the fuckn headquarter!!!!

Ibadan has even long replaced Oyo as the Yoruba headquarters

sexywale: Thanks for admitting... yes politically, circa
400 years ago. But when the Dahomey
sacked Oyo ile. Oyo became politically
handicapped and irrelivant since then.

It wasn't Dahomey that destroyed oyo-ile, Dahomey was an Oyo colony for must of Oyo's imperial period.

It was a joint force of Sokoto and Ilorin that sacked Oyo-Ile, driving the inhabitants southwards.
The ilorin gained their independence but Sokoto continued raids against other Oyo Towns, they went as far as Osogbo where the now strong miliary of Ibadan drove them back to Sokoto

olukenzo: {
I think the issue with Oyo and Ife is because
the Ooni started out as a regent than a King
and also because he is not a direct
descendant of Oduduwa through Okanbi. But
he however rules over Ile-Ife which is the
source of all Yorubas and thus deserves all
the respect he gets.
I don't find the arguments amusing though,
they are very divisive I must say.

But The Ooni is a direct descendent of oduduwa.
In the Ooni list, only two outside Oduduwa's household have occupied the position, but they were sacked by Oranmiyan who became 6th Ooni and has continued the Ooni line since then

Ooni title is not of a slave, but a king of kings

OrlandoOwoh: Is it true that nobody looks at the Alaafin through a mirror? In fact it is said that his cars usually don't have rear-view mirrors.
Aji se bi Oyo lari, Oyo ki se bi baba eni kankan.

I remember trying to take a photo of Deji Akure. He didn't appear in the photo