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akagaba: Ur cleanlines and gorgeous way of dresing shows hw wondaful heaven is. D bible was actualy refering 2 U wen it said "ye ar gods". U ar a "god" indeed.

...................for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.1 Samuel 16:7

You can't grow a tree with petrified seeds. Earlier in the article, it said there was a petrified apple. If the apple was petrified, so would be the seeds. I'd think that the tree they found would also be petrified.

President Goodluck Jonathan has told a visiting delegation of the South South caucus of the House of Representatives that he was shocked by the news of the passing away of his brother: even before he was briefed by his aides, he discovered that SaharaReporters had broken the news to the world.

The confirmation is coming on the heels of a State House press statement today outlining the burial plans for Mr. Meni Innocent Jonathan in Bayelsa State next weekend. He will be buried in Otuoke, the hometown of the Jonathans in Ogbia Local Government Area.

Among the items listed in the statement, there will be a Service of Songs for him at the Dame Patience Jonathan Square, Otuoke at 6pm on Friday.


He will be buried after a commendation service at the St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Otuoke at 10 am on Saturday.
Chief Jonathan died on November 20.

Text of the State House Press Release:
Jonathan’s brother who died in Abuja President Jonathan will leave Abuja for Bayelsa State on Thursday to participate in the burial ceremonies of his younger brother, Chief Meni Innocent Jonathan who passed away on the 20th of November 2012.

Chief Jonathan is to be laid to rest on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at his hometown, Otuoke, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
His remains will be conveyed from Abuja to Otuoke on Friday, December 7, 2012 and will be received by the Otuoke Council of Chiefs at the Otuoke Community Hall at 2.30pm on the same day.

There will be a Service of Songs for him at the Dame Patience Jonathan Square, Otuoke at 6pm that evening while a commendation service will be held at the St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Otuoke at 10 am on Saturday.

He will be interred after the commendation service.

Reuben Abati
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
December 4, 2012

http://saharareporters.com/video/jonathan-confirms-saharareporters-authentic-source-news-late-brother-set-be-buried-saturday

1. The greatest mistake when you are acting a movie is when PATIENCE OZOKWOR is your mother-in-law, i pity you.

2. The greatest mistake a girl will make in a movie is going out on a date with JOHN OKAFOR. I sorry for you.
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3. The greatest mistake you will make in a movie is when you are rich and PETE EDOCHIE is your elder brother. (R.I.P).

4. The greatest mistake a girl will make in a movie is to marry JIM IYKE. (Beating Things).

5. The greatest mistake you will make in a movie is dragging a land with CHINWETALU AGU. You will end up sick or dead.

6. The greatest mistake a man and a woman will make in a movie is when AKI and PAWPAW are their Children. (High Blood Pressure).

Keep it rolling...

The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.

The height of religious fundamentalism/fanaticism is when a mortal man who has no idea about where he was before he was conceived in his mother's womb,believes with the utmost conviction that whosoever does not subscribe to his religion is forever condemned to eternal damnation.

Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.

Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion.

Olusegun Obasanjo is a man that is difficult to ignore as he is always in the news. He is generally reffered to as Ebora Owu (the demon of Owu Kingdom), he also claimed to be a Christian and went to the seminary after he left office in 2007. He even built a church and wrote a 'christian' book on Church history. Then last week, he launched a mosque at his presidential library in Abeokuta which many Government functionaries attended and donated generously. This leaves me wondering if the mosgue was built for those who will be coming to the library to read or its another venture with unknown motive?

A pregnant Nigerian lady has died because doctors in Port Harcourt insisted the husband must pay N20,000, less than $150, before she was treated. And her family members are still in shock about her death, such that they are not even thinking of burying her for now.

The 34 year old woman, Ijeoma Umumadumere, nee Ahamefule, was rushed in the morning of 25 November to Garrison Clinic in Port Harcourt, when she complained of a sudden stomach pain and headache, while cooking. Her husband rushed her to the clinic on Udom street in the oil rich city. It was between 9-10 a.m. And she was five-months pregnant.

But doctors and nurses would not attend to the pregnant woman because the husband only had N5,000 on him, instead of the N20,000 being demanded, as a precondition for treatment. Even the N5,000 the man had on him had been used to offset registration and other costs.

Her brother, based in Austria could not understand why doctors in a Nigerian hospital could have so callously and uncaringly treated the woman, pregnant with her first child. As he put it:

“Her husband begged the doctor and the nurses to attend to her since they had collected about N5, 000 he had in his pocket in the name of registration and other little things while he would go home and bring money. He had also told them that because of the nature of the emergency and the way his wife had been shouting while on the ground that his mind had only been pre-occupied with the thoughts of rushing her to any nearby hospital and had not thought of money or any other thing as he had even forgotten to put on shoes, but all his pleading and explanations to the doctor and the nurses had fallen onto deaf ears. With her pains increasing and death knocking and the doctor and the nurses refusing to understand, there was no way he could have left her there unattended, to go home and bring money. He took her and headed to another hospital, but unfortunately my sister did not make it as the damage had already been done before the doctors in that second hospital could do something reasonable to save her life.”

“What a country, what a failure and what a loss! This is a sad story of the sorry state of the Nigerian health policy, how Nigerians are heartlessly and carelessly neglected because of money by doctors and nurses to die in hospitals, and how I lost my sister to a failed system,”wrote Uzoma Ahamefule, based in Austria.

Many hospitals in Nigeria, both private and public, are in the habit of asking for pre-payment from patients, even when the case is an emergency.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/12/01/nigerian-pregnant-woman-denied-care-because-of-150/

Less than 24 hours after it was read in the Enugu High Court in Nigeria’s South-East, the will of late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has been dismissed as strange and unreliable by one of his closest confidants.

The name of Chief Sylvester Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the 56 years old lawyer reported to be Ojukwu’s first son but who has had running battles with other family members since the old man’s death on November 26, 2011, is conspicuously missing from the will. Recognised as Ojukwu’s children in the will are Chukwuemeka Jnr, Mmegha, Okigbo, Ebele, Chineme, Afam, Nwachukwu and one Tenny Haman, who was previously unheard of.

Commenting this morning on the will, Uche Ezechukwu, Ojukwu’s biographer and one-time media aide, said: “Ojukwu’s will has been read and it gave nothing to his sons and almost everything to his widow. Is that not strange?

“Could Ojukwu, who was blind for four years before his death and had all but lost his memory, have written such a will with his senses intact? Just thinking aloud!”

Ezechukwu, a seasoned journalist and public analyst whose book ‘Ojukwu, the Rebel I Served,’ has received much praise, insisted that he knows all of Ojukwu’s children and that Sylvester is one of them.

According to the man who served as Ojukwu’s Speacial Assistant on Media for some two years: “The Ikemba had the following children: Sylvester, from an Udi woman when he was an Assistant Divisional Officer there; then Emeka Jnr, Mmegha (the first daughter) and Mr. Okigbo from Njideka (Ned Onyekwelu); Ebele from Stella (née Onyeador) and then the three kids from Bianca.”

Responding to questions and observations made by some of those who responded to his Facebook post, Ezechukwu said: “Accordingly, the will gave the family compound to Emeka. The Ikemba I knew understood Igbo culture very well and knew that you can’t will out your traditional compound as it automatically goes to the first son, who holds it in trust for the family. It continues to be held in trust by every first male child. So in practical sense, Emeka got nothing! Very abnormal!

“A man’s ancestral house is not part of the will. The first son automatically inherits it. That is the house you say he willed to Emeka. What of Okigbo and Sylvester?”

Ezechukwu, who is also Coordinator of the League of Anambra Media Professionals, advised that “the nation should get ready for perhaps the longest playing soap opera that will rubbish and dwarf all those acclaim we have had for Ojukwu.”

“I knew this rumpus would erupt and when I was writing my book on him, I dodged everything about his family,” he wrote. “I was there and knew his relationship with all his children before Bianca came. I didn’t want to become the source of the storm that started breaking even before the mourning dress was shed.”

http://www.facebook.com/#!/uche.ezechukwu1?fref=ts

Super1759: “Anenih is seen as the right person that can speak for the President and probably look at the likes of Obasanjo in the face,” said the presidential source. so it means my president can't speak to obj to his face and correct his errors?
He needs to act fast because with the rate things are happening,atiku romancing with obj, obj having talks with south east stakeholders and building mosque for the north.
Obj gat the heart of NIGERIA

“Anenih is seen as the right person that can speak for the President and probably look at the likes of Obasanjo in the face,” said the presidential source - Sahara Reporters

(Na wa o. First they said Ima Niboro wasn't speaking enough for him so they brought in Reuben Abati to speak for PresiJo; then they asked Reno Omokri to impersonate and speak for him in Cyberia; then they asked Ken Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr to speak for him in the international media; then they asked contract racketeer, Doyin Okupe, to speak for him in the Nigerian public sphere. Now they want a stale Godfather in need of recycling to speak for him in the arena of hostile former non-performing Presidents that PresiJo is now out-performing in non-performance.

floriana: It is not only Ashimolowo. They are all scammers and conmen. One 'daddy GO' once wrote something like that in the daily devotional published and sold by him to his 'worshippers'. The implications of his law of sowing and reaping can be interpreted thus:

1. Sow N1,000 reap N10,000
2. Sow Toyota Camry 2006 reap Camry 2012
3. Sow your entire salary, reap the position of MD in
your workplace
4. Sow your lifesavings, reap central bank of Nigeria
5. Sow 500KVA Mikano generator, reap NEPA
6. Sow private jet, reap jumbo jets + International
airport to serve as plane-park
7. Sow your first son, reap Dangote
8. Sow your wife, reap Dame Patience Jonathan
9 sow your flat backside, reap Beyonce + Kim
Kadarshian backsides
10. Sow an estate, reap, Lagos state.

It annoys me that so many educated, and socially aware but spiritually idiotic men and women who are too lazy to study their bibles keep falling prey to these scammers. And their followers will say 'touch not my anointed + don't judge so that.........

Pastor E A.Adeboye, "Open Heavens" Volume 12; 20 November, 2012

"Dollar is a measure, Naira is another measure, Euro is another and Pounds is another measure. If you want returns in Dollars, sow in Dollars. Do not sow in Naira and be expecting a harvest in Euro. It does not work like that.

You can be in any country and sow in the particular currency in which you want your harvest. Sow and keep on sowing in that currency. By the time your harvest comes, you will celebrate. In addition, the various denominations of each currency are different measures too. Take for instance the Nigeria Naira, you have N1000, N500, N200, N100, N50, N20, N10 and N5 notes. It is the particular denomination that you use that God will multiply and return to you. If you keep using the smallest of the denominations and think you are thrifty or wise, you are only limiting yourself. Do yourself a favour by using the b...
iggest denominations so as to get the greatest harvest."

Sometimes however, when you sow in a foreign currency, God may give you the harvest in a local currency for a reason. But if you check the value and compare with what you sowed, you will know that God knows how to calculate value in any currency. How often do you sow? The key to you financial breakthrough is in your hands. If you fail to use it, nothing will be delivered to you but if you use it very well, your life will turn around for good.

ACTION POINT:
Before you give, decide on the harvest you want and thereafter choose the seed and container that will deliver the harvest to you.

Pastor E A.Adeboye, "Open Heavens" Volume 12; 20 November, 2012

biolabee: ive used to go to the church when it was in spoonfeeders one eatery in gbabaga .
passed it a few days ago and saw the new structure

the pastor is a young nice guy with focus on youth empowerment (a mini daystar) kinda thing
He is doing a good job


So this may mean the neo-prosperity gospel may be coming there
100 usd is like 16k.. wow
If u guys want to find use for money ..log on to the TehN charity flight

The pastor's name is Bolaji Idowu.A 2002 graduate of Accounting from the University of Lagos.The church actually started as a campus fellowship at UNILAG.

tinnymerit: I dont know how far it is true,i heard he was sent to the UK by foursquare gospel church in Nigeria for a training/development and when he got there he had what he was sent there to do and started his own church without considering the sender.I dont know how far it is true but a friend confirmed it though.

Absolutely true!

The advert for the program was placed in some Newspapers,I can't recall the theme but something that has to do with raising and producing the next leaders in the technological and business sphere with the face of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates who are "atheists"adorning the page of the advert.

So For giving $340,leaders will emerge in technological and business sphere!

Jarus: Where do you start engaging people that think Sanusi is a civil servant?

OK,he is a political appointee.Have been expecting you to come defend your mentor.

"However, the dilemma for the president is whose side will he pitch his tent on? Unlike his predecessor, late Umaru Musa Yar’adua, who sacked two of his ministers when they quarreled over procedural issues, Jonathan would, almost certainly, dilly-dally on this matter. Though, he has respect for Okonjo-Iweala because of her intelligence and ability. Her presence in his Administration bolsters its credibility in the eyes of global financial institutions. The president’s reform programme, though half-heartedly implemented, has earned some level of global acceptability mainly due to the Finance Minister’s presence. However, Diezani seem indispensable and her closeness to Jonathan is absolute. The president cannot swap her for anything." - SUNDAY TRUST on the ongoing roforofo fight between Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Diezani Allison Madueke.

(I never knew the day would come when I would help President Jonathan. I don't understand why he can't make up hi...
s mind about which of these feuding Ministers to dump. How he imagined he could successfully put two gargantuan egos in the same Council Chambers without the two women eventually entering the same trouser beats me. What the President must now do to determine who stays and who goes is: 1)invite the two women to Aso Rock; 2) have Reuben Abati or Reno Omokri bring in the N1.3 trillion subsidy fund that is tearing the women apart in Ghana must go bags; 3) ask for an electric chainsaw; 4) threaten to slice each Ghana must go back into two equal halves, one half of each bag for each woman, including the damaged bundles of naira notes that would been sliced. One woman is bound to scream: "Your Excellency please don't slice the bags. Lets save the money". And the other is bound to scream: "Your Excellency, yes, slice the bags! Shebi dis World Bank wahala woman is fighting me because the money is on the ground. Lets slice the bags and scatter everything". Unless there are other unknown knowns and known unknowns involved, it should easy at this stage for the President to fire the woman who wants to destroy the money. After the sack, Mr. President should then ask she who would save the money: "Madam World Bank, thanks for being so patriotic. So, why exactly did you want us to save the bags"? My good guess is she would answer: "thank you your Excellency. We could use half of it to pay the London Club and the other half to settle the Paris Club so that the Bank and the Fund shall be extremely pleased with Nigeria". Once she gives this anticipated answer, the President should also fire her. That way, he would have killed two birds with one electric chainsaw. The downside: after firing the two women, I honestly can't put it beyond the President to add the Finance and Petroleum Ministries to Tompolo's already overloaded maritime security plate!)

daroz: I cast my vote for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare in their demosthenic vitriol against spiritual megalomaniacs whose modus vivendi has become increasingly byzantine and repulsively narcissistic.We must all begin to deprecate this razzmatazz and Nestorian braggadocio in the "HOUSE OF GOD",because when there is no difference between the values of a Pastor and a typical Nigerian Politician,then it's truly a bolekaja ambience.....


https://www.facebook.com/patrick.obahiagbon.3

and all those reading collapsed.

"I cast my vote for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare in their demosthenic vitriol against spiritual megalomaniacs whose modus vivendi has become increasingly byzanthine and repulsively narcissistic.We must all begin to deprecate this razzmatazz and Nestorian braggadocio in the "HOUSE OF GOD",because when there is no difference between the values of a Pastor and a typical Nigerian Politician,then it's truly a bolekaja ambience..." -

Patrick Obahiagbon

The Lootitudes (Part I)

(1) And seeing the multitudes, corruption went up into Aso Rock; and when he was set, the politicians came unto him;

(2) And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying:

(3) Blessed are the clueless in wisdom; for theirs is the Presidency of the nation.

(4) Blessed are they that rig elections, for they shall be elected.

(5) Blessed are the thieves; for they shall inherit the National Assembly.

(6) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after public funds; for their accounts shall be filled.

(7) Blessed are the bribe-takers, for they shall obtain big bribes.

( Blessed are the Petroleum Ministers, for they shall loot trillions.

(9) Blessed are the bootlickers, for they shall be called the Federal Executhief Council.

(10) Blessed are they which are prosecuted for corruption’s sake; for theirs is the kingdom of wealth.

(11) Blessed are ye, when EFCC shall invite you, and interrogate you, and bring all manner of charges against you, for my sake.

(12) Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad; for fat are your accounts in Swiss banks; for so they prosecuted the politicians which were before you.

(13) Ye are the thieves of the nation; but if the thief have lost his craftiness, wherewith shall he be looting? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be charged to court, and be sentenced to prison.

(14) Ye are the liars of the nation, a lie that is carefully thought-out cannot be found out.

(15) Neither do politicians cook a big lie, and serve it to SaharaReporters, but to NTA; and it gives false hope unto all that watch the 9pm news.

(16) Let your gowns so flow before men, that they may see your big loots, and glorify your father which is in Ota.

(17) Think not that I am come to arrest the fuel marketers

(18) For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one naira or one kobo shall not be left in the Federation Account, but all be looted away.

(19) Whosever shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the Asiwaju in the kingdom of corruption; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called BOT Chairman in the kingdom of corruption.

(20) For I say unto you, except your corruption shall exceed the corruption of policemen and lawmakers, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of immunity.

(21) Ye have heard that it was said by them of the old time, Thou shall not loot; and whosoever shall loot shall be in danger of the judgment:

(22) But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his party without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say, stop looting, shall be in danger of penury, the elder brother of poverty.

(23) Therefore if thou bring thy loot to the UK, and there rememberest that the EFCC has case against thee

(24) Leave thy loot in a UK bank and go to Dubai; first be reconciled to the EFCC Chairman and come and enjoy thy loot.

(25) Bribe thy prosecutors quickly while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time he deliver thee to the judge, and the judge sentence thee, and thou be cast into prison.

(26) Verily I say unto you, thou shall by no means come out thence, till thou hast entered a plea bargain.

kokoA: Foolish post. No be person dey fail again? That his father is Tinubu does not make him above failure. This even shows how serious the boy is. He has all it takes to bribe his way through but he chose to use his brain instead. Kudos boy! You go pass your re-sit.

How are you so sure he did not attempt to bribe his way through but they dey just chop him money

The Many Tragedies of Today’s Church

These days some pastors give the impression that they see God physically every day, hobnob with Him, and so are above human scrutiny. They invest upon themselves this garb of infallibility, which means they should not be questioned or made to give account to anybody. “Who are you to judge another man’s servant,” they would quip and interpret this scripture out of its context of judging people in what they eat or drink (Romans 14:3–4), which, as far as Paul was concerned, was a petty matter in piety. They say they are accountable to only God who called them. But is this true?

Peter was “the first Pope,” as Roman Catholics teach. In Acts 10, God asked him to go and preach to Cornelius at a time the gospel had not yet got to the Gentiles. When he came back, the New Living Translation says in Acts 11:2 that “the Jewish believers criticised him.” How dare you criticise an “infallible pope” called Peter? Today, a typical pastor would have barked that they have touched the Lord’s anointed, and would distort that scripture to be the special preserve of pastors, whereas it pertains to every child of God. And that scripture, in any case, talks about physically harming the person, not about critically assessing his actions or inactions.

People found businesses and grow them with their own effort. But once they involve others, or make them invest in it, they make their stocks and salary known to such shareholders. When Bill Gates was the CEO of Microsoft, people knew his salary and shareholding. This is also true of publicly quoted companies in Nigeria. But hardly any church member in Nigeria’s “private” Pentecostal churches can boast he knows his pastor’s salary, not to talk of his personal worth – yet most of them made their wealth only after they founded such churches.

Many of such pastors make no discrimination between what belongs to the church and what belongs to them. Many actually see the church coffers as their personal estate. Some, with their wives, are the signatories to church accounts although many of them strain to give it a semblance of credibility by adding one lackey. Any day that lackey gets bold enough to ask questions, he gets fired. Today, pride and arrogance have become the trait-mark of most pastors. They carry themselves not with the aplomb that befits God’s children but with the hubris that befits Satan’s agents. They drive the best cars and live in the best houses. This is good, since the Bible calls believers kings and priests that should reign on earth.

But when some of them deny their lieutenants such goodies, or make vain boasts about them, or flaunt their expensive shoes and wristwatches and suits amidst their messages, I usually feel a lump in my throat. Often I ask, could Jesus have done that? Of course they would say that Jesus wore designer dresses and that explains why the soldiers “…parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.” And if it is true that Jesus wore designer dresses which in any case I do not doubt, it means that all his apostles also wore designer dresses; for the soldiers that came to arrest Him could have used his disparate dress mode to single him out but they could not, until Judas betrayed Him with a kiss.

But today, enter any church and you need not be told who the pastor is. I see churches just struggling to kick off but one of the first things the imperial pastors do is to buy for themselves and their wives expensive seats, or they make “papal chairs” with ornate engravings and expensive upholstery – just to ensure they are “set apart” from the congregation. And they would have church protocol or security details stand as a ramrod around the altar while they preach. One day, I saw one such detail that probably had not eaten for days collapse under the torture. Are these not the vain exercise of dominion in Matthew 20:25–28 Jesus said is found among the Gentile leaders that should not be seen among us?

This virus of pride and arrogance has also infected student pastors in our higher institutions. Thus when one visits such places to minister, one sees a student pastor being attended by a horde of attendants – one bears his Bible, another his handkerchiefs, and another his handsets, ad infinitum. And one sees the other students scurrying like startled rats once they sight him, and the whisper of “Daddy is coming” would fill the air. Daddy! Who is this daddy – a fellow student who pitiably inherited a culture that blows his position out of proportion? And once this “big daddy” is appointed or before he graduates, his assistants, in a bid to prepare the ground for such largesse during their own reign, would prey on other students to raise money to buy him a car.

Some students have been deceived to give their tuition fees in such acts, and some of them have been expelled for inability to pay thereafter. Thus when such “daddies” graduate, they don’t seek for jobs. They want to found their own denominations, or wangle their way into prominent positions in a thriving church where the goodies and accolades they had known as students would continue to come. They want to become, overnight, like the tested wealthy pastors, men who had paid their dues in the pursuit of God. This, quite pitiably, often draws from the words of these tested pastors who often give testimonies that suggest they just happened upon success, without any wilderness experience.

Today, some pastors teach you not to get close to your pastor for your own safety, so that you don’t see him committing fornication or any other sin and ruin your Christian life. And if ever you see your pastor in sin, you should run for your dear life. Behave as if you didn’t see him; and what is more, remain in that church and be loyal to him. Don’t judge him! Leave him to his God that called him! And they would quote David when he mourned Saul’s death in 2 Samuel 1:20 by saying: “Don’t announce the news in Gath, don’t proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice and the pagans will laugh in triumph.” But this scripture, in my thinking, is the wisdom of David not that of God.

There are three kinds of philosophies or wisdom in the Bible. They are that of God, that of Satan and that of man. Thus if those words by David were the wisdom of God, He would not have allowed it to be written in the Bible where not only the daughters of Philistines heard it but their granddaughters and great granddaughters still hear it till today.

Today, there is this esprit de corps, a kind of cult mindset among some pastors, that boldly declares: “Hide my sins and I will hide your sins, exalt me when you preach in my church and I will exalt you when I preach in yours.” They go to lengths to defend the excesses of other pastors so that they too will have the liberty to indulge in such excesses. When they come as guest ministers, they would make members literally worship the host pastor by making them stand up and sit down, shout and clap, and say words of adulation, which they hardly ask to be given to the Holy Spirit.

This cult mentality makes some pastors kowtow to an unwritten code of conduct that demands that “when you preach for me, raise money so that when I preach for you I too will raise money,” “when you preach for me, I will give you hefty honorarium so that when I preach for you, you too will give me hefty honorarium.” Some guest preachers even ask for as much as 30 per cent of what they raise or they will fight for it. So people like us who are not pastors in the sense of having a parish or founding a denomination, and so cannot dole out hefty honoraria to reciprocate such gestures, are only invited to preach by few pastors that love the truth.

Nowadays, some pastors teach things that many accept as truth when such things are lies from the pit of hell. For instance, I hear some pastors teach that the minister is greater than the ministry. This is a weighty statement whose hidden import include, one, the minister is greater than everybody in that ministry put together; and two, when that minister dies, his ministry will also die. Is this not a bad way to prophesy over one’s labour? Some pastors today teach that poverty is a sin. I have not seen that in the Bible! Jesus said, we shall always have the poor among us. And when Paul went to clarify some doctrinal issues with the church in Jerusalem, among the things they told him to always do was to feed the poor. Yes, the Bible calls poverty a curse, but it never calls it a sin! It is a curse of the law just like sin and sickness which man inherited from Adam. In principle, man is supposed to be free from these curses at the new birth, but in reality it is not so. It takes revelation to go from the principles stated in the Bible to the reality lived in life.

The result of such half-truths is that congregants now do all in their power to make money. There was the media-celebrated case in Lagos of the man who stole tens of millions of naira from his employers to give to his church. He didn’t do it to enrich himself but for God to bless him to enable him pay back what he stole. There was a case in Aba of a sales girl who stole about N2 million from her employers and gave all to her church. She was sued and jailed two years. Even her church refused her employer’s N500,000 plea bargain offer.

Today, LovePeddlers and armed robbers go to churches and feel no pangs of conscience. When pastors attract such a crowd, the next thing they do is to raise money. I was in a service recently where a guest minister raised tens of millions of naira without stating what the money would be used for. “There must be a need in the church,” he said and began to call people to give in the millions. The more he raised, the more honorarium he got.

Most pastors today have the same view on rebellion, even those that broke away from other churches. They kink its meaning to suit their aim of trapping members. For instance, when somebody fails to carry out the pastor’s instruction, it automatically becomes rebellion. And they would threaten that the ground would open up and swallow the person as it did to Korah, Dathan and Abiram in Numbers 16:32. But these were men who wanted to split the ministry of Moses and not men who failed to obey an instruction. But then is rebellion against God not one of the definitions of sin? And we all, including these pastors, sin against God every day and God has not asked the ground to open up and swallow us. Why should He do that just because a pastor is involved? Moreover, we now live in the era of grace when such things no longer happen.

The result of all this is that many people today go to church out of fear (but where the spirit of God is there should be liberty!), or simply to please their pastor – not out of unalloyed desire to worship God. Permit me to state here that the church is a living thing, spiritually speaking. So it has the seven major traits of living things. Based on this truth, the church can be divided into three. First is the living church. This is the church guided by the word of God. It allows men to manifest their gifts. It does not cage the Holy Spirit but gives Him free course to manifest in their affairs. It is a church that feeds her members with the pure bread of God’s word sans poison. Few churches in any epoch belong here. The second is the dead church. These are churches that give no regard to the revealed word of God. They feed their members with bread drenched in poison, which leads them to spiritual death. They are full of ceremonies and fatuous rituals. They stifle the gift of God in men, cage the Holy Spirit and keep Him out of their affairs, which they run with human philosophies. Many of the orthodox churches belong here.

The third kind of church is the quasi-living church. This one has traits that swing between the first and the second above. Some are like the Laodecean church that Jesus spoke of in Revelation 3:14–22. They are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, and the Lord said He would spew them out of His mouth. It is a church that boasts in its material possessions like we do today. They preach prosperity and miracles instead of preaching values. Because of the untruths we spread today, the church has become impotent and prey to groups like Boko Haram, hence our insane act of taking arms against them. The church should never take arms against any group. We must win all battles in the spirit realm.

I know this article would ruffle some feathers in Christendom, make me lose some friends, and many would pillory me for washing our dirty linen in public. But permit me to state, unlike what many would argue, that exposing our sins does not make God any less powerful nor His gospel any less potent. The Bible does not support hiding our sins. That is why it says in Proverbs 28:13 that, “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”

One of the tragedies of today’s church is that the knives that are sharp have no handles, and the ones that have handles are not sharp! Thus the orthodox churches that have drab messages, whose pastors are as blunt as wood, have better character and structures, and the Pentecostal churches that have great messages, whose pastors hone themselves to keen-edge sharpness, have many character and structural flaws. And to worsen the matter, they now wear the garb of infallibility. May God help us!

J1: Hello Dear Readers,

My name is Adejuwon Anjoorin and I a blog on www.anjoorinadejuwon..com
The article posted here titled "Lessons I learn t from being an Obama volunteer" was written by me and posted on my website only three days ago, on Sunday 18th, 2012.
The member of this forum, with the username "modicum" copied my article and pasted it verbatim on this website, Nairaland, without writing me to seek my permission, and to make matters worse, he pasted this article without crediting me as the original writer.
I hereby express my displeasure at this ugly and indecent behavior and I demand that "modicum", the member who plagiarized my work credit me as the original writer of this article, or take the article down immediately.
I have also informed the administrators of this website of this ugly development.

Humbly Yours,
Adejuwon Anjoorin (J1 Naijaprince)

In legal parlance,it is called the theft of intellectual property.

A NIGERIAN gospel singer, Oluwamayowa Ajayi, who fleeced four American women he met on the internet dating site, Match.com, of over £120,000 was jailed for six and a half years on Friday evening at Snakesbrook Crown Court in East London.

Ajayi, 31, who is an overstayer in Britain, looked blank and and showed no outward emotions as he was handed the sentence. As if resigned to fate, he walked sheepishly behind one of the two female security guards who led him out of Courtroom 20, where his fate was sealed .

About a minute earlier, Judge Sarah Paneth told him, “I’m sentencing you to six and a half years. You may now go down - a technical term for jail. “

Ajayi, who performs under the stage name, “Malo Joe“ pretended to be an American fighter pilot , a grieving widower and an oil executive to the women he fleeced before the long arms of the law caught up with him.

Prior to his sentencing that evening, both the crown prosecutor and his defence counsel spent close to two hours making last minute submissions to the Judge.

While the crown prosecutor summed up his argument stating how Ajayi lived off the women by lying -among others, in one instance - that he had been held hostage by Niger Delta militants and therefore, his captors needed some ransom before he could be released, otherwise, they would kill him, his defence lawyer, John Femi -Ola pleaded with the court: “don’t crush him so that he can have the opportunity to do something useful with his life ,” after his term. Femi-Ola also told the Judge that “this is his first time.”

Despite the pleas for mercy, it was inevitable that he would be caged. After listening to the pleas from both sides, the Judge took a 20- minute break at 3.40p.m. and when the court re-convened at 4.00p.m., she took about 40 minutes to read her sentencing notes, detailing the seven- count charge that Ajayi had been found guilty off by the jury who had found him guilty four days earlier.

In one instance, she tricked and lied to one of his victims who parted with over $100, 000, that he was a businessman who was short of cash and therefore, needed a loan. The woman used some of the money on her credit card and also borrowed from family members to raise the funds.

In another, Ajayi claimed he was in the hands of Niger Delta militants and they would kill him within 20 hours if the woman didn’t do anything about the ransom they asked her to pay. She hurriedly sent $500 through Moneygram to Nigeria, where he then cashed the money.

According to the Judge, “all the four women were embarrassed” when each discovered they were dealing with a con man and not someone who loved them and was in a relationship. Of course, none knew about the other until detectives contacted them after his arrest.

The Judge told him,” you defrauded women of the sums the women cannot afford to lose.”

Ajayi, the Judge noted, would have continued preying on more innocent women had the arms of the law not caught up with him. As the Judge read her notes, his well wishers, numbering about seven, gasped and he looked resigned to his imminent fate before the curtained fell on his fraudulent life at 4.40p.m., when the judge told him, “I’m sentencing you to six and a half years. You may now go down.” The court guards wasted no time in sandwiching him between themselves as they led him out of the courtroom.

Although it’s not certain if he will be deported after his term, but Ajayi, who initially came to the United Kingdom (UK) on a six month visa in 2004, overstayed. He then left and on his return to the UK, falsely obtained a driver’s licence using the name of a Portuguese man who had died in 2004. This, the Judge noted, showed that the gospel singer was a chief in the criminal operation for which he was being jailed.

http://ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105244:in-london-nigerian-gospel-artiste-jailed-for-defrauding-online-lovers-of-p120000-&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

From Patience to Goodluck

kingingkinging: Good one. We hardly see people with all round success like this. Good home, good career, good husband, good look, good xtian life, almost a perfect being. Pls let us watch you. I am happy for u. U are a model for our young women.

Model for young women my foot!

I shudder at the moral values she wants to communicate with her reality show!

ige101: ITS SO UNFORTUNATE YOU ARE THE FIRST TO COMMENT ON THIS,IF I WERE TO BE AN ADMIN I WILL DELETE YOU FROM THIS GROUP TOTALLY

IS IT ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS IF THE WIFE IS OLDER??
THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A THREAD FOR WISHING HIM HAPPY BDAY NOT CRITICIZING HIM

HAPPY BDAY MR PRESIDENT JARE

How does my comment amount to criticism?If stating the truth in your convoluted mind equates to criticism,then you are meant for the military barracks and not a democratic society!