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Mr_Anony: Folks, tell us your stories.

Let us hear about how you came to know Christ.

@Mr_Anony

Does knowing Christ, just, know alone, count?

because almost everyone has a knowledge or information of some sort concerning Jesus, if not Christ

and not done anything with the knowledge or information.

So you'll have to be clearer, more detailed

and not generalising or leaving things implied

else risk lulling someone into a false sense of security.

"After the homeowner gets up and closes the door, [it's too late].
You can stand outside, knock at the door, and say, 'Sir, open the door for us!'
But he will answer you, 'I don't know who you are.'

Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'

But he will tell you, 'I don't know who you are. Get away from me, all you evil people.'"
- Luke 13:25 27 GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)

Take the POTUS or POTFRON for example, everyone knows them

aware of them likely via the tabloids, TV/radio media, through observation, information learned etc

however with no meaningful business or relationship with them,

if you turn up at the White House or Aso Rock,

you'll receive an emphatic about turn

Of course you know them, no doubt but there is no connection, no relationship with them

In the same vein, to know Christ, without a relationship or meaningful business,

is one thinking everything is fine, but really, it isn't,

because there's a danger in which one will find oneself with a state of mind like that.

To know Christ, is being introduced to , discovering the, or finding out the Father

and then subsequently finding way about the Fatherhood, Family of God, Fellowship, Fraternity etc framework.

"But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:"
- John 1:12 American Standard Version

"For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God."
- 1 Peter 1:23 New Living Translation (©2007)

toba: You'll do urself a lot of favour by quitting this attention seeking game.

Ignore button is needed on NL.

musKeeto: Drop your vote, u davidylan/tpia wannabe..

This is hilarious, funny and made me laugh.

[size=16pt]Goshen360[/size] has my vote
particularly because he is not shy of grappling with anyone that is ignorant, unaware, out of line or out of order
and will wrestle to throw or hold them down to the truth according to scripture

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^{"Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord"}

This is the horrifying moment gangsters chased and killed an innocent 17-year-old student after mistaking him for a rival gang member.

CCTV footage shows victim Kwame Ofosu-Asare who was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' running away from Nelson Idiabeta, then 17, and Nathaniel Okusanya, then 18.

Moments after the teenagers were captured running after him and a friend, Kwame was stabbed 14 times in the back in a 'cowardly and merciless' murder.

The 17-year-old was mistaken for a rival in a 'poisonous and senseless' gang war, a court heard today as Idiabeta and Okusanya were jailed for life.

The pair were members of the TN1 gang - Trust No One - out to avenge one of their numbers who was stabbed by a rival gang member from the GAS gang - Guns and Shanks - just hours earlier.

His killers had toured housing estates in Brixton to find rival gang members and came upon the 17-year-old son of a sports broadcast journalist and his friend, who had nothing to do with any gangs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWlnCgpR__c

This is the horrifying moment gangsters chased and killed an innocent 17-year-old student after mistaking him for a rival gang member.

CCTV footage shows victim Kwame Ofosu-Asare who was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' running away from Nelson Idiabeta, then 17, and Nathaniel Okusanya, then 18.

Moments after the teenagers were captured running after him and a friend, Kwame was stabbed 14 times in the back in a 'cowardly and merciless' murder.

The 17-year-old was mistaken for a rival in a 'poisonous and senseless' gang war, a court heard today as Idiabeta and Okusanya were jailed for life.

The pair were members of the TN1 gang - Trust No One - out to avenge one of their numbers who was stabbed by a rival gang member from the GAS gang - Guns and Shanks - just hours earlier.

His killers had toured housing estates in Brixton to find rival gang members and came upon the 17-year-old son of a sports broadcast journalist and his friend, who had nothing to do with any gangs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWlnCgpR__c

brokoto: Morendendisc are you the same person with Naptu2?

Or una de share the thread?

Thanks anyway...

@brokoto

No ooo but I am Naptu2's unofficial sidekick and partner in reminiscence crime

On a serious note, Naptu2 has so far been accommodating

he hasn't minded, me taking liberties with helping a brother out and working together or alongside him

Pity we don't have among our contemporaries or in our generation selfless and with convictions Tai Solarins, Awojobis, Saro-Wiwas etc .

"Do you know who my father is" utterance by Bakare's son was a travesty and complete letdown

Image123: and what does this add to the syllabus.

@Image123

Israeli officials have often been criticised for allowing the artefacts to be monopolised by small circles of scholars.

They said this is part of an attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts to make them broadly available for anyone to view.

Afunwa92: Mother Sends Nu.de Picture Of Her 13-Yr-Old Daughter To A 30-Yr-Old Male Family Friend


An Utah mother has pleaded guilty to child abuse after taking nude photos of her 13-year-old daughter so that the girl could text them to a 30-year-old “family friend.”
In April, the teen told Duchesne County detectives that Daniel Dean Divine, who lives in Oregon, was her boyfriend and had asked her to take nude pictures for him on an iPhone he had given her, the Deseret News reported.The girl said she could not figure out how to use the phone’s camera, so her mother, 35, agreed to take three photos of her to be sent to the man, according to the Deseret News.

The names of the mother and the teenager haven’t been released in order to protect the girl’s identity.

The woman told investigators that Divine was a “very good friend of the family,”according to KSL.

She also claimed that he and her daughter were planning to wait until the girl was 18 to begin a sexual relationship.

The mother was originally charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. As part of aplea bargain, she pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of third-degree felony child abuse and agreed to testify against Divine. She faces up to five years in prison.

Hypocrite, he just should have also planned to wait until the girl was 18 before entertaining any ideas of salivating, drooling over and jacking off her n.ude picture

[size=16pt]The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available to researchers[/size]

Google and Israel put the ancient religious texts online for anyone to view

Digital library has the Book of Deuteronomy and first chapter of Genesis
Israel had previously been criticised for restricting access to the scrolls
Website allows users to zoom in, read translations and see related maps

By Damien Gayle

PUBLISHED: 17:10, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:10, 18 December 2012

Google has partnered with the Israeli government to put 5,000 images of the Dead Sea Scrolls online in full colour and high resolution.

More than six decades since the discovery of the scrolls - and thousands of years after they were written - they are now finally available for anyone with an Internet connection to see.

The digital library contains the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the second listing of the Ten Commandments, and a portion of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, dated to the first century BC.

Anyone interested in the scrolls can visit http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il for a closer look.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2250072/Scroll-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Google-Israel-ancient-religious-texts-online-view.html#ixzz2FQglYE5M

[size=16pt]You wouldn't believe it. . .

but atheism is now world's third biggest 'faith' after Christianity and Islam[/size]

Christianity is the largest faith with 2.2 billion adherents or 31.5 per cent of the world's population

There are about 1.6 billion Muslims around the world - or 23 per cent of the global population


By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 17:30, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:38, 18 December 2012

Atheists now make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the world's faiths - coming after Christians and Muslims but just before Hindus.

The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths most likely to expand in the future while Judaism has the weakest growth prospects.

It showed Christianity is the most evenly spread religion, present in all regions of the world, while Hinduism is the least global with 94 per cent of its population in one country, India.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/18/article-2250096-0354DB83000005DC-463_634x422.jpg
^{Number one religion:
Christianity has the largest following around the world with 2.2 billion adherents, according to a new study}

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250096/You-wouldn-t-believe-atheism-worlds-biggest-faith-Christianity-Islam.html#ixzz2FQdY0inW

pimp_lucious :
thnx n I say amen to that n take bk my word

No probs. Trust you're still improving. Work in Progress

Not many would know that "pimp_" means "to improve" as in that TV program "Pimp_ My Ride"

pimp_lucious :
Does ur alias moredandisc on here makes u more than disc?

I'm not a pimp_ bro, I dnt control prostitute_ or arrange clients for them. I am not my name on nl. Its just a nick I use here. Nothing more.

@pimp_lucious

Good, at least that is cleared for simple, innocent or naive readers of your posts and hey Moredendisc is actually More than the eyes see

pimp_lucious :
Whichever curse uve rendered will go back to u n ur family such that it will be too much to handle ur generation unborn will share from it and hand the remaining to ur 9th n 10th generation.

Same goes to all who hv used foul word towards me on here. U man worshiping thick heads unable to read btw lines

@pimp_lucious

Hold your peace, there is no need to retaliate but to rejoice and take comfort in the below verses

"Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest" - Proverbs 26:2

"However, the LORD your God would not listen to ademo1 or others Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you,
because the LORD your God loves you" - Deuteronomy 23:5

pimp_lucious :
My alias on nl does not stop me from being a xtian, does it?

U said in ur post that "GEJ make a poor decision or judgement of attending the camp"

I can confidently tell u that it was a delibrate action.

He's deliberately mingling politics with religion as he knows too well that the mentality of the mejority he's presiding over is such that until u coat ur actions or inactions with religion, u probably won't be accepted and he's sure making a head way with this action.

Like u said, he could hv called adeboye for prayers over the phone but he didn't and pple think he actually drove down from abuja to lagos ibadan express way just to receive prayers from adeboye?

Lol I bow to nigerians o

It does, and can stop you from being a christian, if people think you find controlling prostitutes_, arranging clients for them and taking a percentage of their earnings in return licious

Just hoped you are truly cool and totally pimped - Paper In My Pocket or a Player In Management Position

Sisi_Kill: Yeparipa! Now you have just gone and ruined it.

Your original post was on the edge of not making sense. ..but some of us managed to look deeper to pull something sensible out of it but with this last post. . .you have crossed over, taking many with you.

The news report about Amen Quota was a satire. ...A Satire!!!!!

Gah!

pimp_lucious :
A satire?

I can see u are delusional

pimp_lucious!

By the way don't forget https://www.nairaland.com/1133946/it-right-jonathan-kneel-redeemed/1#13412441

pimp_lucious :
I suggest u ask God for discerning spirit, then u will see beyond the ordinary.

I'm a Christian and I sure can't be fool by such display of crass stupidity by the president

@pimp_lucious

For the benefit of naive readers, please clarify what the pimp_ stands for or means in "pimp_lucious"

As much as I agree with your posts so far,

I am unable to be dragged in, backing you up as such, except for one or two lines and the below about the "Traffic Gridlock" caused by this.

GEJ make a poor decision or judgement of attending the camp

and came across as silly, ridiculous and foolish because he didn't know any better

He didn't have to attend the camp because answered prayers are not subjected to geographical location, physical touch etc.

Pastor Adeboye was insensitive by having no feeling or concern for others as regards the pains and hardships caused by GEJ coming to the camp

It was bad as it is, without GEJ turning up . . .

Pastor Adeboye succumbed to his chequered ego boosting and inflated sense of self-importance.

Having a form of godliness but lacking the power thereof . . .

If not, he, Pastor Adeboye, could have reassured GEJ that praying for him over the phone is adequate

and that there is no need for him, Pastor Adeboye, to physically see GEJ

If push turned to shove because GEJ wants a Public Relations (i.e. PR) stunt display of humility, submission or humbleness

then in this day and age of technology, why not if the theatrics is a must, make use of video conferencing?

Pastor Adeboye's prayers for GEJ, even sef, was mediocre verging a tad on gibberish

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[size=16pt]Traffic Gridlock As Jonathan Attends RCCG Convention[/size]

Hundreds of commuters in Lagos, Friday, groaned for hours in traffic snarl on the Lagos-Ibandan expressway following the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) Congress.

Commuters were stranded at different Bus Stops for several hours, as security officers attached to the President closed the roads from the Marina axis to the Lagos- Ibadan expressway.

Speaking to Vanguard, Mr. Adewale Adekoya, a motorist, lamented, that ” I closed from work early today but to my surprise, I was told that I cannot make use of the road now because the President I elected into office want to pass. This is appalling.”

Adekoya explained “I have been in this traffic for hours and due to this, I am hungry here now because I did not eat at work hoping to get home early and eat.”

Vanguard observed that the right side of the road was closed completely to resist the movement of motorist and commuters for the president to have easy passage thereby causing the traffic gridlock on the roads.

Some of the roads visited by Vanguard were: Lagos Island through Lagos – Ibadan Expressway to Lateef Jakande Road, Nurudeen Olowopopo, Amara Olu and Ogunnusi roads, among others.

Visit to these roads by Vanguard, further revealed that there was long queue of vehicles which ran into adjoining streets and highways.

As this traffic snarl increases, commuters who could not bear the stress of waiting at the Bus Stops for vehicle resorted to an endless trekking because the vehicles were trapped in a ‘bumper-to-bumper’ traffic.

Mr. Simeon Anthony, a commuter, said “I had no option than to trek because I cannot say when the traffic would subside. And for me, I cannot wait at the Bus Stop for a commercial bus that I do not know when it would arrive.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/traffic-gridlock-as-jonathan-attends-rccg-convention/
https://www.nairaland.com/1133080/traffic-gridlock-jonathan-attends-rccg

malele: Who taught that kid how to fire those weapons

@malele

His momma taught him how to use a firearm

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^{Nancy Lanza}

This is the first picture of Nancy Lanza, who took her son, Adam, to a shooting range

and taught him how to use a firearm before he turned a gun on her and shot her dead, then executed more than two dozen terrified children and teachers at an elementary school.

Fifty-two-year-old Nancy Lanza was an avid gun collector who had legally purchased five firearms, all registered in Connecticut, according to police records.

- Nancy Lanza, 52, was killed by her son, Adam Lanza, before he massacred 26 people and killed himself at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut

- Nancy Lanza once showed off a 'high-end rifle' to family friend Dan Holmes and recalled 'she was proud of it... she loved her guns'

- The mother had five guns registered to her name, two of which Adam Lanza used to carry out the execution-style killings

- A third gun belonging to Nancy Lanza was found in the back of the car that Adam Lanza drove to Sandy Hook Elementary

- Peers remember Adam Lanza as a quiet and extremely intelligent student who kept to himself and carried black briefcase to class

- Brother Ryan, 24, an accountant at Ernst and Young, said Adam had personality disorder

- Reporters broke the news of the massacre to Adam's father, Peter, who is divorced from the mother and lives in Stamford, Connecticut with new wife

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248645/She-target-shooting-kids-Nancy-Lanza-mother-murderer-Adam-Lanza-avid-gun-collector-taught-sons-use-firearms.html#ixzz2FAbAHWrp

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^{Bobby Benson
11 April 1922 - 14 May 1983}

Bobby Benson was an entertainer and musician who had considerable influence on the Nigerian music scene, introducing big band and Caribbean idioms to the Highlife style of popular West African music.

Life:
Bernard Olabinjo Benson was born on 11 April 1922 in Ikorodu, Lagos State.

While at secondary school he also learned tailoring, but after leaving school he became a boxer for a brief period, and then a sailor in the Merchant Navy.

In 1944, he left his ship in London, where he made his entertainment debut with the Negro ballet, touring several European capitals.

He met his wife, Cassandra (half Scottish and half Caribbean in origin), while in Britain, and on return to Nigeria in 1947 they established the Bobby Benson and Cassandra Theatrical Party.

Their performances included serious music, where he played guitar and saxophone while his wife danced.

Based on the popularity of his music, he formed the Bobby Benson Jam Session, a dance band that played swing, jive, sambas and calypsos.

In the 1950s, he expanded his band to eleven members, including a trumpet section, and began playing in the popular highlife style. Their first big hit was "Taxi Driver", followed by several others.

Bobby was an entertainer and a comedian as well as a singer, a great performer.

He had a show on NTA in the 1970s, where he performed as a stand-up comedian and magician as well as playing and singing.

He became a friend of B.B. King and Hugh Masekela. He established the Caban Bamboo, a popular nightclub later converted into the Hotel Bobby.

He had several wives, and ten children. Benson died in Lagos on Saturday, 14 May 1983.

Music:
Bobby Benson started by playing standard big-band music, but later introduced African themes, as a pioneer of Highlife music in Nigeria.

His song "Taxi Driver" became a classic hit in West Africa, covered by several other musicians, blending Caribbean and jazz styles.

Other hits were "Gentleman Bobby" and "Iyawo se wo lose mi", "Mafe", "Nylon Dress" and "Niger Mambo".

Legacy:
Various prominent musicians started out playing in Benson's band, including Roy Chicago, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Bayo Martins and Zeal Onyia.

Victor Olaiya started as a trumpeter with Bobby Benson's band, and became one of the first Nigerian musicians to play highlife with his group the "Cool Cats".

Another player with Benson's band who moved into highlife was Eddie Okunta, with his "Lido Band".

Benson's innovations in musical style also influenced the evolution of popular Jùjú music.

"Taxi Driver", his biggest hit, and "Niger Mambo", an African melody with the Latin beat, were covered with different interpretations by American artists such as Stanley Turrentine and Jackie Mclean.

Randy Weston covered "Niger Mambo" in a solo performance on his 1978 album "Rhythms-Sounds Piano", describing the piece as representing exactly what is called "high life style" in West Africa.

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His son, Maxwell is further striving to immortalize the musician’s name. He is currently working on his old man’s biography which he has tentatively titled, Bobby Benson of Africa. Researching on the book has taken him to places. He recently went to Ghana to see Nat Buckle, a renown musician and his father’s friend. He told Sunday Sun he intends going to see the musician’s first wife – Cassandra.
The half Scotish and Caribbean is now 81 and lives in London.

Bobby’s Women:

. . . had seven wives and sired 10 children.
Tony’s mother is half Scotish and half Caribbean, Maxwell’s mother is a Ghanaian, Adeyemi’s mother is from Enugu state, Tutu’s mother is a Togolese.

[img]http://www.ghanavisions.com/thumbnail.php?file=bobby_benson_755156048.jpg&size=article_small[/img]
The impresario who died when he was 62 had two Yoruba wives and some more women who had no child for him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Benson
http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=12216&z=3

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Professor Ayodele Awojobi, the tall, handsome, brilliant and light complexioned Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lagos [b]was always in the Court in the early 80s.

He was so obsessed with agitations and his good intention of seeing Nigeria moved into greatness.

He was always his own advocate preparing and filing his case in the Court himself.

When you look at his Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim in his processes against President Shehu Shagari and the Federal government of Nigeria, you would instantly burst into laughter knowing that he could only be good as a Professor of Engineering and as an activist that he was.

To him, what was important was the use of English language to put the correct figure that the government of President Shehu Shagari was misappropriating before the Court for adjudication.

Presenting it professionally did not really matter to him. He only needed to make his point before the Court.

Although it could be argued that he was his own lawyer because he could not afford to retain the services of a professional Barrister.

People said his salary even as a renowned Professor at that time was N1,000 (one thousand naira) per month and that he had only N300 (three hundred naira) in his bank account when he died[/b].

No matter what the value of the Naira was at that time, he was clearly not a rich man but twenty five years after his death, his good name, reputation and character have continued to live on.

So, whether as an Engineer or as an unqualified self advocate, he did his bit before he surrendered to death in 1984,

asking for budgetary prudence by the ruling government to see that Nigeria was not reduced to a failed state through corruption and mismanagement by those in charge.

Professor Awojobi became restless and agitated because Nigeria, to him, was witnessing a mad season in term of corruption, graft and mismanagement of resources by the ruling National Party of Nigeria

and its officials in charge of the federal government during the second republic.

Nigerians did not know at that time that the Professor was just complaining against nothing if we compare what obtained at that time with the level of corruption in our Country now-a-days.

His time was only the beginning of the end of “Ariya” Nigeria. He did not actually see poverty and suffering on the faces of Nigerians.

Nobody would ever believe at that time that any Nigerian will have to go to the dust bin to look for food.

[b]The real mad season started in Nigeria with Babangida as military president.

He smiled away decency and integrity from Nigeria and brought in instead illegal settlement and monumental corruption.

In order to justify his coup, he rubbished every good thing that Buhari and Idiagbon had put in place.

Remember that Buhari’s government was publishing their income and expenditure from time to time so that Nigerians will know what their Country had.

Nigerians have just embraced orderliness in their daily private and public lives.

They will no longer cross those dangerous express roads in the cities but will instead go through pedestrian bridges to get to the other side of the road no matter how long it will take.

Nigerians were no longer urinating on the street but will prefer to use public toilets or manage to get home to do it.

Properties and assets confiscated from second republic politicians adjudged by the military Tribunal under the Buhari administration as having been acquired illegally through corruption were returned to their illegal owners by Babangida[/b].

There is no doubt that officers who executed detention order or warrant under Decree 2 of the Buhari and Idiagbon administration abused it. The blank detention order which was pre signed by Idiagbon was used indiscriminately by the officers. All they needed to do to detain any person indefinitely was just to fill in the name of the person they wanted to detain in the blank photocopy of the detention order which had been pre signed by Idiagbon. The Decree 2 ousted the jurisdiction of the Court and so, any detention under it could not be challenged in Court.

Long detention that could not be challenged in Court is not good, but in spite of all that, the Buhari era, if allowed to endure, would have taken Nigeria to rank among the best Countries in the world today.

Professor Ayodele Awojobi died at the age of 47 agitating for a better Nigeria.

That death that took him away at a very young age has shielded him from experiencing the agony of torture of education in Nigeria by those who are supposed to raise its standard.

It prevented him from witnessing the free fall of the value of Naira, the Nigerian currency and many long strikes by Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities fighting for living wages for its members while those at the corridors of power and their political cronies in Nigeria live in opulence.

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Biography

Ayodele Oluwatuminu Awojobi (March 12, 1937 – September 23, 1984), also known by the nicknames "Dead Easy", "The Akoka Giant", and "Macbeth", was a Nigerian academic, author, inventor, social crusader and activist.

He was considered a scholarly genius by his teachers and peers alike. He quickly advanced in his field to become the youngest professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1974.

Earlier the same year, he became the first African to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) in Mechanical Engineering at the then Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (now Imperial College London) - a degree only exceptionally and rarely awarded to a scholar under the age of forty.

His research papers, particularly in the field of vibration, are still cited by international research fellows in Engineering as lately as the year 2011, and are archived by such publishers as the Royal Society.

Early life

Born in Oshodi, Lagos State, Awojobi’s father, Chief Daniel Adekoya Awojobi, was a stationmaster at the Nigerian Railway who hailed from Ikorodu in Lagos State. His mother, Comfort Bamidele Awojobi (née Adetunji), was a petty trader who hailed from Modakeke, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Between 1942 and 1947, he attended St. Peter’s Primary School, Faji, Lagos.

It was while at his secondary school, the CMS Grammar School, Lagos, that his academic traits began to manifest. Not only was he seen to be gifted in mathematics and the sciences, he was comfortable also in the arts, becoming a member of the school’s literary and debating society. It was during this period that he earned the nickname, "Macbeth": William Shakespeare’s famous play, Macbeth, was to be staged in the school. The lead-actor took ill a week before, and so Ayodele was called upon to play the lead-role in his stead. It is said that not only did Ayodele master his lines as lead-actor, but also the entire play, such that he was able to prompt the cast whenever they forgot their lines

Inventor

While as a lecturer in the University of Lagos, Awojobi successfully converted his own family car, an Opel Record, from right-hand drive to a left-hand drive.

He tinkered further with motor engines when he acquired an army-type jeep and proceeded to invent a second steering wheel mechanism, adjoined to the pre-existing engine at the rear end, so that the vehicle was able to move in both forward and backward directions with all four pre-existing gears. This gave the hybrid vehicle, which he christened Autonov 1, the ability to achieve its highest speeds at a moment's notice, in the normal reverse direction.

He highlighted the advantage this might offer to army vehicles, as an example, that might need to make a fast retreat, in a cul-de-sac or ambush situation.

Activist

Ayodele Awojobi, in the wake of the presidential election results that returned the incumbent, Shehu Shagari as President in the Nigerian Second Republic, became very vocal in the national newspapers and magazines, going as far as suing the Federal Government of Nigeria for what he strongly believed was a widespread election rigging.

With all his court cases against the Nigerian government thrown out of court, he delved into the law books, himself being only a mechanical engineer, claiming that he would earn his law degrees in record time, to enable him better argue with the opposition at the federal courts.

He used the universities as a bastion, going from campus to campus to make speeches at student-rallies, hoping to sensitize them to what he perceived as the ills of a corrupt government.

Ayodele Awojobi authored several political books over the course of his ideological struggles against a perceived, corrupt federal government. These books were usually made available during his public rallies or symposiums

Death

Ayodele Awojobi died in the morning of Sunday, September 23, 1984, at age 47.

His death made head-line news in most of the national newspapers for days following. He was survived by his wife, Mrs Iyabode Mabel Awojobi (née Odetunde), and children.

Tribute

Usually every year till date, a tribute or two in Ayodele's honour, would be published in the form of an article in a national newspaper, such as the one published by The Nation on November 5, 2009 titled, Tribute to Ayodele Awojobi.

In October 2009, the governor of Lagos State Babatunde Fashola dedicated a statue of Awojobi at Onike Roundabout, Yaba, Lagos in a garden named after him.

On September 23, 2010, Birrel street – a prominent street in Yaba Local Government Council Area – was renamed Prof. Ayodele Awojobi Avenue; a further tribute to Awojobi's memory.
^{http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/olu-akeredolu/professor-ayodele-awojobi-the-self-advocate.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodele_Awojobi}

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^{Augustus Taiwo "Tai" Solarin
August 20, 1922 – June 27, 1994}

Tai Solarin has contributed in no small measure to some of the social reforms in Nigeria in the last fifty years.

This he achieved through his personal demonstration of his perceived ideals; regular publications in newspapers and magazines

and public condemnation of acts considered inimical to good governance.

He spoke publicly about the waste that General Yakubu Gowon plundered the nation with his lavish wedding ceremony when Nigeria was at War.

He was vehemently opposed to military rule in Nigeria that he challenged then Head of State to be ready to face the consequence of trying to extend his stay in power.

As an activist, he adopted the civil disobedience approach of Ghandi by taking the locally made gin (Ogogoro) in public when it was considered an illicit gin.

He made this a public show to draw attention to the economic ignorance and colonial indoctrination that locally made gin was bad.

He got arrested but the case was later dismissed in court. Before then, people who drank Ogogoro did so in secret or risked being arrested.

On another occasion, he went about picking corpses of decaying bodies of accident victims on the streets of Lagos

and dumped one of such in front of the Federal Ministry of health for not being alive to its responsibilities.

His was primary interest was to see all Nigerian Children being educated and break the chain of ignorance which is the tool of the oppressors.

He would organise the people and speak openly in Yaba, Lagos to demonstrate against the government or institutions.

He was loved by many but considered eccentric and hated for daring to be an atheist in a country where many claim to be religious.

He was asthmatic, yet he compromised his health to lead a demonstration against a military govt. He died a few days later.


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Tai Solarin was born in Ikenne-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria, to Mr. Daniel Solarin, a drummer, farmer-cum-palmwine tapper and Mrs. Rebecca Okufule, a native of nearby Iperu-Remo.

His twin sister, Madam Caroline Kehinde Solarin (JP), a devout Methodist Christian, died on Wednesday 29 April 1992 while Dr. Tai Solarin, an avowed atheist, died on Wednesday 27 July 1994.

He was educated at St. James’ School, Iperu-Remo; Wesley School, Ogere, both in Ogun State; Otapete Methodist Primary School, Ilesha, Osun State, where he completed his Standard Six Certificate before going to Wesley College, Ibadan, Oyo State, for his Higher Elementary (Grade Two) Teacher’s Certificate in 1936.

He taught for five years at Methodist Primary Schools in Ago-Iwoye and Shagamu before leaving for Lagos where he worked briefly in the Customs Office as a typist.

Leaving Nigeria for England in May 1942 as a Nigerian volunteer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War (WW2), he later became a navigator after a failed attempt at becoming a pilot.

He was discharged in 1945 at the end of WW2, enrolled at the University of Manchester the following year for a bachelor’s degree in history and geography,

and topped it with a post-graduate diploma in education at the University of London where he eventually taught Yoruba language for a year at its School of Oriental and African Studies.

Tai met the then Miss Sheila Mary Tuer in Manchester and wedded her on 14 September 1951 when he was 35.

Tai and his polytechnic-trained chiropodist wife with a master’s degree in English language lived happily together for 43 years in total service to humanity without a single day of sorrow.

They were blessed with Corin (a daughter) born on 27 June 1952 and Tunde (a son) born on 15 December 1956.

Arriving Nigeria from the United Kingdom, he succeeded the foundation principal of Molusi College, Ijebu-Igbo, Mr. (later Prof.) Oluwole Awokoya as the second principal of the college from January 1952 to December 1955.

He co-founded the first and only truly secular school in Nigeria, Mayflower School in Ikenne-Remo, Ogun State, on 27 January 1956 with his wife,

and remained its principal for 20 years till he retired in 1976 to establish the Students’ Second Home, a boarding house which still serves more than two thousand students of Mayflower School.

Also complementing the Mayflower School was the establishment of Mayflower Junior School, the primary school arm of the Mayflower institution, a citadel of secular education for self-reliance and all round excellence.

Tai was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Literature in 1971 by the Alma College, Alma, Michigan State of the United States of America, in addition to about 30 years of bilateral annual students exchange programme between Alma College and Mayflower School starting from 1963, with some ex-students of the latter having benefited from university degree scholarships offered by the former.

He also sponsored more than 300 students within and outside Nigeria at various levels from kindergarten to doctorate level with his selfless wife, apart from other unpublicized philanthropic gestures to the sick, the aged, the underprivileged and suchlike individuals and institutions.

He was appointed into public offices by various governments from Nigeria’s first republic to the Babangida administration by sheer virtue of his sterling patriotism, as a member of the Somade Commission on Education; as the Public Complaints Commissioner for the then Oyo, Ondo and Ogun States; as a member of the Justice Akinola Aguda Panel for the Creation of Nigeria’s New Federal Capital Territory; as the Chairman of the Presidential Monitoring Committee of the then Directorate for Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI) in Benue, Plateau, Borno and Gongola States; and as the founding Chairman of the People’s Bank of Nigeria (PBN), among others.

Tai adopted what he christened a permanent “battle dress” in 1979 after visiting the densely populated China having almost 100% of Chinese children in school against less than 25% of their counterpart in Nigeria.

Protesting this governmental irresponsibility, he swore to live the rest of his life in shorts, short-sleeved shirts and “Knowledge is Light” cap until subsequent Nigerian governments wake up to the responsibility of sending 100% of Nigerian school-age children to school.

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He was detained in various prisons across Nigeria for his human rights activism right from his first major detention on October 12, 1974 by Gowon’s regime to his last major on March 12, 1984 by the draconian duo of Buhari/Idiagbon administration which cost him 17 months behind the bars.

Thanks to the late Mr. Kehinde Sofola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who defended him for decades without charging a kobo, among other lawyers.

The erudite social crusader was admired as “the conscience of the nation” by Nigeria’s greats like the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), the late Chief Bola Ige (SAN), the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo (SAN), the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, the late Prof. Ayodele Awojobi, the late Prof. Babs Fafunwa, Prof. Wole Soyinka, the late Prof. Sam Aluko, Prof. Femi Osofian, and Prof. Olubi Sodipo who wrote that “Solarin could conveniently be likened to many profound and influential social critics and activists in world history and his social philosophy can be cogently compared to several world leaders’.

His concepts of the school can also be compared to several articulate world educators’. His style of writing, which has spanned thirty years, can also be compared to writers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Paine.”

Tai Solarin’s mentors were cosmopolitan. He had leadership mentor in Jawaharlal Nehru of India, political mentor in Obafemi Awolowo of Nigeria, philosophical mentor in Robert Ingersoll of America and literary mentor in H. G. Wells of London.

He is intellectually immortalized in publications such as A Message for Young Nigerians; Towards Nigeria’s Moral Self-Government; Thinking With You; Our Grammar School Must Go; No Witches, No Angels: My Credo; Not God’s Injunction Today; To Mother With Love (An Autobiography); and Mayflower: The Story of a School, all written by Dr. Tai Solarin himself.

Books by other writers include Who’s Afraid of Solarin? by Prof. Femi Osofisan; The Educational Theory of Tai Solarin by Dr. Tony Aladejana and Dr. Sam Obidi; Tai Solarin’s Footprints, and Tai Solarin’s Adventures: A Practised Philosophy, both by Dr. Wale Omole as well as Timeless Tai by Akinbayo A. Adenubi and Education for Greatness 1: Selected Speeches of Dr. Tai Solarin by Sulaiman Dave Bola-Babs.

Widely travelled world citizen that he was, he had been to virtually all the continents of the world namely North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Among the countries visited by Tai Solarin and his wife, Sheila, are the United Kingdom, the former Soviet Union, the U.S.A., Canada, China, Japan, India, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Switzerland, Sweden, Tanzania and Ghana, to mention just a few.

The first university of education in Nigeria, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, was named after him apart from Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu, thus becoming the first Nigerian to have two higher institutions of learning named after him.

http://www.evi.com/a/158108749
http://taisolarin.org.ng/biography.html

Tony Spike: “More ambitious projects to make MMA2 the best terminal in Africa will be executed in the New Year,” it said.

The statement noted that the Wi-Fi Hotspot solution at the terminal would be the first of its kind in any airport terminal in Africa.

It says that the facility will enable users of the terminal access the world while waiting to board their flights.
“We’re really making the travel experience unique. We are the only airport terminal in Africa to offer free Wi-Fi to passengers.

Read more at http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/mma2-begins-free-internet-service-for-passengers/

Tony Spike: The bolded looks like a lie from the pit of hell. The first of its kind in Africa?

Omo_Tier1: Name one airport in Africa with free wii at their airport

@Tony Spike @Omo_Tier1

It was an example or evidence of exuberant journalism.

The journalist probably meant to report "The first of its kind in WEST Africa"

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport allows travellers wireless internet access at designated areas within the airport.

The airport is the first in East Africa to have the wireless link that allows travellers to use personal laptop computers or other hand-held cordless devices to communicate through the internet.

Kenya became the second country in Africa after South Africa to have hotspots at their international airports.

http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-215/internet/wi-fi-hotspots-bloss/en

Dudu_Negro: ...bodyguard to Gowon. He is either talking about Gowon's ADC, William Walbe or about the head of Guards under Gowon, Joseph Garba.

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Whilst wondering who the old fogey, is this with the blue polo tshirt on, in these pictures, I didn't at first, realise it was the Gen. until a close up. Wow. Hmm. Aagba ti de.

naijababe: ^ excellent mantra.

That verse was just backing your post.

@naijababe

Yeah, as there is a distinction between "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch"

and "The disciples called themselves Christians first at Antioch"

Though similar statements, the difference or contrast is clear.

The word Christians started out as an infliction, was the fact that was made in my post . . .

naijababe: @ moredendisc,

and they were first called xtians in antioch yada yada yada......... been there done that bro .

If I feel any particular need to worship something now, I'd be a disciple of Wande Abimbola.

@naijababe


You made me guffaw at ". . . and they were first called xtians in antioch" like as if I wasn't aware of that and the other two verses

All I said was, you wont find them calling themselves christians and you are pointing to this verse?

Re-read that verse you sprung up.

Isn't it saying they were first called christians in Antioch?

They started calling them christians at Antioch.

That verse is confirming that the derogatory term was first used at Antioch for the disciples or followers of Jesus.

There are only 3 occurrences of the word christian(s) in the entire Bible.

None of those 3 occurrences was it used by the disciples or believers to call themselves by.

I don't know what you're on about with worship.

My mantra, always, is, each to their own.

Ishilove: @moredendisc. Wow!

Thanks man, very much appreciated. I heard he went blind before he died. Is that true?

What are the circumstances sorrounding his death? He obviously didn't live long

@Ishilove

Well, he beat Jesus by 22 years

Jesus didn't dilly dally. He lived 33 years

naijababe: Although I am not a Christian,

I have to admit that I admire this man somewhat unlike our current cream of pentecostal invaders

@naijababe

There is more than the eyes see ....

Well christian was a derogatory word to start with until it got glossed up and became acceptable

It is like nigger until when blacks funkyfied it to nigga

You'll be shocked to know that no where in the Bible will you find any of the disciples or early believers calling themselves Christians

(i.e. Christian was never used by any of them to identify themselves)

As nigger is used for blacks, similarly was christian coined by those who hated the disciples or followers of Jesus Christ.

All said and done, one is being short-changed if a christian, because there is more to be, than just being a christian.

By the way, pardon this wordplay, but . . . the current cream of so-called pentecostal invaders, really actually are plentyrascals.

Ishilove: @moredendisc.

Thanks man, much appreciated.
I will still love some personal information on him,
like his parentage, birth, spiritual odyssey etc.
He practiced Christianity the old fashioned way and his exploits are almost legendary.

@Ishilove, @naptu

No probs. As per parentage, birth, spiritual odyssey etc here is what you are after.

He sure practiced Christianity the old fashioned way and his exploits are almost legendary

I bet he is fidgeting over these prevailing prosperity shenanigans sweeping all over the place

LIFE AND TIMES OF APOSTLE AYO BABALOLA (1904-1959): Exd. 23: 25

Joseph Ayodele Babalola was born on April 25, 1904 to David Rotimi and Madam Marta Talabi who belonged to the Anglican Church.

The family lived at Odo-Owa in Ilofa, a small town about 90 kilometres from Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria.

His father was the Baba Ijo (i.e. church father) of the C.M.S.Church at Odo-Owa.

Historians report that mysterious circumstances surrounded the birth of Babalola.

On that day, it was believed that a strange and mighty object exploded and shook the clouds. On January 18, 1914, young Babalola was taken by his brother M. 0. Rotimi, a Sunday school teacher in the C.M.S. church at Ilofa, to Osogbo. Babalola started school at Ilofa and got as far as standard five at All Saints' School Osogbo. However, he quit school when he decided to learn a trade and became a motor mechanic apprentice. Again, he did not continue long in this vocation before joining the Public Works Department (PWD). He was among the road workers who constructed the road from Igbara-Oke to Ilesa, working as a steam roller driver.


Babalola's strange experience started on the night of September 25th, 1928 when he suddenly became restless and could not sleep.

[b]This went on for a week and he had no inkling of the cause of such a strange experience.

The climax came one day when he was, as usual, working on the Ilesa-Igbara-Oke road. Suddenly the steam roller's engine stopped to his utter amazement. There was no visible mechanical problem, and Joseph became confused and perplexed. He was in this state of confusion when a great voice "like the sound of many waters" called him three times.

The voice was loud and clear and it told him that he would die if he refused to heed the divine call to go into the world and preach.

To go on the mission, he had to resign his appointment with the Public Works Department.

Mr. Fergusson, the head of his unit, tried to dissuade him from resigning but the young man was bent on going on the Lord's mission.

The same voice came to Joseph a second time asking him to fast for seven days. He obeyed and at the end of the period he saw a great figure of a man who, according to Pastor Alokan, resembled Jesus.

A hand prayer bell was given to Babalola as a symbol. He was told that the sound of the bell would always drive away evil spirits.

He was also given a bottle of "life-giving water" to heal all manners of sickness.

Consequently, wherever and whenever he prayed into the water for therapeutic purposes, effective healing was procured for those who drank the water[/b]


EXPLOITS OF APOSTLE AYO BABALOLA: Rom.12: 1-2

Babalola became a prophet and a man with extraordinary powers. Enabled by the power of the Holy Spirit he could spend several weeks in prayer.

Ayo Babalola was sent out of the Anglican Church of his village by his Bishop because most members of the Church see visions; speak in tongues and pray vigorously. This led to his joining the Faith Tabernacle Church and was baptized in Lagos lagoon in 1930. ".

The revival of his mission began with the raising of a dead child.

What followed this in 3 weeks was the healing of about 100 lepers,60 blind people and 50 lame persons.

This also resulted in the desolation of Churches in Ilesa because their members transferred their allegiance to the revivalist and that all the patients in Wesley Hospital, Ilesa, abandoned their beds to seek healing from Babalola.

Members of the church made fantastic claims such as: "Hopeless barren women were made fruitful; women who had been carrying their pregnancies for long years were wonderfully delivered. The dumb spoke and lunatics were cured.

In fact, it was another day of Pentecost. Witches confessed and some demon possessed people were exorcized. He took his evangelical campaign to Offa, Ikare, owo, Oka, Usi, aramoko, Efon-Alaye, etc.

Babalola was a spiritually gifted individual who was genuinely dissatisfied with the increasing materialistic and sinful existence into which he believed, the Yoruba in particular and Nigeria in general were being plunged as western civilization influence on society grew.

The C.A.C believes that the spiritiual power bestowed on Babalola placed him on an equal level with Biblical apostles like Peter, Paul and others who were sent out with the authority and in the name of Jesus.

Joseph Ayo Babalola slept in the Lord in 1959.

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naptu2: Joseph Ayo Babalola (founder, Christ Apostolic Church).

Ishilove: I have heard so many wonderful stories about this man. Naptu2, if you can, can you give us his biography?

naptu2: Welcome back
Your wish = my command.

@Ishilove @naptu2

Your wish is my command. At your service.

In fact there is a dearth of biography on Joseph Ayo Babalola but hey scrap or scanty is better than none or nothing at all.

[size=14pt]Amazing story of Odo Owa:
The birth place of Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola
Founder, CAC - Christ Apostolic Church [/size]
OLU OSUNDE

OLU OSUNDE who was in Odo-Owa recently, relates the story of the mysterious odyssey of Joseph Ayo Babalola

The journey was as eventful as going to Cannan. From Offa in Kwara State, it became symbolic when we obliged a young man of about 40 to join us in our chattered car.

The reality of what the man was made of came to open when, as we drove on, a camelion was sighted crossing the road. At the sight of the smallish creature, the man with beads around his waists, squealed and suddenly became agitated saying he would have liked to stop to pick up the little creature for medicine, had the driver agreed to stop. That distractive situation gave a clue to the multi-spiritual nature of the areas we were heading to.

The herbalist, as we later found out, quite oblivious of our mission to Odo-Owa, reeled out to us various diabolical uses of the camelion and the relevance of its multi-purpose colours.

Before Odo-Owa, Igbomina and Omu Aran present a stunned scenery. Apart from being noted to have produced some important personalities in Nigeria, the like of Brigadier General Bamigboye and Oyedepo, there also appears to be some parcel of lands earmarked for an extension of some private institutions like the Covenant and Moses Orimolade universities.

As we drove along, one striking feature noted in Igbomina was the deserted nature of the town. At a glance, one easily noticed that a larger percentage of the modern houses in the ancient town was locked up without any sign of human presence. On enquiry, an indigene, Mrs. Nureni Eniola explained that most of them are traders in various parts of the country, especially Lagos, and that “they come home mostly at festive periods.”

At Odo-Owa, our main destination, which shared a boundary with Iloffa, the atmosphere became exciting as half-naked children, some of them pot-bellied, ensconced in torn singlets and with sickly faces, ran out of their various mud houses, waving their enfeeble hands in excitement.

At the outskirts of the ancient town, predominantly littered with mud houses, exists the extant relics of Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola’s spiritual odyssey.

Today, the greatness of this Apostle who died in 1959, is often underscored by the increasing spread of the Christ Apostolic Church he founded, and the belief that at least, 75 per cent of the churches in Nigeria today have their foundation linked with the church.

Before the evil forest now Apostle Babalola prayer Mountain is a small stream labelled Odo-Iwosan a healing stream Pastor C.M. Oni the officer in charge of the stream claimed was sactified by the Apostle to heal the community of chicken pox that ravaged the town in the hay time of the Apostole's evangelism killing adults and children.

The pastor who said he met the late Apostle in 1954 explained that since the year 2000 that he took charge of the stream “people from all walks of life have always been trooping in with kegs to take the water with many also coming back to offer thanks testifying to the power of God. “Since the sanctification in 1946, the stream has not run dry,” he confirmed.

One of those who testified to the healing power of the stream according to pastor Oni who also claimed to feed and maintain his family with the stream was one pastor Joseph Agboola who pastor Oni said, in appreciation, built a church and a house around the stream.

One wonder why the brownish colour of the water with some visible discomforting sediments do not bother Pastor Oni? To that, he simply said,” it is God’s awesomeness adding that their livelibood depends on the water which he said his family has had to rely on for more than ten years.”

Confirming the power of the stream and the liberation of the evil forest which the people of the community dreaded, by Apostle Babalola, the king of Owa community, His Royal Highness Oba Michael Adegoke Adimula who Pastor B.O. Falogun, the D.O for Odo-Owa also said officially handed over the keys of all the buildings on the mountain to Pastor Nelson Udofia, the then President of C.A.C explained that the mountain was initially a den of tigers and haven for evil spirits.

He said that Babalola’s trip to the evil mountain started in front of his father’s palace. Relating the story, he said that Babalola’s appearance after being spiritually transformed was a gory sight.

According to the king, he appeared ruffled tying a bible with a fresh palmfrond on his head. In front of the palace, the Oba said, he proclaimed the name of Jesus Christ calling people to repentance and no one cared. “The belief then was that he probably ran mad and for a community rooted in African tradition his message was too strange to imbibe. “Perhaps, he continued, "sensing that the people would not listen, he moved straight to the forest. He was there for two week, calling people like the biblical John the Baptist to repentance. In fact, to our surprise, the tigers never harmed him and since that memorable event, people now pray and live on the mountain without fear of evil spirits.

The dead Gateway to the world beyond

A reference was particularly made of a rocky area where he said the dead appears before proceeding on a journey to the unknown. Curious about the claim, we offered to see the cave which nature constructed like a room carved exclusively behind a building. With the iron gate appended to the outer rocks by the Supreme Council of the Christ Apostolic Church, it has now become a protective room for Christian tourists who keep vigil on the mountain.

In fact, it has become one of the hot spots where prayers are held on the mountain. Also visible on the prayer mountain are well protected spots where it was claimed, that a big snake crawled over the Apostle while lying down in prayer and the very spot where the snake was said to have mysteriously caught fire and burnt.

The two spots have been preserved with fence built around them for tourists to behold. So also are other spots mysteriously marked on the rock where various spiritual activities took place. Each of the spots is explored by Christian tourists for different prayer requests.

When we visited the spots, some Christians were seen offering prayers while an aged Bishop who has just completed a prayer session on the mountain was seen descending the steepy mountain with his Prado Jeep bearing a special plate marked Bishop.

The District superintendent of CAC in Odo-Owa, Pastor B.O. Falogun when speaking to Tribune Church said that the mountain before the liberation was called Oru-Oko and that Apostle Babalola spiritually annexed it between 1930 and 1939 adding that it was in 1987 that the church decided to build a house on top.

Also in 2005, he said, Prophet Oyelami (Baba Alasape) under the instruction of God transformed the place by erecting modern buildings. Since then, the place has become habitable attracting Christian youths from all walks of life.

Prominent amongst the buildings erected was the one called Power House built close to the stream where as claimed, the Apostle had his first bathe as a baby.

The Power House according to Baba Alasape Prophet Oyelami was built for men only, the inscription to that effect is boldly written on the outer wall of the house with arrow directing those who need the miracle water to the stream behind the Power House.

Also preserved within the Power House is the mortar used by Apostle Joseph Ayo Baba-lola for palm fruits processing which is the major occupation of the Odo-Owa people.

That today, the mountain has become an attractive place where Christians from all parts of the world visit for one miracle or the other in their lives makes it imperative for the Christ Apostolic Church to direct more of the resources of the church to the mountain towards making it a better tourist centre.

SOURCE used to be http://www.tribune.com.ng/26042009/church_news.html
but that the link now opens up to Tribune's Top News

olsmade: It was not just another Saturday as my elder brother was tying the knot that fateful day. I was wearing the native Yoruba 'up and down' (buba and soro). At the end of the church service, we took turns to take pictures with the new couple. In the frenzy of taking pictures n guests leaving, I felt a tug on my buba and then another one after which I looked back and saw an elderly man which gave me the impression that I was mistaken but to be double sure, I checked all the items I had on me and alas, my iPhone was gone. I had somebody check where I sat in church but it was nowhere to be found. I dialled my number immediately but somebody kept cutting the call. I however have a tweak installed on my iPhone that prevents you from switching off the phone from the lockscreen if you don't know the password. The tweak also snaps your picture with the front camera n sends it to my email. After about 20 mins, a few pictures started getting to my mail and to my greatest surprise, what I saw was indeed very surprising. Check out the faces of my iPhone thief n his accomplices. Unfortunately Im not based in Lagos and I'm returning to my PPA. The people at the church (st Paul's Anglican church, Agege) don't seem to know him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKz38rpGhs0
iPhone Anti-Theft system with iGotYa! Takes picture of your thief!

FindmyiPhone alternative on Cydia called iGotYa that can use the front facing camera to take picture of your thief,
it'll even show you GPS location of your device!

kq: Helen Paul doing her stuff i liked it...

@kq

Modify your post, and delete the img tag
Go back to the youtube video, click on share, copy the blue highlighted link (i.e. it will be like http:// and paste it in your modified post)
Note it will be http://youtu.be/ and not https://
The video will auto load or pop in your post
That is all that needs to be done (i.e. you don't need to use the img tag at all or paste a https:// link)