Politics › Re: I Repent From All Forms Of Tribalism And Bigotry Today by ruggedboy01: 2:57pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Past Adu: Yoruba Christians Have Peculiar Spiritual Challenges – Daily Sun by ruggedboy01(op): 2:23pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Flyoruboy: You are nothing but a hypocrite, talking about someone else avoiding tribalism while you're here championing the same tribalism. You should be ashamed of yourself. I only post a news here, am I pastor Adu  Please take ur tribalism to him |
Politics › Re: I Repent From All Forms Of Tribalism And Bigotry Today by ruggedboy01: 2:11pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Past Adu: Yoruba Christians Have Peculiar Spiritual Challenges – Daily Sun by ruggedboy01(op): 2:05pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Flyoruboy: Op, you no trust all. You conveniently overlooked where the e-goat of a charlatan said:
Your own kinsmen still worship pythons and other 'sacred' reptiles and animals (not to mention their own 'gods'), yet you are more concerned about what some so-called 'pastor' has to say about Yoruba 'peculiar spiritual challenges'? ? ? Like WTF! face the topic and avoid tribalism |
Politics › Re: Past Adu: Yoruba Christians Have Peculiar Spiritual Challenges – Daily Sun by ruggedboy01(op): 12:58pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
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Politics › Past Adu: Yoruba Christians Have Peculiar Spiritual Challenges – Daily Sun by ruggedboy01(op): 12:57pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Badagry, the Nigerian coastal town situated between Lagos and the border with Benin Republic, at Seme, is reputed as the land of many firsts. It was from there, from its lagoon leading to the Atlantic Ocean, that the first slaves were exported to the Americas in the 18th century. Even till today monuments of that unedifying historical episode, such as the popular “point of no return,” and the big, heavy chains used to shackle the slaves still remain at Badagry. It was at Badagry that the first major Christian missionary work began in 1842, by Rev. Bernard Freeman. So also the first storey building in Nigeria and the first primary school, St Thomas Anglican Primary School, in 1845. You would think that dark forces would have nothing to do with such a place that became the first to experi ence the Whiteman’s civilization before other places in Nigeria did. But Pastor Matthew Oluwadare Adu, found something to the contrary when he was posted there as a Regional Overseer, some years ago, to oversee the mission work going on under the auspices of Deeper Christian Life Ministry. In a chat with Saturday Sun, Pastor Adu, who is today the founder and General Overseer of Full Redemption Christian Ministry International, Igando, Lagos, but with branches in Kenya, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin Republic and Togo, shares with readers the scary experiences of how he was attacked by demonic forces while ministering in the place and how he survived. Excerpts:
Life as an Overseer
I started my church ministry career as a full-time pastor in Akure. I was posted to Akure in 1990. Before that time, God had showed me a revelation, the meaning of which I did not know very well. I only knew the beginning. I didn’t share it with anyone while praying about it. At that time, I was coordinating Badagry from Agege. One Sunday, Pastor Kumuyi sent his driver to bring me. He left a message for me. I went to see him at Gbagada. But by the time I arrived there, it was 11pm. They said I should come back by 10a.m the following day. By this time I had left Royal Exchange Assurance Company and was working at Ark Insurance in Victoria Island, Lagos. I was in charge of finance. When I saw the pastor the next day in Gbagada, he told me that for the December retreat, he wanted us (ministers) to record our messages and send them to all the retreat locations so that there can be variety of preachers. He gave me a message and said I should find time to come to the studio to record it, and then I was free to leave. Then he asked me what I’ve been thinking about full- time ministry. I shared a bit with him. He told me he had been following my ministry in Agege, and Badagry, unknown to me. He asked me to resign my job so that I’ll move to Akure. He told me to be swift about it, promising that the church would offset my outstanding loans. So, I sent in my resignation. The members of the staff were inconsolable. The chairman received the information all the way from the U.K. He was devastated. Very early December 1990, I was driven with my luggage to Akure and introduced as the new state overseer. I was there by the grace of God and within the first five months, we added about 1,000 new members in Akure alone. There was a general problem in Deeper Life in 1991 when all the state overseers wanted to leave. That led to a re-organisation: the former state overseers were posted back to their former stations. I had to wait for my children to conclude the academic year in Akure before I came back to Lagos. The pastor, (Kumuyi) sent me to Badagry. I was there for 10 years and three months.
Ministering at Badagry
Whenever I go to a place, I like to study that place. So, when I got there, I met a brother working in the library. From him, I got a book about Badagry. He took me around some landmark locations – where Bishop Ajayi Crowder translated the English Bible to Yoruba, the first place where the gospel was preached in 1842. I observed that the first year I got there, there was no addition of members to the church. People were coming and leaving. I reported back to the GS (General Superintendent) at IBTC (Inter national Bible Training Centre, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos), that after two years we only added 15 people and with my record in Agege and Akure, something was not right. He made several promises to attend our crusades there, but he never came. Also, I experienced serious poverty. Not to talk of spiritual attacks. At a point, from Wednesday through Friday, I couldn’t eat or drink water. I felt as if a razor blade was being used to cut away a part of my body. I was seriously dehydrated. On Friday, I went all out to prepare and deliver a strong message. Later while praying in the library as the pain started again, I fell into a trance. There was a workers’ meeting going in the French vil lage and in the trance Pastor Kumuyi was presiding. I was watching from outside. Somebody then asked about the exact attacks I was facing then. God then revealed to me through Nehemiah 13 that the attacks were coming from within the church. Eventually I got assorted fruits miraculously, ate them and defeated that episode. Our prayers also paid off. Once, while we were in the middle of a seven-day fasting and praying in the church, silhouette of a naked man was seen behind the fence crying out loudly in the night that we should stop. That was a messenger of darkness. At another time in Ijanikin, during a church service, somebody was flung from his seat hard across the wall and when we interrogated him, we discovered he ‘flew in’ diabolically from Taraba State to carry out the devil’s assignment. So, these things taught me deliverance was real and so was the devil. Also, the poverty in the Badagry church was deep. We held a breakthrough crusade in 1997 to destroy yokes, break strongholds and release destinies. Within a short pe riod, the prayers started yielding results. When I got there, no member had a bicycle. After the crusade, people started testifying about land acquisition, house completion and vehicle acquisition. Till today, people still talk about that crusade. Meanwhile, it was not until year 2000 at Reinhard Bonke’s crusade that I saw and bought a book for the first time about deliverance. But before then God had wrought mighty works of deliverance through my ministry.
His ministry and ministration
I’m not a prophet. I’m an evangelist/pastor. But there are occasions when the Holy Spirit will minister specific things. For instance, there was one Christian sister whose family was so poor that the church used to pay her transport from Festac. I saw what was coming for her and told her, that God was going to change her situation, according to revelation shown to me. Today, she’s a pathologist with the Lagos State government and she is doing very well financially and helping others. Her husband is overseas as I talk to you. Whereas the prophets get discernment regularly, we the evangelists/pastors don’t. That’s the difference.
Spiritual challenges of a typical Yoruba Christian There are many and it’s the same problem all over Af rica. In Yorubaland for instance, we have a lot of deities, powerful ones with which, directly or indirectly, most Yorubas are involved – Ogun, Obatala, Sango! So, how can you be a Yoruba person without getting your roots entangled with these gods? So, you need deliverance from these. http://sunnewsonline.com/new/yoruba-christians-have-peculiar-spiritual-challenges-pastor-adu/ |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 12:07pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 11:59am On Nov 21, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 11:48am On Nov 21, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Are These The Missing Soldiers? (Graphic Pictures) by ruggedboy01: 6:09pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
Op no, they are the missing chibok girls  |
Politics › Re: Asari Dokubo :only IJaw Is In Niger Delta And We Are Biafrans. by ruggedboy01: 6:06pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
Op add sources  |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:41pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:32pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
Am in anambra now for a business, I dare u spaceTour to come meet me  |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:27pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
revenge001: shut up..... don't worry, let's play this game, see who is gonna lose
efulufu like u ikpu nne gi lolz.... chino abi spaceTour will not save u from my wrath....... Please do well to tell them how u shamelessly graduated from Abia poly with 2.20 and was begging me to help u get a work in my firm!!! Keep pushing me Half beaked graduate  |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:14pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:00pm On Nov 20, 2015 |
revenge001: u such a low life.... if u don't take time I will bring u down! keep ranting till when I have ur time, will put u were u belong u coward I shouldn't be wasting my mb on u. nevertheless what is making u clamour for biafra is poverty..... If u have been successful and have investments outside igboland, the reverse will be the case... Am not against biafra, but no innocent soul must be lost  |
Politics › Re: DPR Dispensing Fuel Free For Motorists @ Conoil Filling Station Ebute Meta Lagos by ruggedboy01: 3:23pm On Nov 19, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Presidency Denies Spending N5.8B On Presidential Air Fleet, Debt Left By GEJ by ruggedboy01(op): 1:54pm On Nov 19, 2015 |
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Politics › Presidency Denies Spending N5.8B On Presidential Air Fleet, Debt Left By GEJ by ruggedboy01(op): 1:45pm On Nov 19, 2015 |
[b]President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior aide on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, has denied media reports that the present administration had spent close to N6 billion on the presidential air fleet (PAF) since its inauguration in May 2015. In a statement issued earlier today, Mr. Shehu stated that the Buhari administration had so far spent only N2.127 billion on the Last Saturday, the Saturday Punch reported that there were 10 aircraft in the fleet. There had been speculations that the fleet boasted as many as 14 planes. The Punch also reported that the Buhari administration had inherited all the planes, worth an estimated N77.319 billion, from President Goodluck Jonathan’s government. Citing aviation experts, the report had reported that the total cost of maintaining the fleet was about 15-20% of the price of the fleet. Utilizing the more conservative 15% rate, the Punch concluded that the Buhari government must have spent N5.8 billion to run the fleet since last May. However, Mr. Shehu denied that the Federal Government had spent N5.8 billion on the fleet. “N2.3 billion was released to the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation between May and November 2015,” he stated. He added: “This includes releases for personnel cost, overhead and capital expenditure out of the sum of N5, 190,381,386 appropriated for PAF in the 2015 budget.” SaharaReporters confirmed from BudgIT that N5,190,381,386 was the total budgetary amount for the fleet in the current financial year. According to Mr. Shehu, the spending on the presidential fleet exceeded what was budgeted due to outstanding debts left over by former President Jonathan’s administration. He stated that “the Fleet expended the sum of N1,358,910,962.75 to settle outstanding liabilities carried over from last year till May 2015. Furthermore, the sum of N500 million was refunded to the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) for the financial support rendered to the Fleet prior to the release of funds from the OAGF [Office of the Accountant General of the Federation].” Mr. Shehu revealed that 59% of the total funds allocated for the fleet went to paying off debts owed by the Jonathan administration. He added that the Buhari administration could have provided documents outlining these facts to the Punch newspaper if the paper had requested. He stated that, if the paper had asked for the documents prior to publishing their report, “the damage to the image of government and the good management of the Presidential Air Fleet could have been avoided.” Mr. Shehu also enumerated the specific aircraft in the presidential fleet, corroborating information gathered independently by SaharaReporters. The fleet consists of one Boeing 737 BBJ (5N FGT), one Gulfstream G550 (5N FGW), one Gulfstream GV (5N FGS), two Falcon 7X jets (5N FGU, 5N FGV), two Agusta AW139 (NAF 540, NAF 541), two Agusta AW101 (NAF 280), and one HS 4000 (5N NOC). The Punch report had questioned the economic wisdom of Nigeria maintaining a presidential fleet of 10 jets. The paper noted that numerous world leaders have a fleet of aircraft, but remarked that few nations designate as many as 10 aircraft for the travel of their leaders. For example, the office of the Japanese Prime Minister has two 747 Boeing jets to meet the travel needs of whoever is the PM. The Punch also reported that several experts had suggested that the Nigerian government should sell off most of its presidential fleet aircraft to private Nigerian companies. According to the newspaper, the experts noted that the sale would provide much-needed revenue for the country, and create jobs in the aviation sector[/b] http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/18/presidency-denies-spending-n58b-presidential-air-fleet-discloses-massive-debt-left |
Politics › Re: How Ojukwu Was Humiliated by ruggedboy01: 11:13am On Nov 19, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Awaiting Buhari’s Billionaires By Paul Onomuakpokpo- The Guardian by ruggedboy01: 10:55am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Food Don ready for the zombies
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Politics › Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by ruggedboy01: 10:20am On Nov 19, 2015 |
King bubu should release kanu  |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 10:41pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
wisdomguy4u: Get a way boy! That you write igbo doesn't make you an Igbo man. Igbos are wiser and can't be stupi.d that way you are. Ewu mpama! keep ranting...... Onye nzuzu |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 10:25pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
wisdomguy4u: Go and sit down ! You are total disgrace to igbos. That's if you are truly an igbo. Why not create a thread of the day your papa and mama quarrel ? Mpama! I bu anuohia Onye ara |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 7:48pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
wisdomguy4u: I doubt you are Igbo. But if you are truly Igbo, then you must be one hopeless demented Igbo for creating this nonsense thread. Like Igbos, other tribes have their own internal quarrels sometimes. Friends often fight and quarrel sometimes.
OP! your head need to be examined. keep comforting yourself..... U are entitled to ur opinion  |
Politics › Re: Breaking News: Scores Killed As Twin Blasts Hit Kano GSM Market by ruggedboy01: 5:07pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
Not again |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 5:05pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
cheruv: You can't be more Igbo than him...he fought in the war when you hadn't made any plans of entering this world alright, keep deceiving yourself |
Politics › Re: Counsel’s Absence Stalls Trial Of Pro-biafra Activists by ruggedboy01: 3:56pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
[quote author=SpaceTour post=40155552][/quote]keep off my mention  |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:54pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
revenge001: that clown cannot save u from my wrath anuohia  Biko leave my mention |
Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:24pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
Eziachi: @op, that is the more reason to let Biafrans go. As that will be exclusive problem for Biafra and not yours anymore and freed Nigeria 99.99% from tribalism.
You pinheads are quickly running out of ideas for your Biafra independent opposition theories. What next? They won't take their showers if they leave Nigeria. ... I could be more igbo than u. I will always stand with the truth, don't care what u guys call me What do u have to say about this screenshot 
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Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:17pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Tribalism In Biafria Will Be Worst Than That Of Nigeria (opinion) by ruggedboy01(op): 3:12pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
revenge001: anambra are the real igbos, any other igbo(s) are fake..... read history igbos originated from anambra u see what we are talking about  Bunch of proud chest beating foools |