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CoronaVirusPro:
You still made no point. Google would have helped you out or you politely asking for source.

Americans families are tired of war and seeing their kids returning in coffins for irrelevant wars!

Israel has killed more American soldiers than any country try in the world and that’s a fact. Always luring America to war with lies!

The joke is on you, there are still things google won't tell you

CoronaVirusPro:
The point is dying for a sin you know nothing about!

Americans families will be receiving the corpse of their children for a war they have no direct relations with.

Check the polls and see the views of Americans on the war. Majority see it as a waste of American souls, and same time financial burden on tax payers!

The US government keeps pumping cash to Ukraine and Israel while a high percentage of Americans are struggling soaked in medical and students debt.

Stop talking with emotions and argue with data! Do Americans want the war or AIPAC sponsored government officials.

Just like some details are withheld about this deployment, for instance, some datas can never be made available, just for your lil silly arguments

Litmus:
Hungry people need to behave themselves or thire Gra-Gra will lead to worst hunger. The metaphor could be: line up and everyone gets a cup full of grain, fight and the strong will get a plate full, majority will get nothing.

It's better to FIGHT for your right.
Just be sure you're on the right

And the chopping continues... It's my turn!
EMILOKAN

DoctorShomo:
This person most likely has mental health issues

Gayism is a mental issue

Haydens:
Women keep on falling into the hands óf bad guys.

I know that a nice and good guy once toasted her be she wants the thrilss of a bad guy.

The guy probably wasn't bad from beginning.
Nobody is probing into what actually happened between them.
No history?

What happened?

Tarzan1979:
May God help and save the people of Bornu,it will also desplace the bandit,Boko Haram,etc,they will now be mingling with the populace.bornu be vigilant

You just took the words out of my mouth.
Who knows if this is not part of a grand plan?

Afonjeezy:
Who is Taylor Swift to tell Americans who to vote?
An entertainer that exposes her scrawny body to the general public?


Hahahahahaha
This is the dumbest news I've seen today

Exactly my problem here 😀
Where we pull opinions on critical issues.
Just imagine

CHIOMAEZEH:
Distribution in 2025?

When people don die of hunger finish

jmoore:
https://dailytrust.com/how-bandits-fed-dogs-with-flesh-of-my-abducted-relatives-driver-sokoto-cleric/

Seriously,who are these 'bandits' and what do they really want?

Or what?

Countdown to Bishop Oyedepo at 70

“THANK YOU AND MAY ALLAH BLESS YOU”
How Nigerian Dictator, General Abacha Prayed for Bishop Oyedepo Before His Death

By Daniel Break forth

Some 26 years ago, Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Sani Abacha died. Daniel Breakforth reveals an incident that secured a prayer for Bishop David Oyedepo from Nigeria’s Former Dictator and Strongman, late General Sani Abacha.

On 24 December 1989, Charles Taylor, a Liberian who had escaped from an American Prison fearing extradition to Liberia, crossed over into the Liberian border and led with others together and separately, a rebellion against Sergeant Samuel Doe, the Liberian Head of State. The First Liberian War had commenced and over the next 7 years, about 250,000 people were killed. Early in the crisis, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) established the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) largely made up of Nigerian troops as well as troops from other West African Nations. Samuel Doe, captured at the ECOMOG Headquarters was tortured to death in September 1990 and the war took another dimension with different belligerents fighting for the soul of Liberia. By March 1991 also, the Sierra-Leonean crisis began and over the next 11 years left over 500,000 dead. Worse still, the Rwandan Genocide, a mass slaughter of Tutsi, Twa and moderate Hutu in Rwanda took place between 7th April and 15th July 1994 in which about a million people were murdered.

That same 1989, a 6 year old church which had now become the largest Pentecostal church located in Barnawa, Kaduna in the northern part of Nigeria, Living Faith Church had just moved headquarters to a group of disused brothels at Iyana Ipaja. The Pastor and Leader, David Oyedepo who had on some occasions visited his church members and military friends at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna took some interest in the events in these nations. The 12th June 1993 elections led to the stepping aside of Nigeria’s Military President and eventual resignation of the Interim National Government’s Chief Ernest Shonekan and take over of General Sani Abacha. From September to December 1993, the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) was established and by July 1995, her mandate was renewed.

At this point, Oyedepo who had been monitoring the crisis in these nations and reading stories of the sufferings of war victims going on in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Rwanda was overtaken with compassion. He decided to do something about it. Bishop Oyedepo believes that African challenges can be solved by Africans alone while wars are a manifestation of satanic oppression. The Mandate he received was to liberate the World from all oppression of the devil, through the priority of preaching of the Word of Faith.

This was however not the first time the Living Faith Church was going to be engaged in acts of generousity. As far back as 9th April 1984 when Ten Naira (N10) was the total offering on Sunday service, a member who had challenges was given the whole amount. The Church had therefore always been involved in matters of welfare but crystallized it into an official organ in 1992 by introducing the Education Bursary as well as the Creativity Promotion Forum in Kaduna, apart from other empowerment schemes. Up till today, a chunk of the Church budget is dedicated towards welfare but that is not the point here. The Church subsequently created the Relief Promotion Agency to embark on humanitarian services to provide food, clothing and shelter for victims of natural disasters and civil unrest.

The Role of Admiral Ebhaleme

The General Sani Abacha led Provisional Military Council (PRC) and Nigerian Military Government through ECOMOG was leading efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Though same could not be done in Rwanda, Nigeria nevertheless decided to send relief to all 3 African countries. The Government through the Nigerian Ministry of Defence led these efforts. Several shiploads were sent to these countries. Commodore Peter Ebhaleme, a Top Brass Officer in the Nigerian Navy and member of the Living Faith Church who happened to be a member of the Church and Director of Operations at the Naval Headquarters was coordinating the Navy role in the ECOMOG efforts. Being close to the leadership of the Living Faith Church and knowing the interest of Bishop Oyedepo, he acted as go between and link between the 2 organizations. Whenever the Government was to make a delivery to any of the countries, he would inform Bishop Oyedepo. Bishop Oyedepo would consequently mobilize the Church. So much supplies were gathered that sometimes there was no space for worship. Within a short time, supplies of relief were made to Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone in no small measure. Notably, anytime the Ministry of Defence was sending a shipload of supplies on behalf of Nigeria, Living Faith Church would send twice the volume of what the Government of Nigeria was sending. Consequently, a partnership was established between the Nigerian Government and the Church as regards welfare to the needy.

Charity Begins at Home: The Advent into KOMA

In January 1998, a documentary done by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) went viral. It was that of more than 55,000 people living and moving about naked on the Koma Hills in Jada Local Government, Adamawa State of North Eastern Nigeria. The news eventually got to Bishop Oyedepo. He was filled with compassion and decided to do something about it as usual. The announcement was made in Church. I was earning N3000 monthly then and did not think I could afford giving money. Bishop Oyedepo had taught us to give only what we have and not what we do not have. 2 Corinthians 9:7…A message you never hear from his false accusers who always bandy the rhetoric of collecting offering from poor members. (sic) I remember giving my best and only pair of suit which had just been gifted to me by my Dad after he got a new job in an oil servicing company. (my parents had both been jobless for some years) I also added the Aiwa Walkman he got me from Dubai and gave it at the end of that January. This story will be shared another day.ChurchGist.
Going forward, the Church members gave generously to the Koma People. The Koma People are mainly subsistence farmers who feed mainly on food crops such as rice, maize and millet which are grown in commercial scale. To this end, the Church raised millions of naira in cash while trailer loads of food and cloths were contributed. However, there was a major problem. There were no roads to Koma hills and because of the terrain, trailers could not go up the Hills to deliver the supplies. In essence, there were no vehicles to convey these supplies. The supplies were thus stuck in Adamawa. Peter Ebhaleme who was now a Rear Admiral and Navy Secretary thought of a solution. Some 2 years earlier, General Abacha had ordered the purchase of TATA Trucks through Umaru Dikko, a former powerful Nigerian Minister of the ‘UK Kidnap Fame’. The Trucks were under the custody of the Nigerian Navy for distribution to the Armed Forces as well as the Nigeria Police once the directive was given. Admiral Ebhaleme did the unthinkable. He loaned 15 of the Trucks to take to Koma to make the delivery before they were allocated as part of the partnership that had been going on with Living Faith Church but he did it by committing a grave error. To avoid the possibility of being denied his request, he refused to inform his boss and the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe. The whole delivery operation took 4 days from Lagos to Koma and back with Admiral Ebhaleme getting up the Koma Hills to witness the movement before flying back to Lagos.

Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, the NTA news crew in the newly created Adamawa State met the team making the delivery to Koma. Inquisitive on seeing a group comprising soldiers and pastors with trucks tagged ‘Ministry of Defence’ and banners with the inscription ‘Living Faith Church’ asked to know the relationship between the Church and the Ministry of Defence. The team not knowing how the vehicles had come about referred NTA to the Ministry of Defence. At that time, the Minister of Defence was the Nigerian Head of State himself, General Sani Abacha. The NTA Team reported this in the News same day at 4pm, Mrs Ebhaleme saw the news and asked her husband if he got permission. His response was that he did a fast one to help the Koma People.ChurchGist.

Admiral Akhigbe Provoked

Same night, as the news was on, the CNS who had previously complained about Ebhaleme’s fanaticism called Rear Admiral Ebhaleme and asked him if he was watching the news. He responded in the affirmative. Who permitted the release of the vehicles to Yola, the CNS asked. “I did” Ebhaleme responded. “On whose authority” Admiral Akhigbe asked again. After a quick pause, Ebhaleme answered “The Holy Spirit”. The CNS boiled over. “Holy what? What Nonsense!? What holy rubbish? How dare you? God punish your father, mother and Holy Spirit.” Akhigbe soon reported the matter to Admiral Aikhomu, the former CNS and Vice President under General Babangida who was a close friend and boss to Ebhaleme especially while Ebhaleme was the Director of the Naval Intelligence. Admiral Aikhomu pleaded on behalf of the Navy Secretary knowing the gravity of the offence, a case of misappropriation and misapplication of government property with penalty as dismissal from service.
Akhigbe however added a caveat that since he did not send Ehaleme, he would not defend him before General Abacha. He consequently gave Admiral Ebhaleme the option of a quiet resignation before the Head of State got to know about it. Ebhaleme requested to go and think about it and went into prayers. He believed that his action was not for self-aggrandisement as he had not taken the vehicles to his village in Edo but to Yola. Finally, he decided to serve the punishment instead of resigning. At that time, General Diya and a few others were already in the Jos Prisons and were around this time sentenced to death by firing squad in April 1998. Admiral Akhigbe consequently raised a team to investigate while Ebhaleme was sent on compulsory leave. The Navy Secretary then used the opportunity to spend more time at the Winners’ Chapel in Raji Oba, Iyana Ipaja, always dancing excitedly and praising God despite the circumstances. His Orderly could not understand this and went to inform Bishop Oyedepo that his boss had just lost his job. Bishop Oyedepo sent for the Admiral after service and the following ensued:

Bishop: What am I hearing?
Admiral: I am on leave.
Bishop: How long is your leave?
Sensing no escape, Admiral Ebhaleme opened up to Bishop Oyedepo.
Bishop: “He abused your parents and the Holy Spirit? Give me your hand: You said the Holy Spirit told you? I join my faith with yours and I decree that if anything adverse comes from this matter, God did not call me… Go and tell your Boss what I have said”.

Few weeks later, Admiral Peter Ebhaleme was asked to return to work pending the report of the investigation. Some 3 months later in May 1998 however, during a top security meeting with the Chiefs of Army, Naval and Air Force Staff, a phone call came to Admiral Ebhaleme. It was Bishop Oyedepo asking him to come as soon as possible. Once Ebhaleme got the opportunity, he went straight to Iyana Ipaja to meet the Bishop. On arrival, Bishop Oyedepo presented a letter to Admiral Ebhaleme. It had arrived earlier from the Presidential Villa, Abuja and what was more, it had been signed by General Abacha himself.

The letter read thus:

“Dear Bishop,
It has come to the knowledge of the Federal Government what you and your able Lieutenants have done for the people of Koma Hills…If all religious organisations can do the same thing, Nigeria would be a place worth living for inter-religious relationship. On behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I wish to thank you and your able Lieutenants for a job well done, May Allah bless you.

Signed: Sani Abacha, General,
Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

The Admiral read the letter about 3 times and began to jump and dance in excitement. Eventually, he began to weep profusely, shedding tears of joy.
What had happened was that the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) had heard what Winners’ Chapel had done at Koma by providing supplies and digging boreholes. UNICEF decided to take over from the Church and needed the permission of the Federal Government to do so. Consequently, they sent a request to the Head of State. It should be noted that Nigeria had become a pariah nation at that time with all sorts of sanctions placed on the Country by major western nations and that added lots of significance to the UNICEF request made to Abacha.

Epilogue

To cut this long story short, the next day, Admiral Ebhaleme took the letter to work and presented it to the CNS. Admiral Mike Ahigbe first glanced at the letter; not sure of what he was seeing, he put on his glasses and adjusted himself in his chair and read again. He was confused, looked at Ebhaleme and said “Peter, I am tired of you, Leave my office, just go away”. That was the end of the matter while General Abacha died the next month.
Finally, I could have been rated among the poor church members when I GAVE to the Koma Project. Today, I am no longer in that category; infact for the records, I have given out 2 cars including a brand new one and sponsored a few people who are not my children through secondary school and even Covenant University.

Givers Never Lack and Lackers Never Give!

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in Heaven” (Matthew 5:16)

That confirmeth the Word of His Servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers… (Isaiah 44:26).

Sources:
From Cassock to the Sword: An Autobiography of Rear Admiral Peter Ebhaleme.

On Eagles Wings: My First 30th Year Adventure in Ministry by David O Oyedepo.

A Heart For God-by Daniel Breakforth.

Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version

She's poster child for everything lies and deception for APC.
I don't expect anything less.
Some people are just a lost cause

Doylestown92:
There's no weaker argument anywhere, and what's up with the stickers? What are you? A suckling toddler?
Who created NATO? I'm sure you don't even know that the US and Canada are in a single alliance, whereby it's only the both of them who are members. You don't even know that The US has military bases all over Europe and in Canada. Europe is the US' child, since after the Second world war.
Guess what! Your ignorance wouldn't change the facts.

My problem with people like you,they don't know when they lost.
Kneel down and accept!🤪

Doylestown92:
Those countries in Europe and the other one, Canada which you mentioned are not dictatorships, because of the US. Canada sits right above the US, and everything about it is American, except the fact that it answers to the British Monarchy.
Now, Germany was once under a dictatorship, even after Hitler was defeated. It was US president Ronald Reagan who went to Berlin, at the Brandenburg Gate, where Germany was divided, and called for the reunification of Germany under a democracy.
Would you also care to know that most of the countries in Europe are under NATO, so how is ever possible for a dictator to take over?
You underestimate the power of the US.
Quick reminder: Russia is a dictatorship, yes they have no gun rights that's why it happened.
To your bragging about any country nuking the US, how is that even possible, when the US is the patent owner of nuclear weapons? Do you know how much nuclear weapons are here in the US? Do you know how many are being created in secret, which the government doesn't say anything about?
The talk about any country nuking the US is absurd, we both know that the US will retaliate on such a country, even after destroying the nuke from landing here.

I followed and agreed with your points until I saw his,it turns out yours is weaker. For instance, the guns in America cannot stop dictatorship in Canada and so on.

You have a weaker argument, just kneel down and accept 😁🤪🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

Gadafii:
If he's an American Christian, they will blame his mental states, if he's not, he will be called a terrorists🤝🤦‍♂️

Before nko

She shouldn't mistake their vote for love.
If she's in doubt,she should visit them.

Guinness book of records should stop patronizing stupidity abeg.
They're making scalawags trend for nothing

kkonyeji:
100% truth...the OP s probably one

And she hasn't even said anything since the first day.
Hope she's still alive

Ynix:
their grand father schooled in Saudi Arabia same with their father

Wow.
Interesting

Ynix:
He imported the About 200 to 300 years old Salafi ideology to Nigeria, teaching it radically. Salafism is the basic concept of rejecting western civilization. Gumi Senior promoted anti western education as his own innovation of salafism and was highly influential. His influence is a major cause of the high level of radicalism in the country and sincerely I don't trust his son on this

Imagine na

Ynix:
his father started the whole ideological war, he is just trying to be smarter

That was his father right?

I was class mates with one of his nephews in secondary school.
Saudi Arabia gave them scholarships for even generations unborn

Good!
Nigerians just need to suffer until they're ready to tell themselves the truth

Awful , despicable, gross...

I saw someone talking about "fetish" up there, that's how perversion was introduced into human circles!
Fetish my foot!
Very sickening

Let's see how long she stays with all these rubbish.
People sef!

Fineman2:
She looks like a masquerade

She IS a masquerade!

Anguldi:
I disagree, Major Gideon Orkar coup was against tribalism. He attended a official state function in sokoto which was addressed in Hausa. Gen Abacha was the no nonsense man who dealt with a sultan, Abacha exploits are extreme

Abacha that eventually got power drunk.
Though tried with that sultan saga.
But who knows what all that was really all about?

Mankind2024:
Nigerians have a short memory. It's astonishing how dictators and autocrats can inspire anyone, considering they're responsible for mortgaging Nigeria's future from 1966 to date. However, it's worth noting that tribalism was less pronounced during the IBB era.

He tried his best to fix Nigeria.
He sincerely tried!

Obakoolex:
My teacher told me that "Silence is the best answer for a FOOL"

I sight one in you.

You need to go back to that teacher to teach you how to be "silent "!
You don't talk when you're silent.

Or maybe he should teach you a little humor.
Since you can't take a light harmless joke

🤔 Wait o 😀
Hope I'm not talking to a woman!

Obakoolex:
When am planning on having 5-7

Already have 3, 4th on the way

You already had your share and his!

goslowgoslow:
Your mama will suffer.

You will suffer!

Bluffly:
you won't understand

Lol

goslowgoslow:
Church rat!

You will suffer!