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 Family › Re: I Resigned From Work In Lagos, Relocated To Abuja To Be With My Girl & Get A Job by VBCampaign: 11:01pm On Mar 21, 2021 |
Switchman:If you have a car, or can rent one, try UBER out. It will afford you opportunity to leave the house and you can use the time in between to scout for a job. |
| Family › Re: My Husband Compared Me To Another Woman by VBCampaign: 9:06am On Mar 20, 2021 |
Rhodaogunpeju:The challenge with women is that men say one thing and you interpret it as something else. If your husband loved you as chubby, he certainly doesn't want to be skinny. If you loose some weight, you will not only be more attractive to your husband but you will also be more healthy. I'll advise you to take your man's criticism, go to the gym and loose the weight. And all of you will be the better for it 3 Likes |
| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: N150k Job In Lagos Vs N120k Job In Ibadan Which Is Better? by VBCampaign: 2:42pm On Mar 18, 2021 |
christopheru:A lot more will determine your choice friend. Ibadan costs less, sure. But what does the job hold for you? Are there prospects for growth, etc? Pls sit with an experienced person for advice or DM me. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: What Is The Electricity Situation In Your Area? by VBCampaign: 12:38pm On Mar 13, 2021 |
Akobo, Ibadan... No power since yesterday morning |
| Politics › Re: Nigeria Is A Nation On The Path To Self-destruct By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 5:06pm On Mar 11, 2021 |
Oshigun:Very well stated |
| Politics › Re: Nigeria Is A Nation On The Path To Self-destruct By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 4:27pm On Mar 11, 2021 |
Drabeey:The writer argues that Nigerian leaders are first Nigerians. The trouble with the country is fundamentally with the average Nigerian and not its leaders. |
| Politics › Nigeria Is A Nation On The Path To Self-destruct By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 3:34pm On Mar 11, 2021 |
Nigeria: A Nation on a Path to Self-destruct By: Deji Yesufu Ngozi (not real name) was born in Eastern Nigeria but at a tender age her family migrated to the United States of America – seeking a good life within the American dream. Ngozi’s family regarded themselves as below middle class and at some point lived off the social support the state provides citizens that are unable to feed well. Today Ngozi has completed medical school and is in a Residency program with the hope of becoming a Consultant in a field of medicine. Ngozi says her family no longer need the state’s social support. Instead they are now in a position to give back to society. “So I’ll gladly give the American government the taxes they will exact on my income. I understand some people think government does not use these taxes well… my family and I survived on government support at a time and so I cannot resent their taxing me…,” she told me in a recent conversation. Due to a deep sense of gratitude to the society within which she grew up, Ngozi today sees her mission in life as an opportunity to give back to society. In fact my encounter with her was as a result of a research endeavor she is carrying out within Nigeria to bring better health care to the Nigerian people. When she visited Nigeria in 2016, she had sought to find out what we might be lacking in health services and after collating her report, she made strenuous effort to get big Pharmas, wealthy organizations and individuals to support medical care in Nigeria. Her efforts were fruitless. It was not because the individuals she met were unwilling to help; it was because every one of these persons had had the same experience with Nigeria. It goes something like this: Nigeria is a country where it is practically impossible to do anything worthwhile. Foreign donor agencies make efforts to help various sectors of Nigerian life and the response they get is that one highly placed government official somewhere, who should sign up on the deal, is demanding a bribe before he allows the process to sail through. When he is told that the project is for charity, he still appears unconvinced. Ngozi said that even if this official is eventually prevailed on, donors meet with the same beggarly and demanding attitude throughout the Nigerian system. On the other hand, when the same donors approach countries like Ghana or Kenya, they are received with open arms. Listening to her I became convinced on a thought I have been ruminating on for a while: Nigeria is a nation that has set itself on a path to self-destruct. When the oil boom hit the Nigerian nation in the early 1970s, some observers felt that the nation’s sudden plunge into wealth portended evil for her. A country just emerging from a needless civil war, led by a weak and vision-less military government, and populated by people who were mostly illiterates was not likely to use the resources that will emerge from the oil well. Unfortunately not too many people were sounding this note of warning; most Nigerians were too busy groveling in their new found wealth. University graduates were treated like kings and queens. Money was everywhere. The Naira was strong and was sort after everywhere in the world. I heard a commentary from a sitting Ghanaian president who said that Nigerians were so wealthy, they were forgetting wads of cash in London taxis. The nation thought she had reached El Dorado. Unfortunately, and in a space of ten years, all of that wealth was gone. By 1982, the Shehu Shagari government had begun to introduce austerity measures into Nigeria. All of these was happening within rising corruption in the system. By the time the Ibrahim Babangida government reached power, corruption had become our national insignia. It is this corrupt tendency that is dragging the nation to its depth. Yesterday I sat at dinner with my secondary school friend. I had not seen him since 2005. My friend is now a “big boy” in Abuja. While we were struggling to graduate from 5-year Engineering school, my friend did a four year course in Anatomy and entered the labor market immediately after graduating. He quickly discovered the potential behind data management and health care within Nigeria. He keyed into this sector and has since reaped something of a fortune working with international health/aid agencies seeking to bring help to health challenges in Nigeria. He told me that Nigeria could enjoy a lot more but for this very corruption eating out the life of the nation. “There is big money in world health care but there are very few Nigerians that can be entrusted with such resources. Nigeria has almost been blacklisted in the comity of nation because of this corruption matter…” he told me. And just when we thought we had had enough within the country to bring it to its knees, a new wave of terrorism was unleashed on the nation beginning from 2009. The Boko Haram insurgency has cost the nation tens of thousands of human lives and billions in resources – monies that could have been better channeled to other issues for national development. Boko Haram has today divided itself into a number of warring factions, independent of each other but with Nigeria as a common enemy. And just when we thought we had enough of that, banditry is the new word in Nigeria national lexicon. Thousands of children in northern Nigeria can no longer go to school for fear of being kidnapped. Northern Nigeria, which is already behind the south in almost every aspect of life, is further set back by jeopardizing the future of its young people. All of these worsened by a government system weighed down by a bloated and inefficient civil service and a government that is only reactive and almost never proactive. When discussing Nigeria, my essay these days narrow down more and more on the average Nigerian person. While government’s incompetence is well documented, very few people realize that the Nigerian government is made up of Nigerians and if the character of the Nigerian government will change it must begin with its people. It is Nigerians, not Togolese, that make up our political parties and that produce politicians other Nigerians vote for. If there is a problem with Nigeria, the root cause is more than leadership (with all due respect to Chinua Achebe who said Nigeria’s problem is a leadership problem); the root cause must be Nigerians themselves! And if we must stem the tide of the self destruct button we are unwittingly pressing forward at, the average Nigerian must develop a different outlook to national life, to living, to his neighbor, to our commonwealth and to the future of the nation. I ended my dinner with my friend at Ring Road, Ibadan, at about 8pm. It was late and my friend thought that taking public transport back to my abode, which is at the other side of town, was not safe at that time of the night. So he checked his Bolt app and saw that they had services in Ibadan. Promptly he dialed and in less than a minute, we were in touch with a bolt driver. The gentleman drove to the hotel we were at and I got in to his car. My friend paid the N1,800 that was meant for the trip via the app. I also promised the driver that I will add something for his efforts – he was a little reluctant to go to my side of town at that hour of the day. We began the journey and I noticed that Mr. Bolt did not use air conditioning. I said nothing: shebi I am the one enjoying free ride, I said to myself. Then we rammed into a hold up close to my home. Mr. Bolt began to fume. I said nothing. He even said if it was a younger person, he would have dropped me right on the road. I said nothing. He kept calling his wife on phone, complaining of the hold up. I said nothing. Then it began to threaten to rain and the wind was blowing dust all over. “Oga, wind up and put on AC now…”, I begged him. He ignored me. I said nothing. We finally eased out of the traffic and I was dropped in front of my house. I gave Mr. Bolt N200 to kuku add to the N1,800 my friend paid, making 2k. He thanked me, reluctantly. As I reached into the house, I called my friend to thank him. He told me that Bolt had further deducted N1,000 from his account because of the hold up we experienced. It is normal practice that if a trip turn out to be longer than envisioned, the app could remove more money. Here’s the twist to the story: Mr. Bolt knew that his company will charge us more for the hold up. Yet he continued to complain because new-bee like me to Bolt will know no better. I would be guilt tripped and be forced to give him something. We paid N3,000 for a trip Bolt had said will cost N1,800. It is Edmund Obilo that uses the phrase “the character of the state”; in other words, the character of the state is the character of the average Nigeria person: fraud. And it is this fraud that continues to eat into our national life, threatening our collective existence. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/nigeria-a-nation-on-the-path-to-self-destruct/
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| Christianity Etc › Re: John Macarthur's 2013 Strange Fire Conference by VBCampaign: 7:42pm On Mar 06, 2021 |
Strange Fire � 2021 |
| Romance › Re: Do I remove This Baby? by VBCampaign: 3:23pm On Mar 03, 2021 |
tommie1:I usually do not comment on threads like these bc opinions will range and it most times confuses the opener. But a few days ago a chap made a similar inquiry, I advised him and he took to my advise. He even called me and we chatted. He is the better for it now. So i realize that people do listen after all. As to your question, I will advise that you do not terminate this pregnancy. There are hundreds of other options but murder must not be one of them. You can decide to marry this lady and start a home. If she does not meet your standard, you can decide not to. But take care of her and the child and agree to collect the child and give to your mum or older female sibling, to take care for you until you are ok to start your own home. What I have in view is what God will bless. God will not bless abortion and the blood of that child will hunt you till your grave. Like I did for the other chap, kindly PM if you need more advise along this line and we will talk more. Do the right thing. 2 Likes |
| Music/Radio › Thoughts On Timi Dakolo’s “everything (amen)” By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 7:57pm On Feb 25, 2021 |
Timi Dakolo’s “Everything (Amen)” By: Deji Yesufu If you have not seen Timi Dakolo’s newest music video, I appeal to you to take the time to watch it here; I assure you that it would be worth your time doing so. Timi Dakolo is a household name in the Nigerian music industry – an industry that is comparatively successful, at least among other African music producers; but it is also an industry that is incapacitated with much dance music but bereft of the inspirations that makes songs evergreen. The result is that Nigeria musicians make a lot of money and much fame from their songs but these songs quickly fizzle out. Timi Dakolo has however stuck to making songs that come with a solid words of wisdom for our time. This has led him to make songs like Great Nation (2011), Iyawo mi (2014), Wish Me Well (2015), The Vow (2016) and Take It (2020). Every one of these songs coming from deep inspiration and bringing a perspective to life that is always very instructive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRm15tiTGWE His latest work, “Everything”, is a song of prayer for every hardworking person – I believe his immediate audience are Nigerians. He prays and “declares” that “…everything you put your hand go work…”, the song is followed by a chorus of “amen… amen… amen…” – all of these sang with a danceable tune in its background. Every and any Nigerian, who knows what it means to survive the harsh economic reality of this country, will easily identify with this song; as it is essentially the prayer that every one of us make as we leave our home each morning heading to our various places of work to earn a living. Dakolo continues: “…every hustler get ‘im day… if you dey fin’ work do your own, God sef go do ‘im own and flesh go cover bone… If you believe it say amen… aunty wey dey fin’ pikin, one day you go born twince… tenant wey don loose ‘im job, landlord come dey do like God, one day you go be landlord… good news go locate you… everything you put your hands go work…” The video is also very intriguing. Shot in a background of Nigerian chaotic traffic situation, Dakolo comes out of the Yellow Lagos taxi cab that was initially conveying him and begins to walk down the road, pulling frustrated commuters out of their vehicles – compelling them to join him in his walk and dance, and to celebrate a particular optimism that only a prayerful person possesses in the face of daily gloom that the Nigerian nation puts on the face its citizens. 2004/05 will go down as the most difficult year of my life. With a degree in Electrical Engineering, the forage through job market for a means of livelihood was simply not yielding anything. Those years taught me something that all my education never did: resilience. Another thing that helped me in those days was waking up and listening to Beautiful Nubia’s “Owuro lojo”. The song energized me; it gave me hope. It gave me the sense that if I use my morning hours well, my day will be productive and if my day is productive, with or without a job, something will come forth of my effort in the not too far future. I am glad to add Timi Dakolo’s “Everything” to my list of inspiring songs. And as young people in Nigeria, we must do this or we would die of the pessimism that is the common denominator in almost every discussion about Nigeria among her citizens. It is however important to note that as good as Timi’s prayers are in that song, they will not work for a number of people and we should keep abreast of this fact. The first sets of people that Timi’s song will turn out to be a curse for are lazy people. Dakolo’s opening line “…everything you put your hands go work…” is a biblical admonition taken from scriptures like Proverb 12:24, 12:11, 10:4 and 2 Thessalonians 3:10. Timi’s song is a tribute to Nigerians hustling in a honest way to make a living, despite the harsh economic realities against them. If you work hard, Timi says, it does not matter what happens to Nigeria – you will prosper in it all. The second set of people that Timi’s prayers will not work for are dishonest people: people who think they can cheat others and prosper; or who think they can take advantage of the deplorable Nigerian situation to increase. It will not happen. Timi Dakolo’s song comes from a Christian and a biblical worldview. It assumes that the person seeking God’s favor, is already living by God’s holy standards. God is not mocked; whatever any man sows he would reap. However, if despite the gloomy situation of this country, Nigerians seek to make a honest living – they will know God’s blessings. I am particularly excited about Timi’s song because following his family’s skirmish with the Abuja pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo, one was not sure whether he and his wife would be able to gather their lives together again. In the wake of the rape allegations levlled against the pastor by Dakolo’s wife, one of the criticisms that trailed Timi Dakolo was that he was a failed musician. Some said he was seeking relevance in other ways besides his music career that, according to them, has refused to fly. I am happy that Dakolo has quieted such critics with this explosive song. “Everything (Amen)” was published on YouTube just six days ago and is already enjoying playing time on Nigerian airwaves. I do hope that the song inspires a generation of young Nigerians to honest work and such prosperity that God gives. I must end this by thanking Timi Dakolo for this song. I have listened to it for no less than twenty times today alone and will continue to listen to it until those words and the spirit in them become a reality in my own life. I heartily recommend “Everything (Amen)” to your listening pleasure. It is one song I predict Nigerians will still be listening to many years from now because of its evergreen message. 2 Likes
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| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: I'm Confused About The Grade Level I Was Given For A Federal Government Job by VBCampaign: 10:27am On Feb 23, 2021 |
usman3688:I hope you get to see this. I suspect that the people in charge of employment in that agency are up to no good. I am a federal govt worker and I can state clearly that graduates are taken in at grade level 7 step 2 for the lowest. Only junior workers, SSCE holders, get grade level 3 or 4. I will advise that you write those people back and tell them that with your qualification, you are to start with grade level 7. If they do not change it, let them keep their job. I believe that they have recruited you with a higher grade from Abuja but someone will be pocketing your money the moment, you sign in. DO NOT TAKE THE JOB. I will advise you to take the private job. Or, get in touch with me via DM here. |
| Politics › Re: Bandits/boko Haram/almajiri By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:16am On Feb 20, 2021 |
Monogamy:Written by Deji Yesufu, not Aisha Yesufu |
| Politics › Re: Bandits/boko Haram/almajiri By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 6:39am On Feb 20, 2021 |
Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44 consider this for front page |
| Politics › Bandits/boko Haram/almajiri By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:03pm On Feb 19, 2021 |
Bandits/Boko Haram/Almajiri When I concluded my first degree and returned from NYSC in 2003, I had no job and will remain like that for three years before getting a teaching job with a private school. Yet, in those three years I felt I was super-human. I had no money and sometimes went without food but I always had this confidence around me. Besides the grace of God, one thing that raised my head high was the fact that I had an education. Not just a mere degree, but the fact that placed in any situation I knew I could prosper in it. I could decipher any plan and offer a coherent argument for any idea. I knew in my heart of hearts that it was just a matter of time my poverty will be a thing of the past. I schooled in Northern Nigeria and even in the late 1990s and early 2000s I was already concerned with what will become of the army of uneducated young people that populated that region of the country. One day, while in school, sometimes in the year 2000, I was taking public transport from Aviation to Samaru in Zaria. Our bus stopped for a moment in front of ABU first gate and a deluge of Almajiri boys poured into the road, crossing to the other side of the road. In another year I would be done with school, but here were an army of young people on the road with no education, no skill and no future. Guess what? The youngest of those children will be about 26 years old now and the oldest around 35. They still have no skill, no education and no future. They are today our bandits - the same Boko Haram sect the Nigerian media has re-Christined because they succeeded in moving from North East Nigeria to the North West. As I write this, there is the breaking news that the students and staffs of a school who were kidnapped by bandits a few days ago have been released. The Nigerian govt coughed out N800M to secure their release - the report alleges. Kidnapping is now good business. In 1970 Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote an article and said that the educational gap between Northern Nigeria and the South was 150 years. He said his foray into politics was to reduce that gap to 50 years. The same North rejected his candidature at the polls. I suspect that the educational gap is as wide as 300 years now. Nigeria's problem will not go away in a day But a government that invests in educating its young people will totally overhaul the fortunes of coming generations. Northern Gov's may consider outlawing this Almajiri thing - I hear it is not even Islamic. It is a silly tradition that should be done away with. Someone told me yesterday that I was smuggish. I behave as if "I too know". I pleaded guilty. If a man invest in building his mind, he has a right to his confidence. There is a price a people pay for ignorance. Nigeria is paying her own now. It has cost the nation close to a billion Naira just today alone. Can you imagine what a billion Naira invested wisely twenty years ago in educating northern youths would have done to that region of the country? I rest my lamentation. © Deji Yesufu Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2921136971505099&id=100008264737265
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| Politics › Re: The Defeat Of Mr. Macaroni By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:24pm On Feb 16, 2021 |
CC: Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44 |
| Politics › The Defeat Of Mr. Macaroni By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 10:31am On Feb 16, 2021 |
Defeating Mr. Macaroni: Face of a Failed Nation By: Deji Yesufu When it was announced that the Lekki Toll Gate will resume activities on the 13th of February, 2020, there were two forces that came face to face at daring each other about it. Young people, many of them members of the botched EndSARS movement, swore that it would not happen and that even if it did happen, it will occur over their dead bodies. One could understand these young people’s plight. Events of October 20, 2020, are still fresh in our memories and a panel of enquiry is still in Lagos investigating what happened on that ill-fated night. The last thing, one would reason, is for government to be thinking of opening up business on the same grounds where tens of youths were allegedly mowed down by Nigerian security forces. The second group that reacted to the announcement was, as expected, the Nigerian Police. The Police said that it was their duty to keep law and order, and that there could not be a repeat of the mayhem that occurred in the aftermath of the killings at the Toll Gate. The stage was set for a duel: the young people said they will protest the opening of the Toll Gate; the Nigerian Police said they dare not. Even by the eve of the day of the protest the Lekki Toll Gate, situated in the southern parts of Nigeria’s commercial town, Lagos State, was already brimming with armed policemen. The internet was flooded with men in uniform parading the whole place. The pictures were intimidating and it was clear that anyone who ventured to that area for any protest will be toast. Yet forty brave youths, boys and girls, defied the police and went out and protested the opening of the Toll Gate that day. We get a picture of what happened that morning from Debo Adebayo, popularly known as Mr. Macaroni. After his release from police detention, Mr. Adebayo said that up till the eve of the protest no one was sure whether it was going to hold. Family members, as they tend to do, had called him and informed him to stay at home and not go anywhere. In spite of all this, Macaroni took his life in his hands and headed to the Toll Gate to protest its opening. On his way there, he was informed that the police was already arresting protesters that had arrived. This was the time to turn around and go home, but he explained that the purpose of the protest was not to evade arrest but to simply make the point that a few people opposed the opening of the Toll Gate. The moment he arrived the place, he and the forty others were arrested and crammed into a waiting police truck. The comical part of the whole event was that the police needed to push the truck to kick-start it. Macaroni said that he and others, including a few ladies, were thoroughly beaten by the police. They were stripped and crammed together in the vehicle. They were threatened. They were told that if all these had happened in the morning hours, all forty of them would have been killed and nothing will happen. Those of us who could not make it to the Toll Gate followed happenings on social media. The internet was flooded with pictures and videos of young people, who were protesting peacefully, being crammed in a vehicle – without any effort at social distancing – and being bundled away to detention. The saddest part of it all was the video that emerged of Mr. Macaroni and others packed together, stripped, sweating profusely, as a police officer, who was filming the whole thing, was threatening them. At that point you could see that the boys had been defeated; they were scared out of their wits. They had lost their bravado and now they were at the mercies of trigger happy policemen who could take their life and nothing will happen. The country will experience outrage for a few days and everything will be back to normal in less than a month. The same Macaroni, who had been speaking with pomp earlier and had been describing his arrest on his social media feed, was now thoroughly cowered. He could barely look into the camera. Debo Adebayo, Mr. Macaroni, whose comic skits on social media will break the strongest willed into hearty fits of laughter, was a shadow of himself. Mr. Macaroni had been defeated. The truth of this saga is that the defeat of Mr. Macaroni, and the cowering of the 39 others, is only a reflection of a failed Nigerian state. What is very clear to even a mere observer of events in this country is that Nigerian policy makers and law enforcements do not know anything about how a modern and workable society operates. We still believe that the best way to curtail dissent in the society is by the use of brute force. How is it that the police could not see that by providing protective cover to the protesters that day at the Lekki Toll Gate, they would have succeeded in giving the world a picture of a government that is able to handle dissent in society? Now the police have to grapple with investigating and explaining away the reason why a few rag-tag elements within the police behaved unprofessionally in the handling of the protesters. The more professional thing to have done was to allow the protest, while ensuring that it did not go out of hand. One challenge with governance in this country is that our leaders are mainly reactive and never proactive. We have very few people in position of authority in this country that are thinking and this remain the bane of our society and the reason the country is tottering towards a failed state almost every day. The Nigeria police cannot be using force to quell protest in the 21 century in the same manner they did in the colonial days – law enforcement should have progressed past this stage by now. This is the age of ideas: this is the time to put the best minds in government and in law enforcements. Unfortunately we continue to write essays like this because we continue to repeat the same mistakes. I was glad that by the close of Saturday all the protesters had been released. One report has it that they were charged to court and bailed with a sum of N100,000 each. I do not know who paid the four million naira that the bail money amounted to. I do not even know when peaceful protest became a crime in this country. If protest was a crime, Muhammadu Buhari, our president, would not have had the liberty to protest the Goodluck Jonathan government when he did so with members of his political party. When young people cannot have their say through peaceful protest in a country that they ought to lay claim to as theirs, are we surprised that many of them flee the shores of this nation looking for a better life elsewhere? Mr. Macaroni is 28 years old. Through a dint of hard work he has made his name in the comedy arena of Nigeria’s entertainment industry. Young people like him are not asking for too much. They are simply saying that our government should be a thinking one. A thinking government will not rush to open business concerns on the floor of which tens of young people were murdered a few months ago. Debo Adebayo and other young people are saying that when our leader do not act proactively, they leave the country in auto-pilot and open the ship of state to the dire possibility of a crash, a collapse or a failed situation. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/defeating-mr-macaroni-face-of-a-failed-nation/
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| Christianity Etc › Re: The Beatification Of Suleiman Johnson By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 8:35am On Feb 09, 2021 |
I agree with BassReeves 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Beatification Of Suleiman Johnson By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 6:55pm On Feb 08, 2021 |
BassReeves:Thank you |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Beatification Of Suleiman Johnson By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 5:41pm On Feb 08, 2021 |
Shelumiel:You judge a so called Christian so you don't partake in his sins... So that he can be an example of what not to be in the church. Read 1 Corinthians 5 again. What condemns Suleiman is a lot more than these scandals; it is the false gospel he preaches 2 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Beatification Of Suleiman Johnson By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 5:15pm On Feb 08, 2021 |
Shelumiel:1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. So, yes, we judge those who are WITHIN. Suleiman claims to be within and he's a proven RAILER and we judge him. We don't wait for God. We judge him and separate from him. Joining with him you share in his sins. CC: Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44 for front page 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Beatification Of Suleiman Johnson By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 4:12pm On Feb 08, 2021 |
Shelumiel:Jesus calls Christians to judge, to discernment. Matthew 7: 15-20 |
| Christianity Etc › The Beatification Of Suleiman Johnson By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 3:17pm On Feb 08, 2021 |
The Beatification of Suleiman Johnson By: Deji Yesufu The last has not been heard of the unfolding drama between “Apostle” Johnson Suleiman and his erstwhile sheep Mike Davids. The drama began, a few weeks ago, with a publication in Punch newspapers where Mike Davids accused Johnson Suleiman of sleeping with his wife and barring him from seeing his children. That accusation was followed with a series of videos from Davids’ estranged wife, Faith Edeko, who, amid much weeping, said that Suleiman was not to be blamed. She claimed her husband abandoned her and wished the worst for her until she found refuge with Suleiman. Johnson Suleiman appeared to have been washed clean of that allegation and Nigerians returned to other pressing national issues, like the menace of Fulani Herdsmen in the country. Yesterday, Nigerians’ short attention span was invaded again. This time it was a short audio tape of no more than 90 seconds. Suleiman Johnson is heard berating an individual on the tape. We will learn later, that the person is Mike Davids. When Mr. Davids requests why Suleiman was cursing him, the revered pastor replied “… you are a bastard… get off my phone…” It must be noted that in the first installment of this ongoing drama, Suleiman said nothing in his own defense. It appeared he didn’t even know of it. But this second tape was way too devastating. Suleiman Johnson immediately replied with a video, with his wife by his side, saying that he was the person on the audio tape. He said “anger” led him to say those things. He was sorry. But, he continued, it should be noted that that conversation was between himself and a lady. Suleiman had not spoken to Davids in years. Davids doctored the audio. Here is what a careful observer of the two drama scenes will notice: note that Mike Davids is on a mission to destroy Johnson Suleiman’s reputation. In the first video, Davis provided an edited photo of his estranged wife in the arms of Suleiman. Unfortunately we discovered the real photo and saw clearly that Davids was up to mischief. In the second publication, the audio, Davids implants his voice in the very response by the lady Suleiman was berating. This has actually rendered Mike Davids mission useless and I hope he has N5B to pay Suleiman when the courts eventually find him guilty of maligning the reputation of another man. My essay is really not about Davids and Suleiman; it is about how many have sort to beatify Suleiman Johnson. Beatification is a ritual the Roman Catholic Church carry in rendering people, mostly dead, saints. They look at their life works and say they are saints: without sin. I want to examine a few instances in which many have sort to beatify Suleiman Johnson and then draw out a worthy conclusion. Follow me. In April 2017, Johnson Suleiman visited University of Ibadan for a crusade to students. That Tuesday, I carried out a one man protest against his presence in the University. I was arrested by the police and before I was put in detention, one particular cantankerous senior policewoman asked me “why are you protesting a man of God?” My protest was about the time of his scandal with Ms. Otobo. I said nothing to her. She looked at someone next to her and said in Yoruba: this man is not a good man o… please get him out of my sight and lock him up. In other words, I was the devil and Suleiman was the saint. I write this to show that there is a societal Beatification of pastors in this clime. Men of God can do no wrong, we appear to believe. Notice also that when the first drama with Mr. Davis broke, the first person to speak was another apostle friend of Suleiman. This person published a video where he whitewashed Suleiman and made it clear that Suleiman could do no wrong. As we were grappling with his own revelation, Davids’ wife came forward and showed the world that her husband was a devil while Suleiman was an angel. There appears to be no end to the Beatification of Johnson Suleiman. Just when we thought the Suleiman’s response to the audio was sufficient, the mercurial Daddy Freeze came forth and said that Suleiman should be forgiven. Freeze said that anyone can be angry and anyone can curse people in the manner that Suleiman did. He should be forgiven and restored to ministry. Saint “Apostle” Johnson Suleiman can do no wrong. Or so they think. The latest drama emerging between Suleiman and Mike Davids has not shown the former to culpable of anything obvious. It is the normal sort of crisis that Nigerians deal with everyday. It appears we are being told that Suleiman can be left off the hook because he is not just a normal Nigerian, he is also an annointed man of God. Unfortunately this should not be the case. First, we should examine Suleiman’s conversation with the said woman. This is what scripture says about curses: Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. When Peter and Paul wrote those scriptures, they were not describing a high and mighty standard unattenble by men; rather they were describing the normal Christian Life. CHRISTIANS DO NOT CURSE PEOPLE. I have long argued that men like Suleiman Johnson and a host of others who preach a Prosperity Gospel and Word of Faith Pentecostalism are not Christians at all. What Suleiman did on that audio, cursing a church member, is the consistent lifestyle of these pastors in these churches. In fits of anger, they are known to curse people and even hit defenseless persons – like David Oyedepo, their revered example, did to a poor teenager in his church years back. Thus the trouble with Suleiman is that he is not just a rank heretic, he is not a Christian and cannot bear the normal fruit expected of Christians. If his church members will be true to us, they will admit that the tradition of cursing and physically abusing people is the normal way their pastor operates. Suleiman Johnson is not a Christian, talk less of enjoying the Beatification he is enjoying at the hands of Nigerians. Having made this point, we ought to ask ourselves: why is Johnson Suleiman never ceasing to give Nigerians drama scenes to watch? Is he the only pastor in the country? How did Mike Davids loose so much respect for his Pastor that he is ready to destroy his reputation? Where is sanctification in Suleiman’s church because it appears that those who attend his church, including himself, are never bereft of scandals around them? As we await a third installment on this melodrama, Nigerians should note that Johnson Suleiman is not a Christian talk less of being a pastor. His church is a social gathering and those who attend churches like that will do their souls a lot of good by leaving them and finding Christian assemblies to join. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/the-beatification-of-suleiman-johnson/ 1 Like
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RE: A Gay Man in Biden’s Cabinet (A Response to Senator Adeyeye’s Essay) © Deji Yesufu When I read Sola Adeyeye’s “A Gay Man in Biden’s Cabinet”, I knew immediately I must offer a rejoinder to the article. Senator Adeyeye is not someone whose opinion anyone should dispute, as he has not only carved out a niche for himself in the hallowed chambers of the higher legislative house in the National Assembly but he is also an intellectual whose submission on sundry national and international issues cannot be easily faulted. In this essay, however, I found the erudite Osun State politician greatly wanting and I trust I can point some points in his essay that where not only erroneously but pandering to heresy – especially when one considers that the piece was written by a professing Christian. For those who may not have read the essay, Senator Adeyeye was saying that Christians should not fault President Joe Biden for electing a gay man into cabinet. Among other reasons he raised, the Senator said that America was a democracy and not a theocracy. He also pointed out that Biden would not be the first US President to appoint a gay person to office; former President Trump, who many evangelicals love to extol, also appointed a gay person to his cabinet. Senator Adeyeye wrote that homosexuality is a sin but it may not be a crime. That in Nigeria, where there is a subsisting law against homosexuality, it is both a sin and a crime. But in the USA, where many states have passed laws endorsing homosexuality, while the act remains a sin it is not a crime. Senator Adeyeye ends his essay with these strong words for his target audience: “The Church’s sure foundation was, and remains, an ever-prevailing person, the Solid Rock. His name is Jesus Christ.” If the evangelicals had disputed anything the celebrated Senator had written up till that paragraph, we should at least agree with this one which is a clear word from the Holy Writ (1 Peter 2:7). The great advantage of essay writing is that a person can state his argument uninterrupted and most times if it is well written, one essay can end all arguments. The story is told of how the 16th century Greek Scholar and Roman Catholic theologian, Erasmus, was coerced to respond to Martin Luther’s writing that had begun to shake the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church. When Erasmus would eventually write, he wrote a treatise disputing Luther’s doctrine of God’s Sovereignty. He said in essence that Luther appeared to be right in many of his arguments but that element in his theology where he appears to paint man as helpless in the matter of salvation was faulty. Erasmus taught that whatever else may be found in the doctrine of salvation there remains an active free will in every man. When Luther responded to the book, he wrote his mighty treatise: “The Bondage of the Will”. Luther said in essence that the will of every man is held captive to sin and except a sovereign God wakes the dead sinner to spiritual life, such a man remain helpless. Salvation was a hundred percent the work of God and nothing of man. Erasmus responded to Luther’s essay with a longer book but Luther never returned to the argument. He explained that everything he had written in his book was sufficient to counter any argument on the subject. I am of the opinion that Senator Adeyeye’s essay has not answered all the questions on this subject and that he has actually left himself vulnerable for a response as I hope to give in a moment. Since the Senator has referred copiously to the Bible in his essay, perhaps I should remind him that the Bible refers to Satan as the Prince of the power of the air (Ephesian 2:2) and that there is a sense in it that the kingdoms of this world are under his power and influence (Matthew 4:8-9). I want to suggest here that every nation, state or people are ruled by a god. That God may be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, or that god may be Satan and all of his various influences. It is true that America is not a theocracy like Old Testament Israel was but America, like any other country on earth, is ruled by a god. It is left to the people of that nation to allow for the Christian God to rule their nation or to allow the Prince of the power of the air to reign supreme. When evangelicals rail against a President appointing a gay man to public office, they are refusing the god of this age to reign over their nation. When Christians make excuses for gay people in government, they are allowing the devil reign in their government. I could easily be asked: what did the evangelicals do when Trump appointed a gay man to office? We should remember that most thorough going evangelicals never consider Donald Trump a Christian in the first place. They tolerated him because he did their bidding. If Trump, at some point in his administration, went on to appoint a gay person into office, they would consider it as his pandering to the 9 million gay population of the United States. Trump played politics with his appointments – just like any other politician will do. But Biden appointing a gay person to office has greater implications than Trump because the Democratic Party is a party that flaunts its supports for gays and the LGBTQ communities; and if Biden considers appointing gays to office at the very beginning of his administration, you already have an inkling of what his government will look like. If we believe the Bible, we had better allow it to rule all our lives and not just some portions of it. Homosexuality is a sin not because it is any worse than lying, adultery, fornication or stealing, but because it is a sin against nature itself. A cursory look at Romans 1:21-25 will reveal that homosexuality is a product of a particularly base and dark mind; a result of God abandoning a man or a nation to the basest of sins. While the sin of adultery and stealing are the product of men’s natural evil inclinations, homosexuality is a learned act. It is rebellion against God and we should be reminded that God indeed overthrew nations in the Bible for this very sin. If these times of grace will not allow God to rain down sulfur and brimstone on countries that allow homosexuality to flourish in their midst, we should remind ourselves that the God we serve is unchanging and will someday judge these very grievous sin. I will not want to be part of those who were making excuses for sins that God considers particularly despicable. Something else we must keep in mind in these modern times is that while the Church is in the world, the Church is not of this world. We do not pander to the system of this world, our kingdom is not of this world; our goals and priorities are very different from this world. We must realize that ultimately every political system in the world today is going to become increasingly antichrist. While the Democrats may have sold all their platforms to the devil, the Republicans are still trying to keep some of their Christian conservative values. Ultimately, they will also give in to the demands and wants of the time. The Church would however be preserved by only one element: a commitment to the tenets of the Holy Scriptures. The real meaning of the reign of the Antichrist is that by the time our Lord is returning, the devil would have taken over every system of the world and only the Christian that is truly committed to God’s law will remain standing at those times. This is why Jesus asks that when he returns will he find faith on earth? If in the mere matter of international politics, we are already kowtowing to the thinking and preferences of a liberal and antichrist people, what will happen when the Antichrist is ruling the earth and demanding the devotion of all men? Just as Senator Adeyeye concluded his essay, the church’s foundation is indeed Jesus Christ. Our Lord rules the nations of the earth even today, but it is left to the Church to allow for his influence to pervade their communities. The evangelical churches in America are standing against a steep mountain of satanic, antichrist and demonic influences in the political system that governs their country today. I sure hope that none of us will be found siding with such a system. Like our Lord said, we cannot serve God and serve mammon at the same time. Even today, our Lord demands we take a position: we cannot be hot and cold at same time. When we do take a side, may it be that we are siding with a righteous course and there is no righteousness in a government that celebrates homosexuals. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/re-a-gay-man-in-bidens-cabinet/
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