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Royalamour

Your case is bad. Really bad. And a divorce is a clear option. I however counsel against divorce BC of God's support for marriage.

You may reach me in the aforementioned email for more counseling.

Royalamour

Here's an article I wrote on Marriage generally:



Mouth Piece
THE EVANGEL
Marriage is Difficult
ADMIN OCTOBER 7, 2018

By Deji Yesufu

The attached photo is the pre-wedding picture of a couple that appeared on the front page of Nairaland this past week. Looking at the man and the woman, one cannot but think that a more perfect couple cannot exist anywhere else in the world.

The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful. The man seem to have it altogether and the woman is smiling to the glories of the future to come. The Cinderella scenario continues until you discover that marriages are contracted in a fallen world, among people with very real weaknesses; which if not managed properly would result in lifelong pain for both spouses and their families.

I saw a movie on Cable TV recently that told the story of a man and his wife. Man and wife love themselves deeply but their marriage is challenged by the fact that the wife is a high flying career woman while the man cannot seem to get his life together.

They have a daughter who loves the father but despises her mother. To cope with his frustration and his wife’s frequent absence from home, man falls into adultery many times. Wife forgives him. Wife however falls victim to a co-worker who preys on one of her vulnerable moments, when she thinks her husband is again cheating on her. She sleeps with this person. Husband learns of it; home is on fire. In the process of finding the truth, husband is killed. Wife and daughter are left alone to bury their dead.

The only attractive thing about couples is the facade of pretence that many put up for members of the public to see and think know that their home is altogether. The truth is that most marriages are hurting and many people are at a loss as to where to find help from. I would not even attempt to suggest any thing like “steps to a victorious marriages”.

All of those people who write books like those are mostly liars. There is no hard and fast rule to making a marriage work. I dare to say that only God can make a marriage work. If we realize that the success of our marriages are premised wholly on the mercies of God, we would turn to him to help us.

I think one of the greatest shock absorbers that I received in dealing with the difficulties in my marriage was realizing early enough that marriage was not going to be a bed of roses. I had understood that my own inherent evil heart would be made manifest to my spouse; therefore giving me a reason to be particularly patient with her own idiosyncrasies.

Somebody asked an elderly couple what was the secret to their longevity in marriage. The man answered by saying: “both of us are never angry at the same time…” It was a sort of unwritten rule for them: only one person is permitted to be angry at the other per time. So when one person blows hurt, the other person keeps quiet.

Yet even this method would not work for all marriages for the mere fact that all human beings are different. And in a home, couples do not pretend. They show their true colours to each other.

While I do not think that I am competent to teach anyone how to run their marriages, I think that God teaches couples how to live with each other. It is at this point that I must say that I am convinced that only a Christian marriage, where the Holy Spirit is Lord of each of the individual’s hearts, would be able to fulfil God’s purpose for a particular marriage. While I am convinced that even non Christian marriages can succeed, I think only a Christian marriage can bring God’s purposes to fruition on earth.

For this to happen, each spouse must know Christ as their Lord and their Savior. This is doubly so because marriage would manifest your heart to you and those who are sincere with themselves would admit whether or not they have known the Savior. In fact the whole process of committing one’s life to Christ is made manifest in the marriage itself.

A self willed and independent woman would realize that if Christ is truly her Lord, then the man whom God has placed over her must be respect and revered, regardless of what he may seem to have or not have. The whole process of learning to submit to her husband become her own path to salvation. The day she surrenders her independence to her husband, that may be the day she has genuinely has surrendered to the Lordship of Christ.

The same thing goes for the man: a man realizes that his freedom is now a bondage to a wife. He cannot do as he pleases anymore. If he loves Christ, he must love his wife. The whole process of loving his wife may become for him the process of loving Christ and submitting to him.

When a husband and a wife come to love and respect one another as the scriptures command, and as the Holy Spirit has taught them to do, their marriage begins to grow into the purposes that God wants for them. The biggest challenge here is that many couples would never know these lessons in their lifetime and may only begin to learn them when death has done them part.

On a positive note, however, we should be encouraged that from everything hard, tough and difficult, comes the most fulfilling, enjoyable and blessed things of life. The same goes with marriages. If couples would endure the storm and wait on God, trusting in his good purposes, they would laugh last. There are so many women today who are thankful that they remained in their matrimonial homes through the years of their husbands philandering. Those who left their homes are today regretting the decision.

Marriage may be difficult but I am convinced that the difficulty in marriages are usually only for a season. A heart steeped with faith in God would endure the hard times and come out rejoicing at the breaking of the day of joy. It is possible for the facade of joy that accompany many of these pre-wedding photos to translate to genuine joy and contentment in latter life after the couple might have endured and overcomed the difficult days of their marriage.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the book VICTOR BANJO. He may be reached on newdejix@gmail.com.

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/marriage-is-difficult/

Great thread. It should make front page

MuttleyLaff:
VBCampaign, I am just back from reading those two articles, I was impressed and pleased to read that Omoyele Sowore personally reached out to you, soliciting for your support, it just shows the conviction, sense of seriousness, sincerity genuineness etcetera of the man.

I usually read about lists of 50 people of influence here and there or around the world, and it just brought it into perpestive that Sowore considered you to be a person with influence, reader followership and power that has similar best interest of the fatherland at heart. The earlier mentioned first two, Sowore especially recognised about you and that is why he so humbly approached you.

Nigeria cant afford to miss or squander a good, promising and golden opportunity, for another 4 years of mediocrity, analogue visions, indifferences to the plagues of the nation, leadership that isnt really taking the nation anywhere to be proud of etcetera.


Quite a lot has happened since and after your two articles, structures are up, town hall meetings visits to more than 35 states, loads of interviews to sensitise him with the electorate giving and explained in detail the party's manifesto on how SPICERHEAT will tackle and address the ills of the country, plans to make the country a construction site etcetera so why did you end your support for Sowore? What are your reasons? What, at the heart of the matter, are/were his sin(s)?

I dont what to know who you'll be thumb printing on February 19 but please God forbid your choice be between PMB or Atiku

Truth is that like many Nigerians I'm at a crossroad as to who to vote for. This morning I'm just considering Ezekwesili

MuttleyLaff:
You are not breaking forum rules by doing so, it just looks totally uncool "prostrating," literally.

If my tone was strong and coming off insensitive, please accept my apologies. It wasnt meant to be taken personal.

There however for your information is a "Mail Mods" button, that has a "Send E-mail Message to Religion Moderators" feature you can take advantage of, when aiming to get their attention to a post they ordinarily are not likely to see if they are not mentioned on posts.

By the way, I am looking forward to read your analysis on African Action Congress party's candidate Omoyele Sowore bid to contest for presidency in the upcoming 2019 Febuary election.

I've written a no of articles on Swore. The last one were I ended my support for him is this one: http://mouthpiece.com.ng/apc-pdp-and-others/

You can see others by searching on the same website

MuttleyLaff:
Whats all this sucking up for front page?
It's a complete turn off ojaare.

The intent of mentioning the moderators of this forum is not to "suck up" to them. It is merely to draw their attention to a post they are not likely to see if they are not mentioned. I apologize if the practice turns you off but I have no intention of stopping it; especially where it has not been spelt out anywhere that I am breaking forum rules by doing so.

Abjay97:
Thanks for this

Thank you

Consider for front page this Sunday: Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Sin is at the Heart of the Christian Gospel

By: Deji Yesufu

A Muslim lady had died and a friend of hers pasted the following words on Facebook.

“She lived an exemplary life worthy of emulation and deserving of Jannah. After a long fought battle and (as) the time was near (for her to die), she mustered all her energy and said her last audible words ‘la hawla wala kuwwata illa billah (there is no might nor power except with Allah) repeatedly 10 times… O Allah, let (lady’s name) be deserving of Jannah and we pray it is Firdaus. Do forgive her of her sins, overlook her shortcomings and grant her Jannatul Firdaus.”

Those words are quite commonly said for the dead when Muslims die. This time, reading this one, it got me thinking very deeply about the fundamentals of the Christian faith and how, somehow as Christians, we have drifted away from them. In the same manner, therefore, Christians have been unable to commend the gospel to our neighbours. Particularly to our Muslim friends.

In this essay, I wish to compare the statement above with something the Apostle Paul said in the Bible. I would be gleaning similarities and differences in their words and then I would try to reach a conclusion. This article would be first of a many part series I would be discussing in this column as I share along the lines of the fundamentals of the Christian faith and how to make them relevant to our day.

Paul, writing to the Roman Christians and telling them about the blessing of justification by faith, stated this:

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.” – Romans 4:7-8.

One clear similarity between that statement I gleaned from Facebook and the words of Paul is this: sin would be a fundamental factor between man and God, whenever we see him – which would most certainly be at the time of our death. Orthodox Christianity and Islam share the fundamental question of how God relates with sin. Sin would determine whether or not the dead would enter into eternal bliss with God in heaven or else be in eternal perdition in hell.

Despite the similarity in belief, there are fundamental differences between these two historic faiths. This article would not attempt to discuss the nitty-gritty of those differences. What I wish to do is examine only one of them in the light of the Christian message and then suggest why the Christian faith offers greater hope for both the living and the dead in this life and in the life to come.

The simple difference between that statement off Facebook and the one quoted from the Bible is this: the Muslim statement is asking for forgiveness AFTER the person is dead. While the Christian statement offers forgiveness while the person is alive.

The Christian message offers humanity genuine hope in the light of our sins. Christianity recognizes the helplessness of all human beings in the light of our bondage to sin. The Christian gospel does not wait for men to die before forgiveness of sin is sort for them; the gospel offers us hope in this life in spite of our sin. This is how it works.

All human beings, born into this world, are sinners. We are all at enmity with the God of all the earth – the one we shall all answer to in spite of our creed and religion. Nevertheless, there is a way God has offered out of sin; there is a “solution” so to speak for sin. Paul in Romans 4:7-8 tells us what becomes of sin after this solution is applied. First, the individual’s lawless deeds are forgiven. Second, the individuals sins are covered. Third, God would not count the individual’s sins against him. All of these does not happen after death; it happens while the person is alive!

Paul refers to this as true blessing. He uses the story of Abraham and how he gained favour with God to validate his point. It is said that Abraham believed God and God counted his faith as righteousness. God looked at his ability to trust him, and not his ability to do things, as his righteousness. This is the most profound truth of the Christian gospel and it is a disservice to many that these things are no longer taught in our churches.

What then is the basis of this faith in God? This faith that brings righteousness. This faith that produces a blessedness that expunges and covers sin. What is this faith about? This faith is belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. Scriptures says if you do, you would be saved (Acts 16:31). Unfortunately this is where Islam and Christianity depart from each other fundamentally. But until someone can show me that I can find hope and salvation from my sins in another way better than the one the Bible teaches, I would rather stick with a gospel that offers me hope of salvation in this life; than wait for one that suggests a possible hope to me when I am dead.

I want to end this essay with a plea: a kind of disclaimer. It is not my intention to raise up theological arguments. I am very aware that Muslim and Christian scholars have debated these issues for so long. I listened to a few of these debates myself. However, I am not sure that many of them have touched on this fundamental matter of sin and salvation.

Muslims quite rightly say, as they pray for the dead, that may God grant forgiveness to the sins of the dead. I however find this prayer unnecessary when the Bible quite clearly states that we can find certainty of forgiveness for our sins in this life and not have to wait for an uncertain forgiveness of sins after our lives are gone.

Romans 4:7-8 is a prayer I utter to God everyday of my life now. Daily I thank God for forgiving me my sins through Jesus Christ. I thank him for covering my sins – particularly those I am unable to confess readily in the place of prayer. Finally I have a relationship with God, through Jesus, which even my sins cannot spoil – God does not hold my sins against me. This is why I am blessed indeed.

One other reason why I pray this prayer is so that in health I can exercise myself in a confession that I trust God I would make at the point of my death. In my final hours on earth, I trust God to make these confessions:

“O Lord, I thank you for forgiving me my sins through Jesus Christ your Son. I thank you for covering my sins with his blood and I thank you for not holding my sins against me, both in this life and in the life to come.”

This is the blessedness of the Christian life and every human being living can partake of it.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the book Victor Banjo. He can be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

Source: http://mouthpiece.com.ng/sin-is-at-the-heart-of-the-christian-gospel/

Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44 consider for front page

A Proper Perspective to 2019

By: Deji Yesufu

On January 1st, 1964 the late educationist, humanist and public commentator, Mr. Tai Solarin, wrote an article which he titled “May Your Road Be Rough”. He was saying in summary in the essay that difficulty is better for the human being; that the greatest impetus to innovation, production and success is hardship. So rather than join the mass of those who were wishing everyone else “a happy New Year”, Tai Solarin prayed that the year be rough for all his readers. He wrote:

“…Life, if it is going to be abundant, must have plenty of hills and vales. It must have plenty of sunshine and rough weather. It must be rich in obfuscation and perspicacity. It must be packed with days of danger and of apprehension…”

Would anyone read what Tai wrote and disagree with him? Not many people. Yet many of us still cannot bring ourselves to praying this prayer he prayed some 55 years ago. Many people would readily praise the radical Solarin mind-set and still go on from year to year, wishing everyone a “happy New Year”. Tai’s view is even a lot more radical in our day; a time that is characterized with the prevailing Pentecostal/Charismatic mind-set that is forever speaking some positivity all the time. Hoping, as they say, you will reap the fruit of your mouth.

Having said that, I would readily confess that I cannot pray Mr. Tai’s prayer for myself or for anyone else. I would not begin 2019 wishing for myself that the road that I would thread through the year would be rough. I have witnessed rough roads in my years on earth and I am not ready to experience those things again. Yet, I believe there is wisdom in Mr. Tai’s words and thus would be suggesting in this essay a middle line between Mr. Tai’s radicalism and today’s extreme positivism. I therefore think there is a proper perspective to every year that we all should have.

First, I think every man should agree immediately that there is a blessing in every difficulty and that if we would make success or progress in whatever venture we are involved in, we must be ready to take risks; such risks that could plunge us into pain. But remembering, like they say, “no pain no gain”. So there is that proper militant mind-set to face life and whatever it might bring. This would mean that we might need to hold in contempt this tendency to wishful thinking and hoping for some great year. We should keep in mind that following a dark night comes a bright morning. Some of the greatest gains we would get out of life would come from great losses.

Second, we must understand providence. Those of us who are religious see providence as God’s abundant provision to all his creation. God has not just created human being, he is also actively involved in sustaining them. Now, if we submit to the truth that God give good things, we should also not shy away from the fact that he also brings bad things towards a good purpose. The Bible quotes Job as saying “…shall we receive good from God and not also evil…?”

This means that if God is good and provides good things to all of his creation, we must realize that God may permit evil in our lives towards a greater good. If we deny this fact, we may as well deny that God gives good things to all humans also.

Third and finally, we all enter into a New Year with the hope that the year would produce more for us than the previous year(s). If this is going to happen, we must also have to do a little more than we did in the past year(s). This would usually involve greater investments, greater risks, greater commitment to work and so on. None of these would come easy. They would all come with their measure of strain, hurt and, in the words of Tai Solarin, roughness.

Therefore the person who has ventured into a year with the hope that it would all be fun, joy and bliss, would not recognize opportunities for successes all because the path to them seem difficult. The reality also is that most people who make success of whatever endeavours they are involved with are persons who have tried their hands on many other things. So if you are one who is easily discouraged and cannot endure hurt, you are not likely to make success of life.

If anyone had told me that to produce my book Victor Banjo I was going to go through that much stress, I would have thought twice before writing the book. It took me just one month to write the original transcript. But it took my editors and I another seven months to edit the book for the final form for printing. On the final week before going to the printers, I had to read the whole transcript for as many as five times in one sitting. It was very straining. It was a learning curve for me, such that I would think twice before I embark on writing another book. I am today however the better for it because I am a proud publisher of one book.

This is a reality for every other endeavour in this life. Where there is no pain, there is no gain. A proper perspective to the New Year indeed is to be open to whatever the year would bring. We should be thankful for every blessing but even more thankful for the difficulties the year may bring. We must keep in mind that at the end of a rough road are great successes, productivity and achievement.

A Merry Christmas to all my readers and do have the heart to bear with all the difficulties that 2019 would bring your way; for in the sweat is great gain.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the book Victor Banjo. He can be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

Source: http://mouthpiece.com.ng/a-proper-perspective-to-2019/

Hijab Crisis in ISI and the Loss of Missions

By: Deji Yesufu

After a knock on the door of my office, she sauntered in. She appeared unfamiliar to me. Fatimah (not real name) introduced herself. She was one of the students that come around for Industrial Training at my place of work. What caught my attention about her was her outfit: she was wearing a dark clothing that covered her from the top of her head to the sole of her feet, leaving only her face uncovered. I was intrigued that a University student would be dressed like this, so I quickly struck a conversation with her.

“You are new around here…”

“Yes.”

“I learnt that what you are wearing is not the traditional hijab. That the hijab is the clothing that covers the head to the shoulder”.

“No,” she explained, “what I am wearing is the real hijab. The one that covers the head to the shoulder is an adapted one to fit the culture of the times.”

“So the Christians who are querying the use of hijab at ISI (the International School Ibadan) are right after all. If they permit the use of the shoulder reaching hijab today, Muslims would return tomorrow to ask for the toe reaching one like you are wearing.”

She kept quiet. Then she said I was being ingenious with the argument and that I was using the information she had just supplied me against the Moslems’ quest to wear hijab in schools. She said that she actually went to a Christian secondary school where she was not allowed to use any hijab at all. But that the wearing of hijab is a religious injunction placed on every growing and adult woman in Islam.

In my last essay on the crisis of the use of hijab at the ISI, University of Ibadan (www.mouthpiece.com.ng/the-hijab-controversy-at-isi/), I took a position that supported the Christians’ desire that hijab should not be used in the school. I felt that the argument for a “uniform” among students was very sound and a hijab would strike at the heart of uniform-dressing in a school. But I ended that essay by saying that the Muslims have a right to go to court and allow the laws of the land to rule on the disputed matter. I told Fatimah this and she said:

“Yes, it is in court and hopefully we would win… we always win anyway.”

The possibility of a judgement going in favour of Muslims in this matter of the use of hijab in ISI is what has prompted this essay. I would be arguing here that there is a lot more to dressing in our schools and that Christians can actually use this situation for missions, rather than a tendency to perpetuate a tradition that, in the Christians’ mind-set, is supposed to be a “Christian” manner of dressing.

The minister at the Chapel of the Resurrection, University of Ibadan (UI), the Rev. O. K. Oyelade, revealed the minds of many Christians in the University community, when in a recent admonition to church members he called on Christians to eschew violence on this disputed matter of hijab wearing at ISI. The implication of that statement is that some people were ready to use force to ensure that the hijab is never used at the ISI. That there are people who would call themselves Christians and yet accommodate such thoughts in their minds is the more reason why Christians should understand what exactly is our calling in a world of sin.

The biggest tragedy in all these is not whether or not religious people are debating over what to wear or not wear. The biggest tragedy in this matter is the loss of the spirit of missions among Christians in the University community of UI.

If, by a special work of God, ISI happens to be in fact a “Christian” school, where there is known academic excellence and where young people leave such academic environment with a greater conception of the Christian gospel: growing in genuine love to outsiders and exemplifying practical piety; if it happens that Muslims students enrol in ISI and at the close of their six year stay return to their homes confessing Jesus Christ as the Lord of their lives, while at the same time presenting to their parents WAEC results of mostly A’s; if this is what is happening in ISI, would anyone be debating over hijab? Would Muslim parents even dare send their child to that school?

The real indictment in this matter is not the Muslims who are calling to have their children wear hijab; the real indictment are Christians who have lost the true spirit of missions that birth the ISI and other mission schools in Nigeria. Where there is no abiding influence, power or fire of the Holy Ghost any other kind of evil work would be permitted to happen.

Let me say this categorically that there is nothing Christian about ISI. It may have started as a Christian school but it has since lost that vision. It is today a secular school and a secular school should indeed permit the mode of dressing that all other religious groups, whose children are students in the school, permit. It would be pure injustice to not allow this to happen.

This matter of the wearing of hijab by Muslim girls in schools would reach up to the Supreme Court of Nigeria and there is the likelihood that the Muslims would win the case. It would then mean that hijab wearing would become permissible not only in secondary schools but also in primary schools. And it would not be because anyone wishes to Islamize Nigeria; it would be because the Nigerian Christian community had since lost its spirit of missions for a party spirit of prosperity and breakthroughs.

Can this be remedied?

I think the way forward would not be to outlaw the hijab in ISI. In fact, I would counsel that the authorities of the University of Ibadan meet with the Muslim group that went to court over this matter and settle it amicably out of court. Because if this matter reaches the Supreme court, the Christian communities are not likely to receive a favourable judgement.

As they seek to bring this matter out of the civil courts, the ISI leadership would need to look closely into the matter of its foundational principles. If indeed she is a Christian school, she would need to revive her Christian tenets and pursue to imbibe them in the lives of staffs and students. Wherever light shines, darkness will be dispelled. ISI and its officials would need to have Christ back as the Lord of their school. When Jesus rules and godliness prevails, everything ungodly would flee.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the Victor Banjo. He may be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

Source: http://mouthpiece.com.ng/hijab-crisis-in-isi-and-the-loss-of-missions/

Moderators Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44 kindly consider for front page

Hijab Crisis in ISI and the Loss of Missions

By: Deji Yesufu

After a knock on the door of my office, she sauntered in. She appeared unfamiliar to me. Fatimah (not real name) introduced herself. She was one of the students that come around for Industrial Training at my place of work.

What caught my attention about her was her outfit: she was wearing a dark clothing that covered her from the top of her head to the sole of her feet, leaving only her face uncovered. I was intrigued that a University student would be dressed like this, so I quickly struck a conversation with her.

“You are new around here...”

“Yes.”

“I learnt that what you are wearing is not the traditional hijab. That the hijab is the clothing that covers the head to the shoulder”.

“No,” she explained, “what I am wearing is the real hijab. The one that covers the head to the shoulder is an adapted one to fit the culture of the times.”

“So the Christians who are querying the use of hijab at ISI (the International School Ibadan) are right after all. If they permit the use of the shoulder reaching hijab today, Muslims would return tomorrow to ask for the toe reaching one like you are wearing.”

She kept quiet. Then she said I was being ingenious with the argument and that I was using the information she had just supplied me against the Moslems’ quest to wear hijab in schools. She said that she actually went to a Christian secondary school where she was not allowed to use any hijab at all. But that the wearing of hijab is a religious injunction placed on every growing and adult woman in Islam.

In my last essay on the crisis of the use of hijab at the ISI, University of Ibadan (www.mouthpiece.com.ng/the-hijab-controversy-at-isi/), I took a position that supported the Christians’ desire that hijab should not be used in the school. I felt that the argument for a “uniform” among students was very sound and a hijab would strike at the heart of uniform-dressing in a school. But I ended that essay by saying that the Muslims have a right to go to court and allow the laws of the land to rule on the disputed matter. I told Fatimah this and she said:

“Yes, it is in court and hopefully we would win... we always win anyway.”

The possibility of a judgement going in favour of Muslims in this matter of the use of hijab in ISI is what has prompted this essay. I would be arguing here that there is a lot more to dressing in our schools and that Christians can actually use this situation for missions, rather than a tendency to perpetuate a tradition that, in the Christians’ mind-set, is supposed to be a “Christian” manner of dressing.

The minister at the Chapel of the Resurrection, University of Ibadan (UI), the Rev. O. K. Oyelade, revealed the minds of many Christians in the University community, when in a recent admonition to church members he called on Christians to eschew violence on this disputed matter of hijab wearing at ISI. The implication of that statement is that some people were ready to use force to ensure that the hijab is never used at the ISI. That there are people who would call themselves Christians and yet accommodate such thoughts in their minds is the more reason why Christians should understand what exactly is our calling in a world of sin.

The biggest tragedy in all these is not whether or not religious people are debating over what to wear or not wear. The biggest tragedy in this matter is the loss of the spirit of missions among Christians in the University community of UI.

If, by a special work of God, ISI happens to be in fact a “Christian” school, where there is known academic excellence and where young people leave such academic environment with a greater conception of the Christian gospel: growing in genuine love to outsiders and exemplifying practical piety; if it happens that Muslims students enrol in ISI and at the close of their six year stay return to their homes confessing Jesus Christ as the Lord of their lives, while at the same time presenting to their parents WAEC results of mostly A’s; if this is what is happening in ISI, would anyone be debating over hijab? Would Muslim parents even dare send their child to that school?

The real indictment in this matter is not the Muslims who are calling to have their children wear hijab; the real indictment are Christians who have lost the true spirit of missions that birth the ISI and other mission schools in Nigeria. Where there is no abiding influence, power or fire of the Holy Ghost any other kind of evil work would be permitted to happen.

Let me say this categorically that there is nothing Christian about ISI. It may have started as a Christian school but it has since lost that vision. It is today a secular school and a secular school should indeed permit the mode of dressing that all other religious groups, whose children are students in the school, permit. It would be pure injustice to not allow this to happen.

This matter of the wearing of hijab by Muslim girls in schools would reach up to the Supreme Court of Nigeria and there is the likelihood that the Muslims would win the case. It would then mean that hijab wearing would become permissible not only in secondary schools but also in primary schools. And it would not be because anyone wishes to Islamize Nigeria; it would be because the Nigerian Christian community had since lost its spirit of missions for a party spirit of prosperity and breakthroughs.

Can this be remedied?

I think the way forward would not be to outlaw the hijab in ISI. In fact, I would counsel that the authorities of the University of Ibadan meet with the Muslim group that went to court over this matter and settle it amicably out of court. Because if this matter reaches the Supreme court, the Christian communities are not likely to receive a favourable judgement.

As they seek to bring this matter out of the civil courts, the ISI leadership would need to look closely into the matter of its foundational principles. If indeed she is a Christian school, she would need to revive her Christian tenets and pursue to imbibe them in the lives of staffs and students. Wherever light shines, darkness will be dispelled. ISI and its officials would need to have Christ back as the Lord of their school. When Jesus rules and godliness prevails, everything ungodly would flee.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the Victor Banjo. He may be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1919782214764646&id=1505609702848568

Concluded:

One high point of my stay in Enugu is in discovering the phenomenon called Gburugburu. Gburugburu is the nick name of the present Governor of Enugu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. Gburugburu means “everywhere”. I understand it is a name of a chieftaincy title that he holds but it portrays in real fact the kind of person that he is. Ugwuanyi is a big fellow with a big heart. He is generally regarded as a “performing” Governor. Enugu State, since 1999, has been led by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The party has succeeded in zoning out the governorship seat to the three Senatorial zones in the city. Ugwuanyi is from the northern senatorial zone, Nsukka. In spite of the work he has done in Enugu, he has also helped to improve the infrastructures in Nsukka.

John took me to Nsukka for a burial. It was a delight driving from the town of Opi to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, on a road that Ugwuanyi had only recently built. The commercial aspect of that city had opened up a great deal; making it easy for transporters coming from the North and Benue State, to connect through the city unto Port Harcourt.

Then there is the night life of Enugu city. I was told that Enugu is only second to Owerri (Imo State) in night party ridding. Hotel business is a booming business in Enugu. In fact there are seasons that hotels are fully booked in the city. Enugu folks love life and they live it to the fullest. There is very little crime and the people are very hardworking. There is also the booming estate business in the city.

I personally have not seen as many estates anywhere else as I saw in Enugu. It seems to me that everyone is either building a house or has built a house in that city. The city is a massive construction site. John told me that some two to three years ago, people of Eastern origin suddenly awoke to the consciousness of building their own region. So even though they do not live in these houses, except at Christmas, everyone owns a house back home in Enugu.

My book had been written around a central theme that Nigeria is better together than divided. I saw this theme play out in practical terms while I was in Enugu. Not for once was I discriminated against because I was Yoruba. In fact the very moment anyone learnt I was a visitor, everyone made efforts to ensure that I was most at home in the city.

At the Centre for Memories, were I gave my first book reading on Saturday 3rd, November, I was guest to Prof. Rena Okonkwo. She is a retired Professor of History from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She did a brief review of my book with the guests and then I was invited to speak to them. Ms. Adachukwu Onwudiwe and Ms. Florence Ugwu of the Crater Library and Publishers, coordinated everything around my literary works in the city. I remain greatly indebted to the duo.

On Saturday, 10th of November, I was guest of the Enugu Literary Society at Radio Nigeria, Enugu. Mr. Ken Ike, the Zonal Director of Radio Nigeria Enugu, was my host. He led me through a series of questions and answers on my book, as I sat before scores of guests who had come to the program that evening.

The event that evening is probably one that I would never forget. The Enugu Literary Society is a forum that holds every second Saturday of each month at the Radio Nigeria and it has writers come to talk about their books. They have students from Secondary Schools, who are interested in Literature, come also to both talk about their own writings and to listen to published writers. As I sat and watched these young people talk and ask questions, I knew that Eastern Nigeria was already sowing seeds of greatness for its future. Other regions of this country have a lot to imitate from them.

My trip to Enugu had come within a few days of my annual leave. It is the best holidays I have ever taken in my life. Enugu is a city you would want to visit or even live in. What I saw in that city is a pointer to a great future that awaits Eastern Nigeria and the whole country in the days to come. There is a sense in it that my trip to Enugu was a kind of gburugburu around Eastern Nigeria – it took me everywhere I never dreamt I would go to in that region of this country.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the book Victor Banjo. He can be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

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I must commend the hospitality of Enugu people and their kindness to strangers. Unlike Western Nigeria where many people tend to fear being used for fetish purposes, the few people I asked directions of in Enugu were always very gracious to help me out. My host had instructed someone to drive me from the motor park to the house. After a few minutes, I found him and then headed to my place of abode.

Enugu is an ancient city in Nigeria. It was the capital city of the defunct Eastern region in the colonial/post independence years. Since those days, Enugu city has developed considerably to a modern city state that is arguably one of the most organized cities in Nigeria. One must testify to the ingenuity of successive governors in the state that have given priority to construction of roads in the city. Enugu road network are so well done that I could say that in my ten day stay in the city, I did not meet one single hold up. The efforts of successive state governors to build Enugu is even more commendable considering that the state is not an oil producing state. They are clearly using their meagre resources very well.

Independence Lay Out, Enugu, is the heart of the city. This part of the city is a real beauty. It houses many of federal and state government buildings. I was at the Michael Opara square, right at the middle of Independence Layout, on the last Saturday of my stay in Enugu. There I met hundreds of Enugu city dwellers who had come out early in the morning to exercise, jug and to generally keep fit. It is the first time in my life to see a whole city giving premium to a vital matter of health and fitness. I was told by John, my friend who took me around to see the city, that even military and para-military personals join in this fitness work that take place every Saturday at the Michael Opara Square. Following my experience there, since arriving from Enugu, I have kept a daily fitness schedule here in Ibadan.

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Gburugburu: My Trip to Enugu

By: Deji Yesufu

My biggest ambition for the year had been to take my book, Victor Banjo, to Eastern Nigeria. I thought that if I have written a book against the cessation call by the Indigenous People of Biafra from Nigeria, there was no better place to tell the story than in Igbo land itself. So I reached out to friends in Enugu and the trip was planned. November 2, a Friday, I was on my way to Eastern Nigeria to discuss my book with the people of Enugu. This would be my first trip to Eastern Nigeria.

Prior to going to Enugu, my mind had been filled with all kinds of misconceptions about Igbo land. I had people around me who were certain that I was going to meet a certain death in the East. “How dare you go to the East and criticize Ojukwu?” I was warned. It was not that I was not afraid; I think the sheer thought of adventure overshadowed all my fears. I was however afraid of being kidnapped; so I never broadcasted my location on social media throughout my stay in Enugu, except when I was at public meetings. I would learn during my stay that kidnapping is history in Enugu.

Mentally, I was prepared for the close to ten hour trip from Ibadan to Enugu but by the time we were leaving Awka, I was beginning to get desperate. We entered the city of Enugu at about 6:30pm and the first thing that took my breadth away was looking at the vast spread of the city from the heights of the Milliken Hills. It was a beautiful sight to behold. The State Government of Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had only recently refurbished the road that snaked through the hills at the entrance to the city and had provided lightings and barriers against cars falling off the edges. The sight of the city from that height put a hunger in me to see more of Enugu from that moment.

Oyedepo, Mbaka: A Terrible Day for Religion

By: Deji Yesufu

It was a terrible day for religion in Nigeria this past week as the overseeing Bishop of the Living Faith Churches, David Oyedepo, and the man at Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Fr. Ejike Mbaka, made various gaffes in their sermons that caught the attention of Nigerians. What might have been more tragic about these statements was that these popular charismatics ministers may not have realized the mistakes in their statements. Instead their followers have stood with them, while the pastors utilize age old silence to subdue their critics who have drawn their attention variously to these matters.

David Oyedepo, while ministering to members of his church at Otta, Ogun State, spoke of the growing rumour among Nigerians that an impersonator has taken the place of Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President, at the nation’s seat of power in Abuja. To lend credence to his position, Oyedepo quotes Olatunji Dare article of 27th November, 2018, titled “Buhari’s Double”. Oyedepo, reading from a script, said:

“This disturbing information came from the Nation Newspaper of Tuesday, 27th November 2018, written by one Olatunji Dare, exploded with ‘authoritative assertions’, he said, claiming among others: That President Buhari had died in the U.K. in 2017, whilst he was undergoing medical treatment. HOW? That the entrenched cabal in Aso Rock had procured ‘President Buhari’s double’ in Sudan and pressed him to serve as Nigerian President. What? That the representatives of the ‘Jubril’ family having discovered the gigantic swindle, suddenly showed up in Abuja and demanded to be compensated with power-sharing arrangement at the Federal level in perpetuity plus 50% of Nigerian oil revenues for 10 years in the first instance.”

What the Bishop read was precisely what Mr. Dare wrote. What the revered minister failed to see in the write up was the satire in the whole piece. Olatunji Dare had been discussing the matter of Nnamdi Kanu and his propagating of the “Buhari Double” rumour. Mr. Dare, in his bid to make Kanu’s position sound even more ridiculous, went further to say that the family of Buhari’s impersonator, Jibril, were blackmailing the Nigerian government on the whole matter. Dare made up the satire to make Kanu’s position sound preposterous. This is what David Oyedepo read to his congregation as news!

The other gaffe that made the news in the past week was the one from Fr. Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministries, Enugu. The revered Catholic Charismatic pastor did not conceal his love for money when he took the Nigerian president through his legendary caustic tongue. Mbaka said that he had prayed for the recovery of President Buhari and in return the President should have come to Adoration Ministries to “thank God”. He said no one cheats God and goes free. He warned that Buhari’s illness may return if the President did not come to him and offer thanksgiving.

While many where still in the dark as to the nature of the gratitude the President should offer, Mbaka embarks on a tirade of other political figures. He says that Peter Obi is stingy. That all he could offer his ministry was a miserly half a million naira. He said:

“(Gov. Dave) Umahi (of Ebonyi State) donated 1,000 bags of rice and 1,000 tubers of yam to us, but it meant nothing to me until he handed N10 million cheque to me and promised to build a project for the ministry. This is the type of gesture we require from Obi.”

At the end of the tirade, it was clear that pecuniary reasons were the factors that were engendering the latest statement from the popular Enugu reverend father.

These two incidents have quite unexpectedly revealed certain realities about popular figures in Nigerian religious life. Speaking on the incident, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju gave this advice on her Facebook wall: “…Good education is sweet! Read classics, great biographies & good fiction. You can’t achieve depth by reading; Rich Dad, Poor Dad…” She was saying, in other words, that if David Oyedepo was adept in reading, beyond the prosperity/faith jargon he writes, he would have recognized satire from what Olatunji Dare wrote.

The fact of the matter is that some of the least informed set of people in the country today are Pentecostal Pastors and their followers. Beyond whatever professional career they may be involved with, Pentecostals do not read anything but Prosperity/Faith theological books. At the end, they are usually wholly uninformed when it comes to dealing with other matters in the real world.

On the other hand, and quite unfortunately, Fr. Ejike Mbaka has revealed what many of us have long suspected is the underlying motive for his kind of ministry: MONEY. Mbaka spoke from the abundance of his heart, and since Catholic Charismatics are usually not the object of criticism in the religious sphere, he felt free to speak about the pecuniary undertone of his ministry. Unfortunately for him, he revealed too much.

In November this year, I was in Enugu to market my book Victor Banjo. My friends, who were taking me around to see the city, pointed out to me that Mbaka’s bottled water Aqua Rapha was the leading bottled water company in Enugu and environs. In fact it was initially named Healing Waters. But NAFDAC had a running battle with Mbaka and forced him to change the name, so that the public are not deceived to using the water for healing purposes.

Yet, the bottled water is all that Enugu folks drink. Why? They hold that Mbaka’s healing powers are in the water. Besides, the term “Aqua Rapha” is still “healing water” in Greek. That experience with Aqua Rapha remains the only let down to my wonderful experience while visiting the beautiful city of Enugu.

What is my point?

For too long we have centred our attention on Pentecostals and their use of God to make money in ministry. Very few people are commenting on Catholic Charismatics. The fact, as revealed in the latest Mbaka gaffe, is that there is practically no difference in all of them. Mbaka is in this thing for the money; just like his Pentecostal counterparts.

The lesson is simple: men’s hearts are revealed from the multitudes of the words they proclaim. The wise speak little so as to reveal less folly. The foolish utter it all to his own disgrace. It was a terrible day for religion in Nigeria with these various gaffes from David Oyedepo and Ejike Mbaka.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the book Victor Banjo. He can be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/oyedepo-mbaka-a-terrible-day-for-religion/

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John Chau’s Death and Paul Enenche’s Dome

By: Deji Yesufu

This past week, the Christian world witnessed two phenomena that would cause one to wonder whether we really have gotten our priorities right as Christians in the 21st century. The first is the plethora of critical remarks that has followed the death of John Allen Chau, the missionary killed on an island off the shore of India. The other incidence is the commissioning of a 100,000 capacity church auditorium by Paul Enenche in the capital city of Nigeria, Abuja.

John Chau, an American, was a twenty six year old graduate of Oral Roberts University. He felt a great burden for unreached people around the world and thought that he could direct his missionary effort at the Sentinelese people on an Island near India. The Sentinelese are a tribe of people living on an Island but who have expressed a desire not to be reached by the outside world. Without any direct communication with them, but having expressed continual hostilities to visitors, India authorities have made it illegal for anyone to reach these people. The foremost reason being that since they are an isolated people, their immunity would be low and so no one should go close to the island and infect them with diseases.

John Chau had other plans. Chau understood the gospel enough to realize that a people like these also need to hear the Christian message. In the cover of darkness, and with the aid of local fishermen, Chau reached the island on November 15th, in a boat he paddled onshore himself. He called out to the locals, telling them that Jesus loved them. They were hostile; they shot at him with arrows, one of it even pierced his Bible. He returned to the local fishermen that brought him that night and left a detailed account of his experience in a diary. The next day he returned to the Island and made more daring efforts to approach the locals. The fishermen who took him there watched as the locals attacked him, killed him and buried him in a shallow grave. John had written in his diary that if he ever was killed, no one should come to retrieve his body.

The death of this young American missionary has shocked the world. Leading world news outlets, like Cable Network News (CNN), have been reporting the story. The Indian government has arrested the local fishermen that took Chau to the Island; claiming that they broke the law in going there. Last of all, a lot of people, including Christians, have been calling Mr. Chau a fool and a man who took his missionary zeal to extremes and thus earned for himself an early death.

In another part of the world, this time closer home; in the capital city of Nigeria – Abuja, a Pentecostal Pastor, Mr. Paul Enenche, has built the largest church auditorium in the world. The church, that was commissioned with fan fare on Saturday, 24th November, with dignitaries that include former President Goodluck Jonathan, Aminu Dogara – Speaker of the House of Representatives, E. A. Adeboye, David Oyedepo, and not a few pastors and politicians, including the aje ku iya music maestro, Dino Melaye, is a 100,000 capacity church auditorium, built on the outskirt of the city of Abuja. It is reported that a whooping $3 billion was spent in building the auditorium (that would amount to about N1 trillion). It is the talk of the town and many are praising the feat of Enenche, who has broken the record of David Oyedepo, in building an auditorium that is much larger than the one Oyedepo has at the Canaan Land, Otta, Ogun State.

As a Christian commentator, permit me to draw the attention of my readers to some things the Bible says. The Bible makes it clear that it is the duty of Christians to preach the gospel everywhere (Matthew 28:19). In fact our Lord Jesus Christ says he would not return until the whole earth is filled with his message (Matthew 24:14). In the process of reaching the nations with the gospel, our scripture tells us that our lives are not safe; that we are like sheep among wolves (Matthew 10:16). That the spirit we must have as missionaries is one in which we must not be self preserving: we must not save our lives, for if we do it, we would loose true life (Matthew 10:39). Now, if we believe the Bible and the various accounts in it, we see that John Chau has been faithful to his calling as a Christian. He has lived out the tenets of the faith like the apostles of Christ, the early Christians and like Christ himself. Chau, rather than be criticized, should be praised for doing something that most of us would not do. His life is both a rebuke and a challenge to our laid back kind of Christianity today.

On the other hand, when we come to the New Testament, we do not have one building Jesus and his apostles built as a place of worship. There is no church auditorium in the whole of the Bible! Yes, there were Jewish temples/synagogues but there certainly were no church buildings. In the book of Acts, it is clear that the Jewish people accommodated the early church for a while in the temple but as time went on, and the discrepancies between Christianity and Judaism became clearer, the Christians were sent out of the synagogues, even as Christ had predicted (John 16:2), and they met in each other’s homes. Home churches were the prevailing churches in the New Testament, and those who know a thing about early Jewish home architecture, say that these houses could not accommodate more than a dozen persons at a time. I have written all these to say that the concept of a building, where thousands of people congregate to worship God, is foreign to the New Testament. I am saying in effect that while the world may condemn John Chau for his actions that led to his death, the Bible praises his courage. And while the world praises Enenche for his feat, the scripture has no such example in them. I dare say there is nothing Christian about building large auditoriums in Christendom.

Sometimes in 2013, when Enoch Adeboye began to build his 3km by 3km church auditorium within the Redeemed Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, I made it clear that the whole project was a manifestation of a lack of Christian vision on the part of the Redeemed Church that Adeboye leads (http://yesufu..com/2013/08/my-position-on-rccgs-3-km-by-3km-church.html). I also warned that this quest to build larger and larger buildings, would become an example to younger pastors in Nigeria and they would begin to fall over each other to build. Alas, we have a Paul Enenche and the church he has built today.

The real trouble with these pastors competing to outdo each other in building larger and larger buildings is not in the building itself, but in the fact that their actions are not inspired by the Holy Spirit of Christ. I would explain.

When the Holy Spirit possesses a man he comes into him as a result of his hearing the Christian message of the death and resurrection of Christ. He changes the man’s heart and mind, and leads him on a path of continual renewal of mind. Whatever else that man does, missions remains the driving motives behind his actions. A true Christian wants others to be like him; he wants men to be saved. A true Christian pursues to make the human body the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is what happened to John Chau, regardless of the outcome of his life. For those who think that Chau wasted his life, they should remember that liberal and godless TV stations like CNN, do not mention “God” in their broadcasts. But to report Chau, they needed to tell the world his message, which is: “Jesus loves you”. Chau’s death has brought more attention to Christ and his message in one week than we have had in many years. Not only this, the Christian’s blood is seed and with the shedding of this young man’s blood on that island, greater attention would be placed on unreached nations for Christ’s sake. Chau’s death is an eye opener and a challenge to all Christians that the world needs to hear the gospel.

On the other hand, when a false spirit, that arises from a false Christian message, particularly the pervasive prosperity gospel of our time, possesses a people, the people would think they are Christians and would embark on numerous activities that they think has God’s pleasure in it. One of them would be the building of large church auditorium. Because they lack discernment, they would not see that what is at the heart of their actions is vain glory rather than the glory of Jesus Christ. They have amassed a following of false Christians, who have been taught that their calling in life is to live healthy and wealthy, and their means to secure this is to give to the these churches. They give tithes, prophetic offering, building offering, along with the compulsory sacrificial giving. It is the pastors who smile to the bank in the process. And since they have nothing else to use money for, they embark on white elephant projects like the building of larger and larger church auditorium. False Christians pursues to make brick moulding the temple of God.

In a nation where people are living in abject poverty, these pastors flaunt their wealth and show the world their achievement like the building of a 100,000 capacity church auditorium.

While the church was being dedicated in Abuja, reports was reaching Nigerians that one hundred and fifteen soldiers, waging war against the Islamic terrorists in North Eastern Nigeria, had been killed by the insurgents. While Christians fiddle with things that are not essential, Nigeria burns from the attacks of terrorists on her sovereignty. Yet we remember that if Nigerian Christians had possessed a fraction of the missionary zeal that John Chau had, that led him to that remote island close to India, perhaps we would have invaded northern Nigeria in the 1980/90s with the gospel and converted the young boys who are today leading commanders in the Boko Haram insurgency.

It is however not too late. Christians need to realize our calling and do it. Our calling is to preach the gospel, especially in unreached areas of the world, while trusting God to convert the men who hear us. As we do this, Christian missionary activities will bring light and development to places in the world that do not have them. Prosperity would come to nations and men would generally be blessed. This is the testimony that the missionaries of yore had. This can be our testimony too today.

Deji Yesufu is the author of the book Victor Banjo. He may be reached on newdejix@gmail.com

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I write this with tears in my heart.... and almost a confused mind.

I recently met woman back in August this year who is also in my line of work, oil and gas......she is a Nigerian/Canadian as I learnt just last night, mixed root.

at first I was captivated by her stunning beauty/drive for excellence.....before I knew it we both had clicked .....understanding each other very well.

she is a Sagittarius and am a leo......meaning we both in some ways shares same thing in common 'workaholics/honest/generous'

I was helplessly in love with her....

NOTE: SHE RESIDES IN ABUJA WITH HER PARENTS WHILE AS AT WHEN WE MET ONLINE I WAS IN LUXEMBOURG HOLIDAYING.....CAME IN RECENTLY AND HAD SCHEDULED OUR FIRST MEETING COME 23RD NOV BEING HER BIRTHDAY.

Having shared her odeal with men and how she was abused by her last fiance for years and her resolve never to date again.......upon my recommendation she began taking classes that would help her mindset on men as she hates men atleast i suspected.

now we both are deeply in love..... HOWEVER LAST NIGHT WHILE ON PHONE I SHARED MY AGE WITH HER (34) AND GOT THE SHOCKER OF MY LIFE WHEN I HEARD HER SAY SHE IS (45)!!!!

I COULDNT BELIEVE MY EARS COS SHE LOOKED WAY YOUNGER THAN THAT AGE ..........

AM CONFUSED.....

I know hence I love her am meant to overlook her age and etc.....but this lady is authoritative and rude though I cautions her from time to time , bug then I fear if I proceed with this I might be her puppy above all am just confused.

PLEASE I NEED SEASONED ADVICE FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IN SAME POSITIONS.

WHAT ARE THE CONS AND PROS IN THIS SITUATION!

AM 35 ....SHE IS 45!!!

Friend, it won't work. Move on.

If love is blind, marriage will make you see clearly.

I married a lady 4 months older than me. That remains an issue in our home.

Find someone else. Let her find someone else.

You may reach me privately for more talks. D. M.

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