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‘’ Why I endorse Buhari/Osinbajo ticket’’
By Pastor Sunday Adelaja
Dear friends,
This article is going to be divided into six parts for easier reading and digestion.
Part 1: - The Professor Yemi Osinbajo that I know
Part 2: - Reasons for my endorsement.
Part 3: - Is Gen. Buhari an Islamic fundamentalist?
Part 4: - why I believe President Jonathan is far more a fundamentalist than Gen. Buhari
Part 5: - ‘‘Pastor Sunday how dare you support a Muslim candidate’’?
Part 6: - Reasons why I cannot Support the Jonathan/sambo ticket.

Today we are starting with part 1: The Professor Yemi Osinbajo that I know.
Introduction:
To paraphrase the great quotation ‘Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is the truth’ by Isaac newton. In my words, I will say ‘Jonathan is my president, Goodluck is a Christian, but Nigeria is my greatest love’
I would like to appeal to everyone that will see this article not to be in a hurry to ‘stone’ me, especially before you finish reading it. This is because I have seen a lot of emotions, sentiments and prejudices from the comments that were written under the article I had earlier posted on my Facebook page. As a matter of fact, I was not planning to make my position a public knowledge, but seeing the reactions and the emotions that any form of support for Buhari/Osinbajo generates among Christians, I decided to make my position known at least to those who see me as a leader in the body of Christ. Mainly because of the above mentioned quotation that to me the destiny and future of Nigeria is paramount to any sentiment.
I therefore believe that I owe it to my friends, colleges and posterity to explain why I believe the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket is the life line to the Nigerian nation right now. Of course you all have the right to your opinions and you have the right to agree or disagree, but I think it would be fair for you to hear my point of view.
From the comments on my Facebook, I can envisage disappointment and disillusionment in a lot of my followers as a result of my position, I might actually be losing some friends and fans as a result but let’s not forget the words of Isaac newton ‘Plato is my friend— Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is the truth’ . Therefore I say ‘Jonathan is my president, Goodluck is a Christian, but Nigeria is my greatest love’
I have never done this before, to voice my position on the political issues of Nigeria publicly, especially through social media, newspaper or internet but the future of Nigeria compels me.
Ecclesiastics 10:16-17
16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,
And your princes feast in the morning!
17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles,
And your princes feast at the proper time—
For strength and not for drunkenness!

Part 1: - The Professor Yemi Osinbajo that I know
Until Gen. Buhari picked Professor Yemi Osinbajo as his running mate, I was not certain about my decision. In my opinion the choice of Professor Osinbajo wasn’t just a choice made by man, I believe it was God who handpicked him as Buhari’s running mate.
Why do I think so?
I know the man!
I would dare to say that I personally do not know any other Christian leader in Nigeria with the kind of impeccable reputation, character and integrity as that of Professor Osinbajo. Friends, THE MAN IS REAL!
Everyone talks about the integrity and the purity of Pastor Adeboye and rightly so, I dare to say that Professor Osinbajo is a son and a carbon copy of Pastor Adeboye when it comes to integrity and character. Anybody who has met him will affirm the same.
There is no other person like Professor Osinbajo! Anyone that knows him very well will tell you the same thing. He is in a class of his own. I can confidently vouch for him and say to my fellow Nigerians that with the emergence of Professor Osinbajo, we can say at last that Nigeria as a nation has started releasing her best sons to the seat of government.
Ecclesiastics 10:16-17
16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,
And your princes feast in the morning!
17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles,
And your princes feast at the proper time—
For strength and not for drunkenness!
In the ticket of Gen. Buhari and Professor Osinbajo, I see sons of nobles becoming the kings of Nigeria. I see in these people, princes that would feast at the proper time- for strength and not for drunkenness.
Unfortunately what has been happening in Nigeria in the last six years can only be compared to a situation where the kings of our land has been like children, who feast in the morning. The predictable outcome of such a predicament is a tale of woes.
As a result, Nigeria has not been able to set herself free from all sorts of calamities, adversaries, woes and troubles, because our rulers have been as children and our princes (government officials) are those who like to feast in the morning. No purposeful person goes to feast in the morning, the morning is a time of labor, hard work and diligence. But from the stories we have been hearing of how our natural resources and billions of dollars are been depleted, we could see that our princes are on a ‘shopping and spending spree’. However, we need sons of nobles, those who will know how to delay their gratification, restrain their appetite and those who will go to work hard on behalf of the nation.
The Osinbajo and Buhari that I know are men of Nobles that know how to delay gratification, men who don’t expect something for nothing, men of diligent labor.
Professor Osinbajo is one of the youngest and most brilliant Professor of Law Nigeria has ever produced. He understands law, academics and economics. He is perfectly prepared to manage the nation. His eight years in the executive arm of the Lagos state government attests to this. He brought more reforms to the government than any attorney general has ever done. His reputation was so outstanding, pure and incorruptible that it gained a legendary status among those who know him. Friends, believe me, if he could do that in Lagos state, he can do that for Nigeria.
Professor Osinbajo is not just an intellectual per excellence, but he is a genuine child of God, a Pastor who cannot be a stooge to anyone.

Copied from Sunday Adelaja's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sunday.adelaja/posts/10200148597193771

The NNPC Aptitude Test conducted nation-wide today was just concluded here in Ibadan (University of Ibadan) around 3:15pm.

Kindly share your experience.
Are the questions tough?
Are the organizers organized?
Are the venue easily located?
Do you think the result will be fair?

The First/Premier University in Nigeria, University of Ibadan celebrates its 66-year of existence today.

Brief History of University of Ibadan
The University of Ibadan, founded in 1948, is the oldest university in Nigeria and the only institution founded before the country became independent in 1960. The University of Ibadan is a federally-controlled public university located in Ibadan, Oyo State. As of 2009 it had an enrollment of over 12,000 students.

On November 17, 1948. Arthur Creech Jones, then the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, led the inauguration ceremony of the institution. The university was originally created as an extension of the University of London and was called University College, Ibadan. Its ties to the London campus included the grading of major exams at the British university's home campus. The first significant campus expansion occurred in 1957 with the creation of a College of Medicine that included a 500-bed teaching hospital.

University College, Ibadan became an independent university in 1962 when it severed its last links to the University of London. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, was named the university’s first chancellor the following year.

The university has thirteen different colleges or schools, including Colleges of Medicine, Agriculture and Forestry, Law, Education, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine, and Technology. The largest faculties are in the social sciences, the arts, and applied science. The campus also has thirteen residence halls for undergraduate and graduate students. Other university facilities include a botanical garden, a zoological garden, and the University Media Centre, which houses the campus radio station.

University of Ibadan alumni include Wole Soyinka who in 1986 became the first African to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Soyinka later taught at the campus. Chinua Achebe, the other leading contemporary Nigerian writer, is an alumnus of the campus as well as environmental and political activist Kenule "Ken" Saro-Wiwa, who was executed in 1995 by the Nigerian government for his role in protesting foreign oil company exploitation of the people and resources of the Niger Delta.

Few among other prominent alumni of the institution include
Prof. Ayo Banjo
Pastor William Kumuyi
Prof. Niyi Osundare
Prof. Abiola Irele
Prof. J.P. Clark
Prof. Michael Omolewa
Prof. Wande Abimbola
Gamaliel Onosode
Farida Waziri

Part of the activities making the celebration is Admission to Higher Degrees (Doctorate) and Award of Honorary Degrees to the following eminent persons:

1. Chief Oluwole Oladapo Olanipekun, SAN, OFR: Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and immediate past Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the University of Ibadan Governing Council 2009 – 2013 (LL.D).

2. Emeritus Professor Theophilus Oladapo Ogunlesi, OFR, FAS, FRCP, FMCPN, DFMCN, FWACP: First Nigerian Professor of Medicine, First Nigerian Head of the Department of Medicine and the First Nigerian to obtain the Membership and later Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London (D.Sc.).

3. Emeritus Professor Tekena Nitonye Tamuno: First alumnus of the University of Ibadan to become its Vice-Chancellor (D.Litt.).

4. Otunba Mike Adeniyi Isola Adenuga, Jr. GCON: An outstanding industrialist who sits atop Africa’s largest business empire comprising oil and gas, telecommunications, aviation, banking and real estate; building his companies in each of these sectors into major players (D.Sc.).

5. Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka: An essayist, poet, novelist, first African Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1986 and wonderful alumnus of the University (D.Litt.).

Source: U.I. Website

The President of Bahamas Faith Ministries Dr. Myles Munroe and the wife Mrs. Ruth Munroe has passed away. They were both said to lost their lives in a plane crash that claimed life of nine other people on board. Munroe is no doubt a blessing to this generation, because of his impact on the youths with his motivational and insightful teachings. He authored the popular volumes of books like Realizing your Potential, Understanding your Potential and Releasing your Potential. He died on the eve of a 2014 Global Leadership Forum.
Calling him a gem will be understatement
Calling him a hero will not be enough to describe him
I will simply call you a man
Because that is what his Creator originally called him.
Have you ever been touched by his ministry, then share your experience
Have you ever been transformed by his book, then share your experience.

Oklahoma State Football team forward Courtney Dike has rejected the $7000 paid to her by the Nigeria Football Federation for participating at 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada saying the honour of playing for the country was enough reward for her.

The 19-year-old, who is the younger sister of Super Eagles forward Bright Dike, represented the country at the competition where she scored the fastest goal in the tournament’s history.

NFF Head of Competition Sanusi Mohammed told Sports Radio, Brila FM, that the player rejected the outstanding allowances accrued to her for representing the country at the 10-day tournament.

Sanusi told Brila FM, “When we called her mother to confirm the delivery of the allowances, she declined it and insisted that the opportunity of playing for Nigeria was all the reward the family needed.”

Dike’s elder brother, Bright, featured for Nigeria at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil but missed the 2014 World Cup by a foot injury which side-lined him for four months.

Meanwhile, the head of the Nigeria Women League board Dilichukwu Onyedinma has said the player deserves a national award for her patriotic act.

The Women’s league boss told Football live, a programme on Brila FM, that what Dike did was worth emulating by other players in the country.

Dilichukwu told Football live, “She is a star and patriotic Nigerian who put service to her fatherland above money. The minister is aware and we will push the act before the NFF so it can inspire many others.”

She added, “Doing this with the backing of her parents, Courtney Dike should be applauded and perhaps celebrated.”

Courtesy of The Punch Newspaper of Wed Nov 05, 2014

Where on earth can I take ugly picture of the sky, pls?

For whatever reasons they like.

U.I. resumes on 06 Jan., 2013, although school has re-opened.

Whatever jare, leave me alone