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Wednesday, 28 September 2016

FROM DEATH TO LIFE

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Wednesday, September 28

John 5:24-27

FROM DEATH TO LIFE

… I say unto you he that heareth my word … hath everlasting life, and … is passed from death unto life.
John 5:24, KJV

Life is precious and it is understandable why humans would want to do anything to keep it. People dread talking about death because they feel that doing that can bring death closer to them. The certainty, however, is that no matter how hard we try to

BREAKING: Biafra: Another Judge Hands Off Nnamdi Kanu’s Case

John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has stepped down from the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

Mr. Tsoho is the second judge to do so.

Mr. Kanu is facing treason charges brought by the Nigerian government for leading a separatist group.
He has been in detention since October 2015.

The first judge in the case, Ahmed Mohammed, stepped down in December 2015, after Mr. Kanu said he had no confidence in him.

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has followed in the footsteps of his Ekiti State counterpart, Ayo Fayose, by making anastonishing appointment when he named Daye Graham-Douglas as his Special Assistant on Street/Traffic Lights.

A statement signed by Wike's Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, stated that Graham-Douglas, a scion of the popular Douglas family in the oil-rich state, was found worthy of the appointment going by his giant strides and contribution to the state.

I'm one of those people who think Donald Trump's presidential candidacy is Reality TV gone too far - the longest running episode of Punk'd.

Half the time I expect to see Kutcher jump in front of the camera and scream (with his signature shitty grin); "I'm back suckers - and you've just been Punk'd!"

It is no secret that the Nigerian passport is not worth much, but the recent passport ranking by passport index truly puts things in perspectives.

In the recent ranking, the green Nigerian passport is the 82nd most powerful passport in the world alongside neighbours Cameroon.

The Nigerian passport

(saharareporters)

The criteria for ranking passports by the number of countries that can be visited without applying for a visa. Remarkably African nations, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Central African Republic, Liberia, Algeria, Chad, Rwanda, Madagascar, Gabon, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Egypt, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Senegal rank higher than Nigeria.

South Africa passport

(dontparty)

The South African passport is ranked 46 making it the most powerful passport in Africa. The five most powerful passport in the world are;

Germany and Sweden
Finland, France, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom
Denmark. Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, South Korea, Norway
Singapore, Luxembourg, Austria, Portugal, United States of America
Greece, Ireland, Japan

The passport of Germany

(Wikipedia )

A single African passport, which is already available to African head of states and African diplomats, would most likely come into existence by 2018.

If this becomes a reality, it would solve Nigeria's passport problems. A lot of Nigerians face a lot of delays at many airports in the world because of the Nigerian passport. As a matter of fact, the Nigerian passport is treated with disdain around the world.

Nonsense: SARS officer who killed 20-yr-old student in Lagos arrested

The trigger-happy police officer attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), of the Lagos State Police Command who allegedly shot dead a 20-year-old student of a polytechnic in Edo State, Eldanojie Joseph, has been arrested and is being detained at the command's headquarters in Ikeja.

The young student was reportedly sent to an early grave when the SARS officers were chasing a suspected Internet fraudster at the Ogoja Market along LASU-Igando Road and started shooting sporadically.

The mini-skirt, as small as it is seems to cause a lot of fuss in government institutions.

On August 29, 2016, the management of theNigerian Port Authority (NPA) apparently banned its female staff from wearing certain types of clothes and skirts. Of course, one of the mini-skirt was among them.

A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a Kano Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki, on Monday, September 26, for stealing slippers.

The presiding Senior Magistrate, Aminu Fagge, sentenced the accused, Rabiu Sani after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of theft.

Sani who is a resident of Aisami Quarters in Kano was sentenced without an option of fine.

Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Republican Donald Trump on Monday of having a long history of racist behavior during a heated presidential debate that could reshape the 2016 campaign for the White House.

Clinton and Trump interrupted each other throughout the debate on topics ranging from foreign policy to the economy. Trump said Clinton had very little to show for her many years in public life.

Clinton, a former secretary of state, and Trump, a real estate tycoon, slammed each other for the controversy stoked for years by Trump over whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

Buhari Inherited N1.5tn Debt On Road Contracts – Fashola

the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari inherited road contractual liabilities worth N1.5tn, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said.

Fashola said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday by his Special Adviser, Communications, Mr. Hakeem Bello.

The minister said the ministry inherited 206 roads that were not budgeted for or poorly funded, but added that it had now developed a road map consisting of identifying and prioritising heavy traffic bearing roads for conveying essential goods and services across the country.

He said, “We have to build roads that evacuate our sea and airports; roads that drive our energy for now; roads that go to the tank farms to evacuate fuel from the South to the North; and roads that sustain us, that is roads that bring in our feed stock, cattle and vegetables and livestock from the North down to the South.

Things have been rather rough for Samsung the past few months: reports of the Galaxy devices exploding dominated headlines around the world, and just recently, we learned that a senior Samsung LSI official was arrested for attempting to sell confidential information to Chinese competitors. Samsung is now suing the exec, and we are seeing some interesting information about the upcoming Galaxy S8.

According to the leaked papers from the lawsuit, Samsung’s eighth iteration of the Galaxy S series will have a 10nm Exynos chipset. This isn’t particularly surprising given that MediaTek has already unveiled a deca-core chipset built using the 10nm fabrication process. Although we don’t really know whether Samsung’s upcoming chipset will be another octa-core processor or what speed it will be clocked at, we are starting to learn more about its GPU.

After all the false dawns, a cynic would say Arsene Wenger has as much chance of winning the Premier League as Jeremy Corbyn has of winning a general election from his constituency of Islington North. But at least the 20th anniversary of Wenger’s arrival on Corbyn’s patch met little resistance from the opposition in blue.

Anniversaries have tended to be painful occasions for the longest-serving Premier League manager, the embodiment of stubbornness in a capricious world. Wenger’s 500th match in charge brought a 1-0 defeat to Chelsea. His 1,000th game was humiliating – a 6-0 beating at Stamford Bridge that really did feel like the beginning of the end for a manager obsessed with a good idea gone bad.

The purported leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video posted on social media on Sunday in which he rejected statements by the country’s military that he had been seriously wounded.

In recent years, the Nigerian military has said it has killed or critically wounded Shekau on multiple occasions, often swiftly followed by video denials by someone who says he is Shekau. Last month Nigeria’s air force said it had killed senior Boko Haram members and that Shekau had been wounded.

While the ensuing videos all show someone sporting Shekau’s distinctive beard, the grainy quality of the footage means it is not always possible to confirm if the person is the same as in the previous videos.

A British woman has become one of the world’s youngest commercial airline captains at the age of 26. Kate McWilliams, from Carlisle, said she is asked about her age by cabin crew and passengers almost daily and most people are “pleasantly surprised and impressed” when she tells them.

McWilliams began flying in the air cadets aged 13 before going on a training programme at CTC Aviation in Southampton on her 19th birthday then joining easyJet as a first officer in May 2011. She recently rose to the rank of captain after passing the airline’s command course. An easyJet spokeswoman said the budget carrier believes McWilliams is the world’s youngest commercial airline captain.

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Monday, September 26

John 1:1-14

BECOMING CHILDREN OF GOD

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name,he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12-13, NIV

To become a child of God is the best thing that can ever happen to a person. In fact, until you become a child of God, you will never find true fulfillment, no matter what else you become.

Apart from corruption that has crippled Nigeria’s economy, another cankerworm that is devouring our nation’s treasury is the extravagant lifestyles of public office holders. The public officers do not show restraint in the usage of public resources as far as their pleasure and that of their families is in concerned. They are schooled in the art and science of ensuring maximum enjoyment of office to the detriment of the majority of the citizens. Their ostentatious lifestyles defy logic and commonsense.

A former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of perpetrating “injustice”, saying he would rather not hold the honorary title of “national leader” in such a party.
“I would rather not have any title yet reside in a party that honours democracy than hold a title in a party that says it honours me but that treats justice with indecency,” Mr. Tinubu said in an explosivestatement on Sunday, in which he chronicled the alleged political sins of the party’s national chairman, John Oyegun.

Mr. Tinubu had been accorded the position following the critical role he played in the emergence of the APC as a major challenger to the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s decades-long hold on power.

Pastor Goes Dumb While Destroying Traditional Shrine | PremiumTimes

There was drama in Ketu Community of Ogun State on Saturday after a pastor became numb after attempting to pull down a shrine.

The cleric, identified as Wale Fagbenro, reportedly claimed he was directed by the “Holy spirit” to destroy the traditional worshippers’ shrine.

A witness said Mr. Fagbenro became “speechless‎ and motionless” upon entering the shrine‎.
Residents of the area in Yewa North Local Government Area subsequently raised an alarm attracting a crowd to the scene.

Samson Ayokunle, a reverend and president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), wants the federal government to “buckle up” in addressing the nation’s economic crisis.

According to Ayokunle, the pains of the people are so widespread that people in the church are not excluded.

Ayokunle was speaking on Saturday at a thanksgiving service organised by CAN to honour him and Joseph Otubu, vice-president of the association, at the national christian centre, Abuja.

He called on the leadership of the country to face the challenges with optimism, and urged Nigerians to embrace hard work as a way of meeting the demands of the nation’s current economic condition.

The attack on Lagos Island is unfolding as a terrorist act. Not in the commonly accepted sense of the word, with a foreign religion as motivation, but none the less malicious either. The symbolism isn’t lost that the demolition took place on 9/11, a day now globally recognised for its significance in the fight against global terrorism after two buildings were destroyed in New York in an attack against a country and culture.

I spent a few hours on Thursday, September 22nd talking to officials of LASPPPA and LASBCA, two agencies within the Lagos State government in charge of managing and supervising the building or demolition of buildings/structures across the State. The day before that, I spent some time again at the Ground Zero on Lagos Island where the Ọláìya Family House (Ilọjọ Bar/Casa di Fernandez) used to be. The green sign erected on a preceding Sunday by the State Government warning off intruders had been taken off the property, stolen overnight by unknown persons. All that is left on it now are crumbs of stone and dirt. Other than that, the space remains as it was on Sunday. Busier, this time, as traders had set up their wares and went about their day.

Normalising An Absence

Shit Inside Abuja: Two brothers spotted roaming the streets, naked

Two brothers have been spotted roaming the streets of Gwarinpa, Abuja, on Thursday, September 22, stark naked.

Despite speculations that the duo were ritualists, The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Complaint Response Unit,CRU, Abayomi Shogunle, has revealed that they were under the influence of drugs.

A young lady has taken to her Facebook page to lament the domestic violence she suffers at the hands of her husband who is a pastor.

The housewife, Princess Oritsema Ekwejunor, told of battering, torture and pains she has endured at the hand of her husband identified asOmasan Mabiaku, since the beginning of their marriage.

Why did Patience do it? Why is she taking on the EFCC, even threatening to sue the agency over a matter that she was not a party to in court? I can only think of suicidal courage as her motivation, a gift, which appears to be at odds with her husband’s meekness.

It’s not nice to speak badly of first ladies. Not nice at all. Not because they will send you to jail or castrate you as a few of them could some time ago, but I guess there’s a quiet social taboo that just restrains us from throwing the kitchen sink at the mothers of the nation.

PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday said he has been vindicated on his claim about the high debt profile of the state by the Debt Management Office, DMO. In that respect, the candidate has tasked the outgoing governor to explain the N1.9 trillion allegedly received in the last 8 years.

A statement by the Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organisation also stated that the debt management office’s (DMO) release as reported by many national dailies, had settled Governor Oshiomhole’s claims that he never took foreign loans.

The three remaining Lagos landlords abducted on Saturday, September 17, have been released by their captors. A source reportedly disclosed the news to The Eagle Online who was the first to break it.

Following the kidnap which took place in Lekki Gardens Estate, around the Isheri North area of Lagos State, by unknown gunmen, the culprits called the families of the victims demandingransom of N300 million each, threatening to harm the captives if they fail to meet their demands.

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