Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has reframed his earlier call on Christians in the country to return fire for fire being unleashed by the enemies of State.
The Pastor, who clarified the issue he raised in his earlier stand which went viral yesterday, now advised Christians not to buy guns for self-protection, saying: “I never asked Christians to go and buy guns. Samson in the Bible did not fight with guns.”
He emphasized today, July 3 at the monthly thanksgiving live television programme of the church: “don’t buy guns. You don’t want to kill anybody. We just must make sure that unwanted visitors don’t come to our churches, so don’t go and buy guns.”
At the Holy Ghost Service yesterday, Pastor Adeboye had urged members of the church not to be afraid to attend church programmes because of terrorists attack on a church in Owo, Ondo State.
He had made it clear that “it is now fire-for-fire for any attack on Christians, and commanded them to rise to the occasion by calling the bluff of the devil.
Criminals have invaded Point of Sale (PoS) business centres in Niger State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, defrauding, scamming and robbing the operators and customers. Investigation revealed that the criminals, who sometime appear as PoS operators, used to obtain the details of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards of persons who use their PoS machines, and in few hours or days, thereafter, empty their (customers’) bank accounts. Abdulrazaq Siraja, a graduate of Information Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, recalled an incident where two ‘scammers’ defrauded him. Siraja, who operates his PoS ‘business’ with the help of a young lady he employed to work for him, narrated how he lost a huge amount of money to the two fraudsters who performed fake cash transactions with Chika Nwendi, the female agent running his PoS business. Siraja said: “Sometime in January last year, two boys came to my PoS kiosk to deposit N100,000 into another account. “It was my shop attendant, who is helping me manage the PoS business, that attended to them. “She was given a bundle of N1,000 notes. She confirmed the money, and noticed that the money was incomplete. She then returned the money for them to confirm. “The boys gave her a similar bundle of N100,000 of N1,000. After counting and confirming the amount of the money, Nwendi put the bundle of N1,000 inside her drawer, and then they (the boys) left my shop. “But reality dawned on her few hours later, when she wanted to audit her daily transactions. Nwendi discovered that the bundle of N1,000 notes also had N100 notes. What the boys smartly did was to cover the inside of the N1,000 notes they gave my PoS agent. “They put N1,000 note at the top and bottom of the bundle of N100,000 they gave my PoS agent. Then, in the middle of the bundle were just N100 notes.” Siraja, it was gathered reported the incident to Manager of the Suleja First Bank Branch, who asked him to send pictures of the money (brought by the two fraudsters) and a court affidavit, so that he (the Bank Manager) can freeze the account Siraja deposited money for the scammers. Few days after, it was discovered that the bank account which Siraja had transfered the N100,000 to (for the fraudsters) belonged to another PoS operator in Kano. “Over there in Kano, another PoS vendor by name, Musa Aminu, raised an alarm that his bank account was frozen. Aminu then visited the bank, and he was informed about the fraudulent transaction that occurred on his account, from my own endzin Suleja.
“The two boys that defrauded Aminu in Kano were working in concert with the two boys that also scammed my Pos agent in Suleja. “After the first two guys had succeeded in defrauding my PoS girl, their partners in Kano went to Aminu’s PoS stand. They told him their uncle wants to send them money to purchase some items, there in Kano. “Aminu gave them his account number. And within a short period, he received an alert of N100,000. He gave them the cash, and removed his transaction charges,” Siraja further noted. Seeing that nothing can be done to retrieve the ‘stolen’ money, Siraja and Aminu were told by the Suleja First Bank Manager to jointly share the ‘loss’. The PoS operator in Kano was asked to give Siraja N50,000, while he – Siraja – will raise N37,000 for himself, as the entire money they (the two swindlers) gave his PoS shop attendant was N13,000. It was gathered that many PoS customers have experienced a situation where money in their bank accounts where ’emptied’ after patronizing some PoS vendors.
A former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, has lamented the lack of selfless and charitable leaders dedicated to meeting the needs of the less privileged ones in Nigeria. Senator Shettima, who spoke at the investiture ceremony of the Managing Editor Northern Operation of The Nation Newspaper, Rotarian Yusuf Alli as the 11th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Maitama, in Abuja, commended the Rotary International for selfless service to humanity.
Describing the Club as the conscience of the society, the former governor said: “there’s a reason both religious groups and corporate organizations revolve around the principle of giving back to the society. “It’s not just to compensate for the negative externalities accumulated in the pursuits of our capitalist and self-serving interests, but to fill the vacuum around us. “When you look around this country to trace the origin of our national dilemma, the most glaring shortcoming is always undersupply of selfless and charitable leaders, whether in politics or business, socio-cultural groups, or local communities. “As a time-tested group, Rotarians have figured out the danger of playing down the conditions of the needy, especially those in our immediate surroundings.
“Your Club, which operates from the nation’s capital and a district recognized as a habitat of some of the nation’s most affluential people, is privileged to grasp the socio-economic contrasts that have widened the nation’s poverty gap in the past years. “We must never give back to the society just to appeal to ourselves, for that seems to be the mindset. “These clubs have ridden on the compassion and integrity of good people like you to serve as oases for the downtrodden. “You have taught us much more than what it means to have empathy and, more importantly, act on it. “Rotary clubs have become the conscience of the world, for they remind us of the debt we owe our society. “We must never yield to the temptation to believe that giving back to the society that produced us is a favour to the needy. “While this is the mainstream thinking, we can’t afford to understate the circumstances that gave us our good start in life and that doing so would come at great risk. “Every society, just like nature itself, abhors a vacuum and so the alternative to giving to those at the lowest rungs of our economic ladder is a calamity for which none of us is prepared. “The society isn’t the beggar here. This society is the source of the material possessions over which we scrutinize our balance sheets to determine the size of charities to dispense or authorize. “We are merely giving back to our giver, and that’s because none of us is prepared for the worst implication of glossing over these vacuums in which the majority of us are trapped.” former governor Shettima said that he is not surprised that Rotn. Yusuf Alli was chosen as the as the 11th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Maitama. “He deserves to be so named. Yusuf Alli’s life is a remarkable study in dedicated labour; professionalism; and a deep sense of duty. “These were the essential building blocks of the life he has lived, over several decades, as a journalist. “Today, he has become recognised, as a leading authority in investigative journalism, in our country. “His colleagues, from near and far, recognise the incredible hard work, that he puts into every story, that he pursues, and the excellent quality of his outputs, in the professional field. “If all that Rotarian Yusuf Alli has done in life, is the exemplary service that he has given to journalism in our country, we would be forgiven to conclude, that he has done enough, for a lifetime. “But here we are today, to witness his investiture, as the 11th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Maitama. “I think the lesson to draw from that, is that Yusuf Alli is very dedicated to community good; but not only in journalism. “By reaching the height he has attained today, as the 11th President of a body like the Rotary Club, we can similarly underscore the fact, that his dedication to community good, reaches beyond his calling, as a journalist.” In his remarks, Rotn. Alli said even though he accidentally joined Rotary, his reason for joining the Club was not to lead but to serve. “I have never aspired to lead. All I wanted was to serve in my little way. I come from a family with a deep passion for service and giving. “I also married from a family which loves to share and give. So, I saw myself only living up to type in Rotary, it does not look extraordinary. “I need to explain this to clear doubts about my resilience for service in Rotary. As long as I serve humanity, I do not expect anything in return.”
The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has expressed happiness over the discovery and rescue of over 50 children in an underground cell in Ondo State Church.
The body, in a short statement today, July 3, commended the police and other security agencies for a job well done, even as it condemned those who are responsible for the abduction of the children.
“Children should not be targets of violence in whatever guise. Violence against children is condemnable and we call on governments to redouble efforts to protect children against all forms of violence. A society’s health is measured by how it treats its children.”
A student of one of the Universities in Nigeria has been rushed to Kuje general hospital, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), over sudden mental disturbance after participating in hemp smoking competition with fellow idling students.
Report reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper indicated that the young man, after taking many amount of the hemp, began to roll on the ground and foaming from mouth.
According to information, the student was avoided by his parents, but was rushed to the hospital by his fellow students who have been doing nothing since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began the nation-wide strike.
Some medical staff in the hospital confirmed that the young man has been stuffed with overload of the substance and may lead to becoming mentally imbalanced.
Presidential candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Hamza Al-Mustapha, has said that as a military man, he couldn’t have refused to serve late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.
Al-Mustapha served as the Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the late Abacha from 1993 until his sudden death on June 8, 1998.
The AA Presidential flag bearer, who spoke today, July 2, on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said that destiny took him to work with the late head of state.
“I have no regrets. When you join the military, you should be open-minded to work anywhere. You can be in the worst part of the country or world. It is my experience.”
“My personal destiny took me to where I served. Wherever I serve, you will see the distinct difference. I have done so all my life and career.
“I never canvassed to be posted anywhere. They know what they saw in me and posted me to everywhere they took me. And I gave my life and made sacrifices that are indelible in the history of the military.”
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the youths in the country to stand up for the development of the country if their tomorrow is to be assured.
He said: “things are not what they should be but youths, individually and collectively, must make contributions in order to make things the way they should be.
“If you leave things to those who are messing it up for you and who are saying you are the leaders of tomorrow, you will never have that tomorrow.”
Obasanjo, who drove commercial tricycle, picking passengers in his country home, Abeokuta, Ogun State, as part of the activity marking OBJ @ 85 Free Keke Programme of the Youth Development Centre of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), emphasized the need for the youths not to leave Nigeria to those messing it up.
He said that despite the challenges, youths should try to take advantage of available opportunities to make an impact.
“God has given you innate ability to be what He wants you to be. If you make up your mind, God will help you and provide people who would help you.”
The former President had ridden the tricycle (Keke) through some roads in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun, picking passengers. He moved through Moshood Abiola, NNPC Mega Station, Kuto Market, among others.
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, who is the running mate to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakarr, has said that his West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) certificate andWest African School Certificate (WASC) examinations obtained in the year 1974 are missing.
Governor Okowain an affidavit, informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) about the missing certificates as part of his filings for eligibility in the race for the 2023 elections.
He said that the original certificates issued can no more be found.
The affidavit of loss of original certificate was obtained from the High Court of Justice, Delta State, in the Asaba Judicial Division on October 3, 2006.
In the affidavit, Okowa wrote: “That I personally enrolled and sat for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) West African School Certificate (WASC) examinations in the year 1974 at Edo College, Benin City, in now Edo state.
“That I passed the said examinations and was subsequently issued the said certificate therefore. That the original of the said certificate issued to me is now missing, lost and cannot be found.
“That I make this oath for the records and do so knowing and believing the same to be true and in accordance with the Oaths Law of the Bendel State as applicable to Delta state,” he added.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has called on members of his church to henceforth defend themselves against attacks, saying that when God is silence in certain situations, it means that time has come for the children to act.
Pastor Adeboye, who addressed members today, June 2, at the church’s July 2022 Holy Ghost Service, said: “I don’t want to say much because I know some people may want to twist it but I have searched the bible from cover to cover and there is nowhere in the bible where God said a child of God cannot defend himself. If you find the place let me know.
“He said that if they slap you on the right cheek turn left, He said that one. If they now slap the left what did he say? When God is silent, do you know the meaning of that, it simply means over to you.”
The cleric, who said that he is only talking to his children (members), said: “only my children come to the Holy Ghost Service. From now on it is going to be fire for fire.
“Some jokers said Churches should not open for three months. Who is your commander? God of Boko Haram, let the devil try any nonsense, from now on, it is going to be fire for fire.”
The Pastor alleged that churches in Nigeria have suffered more deadly attacks recently, citing attack on a church in Owo, Ondo State, adding that it was one of the notable attacks in the month of June.
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo drove a tricycle (keke NAPEP) today, July 2, as part of his 85th birthday celebration. He rode through some roads in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun, to pick up passengers.
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