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Hope Uzodinma No Longer Picks My Calls Since he Assumed Office – Fr Mbaka

27Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Hope Uzodinma No Longer Picks My Calls Since he Assumed Office – Fr Mbaka

Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of the Catholic Adoration Ministry, Enugu has indicted Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo of paying deaf ears since he assumed office. Recall that the Catholic clergy had in his 2020 New Year Message prophesied the emergence of Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress, APC, as the governor. He said, "Despite all that would happen this 2020, there is hope. In Imo State, there is hope. Hope, hope, hope … hope in Imo State! "Imo people have suffered (but) God is raising a new hope that would be an agent of salvation for them." At the time, Emeka Ihedioha of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was the governor. PDP elders in Imo dismissed the prophecy. Weeks after, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ordered the Independent National...

Nnamdi Kanu: There’s Nonexistence of Repentant Terrorists, Not Even Pantami

22Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Biafra, News, Nigeria, Religion, Terrorism

Nnamdi Kanu: There’s Nonexistence of Repentant Terrorists, Not Even Pantami

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that terrorism is an Islamic ideology, hence there are no repentant terrorists. He made the remark in reaction to alleged ties of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, with terrorism, SaharaReporters reports. Kanu in a tweet posted on his Twitter handle on Wednesday claimed that terrorism is a form of Islamic ideology, as well as a religious duty for every Muslim that believes in the holy war, Jihad. He wrote, “In case you forgot, terrorism is a form of #Islamic ideology, as well as a religious duty for every Muslim that believes in Jihad. Therefore, there can never be anything like a repentant terrorist, not even some minister named Isa Pantami (@DrIsaPantami). Please...

PDP Asks DSS to Investigate Pantami Over Taliban, Al-Qaeda Links

19Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security, Terrorism

PDP Asks DSS to Investigate Pantami Over Taliban, Al-Qaeda Links

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked the Department of State Services, DSS, to as a matter of urgency, invite and probe the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, over alleged ties with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan. It read, “Our party’s position is predicated on the heightening concerns in the public space and in the international arena of possible compromises by the communications minister, who has access to sensitive government documents and information, in addition to data of all individuals, including high profile personalities in the public and private sectors as well as the traditional and faith-based circles. “The PDP is particularly worried about alleg...

Why I Won’t Take COVID Vaccine – Oyedepo

18Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Religion

Why I Won’t Take COVID Vaccine – Oyedepo

The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, David Oyedepo, has defended his decision not to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The clergy during his sermon at the church’s Covenant Hour of Prayer programme, described the vaccine as illegal. Oyedepo affirmed that despite the world’s confusion about the situation, the church has the answer, Punch reports. Recall that Nigeria had in March commenced vaccination with 3.924 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine doses. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency said over one million doses of the vaccine had so far been administered across the country. Nigeria has recorded over 160,000 COVID-19 infections and more than 2,000 related deaths. But Oyedepo said, "I have never seen a generation where you for...

Kukah Not Planning Coup Against Buhari, Speaks for the Voiceless – Onaiyekan

6Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Kukah Not Planning Coup Against Buhari, Speaks for the Voiceless – Onaiyekan

His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, the Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, has said that the Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah has no intentions to plot a coup against President Muhammadu Buhari but speaks for so many who do not have a voice. The Presidency has described Bishop Kukah’s criticism of Buhari’s administration as ungodly, indicting him of playing partisan politics in his Easter message. However, Onaiyekan while speaking as a guest on AIT's breakfast show, Kakaaki, monitored by Vanguard in Abuja, expressed the belief that legitimate religious leaders had a role to play in politics, which included advancing the course of the masses and speaking truth to power in the name of God. He said, "With all due respect to whoever is speaking for the Presidency, he has...

Nigeria: Before Our Glory Departs – Bishop Kukah

5Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Nigeria: Before Our Glory Departs – Bishop Kukah

Day by day, Nigeria drifts irreversibly into a dark tunnel. Things are falling apart with unnerving rapidity because those who govern have only a pact to protect their interests. Politics is merely its conveyor belt of ambition. Nigeria has a date with destiny. If we do not turn around, The axe is already laid to the roots of the tree (Matthew 3:10). If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Hiding behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. – Pope St. Gregory the Great (540–604 AD) Easter Sunday is here again. But first, let us step back to Friday. Good Friday was a Kairos moment for the beleaguered followers of Jesus, a defining moment that separated truth from falsehood and lig...

Where’s Your Faith? Pst Chris Oyakhilome Queries Christian Receiving COVID-19 Jabs

30Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Religion, Safety

Where’s Your Faith? Pst Chris Oyakhilome Queries Christian Receiving COVID-19 Jabs

The founder and pastor of the LoveWorld Incorporated, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has called into question the faith of Nigerian Christians taking the AstraZeneca Vaccine against COVID-19. The clergy urged Christians to trust more in the word of God rather than the vaccine, stressing that they are healers. He chided the Nigerian Government for asking pastors to convince their members to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Oyakhilome in a video released on Monday said, “What happened to you? Where is the word of God in your mouth? Do you realise if you believe in the word of God the way you believe in this vaccine, there will be power in your mouth? He made us healers. What’s wrong? What happened to you? When did we start making such recommendations to God’s people? For God’s sake, think again!...

Nigerian Political Space is Dubiously Spiritual – Kukah

8Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, Religion

Nigerian Political Space is Dubiously Spiritual – Kukah

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kuka has said that Nigerian politics operates in an environment that is dubiously spiritual, alleging that Nigerian politicians don’t believe they can win an election by merit of their hard work, but depend on prayer for the success of their political enterprise. He said this on Sunday in an interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola. The cleric called on religious leaders to abase themselves before politicians and to reject the political class from making a mockery of their faith. He expressed worry that religion has been sacrificed on the altar of sycophancy, adding that faith without reason breeds religious extremism and a situation where people kill in the name of God. Kukah said, “Nigerian politics as you can see from ...

We Won’t Tolerate Hijab in Kwara Mission Schools – CAN

6Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Religion

We Won’t Tolerate Hijab in Kwara Mission Schools – CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria, Kwara State chapter has stressed that it will not allow the use of hijab by its pupils, despite the directive by the Kwara State government that Muslim female pupils in Christian mission schools be permitted to wear hijab. Last week, the state government had approved the wearing of hijab by Muslim female pupils in Christian mission grant-aided schools in the state. It also added that the 10 Christian schools shut down in the wake of the hijab crisis would be reopened on Monday, March 8. In its reaction, the state branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria said it would not succumb to the use of hijab in schools established by Christian missions, claiming that they were bemused that the government was making a decision on a matter that was ...

‘Who is not a Criminal’ – Pardon Bandits Like Coup Plotters, Civil War Instigators, Says Gumi

5Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

‘Who is not a Criminal’ – Pardon Bandits Like Coup Plotters, Civil War Instigators, Says Gumi

Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has asked that government pardons and grants amnesty to bandits just like it did to coup plotters and instigators of civil war that led to the death of several citizens of the country. Gumi said this while reacting to the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna on Thursday, noting that there was need for bandits to be forgiven for the sake of peace. The Islamic cleric said, “Even those that instigated the civil war, the civil war that millions of people died, were pardoned. I see no reason why we cannot accept their (bandits) repentance and give them amnesty.” Gumi noted that he never betrayed soldiers of Christian faith before the bandits when he visited them. According to him, he was misunderstood by CAN because the video that wen...