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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 ...

Pastor’s Wife Indicts Husband for Sleeping With Church Members, Files For Divorce

2Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria, Religion

Pastor’s Wife Indicts Husband for Sleeping With Church Members, Files For Divorce

The wife of a pastor of a church, identified as Mrs Jummai Mala has approached a Yola Upper Area Court in Adamawa State to nullify her marriage to her husband, who she allegedly caught sleeping with female church members. Mrs Mala who claims to be the breadwinner of the family alleged that her husband, Pastor Yakubu Ayuba, had fathered three children with female church members whom he slept with in his office. She added that her husband a bed in the church office, which he was using to commit adultery, SaharaReporters reports. She claimed to have personally caught him in the act in the office on several occasions. She cited the sexual escapades as the basis for the court to dissolve the marriage. According to her, the pastor’s randy nature had prompted some of the women to c...

Viral Audio: I’m Sorry For Being Angry – Apostle Suleman

7Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Viral Audio: I’m Sorry For Being Angry – Apostle Suleman

General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has tendered an apology for his outburst in a viral audio clip in which he was recorded threatening to make someone ‘disappear’. The audio was released by a former Pastor in his church, Mike Davids, released the audio alleging it was his conversation with Suleman. Davids had called out Suleman for sleeping with his wife, Faith Edeko, who currently heads a branch of the church in Abuja. Suleman in his reaction admitted that his voice was in the audio clip and that he truly responded angrily. The cleric, however, said the audio clip was from a conversation he had with a lady who he told to stop calling him three years ago, and not from a phone conversation with Davids. Suleman further accused Mike Davids of co...

Bishop Kaigama Laments Biden’s Disregard For ‘Human Dignity’

6Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Bishop Kaigama Laments Biden’s Disregard For ‘Human Dignity’

Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Ignatius Kaigama has faulted the move by the President of the United States, Joe Biden to increase funding for international abortions. Kaigama in an interview with Crux, said it is intriguing that one of Biden's first official acts is to promote the destruction of human lives domestically and in developing nations. Biden had issued an executive order rescinding the Mexico City Policy, which bans US aid from supporting NGOs which either provide or promote abortions abroad. Reports suggest he would also repeal the 1976 Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape or incest, or when the mother's life is in danger, but which must be approved by Congress. Last week, Biden's White House also issued a statement promisin...

Father Kukah Must Be Allowed To Practise His Faith And Politics – Garba Shehu

14Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

Father Kukah Must Be Allowed To Practise His Faith And Politics – Garba Shehu

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity has faulted the quit notice handed down to Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Kukah by the Muslim Solidarity Forum. The Sokoto-based group had earlier asked Kukah to quickly and quietly leave the seat of the Caliphate or immediately stop what it termed his malicious vituperations against Islam and Muslims and tender apology to the Muslim Ummah. Reacting, Shehu in a statement issued on Wednesday said the forum’s stance was wrong because it was not in tandem with the country’s constitution. He said, “Under our constitution, every citizen has the right to, among others, freedom of speech and expression, the right to own property and reside in any part of the country, and the right to move freely without any in...