Who is actually robbing God, "Matters Arising"

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BOWEN UNIVERSITY N650,000 per semester

COVENANT UNIVERSITY N640,000 per semester

BENSON IDAHOSA N500,000 per semester

BABCOCK UNIVERSITY N450,000 per semester

REDEEMERS UNIVERSITY N450,000 per semester

AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY N350,000 per semester

MADONNA UNIVERSITY N350,000 per semester.

All these UNIVERSITIES were built from TITHES and

OFFERINGS of the common people who now can't afford

to send their children to these schools today.

Where is the morals and responsibilities of the

churches as charity in Nigeria?

What is the difference between church and political leadership in Nigeria?

These schools were all built with the sweats of their church members who kept sowing seeds like:

-special offering seeds

-first fruit seed,

-redemption seed,

-thanksgiving seed,

-harvest seed,

-tithes,

-pastor's seed,

-church building seed,

-evangelism seed,

-father's day seed,

-mother's day seed,

-children' day seed,
-Pastor's cake seed,
-olive oil seed....etc.

These schools are now elite
schools, only for the rich
politician children.

The gainers then use the profits to buy private planes & jets to fly up high in luxury, ride Exotic Cars and live in expensive Mansions, while their members, (who are mostly the least of Jesus people) sleep hungry.

The next Sunday, they will read Malachi 3:6-12 to these members again without making reference to Deuteronomy 14:22-29 about their own responsibility to these poor members in their churches.

If you think this is unfair, like me, please pass on this message because this is reality and we also need the CHANGE here!!!

Thank God for early missionaries who built schools and gave basic
education FREE or NEAR FREE to many of us including the CURRENT LEADERSHIP of these churches and universities.

The TRUTH is a bitter pill to swallow.
ASK THOSE WHO SAW THE REVIVAL OF 1930s,1970s
AND 1980s, THEY WILL TELL YOU WHY WE ARE CRYING OVER THIS
"FIRE LESS NESS" WE ARE SEEING IN OUR GENERATION OF BELIEVERS.
John Knox prayed: "Lord, Give me Scotland or I die"...
St Patrick, a rugged believer that Brought even dead animals and trees back to life prayed: "God, Give me souls or give me nothing else"....
Brethren during the Hebrides revival prayed:" Lord, If you will not use us, please, kill us"...
The brethren from England who brought the Fire from Azusa Street revival
gathered everyday under the terrible cold.
Their only prayer topic was: "Lord, give us men that will spread Your Fire in the streets of England".
During the Indonesia Revival, those hungry hearts were seen praying day and night: "Lord, The harvest is ripe... If it pleases You, please use us".
One prayer that was common during the days of
William Seymour was: "Lord, this is another day that hell must lose men and women. Please, we are here use us".
Paul said:" Woe is me if
I preach not the gospel"
Rachel said to her husband, Jacob: "Give me children or I die"
But unfortunately, our churches are filled today
with people who are not ashamed of spiritual
barrenness.
We are asking "God give me money. God give me spouse.
God give me visa".
Where do we see believers
again that will be praying and fasting, and when you listen to them, you will be hearing:" Lord, let Your Fire fall in my community and let their be revival"?
When Paul encountered Christ, he fell and rose. What He asked was:" Lord, what will You have me do".
But today, when we fall under anointing, we stand to start expecting marriage proposals and visas and employment letters.
This generation of members in our churches have not had a genuine encounter with the Man of Calvary.
No generation has carried Bibles like us without opening it.
No generation is materially driven like ours and we expect the land to obey us.
Jesus said, pray to the Father that He brings His Kingdom on earth.
GOD help us to get it on time. Amen.
Let's build up our spiritual life cos its very necessary.
If u miss heaven u can never miss hell. Think about it. Hell isn't a pretty place.
Do the work of an
evangelist now by sharing this message with all your contacts.
Have u ever wondered
what would have happened if we treat the Holy Bible the way we treat our mobile phone?
And we really can't live without the BIBLE.
Don't send later, send now..
May the Almighty God grant good success to every one who reads & sends this message.

Urgent Answer needed from Mr W, Stuart Symington the current USA ambassador to Nigeria.

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watched with keen interest the toast proposed by the USA Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. W. Stuart Symington, on the occasion of the 241st Independence anniversary of USA (July 4th). He dwelt so much on the unity of America and related that to the agitation for a separate nation of Biafra which is currently going on in Nigeria.

He espoused the beauty and benefits of America’s unity and urged Nigerians to be united against the secessionist movement of Biafra. I was moved with emotion, especially when he applauded the American soldiers for ensuring the unity of their nation.

However, I sensed the hollowness and inchoate nature of his unity toast. He failed to tell us the ingredients used to shore up the unity of USA for 241 long years despite the Civil War more than 150 years ago.

Therefore, since I do not have his e-mail, I chose to air my view through this medium (Facebook). Maybe he can see it and proffer answers to these few questions I have for him below:

Sir,

1. US soldiers as you rightly said ensured the unity of America, do they kill the American people to ensure this unity?

2. Do your leaders always tell you that the unity of America is not negotiable?

3. Why does your Presidents do State of the Union Address?

4. Since the consummation of your union and independence 241 years ago, how many additional states have you created?

5. How many local governments have you created to appease some traditional rulers or generals?

6. Sir, in your country do you have an agency called federal character commission?

7. Is there anything called quota system in your country?

8. Are you compelled to declare your state of origin, tribe and religion while completing any form or applying for any position in your country?

9. Things such as geopolitical zones, do they exist in your country?

10. Things such as indigene and settler, do they exist in your country?

11. How many ethnic groups do you have in your country?

12. What tribe are you, Sir?

13. Things such as minority and majority, do they exist in your country?

14. How does your federation function, Sir?

15. Sir, I understand some American people from California are agitating to have their own country (Republican State of California). How do you handle them? Do you criminalize them or call them frauds and terrorists? Do you round them up, shoot and kill them? Do you send others to prison without trial, even when they bear no arms? Do you charge them for treason and refuse to release them, even when the judge sets them free?

16. How was it possible for Barak Obama, an African American with known African roots, to become President in your country?

17. Do you cede part of your territory to neighboring countries (a la Bakassi) for any reason whatsoever?

18. Are things such as equity, fairness, justice and accountability difficult to come by in your country?

19. Are you forced to be united and remain United or you choose to be part of the US on your volition?

20. Lastly, Sir, will I be criminalized and hounded for daring to ask these questions by the state security apparatus?

Thank you Sir.
Someone on Facebook called MERIT NEWJOHN

Decoding the Biafra Chalange, "Matters Arising".

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Depending on how one views it, the whole Biafra conundrum is either a sword of Damocles swinging about Nigeria threatening to cut it to pieces, or a Gordian knot whose unravelling should help provide answers and pointers to the glorious future that awaits the country.

Whichever way one choses to look at it, it is no longer prudent to continue to dismiss the renewed agitations by activists for a Biafran Republic from Nigeria as merely a quixotic stunt by a gaggle of misguided and ill-bred young men. Nor should we continue to entertain the notion that the movement will somehow lose its steam in the face of expected conflicts and contradictions within it, and against the Igbo nation and Nigeria at large. To hold onto this position amounts to self-denial and ultimately to miss the chance of learning the lessons of the Biafran agitations with a view to profiting from it for a nation in search of answers to existential challenges.

What then can we realistically and critically make of the Biafra challenge?

The first reality is that the fault lines of ethnicity, religious and regional differences have been allowed to fester for too long to the point that they now constitute a clear and present danger to the nation as a whole. For any other country, the diversity in ethnicity, religions and cultures that exists here in Nigeria, second to none in Africa and one of the most prominent in the world would be cause not just for national celebration and pride, but also as basis for projection of Nigeria as soft power on the world stage in various forms.

But our political elite rather than see and utilize this as a positive tool for national integration and projection have turned it instead into a negative weapon for vicious political contest most often at the expense of the very Nigeria they seek to lead. In this context,it is disheartening to observe that the we-versus-them narrative which politicians frequently deploy to seek relevance has cascaded down to all facets of our national life at all levels. The Biafra challenge which has morphed from the normal narrative of marginalization into a secessionist movement is but a reflection of the asymmetrical realities of the Nigerian state. The danger is that other manifestations of Nigeria’s identified fault lines may chose to follow the Biafran path thereby putting the nations existence in peril.

The second reality to draw from the Biafra challenge is that there is a deficit in moral and political capital in our polity. It is instructive that a movement will sprout and constitute a challenge not by symbolic, relatively mild and tolerable acts of civil disobedience, but by open threats, subversive declarations and defiance, daring the institutions of the Nigerian state to act against it with seeming impunity. It should also be worrisome that even after the long expected but belated interventions and admonishments of the Federal Government, the Governors of the South-east states and the Ohaneze, the leaders of the Biafra movement have not only remain defiant, but have instead shown the middle finger to all these institutions.

Why?

Let us not be deceived here. That the Federal and responsible state governments in the South-east found it difficult to act promptly and decisively on the Biafra matter may not necessarily be due to any form of benign disposition on its part or the need to observe the principles of freedom of speech and association as enshrined in the constitution.

It is no secret that majority of the populace in the country do not feel the positive impact of both the federal and state governments in their lives. A government or authority that shows very little care about the welfare of its citizens loses the moral and political right to instruct them to behave in a certain way. It is like the analogy of a negligent father who expects to have his words obeyed in the household despite himself.

The young men who have constituted the Biafra movement have tapped into the generational, moral and political deficits of a system and society that denies them not only the comforts and convenience of the present, but the assurance and guarantee of a future. Into this tinderbox of wilful neglect and alienation by both the Federal and state governments, the Biafra challenge with its romantic appeal to greatness to a people whose talents they rightly or wrongly believe have been shackled by an uncaring state, and a call to acts of derring-do defiance in achieving that greatness, delivered skilfully by a smooth operator to the young and impressionable who constitute the majority segment of the population, is a veritable recipe for sustained and uncontrollable confrontation. Simply put due to aforementioned reasons the youthful leaders of the Biafra movement and their teeming youthful supporters across the South-east will neither heed, their elders nor the governors and elected officials from the various states of the region and the federal government.

The third existential reality of the Biafra challenge is that despite all the glib statements about the unity and indivisibility of the country and the fact that we have become integrated over the years of living together, the truth is that all these cannot provide an excuse for complacency in the task of nation building. A saying in Hausa goes “Idan kana da kyaukakara da wanka” which roughly translates into meaning that; that a person may be naturally good looking does not mean that he should not take care to improve his looks.

All around, evidence abounds of the fact that despite our supposed unity and integration relationship between our various people is still tenuous and furtive. I attribute this mainly to the fact that the institutions and template of intra and inter-ethnic, religious and regional relationships across the country have become overstressed and creaky for lack of progressive, regenerative ideas. It stands to reason glaringly that we need to devise new templates of relationship and engagements within and between the various segments of the people that make up this potentially great country.

Like all nations which have predated it and gone on to become great in the global stakes, Nigeria needs rejuvenation. It is a necessary rite of passage on the way to fulfilling its manifest destiny of being the African superpower it should be.

In this context it has not escaped me that there are strident calls for a restructuring of the country which has gained urgenttraction on the heels of the Biafran agitation. But while the calls may be timely and necessary in reflection of the mood in the country, we must be careful how we handle this imperative. There are those who from their pronouncements on the matter see it as an avenue to pursue personal political goals. Again there are those who see it as a tool to spite others and cut them to size. For yet another set of people, it is a perfect avenue to construct the Trojan horse that would allow their foreign principals into Nigeria to actualise their agenda into turning the country into another Syria.

Although seemingly fragile, Nigeria is not without built in shock absorbers.

The Biafra challenge although ominous and threatening from a superficial look should be seen rather as an opportunity to reset and create the template for a better future for generations of Nigerians to come. The sword of Damocles currently hovering over Nigeria with the Biafran challenge may well provide the spur for the untying of the Gordian knot paving the way for Nigerias glorious future.

Written by Iliyasu Gadu

What to say when they ask you questions about Kanu/Biafra issues.

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When they say- Nnamdi Kanu is a small boy
-Ask them how old was Gowon,Babangida, Ojukwu and Nzeogwu. All the early nationalist. Zik & co

When they say they don’t want Referendum
-Ask them to define referendum

When they say we are asking for war
-Ask them if referendum is equals to war
Define referendum or them. A referendum is an official vote on a specific issue by the electorate..
In this case just ask people if they want Biafra or not. Why are they afraid of voting?

If they say why did Kanu tell Anambra people not to vote?
Tell them that Anambra is the first son of Igboland
Tell them that Anambra is home for all
Tell them that Anambra have been voting for over 50 years and nothing to show for it
Tell them that the people we voted for have been killing us . Dancing to the tune of the North.

If they say Army will take over Anambra. -Tell them it is a fat lie
The Speaker of the house will take over
All over the world Army cannot take over a democratic setting.

If they say you are gullible that you are following Nnandi kanu
Tell them to follow whoever they want . Its democracy

If they say you should go and hold your governors and politicians responsible for your woes and not boycotting elections.
Tell them that one of the tools to hold politicians down and accountable is by not voting
Come 18th Nov. so that they wont see where to go and loot again.

If they say Anambra allocation will be taken away by others
Tell them that it will be kept for Anambra .That is if they will need it.
Ask them, for over 50 years what have the allocation done in the life of an average Anambarian?

If they say KANU is calling for secession, Tell them that the very first people to call for session was the North, followed by the West.

IF they say why did we stay at home on the 30th of may
Tell them that you don’t want the zoo police and army to keep killing us
Because when they do nobody says anything.

If they say you don’t think, call them great thinkers. What have been able to do for themselve with their great thinking ability? Ask them

If they say that an ibo man is not a follow follow. that an ibo man have a mind of his own.
Remind them that, that is why you don’t want to be slaves like them. You have decided to get out of this contraption called Nigeria.
If they say you were not born during the war, Boldly tell them that your fathers died during the war and your mothers told you who killed them and why.

If they say the igbos started the killing, remind them that before 1945, they have been killing igbos
If they say the first coup was an igbo coup
Tell them that it was only led by an Igbo from Delta state where they said are not Ibos.
Tell them that the coup plotters killed only 22 but the counter coup plotters killed over 300 soildier of igbo extract in one night. Killed over a million Ibo around Nigeria. Remind them of the pogrom and the massacre in the north. Yes, we didn’t support the first coup, we were not there when they planned it.

If they say you will kill yourselves when you get Biafra.
ASK then whether boko haram is from the east, and who have they been killing?
ask them if TIV, JOS AND BENUE are Ibos. Tell them about the communal clash that left people dead and homes burnt in the west- If na ibo man do am. Ask them to bring food and ask ijebu man and egba man to eat together.
If they say you don’t love each other tell them to go back to 30th may 2017.
If they say , Kanu is an illiterate and all of you Following him are illiterate and gullible fools.
- Ask them if Kanu is not more intelligent than whoever there president is.
-Remind them of the elite and intelligential of igbo extract who are also in the struggle.

If they say we want to take the oil of Niger delta
Remind them that we have oil, in ABIA,IMO AND ANAMBRA. Coal in Enugu.
Tell them that Egbema is in Imo state.

IF they say south south is not Biafra,
-Agree with them. ask them to mention the names of people from Ikwerre and Anioma.

Why Nigeria is not growing, #Pa Audu's initiative part of the problem#

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I hate to be the one to burst your bubble if you have been grinning from molar to molar, celebrating Pa Audu's "incredible feat" of exporting 72 tonnes of yam to the US and UK. I watched the report on AIT. Nicely packaged yam, in lovely cartons. I was tempted to celebrate Pa Audu for this achievement. Then I ran the numbers.

According to the May 2017 report by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, 1kg of yam goes for N256. This means that 72 tonnes of yam would have a street value of N18 million. Do the math. Forget that this is less than 50% of the volume of trade on a good day in Katsina Ala yam market every week. Anyway, the yam was well packed, and then freighted to the US and UK. Lets us assume than the packaging and freighting costed N3 million (and it might be a lot more, given that yam is heavy). So we have about N15 million net worth of yam (18 - 3 = 15). Assuming we sell it at twice the price, we would make a profit of N15 million. Again, let us assume that we did not incur additional cost in the transaction. So, here is the summary: we exported 72 tonnes of yam, and made N15 million. Good business, good profit.

Now this is where I am going with this: if 72 tonnes of yam is processed to pharmaceutical grade starch, (PGS) (that is the major component of tablets and capsules), we will get about 9.7 tonnes of pure PGS. I am a pharmacist, I know. Depending on your source, pharmaceutical grade starch goes for anywhere from $20 - 40/kg in the international market. And you can google this up. Pa Audu's 72 tonnes of yam is therefore worth a princely N102 million if it was processed to PGS (assuming it is sold for $30/kg, just to be conservative). So, N18 million worth of yam, processed to N102 million, profit of about 84 million.

The question is, has Audu made N15 million or lost N84 million?

Imagine, for instance, that Benue State was interested in setting up a starch production plant in Katsina Ala. Would we need to export 72 tonnes of starch to make N15 million, instead of making 84 million? And this is a state that makes a pitiable IGR of N250 million per month. The same Benue produces arguably half of the oranges in the country but there is no single fruit juice making industry in the state. This is not about Benue.

Nigeria produces 50 million metric tonnes of cassava annually, 20% of world production according to FAO, but what do we do with it? We convert it to fufu and eat. Zero percent is processed to PGS or other value-added products. If only half of it is processed to PGS, we would be making N35 billion per annum in sales. Again, open Excel and do the math.

So we have Audu exporting yam, exporting jobs, loosing revenue and feeling cool. And we have Gov. Ortom in the background, loving the spotlight of this new enterprise, waiting for applause. He cannot see the opportunities and the waste. He cannot understand why IGR is only N250m/month. Then we have the federal government exporting crude, exporting jobs, messing us all up.

Thus we have us, eating 50 million metric tonnes of cassava, converting it to pooh when we can convert it to cash.

And we want to be called a developing country.