Month: March 2024

Rev Babatunde Idowu reflects on significance of Easter celebration …. As Foursquare Gospel Church, Wuse Abuja holds Easter Sunday Service

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By Afolabi Olajuwon Today, on a day marked by significant spiritual reflection and celebration, the Foursquare Gospel Church in Wuse, Abuja, hosted an explosive Easter Sunday Service, one that will linger in the minds of attendees for a long time to come. The sermon, a cornerstone of the day’s observance, was delivered by the esteemed Rev. Dr. Babatunde A. Idowu. With a deep understanding of the Scriptures and a palpable passion for sharing the gospel, Rev. Dr. Idowu explored a topic of profound depth and relevance: “Curse Is Completely Condemned.”…

Easter : Akpabio charges Christians to emulate Christ, sacrifice for one another

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As Christian faithful joined others in the world to celebrate Easter,the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has urged Christians to imbibe Jesus Christ’s spirit of humility, love and sacrifice during and even after the celebration of His death and resurrection.   Akpabio congratulated all Christians at home and in the diaspora for successfully completing the 40 days Lent and witnessed yet another Easter celebration.   He said, “Just as Jesus Christ in His humility and love offered Himself for the redemption of mankind, I admonish us all to emulate…

Easter Celebration : Pray for Nigeria, leaders, Speaker Abbas tasks Christians

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen has felicitated Christians as they celebrate Easter to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Speaker Abbas, in his Easter message, urged Christians and Nigerians in general to be selfless and sacrifice for one another, as exemplified by Jesus Christ. The Speaker noted that it is only when the leaders and the followers alike shun self gratification and collectively work toward a common goal that the nation would be stronger and better, and the world would also a…

Why should Nigeria not breakup?, by Hassan Gimba

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Two weeks ago, in my article entitled “Tinubu, beware the gathering dark clouds (2)”, I touched on our unity and rhetorically ended by asking if going our various ways would be better for all.   I said, “To stitch the “merely a geographical entity” that we currently have, therefore, is a task that must involve all of us. We do not have any other country to call ours. And we cannot afford to see the country put together by God through the British rendered asunder.   “Another reason I always…

Tinubu’s budget arithmetic, drums and KWAM 1 By Festus Adedayo

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“I know the arithmetic of the budget and the numbers that I brought to the National Assembly, and I know what numbers came back… Those who are talking about malicious embellishment in the budget; they did not understand the arithmetic and did not refer to the baseline of what I brought,” President Bola Tinubu declared at the State House, upper Friday. And there was ominous quiet on the home front. He was hosting the leadership of the Senate at the breaking of Ramadan fast. Do you remember the fuss generated…

EASTER: NOA urges Nigerians to imbibe virtues of sacrifice, love and charity

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As Christians in Nigeria joined the faithful all over the world to celebrate Easter, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has called on all Nigerians to use the celebration to imbibe the virtues of Jesus Christ and pray for renewed spirit of love, charity and sacrifice amongst Nigerians towards building a stronger, more stable and progressive nation.   In a Easter message, the Director General of NOA, Mallam Issa Onilu recalled that Nigeria’s journey of nationhood has always leveraged on occasions such as Easter to renew the common bond that unites…

EASTER: Grace Ike assures Journalists of better times ahead, highlights Women’s role in nation building

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Amidst the prevailing hardship and austerity facing our nation and journalists alike, the Chairperson of the House of Representatives Press Corps, Comrade Grace Ike has offered a message of hope and resilience. She urged journalists not to lose faith, assuring them that brighter days are on the horizon. In her message on the significance of Easter to journalists, Ike who is also the Vice Chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel FCT NUJ, extended warm greetings to journalists in Abuja and beyond. She emphasized Easter as a time symbolizing renewal, hope, and…

Japa, Marriage, Sex and Money By Funke Egbemode ([email protected])

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Letty was a good girl who became a good wife but the seasons changed and this once-upon-a-time choir leader, like Lot’s wife, looked back and right before the eyes of her Pastor and in the presence of her bewildered husband, is turning into a pillar of salt. The kind of salt no one wants to touch or taste.   It was all the fault of this Japa syndrome. Letty and her husband, Brandon, had decided that Nigeria, the way it was going, was going to ruin their plans for the…

Between CBN and Finance Ministry By Olaleye Olawale

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It’s evident that the CBN is taking some critical measures in terms of its “monetary policy” to arrest the monster of forex rise. The gradual but noticeable crash of the dollar and others is proof that someone at the CBN is working hard to tame this economic pestilence. Yet, from the other street of Nigeria’s economic district, nothing appears to be happening seriously in terms of the complementary “fiscal policy” that could help the monetary policy crystalise properly and begin to manifest in the life of the average Nigerian. You…

EASTER CELEBRATIONS: Reps Minority caucus felicitate Christian faithful …. Charge Nigerians to embrace love, peaceful co-existence

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The Minority caucus of the Federal House of Representatives,has joined Nigerians to felicitate with Christian faithful across the globe, particularly those in Nigeria, on the occasion of this year’s Easter celebrations.   The Caucus in an Easter message jointly signed by Rep. O. K.Chinda,Minority Leader,Hon. Dr. Ali Isa J.C,Minority Whip, Hon. Aliyu Madaki,Deputy Minority Leader and Hon. George Ozodinobi,Deputy Minority Whip rejoiced with Christians on this auspicious occasion of Easter which is celebrated globally in Christiandom to mark the liberation of mankind through the triumph of Jesus Christ by His…