EFCC Must Bark And Bite In This Era Of Change Manifestation!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 122. 13th December, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

EFCC MUST BARK AND BITE IN THIS ERA OF CHANGE MANIFESTATION!

Before the advent of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2003, the onus of crime prevention, detection and prosecution in Nigeria was vested o n the Police Criminal Investigation Department and the EFCC at inception could be aptly described as an off-shoot of the Nigeria Police Force because not less than 99 per cent of its pioneer staff was seconded from Police CID while civil servants were engaged to handle d administrative matters. P re and post independence court prosecutors who served at the M agistrates and High Courts between 1950 and late eighties were sparsely educated sergeants and inspectors , very ill equipped, inexperienced and not well-grounded in legal in t r icacies and therefore lost cases either on technical grounds or lack of sufficient and adequate evidences for convictions. T he recruitment of university graduates from sundry disciplines into the N igeria P olice F orce (NPF), though not very attractive at that time, eventually raised the quality of prosecution but not of prevention and detection because the same half- baked members of the lower cadre still held sway in those sectors!

That error of virtually carving out EFC C from the NPF during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Administration instead of generating a brand new well-educated staff grounded in criminology , sociology, philosophy and other relevant courses from the foundation level turned out to be a wrong move of placing square pegs in round holes because : 1. T he then CID team had insignificant impact on resolving crime sit uation as Nigeria was adjudged one of 23 countries of the world where corruption bred and grew wings at the turn of the century without inhibition ; 2. B ecause the new Nigerian law enforcement Agency was prematurely birthed through international pressure by Financial Action Task Force (FATF), to conform to international best practice and ; 3. A lso to fulfil a portion of the ruling government’s manifesto to “ fight corruption ” which was endemic in the polity !

An officer of the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), who was not a crack detective but the son of a former Minister of the first republic, for political patronage, was seconded as Chairman of EFCC , (a post which should have been headed by a Commissioner), and he automatically became a pawn in the hand of Mr. President who used him to haunt , harass and arrest his pre-supposed and imaginary political enemies who suffered unconstitutional detentions at the hands of the low-rated/corrupt operatives who slammed them with trump-up charges most of which failed at the courts and in some cases, were never prosecuted for lack of concrete evidences! From inception, EFCC carved a very bad niche of un professional ism as a crime agency due to its “ modus operandi ” of advertisement of arrest s and prosecuti on of alleged suspects of financial fee fraud and money laundering on electronic and print media though which depicted a very glaring sign of professional and administrative weakness – since all s uspects were presumed constitutionally innocent in Nigeria until proved otherwise and after all said and done, most of such cases were eventually lost if the y ever got to the courts ! E FCC’ s game was that of : “T he much noise made in the Press, the much more dissemination of falsehood that much work was being done while in truth, a scenario of motion without movement was usually exhibited ! ” To date, with the exception of a very few, all former governors who were alleged by EFCC to have looted the Nigerian Treasury since 1999 have neither been formerly charged nor arrested but are getting richer and richer by the day at the expense of the poor taxpayers money because aside of the fact that they had all collected severance allowances running into billions of naira, they transited to occupy sensitive positions and offices of Senators and Federal Ministers even in the new government of Change impe r ativ e! E FCC ‘s website revealed that several government officials including late Diepreye Alamieyese gha, former governor of Bayelsa State were arrested in the year 2005 while 31 of Nigeria’s 36 State Governors were already under investigation for corruption by September, 2006, including many expatriate business concerns and their operators who were equally under the agency’ s searchlight! Some expatriates including famous Vaswani Brothers were sanctioned for fraudulent business practices but in December 2007, the Nigerian Federal Government, “ after extensive investigations by EFCC and other anti-graft organisations”, cleared and absolved the expatriate s who we re initially accused of acts of sabotage and subsequently deported, of any wrong doing and invited them back into the country according to “ This Day ” and other major newspapers which quoted copiously from government’ s issued statement in a veiled indictment on the old EFCC! Another high-profile fee fraud case was instigated i n the following year, April 2008, against the daughter of former Nigerian President, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello , by EFCC operatives who alleged that she received N10 million (US$ 100.000),stolen from the Federal Ministry of Health and also another theft of over N30.000.000 (US$300 .000), with her deputy from unspent funds of the previous year while she was Commissioner for Health in Ogun State. This case like many others before it were celebrated on the pages of newspapers, magazines and the internet and fizzled into oblivion while the EFCC website which contains a list of most wanted criminals kept promising the nation that it would bring all of them to justice! EFCC which was constitutionally legalized by the N ational Assembly (NASS), on 4 Jun e, 2004, in its Mission Statement promised to rid Nigeria of economic and financial crimes and to effectively co-ordinate the domestic effort of the global fight against money laundering and terrorists financing but it is yet to be seen if the new EFCC under the watchful supervision of President Buhari and his dedicated Minister of Internal Affairs, would fulfil its constitutional mandate or not because except crime and criminality are put in proper perspective and contained, t hey would pose serious challenge to peace and good governance! The citizens now expect a new crop of crack operatives poised to erase the distorted image of the old EFCC which controversies terminated on 29 May, 2015, and prove to the taxpayers and the electorate that they we re capable and poised with the Change mantra to deliver creditably and with distinction on all high-profile cases which they are now saddled with!

For instance, recent high-profile cases worthy of mention include: 4. New EFCC versus retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser to ex-President Ebele Jonathan, five other Nigerians and two corporate firms; 5. New EFCC versus High Chief Raymond Dokpesi , former Chairman of DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television (AIT), and Ray Power radio station; and the corporate DAAR firm . 6. A host of other high-profile corrupt individuals ran ging from top law enforcement officer s to several bank chief executives and former governors .

Already, the Press and the social media are awash with negative commentaries on the outcome of all high profile cases now being prosecuted by EFCC lawyers and have predicted definite failures at all fronts especially the financial fee fraud and money laundering cases against Raymond Dokpesi who was accused of collecting the sum of N2.1billion from the National Security Adviser’s domiciled account with the Central Bank to prosecute the presidential campaigns of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2015 General Elections without Certificate Objection to Contract Awards duly issued by the Bureau of Public Procurement and receiving payment for the said contract without bidding for it! He was also accused of another fraud offence of N8.4 billion through a FIFA contract of the Under 17 Championships hoisted by Nigeria in January 2012! Dasuki on his part was accused of laundering US$2.2 billion arms deal fund in collaboration with former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir ; former Minister of State for Finance, Barshir Yuguda, Shuaibu Salihu, a former Director of Finance at the NSA Office and a Company, Dalhatu Investment Limited and would all face a 22-count charge of fraud and money laundering at the commencement of trial! They claimed “sub ju dice” that the charges were frivolous and that the way they were crafted would definitely favour the accused person because EFCC’s legal team lacked the expertise to win the case and that all of his transactions with Dasuki and the NSA‘s Office were legal and well-documented ! It is very imperative to ensure that the new EFCC would ensure a very good outing and whichever direction it swayed – whether conviction or freedom for the accused persons, JUSTICE MUST BE SEEN TO HAVE BEEN DONE. Similarly, new EFCC needed to forge synergy of cordial working relationship with other crime prevention agencies of the Police, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Directorate of Secur ity Services (DSS), to also ensure a lasting institution of the CRIMINAL JU STICE SYSTEM which would not condemn innocent suspects on the pages of NEWSPAPERS and TELEVISION SETS even before the y were arraig ned for prosecution before law courts of competent jurisdiction!

Tenets of the Rule of Law would ensure necessary judicial impartia lity in governan ce as the third tier without exacting undeserved influences of party affiliation or patronage to favour suspects loyal to ruling government or injustice to those in opposition! THE SOUL THAT SINNETH SHALL DIE....BUT THE RIGHTEOUS SHOULD NOT BE MADE TO SUFFER IN THE POSITION OF THE WICKED! Nigerians should constantly intercede in prayers that the new Change manifestation government of President Buhari should live above board and always display the BOLD BANNER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR WHICH IT HAS BEEN CREDITED! EFCC must not be witch-hunters but crime defaulter hounds ! It should be di sc r eet in investigations and arrests, SHUT UP IN OPERATIONS PROPAGANDA BUT SPEAK UP IN COURTS AND WIN ALL CASES CREDITABLY ! Nigerians are tired of the dramas please !

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior , don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Savior . Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .

THE NEW FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA CURRENCY IS NOT PANACEA TO ABJECT POVERTY IN NIGERIA!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4 . NO 121 . 6 December, 2015.} “… ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

THE NEW FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA CURRENCY IS NOT PANACEA TO ABJECT POVERTY IN NIGERIA !

T he highest currency denomination of the Central Bank of Nigeria is ONE THOUSAND NAIRA NOTE but suddenly and with great surprise brand new FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA NOTES were printed with the advent of the new administration and are being distributed freely to extremel y poor and jobless Nigerians on the social media of the Face Book, Twitter, Instagram , Blogs and the various internet devices to drive home the need to fulfil the promise of a campaign stunt made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate during intense lobbying of the electorate in the period before the 2015 general elections ! The introduction of this new denominat ion would not have attracted headlines but for the fact that for about six months since 29 May, 2015, no one denied nor confirmed that such promise was made or existed until very recently when two of the brand new Federal Cabinet Ministers divulged vague and not categorical information in respect of the brand new notes in circulation! The o ne in charge of Youth and Sports said: “The five thousand naira stipend campaign promise by APC could not be implemented yet because it was not appropriated for in the 2015 Budge t, but would certainly be accommodated in 2016 to allevi ate the plight of JOBLESS YOUTHS ” He also said APC was committed to all campaign promises of jobs and wealth creation as some of the youth empowerment programmes were being reviewed to become more viable and people-oriented. He totally sidelined the very poor citizens who could hardly eek a living.

And the other saddled with the Information and Culture Ministry also said in the same vein in other not to contradict his colleague : “ APC has guaranteed Nigerians that it will not go back on its campaign promise to pay N5.000 monthly to unemployed Nigerian Youths through the funds captured in the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which accrued over N1.4 trillion in September, 2015.” He blamed the unhealthy situation of the Federal Government coffers on past administrations of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which bled the nation dry! IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT PRESIDENT BUHARI – THE ACCLAIMED CRUSADER OF THE TALAKAWAS- SPEAK OUT VERY QUICKLY ON THIS ISSUE TO CLARIFY ALL MISUNDERSTANDINGS ONCE AND FOR ALL BEFOR E THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE STIPENDS IN 2016 ! Neither of the two Ministers gave the modalities or the specific pattern to be followed in identifying and arriving at a determined statistics of the population of Nigerians who would qualify to be tagged as Youths or the “abjectly poor” and the process of the m onthly payment when the programme eventually commenced! Let us assume that only 25 million Nigerians are truly very poor , Federal Government would need a whooping sum of O ne Hundred and Twenty Five billion naira (N125 billion), monthly appropriation to cater for them and if we multiply that sum by the 12 months of the year, President Buhari’s administration would need ONE TRILLION AND FIVE HUND RED BILLION (N1.5 trillion)! Can any economist tell us why the F ederal G overnment of N igeria would prefer to spend about one quarter of its annual budget as “AWOOF” – (meaning free money) for either jobless youths or very poor Nigerians in this dissemination of confusing information by the able ministers and even ensure that the monies would not end up in the hands of VERY POOR GHOSTS instead of focussing on job creation opportunities for all and sundry in the Agriculture and Solid Minerals Sectors ? During the recent 67 Convocation Ceremony of the University of Ibadan, in November, the Vice President, ‘ Yemi Osin bajo , identified some of the challenges confronting the nation as infant and materna l mortality negative statistics, extreme poverty ratio, insecurity, climate change and the rabid activities of Boko Haram Terrorists and described them as monsters that should not be allowed to fester . He advocated for character reformation, creativity and technology amongst Nigerians to give the necessary support to PMB’s Administration for the much required policy direction that would positively shape the country’s future adding that the F ederal G overnment was committed to responsive g overnance that wa s focussed on the ordinary jobless Nigerians. A critical study of Nigeria’s ruling party’s manifesto reveals the innate passion of the founding fathers of the Change mantra to build formidable and enduring institutions that would permanently cater for social and economic needs of the citizens without creating inadequacies in any form! Of the Six Priority Areas of its mission statement; Human Capital and Economic Development have priority of place in a clear policy direction which articulates the need for urgent enhancement and implementation of coherent health education and social welfare policies, quality academic education at all levels with a view to creating a pool of skilled Nigerians that would form the bedrock of the economic development a genda.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Government promised to build the economy by adop ting the bottom-up approach of small and medium business enterprises that would germinate from the grass root of the nation’s land and natural resources. There was also a strategic plan to promote Youth Development through Sports and Entertainment Industry and the provision of sustainable social safety net with a priority for the most vulnerable groups throug h adequate National Security, Good Governance , Clear Public A ccountability frame works and a promotion of peaceful co-existence among all Nigerians ! In all of the above, priority was stressed on the development of lasting institutions and infrastructures through the meticulous development of the human capital capabilities which would serve as the mine-field for generating all necessary funds through the various well-coordinated programmes of government and not the misnomer of stipends that would further aggravate an individual’s poverty situation and simultaneously perpetuate the cul-de-sac to institutional bankrup t cy ! Neither the APC Management team nor President Muhammadu Buhari, have denied not retracted the campaign promise of paying a monthly allowance of five thousand naira (N5000.00), to some thousands of poverty-stricken Nigerians but from all information at our disposal, the Federal Government is at a cross road of confusion with regard to the implementation of this “goody goody” of the Father Christmas Party !

We need to remind Mr. President that before his Change Agenda, some Youth employment-driven programmes foisted by past administrations like National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), S ubsidy R e- investment Programme (SURE-P) , and Y outh Enterprise With Innovation In Nigeria (Y OU WIN ) , turned out to be flukes as the unemployment statistics remained on the high side because not less than 70 per cent of Nigerian live on about USD 1.5, (about N250.00), per day! Will the controversial peanut N5000.00 stipend that will definitely turn out to be the DRAIN PIPE OF THE FLEDGING ECONOMY perform the miracle of alleviating the debacle of jobless Nigerian s or compound the present austerity posture of the new government? Some groups are already heading for the courts to compel the APC Government to pay the monies with immediate effect but we must advise caution at this point because it would turn out to be a wasteful judicial exercise since the promise had no legal backing! We therefore share the reluctance of some APC Senators who developed cold feet when the matter was tabled before the red chambers recently and advice that a window of apology to Nigerians on that error of commission and an appeal to their conscience that such payments would result in huge wastage of scarce funds and proffer a wiser and better economic advantage in the immediate setting up of agricultural and solid mineral projects that would create employment opportunities of a long-lasting advantage in the SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES with the funds that have accrued in the TSA! P resident M uhammadu B uhari should also call all APC members of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), to stop the group ’ s drive for a downward review of the NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE of N18.000.00, which they now claim ed wa s threatened by the poor state of the economy BUT which we have noticed has not in any form affect ed their regular annual salaries, allowances, SECURITY VOTES and life styles of opulence predicated on exotic fleet of official and private vehicles, expensive taste for holidays abroad and their preference for personal private jets for local and foreign flights instead of patronizing commercial airlines! It was high time that the Change mantra bega n to yield dividends because most of the APC Governors have not discarded the PDP ’s lifestyle of wastage in governance which PMB is poised to erase and which he had demonstrated in his choice of ministers and their frugal pay packets which was embraced and accepted by the new crop of diligent and dignified men and women who cared less about the lucre of office but in efficient delivery of the dividends of democracy to the masses ! Those money-monger governors needed to be reminded of the divine condemnation of BREACH OF PROMISE in respect of their new posture of reneging on the payment of the workers legitimate wages because those who indulge in such unwholesome attitudes would incur the wrath of GOD ! (Numbers. 30:2; Ecclessiastes.5:4-5). We also plead with Nigerians –especially the Youths- to accept PMB’s apologies over the N.5000 stipend whenever he decides to offer them because we are very certain that the PROPOSAL WOULD NOT WORK! W e should all look forward to the much advantageous investment of such huge funds instead allowing them to be flushed down the DRAINS! A WORD should be enough for the WISE!

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .

Global Terrorist Are Doomed To Destroy One Another Sooner Than Later!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi , Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 120. 29th November, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

G LOBAL TERRORISTS ARE DOOMED TO DESTROY ONE ANOTHER SOONER THAN LATER !

T hat the Heaven could come crashing to crush the Earth ’s crust to splinters would not constitute fright to one particular country but would generate among all nations, in stant response of necessary safety measures that would protect and preserve lives , properties and infrastructures irrespective of political religious or cultural differences ! It is therefore not surprising that World Powers have decided to unite more than ever since the establishment of N orth Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), at the end of World War II in 1945 , to fight the 21 Century common enemy called TERRORISIM which had ascended an unprecedented dimension and had virtually brought every nation no m atter how militarily powerful to its knees! When the Al Qu a eda terrorist group struck a devastating blow on 9 th September, 20 01 , in the United States through bomb attacks on the New York Twin Towers, and destroyed over 3000 lives and properties worth billions of United States dollars, it seemed that the Eastern Russia n Bloc was immuned to terrorism but now that the heat is turned on the region through the downing of two of its aircrafts and a military rescue helicopter within a space of about three weeks interval, the Russian President has come out smoking and threatening! A Russian Metro-jet airliner with 224 passengers and crew on board was shot down by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists over the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt , on 31 October, 2015, and there were no survivors!

Similarly on Tuesday, 24 November, 2015, Turkish Military Forces shot down a Russian Fighter-jet aircraft for violating the Turkey airspace along the Turkey-Syria border, killing the pilot on board while the rescue helicopter crew of two marine Russian pilots was not spared as it was also shot down , for further airspace violation !

Prior to these ugly incidents , pro-Russia n rebels had in April , 2014 invaded eastern Ukraine and forcibly occupied that region in what political analysts perceived as Russian’s further land acquisition ambition since the demise of the Soviet Union and had tacitly supported the rebel with arms, ammunition, funds, logistics, food and drugs, when sovereign Republic of Ukraine troops confronted them in war ! A 15-month Dutch Safety Board (DSB), i nvestigations recently revealed that it was a Russian-made Buk surface - to-air missile launched by the rebels that downed the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17 which crashed into the rebel-held eastern Ukraine at the height of the conflict between government troops and the pro-Russian separatists in which a total of 283 passengers, including 80 children and 15 crew members , perished on 17 July, 2015! To date nearly 7 , 000 lives have been lost and the Russian Government kept denying any involvement with the rebels who have now declared the occupied region as, Donetsk Peoples Republic (DNR), although NATO stands firm in support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and has warned the Russian separatists against further Ukraine land grab as they (REBELS), threatened to expand their holdings further westwards!

Could the Russian Government’s present dilemma not be regarded as a reprisal of that act of terror on another sovereign State through subversion by their rebel allies? However, Russia is now prepared to join other world powers to fight global terrorism by jihadist groups which have become more pronounced with the recent downing of their aircraft by ISIL and the escalation of attack s on Paris by the same group which had gained more prominence as a lead terror group of the North Africa Region and parts of Europe! Already , France President Francois Hollande , has called on the United States Britain and their allies to join forces with his country where 130 souls were lost in a dastard ISIL as s aults, suicide bombing and gun attacks in Paris on the night of Friday 13 November, 2015 , to destroy the seeming invincibility of tho s e jihadist s ! The year 2000 was significant for many reasons because it served the dual purpose of ushering the advent of both a new century and millennium simultaneously and also for destroying the myth that the world would end mysteriously through destruction by fire on the very first day of January ! Since the biblical era of longevity which culminated in the record of Pa Methuselah who lived for 969 years (thirty-one year s short of a millennium), hardly had men successfully dwelt in vitality for one hundred years apiece and that perhaps gave vent to the theory that the persistent short span of life on planet earth was an indication of the winding up or extermination of the world population , though God had said that Man should flourish, be fruitful, multiply and subdue the Earth ! And while the United Nations planned the very laudable Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), global policy to lift the living condition s of its developing countries at par with those of the highly civilized climes to take off from the year 2000, some of the third world countries where native religious studies, beliefs, mysteries and fanaticisms had advanced several mystic theories through the worship of terrestrial and celestial gods , were obsess ed that a terminal end of the world by fire was very imminent in that year according to predictions which spur red many of such groups to disappear into caves and ravines to escape death without caring to contribute their own quota to national or universal, scientific and technological advancements !

Many world citizens pe rished in that strategic year 2000 through unwarranted fear, ignorance and faithlessness in the revealed truth as recorded in the Word of God! It is fifteen years (15), of a continuous world without end but of the escalation of terrorism to its highest peak of advanced sophistication in technological warfare in which virtually almost every independent nation has to deal with on e form of terrorism or insurgency or both at the same time! In Mali, West Africa, on Friday 20 November, terrorists of a n off-shoot of the al Quaeda jihadist group stormed a popular international hotel and in the process of hostage-taking and rescue operation , 22 people we re killed while 14 were injured! The Boko Haram terrorism, which was initially restricted to Nigeria’s North East States , has extended to Chad, Niger and Cameroun with recorded casualties, but through a joint multinational military cooperation, the vicious group – though seeking ISIL affiliation – is being totally eliminated and annihilated! Terrorist activities have become synonymous with countries like Syria, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Af ghanistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia , Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ; because there is virtually none of them that have not tasted bloodshed through suicide bombings , mass shootings, gun attacks and hostage taking in recent times ; which translates to the truth of an astronomical escalation of global terrorism even against the self-acclaimed world powers and their allies of Britain, Germany and France !

We must not lose sight of biblical prophecies and predictions of Old Testament Prophets in respect of divine judgment of sins against the nation of Israel which have been partially fulfilled through national Dispersion and most importantly the antecedent calamities to occur before the judgment of all nations of the world as predicted by the Lord Jesus Christ who would eventually judge them of all their ungodly deeds! The Lord Jesus Christ declared to His disciples towards the conclusion of His earthly ministry that the Jerusalem Temple would be destroyed because of abominations and that not one s tone of it be left upon another ; and t his prophecy was fulfilled in AD 70 when Emperor Titus of Roman Army besieged and overran the city !

Other predictions of the Lord Jesus Christ which He emphatically stated would occur before His Second Advent included the deluge of impersonators of Him, the Son of God, the sound of wars and rumours of wars which should not frighten true believers as they would only serve as the harbingers but not the end-time judgment! According to Him, “ For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places. ” [Matthew. Chapter.24:1-46; and 25:31-46]. These prophecies are still being fulfilled in spite of the fact that World War 1 and World War II had long been concluded because according the Lord Jesus Christ, those events would only signify the beginning of sorrows and not the end of the world and this is the reason why all sovereign nation s would and must always unite to avert a THIRD WORLD WAR which seemed imminent by the day because of vicious and heinous acts of terrorism being perpetrated by man against man! Be it known that it would not be the combined forces of the United States of America and its allies that would crush, defeat and destroy global terrorism but GOD ; and Heaven would not come crashing down upon the Earth because there is no such item on the LORD’S end-time agenda !

But, one prophecy is sure a nd would definitely come to manifest sooner than later: “God will confound the language s of those jihadist terrorist groups, ISIL, al Queda , al Shabab , Boko Haram , Janja Weeds, Tuaregs and all their affiliates around the world and they would wage internal wars against themselves; slit one another’s throats, devour their own flesh and drink their own blood, believing it is sweet wine and the peace of God that passes human understanding will prevail globally !” Amen . Read Isaiah.49:24-26 and join all world citizens to observe weekly Wednesday intercessory prayers for continuous divine intervention against these enemies of PEACE!

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour , don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour . Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon , Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .

THIS ERA OF LEGISLATIVE RASCALITY BY SARAKI AND MELAYE IS DAMNABLE AND CONDEMNABLE !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 119. 22nd November, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

THIS ERA OF LEGISLA TIVE RASCALITY BY S ARAKI AND MELAYE IS DAMNABLE AND CONDEMNABLE.

International accoladesthrough diplomatic channelscoupledwith massivecitizens ’ approvals greeted the choice of the cabinet ministers and permanent secretaries carefully and prayerfull y -selected to serve Nigerians in the new Dispensation of Change being offered the nation by the All progressives Party (APC) . These crops of intelligent, diligent and tested men and women who had s ince commenced to implement Party Manifestoes t hrough positive mission direction being rooted in the var ious Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), in the form administrative re-orientation. Already, both the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), have collaborated to implement the Treasury Single Account (TSA), Policy recently re-invented by President Muhammadu Buhari , to assure Nigerians of his good intentions to ensure prudent and transparent management of all financial resources through ONE SINGLE ACCOUNT that could be scrutinized at all times by all and sundry but it seemed that some renegade Senators in the red chambers were bent on sabotaging the laudable efforts of Mr. President through unfounded allegations that N25 billion was fraudulently withdrawn from the account which is already endeared to all Nigerians ! The duo of Senators Olusola Saraki and Dino M elaye of the APC, who master-minded the Senate Chambers coup of 11 June, 2015, in collaboration with the opposition party, have championed this inglorious peddling of unsavoury untruths which has fully portrayed them and the others in the Senate Committee on Ethics, Pri vileges and Public Petitions, as the household enemies within the APC Camp! According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Saraki had said that no amount of intimidati on or blackmail would stop the Upper H ouse from investigating the alleged N25 billion TSA fraud! Dino Melaye, (Kogi West), had on 12 November, 2015, raised a false alarm on the floor of the Senate that N25 billion was fraudulently paid to an e-Collecting Firm, REMITA, in one day as one per cent of monies transferred to TSA and has thus misled the hallowed house to commence wastage of scarce public funds through fathom i n vestigatio ns , to be conducted for two weeks with the tax-payers money ! Is it not an irony of fate that while TSA Policy was mopping up all sundry accounts together, Saraki and Melaye were busy squandering the same funds through unwarranted Committee meetings presently in sessions! Facts of the TSA transactions from our reliable sources are as follows:

1. Melaye’s false motion was tabled on the floor of the Senate TWO WEEKS after all transactions of N7.63billion commission and NOT N25billion of his imagination, had been paid and refunded by the processing fee beneficiaries, comprising of CBN, 20 Commercial Banks and System specs (Remita e-Collection Platform) , due to detection of an anomaly by CBN!

2. CBN has confirmed that total TSA transfers stood at N1.5 trillion and not N2.5 trillion as alleged by Melaye on the floor of the Chambers.

3. Melaye exaggerated all figures in respect of TSA transfers and processing fees barefacedly with a view to scoring cheap popularity but ended up confirming that he was an unserious first term Senator who has devoted more time to paying solidarity to Saraki and his wife rather than to genuine legislative oversights!

We recommend that Melaye and his ilk of fifth columnists in the Senate hallowed chambers should apologize to Nigerians for towing this line of unholy sabotage against PMB , the Lord’s anointed , whose is on a sacred mission of cleansing the nation of all filth of past administrations of which he and Saraki were principal officers! WE MAKE BOLD TO STATE THAT THE RECORDS OF THE TSA ARE CLEAN AND ARE AVAILABL E FOR NIGERIANS TO VERIFY ON AP PLICATION! Nigerians in all walk s of life – especially the down trodden - had clamoured and intensified their agitations for transparency and accountability in governance since it became very glaring that the so-called messiah President from 1999 to 2007, was a wolf in sheep’s clothing – a hireling – who preferred to selfishly perpetrate himself in office rather than fulfil his oath of office! The Treasury Single Account, a mandatory provision , documented in Section 8 (1), of the 1999 Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution as amended stipulates that : “All revenues or other moneys, raised or received by the Federation (not being revenue or other moneys payable under this Constitution or any Act of the National Assembly into any other public fund of the Federation established for a specific purpose), shall be paid into and form one Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation,” Former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, took the oath to implement the letter and the spirit of the 1999 Constitution which included strict compliance to a SINGLE ACCOUNT but flagrantly disregarded the provision by operating multiple accounts for the collection/ disbursement of government’s revenue and bequeathed the baton of disobedience to his successors! The successful fiscal governance of any nation must anchor majorly on the economic direction, destination and transparency of the management team to deliver consistent and concrete democratic dividends that would be evident and visible to the electorate whose patience and resilienc e should never be overstretched! Past administrations in Nigeria – in particular, the very last one of former President Ebele Jonathan, passionately aspired to attain the position of being adjudged as one of the 20 most-economically viable countries of the world in the year 2020 without laying the imperative solid foundation of transparency and righteo usness which robbed that government total compliance when it first introduced the pilot scheme of TSA in 2012 by experimenting with 217 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)! Althou gh the sum of N500 billion was saved in frivolous spending , the policy died because the corrupt bosses of MDAs failed to comply thereafter and even until the departure of that government in spite of th reat of sanctions and deadlines ! Jonathan’s Administration could not successfully implement the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information Scheme (IPPIS), which was introduced late 2014 to block the ghost workers debacle but was also resisted, neither could it harmonize the country’s various data banks hosted by different government agencies such as Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), National Population Commission (NPC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Customs, Immigrati on Service and others! TSA which has now been re-introduced and became fully operational from 15 September, 2015, as part of the Change mantra of the All Prog r essives Congress ( APC ), was no doubt, a clear indication that fiscal issues could be handled faithfully with the manifestation of a political will and according to the rule of law ! This no doubt is the right direction to go in view of the fact that the legal mind s which addressed the issue of a single account for the Federation had good intentions towards the masses of the people at the lower wrung of the society who deserved better life, and greater attention in respect of government ’s dispensation of funds to meet all of the regular needs in areas of general welfare, health services, education, employment, decent accommodation, adequate security etc. BUT, the few privileged in position of authority have always FAILED to interpret and implement the legal document according to its true intentions! And whereas the preamble of the 1999 Constitution clearly states that SOVEREIGNTY over all government activities and affairs belonged to the people – that is, the electorate MUST an d would always have the supreme authority to decide on all matters through voting at elections to choose their representatives at the National Assembly (NASS)/State Assemblies , through the mechanisms of the RECALL channel or through plebiscite s to decide on important issues of critical national importance , YET crafty politicians have succeeded in the past to sideline them and manipulate the system to their own advantage when it comes to disbursement or appropriation of funds through the multiple instead of a Single Treasury Account as stipulated in the Constitution , though the masses are the nation’s WORK FORCE ! In the past, large sums of funds had been deliberately appropriated to RECURRENT EXPENDITURE (salaries, allowances, transportation, accommodation, vacations etc, at the expense of CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ( major infrastructures for power, energy, water, roads, educational institutions, modern health facilities, agriculture, industries etc,), that would impact positively and benefit the lager population by unpopular and selfish administrations, but the APC Government, through the smart move of the TSA Policy, is no doubt determined to prove to Nigerians at home and the Diaspora that the new administration would be predicated on the principles of faithfulness, righteousness, transparency and accountability !

TSA is a major public accounting system among the numerous financial policies that can be used to check fraud and reckless abuse of government funds ; ensure proper cash management/ accountability, enhance transparency or misapplication of public funds. It is a process and avenue for establishing genuine banking and total-cash-at-a-glance position in one single account! Through TSA, multiple banking arrangements which were open to abuse are eliminated while economy and efficiency into overall management of public finances will ensure effectiveness in government’s spending through an overall picture of account balance at any given time! Between the period of full implementation on 15 , September, 2015, mentioned earlier to the time of this publication, TSA transfers stood at N1.5 trillion, according to CBN, and would continue to rise to the advantage of an economy being conducted under a transparent financial regime! It is unfortunate that Saraki and Melaye are very unhappy with this trend of righteousness in government and until they bend or break, they will remain the CLOG IN THE WHEEL OF PROGRESS; whose judgment is closely at hand! TSA full implementation is a victorious financial emancipation for all Nigerians. “ P ut the money for ground; count am, make all man se e ! Hurray! Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord.

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .

Must Nigerian Youths Be Dragged Into The Trauma of Vicious Deceits Again and Again By The PDP ?

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 118. 15th November, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

MUST NIGERIAN YOUTHS BE DRAGGED INTO THE TRAUMA OF VICIOUS DECEITS AGAIN AND AGAIN BY PDP ?

Indeed,these are trying times for some Nigerian Youths who have remained pawn on the chess board of unfaithful politicians who continue to harass, intimidate, manipulate and dazzle the poverty-stricken among them with illicit money to submit to all manner of il legal activities ranging from thuggery to armed robbery, insurgency and even terrorism! Youths fought the Biafra war of the sixties; they were the Niger Delta militants who ravaged the South-South Geo-Political Zone in the eighties and the nineties; they were em ployed as ballot boxes snatchers and election riggers before the 2015 elections which was a knotty nut to crack with the introduction of Voter Card Readers; they were the “Frankenstein Monsters” known as Boko Haram , invented from the political laboratories of rouge politicians between 1999 and 2015; they have been groomed to do the dirty jobs of the immoral and insensitive adult population which engage d them for pittance and dump them at will! Those who had neither vision nor mission direction were sponsored and gathered together again last Thursday, 12 November, 2015, in Abuja to be brainwashed by the opposition party to participate in the mainstream partisan politics of a rebranded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), hoping to return to power at the Federal level in 2019 and employ 2 million in their first year of return ! The immediate past PDP Youth Leader was 60 years old! It is on record that Nigerian Youths never had it so bad as they did in the last 16 years of PDP governments when they had to spend up to ten years in tertiary institutions instead of five for Arts and seven f o r Medicine Courses, due to incessant strikes by lecturers who did not receive regular salaries! Young people of all nation s should be guided and prepared for leadership positions with t he ideal philosophical doctrine that would enhance and increase development as societies grow and age slowly in order to avoid political, economic or social retrogression ! It is imperative that governments engage in efforts that would harvest the great potentials and positive energies of these youths who a re the nerve centre s or engine room s from which ideas should be regularly generated to replenish and sustain economic development and civilization instead of misdirecting and brainwashing them into believing unholy doctrines of nation-building and democratic principles through forceful agendas should lead them to understand mutual agreements and meaningful dialogue of conflict resolutions ! About 70 percent of the Nigerian population is made up of able-bodied youths! Six years into Nigeria’s nascent democracy, a military coup de’ tat which suddenly changed the political destiny of the nation into a civil war scenario erupted as the then Eastern Nigeria government agitated for self-determination, proclaimed and christened that region as “State of Biafra”! The war lasted for 30 months, 16 July , 1967 to 12 January, 1970! In a declaration over the t hen “Biafran Radio” Major General Phillip Effiong, unconditionally surrendered and was accepted on 15 January, 1970, by General Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian Head of State who declared general amnesty for all those misled into attempting to disintegrate the country and rejoiced that all Nigerians were once again re-united! The Biafran Civil War took an estimated TWO MILLION LIVES, including many Biafran able-bodied me n, children and women and cost over USD $840 mil lion dollars according to the Federal Military Government! W ould it not amount to sheer insensi b i li ty and moral ineptitude for pressure groups from that same region who did not experience the Civil War, to further agitate for a Biafran State which has become a dead delusion already tucked away in the annals of history 45 years ago since the sovereign State of Nigeria moved on to greater heights with 36 States of 774 Local Government Areas (LGA), including those of the Federal Capital Territory !

WHO ARE THE INDEGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB), AND MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BIAFRA (MASSOB)? Are they those who have tasted the bitter pills of war or those who were not even born after the declaration of NO VICTOR NO VANQUISHED? These agitators are mere rabble rousers who would stop at nothing short of attracting attention of inordinate ambition to acquire some illicit financial gains ! Te n years into the new attempt o f fresh democratic experience – precisely from August 2009 - a small religious sect made up of young people and christen ed Boko Haram, rebelled against constituted authority in Bornu State in North East , through organised insurgency which involved the destruction of lives and properties on large scales through acts of terrorism! Until very recently after a change of government, all efforts by the previous administration to curb the situation did not yield meaningful results ! The reasons for the rebellion was predicated mainly on government’s dereliction of duty in respect of delivering on social contract promises of the basic amenities of life – food, clothing, shelter, education and employment opportunities with living wages for the teeming youths who roamed the streets without the hope of where regular income or meals would be obtained! According to available statistics, not less than a million lives have been lost i n this 21 Century mindless w ar of attrition and yet politicians of the failed past administrations are now more concerned about how they can bounce back to “power” in 2019, instead of giving account of their 16 years of stewardship of looting - 1999 -2015, which almost destroyed the economy! Apart from fresh agitations for another state of Biafra which has taken street protest s dimension and which some politicians from the six South Eastern States secretly and succinctly support , some failed politicians of PDP , recently gathered some sponsored youths mentioned earlier from the 774 Local Government Areas, ( two delegates each, male and female), from each LGA to participate in a “wishy-washy” Abuja National Conference rebranding effort which w as still-born on delivery on Thursday, 12 November, 2015, the d ay after the successful inaugur ation of very outstanding and ebullient newly-born Federal Executive Council Ministers who took oath of office and immediately roared into dynamic action! Befor e that infamous convention the C onvener/ Chairman, and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of Da ’ ar Communications took time to engage his news dissemination outfit s , African Independent Television (AIT), and Ray Power Radio, which took the centre stage for hate speeches and documentaries against the incumbent President during political campaigns leading to the 2015 General Elections , to now apologize to all Nigerians to forgive the PDP for messing up Nigeria for 16 years of bad administration characterized by ineptitude and impunity of those he described as the garrison commanders of the Party ! M ost importantly, Raymond Dokpesi, apologized to the nation for fielding Goodluck Ebele Jonat han in 2011 and 2015 against PDP’s policy of rotational presidency between the North and South ! We were not surprised when the Party’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, contradicted Dokpesi’s apologies whom he said made personal statements since he was neither a member of the National Executive Council (NEC ), nor a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) adding that PDP had no apologies for anyone! An appraisal of the so-called rebranding conference exposed vituperations of bad losers - who were yet to pay dearly for looting the Nigerian treasury with reckless abandon for 16 long years - revealed the following outbursts from the unrepentant PDP remnants:
1. Acting Chairman Uche Secundu s, celebrated “victory” of the minority Party (PDP), over the majority Party (APC), at Senate plenary on Wednesday 11 November, 2015, when deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, presided over the affairs which was disrupted in a walk-out by some APC Senators before Senate President Bukola Saraki, took over mid-way, o n arrival from the inauguration of FEC Ministers at the Presidential Villa! What a small minority mind! We thank God that the leadership of the Nigerian Armed Forces not gullible to be pressured by desperate bloody civilians!

2. Ike Ekweremadu in his own contribution at the rebranding conference exploded without restraint that the ruling Party APC had not fulfilled a single item of its campaign promises and manifestos though it is very glaring that the issue of national security , counter terrorism and the anti-corruption cru sade is gaining strong momentum; that the Boko Ha ram terrorists have arrived the “Waterloo Station” and that all agencies of government are working on full steam to put t he economy on the right footing; that the promised presidential team of minist ers have hit the ground running; yet according to the ir wounded ego, APC was yet to function !

3. Interestingly, only AIT electronic outfit was on duty at the venue which lacked all the pomp and pageantry of previous PDP outings before their defeat and could not even complete the coverage due to the Edo State 7 Anniversary Ce lebration - fully paid for - and which could not be ignored due to the cash crunch situation of the outfit across board!

4. Retired General Ibrahim Babangida rejected the invitation of Dokpesi who could not see him to the Aso Rock Seat in 2011 as his Campaign Director Genera l; so were other absentees; regarded as “founding fathers” and members of the NEC and NWC!

5. Dokpesi continued his lamentations over the failure of the PDP Governments of the past 16 years and concluded by prophesying that the “rebranded” PDP was not dead, would not die and would never die ! “Who is he that saith , and it commeth to pass, when the LORD commandeth it not? [Lamentation.3:37].

6. We believe in the freedom of expression but would advise that the High Chief who could not rebrand Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida ( IBB ); may find it very, difficult to rebrand those who were mentored by the “ Maradonna ” and master drib b ler!

7. Did any YOUTH DELEGATE contribute meaningfully to the rebranding debates, lectures or interactions at the venue? We very much doubt it!

We believe it was high time Nigerian youths resisted all forms of mental and physical slavery to which they have been subjected by discredited politicians who only needed them to desperately get undeserved political offices for the sake of filthy lucre ; take their destiny in their hands and collaborate with this brand new dispensation of the divine Government of Righteousness! The Word of God for the Nigerian Youths: “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee and His glory shall be seen upon thee. Amen. [Isaiah.60: 1-2]. Let all Nigerians s upport the new government to destroy the neo-colonialist tendencies/ manipulations and the wicked attitude of man’s inhumanity to man of the past and together usher a vista of a new dawn and a new hope for these bright generations of future leaders ! PDP is not only dead like Babylon – it has gone under and will never rise again – because its sins are worse than those of Sodom and Gomorrah! Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord.

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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .

Were The Niger Delta Governors Their Brothers' Keepers ?

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 117. 8th November, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

WERE THE NIGER DELTA GOVERNORS THEIR BROTHERS’ KEEPERS!

Although the Federal Government of Nigeria has constitutional responsibility to judiciously manage and allocate financial proceeds derivable from all exploitable mineral resources in any part of the Federation as stipulated under the Exclusive Legislative List, the Derivation Principle of allocating some percentage of funds as compensation to the exploited States remained a priority according to the principles of fairness, equity and justice! Until recently with the change of administration, lip- service had been paid to diversification from the mono-economic product of Crude Oil to Agriculture and other Mineral resources which are in abundance in all States of the Federation. The oil-producing States of the Niger Delta had always been in the forefront of persistent agitation for increase in the Derivation formula which had been stagnant at 13 per cent since the new attempt at democracy in1999 and as such, Nigerians have been subjected to constant threats of warfare and destabilization of peace by militants of all categories from the region! Certainly it would be unpatriotic for any Nigerian to think that the Niger Delta region would not need extra funds outside of their Federation Account share to take care of the avalanche of devastation of the landscape which resulted from exploration and exploitation especially by foreign oil companies which were more concerned about profits than their corporate social responsibility pact! Fellow Nigerians domiciled in the hinterland, outside of Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, and some parts of Edo and Ondo States, needed to physically visit and experience at first hand, the mental, emotional, intolerable and inconducive environmental trauma, the indigenes of those areas had been condemned to for over 40 years of bad management by successive administrations! However, there is a twist to this line of thought even though about 90% of Nigeria’s economic income was derivable from crude oil extraction from the Niger Delta; if other Nigerians who benefit immensely from this oil funds should have empathy and join in demanding for an increase of Derivation percentage, should their Governors and politicians be insensitive to the plight of their own kith and kin by taking undue advantage of those who were restricted to rural livelihood?

A new line of thought points to the axiom which states that a person who had not complained of pain or general debility of the body needed not be over pampered with unsolicited hospitality which might turn out to be unappreciated as it was in case of two emerging groups who claimed: That no one should ‘poke nose’ or comment on how their governments dispensed both the affirmative 13% Derivation Fund and the monthly allocation from the Federation Account because they were in collusion with the management team in charge of the funds, and Those who became militants to take their own share of the national cake by force! During the National Political Reform Conference convoked by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, some Northern delegates drew attention of the whole House to the recklessness of Niger Delta Governors and their accomplices who virtually embezzled State funds with reckless abandon; but surprisingly, the delegates from that region seemed unperturbed as they neither contested nor denied the allegations but brazenly told anyone who cared to listen that they were content with whatever the Governors did with the allocations since the money in question belonged to their States!

That response of the Niger Delta delegates will remain intriguing to Nigerians as it would to posterity because as at that time the late Governor of Bayelsa, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, who outsmarted the London Police was already on trial in Nigeria for money laundering and embezzlement of public funds. Likewise his Delta State counterpart James Ibori, (presently serving jail sentences in a London Prison), was also under investigations by Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for similar offences! To date, at least five governors from the Niger Delta States, have been accused of financial misappropriation and embezzlement and three of them (including, Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State), have been successfully prosecuted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment! The plight of the suffering masses of Niger Delta should be of utmost priority to all Nigerians who believe in the doctrine of fundamental human rights for all law-abiding citizens because neither the Conference Delegates nor the agitating Militants had ever spoken the minds of these helpless citizens who dwell and die in the most degraded manner in slums of oil pollution and acid rain of the worst type of ecological terrain! They are the THIRD voiceless group whose farmlands and fish ponds have been overrun by oil spillages and who were never compensated even when compensations were paid by the oil exploiters and who are the voiceless ones to have a say on how they were governed!

On 3rd November 2015, Amnesty International ( A Non-Governmental Agency which protects human rights, stands up for justice, fairness, freedom and truth world-wide), drew the attention of both the Federal Government and all citizens to a fresh wave of connivance between an international Oil Company, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), and a Nigerian environmental agency, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), to alleged forgery and embezzlement of funds allocated for clean-up of oil spills sites in the Niger Delta , which were not cleaned but for which CLEAN-UP CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION had been issued! Amnesty Country Director, Mr. Mohammed K. Ibrahim, who made the disclosure, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NANS), urged President Buhari to look into the fraud and that Nigerians should sue the two collaborators and partners in crime to get redress for the environmental injuries already afflicted on the psyche of the innocent and helpless indigenes of Niger Delta! The Human Rights Group had accused SPDC and NOSDRA of connivance and false claims of CLEAN-UP of oil spill contaminated sites in the oil-producing States some years ago when in actual fact, their claims were nothing but a well-calculated fraud and also suggested that the two agencies be charged to court and made to pay for damages and cited similar erring organizations like BP in the United States which had to pay heavy fines through criminal and civil litigations for justice to take its course! The Group also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Program on the clean-up of oil spills sites in the Niger Delta region were implemented adding that its latest findings had placed a question of credibility of NOSDRA, the agency involved in the fraudulent exercise issuing certificates for unexecuted jobs in the first instance! Shell Petroleum Development Company (SDPC), has played pioneering roles in the Nigerian crude oil exploration and exploitation industry in the past 50 years and one would expect diligence, quality, dexterity, versatility, sincerity, uprightness, righteousness and perfection in all its business transactions but the reserve of all these qualities are what they have on display! Could it be that the corruptive portfolio of past administrations since independence had smeared on SDPC or that the malaise was actually part of their own business baggage to break through and maintain monopoly of the petroleum industry in Nigeria? But the crux of the matter is that, should the indigenes of a developing nation connive with foreigners to sabotage the main-stay economic product of their country and in aid of the love of money? *Did you know that the Yar’Adua-Jonathan Administration in 2007 flagged off the Amnesty program for Niger Delta militants which proffered peace for that region till date when the contract should be reviewed in December 2015? *Did you also know that,starting with Jonathan who studied Hydrobiology/Fisheries and Biology and was Assistant Director in the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC), between 1993-1998, prior to his political career, Niger Delta indigenes had always been saddled with environmental degradation issues with the strong belief that they would identify where the “shoe pinches”! The Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs was at different times headed by indigenes who also had higher percentage of staff; all other Environmental Agencies including NOSDRA, which has colluded with SDPC, all have larger share of workers and Board members as indigenes with a view to ensuring quality delivery of all contracts! With this shocking revelation about NOSDRA, the big question now is that, WHOM WOULD THE NIGER DELTA STATE VOICELESS INDEGENES NOW DEPEND ON FOR JUSTICE WHEN THEIR OWN KITH AND KIN HAVE ALLEGEDLY HI-JACKED THEIR MONETARY COMPENSATION FOR UNEXECUTED CONTRACT BY ISSUING FAKE COMPLETION CERTIFICATE AND HAVE LEFT THEM HIGH AND DRY?

The ball is the domain of PMB who we expect to probe this grave allegation against NOSDRA and bring all erring back-stabbers to quick justice and also sanction SDPC officials who were also involved in this shameful contract which have destroyed hundreds of hundreds of lives and properties, just because of the love of money……they should be named, shamed, prosecuted and jailed to serve as deterrent to the present and up-coming generations of NIGER DELTA indigenes who deserve a better deal from their brethren and fatherland! Please always remember that only the TRUTH shall set us free as a people and that only RIGHTEOUSNESS will exalt NIGERIA as a nation because SIN remains a reproach to all of us!

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch.

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

MTN Must Face The Consequencies of Covetousness !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 116. 1st November, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

MTN MUST FACE THE CONSEQUENCIES OF COVETOUSNESS!

Before the year 2014 when Nigeria was adjudged the largest economy and international commercial destination in Africa, South Africa had been the commercial nerve centre and the industrial attraction of world business gurus but with Nigeria’s superficially imposed image, a very cold diplomatic war brewed silently between the two big developing black nations! First, a privately-owned jet aircraft loaned by a Nigerian Pastor to transfer raw green notes of United States dollars totaling $9.3million, was apprehended and seized by South African anti-graft security agents in one of their local airports in view of the illegality of the whole transaction which involved the physical presence of an ex-South-South militant who escorted other members of crew to “purchase arms for the Federal Government of the Peoples Democratic (PDP), government of that period to fight Boko Haram terrorism! We have been reliably informed that the said amount would now be repatriated to Nigeria on 30 November, 2015, as a gesture of camaraderie to the new Change government of President Buhari! Second, in that same year, another diplomatic row ensued when a pastor’s six-storey building in Lagos State collapsed suddenly and killed more than 89 South Africans on pilgrimage to a self-acclaimed prophet in Nigeria – the flame of the ugly incident is yet to die! Now, MTN Nigeria, a subsidiary of MTN South Africa, Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator, is kicking off another diplomatic row by imploring the South African government to intervene and mitigate a fine imposed on it by Nigeria’s communications regulator, in the third week of October 2015 for contravening communications regulations in Nigeria! We will implore South African authorities to stand clear of this case which smells of covetousness and greed and by extension, a security breach on the part of their over ambitious ambassadors! A common trait of impunity runs through the veins and arteries of criminals, law breakers, covenant and truce breakers who, having infringed and contravened all manner of statutes or commandments either by default, commission or omission would always prefer to escape the consequences of chastisement or punishment! The recent exhibition of protests displayed by MTN Nigeria – a subsidiary of MTN South Africa, over a fine of N1 .4trillion (USD $5.2billion), by communications regulator, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), for infringement over Subscriber Identification Module (SIM), deactivation, was the highest form of irresponsibility and impunity by a major service provider of its caliber, and a show of executive rascality by its management board because the organization was privy and also a signatory to the fine template of N200.000 naira per unregistered SIM after the set deadline! MTN Nigeria failed to fully deactivate 52 million subscribers with unregistered SIM Card details on its networks within the stipulated deadline given to all mobile phone operators in the country to comply with its directive! THIS SERVICE PROVIDER WAS GIVEN TILL 16 NOVEMBER, 2015 TO PAY UP THE FINE OR FACE STIFFER PENALTIES! It should be noted by all and sundry that the era of disobedience to lawful orders and business as usual in Nigeria where the doctrine of rule of law is now well-grounded would no longer be tolerated – not by alien corporate bodies which were always out to infringe and corrupt governance through all forms of manipulations of the system. MTN Nigeria should understand that the time of bribing Nigerian Legislators with exotic mobile phones plus customized SIM Cards and the annual supply of credit cards are over and discarded in this period of national re-orientation, stabilization and sanitization! MTN Nigeria had displayed reckless greed and covetousness since 2002 when it debuted as a major service provider because it found gullible officials who would collect bribe even from the dead during failed administrations which were laced with executive-aided corruption which stank to high heavens! In spite of the fact that it came second after ECONET, it quickly embraced the fifty naira per minute billing without caring for the economic conditions and pecuniary situation of the masses – in fact it foisted a mantra of restricting the facility to the upper echelon of the society that can afford the exorbitant rates to the detriment of other considerations of citizens civil obligations like information gathering for crime prevention and security breaches! MTN SIM cards were sold for between N16.000 and 20.000 while the least of small handsets sold for N30.000 naira and above and the least amount of credit that could be loaded at that obnoxious period was N1.500. 00, until Globacom, an indigenous communications Service Provider invaded the scene in 2003 and broke MTN’s jinx by introducing per second call billing charges which the MTN claimed would take about FIVE YEARS to achieve because of their greed! According to REUTERS NEWS AGENCY, MTN Group now seeks to reduce the sanction by involving diplomatic intervention as its Shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), fell continuously following the news of the USD $5.2 fine imposed on the company’s Nigerian subsidiary as investors scrambled to cut their losses which had gone up to 16% in the last week of October, 2015! It is on record that MTN Nigeria garnered at least ONE BILLION NAIRA daily from subscribers for very poor, very irritating and very nauseating services rendered in the last 10 years of stiff competition by other major service providers and in a particular year declared a profit of N72 billion naira after tax, so it is convenient to assume that it could pay the fine without a sweat although their apologists insinuated that the fine could wipe out more than two years of their annual profit! Although MTN is still pursuing the possibility of canvassing a reduction of the fine, we opine that they be reminded of the African adage which states that: “Whatever a covetous person greedily amassed would always turn out as his undoing in monumental loss!” Some commercial analysts have expressed that MTN’s loss could also affect Nigeria’s international investment portfolio negatively if the fine was not reviewed downward but we beg to disagree and opine that it was better that the service provider outfit pay its fine to the last cent, sell or dismantle its operations in Nigeria in order to save Nigeria the continuous embarrassment of constant COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BREACHES! *Did you know that SIM Cards registration was the brain-child of all Nigerian security agencies initiated since 2008 to assist in resolving crimes perpetrated through the use of phones in which criminal elements could not be identified with the number of the phones they used? *Did you also know that that the kidnapping of elder statesman and former Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), in September 2015, further compounded matters for MTN Nigeria, according to Reuters, when the service provider could not provide requisite information on its mobile numbers that were used by the kidnappers to negotiate a ransom with Falae’s family members? We would want to ask Nigerian subscribers who have been shortchanged for so long this very salient question, “Should MTN be allowed to jeopardize and breach our security arrangements with impunity or made to pay the fine and thereafter be expelled to allow for a quick end to Boko Haram terrorism or be allowed to continue business as usual to the detriment of other service providers which had consistently provided patriotic, diligent and quality services? Should we quickly forget MTN’s many deficiencies and fallibilities? Regular failure of network connections, breaks in conversation transmissions, outrageous billing systems, outright deductions from clients’ accounts for services not rendered, UNSOLICITED AND VEXTATIOUS SMS’s; deliberate invasion of private phone with all manner of perverse advertisements, forceful and criminal “conscription” of the clientele’ to subscribe to all manner spurious and dubious scams; bombardment and abuse of phone privacy though incessant and irrelevant calls 24/7; disappearance of credit balance from phone at the whim and caprice of the MTN service provider ; data plans conscription under the unknown “terms and conditions applicable”! Those who were patient to pursue their fundamental rights to the MTN Nigeria CUSTOMER CARE CENTRE have many sorry tales to tell – “you can stay glued forever without being attended to”! Should we go on? THE 10 COMMANDMENT SAYS, “THOU SHALL NOT COVET…….”! Other service providers should learn their lessons and remain focused as partners in progress with the new government which is progressively cleaning and cleansing the AUGEAN STABLE! The security of Nigeria must always take precedence in all business and commercial transactions ! A word is sufficient for the WISE! Amen. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch.

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THOSE 84 SENATORS WERE NOT CHANGE AGENTS- THEY SHOULD BE SACKED !

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 115. 25 October, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

THOSE 84 SENATORS WERE NOT CHANGE AGENTS – THEY SHOULD BE SACKED!

Although the revolutionary wind of CHANGE has enveloped and overwhelmed the Nigerian nation and its people over the past four months, June-October, 2015, it seemed like legislators of the Upper House of the National Assembly have developed thick skin and therefore immune to both the physical and spiritual wind of transformation, reorientation and character reformation! Of the three arms of government, both the Executive and the Judiciary have become CHANGE-compliant, with the exception of the Legislature which has no choice but join the band wagon of the change train as quickly as possible to ensure the effective and righteous administration of every Nigerian’s dream! Nigerians can no longer be fooled to believe that Senators at the “Red Chambers” of the National Assembly were sincere in the discharge of legislative duties because the progress so far recorded to confirm ministerial nominees forwarded by the Executive arm of government were purely in conformity with the 1999 Constitutional Provisions which could not faulted and not a favour to Mr. President, although they would want the uninformed to believe their gimmick! We can authoritatively inform our readers that outside of public glare, a devious plan had been hatched to keep over two-thirds of the “most distinguished Senators” on the side of the “SOLITAIRE” - lone game player who strongly believed that he held all the ACES and his reasons were not far-fetched – a rooster has perched on the rope and both the rooster and the rope are now on edge – for as long as the Senate as presently composed maintained status quo – APC will swim in troubled waters! The night which preceded the “coup-de-grace” that threw up Abubakar Bukola Saraki as Senate President, nocturnal meetings of strange bed fellows within the rank and file of the two major political parties dominated the night vigil during which ungodly DEALS were concluded, OATHS of ALLEGIANCE and SECRECY were administered and the ripple effects/outcome of that inglorious night are now playing out! The ruling party had to be very diplomatic in dealing with Bukola Saraki and his accomplices who had asserted that the latter’s multiple travails were both witch/wizard hunting by the former to remove the incumbent Senate President from office in view of the surreptitious manner through which he assumed office with the tacit support of the PDP opposition in parliament! The past administration of the last 16 years was still desperate to remain in power at all cost and did not waste time to grab an opportunity to be relevant as Senate Deputy President, major principal officers and also to position its members for “juicy” offices of the numerous Senate Standing Committees that would be appointed by the Solitaire game player! When the amiable wife of Senate President, was invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for interrogation in respect of many petitions of fraud, corruption and shady contracts against her, more than 20 “most distinguished Senators” of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, abandoned their duty post at the NASS and opted to join the solidarity motorcade of Mrs.‘Toyin Saraki to answer to the charges against her as Governor’s wife for eight years – 2003-2011! They also waited outside the EFFC’S premises in the scorching heat of the sun for the over eight hours of the lady’s interrogation while the Senate’s image maker who led the “august” delegation, when chided on the social media, said he had no qualms about his action because he was there as a friend and a “private investigator” to ascertain the accusations against ‘Toyin Saraki who was alleged to have channelled State funds into accounts she controlled through her non-governmental organisation – “Well Being Foundation Africa” (WBFA)! While as a Senator on the floor of the hallowed chambers Bukola Saraki was invited by EFCC for interrogation over accusations of corruption, misappropriation of State funds and abuse of office as a former Governor of Kwara State and he never attracted a motley crowd but very recently as Senate President, when he had to answer to charges of false declaration of assets by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), 84 distinguished Senators followed him to the venue on solidarity grounds! Does it not amount to a conflict of ideology if the very people who should propagate the concept of CHANGE turn around to resist it? Did you remember that the 83 Senate “coupist” plus Bukola Saraki who was assisted to achieve his inordinate ambition as Senate President were majorly the mixed multitude who swiftly jumped ship from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), into the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly before the 2015, only for their selfish reasons which are now very glaring for the down-trodden masses to see! Check out the antecedents of those two-thirds who are backing the Senate President against Party supremacy and discipline – they consist of those who are under the investigation and searchlight of EFCC, ICPC and those who are waiting for their turn to be invited for interrogation; they are ex-governors, ex-ministers, ex-commissioners, ex-state and federal legislators of the lower house; and some dubious business men who have criminal records! They are also super-rich Nigerians who have immensely benefited from crude oil blocks and who cared less about other citizens who could barely make ends meet andlanguishing in poverty and squalor! Would you not agree that it was high time these super-rich Nigerians publicly declared – like Mr. President, the magnitude and largesse of their immense wealth especially their SEVERANCE ALLOWANCES for all Nigerians and the WORLD to evaluate! Our major concern now is for the new APC Government of Change to also move swiftly into action to rectify all anomalies through an improved CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (CJS), which will ensure faster an impeccable law enforcement and investigation, a rejuvenated prosecution and court system, right to counsel and a jury trial; and also the probation or incarceration period in the prisons and correctional centres since every suspect is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction! CJS will serve as the litmus test to ensure justice to all citizens irrespective of class or position in the society and in addition render equal opportunity to every suspect in areas of defence before judgement was reached! The tripod institutions of: (1) Law enforcement Agencies,(Police) (2)The Court System, and (3)The Correction Institutions (Prisons); must be synergized to work in unison as a team for speedy, investigations of crime to gather evidence, identify and use such against suspects who are presumed to be innocent; professionally weigh such evidence to determine if defendant was guilty beyond all reasonable doubt and for the Prisons to perform as correctional centres during probation or incarceration of convicted persons! We also suggest that throughout the entire process, all constitutional provisions and protections should be employed to ensure the rights of accused and convicted persons were respected so that the Criminal Justice System would be embraced as being sacrosanct and there would therefore be no need for accused persons to seek unnecessary and very nauseating court injunctions which have turned out to be clog in the wheel of progress of JUSTICE! For starters, the RECALL provisions in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution be swung into action by the Electorate from the 84 Districts of the distinguished Senators in question and Senate Clerk be instructed to cancel their sitting allowances for all periods of absenteeism as surrogates of the Solitaire! The doctrine of requisite punishment for every infringement or default against the laws of Nigeria should not recogognize segregation! Anyone who defaults should be speedily apprehended, prosecuted and punished or released if found innocent in order to deter would-be offenders! THIS WILL REPRESENT THE DESIRED CHANGE YEARNED FOR BY ALL NIGERIANS! AMEN.

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer:Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen.If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

IT'S TIME TO DESTROY THE PREDATOR AND VAMPIRE LIFESTYLE IN NIGERIA ONCE AND FOR ALL!

ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 4. NO 114. 18 October, 2015.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

IT’S TIME TO DESTROY THE PREDATOR AND VAMPIRE LIFESTYLE IN NIGERIA ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Doingbusiness in Nigeriahad always beenfraughtwith lots of undiplomatic bureaucracy deliberately packaged by relevant officials to force foreign investors, part with large sums of illicit “tips” in bribes and extortions! During the infamous Abacha’s Military junta of the nineties, a foreign journalist produced video footage of bribe-taking on an international television station by officers of the Immigration and Customs Departments on duty at the Murtala International Airport, Lagos and by top civil servants at the Internal Affairs, Trade and Commerce Ministries where he had several days of business transactions! His mission to Nigeria was a deliberate effort to prove that the country was the most corrupt nation as regularly indicated on the Amnesty International Annual Index report indices, but Abacha and his cohorts in government brazenly denied all facts and truths of the show of shame with the cliché “ It’s not in our character”! No wonder, Nigeria remains the most difficult commercial destination for foreign investors to transact business in 55 years of post-independence existence! A fresh economic report in the last quarter of 2015 has revealed that the country occupies 170 position out of 184 countries of the world in which business transactions remained an albatross! Especially in the past 16 years of failed governance, the country became notorious for all for all forms of criminality ranging from armed robbery to kidnapping, money laundering, oil bunkering, human trafficking, examination and election malpractices, currency forging, arson, contract killings, assassinations, impunity in governance and endemic corruption, to mention a few!!

WHY SHOULD NIGERIA CONTINUE TO ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION FOR NEGATIVE REASONS SINCE INDEPENDENCE? The Military came up with some spurious excuses of ineptitude, maladministration, tribalism, ethnicity, and most importantly, large scale corruption in government on 15th January, 1966, barely five years of freedom from colonial shackles and forcibly seized the hard-earned political independence from our founding fathers! But did they have to shed the blood of those who peacefully negotiated the nation’s liberty without firing a single shot? They did and since then, tons of litres of blood had ceaselessly flowed in Nigeria like the Rivers Niger and Benue waters combined! It was the case of one ambitious armed section of government which exploited its advantageous position to abuse the trust of its principal and turned the nation’s arsenal for external protection against the masses who had since then been subjected to remain the grass that suffered for as long as the battle for supremacy subsisted! The reprisal against the first military coup in July of the same year eventually led to secession by the then Eastern Region from the rest of Nigeria and a continuous flow of innocent blood issued for the 30 months that a civil war lasted! A wall of suspicion and insincerity had existed in the political game since the first military coup between the North and the South and to date - 55 years on; the dichotomy could not be bridged because it got wider and wider by the day! The Boko Haram terrorism is the climax of blood-flow which had continued unabated for over five years – 2009-2015 for the same fundamental accusations of maladministration, nepotism, tribalism and corruption in successive governments – civilian or military! Recently, some South West Yoruba Leaders have come up with the idea of “reconsidering the place of the South West in a union that could no longer protect them!” In a communiqué issued at the end of a Yoruba Summit entitled, “National Insecurity and the Menace of Fulani Herdsmen In Yorubaland” – held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital in the first week of October, 2015, the Leaders threatened to, “use all legitimate and peaceful means to attain self determination!” The nomadic Fulani Herdsmen are no strangers to all agrarian States in Nigeria because they moved their cattle and livestock to graze at random and in recent times have clashed with virtually all the farmers in all the 36 States and even, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, for trespassing and destruction of farmlands and products! All clashes always ended in bloodshed and loss of precious lives and properties and a school of thought believed that the Fulani Herdsmen were a branch of the Boko Haram terrorists in view of the sophisticated weapons they employed in all encounters with the farmers! When a 77-year-old former Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria was abducted from his farm in Akure, the Ondo State Capital in September 2015, the Fulani Herdsmen who in past times had ravaged his large farmland, were fingered! The elder statesman who was eventually released after an alleged ransom was paid by members of his family did not disclose the identities of his abductors while the South-West Association of Fulani Chiefs denied the allegations!

SHOULD EVERY TRIBE IN THIS CENTURY-OLD AMALGAMATION ALWAYS OPT FOR SECESSION AS A PANACEA TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION? The embers of the “Biafran secession” flames of the sixties are still being fanned by a certain “Radio Biafra” and some group called Movement for the of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in the South East and the Diaspora, while the Boko Haram terrorists want the North East to be carved out as an Islamic Caliphate and in the process have destroyed over a million lives and properties worth trillions of naira since 2009! The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), is also planning to create a showdown if the Amnesty monetary package, being enjoyed by about 30.000 youths of the region to prevent them from blowing up pipelines or kidnapping oil workers, was not renewed at expiration in December, 2015, not caring that all forms of confrontations –minor or major – always ended in massive bloodshed! SHOULD THE BLOOD OF OUR BRETHREN CONTINUE TO CEASELESSLY BECAUSE OF OUR MINDLESSNESS? The excesses of the nomadic Fulani Herdsman for unleashing terror and mayhem against innocent farmers on their landed properties and in their homelands coupled with cattle rustling all over the country constituted the height of criminality and the brazen abuse of the fundamental rights of other citizens of Nigeria and has to be quickly addressed by the new Federal Government of our amiable President Buhari, who constituency transcends tribal, religious, political or social sentiments! Nigeria was a signatory to the United Nations initiative of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which targeted EIGHT world’s developmental challenges and committed member states of about 148 countries to achieve them by the year 2015, and ensure productive employment and decent work for all – including women and young children: eradication of hunger and poverty, half the proportion of people living on less than one United States dollar per day; achievement of universal primary education with emphasis on the girl-child education; promotion of gender equality, including empowerment of women at all levels by 2015; reduction of child mortality and in particular, reducing the mortality rate among children under five by two-thirds; improvement of maternal health by three quarters reduction of maternal mortality ratio and achieve by 2010 universal access to reproductive health; combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases; ensure input of environmental sustainability development into country policies and programmes; achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020; etc. In Nigeria, there had been an uneven results and achievements from the MDGs in spite of all Tracking Survey which was set up in 2012 to indicate that most of the goals were achieved ahead of 2015 deadline – especially the goal dedicated to achieving significant improvement in the lives of at least 100million slum and rural dwellers, by 2020 - otherwise the recurring issue of the nomadic Fulani Herdsmen atrocities would have been nipped in the bud long time ago! It was high time global negative attention on Nigeria be transformed to positive expectations in respect of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which formed the new agenda to actualize change from poverty to abundance and inequality to legitimate opportunities for all peoples in the developing countries of the world which the United Nations believed was achievable in the next five years - 2020! The year 2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a brain child of the United Nations which metamorphosed into the SDGs at the September 2015 UN Summit in New York, will ensure that all the grounds that were articulated in the bold vision aimed at improving the lives of those threatened by diseases, inequality and hunger particularly in Sub-Sahara Africa, were maintained and sustained by member countries in over 148 nations of the global village. Incessant and continuous bloodshed will not help Nigeria to achieve SDGs; only peace, unity, tranquillity, and serenity under a righteous government under the able- leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari and his divinely chosen team of ministers and advisers would deliver this nation from all maladies of neo-colonialism mentality! If the United Nations wished that Nigeria became an economically-viable and peaceful nation, must Nigerians wish for themselves violence and bloodshed? No part of Nigeria should ever dream of secession but proffer solution to all nagging issues that would always surface among diverse opinions! We beseech the Yoruba Leaders, MASSOB, MEND, and BOKO HARAM to sheath their swords and embrace meaningful dialogue through well-articulated conflict resolution channels. PMB once said in an interview that, “no person who was involved in the 30-month-long Biafran War, would ever dream of secession again in Nigeria”!

ENOUGH OF THE RIVERS OF BLOOD IN NIGERIA! BROTHERS SHOULD STOP KILLING BROTHERS, ESPECIALLY WHEN A DIVINELY ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT IS NOW IN PLACE. Grazing lands and ranches should be allocated to Fulani herdsmen! We are in the 21 Century for God’s sake! “Righteousness exalts a nation, sin is a reproach.” [Proverbs. 14:34.].

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch .

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer:Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen.If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.