PRESIDENT BUHARI'S ADVOCACY FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE WAS A BEST SELLER AT UNGA 2017!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 215. 24th September, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

PRESIDENT BUHARI'S ADVOCACY FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE WAS A BEST SELLER AT UNGA 2017!

The United Nations International Day for World Peace which was observed globally on Thursday 21st September, 2017, was marred by conflicting standpoints on war resolution strategies as opined by TWO outstanding world figures: DONALD TRUMP of America and MUHAMMADU BUHARI of Nigeria on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which took place in New York between 12th-25th September, 2017!

President Donald Trump believes that the roadmap to universal peace was for the United States to "totally destroy North Korea and its rocket man leader if threatened", while President Muhammadu Buhari, proffered a "jaw-jaw" approach which would involve a UN Delegation comprising of all regional bodies to engage the defiant Far East country sandwiched between China and Russia, for a peaceful resolution to the World Disarmament Nuclear Programme!

President Buhari was no doubt the HERO OF AFRICA at the gathering because his forthright and endearing message of peace attracted all sane minds who queued after his thought-provoking submissions and concurred in like manner in their presentations, one after the other!
But in his usual obsessive patriotic zeal Donald Trump began his speech with the controversial "AMERICA FIRST" foreign policy which had placed him at daggers-drawn with the opposition Democrats because he decided to forget that America is a conglomeration of immigrants from almost all foreign countries of the universe!
He blamed all World leaders except himself for the seeming failure, in a concerted manner, to combat the global menace of insurgency, crimes, criminality and terrorism in the same manner at his debut attendance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), new Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on  25th May, 2017, where he accused other members for insufficient and inconsistent funding of the international body!

The PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE in France had its share of condemnation of the world's number one President, who reneged on the earlier pledge by his predecessor, President Barak Obama, to contribute to a fund to be set aside for combating environmental pollution/degradation mostly in very poor nations of the world!
President Donald Trump should not be the controversial "politician" that he chose to be, considering his colossal image as the Commander- in- Chief of the "most powerful" immigrants nation in the world! He tweets daily unabatedly on diverse local and international issues, he jibes at anyone especially those DEMOCRATS who taunt him regularly because they hold the view that he is a political novice!

During the fierce presidential campaigns of 2016, his opponents traced his antecedent to some Pakistani immigrant family which settled in America in the 19th Century and even published a look-alike picture of a "7-year-old Pakistani Trump" on the internet!
With his latest outburst, Mr. Trump, now 71, has proved that he is truly a "dark horse", in American politics because, though in his speech, he traced the advent of the World Body at the end of the TWO UNFORTUNATE WORLD WARS, as the panacea for world peace, he still contradicted himself by bragging that his country world destroy another sovereign nation!
Since his assumption of office as the 145th President of the United States of America, the tough-talking septuagenarian, in his dual personality as a wealthy businessman and politician, has left no one in doubt that the United States would POLICE the world and "flog into submission" any defaulting nation and possibly colonize them since America cannot boast of any former colony anywhere in the world! But the worst part of Mr. Trump's headache has just begun!
IRAN has also defied US threat through the launch of a banned nuclear missile on Saturday 23rd, September, 2017, at an unknown and undetected location! How many countries would Mr. Trump destroy and still remain in relevant as a world power? Will China, Russia, France, Germany, Britain and others support such an unrealistic American dream? IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS ONLY ONE OPTION AND THAT IS, TO DIALOGUE WITH ALL DISSENTING VOICES IN ORDER TO FIND A COMMON GROUND FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE!

PRESIDENT BUHARI'S VICTORIOUS SPEECH AT UNGA!
At the end of his outstanding speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, 19th September, 2017, President Buhari as the EIGHT Speaker, got a universal ovation from his fellow delegates and millions of viewers of UNGA'S New York proceedings across the globe for his outstanding submission that dialogue, instead of war should be the best option/approach to an everlasting peace in order to avoid a holocaust in the event of a nuclear war being threatened by both America and North Korea and reminded both nations of the grave consequences of nuclear warfare just like the universal disasters caused by the Atomic Bombs released by America on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, towards the close of World War II!

Having established Nigeria's role in ensuring peace in the ECOWAS nations of the Gambia and Cote D'Ivoire, President Buhari requested , "The UN to continue to take primary leadership position in the maintenance of international peace and security by providing  adequate funding and other enablers to regional initiatives and peace-keeping operations authorized by the Security Council;" and also canvassed for, " strong UN co-operation with regional organisations such as the African Union, in conflict prevention and management"
He also said that all necessary pressure and diplomatic efforts must be brought to bear on North Korea to accept peaceful resolution of the crisis in order to avoid the catastrophic, devastating and environmental degradation that could be the fall-out of nuclear confrontations between it and the US and proposed a strong  UN delegation to be led by the Security Council and all regional members to urgently engage  the North Korean leader, in order to nip an impending international disaster in the bud! In addition, President Buhari made the following submissions all bordering on world peace: "New conflicts should not make us lose focus on ongoing unresolved old conflicts.
For example, several UN Security Council Resolutions from 1967 on the Middle East crisis remain unimplemented. Meanwhile, the suffering of the Palestinian people and the blockade of Gaza continue including the suffering population of Yemen and Myanmar"

The President did not lose sight of his primary assignment to purge Nigeria of the evil stigma of institutional corruption which he strongly believed could be promoted through assets recovery, accountability and international community cooperation and the provision of critical assistance and material support, including the nation's effort in curbing the growing transnational crimes such as forced labour, modern day slavery, human trafficking and cybercrime!
The Champion of the Nigerian TALAKAWAS did not also forget about the widening inequalities within societies and the gap between the rich and the poor nations which were the underlining root causes of competition for resources, frustration and anger leading to spiralling instability!

IS IT TRUE THAT THE PERENIAL UNIVERSAL EARTHQUAKES, TREMORS, HURRICANES, STORMS, FLOODINGS, have been traced to constant testing of nuclear arsenals by North Korea and by extension, Iran?
Nuclear warheads are composed of dangerous, climate unfriendly, poisonous material and metallic elements which when encased and detonated electronically into the atmosphere, land or sea, would naturally release damaging and devastating effects on human, animals and vegetation life; the spiral effects are usually, plagues, communicable diseases, pestilences, famine, drought, pollution of sea and underground waters etc!

MUST THE WORLD POPULATION CONTINUE IN A LIFE OF UNCERTAINTY BECAUSE OF OVER BLOATED EGO OF SOME FEW TO DESTROY OTHER HUMANS WITH SUCH DANGEROUS NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN ORDER TO PROVE MILITARY MIGHT?

‘’I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.’’ (Ecc 9:11 KJV).
THIRD WORLD WAR IS NOT A DIVINE PROGRAMME!  ‘’Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid’’. (John 14:27)

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIA'S CONTENTIOUS LAND USE ACT (1978) MUST BE MASSES - ORIENTED TO FAVOUR AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 214. 17th September, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIA'S CONTENTIOUS LAND USE ACT (1978) MUST BE MASSES - ORIENTED TO FAVOUR AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION!

The Federal Government's drive to ensure food security in Nigeria is yielding positive and accelerated results through the strategic financial policy of the Central Bank's Anchors Borrowers Programme (ABP), which has offered greater financial incentive to farmers for all-year-round agricultural farm projects!
As at the last quarter of the year 2016, Nigeria expended a whooping N1.0 trillion in foreign exchange on importation of food items including rice and wheat which fuelled domestic inflation, depleted foreign reserves, displaced local production and created massive unemployment, but the story has now changed according to CBN Governor who noted that import dependency especially on commodities of comparative advantage was neither acceptable nor sustainable.

Presently, RICE has been excluded from forex eligibility list, and replaced with the establishment of the ABP Initiative with huge investments in 40 integrated rice mills but not without challenges, of which the "NON-UTILILIZATION OF AVAILABLE CULTIVABLE LANDS", is the most prevalent! However, millions of Nigerian farmers are currently enrolled in ABP.
It is no longer news that the Military Government of Nigeria in a very suspicious 1978 Palace "coup de tat," grabbed all lands in the country through a very controversial Land Use Decree which suppressed any traditional claims by other citizens but gave the soldiers and subsequent governments absolute authority as the new LANDLORDS!
That controversial land policy - which is now almost 40 years in existence - has now become an albatross to the green revolutionary agrarian drive of diversification from the crude oil mono product foreign exchange earner, to the better option of massive agricultural produce that would ensure food security and influx of the hard currencies through regular exportation and an increase in the Small and Medium Scale Industries participation.
Is it not a disservice  to the evolving economy that interested entrepreneurs are now being hampered by the stringent, arduous and very costly processes of acquiring lands in their own country because those who should amend the necessary offending clauses which are detrimental to the Change Agenda mantra, are the very interested parties who are feeding fat through the unfavourable and masses unfriendly policy?

Chapter 202 of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990, the Land Use Act is stipulated as: "An Act to vest al. land compromised in the territory of each State (except land vested in the Federal  Government or its agencies), solely in the Governor of the State, who would hold such Land in trust for the people and would henceforth be responsible for allocation of land in all urban areas to individuals resident in the State and to organisations for residential, agriculture, commercial and other purposes while similar powers will with respect to non-urban areas are conferred on Local Governments (27th March, 1978), Commencement".
It on record that this obnoxious decree was promulgated during the tenure of General Olusegun Obasanjo, who was Military Head of State between1976-1979, before he handed over to the democratic government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, but was it a patriotic policy intended to ease the housing challenges of the Nigerian masses or a further opportunity to boost the ELITES EGO through acquisition of landed properties above their legitimate portions!
NO! We do not believe so for the following logical and credible reasons:
(1) General Obasanjo retired from the Nigeria Army in 1979 and wasted no time to acquire by proxy, massive land areas for pastoral farming, in Otta Ogun State, from the indigenous owners who knew nothing about Land Use Decree, 1978 - the brain-child of the retired General.
(2) With his highly exalted position, he was issued the Certificate of Occupancy, rolled earth-moving equipments into the grabbed land to possess it by force with the succinct support of armed military personnel who flooded the area in a show of power which was stiffly resisted by the RIGHTFUL OWNERS!
(3) After a prolonged "battle", which stalled every move by his agents to cultivate the land, the retired General had to pay some monetary compensation (fall below the worth of the property), which was reluctantly collected following intense arbitration by the Royal King, traditional chiefs and elders of the Otta town.
(4) We do not totally condemn the Land Use Act because there are a lot of advantages to be enjoyed by the masses if it is transparently and faithfully executed. For instance, any Nigerian citizen can possess landed property anywhere in the country and dwell in safety as if he/she were an indigene thereby promoting unity in diversity!

In view of the flaws noticed in the controversial Land Use Decree, late President Umaru Yar 'Adua and  ex- President Ebele Jonathan, tinkered with the idea of removing the Act from the Constitution and operating it as an independent Act of Parliament for regular amendments from time to time without success, but it is very certain that the time is now ripe for the APC ruling government to re- visit the CONTROVERSY once and for all, for the benefit of all Nigerians -especially FARMERS whom the Anchors Borrowers Programme, is set to support with huge finances.

The stringent processes of Land acquisition must be relaxed; land fees for both commercial and residential purposes must be considerably reduced for the working class and LAND should be considered as a fundamental right for all bona fide citizens while the National Housing Scheme for low income workers which is in deficit of about 170 million units recorded since 2013, should be resuscitated without further delay to alleviate the sufferings of the people in that area of the very basic necessity of SHELTER and eliminate the humongous institutional corruption that have infested the sector for decades! The Military claimed their unilateral action was prompted by patriotic ZEAL, to protect the land from land grabbers/speculators but have, ( inadvertently ?), escalated conflicts to murderous dimensions since the promulgation of that unpopular/masses unfriendly decree!
Presently, land disputes have degenerated into frightening human fatalities of national dimensions unlike in the past when communities mostly settled such challenges through mutual dialogue and agreements in village and town hall meetings.

BEFORE THE LAND USE DECREE OF 29th March, 1978 - People, families and communities possessed the LAND through the traditional ownership of ancestral inheritance and had freedom to sell to both public and private enterprises at will in areas of historical domicility.
THE CASE IS DIFFERENT NOW - No individual can claim rightful ownership of any land anywhere in Nigeria without govt authorization. A prospector now has to purchase any portion of land from government whom the decree describes as the LANDLORD collect a receipt, survey the land, before collecting the legal document describe as the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O)!

The Land Use Act as it is now described has its root firmly entrenched in the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 Constitution - A LEGAL STATUS THAT HAS METAMORPHOSED INTO AND ALBATROSS, because it has become strenuous to AMEND ( because of vested interest of both govt and "INDEGENOUS OWNERS",AND EXCEPT IT IS EXPUNGED TO STAND ALONE LIKE OTHER ACTS OF PARLIAMENT FOR REGULAR AMENDMENTS, THE ACT (as presently crafted), WOULD CONTINUE TO CREATE A CLOG IN THE WHEEL OF THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION OF THE APC GOVT.!

WE RECOMMEND AN EXECUTIVE BILL BE FOWARDED TO PARLIAMENT AS THE LAND USE ACT NOW POSES OBSTACLES TO BOTH REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY AND DIVERSIFICATION TO AGRICULTURE!

SECURITY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS: Legal /registered and proper land documentations like Certificate of Occupancy (C of O), must be issued and obtained to qualify the land as good collateral document to secure loans from any private or financial institution.  CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY GOES FOR AS MUCH AS N500.000, IN SOME STATES OF NIGERIA AND IT MUST CARRY THE BONA FIDE SIGNATURE OF GOVERNORS OR LOCAL GOVT CHAIRMEN OF RESPECTIVE RURAL AREAS - WHICH CUMBERSOME PROCESSES GENERATE HIGH-LEVEL CORRUPTION AMONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AT ALL LEVELS!
LAND IS AN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY WHICH APPRECIATES MORE WHEN CONVERTED TO REAL ESTATE, INDUSTRIAL OR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES. INDEGENOUS LAND TRUSTEES AND GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE A MIDDLE GROUND!

Nigerians need unfettered farming lands to the economy on track" For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? " Mark 8:36 (KJV)

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NNAMDI KANU IS DISILLUSIONED AND HAS GONE OVERBOARD, HE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 213. 10th September, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NNAMDI KANU IS DISILLUSIONED AND HAS GONE OVERBOARD, HE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS!

In spite of the precarious legal tussle ahead of him and the stringent conditions attached to his bail bond which would soon elapse, Nnamdi Kanu, who is on trial for conspiracy, treasonable felony, publication of defamatory matter and importation of goods contrary to the Customs and Excise Management Act, has brazenly dared the security operatives to re-arrest him by deliberately flouting all of his bail conditions through provocative and seditious utterances against the Nigerian people and government!

The self-proclaimed "leader" of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before 14th October, 2015, when he was arrested in Lagos, Nigeria, by State Security Service (SSS), Operatives, was a broadcaster of the anti-Nigeria pirate radio station christened, "Radio Biafra" and operated within the precincts of the London Metropolis, where he enjoyed dual citizenship status of British-Nigerian nationality.  In count three of the sustained charges, the Federal Government alleged that Kanu had in a broadcast, he made in London on 28th April, 2015, through Radio Biafra, disparaged President Muhammadu Buhari whom he referred to as a Paedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil! Kanu's obsessive ideology was to gain political relevance and attract global recognition through agitation for the resurrection of the defunct State of Biafra which resulted in a civil war between,1967and 1970, destroyed over TWO MILLION innocent lives - which included women, children and properties/critical infrastructures running into billions of naira! For him to embark on a fresh insurrection against his fatherland, it is very certain that Kanu has no qualms for the sanctity of human lives, in spite of the fact that history is replete with the painful truth of the 30-month-old civil war!

When Nnamdi Kanu realised that all of his campaign of calumny, yielded no positive results and did not attract serious attention and publicity in London, he deliberately travelled to Nigeria to seek relevance and publicity. In tandem with his hidden agenda, he was glad to be arrested and became an instant celebrity, detained and arraigned in court before his release under very stringent bail conditions on 28th April, 2017, which, in the event of contravention, would attract immediate cancellation and re-arrest! Shortly before he was released from prison custody, Kanu announced that he had opted for the Jewish religion of JUDAISM which allows for children to disobey the Biblical Fifth Commandment and as soon as he was released, it was an abusive, uncouth unruly and recalcitrant young man who walked out of Kuje Prisons!

About that same period, it was widely reported that the Igbo race had "traced" their ancestral lineage to the nation of Israel - a claim which Jewish historians, anthropologists, scientists etc, have debunked as mere imagination, wishful-thinking and fantasies that have no correlation in Jewish history! Does the doctrine of Judaism include treasonable felony?

Kanu has deliberately contravened all of his bail conditions in order to provoke the Federal government to re-arrest him with an intention of starting an uproar, public confusion and violent protests among the uneducated and misguided Igbo Youths, whose life he has surreptitiously planned should be wasted over a senseless cause just as the late retired Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu of the Nigerian Army did through declaration of a failed Biafra State, some fifty years ago! Having sent over one million of Igbo able-bodied men - mostly youths to early graves, Ojukwu abandoned the sinking ship of rebellion, absconded to a foreign land where he sought for asylum, dwelt for several years, was later granted amnesty by the Federal Government to fulfil the end of war declaration of, "NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED, returned to Nigeria as a "HERO", restored to his Nigerian Army rank of Colonel with all full benefits and collected all salaries, emoluments and full gratuity and pensions from 1966 to his demise on 26th November 2011!

What sensible reasons can Nnamdi Kanu adduce as his intention for agitating that Nigeria should be dissected for his Biafra ideology other than an historical fallacy that a "Biafran Empire had existed before the advent of the British Colonial masters", who according to him had no right to annex the empire to Nigeria in 1914!
Is he aware that he has no “locus standi” to force his unpatriotic and very selfish ideology under the guise of fundamental rights of freedom of expression and association on other Nigerians who also have equal rights under the Nigerian Constitution?
Is Kanu’s "Biafra Security Services" (BSS), a constitutionally registered and legal outfit? How does he intend to fan the embers of insurrection against the rest of the good people of Nigeria through false indoctrination and expect to get away with such terrorist act?
THE BIBLICAL FIFTH COMMANDMENT, should be very instructive to Nnamdi Kanu: " Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise. That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth." (Exodus.20:12; Ephesians.6:1-3; compare, Matthew.15: 3-9) and PROPHET MOSES said: Honour thy father and thy mother;  and Whoso curseth father or mother, let him thy the death! (Mark.7:10).

Though most Igbo elders, including the Five South East Governors, (except Kanu's father, His Highness Eze Israel Kanu, including all members of his family), have spoken out in total condemnation of the unprovoked and misguided agitation by Kanu, how come he still speaks without honour to 170 million Nigerians, beginning with the HOARY HEAD, President Buhari, whom, he had abused at random, the Yorubas whom he called FOOLS, among several verbal vituperations of an uncouth mind  and a froward heart?

In one of his several interviews with a foreign press, Kanu said that he was not fairly treated during his detention, " because in Nigeria, ( which he described as ZOO), people behave like animals; they are not disciplined enough; they are not mentally developed enough to run a transparent civil society."
Nnamdi Kanu also alleged on Sunday 3rd September, 2017, that, " a Muhammadu Buhari look alike, a Sudanese man named Jubril who had gone through an extensive plastic surgery, is currently parading himself as the President and that IPOB members should burn Nigeria to the ground if he (Kanu), is re-arrested by the Nigerian Government."

He said he had ordered for arms from the United States of America for self defence and protection of his group from any external aggression!
Kanu who is to appear in an Abuja court on 17th October, 2017, to resume his trial has also boasted that he would invade the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with TWO MILLION IPOB members whom he has "commanded" to burn down Nigeria to the ground because they are under his oath!

ODUMEGWU OJUKWU AND THE DEAD BIAFRA SHOULD REST IN PEACE!
It was not a coincidence that Nnamdi Kanu was born in September 1967, few months into the Biafra Civil War which broke out through a declaration of secession of Eastern Nigeria, by late Nigerian Army Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who, following the defeat of his army, late 1969, abandoned his officers and men to surrender to the Federal Troops while he fled to Cote d' Voire (former Ivory Coast), where he sought asylum and left his kith and kin to lick their wounds!

But before he died, Emeka Ojukwu regretted ever leading the war of secession against his country and counselled against a second attempt at any Biafran secession by any section of the Igbo community!
Though, Kanu was a mere three-year-old toddler when the war which spared him and his family ended in January 1970, definitely his adolescent impression was so poisoned by peer groups to have left him so devastated to the point where he had to disagree with Ojukwu who cautioned against any second secession attempt by Nigerian Igbos!

"For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die. But commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." (Romans.5:7-8; compare verses 9-11).

Kanu once declared in one of his numerous press interviews that only death would stop him from agitating for another "State of Biafra"!
IF NNAMDI KANU IS ON A SUICIDAL MISSION, MUST HE BRAINWASH INNOCENT IGBO TRADERS AND THE ENTIRE BUSINESS IGBO COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NIGERIA TO DIE WITH HIM? OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE PERISHED DURING OJUKWU'S ATTEMPT,THERE MUST NOT BE A REPEAT PERFORMANCE!
Although Nnamdi Kanu is not a good role model to Igbo Youths and by extension to all Nigerian Youths he needs the prayers of all patriotic and well-meaning people, both in Nigeria and the Diaspora in order to change his inordinate obsession for secession and for him to abandon the uncharitable, ungodly and evil fantasies of a disillusioned and confused ideologist!
HE AND HIS FAMILY HAVE NO OTHER NATION THAN NIGERIA!

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

JAMB'S UTME 120 CUT-OFF MARK SMACKS OF BOKO HARAM'S ILLITERACY IDEALOGY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective)

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 212. 3rd September, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

JAMB'S UTME 120 CUT-OFF MARK SMACKS OF BOKO HARAM'S ILLITERACY IDEALOGY!

One of the major demands by the Boko Haram Islamic Fundamentalists/Terrorists at the initial stage of their insurgency in Nigeria, was a total clampdown on the teaching of Western Education subjects in educational institutions to the entire population of the Northern States because of the "negative influences" they impacted on the religious traditions and cultures of the indigenous people!

But in spite of their brazen falsehood, concerted efforts by some concerned citizens (who were neither deceived nor blindfolded by the deceit), gave impetus to most parents, including those whose children/wards were restricted to the Internally Displaced People's (IDP's), camps who constructed make-shift classrooms and engaged teachers who taught Western education to their children, both at primary and secondary school levels!  While the war lasted, destruction of lives and properties, kidnappings and killing of Boys Secondary School Children, the abduction of about 276 Chibok Secondary School Girls on April 14, 2014; took frightening dimension and causality figures rose to over 1million - of both military and civilians most especially with the hit-and-run tactics of suicide bombings!

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Agency responsible for the conduct of examinations for entry into all Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education since its inception on 13th February, 1978, had religiously stuck to providing qualitative education through adherence to competiveness amongst all students irrespective of their geographic antecedent and had kept the compulsory CUT OFF MARKS between 180 - 200 out of 400, in all examinations; until some "Northern educators identified some educationally disadvantaged states" and requested that score marks be reduced to between 80 to 100, depending on classification!
Unfortunately now, we have a BLANKET COVER that will destroy COMPETIVENESS that should enhance Human Capital For National Development!

Over 1.6 million candidates annually applied for degree courses; while National Diploma records more than 17.000 and with the new policy in place, Polytechnics and Colleges candidates needed only 100 marks for admission while other institutions of higher learning should score 110, which is an average of 25% - although individual institutions could raise the BAR as they wished!
Should Nigeria's educational system be handled with such impropriety by those who should know better?

EDUCATED POLICY SOMERSAULT!
Did the policy architects forget that lowering of the figures would create false sense of SECURITY for lazy candidates, since 100 out of 400 marks is just a "piece of cake"? Was it an irony of fate that when the Ministry decided to lower educational standards, one 19-year-old Southern candidate scored 337 while another from Adamawa scored 308 - out of 400, in the just concluded 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)!

What informed the sudden change in official policy in the Change Administration which has identified that poverty and illiteracy were the twin evil disadvantages responsible for Boko Haram terrorism and also the prevalent ALMAJIRI SCORGE of about 20million children of school age who are still roaming the streets, nooks and crannies of the vast nation of Nigeria - the figures are highest in KANO and KADUNA presently!

Who advised the new Minister of Education to decree a new and strange policy of 120 cut off mark across board in a 21st Century world which boasts of high grade advanced technology where students acquire first degree at 12 and P hd. at 18?
Was the Presidency privy to this new position which is being resisted by all right-thinking educationists and patriotic Nigerians at large? 
Would the lowering of the cut-off mark from 180 to an absurd and very ridiculous figure of 100 - 120 provide the necessary impetus for the reasoning faculty and intellectual capacity required for the rigours of assimilation, studies, lectures and researches throughout the academic sessions when such students would sit in the same classrooms with their peers who scored over 300 cut off marks?

What we have witnessed in recent months were discordant tunes and cacophony of voices which have become very prevalent  among Nigeria's education policy makers!
Across the board rooms of the Federal Ministry of Education and one of its Agencies, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), contradictions in respect of this very serious national issue of tertiary education have been the order of the day!
In June 2016, the Federal Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, who oversights JAMB, directed that Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), conducted by tertiary institutions should be scrapped possibly for the following public complaints:
(1) Exorbitant fee charges,
(2) Unprofessional and defective  invigilation,
(3) Manipulation of results,
(4) Bribing of officials to get admissions, and
(5) There was no basis for such DUPLICATION in the first instance since candidates qualified to write the UTME, and Five WAEC O Level Credits, inclusive of Mathematics and English!

But before the regimental fiat which had neither legal nor documentary backing/evidence, could take effect, Alhaji Adamu turned around to rescind his earlier order BUT this time, with humility and apology, that the cancellation was a mistake. In August 2017, at the Combined Policy Meetings on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria, he said, “the ban imposed on the test caused irregularities by candidates and some institutions." He however warned that the fee for the post-UTME examination should not exceed TWO THOUSAND NAIRA before releasing another bombshell of new cut off marks!
Before now, there was the furore over the alleged removal of Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK), from the Basic Education Curriculum and had become a theme in the Civic Education, while Islamic Arabic Studies/French had been introduced in the new curriculum. It was also alleged that pupils/students would be mandated to compulsorily study either Islamic Arabic Studies or French and that Christian students would have no option than the Islamic Arabic Studies, BUT the Minister denied all allegations! He said that the National Council on Education had accepted his proposal that CRK should be made compulsory for teaching and learning by Christian students while Islamic Arabic Studies should also be made compulsory for Muslim students.

According to the Minister, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), has called for A MINISTERIAL RETREAT ON ROADMAP FOR EDUCATION in order to have a holistic view on the FALLING STANDARD OF EDUCATION AND THE SOLUTIONS TO RESTORE ITS LOST GLORY!
We quote the Minister: "Initially, we had prepared a blueprint but FEC felt the issues are beyond that because there are crises in all the areas of education, in out-of-school children, in technical education and training, in ICT, in all the areas you can think of.
Ministers are going to start talking (within the next two weeks), to themselves and come out with solutions." This statement was made on 22nd June, 2017!

Could the controversial and contradictory lowering of cut off marks to 120 be one of the outcome of the MINISTERS RETREAT or that this quarrelsome policy was SMUGGLED out of the Minister's BLUEPRINT?
WE VEHEMENTLY CONDEMN THE OBNOXIOUS JAMB UTME CUT OFF MARK OF 120 AND REQUEST FOR PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION FOR A REVERSAL TO STATUS QUO ANTE AND A DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR IN ORDER TO REPLACE THE CURRENT ACADEMIC DECADENCE WITH DELIBERATE REVOLUTION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND STARK ILLITERACY WITH AN EDUCATED GENERATION OF INGENIOUS YOUTHS, MODERN SCIENTISTS AND WIZKIDS!

Further lowering of educational standards by the Federal Ministry of Education is a dis-service to the masses - especially the YOUTHS - who are divinely designated to become future leaders; and in a concerted voice, We declare this obnoxious policy null and void and of no effect!

"Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding." (Proverbs.4:7).

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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.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

GRADUATE PRESIDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSISTENT ASUU STRIKES!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 211. 27th August, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

GRADUATE PRESIDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSISTENT ASUU STRIKES!

There was a time in the history of the nation of Nigeria when the fame of two distinguished UNIVERSITY GRADUATES hit the headlines as they became instant celebrities because they won the presidential election. The team of the late Umaru Yar' Ardua (M Sc.), and Ebele Jonathan (P hd.), were the first set of Nigerian graduates to rule Nigeria since the departure of the Colonial masters in 1960.
The late Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, though a graduate scholar, singularly held a ceremonial presidential position in the First Parliamentary Democracy and that was why expectations were so high from among the population who hailed, trusted and believed that the new rulers would  bring to the table new ideas that would proffer brilliant, solutions to the myriad of political, economic, and social challenges (especially, QUALITY EDUCATION), that had plagued the nation for so long, like no other!
The eight years before 2007, when the new democratic experiment was put in place, a former military Head of State in the person of Chief Aremu Obasanjo vetoed the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO), recommendation that 26.5% of annual national budgets of each country be appropriated to the Education Sector, by allotting a paltry 03%/06% instead!
Though not a university graduate, but enjoys the privilege of a honorary doctorate degree holder, he once confessed in one of his comedy, "NA DASH THEM DASH ME!"
Unfortunately, the celebrated DUO of Umaru/Jonathan failed to meet the yearnings of patriotic citizens who adduced so much confidence to them! They neither improved, by correcting the failures/anomalies of Obasanjo, nor introduced innovations into the Education Sector by conforming with UNESCO'S recommendation 26.5% appropriation!
Even when Jonathan became President following his demise on 5th May, 2010 and picked another graduate, Architect Nnamadi Sambo, they further pushed education into the remotest corner of the PDP Manifesto and promoted illiteracy at the tertiary level while the intelligentsia categorized Nigerian Universities as, "GLORIFIED SECONDARY SCHOOLS!"

If ex-President Jonathan, who obtained his PhD in Zoology could equivocally and publicly declare that, "STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION", what better intellectual capacity should one expect from graduates from ILL-FUNDED AND ILL-EQUIPPED Nigerian tertiary institutions? By that deliberate negative attitude towards National Education, those leaders had inadvertently laid a BED OF THORNS AND THISTLES, which they have sadly discovered was most uncomfortable for successive governments to LIE OR SLEEP ON, in view of the violent attitudinal and unethical reactions of over 30% illiterate Nigerian Youths against government policies - whether popular or unpopular!

Persistent agitations by both universities lecturers and students for better learning, teaching/research environment and facilities, had been the order of the day even within the ranks of educators and the elites who believe that QUALITATIVE EDUCATION WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN THE BED-ROCK AND ASSET OF EVERY NATION'S HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT!

ASUU'S STRIKES ARE LEGITIMATE!
ASUU's organized strikes which had negatively affected and disrupted academic curriculums in tertiary institutions since the year 2001 were prompted through protests against decadence, lack of basic infrastructures which were itemized as modern classrooms and libraries  with internet facilities, hostel accommodations, hi-tech laboratories, inadequate remunerations and emoluments that have subsequently led to staff depletion, lower academic impartation/impactation and the SYSTEMIC DECAY of the educational system on the nation!

As a result most Nigerian graduates were rejected from the labour market because they were academically unsound and could not meet international standards!
The latest strike action draws its antecedence from the unfulfilled/unimplemented official promises of 2001, between ASUU, Federal and State Governments, in the following areas:
(1)  FUNDING;
(2) UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY;
(3)  ACADEMIC FREEDOM;
(4) EARNED ACADEMIC ALLOWANCES; AND,
(5) REGISTRATION OF UNIVERSITIES PENSION MANAGEMENT COMPANY;
until 14th August, 2006, ( five years after the initial negotiations), during which proposals for re-negotiation of the 2001 Agreements which was muted by the Federal Government produced a 51-page long new agreement, signed by both parties in October, 2009 - WHICH WAS ALSO NOT HONOURED!
However, in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed 24th January, 2012 with ASUU, the Federal Government (FG), agreed to INJECT, N1.3Trillion, into Federal Universities over a period of THREE YEARS as follows:
(a) N100 billion in 2012;
(b) N400 billion in 2013;
(c) N400 billion in 2014; and
(d) N400 in 2015.
As usual the FG reneged on the MoU but when ASUU, embarked on a nation-wide strike from February to June 2013, it now offered instead, N300 billion for Enhanced Academic Allowances and N200 billion, to BREACH, Noticeable Infrastructural Gap in Federal Universities!
Available information reveals that only N200 billion was released to the body in 2013, and since then there had been no further appropriation! ALL OF THE ABOVE DECEITS WHICH THEY SUPERVICED, PROVE THAT THOSE GRADUATES PRESIDENTS PLACED NO SERIOUS PREMIUM ON EDUCATION!

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE!
ASUU's nation-wide strike which began on 13th August, 2017, has birthed two weeks of pain, anguish, disgust, mistrust and faithlessness among the teeming Nigerian students and youths who are the VICTIMS of FG's absolute insincerity, gross violation and dereliction of Constitutional Provisions in respect of Education as stipulated in Chapter II, Section 18 (1) (2) and (3 a-d), of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of 1999.

The APC Change Mantra Government, which inherited all of the above unreliable and unrealistic agreements has offered to pay N23 billion (Academic Earned Allowance), and N1.5 billion monthly, to ASUU pending the outcome of the forensic audit being carried out by the Federal Ministry of Finance to ascertain the entire transactions since 2001.  Government also agreed to other demands by ASUU Leadership team comprising the President, Professor 'Biodun Ogunyemi, and his Vice, Emmanuel Osodeke, including a former President, Dr. Dipo Fashina.
Professor Ogunyemi has said that the national struggle to revitalise the Nigerian university system was comprehensive and total and that the strike would be called off when FG fulfilled its side of the bargains between 2001-2012, adding that the outstanding deficit was about N825 billion!
In Ghana, government appropriates 30% of its annual Budget to Education at all levels and affluent Nigerians send their children and wards to Ghana to acquire pre-nursery to university education in a country where everything works!

HOW WOULD PEACE ENDURE IN A NATION DOMINATED BY JOBLESS/ HALF-BAKED YOUTHS WHO FORM THE LARGER POPULATION? BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS; AREWA CONSULTATIVE YOUTHS FORUM; O'ODUA PEOPLES CONGRESS (OPC), AND THE SOUTH-SOUTH PIPELINE VANDALS AND OTHER MILITANTS, ALL OF WHICH ARE YOUTH-BASED ARE VICIOUS AND CRIMINAL GROUPS WHO HAVE BEEN TROUBLING NIGERIA SINCE 1999!

APC Change Administration should not foot-drag on this very serious issue on which THE SOUL OF NIGERIA RESTS! All of ASUU's requests have legal foundations and backings and should be honoured without further delay! Nigerians are tired of CIRCUS CIRCLES! A nation without education will remain a JUNGLE SOCIETY! According to ASUU, appropriations of 6 &7% had been released in the last two years of the new administration.
"TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO; AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE NOT DEPART FROM IT. (PROVERBS 22:6).

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.

Please look forward to divine revelations in  The Sure Word Gospel Tracts, Our divinely inspired books on the Amazon KINDLE Store Namely: The Unbroken Chain of Grace, Nigeria’s Pot Pourri (Volumes 1-5), Godly Politicking For World Peace,  and The Wedding Mascot Died. 

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.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.