OBASANJO'S GROUSE AGAINST BUHARI IS NOTHING SHORT OF A SUBTLE COUP DE TAT!

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. 7. NO 233. 28th January, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

OBASANJO'S GROUSE AGAINST BUHARI IS NOTHING SHORT OF A SUBTLE COUP DE TAT!

In the analysis of national issues, good citizens dwell on facts while bad citizens dwell on sentiments. In Nigeria, the bad citizens are more than the good ones both at the leadership and followership levels and this imbalance is responsible for the uproar and stampede for negative comments on any trending matter on the social media!
Ex-President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, (OBJ), the ubiquitous letter-writer, threw "a spanner in the works"  on Monday 23rd January, 2018, in his usual style of criticisms against every government since 2007, when he lost his inordinate ambition for a third-term in office!
Not surprisingly, the social/print and electronic media exploded into jittery commotion of an avalanche of support for the Chief, who hails from the Owu Clan in Abeokuta, Ogun State, because he suggested that the incumbent occupier of the Aso Rock Villa should relieve himself of his constitutional duties and right to re-contest as President in 2019!
He also recommended that Buhari should go home to Daura to ROOST, because he was too old and bereft of economic ideas; whereas, OBJ was about 70 years old n 2007, when he reluctantly departed from office!

Obasanjo criticised Buhari for:
(1) Poor performance in government,
(2) Poverty in Nigeria,
(3) Insecurity,
(4) Poor economic management,
(5) Nepotism,
(6) Gross dereliction of duty,
(7) Condonation, if not outright encouragement of it,
(8) Lack of progress and hope for the future,
(9) Lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and
(10) Widening inequality!

Although we believe that Obasanjo's latest treatise was not only vindictive, but was an academic exercise in futility, we will limit our analysis to the contents and antecedents of the writer and conform with the adage which says one should not "throw the baby out with the bath water"; but place emphasis on the message and not the messenger, in order not to lose salient points in the message, titled, "The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement"!

We have no quarrel with either Obasanjo or his umpteenth message (because he wrote similar letters to ex-presidents Shehu Shagari, Ibrahim Babangida, Umaru Yar-Adua, and Ebele Jonathan), in the past, but we will put his thoughts in this particular letter in their proper perspectives, so that the good people of Nigeria would not be hoodwinked into believing falsehood and fallacies that are sinisterly-packaged to gain cheap political relevance!

Is Ex-President Obasanjo not GUILTY of all the TEN reasons he adduced as the SINS/DERELICTIONS of the present CHANGE Government of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in particular?
Though, Obasanjo was oblivious of divine providence of becoming President of Nigeria in a STARCHED KHAKI underneath a civillian mantle, shortly after his release from ABACHA's incarceration in prison, did he as a "born again" Christian govern in RIGHTEOUSNESS?

Would articulate Nigerians easily forget the disgraceful, dirty, mudslinging and unconstitutional EGO WAR between Obasanjo and his Vice, Atiku Abubakar, in respect of the former's Third Term ambition bid during the second tenure of the first TWO citizens of this good nation? Had the adage which says, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely", not played out in OBJ's style of government in that instance?

It is unheard of, neither is it constitutional that a sitting President would attempt or actually pronounce the SACK FROM OFFICE of his VICE with whom he was voted with the same ticket! Obasanjo did so between July, 2006 and May, 2007, in a military-commando style! He did not only sack Atiku Abubakar from office (unconstitutionally), he also drove him out of his official Presidential Lodge within the Aso Rock Complex, and got away with the dastard act through an OFFICIAL INDICTMENT, by EFCC and also a KANGAROO SENATE AD-HOC COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM TRUST DEVELOPMENT FUND (PTDF), which sanctioned the ex-Vice President for "abusing his office by aiding and abetting the diversion of public funds in the sum of US $125million and US $ 20 million respectively!"

DOWN THE MEMORY LANE!
When Obasanjo was released from prison in a coup de tat Death Sentence in June 1998 by General Abubakar Abdusalam, who took over power shortly after General Abacha's demise, he uttered the following emotionally-laden/spiritually-inspired speech at a thanksgiving service in Abeokuta, Ogun State, which we paraphrase as follows: "To accomplish a sound and wholesome society, a critical mass of righteous and upright citizens must rise to the occasion to act as the salt and light within their communities. The goal of life is to pursue truth, know God, serve humanity and resist Satan."
Well said; but is the Obasanjo known to Nigerians, the Diaspora and the World at large, NOT the total opposite of his personality and advocacy? Would it not take divine intervention for ex-President Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, to admit that he was no longer relevant in trending issues of partisan politics because he abused his last opportunity as a democratic President (having served as military Head of State between 1976-1979), through greed, avarice and covetousness?

Having lost a diabolical plot to manipulate the Nigerian Constitution to favour him with an illegal Third Term in office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he declared a "do-or-die", political election process which he insisted that his Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must win at all cost through his anointed candidate, late President Umaru Yar' Adua of blessed memory!
Did he not also device a plot to remain in power through STOOGES whom he could manipulate at his whims and caprices, first through Umaru Yar'Adua and later Ebele Jonathan?

CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS DURING OBJ's TENURE!
The following allegations which have not been denied, trailed OBJ throughout his eight-year tenure of presidency as follows:
* That he had only N20.000 (twenty thousand naira), in his bank account on release from prison in 1998 - but in those two terms in office it was very easy for him to become a multi-billionaire!
* That he corrupted himself through NNPC and PTDF, as the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources, and through the Shipping, Communications/Industrial Sectors - especially NPA, NITEL, and TRANSCORP!
* That, he acquired and funded large FARMS in the six geo-political zones with over N 2 billion naira, "borrowed" from United Bank for Africa, (UBA)!
* That OBJ subtly approved for PTDF (was under his supervision), without recourse to Federal Executive Council (FEC), on the same day, two tranches of N 20 billion naira and N10 billion naira respectively which were never accounted for subsequently!
* That his administration spent over N16 billion naira on phantom Power Projects!
* There were also allegations of his involvement in bribery scandals in respect of the Halliburton and Siemens Contracts against some highly-placed government officials and retired Nigerian Presidents!
* That it was during Obasanjos's era that the Executive lobbied Legislators with GHANA MUST GO BRIBE MONEY BAGS for approval of illegal favours!
* That he was NEPOTIC in his appointments to the extent of presenting a rejected ministerial nominee before the Senate for FOUR times until the legislators succumbed!

OBJ sold all government's critical infrastructures, including legislative/civil servants quarters, for PEA NUTS, to his political associates/cronies in order to achieve his third term desire! MANY POLITICIANS WERE ALSO ASSASINATED DURING OBASANJO'S PRESIDENCY!
The list is long, but OBJ believes that he could cover up his corruption tracks by pointing accusing fingers to successive governments through covert letters; but we believe otherwise, because it would not take too long before he is brought to book through DIVINE INTERVENTION!
OBJ can only run but cannot HIDE!
OBJ is confused! In one breath, he said he had no more interest in partisan politics and tore his PDP CARD, yet in another breath he is not only advocating for A COALITION OF NIGERIA MOVEMENT but spearheading its speedy formation for participation in the up-coming 2019 General Elections!
What does that mean to the ELECTORATE other than a new Political Party under OBJ's control that intends to wrestle power at all cost in another do-or-manner in 2019, if GOD PERMITS?

When will the mentality of the Nigerian politicians shift from building individuals and focussed on building INSTITUTIONS? OBJ's Letter was full of self indictments because his tenure was the WORST in the history of Nigerian politics!

DOES OBJ POSSESS MONOPOLY OF LETTER-WRITING? The answer is NO!  Ex-President Ebele Jonathan replied his letter titled, "Before It Is Too Late";  OBJ's daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo wrote a HATE letter to his father, while OBJ's first son, Dr.Gbenga Obasanjo, publicly and in an open court, accused his father of INCEST with his estranged wife, Mojisola, in January 2008'! OBJ has not denied this grievous allegation! "He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones!"

Obasanjo has the fundamental right to write letters BUT he should be mindful to respect the constitutional rights of others in order to avoid unpleasant consequences and embarrassing litigations. BUHARI WILL NEITHER STEAL, NOR ALLOW ONE KOBO OF THE NIGERIAN COMMONWEALTH TO BE STOLEN UNDER HIS WATCH UNLIKE OBJ AND HIS STOGEES! "See thou a man diligent in his business, he will stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." (Proverbs 22:29)

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

THE LABOURS OF WAR VETERANS AND DEPARTED SOLDIERS MUST BE ADEQUATELY REWARDED!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly Perspective).
[VOL. 7. NO 232. 21st January, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE LABOURS OF WAR VETERANS AND DEPARTED SOLDIERS MUST BE ADEQUATELY REWARDED!

The annual Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration in Nigeria, always marked on 15th January, was never bereft of the nostalgic reminiscences of the prowess of fallen heroes, ceremonial platitudes and re-cycled adulatory speeches by the President and Commander-in- Chief/Governors of the 36 States of the Federation to show solidarity with war veterans of the Nigerian Legion who survived past World Wars, and an internal Civil War!

Before the 30-month-Civil War caused by the failed secession bid of late Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, who declared a State of Biafra, within Eastern Nigeria, between July 1967-January 1970, Remembrance Day popularly christened, "Poppy Day" or -"11-11" was usually celebrated on 11th November, to commemorate fallen soldiers and veterans of World War I and World War II, in which Nigeria and other Commonwealth Countries participated. However, Nigeria has aptly adopted 15th January, a very significant date in the annals of Nigeria's history, when the "Biafran Troops", finally surrendered to the Nigerian Troops to signify the acceptance of permanent PEACE!

But behind the scenes and outside of the Arcade charade of laying of cenotaph wreaths by the President, Governors, Army Generals and some notable dignitaries and also, the releasing of pigeons as symbol of PEACE, the cacophony of bitter voices, complaints of absolute neglect and total abandonment of retired soldiers who are owed several months (in some cases, years), of pension arrears, non-payment of monetary entitlements to the deceased families, especially, wives and children!

Must we quickly forget the supreme sacrifices of these gallant soldiers who in the face of imminent death and without force or proscription laid down their lives during external wars and international peace-keeping operations?

Nigerian soldiers voluntarily participated in the two World Wars; they fought alongside British soldiers in Burma, India. Pakistan in defence of the Commonwealth Colonies; after independence, supported Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia etc. to maintain peace during their internal crisis and in their native land, they resisted Ojukwu's secession attempt in a long period of 30 months during which precious lives were lost on both sides irretrievably!

The Nigerian Armed Forces, comprising of the Army, Navy and Air Force, which is constitutionally saddled with the enormous duty of protecting the territorial integrity of the nation and in the maintenance of law and order through IS (Internal Security) Operations, has also been combating internal insurgency by the Islamic religious sect called Boko Haram since October, 2009 and not less than ONE MILLION lives and billions of naira worth of properties including government's strategic infrastructures, have been destroyed in the senseless war of attrition which is still ongoing in a hit-and-run tactic in the North East States of Bornu,Yobe and Adamawa!
IF THE ARMED FORCES HAD NOT BEEN UP TO THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES OF PROTECTING NIGERIA FROM BOTH EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL AGGRESSIONS, WOULD NIGERIA STILL BE RELEVANT TO BE ADDRESSED AS AN INDEPENDENT AND NOT ANOTHER PARIAH NATION AMONG THE COMITY OF NATIONS?
Consecutive Nigerian Administrations cannot claim to appreciate the contributions of these gallant heroes to nation-building and economic development if legitimate allowances, and pensions entitlements were never remitted to the Legionnaires and surviving members of the fallen heroes as at when due?
Should there be any price too much to compensate those patriotic, committed and outstanding men of valour, whether it is monetary, economic or structural, to show our gratitude and comfort the memories of those past heroes through their surviving families, especially the WIDOWS AND ORPHANS?
Should the dead soldiers not be immortalized by both private and public organisations to encourage other patriotic citizens who are willing to lay down their lives for our good nation?
Should their welfare packages not be prioritized by government and their entitlements placed on the FIRST LINE CHARGE?
SHOULD THEIR SOULS NOT REST IN PEACE?

In a speech during the formal launching of the 2018 Emblem and Appeal Fund which preceded the Remembrance Day Celebration in Abuja, President Buhari said that Nigerians collective resolve to keep the nation as ONE indivisible and indissoluble entity was the core of the annual celebration and enjoined all and sundry to avoid issues that could ever divide the country. The President and several well-meaning leaders also solicited for voluntary support in the form of donations, employments and welfare support to the veterans and their families and also the surving families of dead soldiers!

The EMBLEMS are usually commercialized by government for the proceeds to further support Welfare Fund of the NIGERIAN LEGION who are surviving ex-servicemen of the Army, Navy and Air Force - recognized in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as members of the ARMED FORCES.

Former President and a retired Army General, Olusegun Obasanjo, once remarked that, "the aim of the celebration is to constantly remember the sacrifice the Nigerian soldiers have made, and to constantly remind ourselves that they left families behind who need to be cared and catered for and to remind us that whatever might have caused internally, what led to the loss of lives of members of our armed forces will no longer recur".

Professional hazard is a common phenomenon in virtually every endeavour or undertaking of man but that of the MILITARY is about the most fearful because they willingly signed their "death warrants" in a patriotic zeal to serve their Fatherland, Nigeria! It is therefore very imperative for the Federal Government to treat ex-service men, and surviving families of departed soldiers with greater love and empathy.

POLITICIANS EMOLUMENTS SHOULD BE REDUCED TO ALLIGN WITH THE CIVIL SERVICE SALARY GRADE!
The POLITICAL CLASS/CIVIL SERVANTS who dwell in affluence and opulence should be held responsible for dereliction and irregular payments of the Legion's entitlements, because their own SALARIES, SEVICE/SEVERANCE ALLOWANCES, PENSIONS/GRATUITIES etc, must first be taken care of and whatever is left of the "crumbs from the masters table", could then be distributed to others (including members of the Armed Forces), in the Nigerian Project! There is no NIGERIAN politician who is owed one KOBO in salary or allowances!

A lot of manipulations of figures, regular inclusions, insertions and unwholesome repetition of items of expenditure in respect of goods and services by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), and through Legislators OVERSIGHTS in annual budget estimates have been discovered to be MASSIVE FORGERIES which if investigated in the current 2018 Budget Estimates, could save Nigeria a whooping sum of at least, N200 billion naira which could easily take of the needs of the downtrodden masses!

CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, (CSJ), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has challenged Civil Servants and Legislators to come out clean and remove all forgeries/paddings in the 2018 budget in order to avoid self-inflicted penury and poverty upon the innocent masses whom they claimed to be representing!
We recommend that EFCC should liaise with the NGO and fish out those responsible for the annual robbery of the nation's TREASURY! "For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die." (Romans. 5:7); BUT THE FALLEN SOLDIERS DIED FOR BOTH RIGHTEOUS AND UNRIGHTEOUS NIGERIANS AND THEREFORE DESERVE OUR COLLECTIVE EMPATHY!

Ex-service men are entitled to prompt payment of their outstanding pensions and other official benefits/ entitlements in order to enjoy enhanced life-changing vocations, and lucrative business incentives, etc. So it is imperative that relevant authorities must wake up to their responsibilities to show appreciation to the dependant relatives/families of the gallant men who sacrificed their lives that Nigeria may continue its existence as a united nation.
In addition, an enhanced military welfare package as advocated by the ruling APC Government should place emphasis on living wages to compensate serving soldiers whose lives were endangered at all times, during external or internal aggressions!

NIGERIAN LEGION ARE THE SURVIVING ARMED FORCES MEN OF THE ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE, WHO ARE NO LONGER IN ACTIVE SERVICE WHO SHOULD BE WELL-REMUNERATED AS AT WHEN DUE!
HOWEVER FOCUS SHOULD ALSO BE BEAMED ON DEPARTED PARAMILITARY EX-SERVICEMEN AND SURVIVING FAMILIES OF, WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF,-THE NIGERIAN POLICE, CUSTOMS/IMMIGRATION SERVICES, STATE SECURITY SERVICE (SSS), NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (NIA), NIGERIAN SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (NSCDC), CIVILLIAN JTF, NIGERIAN PEACE CORPS, ETC.!
THEY MUST ALSO BE CELEBRATED ALONGSIDE THE SOLDIERS, AT EVERY ARMED FORCES REMEMBRANCE DAY FROM HENCEFORTH TO BALANCE THE EQUATION BECAUSE THEY ALSO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR NIGERIA AND ARE STILL DOING SO, FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE GREAT NATION! What is good for the goose is good for the gander! Gaskiya ne!

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

WHY PRESIDENT BUHARI MUST NOT RESIGN AS PETROLEUM MINISTER!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 7. NO 231. 14th January, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WHY PRESIDENT BUHARI MUST NOT RESIGN AS PETROLEUM MINISTER!

Artificial scarcity of premium motor spirit (petrol), which became noticeable in the first week of December 2017, and persisted for about seven days into the new year, brought in its wake, fresh fuel queues in all filling stations across Nigeria, and the poor citizens who depended heavily on this crude oil byproduct on daily basis for business/domestic use, suffered tremendously as all their commercial motor-bikes, grinding machines and manufacturing/industrial equipments for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), which depended on electricity grounded to a halt!
As the masses languished on the streets, day and night in desperate quest to acquire the scarce product at all costs, and Federal Government and its agency, the NNPC seemed helpless in restoring sanity in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, black market vendors flooded the entire nation with the precious commodity and sold ONE LITRE for as high N400.00, and an orchestrated and very loud agitation rang across the nation that, President Muhammadu Buhari should resign as the substantive MINISTER OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES!

How was the Black Market flooded with large quantities of the PETROL which were not available in filling stations and vendors could freely merchandize them in plastic containers without apprehension by any arm of the law-enforcement agencies and how come the hue and cry for the resignation of the President who had ensured regular distribution of petroleum products (especially the PMS which could not be substituted, unlike Kerosene), for over ONE YEAR without any lapse?
ONE SALIENT TRUTH IS VERY GLARING AND THAT IS: NIGERIANS HAVE BEEN SO CRUELLY MIS-GOVERNED AND DOWNTRODDEN TO BREAKING POINT BY PAST ADMINISTRATIONS THAT THEY HAVE BECOME HIGHLY SENSITIVE AND ARE PRONE TO PROTESTS AT ANY GIVEN PROVOCATION!

GENESIS AND PROGRESSION OF THE PRESENT CRISIS!
(1) On Wednesday, 11th May, 2016, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), announced an upward adjustment, from N87.00 to N145.00, which turned out to be a TOTAL REMOVAL OF SUBSIDY BY GOVERNMENT ON THE PETROL - since it was not even captured in the 2016 Budget by the out-going PDP Administration!

(2) Between then and now, the international crude oil price further nose-dived to about US $30 dollars per barrel and though now rising to an all high US $70, the ripple effect of the downturn, hit the exchange rate and made the NAIRA to further depreciate against the United States dollar, from about N196 then to about N360 to one dollar now in 2018, for importers of PETROL - one of the subsidiaries of crude oil!

(3) In view of this development, according to major stakeholders in the Nigerian Petroleum Industry, the landing cost of imported PMS rose sharply from N126.5 in 2014, to N171.4 in the second quarter 2017, and the importers pushed for pump price increase from N145 to about N180 per litre, - which would nullify the 2016 removal of subsidy and total deregulation of the downstream sector - inclusive of Kerosene and Diesel Oil - which had long been deregulated! Government resisted and sidelined them for NNPC to have monopoly of PETROL importation but agreed to sell the imported commodities to the marketers who still complained that the marginal profit extended to them was insufficient and their covetous attitude led to HOARDING AND DIVERSION OF THE FINISHED PRODUCTS TO NEIGHBOURRING COUNTRIES FOR ILLICT GAINS!

(4) However, government's moves in the above direction has indicated that the difference between N145 pump price and the present landing costs of N171.4, - a difference of N26.4, - which represents a NEW "SUBSIDY REGIME", is being paid by NNPC - which is about to generate a fresh rift between it and the Senate Committee on Petroleum, which has queried the authority of Federal Government for paying fresh subsidies after total deregulation of the downstream sector in May, 2016!

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS MOST QUALIFIED TO SANITIZE THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY!

(1) The Petroleum Industry which he superintended over as Military Federal Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resource, between 1976 - 1979; had acquired a negative identity as the most corrupt government agency, a drain-pipe/liability to the economy, in view of the magnitude of the ROT (corruption with impunity, mass robbery of the BLACK GOLD), in all management cadres - upstream, middlestream or downstream!

(2) Under Buhari's watch, the Warri and Kaduna Refineries were initiated  to promote local production of finished products of crude oil and save the much needed foreign exchange to support the economy and he was the first Chairman of the NNPC which was created in 1977.

(3) He was instrumental to government's investments in pipelines and petroleum storage infrastructures which as a result facilitated the construction of 21 petroleum storage depots across the country from Lagos to Maiduguri and Calabar  to Gusau, including a pipeline network that connected Bonny Terminal and the Port Harcourt Refinery to the depots.

(4) President Buhari, who was appointed by Military Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, was also responsible for the contract of pipelines to connect from the Escravos Oil Terminal to Warri and Kaduna refineries had been very disturbed about the fact that NNPC he once chaired was turned into a cabal for economic saboteurs where monies which accrued from crude oil sales were unaccounted for; where there were no existing records or inventory of crude oil lifted on daily basis, where no one bothered about ANNUAL AUDITING of the Corporation's accounts; where OIL BLOCKS were distributed as political dividends to the inner caucus and all who worked for NNPC at all levels of administration were millionaires and where past Ministers of Petroleum Resources and NNPC GMDs became Billionaires in US dollars and some kept unspent dollars in abandoned cottages and others acquired massive edifices in quantum!

The Group Managing Director (GMD), of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, was quoted by the Nigerian Press to have told the President on Christmas eve, 24th December, 2017, that the "major reasons for PMS scarcity were hoarding and diversion of products to neighbouring countries"!
During that meeting, Baru was said to have also alleged that about 1,456 fully-loaded trucks with PMS meant for distribution to designated parts of Nigeria were among those that found their way out of the country without a trace thereby aggravating scarcity of the products during Christmas 2017 and New Year, 2018 festivities, respectively!

The economic loss throughout those agonizing weeks when man-power hours were spent in night vigils at filling stations by both public and private workers, whose productivity diminished drastically for as long as the scarcity lasted, was better imagined than quantified; but from Baru's revelation, a treasonable crime of ECONOMIC SABOTAGE BY A CABAL OF PETROLEUM MARKETERS WAS ESTABLISHED!

Hoarding and diversion, (whether to Black Market or neighbouring countries), are very serious economic crimes under the recently endorsed Petroleum Industry Act but, are the law enforcement agencies, including the CUSTOMS/IMMIGRATION SERVICES, who watch over movement of people, goods and services at Nigeria's borders aware of the existence of the PIA or did they connive with the Cabal to rubbish and discredit all democratic dividends which the masses had benefited from since 29th May, 2015, when the APC Administration came on board through artificial scarcity of PETROL?

With the hind sight of his experience as a Military Federal Minister of Petroleum, President Buhari did not waste time to order all the security agencies to increase vigilance and tighten border patrols around the country and to institute immediate investigations to unveil the saboteurs and deal with them judiciously!
The Ministry under his supervision now has been sanitized of MASSIVE FRAUD of the past.    ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOW THE WATCHWORD IN NNPC under the President's watch as the substantive Minister of Petroleum and with some patience, the refurbishing of the existing refineries through Public/Private Partnership (PPP), which is already underway, and construction of NEW REFINERIES - already on stream both by government and private entrepreneurs, would soon come on board and PETROL SCARCITY would disappear into thin air!
NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM MUHAMMADU BUHARI HIS ANTECEDENT AND PEDIGREE WHEN IT COMES TO PROBITY, FAITHFULNESS, HONESTY AND DILLIGENCE IN GOVERNANCE! TALAKAWAS WHO ARE IN THE MAJORITY SHOULD HAVE FAITH IN GOD AND IN HIS ANOINTED SERVANT - PRESIDENT BUHARI WHO WILL DELIVER THE TRUE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY TO THEM CONSISTENTLY UNTIL YEAR 2023, WHEN HE MUST HAVE EXHAUSTED HIS SECOND TERM IN OFFICE!

As at the time of this publication, fuel queues had resurfaced in some filling stations in Abuja!  But NNPC has urged motorists to desist from panic purchases and insisted that there was sufficient stock of petrol to serve the nation for more than a month.
The Oil Corporation also enjoined Nigerians to report petroleum product hoarders or greedy marketers who sell above the N145 per litre to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), which is statutorily empowered to handle such complaints through their offices nation-wide. As it is written, "Righteousness exalts a nation; but sin is a reproach to all people."(Proverbs. 14:36).

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

MURDERERS EVERYWHERE IN NIGERIA! ARE THEY HUMAN BEINGS OR SPIRITS?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

[VOL. 7. NO 230. 7th January, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

MURDERERS EVERYWHERE IN NIGERIA! ARE THEY HUMAN BEINGS OR SPIRITS?

When patriotic Nigerians bade one another Merry Christmas and a happy new year in advance in December 2017, little did they expect that the year 2018 would commence with the bloodbath of innocent fellow Nigerians from Benue to Rivers; Maiduguri to Taraba; Adamawa to Niger; Kwara to Kaduna; Oyo to Ikorodu and Cross-River; there was virtually no geo-political zone that was not attacked by gunmen and bloody psychopaths!

Nigerians were greeted with the sad news that over 50 people, rural men, women and children were murdered by gunmen believed to be herdsmen in Benue State on 1st January, 2018; on the same day, more that 40 people were killed in cold blood by cultists in Rivers State, and innocent blood flowed on daily basis unabated up till the morning of 6th January, 2018, when another 16 persons were sent to early graves in Tombo village, Logo Council Area, in a fresh attack! -SAD, SAD, SO SAD! 

Benue State was the hardest hit because, less than 24 hours of the Inspector General's of Police deployment of additional security personnel headed by Deputy IGP and an Assistant IGP, on 4th January, 2018, FOUR persons were killed in the same area!
Has all security measures defied solution - also in Luru Community, Numan LG, Adamawa FOUR people were also killed on 5th January, 2018!
Could Benue's Anti-Open Grazing Bill signed into law late last year by the Governor be responsible for the attacks by his detractors who are opposed to restriction of their cattle to RANCHES?
But, should the innocent citizens become scapegoats to government's friendly policy? Now, apart from those killed, over 40,000 people have been displaced and are homeless because their homes have been razed to the ground by the murderous arsonists!

ARE THE KILLERS EVIL SPIRITS?
Media reports indicate that those perpetrators were gunmen with sophisticated weapons whose "modus operandi" is the "hit-and-run" tactics of Boko Haram terrorists but the only noticeable difference between the two groups is that the alleged herdsmen gunmen have not yet introduced suicide bombings into their heinous rampages. Some criminologists have alleged that "fleeing Boko Haram terrorists from Sambisa Forest" are the marauders while analysts believed from reliable sources that the killers were contracted Fulani mercenaries who were brought in from Nigeria's neighbouring States of Chad, Niger and Cameroon! If we choose to believe the second information, we would surely be on the right track because it was confirmed by the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El- Rufai that the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, of Nigeria (MACBAN), had regularly contracted foreign mercenaries to defend the herdsmen from untoward attacks in the line of their nomadic occupation. He also said that he brokered peace at one time between farmers and herdsmen by paying handsomely for some cows allegedly killed by the former, which proves that law enforcement agents are dealing with HUMANS and not SPIRITS and therefore it should not be too difficult to track them through genuine public information!

IS A COW'S LIFE MORE SACRED THAN A HUMAN LIFE?
It has been alleged that almost all retired army generals in Nigeria own large agricultural and dairy farms and are the employers of the herdsmen - mostly of the Fulani stock, because the average herder may not own more than four or five cattle of his own and that these military men were in good position to arm and train their employees to "defend" themselves in the case of any confrontation which have become very rampant in recent times!
SHOULD IT NOT BE OF CONCERN TO POLICE DETECTIVES AND OTHER SECURITY OPERATIVES THAT CASUALTY FIGURES AT THE END OF EACH VIOLENT CLASH HAD ALWAYS BEEN OF INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS AND NOT COWS?

WHERE ARE THE DEAD CATTLE?
We have it on good authority that MIYETTI ALLAH  has instructed their nomadic herders not to engage the farmers whenever they were confronted in respect of grazing but to report to the Association for necessary action normally carried out by their contracted  mercenaries and that was why there were no cattle but human casualties at the end of all bloody clashes because the cattle were usually kept away in safe custody and out of sight!
WHAT DO THESE PSYCOPATHS GAIN FROM SHEDDING INNOCENT HUMAN BLOOD? DO THEY FEEL ANY REMORSE WHEN THEY NESTLE WITH THEIR OWN WIVES AND CHILDREN WHOM THEY HAVE KEPT AWAY IN "SAFE HAVENS" JUST LIKE THEIR BOKO HARAM COUNTERPARTS? DO THEY HAVE ANY KIND OF CONSCIENCE? ARE THEY CREATED BY OUR GOD WHO SAYS, "THOU SHALT NOT KILL?"

NASARAWA STATE:
On 9th May, 2013, about two years before the APC Government took over the reins of political power in Nigeria, Nasarawa State recorded the bizarre massacre of over 100 policemen and about 12 State Security Service agents, who were officially deployed from Abuja to maintain law and order in that land which was notorious as the theatre of violent conflicts between rival cults which struggled for political relevance along ethnocentric divide on one side and nomadic herdsmen and farmers frequent clashes over grazing "rights", on the other!

At the end of the gruesome cold-blooded homicide on the fateful day, it was widely reported that there was not a single civilian casualty recorded because members of the OMBATSE CULT whose leader was to be arrested claimed that they were protected by their deity which protected them from POLICE BULLETS WHICH HAD NO LETHAL POWER TO KILL THEM!
A tribunal instituted by the State Government after the massacre sat for several weeks but was unable to establish those who were culpable because the National President, Eggon Cultural and Development Association (ECDA), claimed that devotees to Ombatse Cult were peace-loving and did not participate in the killings of the  team of policemen, which was headed by an Assistant Commissioner! THESE SENSELESS KILLINGS ARE RUBBISHING DIVIDENDS OF ECONOMIC GAINS!

THE SANCTITY OF LIFE:
What is the life of a Nigerian worth these days? What could be responsible for the massacre, slaughter and dismemberment of innocent fathers, mothers, children, even pregnant women? Could it be hatred, ethnicity, tribalism, nepotism, caste discrimination, ethnic/religious bigotism, or sheer bestiality of the act of man's inhumanity against man? Could it be a senseless political move to ignite a RELIGIOUS WAR, similar to the kite flown by Boko Haram in 2009?

PLATEAU STATE:
Human Rights Watch (HRW), quoting the Geneva Declaration published in November 2011, reported that more than 13,500 people were killed in communal violence in Nigeria's Middle Belt Region since the nation returned to civilian rule in 1999, and that Plateau State was hardest hit because it became notorious for bloody political crisis over indigene rights and political representation in Jos, State Capital, had evolved into protracted communal clashes in which, during that period, about 7,000 were killed! Other Middle Belt States which had similar and violent crises are Benue, Niger, Nasarawa, and Kaduna!

During the years of the very first and second military coups in Nigeria and the 30-month-long period of the Biafra Civil War January 1966 - January 1970, some unpatriotic Plateau State indigenes unleashed mayhem which resulted into massive culpable homicide of innocent about 1,000 non-natives and settlers throughout the four years of instability in the country!
The end of the civil war ushered a fragile peace but in bottled-grudges of many years on both sides resurrected chains of reprisals which changed the story from 2001, till date over indegeneship and political representation status.
Mindless killings are not limited to the Middle Belt:  virtually all geo-political zones have been invaded by armed herdsmen! Ethno-religious clashes in Southern Kaduna,  Niger,  Nasarawa ,Taraba, Cross River State, etc. has turned the promulgation of the Anti-Open Grazing Act in some of these States into mere academic exercise but it should not be so in this Change Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
These herdsmen/farmers clashes which defies all borders and is no respecter of persons are no doubt orchestrated and brazen effrontery by some detractors against the ruling administration and MUST be dealt with decisively - especially when the Commander-in-Chief has given marching orders to all security agencies to move in full gear to destroy this communal plague of epidemic proportion!

RIVERS/KADUNA STATES:
What of the cult killings in Rivers State on the new year's day celebration, and the dastard and gruesome murder of  a tribal chief and his pregnant wife on the same day in Kaduna State? According to Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers State, some members of rival cults who were contracted by foreign oil companies to protect oil installations and were responsible for the bloodshed in the State because they were empowered to purchase sophisticated weapons with which they have been unleashing terror on their communities!

WAY FORWARD:
Since terror attacks are rife in isolated outskirts of all States involved and it is noticeable that the presence of security agents was more felt in the tows rather than the villages which are vulnerable to the attackers who after their dastard crimes disappear into THIN AIR, troops who were usually drafted to restore peace MUST NOW resided with the locals, and forestall REPRISALS and prevent marauders from attacking the SOFT TARGETS over and over again!

ARE THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES - ESPECIALLY THE SOLDIERS, AND POLICEMEN OVERSTRECHED?
Or are they conniving with the Fulani herdsmen as alleged by Initiative for Development and Advancement of the Natives, an umbrella for all (56) ethnic nationalities in Plateau State. A survivor of the 17th October, 2017, attack on the frightened natives of Irigwe Chiefdom in Bassa Local Govt Area, claimed that they were lured into a classroom and abandoned there for their assailants to kill 27 innocent natives who could not escape!

CAN'T WE NIP THESE CONFLICTS IN THE BUD? ARE THE ATTACKERS FULANI HERDSMEN OR MERCENERY FULANIS, CONTRACTED FROM NIGER, CHAD, AND CAMEROON? IS FIRE BRIGADE APPROACH THE SOLUTION? HOW MANY CULPRITS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED OR CONVICTED?
BREAKING NEWS: "SEVEN SUSPECTED HERDSMEN WERE REPORTEDLY ARRAIGNED IN A COURT IN BENUE?"
Life is the fresh air that we badly need to keep alive; It is the heat, the warmth, released from the Sun across the earth for the organic; Life is the Gilead Balm that swaps frayed nerves for good health;  Life is the spirit in a clay tabernacle; the life of the body is in the Blood. Human life is sacred. Life is precious, it must not be wasted!

We appeal to these psychopaths and their sponsors to repent from destroying human lives which they cannot CREATE! It is written: "God cannot be deceived, whatever a man sows, that he will surely reap. He who kills by the sword will surely die by the sword. AND HELL FIRE AWAITS THE UNREPENTANT, BE WARNED!

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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.

IT'S SUICIDAL TO SEEK GREEN PASTURES OUTSIDE OF NIGERIA WITHOUT LEGAL PAPERS!

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 229. 31st December, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

{2017 NEW YEAR EDITION}

IT'S SUICIDAL TO SEEK GREEN PASTURES OUTSIDE OF NIGERIA WITHOUT LEGAL PAPERS!

Very disturbing but authentic news reached the shores of Nigeria in November 2017 that our able-bodied citizens were being sold to slave merchants for FOUR HUNDRED United States dollars (US $400; about 123.200 naira), in the North Africa country of LIBYA, where they absconded to seek "greener pastures"!
At about the same period, the raped dead bodies of 27 Nigerian women, between 14-23 years, were discovered in an abandoned ship on the Mediterranean, off the coast of Libya!
Before these very unfortunate incidents, some Nigerian drug peddlers in July, 2016, were caught in Indonesia, tried and executed, whereas Nigeria's fertile arable lands have no comparison anywhere in the world because the 36 States of the Federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FTC), can feed and profit from agricultural produce through their commercialisation, locally and exportation to foreign countries.
Outside of agriculture, there are not less than 700 species of naturally-endowed mineral resources outside of Crude Oil - ranging from Coal to Iron Ore, Bitumen, Gold, Copper, Silver, Gypsum, including some deposits of URANIUM, (a universally-sought-after, very important, scarce, but major mineral ingredient needed for nuclear energy), buried, lying fallow and untapped, in some parts of Nigeria, but which only needed organised labour to harness and commercialise to boost the nation's economy and its coffers!

Why would the able-bodied citizens of Nigeria depart from Eldorado to the deserts of Africa and perish? Why would they abandon the GREEN VEGETATION of this green and luscious landscape to swim in the polluted  waters of the Mediterranean in a bid to cross to Europe, but only to end up in the belly of vicious and hungry sharks and whales prowling in the depths of the violent seas?

Where did we get it wrong as a people and as a nation? Is it not the norm that parents would naturally serve as guides and first teachers to their offspring before sending them forth to educational institutions to acquire further knowledge to enable them contribute their quotas in the areas of national development?
In view of this national embarrassment, who should take the blame of aggravated promiscuity in the societies, the inordinate ambition and insatiable urge/desire to get rich at all costs - especially among the youths?

Do the Nigerian parents, teachers, politicians, elders and elites present themselves as perfect role models for the teaming youths who constitute about 60% of an estimated population of 170 million people?

IS THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN NIGERIA THAT BAD, EVEN WITH THE CHANGE OF GUARDS AND ALL STRATEGIC ECONOMIC INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES ALREADY FRUITING POSITIVELY IN THE PAST 31 MONTHS THAT SOME CITIZENS WOULD STILL PREFER TO BE WASTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES RATHER THAN JOIN HANDS TO BUILD THEIR OWN NATION?

In spite of a transient economic recession in 2016, Nigeria has bounced back as the nation with the highest GDP index in Africa and the most attractive industrial destination for European, Asian and American investors who are competing for space in the Nigerian Market Arena!
Nigeria is presently enjoying bumper food harvests - especially in agricultural produce as more State Government have diversified attention to the land for increased internally Generated Revenues (IGRs).

According to World Bank Group, the diversification from crude oil to agriculture which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), played pivotal role and solid minerals had helped in no small measure to ameliorate and cushion the smarting effects of recession as it affected the daily bread of the resilient masses of Nigerian workers.
The Anchors Borrowers Programme of the CBN, which has produced several millionaire farmers, with other economic interventions by the apex bank has enabled Nigeria to rise 24 places on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings and earned a place for the nation on the List of Top 10 Reformers in the world!

Why would the unemployed citizens not take advantage of the golden opportunities available in Nigeria where they are accorded first class citizenship and steadily grow successfully with the new economic template than take suicidal missions to foreign lands?

OFFICIAL RECORDS OF REPATRIATED NIGERIANS FROM LIBYA IN 2017!
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has disclosed that a total of 6,672 Nigerians (male, females and infants), who were lured to Libya by human traffickers, voluntarily returned to Nigeria between 6th January to 28th December, 2017, with the tacit co-operation of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). According to the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), the returnees were encouraged to join hands with the various government agencies to tackle the problem of human trafficking syndicates by identifying them with the assurance that their information would be treated with utmost confidentiality and secrecy! Those who were lucky to return claimed that they were lured with "juju" (magical charms), and oaths of secrecy by the syndicates!

FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL MIGRATION!
We have conclusively researched that Nigerians involved in soiling the good image of the nation are negligible in number but negatively destructive in their unbridled desire to acquire money at all costs and by all means when they are demonically lured.
We have also discovered that this suicidal urge that has blinded all those who have been shamelessly involved in the desperate pursuit of transient riches and wealth also has a SPIRITUAL DIMENSION which contradicts the divine commandment against the LOVE OF MONEY, that constitutes the root of all evils!

The desperate pursuit for quick wealth abroad by illegal migrants should be traced to the antecedents of Nigerian rich citizens whose sources of acquisition of sudden riches were neither questioned nor investigated by any anybody or agency of government but who, suddenly became famous, popular and worshipped by the downtrodden in their communities as celebrities!

With the determination of the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to purge Nigeria of the deep-rooted cankerworm of corruption, many looters of the treasury, money launderers, drug barons, illegal crude oil bunkerers, currency racketeers, have been rounded up and tons of monies recovered - especially with the introduction of the Whistle Blower Policy - which has yielded lots of positive results!
We strongly believe that it is very wrong for youths to grow up in lawless societies where money, instead of the dignity of education, ingenuity and labour, is worshipped and advocate that all hands must now be on deck to reform and re-orientate the youths in a new direction of inculcating the habit and godly doctrine of righteousness, probity and equity, which will gradually lead to accountability, good success and clean sources of acquisition of wealth in all their chosen endeavours of life.

RESILIENT AND PATIENT NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE IN THE MAJORITY!
Majority of courageous Nigerian youths are domicile in the country and are doing well because the Change Government is encouraging them through the N-Power Employment and Special Intervention Programmes; Agricultural Loans/Land Leases through Bank of Industry (BOI); and encourage into the political terrain through the "Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill," which has passed through second reading in the National Assembly (NASS); Educational Scholarships; and the enforcement of the Local Content Law, on foreign investors, etc, and they are prospering by leaps and bounds.
If only those returnee migrants like the prodigal could only repent and, settle down and embrace government incentives as enumerated earlier and if those who are still contemplating to "stow away" would have a change of heart, they WILL all eat of the good of the land of Nigeria, flowing with milk, honey, fruit juice and SMUDDIES!

PARENTS' DESPICABLE LUST AND AGGRANDIZEMENT MUST STOP NOW!
Is it not ironic that parents sell landed properties and even obtain loans at exorbitant interests to sponsor their wards to foreign lands because of their lust for illicit wealth with which they intend to compete with the JONESES?
What about the human traffickers with perverse intentions of luring desperate youth into prostitution in Europe through deceits of lucrative employments or further education? The Word of God says parents should teach their wards good behaviour for them to become good citizens of the world.

THE ROLE OF NAPTIP MUST BE ENHANCED!
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), should be commended for its relentless efforts since inception on 14th July, 2003 in curbing the excesses of human trafficking and prosecution of several offenders but now need the collaboration of the WHISTLE BLOWERS to get more positive results because these traffickers are human beings and not spirits and must therefore be tracked down, subjected to face the rule of law and be punished according to the law if found culpable. All the three tiers of government must also collaborate to "ground the youths at the grassroot" where the urge for illegal migration is rife and deeply rooted due to the support of the elders/parents, until this societal evil is uprooted from Nigeria!

CAN WE BLAME UNEMPLOYMENT/UNDER-EMPLOYMENT FOR THIS NATIONAL MALAISE?
Nigeria's unemployment/under-employment rate has increased to 14.2 per cent in the Fourth Quarter of 2017, from 13.9% in the Third Quarter of 2016! According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), of the nation's 85 million able-bodied workforce, 29 million are unemployed, an increase of 351,015 persons between ages of 15 to 34, which falls within the age bracket of the youth population! We have agricultural lands that are more than sufficient to cultivate by 170 million Nigerians, yet our children are on suicide missions abroad to look for jobs! WHAT A SHAME? 

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov 16:25. KJV)
“ILLEGAL FOREIGN TRIP IS SUICIDAL! NIGERIAN YOUTHS PLEASE BEWARE AND DESIST!  We wish all our esteemed readers a happy and prosperous new year!

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