WNTV BLAZED THE TRAIL FOR NON-PARTISAN JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA!

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. 8.NO 325. 3rd November, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

WNTV BLAZED THE TRAIL FOR NON-PARTISAN JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA!
The 60th anniversary celebration of WNTV, first Television Station in the continent of Africa on Thursday, 31st October, 2019, at Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, Nigeria, has no doubt ignited fresh hopes and enthusiasm that the age-long rating of prestigious/highly-rated profession of journalism now being threatened through the dissemination of fake news and hate speeches from the uncensored SOCIAL MEDIA portals could still be redeemed!

Of recent, disappointed and disgruntled politicians had taken to the social media to disparage all achievements of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in the areas of security, economy and war against corruption, since 2015, through distortion of facts and figures on the social media where authors identities were hidden with pseudo names!
However it is gratifying that the present administration is very much alert to uncover the fifth columnists behind the clandestine moves and speedily bring them to justice according to the Minister of Information and Culture who took advantage of several fora to announce that the APC-led Federal Government, would not fold its arms and watch the unfolding scenario degenerate into chaos or anarchy!

ANTECEDENTS OF WNTV!
Corporate Western Nigeria Television (WNTV), the brain-child of late sage, Chief Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo, (GCFR), Premier of the then Western Region Action Group Government, which debuted on 31st October, 1959,  shortly before Nigeria's independence in the following year, symbolized the patriotic capacity of a leader who strongly believed in the educational emancipation of the people as the greatest legacy that could be bequeathed to posterity! Before that epoch event, Chief Awolowo, an erudite lawyer, a great philosopher, an outstanding patriot and de-tribalized Nigerian, whose colossal image transcended his generation, had in 1955, introduced FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION for all residents in Western Region, irrespective of tribe, tongue, caste, place of birth, religion or region and today eminent and very successful Nigerians from all geo-political zones, who benefited from Pa Awolowo's educational largesse, have proudly broadcast his benevolence at every opportunity or occassion with much pride and well wishes to the memory of this great leader of all times!

WNTV was not only first in Africa, but a trail-blazer ahead of some European countries of Netherlands (1960), New Zealand (1960), Ireland (1961), China (1962), Malta (1962), Greece (1966), Canada (1967), Federal Government of Nigeria's NTA (1975); and it was not surprising that Vice President and other eminent dignitaries graced the symbolic august occasion in Ibadan, seat and headquarters of the station in Oyo State, In a tweet to commemorate the day, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), reminiscence that exactly 60 years ago, late Premier of Western Region. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, then flanked by Governor General, Sir John Rankine, Chief Anthony Enahoro and Chief T.T. Solaru, formally entered the history books by inaugurating the Western Nigeria Television, first in Africa, adding, " we celebrate what is possible".

WESTERN NIGERIA TELEVISION (WNTV), AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL!
According to Wikipedia citation, WNTV was created as a partnership between the Western Regional Government and a foreign firm, Overseas Rediffusion and designed to be an educational tool for the masses and also a medium to beam local culture, foreign news/aims and objectives of government's social contract with the people in that region. It was also revealed that the, "Establishment of the station was enhanced by a Constitutional change which removed broadcasting from an exclusive item to a concurrent item and political resolution of the Regional Premier, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and the Regional Minister of Information, Chief Anthony Enahoro!" WNTV, later re-named Nigeria Television Authority (NTA, Ibadan), following its acquisition by the Federal Government which in 1975, established its network of TV Stations across Nigeria in a sweeping move to educate the entire population, was studded with well-qualified, well-educated, professional, articulate, sagacious and obsessively-patriotic journalists whose pedigrees and antecedents were unquestionable!

MUST LOFTY IDEALS OF GREAT MINDS BE RUBBISHED THROUGH FAKE NEWS, HATE SPEECHES?
These days, you don't have to be a trained journalist to express opinions, comments or publish your views in the print, electronic or social media in Nigeria because the existing internet platforms of the 21st Century are very porous and accommodative to all comers irrespective of low education, training or exposure! Prior to now, especially in the years preceding and few years into independence (1950-1966), the Nigerian Press enjoyed much respect and prestige because of the pedigree of practitioners, authenticity of news, quality of published articles, commentaries, documentaries and the richness of editorial opinions of that era.
Those were the hey-days of respectable media practitioners and great personalities like the late Herbert Macaulay, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, late Babatunde Jose, late Anthony Enahoro, late Bisi Onabanjo, late Alade Odunewu, late Adamu Ciroma; Mrs. Theresa Ogunbiyi, octogenarian Lateef Jakande, Peter Enahoro, Sam Amuka etc, who all blazed the trail in professional and qualitative journalism of the 20th Century Nigeria! Those journalists of great repute articulated social engagements to inform, educate and entertain the citizens with vital information of government policies/activities as they affected them, demanded for accountability to the people because they were fearlessly to published the truth even in that colonial era!

HAS THE NIGERIAN PRESS GONE TO ROOST?
Now that that the nation has experienced 20 years of uninterrupted democratic governance, why is the Nigerian Media not on full throttle as the true Watchdog and defender of the defenceless citizens according to their constitutional obligations in Chapter II Section 22 & Chapter IV Section 39? The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), should carry out an urgent FORENSIC AUDIT to fish out not only MERCENARY journalists in their ranks, but also, FAKE broadcast, print or electronic media establishments which are being sponsored by drowning renegade politicians who were bent to destroy all economic gains of the nation because they were not in the saddle! The corporate media should realize by now through investigative engagements that its ranks have been infiltrated by mercenaries who work for the highest bidders to heat up the polity especially in the past FOUR years when failed politicians could no longer loot the TREASURY which they converted into Automatic Teller Machines (ATM), between 1999-2015! THEY ARE THE ENEMIES WITHIN - WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE UNCENSORED SOCIAL MEDIA TO PERPETRATE EVIL! THEY HAVE TO BE STOPPED!

NIGERIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION (NBC) VERSUS AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION (AIT)!
The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), is the regulatory body of all broadcast establishments in Nigeria and since part of its responsibilities also include control and discipline of erring licensees of the broadcasting industry, it was high time sentiment was cast aside for the law to take its course against defaulters of the provisions of the NBC Act Cap N 11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and the broadcasting code! It is no longer secret that African Independent Television (AIT), and Ray Power, the twin broadcast stations, owned by PDP Chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, had been arrowheads of reckless dissemination of fake news and hate speeches against the person of President Buhari, APC Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, during the events leading to the 2015 General Elections and thereafter till date and have refused to repent, because they have evaded requisite punishments that should have been meted to serve as deterrent to their ilk’s! In spite of the fact that TWO court cases against AIT were withdrawn by President Buhari and Chief Tinubu in 2016, the stations continued to heat up the polity through licentious broadcasts and on 6th June 2019, EIGHT days after the fresh second term mandate of the APC, the duo broadcast stations had to be shut down and suspended indefinitely from any form of broadcast in Nigeria! AIT in particular was defaulted for being partisan; airing an unprofessional presidential documentary of a matter pending before a tribunal, inability to pay its fees as at when due; and using divisive and inciting  contents from the SOCIAL MEDIA!

URGENT MEASURES TO STOP THE MENACE!
WE suggest that because the broadcast stations have had previous opportunities to redeem whatever was left of their tainted image and had refused, fresh forensic investigation should be conducted by a combined synergy of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), Director of State Security (DSS), and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), to unravel if AIT & Ray Power were still not the brains behind the continuous torrents of FAKE NEWS AND HATE SPEECHES on the social media! Unlike WNTV, AIT/RAY POWER, which is just 25 years in existence, "is patently partisan - and, especially in the last two years - it decided to conduct its activities in a manner detrimental to national interest as if it was beyond regulatory direction of NBC by heating up the polity through the habit of using the channel to fight its personal battles contrary to the statutory requirements of the law" says the Commission. The NBC monitoring reports also claimed that the following divisive comments accredited to the segment of Kakaki, tagged "Kakaki Social", which were inciting were as follows:
(1) 'Nigeria is cursed', 'we declare independent state of Niger Delta', 'Nigeria irritates me', 'this country is gradually Islamising'; other similar slogans were also used without editorial control in breach of the broadcast code!
WAS THIS THE KIND OF FREE PRESS AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA THAT NUJ ADVOCATED FOR DURING THEIR MEDIATION OF REPRIEVE ON BEHALF OF AIT?

"When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands." (Job. 22:29-30). THE MASSES MUST BE DELIVERED FROM THIS DELIBERATE AFFRONT OF AIT/ RAY POWER AGAINST THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS TO RIGHTEOUS GOVERNANCE!

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.

AFRICA, FOR HOW LONG WOULD YOU REMAIN A BEGGAR?

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. 8.NO 324. 27th October, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

AFRICA, FOR HOW LONG WOULD YOU REMAIN A BEGGAR?

[Lamentation Over Africa:  Pride of the Black Race Across The Universe!]
Africa, O Africa! How have you fallen disgracefully to the ground?
From grace to grass in the miry clay to lose your prestige, albeit, first estate;
Through greed, thou wast ravished by strangers for filthy lucre,
Your children orphaned, scattered in White man's land;
Enslaved, disparaged, disillusioned; how did we get here?
Africa, O Africa! You must rise from the ashes, regain your pride of place!
It is not late, it will never be too late to regain lost ground!

Historians have failed to dispute the fact that civilisation was first noticed in the North Eastern part of your vast and richly-endowed landscape, before it debuted in other lands of Medieval/Modern Europe and your sister continents of Asia, the United States and Australia!
Geologists and anthropologists have proved that early artifacts of letterings, writings, sculptures of Africa, were found in its various countries not limited only to NE but also in the West's Nok culture, in Kaduna, North Central Nigeria - notable for Iron deposits and a population named after the Ham Village of Nok; also gold/tin mineral deposits in Zamfara, North West; works of art, architectural designs/constructions, metal works, canals for waterways, artesian wells, the pyramids, mausoleums, etc, were commonplace in Alexandria, Egypt's southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; Philistia (present day Palestine), which had rich deposits of lime, chalk and alluvial deposits from streams; not forgetting the mineral resources of the Lebanon Region, the Transjordan and the Dead Sea (an inland body of water, 50 miles or 80.46 km. long and 10 miles or 16.093 km. wide), full of very rich mineral deposits; Mesopotamia (Western Asia), within Rivers Tigris Euphrates waterways, and Democratic Republic [DR] Congo (formally francophone ZAIRE), is one of the richest countries in natural resources with untapped deposits of raw materials estimated to be worth in excess of US $24 trillion dollars), in Central Africa, etc, etc.!
QUESTION 1: What happened to your arable agricultural lands/ farms produce, animal husbandry projects, abundant milk, fura de nunu, green vegetables, peppers, tomatoes; cotton/jute industries, large stocks of timber woods, merchandise of gold, expensive ornaments and vestures; innumerable natural mineral deposits of iron, steel, copper, silver, uranium, deposits of lime and chalkalluvi etc, the sea/faring ships and your daring voyagers?
QUESTION 2: How did you suddenly become the most-backward continent among the rest, that you now have to go cap in hand to beg for virtually all the basic amenities of life from UK, USA, EU, CHINA, JAPAN, GERMANY, ARAB NATIONS, G8, G7, COUNTRIES, etc, and now RUSSIA in spite of your enviable tropical sprawling lands that enjoy abundant sunshine and rainfalls at their unfailing seasons?
QUESTION 3: Why would you be described as backward, poor, illiterate, raw, uncouth, unhealthy, UNDER-developed despicable etc?
QUESTION 4: Why do you catch cold each time one of these advanced countries sneezed?
QUESTION 5: Do you know who or where the next Summit will hold? - Maybe on the MOON?
QUESTION 6: How did you get to this harrowing level to BEG for their workforce to come and build your strategic structures, bridges, hospitals, refineries dams and for their finances to feed your children?
QUESTION 7:  Don't you have your own AFRICAN workforce? How would you expect them to transfer their technology/intellectual property to YOU? Don't you have any shame? Have you ever thought of technology acquisition?

ALL 55 AFRICAN UNIONS (AU), COUNTRIES ARE FREE - AREN’T THEY?
The United States of America fought bitter wars to become the greatest global economy, China did the same and the Russian Revolution of 1917 open rebellion, succinctly supported by the armed forces against the ruling overlords headed by strings of very powerful and domineering TSAR title holders, brought to an end bad governance and ushered in "communism" - the doctrine of commonness, i.e., common ownership of all property which progressed gradually from 1917 into revolutionary socialism which was based on the writings of Karl Marx - a German social economist of Jewish origin whose ideologies also influenced governments of Poland and China! All EU Countries have gained independence in similar fashions - not on a platter of gold, - but unlike their Asian, European or American counterparts, their leaders adopted neo-colonialist attitudes of illegal acquisition of wealth/properties to the detriment of the masses of freedom fighters - many of who lost their lives in the process!

BUT THE EQUATION MUST CHANGE NOW! AFRICANS WILL EAT WHAT THEY GROW; WEAR THEIR MANUFACTURED CLOTHES; DWELL IN HOUSES THEY BUILT; AND RIDE IN CARS & TRUCKS THEY CONSTRUCTED! THEY MUST SHUT THEIR LAND BORDERS LIKE CHINA IN THE YEARS OF STUBBORN PATRIOTISM, AND ACHIEVE ALL-ROUND SUFFICIENCY, IF NEED BE!

The 21st Century stampede by World Powers for the abundant natural resources massively studded in the belly of Africa is reminiscent of the MAD GOLD RUSH of 19th Century which swept through Continents of Australia/United States; New Zealand, Brasil, Canada and South Africa!  In the 15th Century, before World War I, the civilized World powers described Africa as a DARK CONTINENT, because little was known of its interior as British and Portuguese seamen and explorers only established trading ports around the coastal areas especially of the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa!

Now in the 21st Century, swarms of expatriate geologists, economists, industrialists, engineers, scientists, technologists, information communication experts, technocrats, portfolio investors etc, are clustered in the 53 African nations determined (this time around), to "legitimately" explore, exploit and harness the immense mineral resources outside of CRUDE OIL, and all economic opportunities available within the bowels of black continent! Of the Seven geographic global continents, AFRICA, is the most divinely-blessed with the greatest number of natural resources and also the most-endowed with friendly climatic condition, predictable weather and virtually devoid from all ecological calamities/disasters that beset Asia, Europe, United States like, devastating landslides, earthquakes, storms, tornadoes, tsunamis; massive forest fires, etc, constitute regular affront to safety of lives and properties in those continents!

Therefore, the alien invasion/aggressive occupation from Cape to Cairo; Freetown to Addis Ababa; DR Congo to Libya, etc, by G8, G7 and EU entrepreneurs, including the United States, the Asian Tigers (China, Japan, Koreans etc,), and now, the re-entry of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION, in all areas of trades, industries, manufacturing, and investments especially is therefore not surprising, cannot be overemphasized, nor wished away!
Most prominent among the contestants are the United States (acknowledged as the global economic giant), the Socialist Republic of China, ( the second largest economy after the US), and now the Russian Federation, just concluding, "The Russia African Summit", held at Sochi, and attended by over 50 African Presidents/Head of States, including Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari.

RUSSIA,S PRESIDENT VLADMIR PUTIN IS A MAN TO WATCH VERY CLOSELY!
In some bi-lateral agreements with Nigeria, Mr Putin will ensure completion and commissioning of the AJAOKUTA STEEL ROLLING MILLS, which construction began in 1979, but aborted along the line by a Russian outfit! He will support war against crime, corruption, insurgency, supply Nigeria with military weapons to end Boko Haram terrorism etc, etc, improvement of the Oil Sector through upgrading NNPC Refineries and a Russian-based Oil & Gas Company, and to develop Nigeria's gas facilities. Russian engineers will build and deliver the 1,400 km. railway line from Lagos-Calabar and construct NUCLEAR PLANT for Nigeria which should start immediately and also renew Nigeria-Russia military cooperation, not forgetting collaboration in Security, Education and Agriculture, according to the deals!

ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY!
Since the USSR was voted out by the Supreme Soviet on 26th December 1991, and its 8th and last President Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned about 26 years ago, the Russian Federation had remained s shadow of itself and could only play the opposition in global security affairs with whatever remained in its arsenal! Current President, who had made all of the above promises is a man to monitor very closely because he had been involved in many controversies across the globe –
He was fingered in some expansionist ambition both in Poland and Ukraine through renegade Russian soldiers;
Accused of masterminding the shooting down of a Malaysian Airline Flight 17 (MH17), commercial aircraft Boeing 777 - 200 ER from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, on  over the Eastern Ukraine/ Russian border -283 passengers and 15 crew were killed in that horrible incident, but President Putin denied any involvement!
He was also accused of collaborating with Turkish rebels who tried unsuccessfully in the state capital, Istanbul, to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2015; he also denied; and
President Putin's Russian army, was also deployed to support the oppressive government in Syria, headed by Bashar Al - Assad since the beginning of the Syrian conflict 2011 - with at least 400,000 death recorded as at 2016!

ALL OTHER CONTINENTS PUT TOGETHER NEED AFRICA MORE THAN AFRICA NEEDS THEM!
It is most gratifying to note that these developed nations have realised that they could no longer stand aloof and dismiss Africa as a DARK CONTINENT or under-developed, when their industries could actually run aground without continual replenishment of their warehouses from the inexhaustible natural mineral endowments that abound all over the  blessed lands!

Prior to this period of economic advancement, the British and French Administrations took early steps to secure sovereignty over their colonies in Africa shortly after World War II, for three strategic reasons:
To assert authority as colonial masters;
To protect the colonies from unforeseen invasion;
To grow their economies which were severely devastated through wars, with natural mineral /agricultural deposits that were in excessive abundance in those colonies!
They adopted a very simple strategy through language diplomacy which encouraged closer affinity and were so classified as Anglophone/Francophone Colonies until the attainment of self-rule or independence!

A cursory glance at the map of Africa will reveal startling facts that virtually all countries of the black continent were at one time or the other (apart from Ethiopia and Liberia), colonized/enslaved by some superior forces! Their fears were not misplaced after all in view of the present trend of the economic battle for the SOUL OF AFRICA - but this time around, MUST not be by foreign predators or taskmasters, BUT by equal project partners working together to achieve mutual economic goals beneficial to both sides. 

Nigeria' foreign policy of non-alignment since independence would surely give the nation a comfortable leverage to chose its friends or allies with the good leadership already exhibited by MR. INTEGRITY, President Muhammadu Buhari! "A stitch in time saves nine"!

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.

NIGERIA COULD EXIT ALL EMBARRASSING DEBTS IF IMPUNITY WASTAGES ARE BLOCKED!

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. 8.NO 323. 20th October, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIA COULD EXIT ALL EMBARRASSING DEBTS IF IMPUNITY WASTAGES ARE BLOCKED!

Antagonists who believed that Nigeria's 2020 Budget and subsequent ones would be very difficult to implement, have hinged their unfounded fears/arguments on three planks, that unless issues of debt management: i.e. external indebtedness/debt servicing, internal borrowings and the controversial petroleum products subsidy, are completely resolved favourably, the country might encounter another economic recession, whereas, these challenges have been adequately addressed in the Mid- Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), and the annexed Financial Document, which were submitted earlier by Executive to the National Assembly! 

The Federal Government is aware that all of the budgets from 2019-2023, MUST serve as legal testaments that MUST be cast in iron to prove the credibility of the Change Administration of EIGHT consecutive years, because 2015-2018 budgets had served as the FOUNDATION STONES on which APC's legacies MUST be solidly built for posterity to judge the administration of the man who contested FOUR TIMES to occupy the much-coveted seat of the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria - the man, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR!

For the painstaking an discerning minds, the contentious issues which were meticulously addressed even when the Minister of Finance, recently addressed the media in respect of the breakdown, should no longer attract any further condemnation because Internally-Generated-Revenues (IGR's), should exceed budget assumptions especially as the crude oil bench mark at US$60 dollars and the Nigerian Customs Service, with the advantage of the closed borders should rake in higher quarterly revenues (which stood at N 311.2 billion, as at the end of the First Quarter  of 2019), while Onne Port, Area 2 and Tin Can Island Port Commands have also reported a total of N81.1 billion naira, and N78.8 bn respectively (as at the end of the First and Third Quarters of 2019, respectively), to reduce the impact of debt-servicing and borrowings and mitigate deficits!
It is also very important to note that exploration, exploitation and extraction of the natural mineral deposits (available in large quantities in all States of the Federation), are being aggressively addressed and intensified by both the Federal and State Governments and through a concerted effort of bringing everybody (the locals and their foreign partners on board), revenues from this Sector, would exceed that of Crude Oil, in a very short while!
Fuel subsidy would eventually be cancelled when:
The nation is flooded with Refineries and petroleum products were no longer imported;
All forms of oil bunkering eliminate;
Road networks across the nation are in perfect conditions;
Public transportation of air, rail, roads and water ways are modern and digital like in other climes between 2019 and 2021.

DID NIGERIA BORROW MORE IN THREE YEARS THAN IN 30 YEARS?
It is not true that Nigeria borrowed more in the last 3 years than it did in 30 years! That must surely be part of the grand plan to discredit the Change Administration because, the nation's new attempt at democracy is only 20 years now -1999-2019!
Between 1999-2005, Nigeria's total foreign debt was US$35.916 billion when ex-President Obasanjo, successfully negotiated with the PARIS CLUB CREDITORS, to pay back in monetary transaction - the sum of US$18 billion dollars while the rest was forgiven?  When Obasanjo exited office in 2007, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held sway as the ruling party and accrued fresh debts to the tune of US$63.806 billion dollars by 2015, when it handed over to the APC which won the Presidential election! Nigeria's total foreign debt as at March, 2019, was US$ 68.4 billion dollars and nominal GDP reached US$114 billion dollars as at June, 2019!

Is the ruling party borrowing to pay salaries? No! All borrowings are channelled towards CAPITAL PROJECTS/INFRASTRUCTURES that are people-oriented and are identifiable unlike what transpired in past administrations!
It is a welcome development that the President had ordered a probe into the accounts of NNDC which had gulped trillions of naira from 2001-2018, with barely any tangible infrastructures to show for it!

THE TRUTH ABOUT NIGERIA'S DEBT BURDEN & EARNINGS!
Vice President, Prof. 'Yemi Osinbajo, said on 27th October, 2018, Nigeria's debt was US$73 billion dollars - a $N10 billion dollar increase from the N63 billion dollars, the APC Administration inherited in 2015, at the 9th Public Lecture of Sigma Club, at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, South West, Nigeria. He further said that the nation's debt in 2010, was US$ $35bn dollars; 2011, $41 bn dollars; 2012, $48bn dollars; 2013, $64 bn dollars; 2014, $67.7bn dollars; 2015, $63.8bn dollars; 2016, $57.8bn dollars; 2017, $70bn dollars; 2018, $73 bn dollars!

UNDISPUTED EARNING FIGURES DURING THE OIL-BOOM ERA ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1990-1998, a period of 8 years, $119.8 bn dollars; 1999-2009, a period of 10 years, $481bn dollars; and 2010-2014, a period of 4 years, $381bn dollars! Total earnings by PDP Administration between 1999-2015, was, US $ 862bn dollars in 16 years!

OUR POSTULATION: MULTIPLY US$ 862 bn dollars with an aggregate forex rate of N160 naira per dollar and get a whooping N137.920 trillion! DIVIDE this figure by 16 and get N8.62 trillion per annum earning, while annual BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS, never exceeded N4.5 trillion ($22.6 bn dollars), as per the 2015 Budget figures submitted to the National Assembly by ex-President Ebele Jonathan, before his exit! NOW, DEDUCT N4.5 trillion naira from N8.26 trillion, you get a balance of N4.21 trillion!! FELLOW NIGERIANS, WHERE DID THE MONEY DISAPPEAR? IS THE 3-YEAR-DEBT OF BUHARI MORE THAN THE 30 YEARS DEBTS OF THE MILITARY JUNTA/PDP PUT TOGETHER? YOU BE THE JUDGE!

OUR RECOMMENDATIONS: BLOCK ALL WASTAGES IN BOTH THE EXECUTIVE AND THE LEGISLATURE!
News have it that the President is taking measures to look into areas of wastages in government, beginning with the dispensing of ESTACODES (foreign exchange allowances paid to top public officers who travel overseas for official duties), many of who travel Business Class, which ripped off government coffers in millions of US dollars annually! Mr. President should not scratch the surface of the War Against Corruption in this SECOND AND LAST TERM, but ensure to keep his integrity intact by going the whole hog!

He should beam his searchlight on the following areas of wastages/leakages urgently:
All bogus, humongous, fraudulent allowances by the TWO ARMS - especially the LEGISLATURE! N5.5 billion for legislators exotic vehicles MUST be stopped - they should purchase locally- manufactured vehicles from INNOSON MOTORS!
Budget padding MUST not be allowed - not ever again - enough is enough! HOR Member Jibril Abdul Mumini's confessions of this heinous crime by the citizens representatives are still in the public domain!
ONE LEGISLATURE IS SUFFICIENT FOR NIGERIA! - (a) We members of the editorial board of the Zion B-BC Newsletter began the campaign and advocacy since 2013, and we have never stopped whoever cared to listen that, parliamentary duties should NOT only be on PART-TIME but that each State of the Federation and the FCT, should produce TWO representatives each - totalling 74 Certified Citizens, who would distinguish themselves righteously!
THE SENATE MUST BE SCRAPPED! It is long overdue for the upper house of the NASS to be locked and its keys thrown into River Niger! Nigeria's Senate of the of the FOURTH REPUBLIC from 1999, had served - with very few exceptions - as a CONFLUENCE OF GREEDY POLITICIANS (discredited ex-governors, expired civil servants, ex-Commissioners/Ministers, political jobbers, etc), who are sworn enemies of downtrodden masses who neither voted for them nor were even aware of their representation, to date!
Apart from a regular annual N150 billion for their allowances, they would always manoeuvre the Constitutional duty of oversight to corner huge sums of money as CONSTITUENCY ALLOWANCES illegally to swell their insatiable appetites for the love of money at the expense of the masses who die every day in the hands of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers etc,  and always had the guts to label Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world with 100 million who could hardly afford a meal per day, over 60% youth unemployment, over 13 million out-of-school children who roam the streets etc!

THE ADVOCACY IS GAINNING MOMENTUM!  The argument that the President could not wake up one morning and annul the Sections of the Constitution that established the SENATE is very untenable! HOW LONG DID IT TAKE THE 7TH/8TH NASS TO PASS ABOUT 48 BILLS WHEN IT WAS CONVENIENT TO FAKE LEGISLATIVE PERFORMANCES? ANSWER: ONE DAY!!

President Buhari MUST make the bold move with the support of all patriotic citizens, send an EXECUTIVE BILL FOR THE SCRAPPING OF THE SENATE LIKE HIS SENEGALESE COUNTERPART WHOSE COUNTRY IS NOT FACING EMBARRASSING FOREIGN DEBTS and whose country is relatively at peace with a virtually contented citizenry! IF LEGISLATORS would not co-operate, the President could call for a REFERENDUM TO DECIDE THE ISSUE ONCE AND FOR ALL!

We are sure that all monies that would be saved from wastages from all of the above sources would be more than sufficient to take care of all INDEBTEDNESS, place Nigeria on a very sound economic footing and NIGERIANS WOULD DEFINITELY FORGET THE PAST, MOVE FORWARD AND SUPPORT LEADERS WHO WOULD EMERGE AS HEROES OF THIS OVERDUE PURGE OF A CORRUPTED NATION!
LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL ELECTED POLITICIANS, POLITICAL APPOINTEES AND PUBLIC OFFICER- ESPECIALLY THE PROFESSIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS, THAT NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STEAL ONE KOBO FROM THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), BECAUSE ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED TO MONITOR, LIKE THE CCTV CAMERAS, & ENSURE THAT ALL DEPOSITS/WITHDRAWALS WERE LEGAL AND THAT NO ILLEGAL TRANSACTIONS WOULD EVER BE ALLOWED!
‘’And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword’’ (Lev 26:8).

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.

IN THE ASSUMED IMPERFECTION OF THE 2020 BUDGET, LIES ITS STRENGTH!

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. 8.NO 322. 13th October, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

IN THE ASSUMED IMPERFECTION OF THE 2020 BUDGET, LIES ITS STRENGTH!

The 2020 Budget of Sustaining Growth and Job Creation was not so christened just for the sake of grammatical expression nor for appending a nomenclature but was a deliberate thought that speaks volumes of its righteous intentions to succour all patriotic citizens who must now enjoy sure dividends of sound democracy!

In four years and four months of the Change mantra, the nation went through the travail of the gold, silver or precious stone that must be baptized by the fuller's furnace to discard all dross in other to  come out shinning and attractive for more valuable commercialization!

Going down the memory lane from 2015 when there was a change of guards, Nigerians cannot easily forget the chaotic social insecurity, an economy at the brink of recession coupled with an almost empty treasury that was bequeathed to the victorious All Progressives Congress (APC), which won the general elections in spite of the advantageous power of incumbency of 16 years by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)! Nigerians bore the pains and pangs during those years of economic hardship coupled with large scale insecurity which escalated with Boko Haram insurgency/terrorism in the North East, herdsmen/farmers clashes in the North Central and all forms of crimes and criminalities especially kidnappings across the nation AND still voted for continuity because they believed in the sincerity and faithfulness of the incumbent captain of the ship!
At several stages, the people had to bear scarcity of petroleum products - premium motor spirit (petrol), and kerosene, which became incessant an unbearable until the pump price was raised from N87.00 to N145.00 and did not protest - even when the organised labour incensed them; because of a determined resolution to support the new administration to block all loopholes created through the notorious and very infuriating scam called, "petroleum subsidy"! The President said at the 2020 Budget Presentation that good governance, inclusive growth and collective prosperity could only be sustained in an environment of peace and security. We could not agree more!

ECONOMIC PALLIATIVES IN THE 2020 BUDGET FOR ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS!
The 2020 Budget is the panacea to those several years of sufferings as it will provide the following palliatives:
Unlimited opportunities for all farmers, industrialists, manufacturers to freely sell their products - locally and internationally since local borders closure had provided the leverage! Prior to this period, the Nigerian market had been suffocated with foreign agricultural produce/goods from neighbouring West African countries to the detriment of Made-In-Nigerian products!
All farm produce and locally-manufactured products will continue to be exempted from the Value Added Tax (VAT), regime - which percentage should not be increased but closely monitored by faithful/righteous personnel with integrity.
The very rich and affluent should be made to pay more tax to alleviate poverty from the land!
The CBN cashless policy/banks charges and commissions should maintain status quo MUST not affect deposits/withdrawals of the 40% bank-friendly citizens to avoid heavy deposits in SEPTIC TANKS!
Education/Health's seemingly low appropriations will receive greater boost through allocations to Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), aside of their N48 billion/N46 billion, budget figures, and in true perspectives, these headings are not the exclusive responsibility of the Federal Government, which takes care of only TERTIARY LEVELS while the 774 Local Government Areas, the 36 STATES of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), take care of the PRIMARY & SECONDARY levels of Education/Health!
All ongoing capital projects (roads, bridges, etc,), will be prioritized and completed  while it is planned that 16 roads and bridges would be added to existing ones to boost transportation of agricultural products from the rural to urban markets in commercial acceleration for gains and profits!
Outside of income (direct/indirect), taxes, government would lay greater emphasis on Internally Generated Revenue (IGRs), from agriculture, solid minerals, tourism, film industry etc, while it is strongly believed that the status quo of 5% VAT which would accrue at least a whooping N 4.7 trillion, (at GDP's 78%-80% of consumption expenditure), or more, if properly monitored by righteous agents of government, be maintained for sure results.
A general overview of the budget of Sustaining Growth and Job Creation reflects a determination by government to build on existing gains of the 1.9% economic growth and further reduce inflation rate to the barest minimum because its appropriation was evenly spread to touch all aspects of the mandatory social-economic activities of the people and simultaneously inculcate the culture of patronage of local products!

PDP CONTRACTED ECONOMISTS & SENATE MINORITY LEADER CONDEMN 2020 BUDGET!
But the PDP opposition detractors and their hired economists had never stopped to condemn the best of APC policies, and the 2020 Budget was not an exception!
They believed that the new budget was incompetent because debt servicing had swallowed one quarter of N10.33 trillion; that a large chunk would also go into recurrent, without considering the inclusiveness of the approved N30, 000, National Minimum Wage; while they also condemned the N2.4 trillion which would be borrowed to fund part of the budget assumptions - when compared with the 2019 figures!  They also criticized the N3.32 billion allocated for foreign/local travels for the President and his Vice, which they believed was on the high side forgetting the high premium benefits that have accrued over the years to establish Nigeria as the economic destination of both Africa and the world!
Debt servicing/finance borrowing is global trend as no country, not even the United States of America, can even be self-sufficient without borrowing! For instance, the US Federal Budget deficit for fiscal year 2020, is $1.10 trillion, which occurred because government spending of $4.75 trillion, is higher than its revenue of $3.65 trillion! According to the report, US Fiscal Year 2019 Budget created a $1.09 trillion deficit!

BUHARI IS DETERMINED TO RESTORE BUDGET CYCLE!
UNTIL Tuesday 8th October, 2019, when President Buhari presented the earliest annual budget in recent times to the joint session of the 9th National Assembly (NASS), his APC Change Administration, found it very difficult to revert to the constitutional budget cycle of January to December calendar, courtesy of an inherited unfaithful Civil Service and an inordinately ambitious hostile Legislature which held sway between 2015-2019!
Apart from a total sum of N8.156 trillion estimated as IGRs in 2020, a finance Bill which proposed the controversial increase of VAT from 5%-7.5%, was also attached to the budget proposal on the assumption that a revenue estimate was expected from that source to partly fund the 2020 Budget.

FRESH COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATURE!
The two chambers have swung into action and are currently discussing the general principles of the 2020 Budget assumptions and would soonest, commence a second reading before breaking into Committees which will then invite officials of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), to defend the figures appropriated to them!
They have also promised the nation that, by the special grace of God, they would complete all deliberations on the new budget and pass it before they proceeded on break in December in order to restore the constitutional budget cycle of January to December!

IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2020 BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS!
Total budget estimate is, N10.33 trillion or US.$33.8 billion dollars;
Capital expenditure, N721.33bn, which is 23% less than 2019 allocation;
Internally-generated Revenue (IGR), N8.155 trillion, to comprise (a) oil revenues, N2.64 trillion; (b) non-oil tax revenues of N1.81 trillion, plus other revenues of N3.7 trillion;
Debt Servicing, N2.45 trillion, about one quarter of the total budget;
Economic Growth of 1.9%.
Oil Benchmark: US$57 dollars per barrel;
Daily Oil Production, N2.18 million barrels per day (mbpd);
Foreign Exchange Rate, N305 naira per US dollar and
Budget deficit is projected at N2.18 trillion,

Others are, STATUTORY TRANSFERS: NASS, N125 billion; Judiciary, N110 billion; North East Development Commission (NEDC), N110 billion; Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCP) N44.5billion; Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), N11.79 billion; Niger Delta Development Commission, N80.88 billion (now under the supervision of the Ministry of the Niger Delta Affairs.

NON-DEBT RECURRENT EXPENDITURE: Personnel Costs, N3.6 trillion, an increase of N620.28 billion over 2019 Budget - to cater for the new national minimum wage as well as for an improved welfare package to the Armed Forces and Police; and an Overhead Costs projected at N462.6 billion.

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE: Capital projects were allocated N2.46trillion ( which embodied Statutory Transfers of N318.06 billion), but at 24% of aggregate expenditure, this provision falls short of the 30% recommended in the ERGP of 2017-2020. Other key capital expenditures include but not limited, to: Works and Housing, N262 billion; Power, N127 billion; Transportation, N123 billion; Defence N110 billion; Water Resources: N82 billion; Agriculture & Rural Development, N83 billion; Interior, N35 billion; Zonal Intervention Projects, N100 billion; Social Investment Programmes, N30 billion; Federal Capital Territory (FCT), N28 billion; Industry Trade and Investment, N40 billion; etc, etc.
WILL THE NEW NASS BE A RUBBER STAMP IN VIEW OF PROMISE TO RE-ACTIVATE BUDGET CYCLE? NO! BECAUSE GBAJABIAMILA SAYS: NASS HAS AUTHORITY OVER THE PURSE AND WILL BE VERY THOROUGH IN OVERSIGHT! WHAT'S THE INFERENCE?
PAST APC EXECUTIVE BUDGETS WERE ALWAYS PRESENTED LATE AND DELIBERATELY DELAYED BY THE PDP-LED NASS - NOT EARLIER THAN JUNE OF EACH YEAR - BUT THAT WOULD SOON BECOME A THING OF THE PAST! "Where there is a WILL, there, certainly will be a WAY!

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.

TAX, TAX AND MORE TAXES: MUST GOVERNMENT RIDE A WILLING HORSE TO DEATH?

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. 8.NO 321. 6th October, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

TAX, TAX AND MORE TAXES: MUST GOVERNMENT RIDE A WILLING HORSE TO DEATH?

[In commemoration of Nigeria’s 59th Independence Anniversary.]

It is true that the Nigerian government is backed by law to collect taxes from its citizens for the purpose of fulfilling social contracts in governance but the legal document did not insinuate in any form that official taxation should be exploitative or punitive against the governed!

With the recent flurry of fresh taxation of virtually every aspect of social life: first, it was the government's plan to increase Value Added Tax (VAT), from 5% - 7.2%, because Nigeria's VAT levy was the lowest in the world! But the protagonists of the new tax drive did not bother to carry out painstaking researches to discover the enormous economic advantages that accrued to the citizens in climes with higher VAT! With the current 5% VAT regime, can past and present administrations point to any benefits that have accrued to vast majority of the populace of which government is the sole beneficiary?

A value added tax (VAT), is a consumption tax placed on a product whenever value is added at each stage of the supply chain, from production to the point of sale. The amount of VAT that the user pays is on the cost of the product, less any of the costs of materials used in the product that have already been taxed. 

In Nigeria, VAT is payable on goods and services consumed by private concerns, business entrepreneurs, government agencies etc! However, some agricultural produce/fertilizer, pharmaceutical/medical equipments, including commercial vehicles/ spare parts, diplomatic baggage, etc, were exempted from VAT!

NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF NEW VAT REGIME!
The fact remains that although government would enjoy buoyant revenue to cater for various strategic infrastructures and other special intervention programmes through the tax increments if such funds were managed by righteous officials; but on the other hand, products and services that are not VAT exempted would attract serious inflation that would further deflate the purse/purchasing power of the average income earner as they would purchase what they could only afford! By implication, the formal sector of the economy - especially the SMSE's will suffer significant patronage which in turn will be counter- productive for an economy which is consumption-driven!

An Investment Researcher, Mr Robert Omotunde, in a radio interactive programme, stated that Nigeria's GDP as at 2018, stood at 78% of consumption expenditure adding that if government taxed that percentage at 5% VAT, the country should have earned N4.7 trillion in VAT, but that it got only N 1.2 trillion instead!  It is obvious that the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) should waste no time to advise the President against the imminent danger posed through the proposed VAT increase as it would produce human vultures ready to predate the common patrimony!
Nigeria should expand its TAX NET to the RICH and the AFFLUENT and also to non-oil revenue base in order to spare the poor masses of further economic agonies!

TAX SHOCKER FROM CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)!
And while the organized Labour Unions/masses, Civil Society Organizations/NGO's who hold the short end of the stick expressed resentment and outright condemnation over the proposal, a SECOND SALVO was released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through a tax shopping list which would fleece the 40% bank-friendly citizens through new tariffs on deposits/withdrawals - manual or electronic transactions at unbelievable percentages! According to Governor Godwin Emefiele, CBN's new policy on increased tax collections was introduced to ensure greater financial inclusion for increased economic growth and that only 5% of bank customers would be affected! Is CBN not contradicting its CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PORTFOLIO?

LEGISLATIVE INTERVENTION SHOULD HOLD SWAY NOW!
From all indications, it is very unlikely that the Senate which must review the VAT Act Cap VI LFN2004 (as amended), would assent the planned increase by government in order to avert further hardship on the meagre income of the poor masses, in spite of the fact that the Federal Executive Council (FEC), meeting of 11 September 2019, approved the increase for its consideration! In Nigeria, governments at Federal and State levels, are empowered to tax several items, commodities and services as stipulated under Legislative Powers of the Second Schedule - Parts I & II - Exclusive/Concurrent Lists. There are 68 "controversial" items on the exclusive list under the purview of the Federal Government and Sections A-L in Part II, which are exercisable by both Federal and States Government.
* The National Minimum Wage was yet to be implemented nationally - except by Kaduna State which paid its workers the agreed amount at the end of September, 2019! WHY PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE BY FORCING ADDITIONAL VAT AT THIS AUSTERE TIME?
* Who would VAT favour - rich or poor? Definitely, the RICH who have more than sufficient funds to shop anywhere all the time!
* Must government become taxaholic on the poor masses rather than the rich and the affluent who are pathetic tax dodgers and tax evaders? NO!

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 states without ambiguity in Chapter II Section 2 (a) (b) (c), as follows: (a) " sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives its powers and authority." We will stop there for brevity!
Section 24 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) & (f), of the same Chapter also clearly spelt out Duties of the Citizens; but for the purpose of this work, we will restrict our analysis to (f), which specifically urged the citizen: "to declare his income honestly to appropriate and lawful agencies pay his tax promptly." Are the Nigerian affluent TAX-FRIENDLY? NO!

THE GREATEST ASSET OF ANY NATION IS ITS PEOPLE!
Nigeria is not an exception to this global conception which classifies the people as power house, engine room, workforce, the golden goose that lays the golden eggs etc, etc; from whom governments derive not only their POWER but also their LEGITIMACY and MUST therefore handle them with the greatest care and treat them with utmost respect and dignity! Governments should never forget that a people could make or mar the nation's development, peace, economy etc, depending on the kind of leadership that navigates the ship and the economic team at the helm of affairs!

TAX DRIVE NET SHOULD BE SPREAD TO CATCH MILLIONS OF RICH EVADERS!
Statistics have proved that only 40% of Nigerian taxable adults actually fulfil this constitutional obligation, while the very rich and wealthy form the bulk of evaders whether it is direct or indirect! DESIGNATED CONSTITUTIONAL TAXES: VARIOUS FORMS OF TAXES IN NIGERIA - INCOME TAX, VAT, BANK TAXES, COMPANY TAX, ROAD TAX, PORTS TAX, ETC, SHOULD NOT BURDEN THE POOR ALONE!
*WHAT ABOUT THE PROPOSED RE-INTRODUCTION OF TOLL GATES ON FEDERAL HIGHWAYS WHICH WOULD BE  COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE AND TANTAMOUNT TO DESTRUCTION OF THE GAINS AGAINST CORRUPTION, KIDNAPPINGS, ARMED ROBBERIES, VIOLENCE, BLOODSHED AND TERRORISM IN NIGERIA?
*MULTIPLE TAXES BY FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS IN NIGERIA MUST BE ABOLISHED BY THE BRAND NEW ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL (EAC)!
*SIX NIGERIAN BILLIONAIRES CAN ERADICATE POVERTY IN THE NATION! Whistle Blowers should come to our rescue and fish them out! After all, they made their billions from this great country!
*CAUSES FOR DESPERATE TAXATION; DEFECTIVE CONSTITUTION, SOURCING OF MONTHLY FUNDS FROM FEDERATION ACCOUNT BY STATES; DELIBERATE REFUSAL BY GOVERNORS TO GENERATE FUNDS INTERNALLY (IGR's); FAILURE TO EXPLORE & EXPLOIT NATURAL RESOURCES THROUGH EXTRACTION - OUTSIDE OF CRUDE OIL!
*AJAOKUTA STEEL INDUSTRY, KOGI STATE – ESTABLISHED IN 1979, HAS BEEN ABANDONED UNTIL THE VERY RECENT RUSSIAN INTERVENTION – WHICH HAS REQUESTED FOR URGENT ESTABLISHMENT OF A SEA PORT AT LOKOJA, NIGER STATE AND RAIL LINES TO TRANSPORT HEAVY IRON PRODUCTS FROM THE PLANT TO OTHER LOCATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES AND EXPORT!
*ALL EFFORTS MUST BE HARNESSED BY FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS TO GENERATE FUNDS FROM NATURAL RESOURCES IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THE POOR MASSES FROM TAX OVER-BURDEN!

CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER!          
New Tax ID: FG directs CBN, others to synergise with the Joint Tax Board. The Federal Government has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Interbank Settlement System, the National Identity Management Commission to cooperate with the Joint Tax Board in the release of relevant individual records! What does this mean to the Nigerian taxable adult? The end of multiple taxation on his meagre take-home-pay is in sight!
WHO SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI'S APC GOVERNMENT IS NOT ON COURSE? When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. (Prov 29:2)

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.

NIGERIANS HAD SUFFERED INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION THROUGH PERPETUAL BAD LEADERSHIP!

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. 8.NO 320. 29th September, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIANS HAD SUFFERED INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION THROUGH PERPETUAL BAD LEADERSHIP!

Institutional corruption in Nigeria deepened during the military junta of late General Sanni Abacha, whose administration in 1994 embarked on a gargantuan plan to shore up the Oil and Gas Upstream Sector through the construction of the Bonny Island Natural Liquefied Gas Project but became scandalous when bribe monies exchanged hands to influence speedy inflation of contract cost to about $6 billion US dollars by officials of the contractee - a US-based crude oil drilling consortium group of companies - known as HALLIBURTON, which area of specialty was drilling services.

Many public figures including legal practitioners were fingered to have collected large sums of US dollars running into $182 million, of bribe monies but not one person had been prosecuted till date while their US counterparts, including top government officials who benefitted in the scandalous deals were promptly arraigned, found guilty, fined or sentenced to prison accordingly, and made to forfeit their loots which were more than $150 million!

The consensus of public opinion is that the dearth of good leadership had been the bane of the Nigerian masses who continuously lived in POVERTY in the midst of PLENTY, even during Obasanjo/Yar'Adua/Jonathan administrations!

When President Buhari came on board, he made some efforts to re-open the Halliburton case and prosecute anyone indicted and while Nigerians are patiently, another foreign Irish company, P&ID, is about to scandalously steal a big chunk of Nigeria's patrimony to the tune of $9.6 billion US dollars by hook or crook through legal gymnastics!

THE FOREIGN P&ID SCARE!
It is however gratifying to note the haste and urgency with which President Muhammadu Buhari, assembled a team of high-level legal experts, professional/crack law-enforcement chief executives and top-notch technocrats, to aggressively confront the World Press and British Business arbitration Courts, to appeal a controversial and unacceptable $9.6 billion-dollar judgement in favour of a virtually faceless portfolio investment firm, which was poised to fleece the nation of its life-long critical assets!

Like a jolt out of the blues, Nigeria came under the threat of a foreign company, known and addressed as, Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), which was in August 2019, granted leave by the UK's Business and Property Courts to enforce a 2013 award against Nigeria by a three-member arbitration tribunal which relied on the Arbitration Act 1996 (England and Wales and the Nigerian Arbitration and Conciliation Act 2004).

P&ID had instituted legal action against the Federal Government to claim that amount of money which represented a huge chunk of nation's foreign reserves, when plans were the highest peak for Nigeria to take an exalted place among the 20 most-economically-viable global countries, by the year 2020!

At the head of the Nigerian delegation was, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, supported by the Inspector General of Police, Chairman of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Minister of Information and Culture, Governor of the Central Bank Godwin Emefuele and a host of lawyers, which did not waste time to place the nation's side of the story in proper perspective to the entire world and within four working days, secured, a stay of execution over the said botched contract judgement!

The very refreshing breaking news filtered from London on Thursday, 26th, September 2019, that a UK Commercial Court Judge granted Nigeria's request to stay execution of a  2013 judgement which favoured Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), to seize Nigeria's assets worth $9.6 billion US dollars over a Wet Gas contract breach! However, Nigeria will have to deposit a security sum of $200 million US dollars, to the court within the next sixty days a sum which the country's lawyer said was comparable to the budget of the Nigerian Navy.
Prior to this development, concerned Nigerian citizens - at home and the Diaspora, became jittery following a sudden move by the Irish Gas Company to execute the said judgement which could have swallowed about 20% of Nigeria's foreign reserves with unpleasant consequences to the nation's economy and government's social contracts, according to Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed!

In 2010, P&ID approached a UK Business and Property Court for arbitration over the breach of the Gas contract award and eventually got the controversial judgement in 2013, for an award of payment for damages in the sum of $6.6 billion dollars, by two members of the Tribunal, while the third member, (a Nigerian Judge), ruled that the petitioner deserved not more than $250 million dollars! Nigerians are yet to be informed about the entire process that led to the judgement which was not appealed by the Nigerian legal team (if any), since then!

WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN 2010 AND 2019?
The 2010 controversial contract was awarded to the Irish Portfolio Investment Company, incorporated in the British Virgin Island, by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administration headed by President Ebele Jonathan, and from all narratives, the contract was shrouded in much secrecy within the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Towers where it was signed, sealed and delivered without the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC)! Although the Change Administration of APC under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, took over governance in 2015, not much of the said botched contract and judgement in favour of P&ID was revealed in the public domain until now!
WHO INTRODUCED P&ID TO NIGERIA? Investigations are still on to unravel how the foreigners infiltrated Nigeria's economic space!
WHO ARE THEIR NIGERIAN PARTNERS & BOARD MEMBERS? None!
WHERE IS THEIR HEAD OFFICE LOCATION AND BRANCH OUTLETS IN NIGERIA? General T. Y. Danjuma's Offices in Taraba & Abuja?
WHAT WAS THEIR STAFF STRENGTH IN NIGERIA IN 2010? No staff outside Messrs.Michael Quinn & Brendan Cahill, who allegedly stole the Gas Contract IDEA from retired General T. Y. Danjuma!

DOES P&ID POSSESS ANY TRACK RECORD IN PROCESS/DEVELOPMENT? The company's website claims that it is an engineering and project management company led by a Michael Quinn & Brendan Cahill, who had over 30 years experience of project management and execution in Nigeria!
WHAT LEGAL STEPS DID THEY PURSUE IN NIGERIA BEFORE APPROACHING THE UK BUSINESS & PROPERTY COURT? The whole process looked like a premeditated plot between some Nigerians in position of authority and those foreigners who virtually had no identifiable critical assets in Nigeria! So it was convenient for them to institute legal action outside of Nigeria shores - a conversant terrain where they could influence judgement in their favour!

WAS NIGERIA SUBPOENAED? DID NIGERIA HAVE A LEGAL TEAM AT THE HEARINGS? YES!
WAS IT TRUE THAT P&ID PROCURED THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OF A NIGERIAN EX-CHIEF JUSTICE TO FLEECE NIGERIA? YES? OR YES!
WHISTLE BLOWERS MUST WAKE UP! NIGERIANS MUST MONITOR AND "FOLLOW THE MONEY"!

CONCLUSIONS: Nigerian delegation must not leave any stone unturned! They must be thorough and win the case against foreign invasion on Nigeria's economy! Outside of Police and EFCC, NASS should institute an ad-hoc committee to investigate and add flesh and unravel all mysteries surrounding the botched contract!
P&ID was ready to settle for $850 million dollars on May 3, 2016! What informed the change of heart and why was their no response from Nigerian Government'? Nigerians must know the whole Truth! Former Defence Minister retired military General, T.Y. Danjuma, who has claimed previous association an intimacy with P&ID, through past business consultancy, would definitely be an asset to the urgent inquiry that must be instituted by President Muhammadu Buhari NOW! TODAY!

All culprits - local and foreign must be brought to justice while Siemens and Halliburton fraudulent scandals must also be re-visited that TRUTH may prevail and justice may be meted on all culprits involved!

This battle against foreign predators and their Nigerian collaborators over the citizens common patrimony must be won fair and square! Corruption in all its ramifications must die completely and buried in this year 2019 without fail for a brand new economically-viable and flawless country to emerge!

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.

OSINBAJO IS A CATALYST, TESTED, CERTIFIED & ABOVE POLITICS OF CALUMNY!

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. 8.NO 319. 22nd September, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

OSINBAJO IS A CATALYST, TESTED, CERTIFIED & ABOVE POLITICS OF CALUMNY!

TWO strategic economic thrusts in the month of August, 2019, by President Buhari: first, declaration of Nigeria's attainment of food security/immediate ban on forex allocation for food importation through the Central Bank of Nigeria (on the 13th), ; and second, partial closure of the nation's northern border with Benin Republic due to massive smuggling activities, especially of rice (on the 20th), were no doubt, positive ideas of government to boost patronage of locally-made products; and which the newly inaugurated Economic Advisory Council (EAC), must advantageously employ as a starting point to further deepen the execution of the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP)!
The body will be required to advise the President on economic policy matters, fiscal analysis, economic growth and a range of internal and global economic issues in collaboration with relevant cabinet members and head of monetary and fiscal agencies and will report directly to the executive President unlike the disbanded Economic Monitoring Team (EMT), chaired by the Vice President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, with a view to achieving quicker implementation and eliminate bureaucratic bottlenecks in this second and last term of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)!
Although, the EMT under Osinbajo's watch performed creditably, in spite of the self-inflicted economic recession foisted on the nation by the failed PDP 16 years of woeful administrations, ulterior motives have been adduced to the President's move by government detractors who believed that Osinbajo was being sidelined by the Presidency "cabal" which would not want him to succeed his principal in 2023!

VP Osinbajo is constitutionally Chairman of the National Economic Council, current Chairman of the Governing Board of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA); National Boundary Commission, the Border Communities Development Agencies and the Niger Delta Holding Company - a limited liability company owned by the three tiers of government; but it was being alleged that the President was planning to strip him also of his brain-child passion known as the Special Intervention Programmes (SIP), which comprises of the Trader Money Scheme; N-Power/School Feeding programmes and others, while some of Oshinbajo's aides had been transferred out of Presidential Villa and seconded to MDA's!

All of the welfare programmes previously under the VP's purview/supervision are expected to be transferred to the newly-created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, headed by Sadiya Umar Faruk, according to the allegations!

Without losing sight of the President's core mission to provide adequate security, actualize successful economy and destroy institutional corruption, this second term aggressive moves within three months of inauguration could safely be interpreted to mean only one thing; a determined General who MUST win the battle at all costs by deploying his arsenals in the right directions under a unified command! The Presidency is ONE, because both the President and his Vice were elected with ONE TICKET!

TEMPORARY BORDER CLOSURE IS YIELDING POSITIVE RESULTS!
Nigerian borders were not normally shut except for very logical reasons which have to do with all forms of sabotage that border on infiltration of the economy: through illegal importation/exportation of foods, beverages, goods/services; or with security: smuggling of dangerous weapons, illegal immigration, terrorism or external war! The Federal Government was not unmindful of economic saboteurs, whose sole ambition was selfish aggrandizement through illicit trades and gains in collaboration with unfaithful ECOWAS neighbours  and was poised to destroy their structures/cartels where they existed by destabilizing all their nefarious activities with the combined efforts of security agents at the land border posts, sea and air ports!

The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), bloc which could not call its saboteurs to order, were mostly concerned with the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Act of which Nigeria is a signatory rather than the welfare and economic prosperity of the Nigerian people whose fundamental rights were being trampled upon through the criminal dumping of banned foreign goods and products on the nation! They strongly believed that Buhari's stringent measures would not prevent smugglings into Nigeria but insisted, through its Parliament for the re-opening of the borders which had remained shut for over TWO MONTHS and promised to support a co-ordinated fight against the menace! But President Buhari told a delegation of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), on Friday, 20th September, 2019, in Abuja that the border closure was yielding positive results/dividends!

THE EAC MEMBERS ARE SEASONED AND GLOBAL-QUOTED AND TESTED ECONOMISTS!
The Chairman of the 7-member Presidential Economic Advisory Council is Prof. 'Doyin Salami and Dr. Mohammed Sagagi, Vice Chairman; Dr. Mohammed Salisu, Secretary; other members of the crack economic team are Prof.Charles Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the CBN; Mr. Bismack Rewane, a renowned business economist,; Mr. Ode Ojowu, a former presidential chief economic adviser; Iyabo Masha, former International Monetary Fund (IMF), Country Representative for Sierra Leone. Though not recognised by the Constitution, EAC will influence the President to take immediate and decisive actions this time around. They will hold monthly technical sessions as well as scheduled quarterly meetings with the President but the chairman could meet with Mr. President at short notice over pressing/urgent matters!

URGENT EXPECTATIONS FROM EAC!
According to a Public Finances Analyst, Mr. Olusegun Lemo, Nigerians would expect the new advisory body to urgently analyse current indices in respect of fiscal/monetary policies as they affect the economy viz: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), rate @ 2.85%, annual GDP growth @ 1.94%; unemployment rate @ 23.1%, inflation @ 11%; interest rate that the CBN recently held @13.5%, cash reserve ratio @ 22.5%, and Public Finances Crude Oil is $70 bpd. in order to shore up revenue that would address the masses unfriendly TWO DIGITS ratings of unemployment, inflation and interest rates to enable government to lift 100million Nigerians out of poverty annually from 2019 and in subsequent years ahead, since government administration is a continuum!

TWO OTHER SWEEPING CHANGES IN QUICK SUCCESSION!
Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita was suspended indefinitely on 19th September, 2019; for her to be investigated over allegation of over a bank account deposit of N3 billion naira contract scandal by EFCC/money laundering financial crime linked to her through her assistant while she was a Director in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. She has been replaced by Dr. Folashade 'Yemi-Esan, with immediate effect!
Chairman of the Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, was suspended on 21st September 2019, to face investigation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, in respect of alleged certificate forgery and extortion perpetrated while in office as head of the ad hoc body!

AFENIFERE DESCRIBES OSINBAJO'S OFFICE AS IRRELEVANT, REDUNDANT AND INCAPACITATED!
The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has faulted President Buhari for inaugurating the Economic Advisory Council (EAC), to replace the Economic Management Team (EMT), being headed by his Vice, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo. They claimed that the move was to render the second-in- command moribund, though his principal unequivocally stated that EAC would address mounting economic challenges with a view to attaining Nigeria's position among the first 20 economically-viable countries by the year 2020 and also achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's), by the year 2030! The group also insinuated that the development was a Northern agenda in a permutation, to sideline Osinbajo and by extension the South West, ahead of 2023 Presidency, which is rotational between the North and the South!

During the first term when Osinbajo held fort as acting President for President Buhari who had health challenges, and no lacuna was noticed as he discharged the duties of the two men creditably, Afenifere did not allege any discrepancies in the hierarchy! Afenifere must be reminded that both men are regarded as associates in the Constitution!

We disagree with the myopic, nepotic and tribalistic position of Afenifere and their ilk’s who forgot that President Buhari acted within executive/constitutional rights and powers which allowed him to deputize his Vice or the Ministers or any other officer in the public service of Nigeria to act on his behalf as he felt appropriate in the process of diligent exigencies of services, according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, Chapter vi Section 148(1)! Positioning Osinbajo for presidency in the 2023 General Elections is nothing short of sheer absurdity and a political miscalculation deliberately posited by Afenifere to heat up the polity!

Serious-minded Nigerians have no time for idle minds which would rather read negative meanings to every move of a determined APC Government which would stop at nothing but stamp an indelible mark of economic laurels in the sands of time for a country which global highly developed countries almost ran aground through an avalanche of horrible negative reports BUT would support the new drive to make this nation economically-viable by the 2020!
Nigeria will surely achieve this enviable status with the duo of BUHARI AND OSINBAJO in the saddle and in perfect control of the SHIP to the shame and detriment of the detractors! Whosoever God hath blessed, let no man curse!

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.

ATIKU'S PERSISTENCE COULD IGNITE FRESH DESIRE FOR JUSTICE AT THE COURTS!

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. 8.NO 318. 15th September, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

ATIKU'S PERSISTENCE COULD IGNITE FRESH DESIRE FOR JUSTICE AT THE COURTS!

The over eight-hour land-mark judgement of Wednesday, 11th September 2019, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja, by a five-member panel of eminent, articulate and proven jurists of the Nigerian Bench, headed by his lordship, Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba, which gave a resounding victory to President Muhammadu Buhari, has sent a very strong judicial signal to appellants, that electoral disputes/litigations could never be settled in the courts of public opinions, social media or pages of newspapers but in Constitutional Courts of competent jurisdiction, legally constituted for such duties!

But before that judgement which dismissed all prayers of the petition "in its entirety", the major litigant, Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate, in his characteristic desperation, wrote to the President of the Appeal Court on 5th September, 2019, on the need not to allow his petition to be caught up by constitutional timeline since the Tribunal had on 21st August, 2019, reserved judgement after the petitioners and respondents  - INEC,  President Buhari, and his Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), adopted their final written addresses!

However, when the deed was done, head of the opposition PDP legal team had no choice than to eat the "humble pie", acknowledged the professionalism, thoroughness, legal prowess and outstanding conclusions of the cohesive team of the legal luminaries, who were united to dismiss in entirety, all of the three prayers sought by the appellants to nullify the victory of the winner of the Presidential Elections of 23rd February, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, and declare the runner-up, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as winner in his stead!

RUMBLINGS BY PETITIONERS BEFORE THE D-DAY!
Weeks before the D-Day, PDP in frenzied desperation to sway public opinion in favour of Atiku Abubakar, the social, print and electronic media was orchestrated with all manner of postulations that negative reports by international observer groups, which alleged electoral malpractices, vote buyings, ballot boxes snatchings, security agents interventions at polling stations etc, should sway judgement in favour of the candidate who lost woefully!
Their three-pronged appeal was predicated on the following planks:
That the election was marred by irregularities;
That Atiku received more votes than Buhari and:
That the president did not have a secondary school certificate, a basic requirement to contest the election. PDP said it would appeal against the ruling at the Supreme Court!
President Buhari, according to the results released by INEC, garnered 61% of the votes as against the 41% of Atiku Abubakar at the 23rd February, 2019, election but that the 35.6% turn-out of the electorate was lower by 8.6%. compared with the 44% in 2015, and Atiku rejected the results hours after Buhari was declared winner with a promise that he would challenge the results at the Appeal Tribunal while his Party described it as a "direct assault on the integrity of our nation's justice system"!

*Contrary to PDP's stand, Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike, congratulated President Buhari for his second victory over Atiku through a live broadcast because, he would not pay the nocturnal visits to Aso Villa like other opposition governors and party stalwarts - though he neither liked the President nor his policies!

SUMMARY OF THE LAND-MARK JUDGMENT THAT WOULD STAND THE TEST OF TIME!
The Jury was very painstaking in reading out the judgement through the lead Judge who initially decided pre-trial applications which favoured Atiku and his lead counsel before advancing into the main prayers of the appellants. The lead counsel's name which were abbreviated in some documents were accepted as genuine while ATIKU WAS DECLARED AS A BONA FIDE NIGERIAN AND NOT A CAMEROONIAN AS ALLEGED BY THE RESPONDENTS!
With analytical precision, one after the other, all arguments raised by the petitioners: from the crime of perjury in a sworn affidavit; to the existence of an INEC website/server; alleged electronic transfer of results through Card Readers to INEC's central server; vote-buying; criminal intervention by security agents (especially soldiers and policemen), to support electoral rigging by the APC; malpractices through ballot boxes snuffing/snatching at the polling booths with the connivance of policemen, etc, etc, were all succinctly treated without giving any room for ambiguity or controversy!

The lead Judge, Justice Garba, who took over from President of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, who was initially rejected by the PDP, for probable vested interests, adduced and quoted copiously from a plethora of  decided cases ranging from the lower courts through to the Apex court in a manner of a jurist who knows his onions and conversant with extant laws in the terrain of legal jurisprudence! The English definitions of some contentious words were not left to doubt as the learned judge employed the Webster/Oxford and other dictionaries to lend credence to the judgement!

And the "coffin" of the judgement pronouncements which did not favour Atiku Abubakar, was finally nailed by two other distinguished judges of the panel, who further buttressed the conclusions of the lead judge on the prayers in respect of  Perjury and Vote-Buying, which were unsubstantiated by neither evidences nor witnesses by the petitioners, according to the law!

ALL FIVE JUDGES DISMISSED THE APPEAL IN ITS ENTIRETY, STRESSED THAT THE ONUS OF PROOF RESTED SQUARELY ON THE APPELLANTS WHO FAILED TO PROVE THEIR ALLEGATIONS BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBTS!

ATIKU'S LEGAL TUSSLES BEFORE 2019!
The PDP Presidential Candidate at the 2019, General Elections, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, (1999-2007), suffered public disgrace/humiliation in the hands of his principal, Chief Aremu Obasanjo who accused him of alleged crimes of official corruption, aggrandizement and abuse of office during their second term, all in a bid to scuttle the ambition of the former from succeeding him in office and he (Obasanjo), succeeded!
Obasanjo instituted official panel of investigation and found Atiku guilty of impropriety in the handling of sales of Federal Government's critical assets, of which he was chairman; in his alleged involvement in a $500,000 bribery scandal involving a US Congressman, William J. Jefferson; and in the manipulation of  the Petroleum Trust Development Fund, (PTDF), accounts, in other to castigate, reduce him to odium and unfit to further hold any public office - especially, his obsessive ambition to become the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, denied all allegations and got redress in over seven case which he instituted against Obasanjo and the Federal Government between 2006-2007, and was cleared by the Supreme Court as suited and qualified to contest the 2007 Presidential Election as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), candidate, but lost to late President Umaru Yar 'Ardua!
Political observers strongly expected, Alhaji Atiku to institute legal actions of libel, slander, defamation of character, etc, against his boss years after they both lost the immunity shield, but that never happened; instead, Atiku sent emissaries to placate Obasanjo and subsequently travelled to personally beg for pardon and obtain assurances to shore up his dented political clout.

ATIKU HAS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT!
But in this trending matter, Alhaji Abubakar has the fundamental right to go the whole hog in the belief that he still had a good chance of upturning the verdict of the Appellant Court at the Apex Court!
Atiku, whose penchant for litigation had become obstinate is poised to proceed to the Supreme Court, which would finally arbitrate on the judgement of the Appeal Court and lay the case to permanent rest within the constitutional 90 days window allotted to the excercise from September 11, 2011!
Incidentally, the Abuja Presidential Appeal Tribunal judgement coincided with the18th anniversary  of September 9/11 catastrophic terrorists bombings of the New York Twin Trade Center Towers, and other strategic government structures which humbled America, the most powerful global nation, which had won several battles ( civil wars, world wars), in its 233 years of independence! HE WHO THAT THINKS HE STANDS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS, LEST HE FALLS! HERE LIES THE LITMUS TEST FOR ATIKU WHO STRONGLY BELIEVES HE WOULD NEVER LOSE ANY LITIGATION AT THE SUPREME COURT!

Atiku Abubakar's determination to further launch his appeal at the Apex Court for a final and logical conclusion should not be constrained that the outcome may further strengthen not only our DEMOCRACY, but also establish the much-desired foundation for STRONG INSTITUTIONS and become a REFERENCE POINT for future LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE!

"Whatever has a beginning MUST SURELY have an end!

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.

SOUTH AFRICAN MINORITY WHITES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS!

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. 8.NO 317. 8th September, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

SOUTH AFRICAN MINORITY WHITES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS!

The White minority South Africans who lost power to the majority Blacks in 1994, when the African National Congress (ANC), won the presidential elections for the very first time in the nation's history were never comfortable in defeat! It has been 25 years when fortunes were reversed, when the Enslaved legitimately took over the Masters tables and the once powerful and mighty task masters became the subservient in the equation; but as bad losers, had surreptitiously sponsored deliberate and regular XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS from Mandela to Ramaphosa, against African immigrants across the nation by applying the wicked and insensitive doctrine of divide and rule!

From prison to palace, late President Nelson "MADIBA" Mandela, proved to be magnanimous in victory, brushed aside the pains of 27 years of incarceration at the dreaded Robben Island, the massive slaughter of about 700 innocent SA SOWETO BLACK SCHOOL CHILDREN and an estimated 1,000 injured, on 16th June, 1976, for protesting against the "Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974, which forced all Black schools to use Afrikaans and English in a 50-50 mix, as languages of instruction!
He equally waved off crimes of Boers massacres of his fellow country men/women over trumped-up charges by consecutive White minority governments which were the worst kinds of racism/apartheid/xenophobia against fellow citizens of the same country! He forgot that the bestial act of that cold-blooded murder of school children precipitated a setback to child education/ mentoring and simultaneously created a deficit in the overall education sector for massive illiteracy to flourish! AND NOW, IT IS VERY EASY FOR THE WHITE BOERS TO EASILY MANIPULATE THE ILLITERATE AND JOBLESS SOUTH AFRICANS INTO XENOPHOBIA!

And when he climbed the podium on 10th May, 1994, Mandela in his inaugural speech, solicited that "bygones be bygones" but forgot to bequeath a bonding legacy that South Africans should remain eternally grateful to their African brothers/sisters especially governments of Nigeria, Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho plus other African countries,  which allied to put an end to the evil practice of "apartheid" with huge fundings and effective advocacies, and effected the desired democratic administration where the majority blacks eventually won the 1994 elections to break the shackles of bondage by White supremacists of several decades!

THE STORY OF APARTHEID: TRUTH MUST BE TOLD NOW!
BLACK South Africans must definitely have short memories! Once upon a time, THEY WERE NOT A PEOPLE and virtually had no citizenship because their WHITE TASK MASTERS burdened them with an everlasting servitude, treated them worse than second class citizens and yoked them as SLAVES in their fatherland where they had no respite and no one to rescue them but successive NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS PATRIOTIC CITIZENS!
The story of Apartheid began in 1948 when the White-supremacist government of that dispensation introduced an inhuman and detestable policy of racial separation/discrimination purposely against the majority indigenous Blacks, who actually owned the land and successfully enslaved them until 1990, (42 consecutive and uninterrupted years of man's worst kind of wickedness against his brethren), when the MADIBA, President Nelson Mandela, who had been in the forefront of the emancipation of his great fatherland from colonial domination, was released from 27 years of prison incarceration and emerged through an overwhelming popular votes to become the first-ever Black SA President! Right from independence in 1960, successive Nigerian governments and its patriotic citizens condemned APARTHEID in all its ramifications and mobililized international support for a crusade against the obnoxious and very irratitating policy in which PETS OWNED BY WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS HAD SUPERIOR RIGHTS THAN THE BLACK CITIZENS!

Under the policy, Blacks were forbidden to dwell in cities and urban centres with their White counterparts; they must not ride in the same public transportation with the whites, must never share public toilet facilities, schools, churches etc, with the Whites because they were regarded as slaves and very inferior to their masters and MUST ALWAYS PRESENT OFFICIALLY-APPROVED IDENTIFICATION CARDS for employment unlike the Whites! South Africans owe Nigerians an everlasting GRATITUDE!
The present generation of South African blacks who lacked historical knowledge of past contributions of other African States to their liberation and independence, had continuously blamed their massive jobless woes (about 48%), on legitimate African immigrants who are engaged in honest businesses, instead of directing their venom on the Whites and the few RICH conniving-Blacks, who owned virtually all the thriving business in their country!
Xenophobia is synonymous to apartheid/racial insensitivity/bigotry/segregation/discrimination of an immense dimension that could provoke the kind of atrocities displayed through massive daylight destruction of valuable properties, lootings and killings of Africans by Africans for the umpteenth time on the streets of Johannesburg and Pretoria as they were ferried with BUSES FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER WHILE SA POLICEMEN, CONNIVED BY STANDING ALOOF!!
The White BOER minority which perpetrated APARTHEID (racial discrimination), through government machinery for decades (1948-1990), following de-colonization of SA territory, [though hidden in the background since May 1994, when Nelson Mandela became the first black President], still lay claim to a superior skin ego and also undue socio-economic headstart during the dark days when the SA blacks dwelt in squalor and abject poverty in their fatherland!

Whatever unfortunate pains/agonies/sorrows/losses, and collateral damages suffered by Africans through xenophobic attacks of the past or present, MUST be squarely laid at the doorsteps of all past and present South African presidents, including the "Madiba", who honourably bowed out after ONE TERM of five years but failed to educate their citizens on the need for unity and brotherliness with all African nations which supported them in their time of need!
Presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, and the incumbent, Cyril Rhamaphosa, (believed to be multi-billionaires), cannot feign ignorance of the enormous contributions of Nigeria and their neighbouring African country during the painful/agonising years in the struggle against APARTHEID regimes of White minority!

ZIMBABWE'S NATIONAL HERO, ROBERT MUGABE SUPPRESSED WHITE SUPREMACISTS!
Late President Robert Mugabe critics would fault him for his solo effort of trying to put his country on the pedestal as a sit-tight for 31 years! But Mugabe fought the minority dominant Whites of the then Southern Rhodesia Government to a standstill until victory was achieved for him to take over the mantle of leadership in 1980!
From1980-2018 - ROBERT MUGABE who passed on at 95 on Friday 6th September, 2019, bequeathed a LEGACY OF SOUND EDUCATION to his citizens and earned for his country the credit of being placed as the only African country with the highest percentage of literacy! Mugabe was well educated. He was a teacher-turned-politician and had to his credit at least seven academic degrees. He did not only educate his people, he also empowered them through a deliberate agricultural revolution which transferred all Whites owned lands/farms to the rightful Zimbabwean black majority, who had been largely marginalized through racial bigotry of past White administrators! This true pan-Africanist would be fondly remembered for educating a people who do not believe in XENOPHOBIA!

WE ADVOCATE STRINGENT MEASURES BY NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT!
We join all Nigerians, from the Presidency/Legislature/Judiciary, including Nigerians in the Diaspora, to condemn the most recent SA xenophobic attacks which began from Thursday, 29th August, through Tuesday, 3rd September, 2019, and advocate for legal, economic, diplomatic sanctions against SA this time around - but We vehemently oppose and discourage any form of reprisals against SA interests or citizens in Nigeria!
On the legal plank, We support the suggestion that SA Government be dragged before the AFRICAN HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS COURT - based in ARUSHA, TANZANIA, to seek redress in the form of compensations for Nigerian victims in the unabated confrontations both in 2016 when 26 African immigrants, including Nigerians were killed and especially the18th February, 2017, reign of xenophobic terror which resulted in destruction, burning, looting of homes, workshops and properties of Nigerians - worth millions of US dollars, with professionally-documented evidences, authentic video footages, industrial experts/eye-witnesses reports!
Economic Sanctions: Trade between SA and Nigeria favours the former because its business interests in Nigeria spanning all areas of communications, industry, manufacturing, banking and commerce, are enormous; therefore, Federal Government should invoke economic sanctions against it without further delay! MTN which was slammed with a fine of US $5.2 dollars by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in 2016, for impropriety in business transactions, and is yet to pay the in full, should be forced to pay with interests. Some Nigerians have even suggested that all SA business interests should be NATIONALIZED AND THEIR LICENCES WITHDRAWN immediately to send strong messages to the nation!
On the diplomatic front, most Nigerians opined that all relations with the HOSTILE NATION should be severed, that our High Commission and Consulate shut down, our ambassadors recalled, while all immigrant Nigerians repatriated! We will not support extreme measures especially when Nigeria's Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Information and Culture, have confirmed that no NIGERIAN LIFE was lost in the fracas but stand by our President's statement in the belief that there would be no future occurrence!
‘’And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise (Luke 6:31)’’.

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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.