NO AMOUNT OF FOREIGN REPORTS WILL CHANGE NIGERIA'S DESTINY!

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 306. 23rd June, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NO AMOUNT OF FOREIGN REPORTS WILL CHANGE NIGERIA'S DESTINY!

THERE was massive jubilation in the camp of Nigeria's major opposition party, PDP, when the EU Election Observation Mission (EUEOM), Final Report on the 2019 General Elections was released on Friday, 14th June, 2019, to coincide with the on-going appeal of their candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against his loss, at the Presidential Appeal Tribunal, Abuja. The People's Democratic Party strongly believes that the orchestrated report would vindicate their claims of election-rigging and thereby, reverse the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari, in their favour!

Since PDP lost the 2015 presidential elections to its charign, to the All Progressives Party (APC), it never failed at every opportunity to seek for foreign interventions that could "miraculously" sack the ruling party and overturn the tables in their favour to continue their unabated looting of Nigeria's treasury which persisted for a consecutive period of 16 years, 1999-2015!

It is instructive to note that this international observation mission of the European Union (EU), which monitored the 2019 General Elections on the invitation of the Independent Nigeria Electoral Commission (INEC), did not represent the EU as a body, and the report released by it on 14th June, 2019, was fragile and futile because prominent member countries of EU had congratulated the winner, President Buhari and Nigerians for a successful outing!

The EU Report was SUSPECT, considering its timing and the excited reception given to it by the major opposition party whose appeal against President Buhari's victory was being microscoped at the Electoral Tribunal! Was it not evident that the report was intended to influence or intimidate the Tribunal's Judges Adjudication over the appeal before them for the following cogent reasons:
It took this group almost three months to compile an indictment which portrayed the entire elections as totally marred by violence, malpractices, vote buying and biased intervention by security agents in favour of the ruling party! "We saw systemic failures in Nigeria's 2019 Elections", they asserted; and in another vein, the report also indicted the two major parties, APC and PDP in respect of perpetrating electoral violence in some States - especially Rivers - and made some recommendations to assuage future occurrences in 2023.
Was the report not SUBJUDICE? Was it not a plot against Buhari's overwhelming victory at the poll because PDP claimed that its content would vindicate it at the Appeal Tribunal? WAS IT NOT A CASE OF INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY? In tandem with EUEOM were the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and International Republican Institute (IRI), reports which claimed that the 2019 Elections were marred by irregularities such as intimidation of voters and electoral officials, vote-buying and election-related violence! WHY ARE THESE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AFRAID TO CALL A SPADE BY ITS NAME? CAN THE MOTLEY CROWD OF ELECTION OBSERVERS INTIMIDATE THIS FOCUSSED CHANGE ADMINISTRATION LED BY THE INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED MAN OF INTEGRITY?
PDP MEMBERS ARE GLOBALLY IDENTIFIED AS THE DESPERATE POLITICIANS WHO WOULD GO TO ANY LENGTH TO "REGAIN POWER", BUT THE FOREIGN OBSERVERS FAILED TO SAY THE TRUTH!
Shortly before the elections when President Buhari warned Nigerians to resist the temptation of BALLOT BOX snatching or be prepared to do so at the risk of their lives, he was castigated and labelled as a leader without conscience; - BUT the opposition still went ahead to recruit thugs who snatched boxes and also perpetrated much violence which resulted in the loss of some lives!
Also before the 2019 General Elections, the Nigerian Customs  Service (NCS), operatives seized several  containers of military camouflage uniforms and also thousands of arms and ammunitions being smuggled into the country through the nation's numerous porous borders by desperate politicians who were bent on seizing power at the centre by force in a commando fashion!

PARTY COALITIONS AND POLITICS GANG-UPS AGAINST BUHARI!
It is on record, that ex-president Aremu Obasanjo, plotted with about 35 political parties, led by the PDP, in his bid to oust the incumbent deployed all manner of unholy strategies to heat up the polity - including the bare-faced demand that he should resign at the end of the first tenure! Obasanjo reconciled with his estranged Vice President, Atiku Abubakar whom he swore never to forgive for reasons of betrayal and tried effortlessly to discredit and malign the person of President Buhari, but to no avail and the rest is now relegated to history!

FOREIGN OBSERVERS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BLAMED APC FOR ANY ELECTORAL VIOLENCE!
Why would a Change Government which was faced with the challenges of crimes/criminalities of Boko Haram terrorism, farmers/herders incessant clashes, rampant incidences of kidnappings, banditry, militancy, etc, right from inception in May, 2015, decide to wage fresh wars of electoral violence upon its already traumatized citizens?
The famous Slogan of the major opposition party candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar throughout the campaign period before the elections was: "BUHARI MUST GO. ..... BUHARI MUST GO........BUHARI MUST GO!" The African adage states that: "IF THE WITCH CRIED IN THE NIGHT AND THE BABY DIED IN THE MORNING; IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE WITCH HAD KILLED THE BABY!

WHO WILL BELIEVE OUR REPORT? PRESIDENCY INSISTS THAT ELECTIONS WERE FAIR!
INEC released a report that the 2019 General Elections was not only free, fair and credible, but was a great improvement over that of 2015! The body announced early on Wednesday, 27th February, 2019, that the incumbent, President Buhari, candidate of the governing APC party won the poll convincingly with 55.6% of the total valid votes in the presidential election while his closest candidate, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, scored 42.2%! The body did not deny that there were some security lapses at some polling centres, but that the election generally witnessed reduced violence, ballot box snatching and announcement of fraudulent election results.
Chairman, YIAGA AFRICA, Samson Itodo, disclosed that its youth group, "Watching The Vote (WTV)"; electronically monitored the general elections in all States of the Federation and CONFIRMED that total FIGURES OF RESULTS COMPILED BY WTV AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COMPARATIVELY TALLIED WITH THOSE WHICH INEC RELEASED! The non-partisan Local Observer group published its assessments, successes, challenges during the conduct of the 2019 elections through Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT), election observation deployment at the end of April 2019. The group conducted an extensive reflection sessions with its State Focal Points in charge of; election observation deployment in various States in Nigeria to assess the quality of its deployment for the 2019 Elections to which it deployed 3,906 Observers across ALL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN Nigeria for the Presidential Election - using the Parallel Vote Tabulation methology, and took steps to assess the process in a bid to improve on the system ahead of the Bayelsa and Kogi Governorship Elections coming up in November, 2019.

These Ambassadors for credible elections who were spread throughout sampled polling units, used data and technology to enhance deployment in challenging terrains of the Riverine and especially, the insurgency affected areas of North East Nigeria, which monitoring recorded 100% coverage!

APC REACTS NEGATIVELY TO THE FOREIGN REPORTS!
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, described reports on the 2019 General Elections by some international institutions as efforts to discredit the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Administration. He said it was an orchestrated international conspiracy to discredit Nigeria's successful diversification policy which has placed the nation as the number one commercial/industrial destination in Africa adding that Nigeria now enjoys food security which has reduced drastically previous large global importation!

ARE FOREIGN ELECTIONS PERFECT? Can perfect elections be conducted anywhere in the world as long as human factor prevailed? Can the United States, which is globally adjudged as the best universal democracy, vouch for conduct of flawless elections The Florida's year 2000 controversial presidential election figures still rings bell. Florida, a swing state, had a major recount dispute that took centre stage in the contest between Gorge W. Bush and Al  Gore of that time. It is still in the public domain that President Donald  Trump was rigged into the White House by Russian Server hackers while there were electoral flaws in several EU Countries; Spain, Turkey, to mention a few!
WORLD LEADERS sent goodwill messages to President Muhammadu Buhari, on his re-election for a second term in office: In Africa, President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, was the first African leader; followed by Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa; Cameroonian President, Paul Biya ; President, Xi JinPing, leader of the most populous nation and second largest economy after the US, led the pack among other leaders outside the shores of Africa to congratulate President Buhari. He promised a more robust cooperation with Nigeria. He was followed by the President Donald Trump; Mrs.Theresa May, United Kingdom (UK); Angela Marcel of Germany. ........... Etc, etc,
President Ramaphosa in his message paid particular focus on the strengthening of economic cooperation; his Ghanaian counterpart, Nana Akufo-Addo extended a warm congratulations while Zimbabwean Emmerson Mnangagwa also wished Buhari well in his efforts  to steer the country towards further progress and development! Saudi Arabia, Quatar, Russia, were not left behind as they all congratulated Buhari as the winner of the 2019 Presidential Election and said they looked forward to cordial economic relationship. KENYA'S President, Uhuru Kenyatta congratulated President Buhari saying his victory was a clear demonstration of the trust and confidence, Nigerians have in him and his ability to lead the country to greater heights.

PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS HAVE REJECTED FOREIGN ELECTORAL REPORTS!
EUEOM, IRI, and their ilk cannot force biased election reports on Nigerians who believe in the results already declared by INEC and in the solid socio-economic achievements of President Buhari of the first term and are very willing to support the second term agenda programmes of the NEXT LEVEL! It very clear that those reports were their personal records which have neither legal binding nor could in any way influence the JUDICIARY in the discharge of their duties at both the Appeal Tribunal and Supreme Court, at the appointed  period!

"When men say are cast down, then thou shall say, there is a LIFTING UP!..........."(Job 22: 29).

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

SENATE LEGISLATION MUST GIVE WAY TO PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNANCE IN 2023!

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 305. 15th June, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

SENATE LEGISLATION MUST GIVE WAY TO PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNANCE IN 2023!

The clamour for a return to the Parliamentary System of government by Nigerians at home and the Diaspora, has reached its crescendo and the newly sworn-in legislators - especially in the House of Representatives - should urgently take over this advocacy from the 71 members of the 8th Green Chambers, who could not complete the national assignment before the end of their tenure! REFERENDUM?

In December, 2018, those patriotic legislators, with one voice and in one accord, called for the re-introduction of parliamentary legislature in view of the discrepancies between the poor and the very rich politicians who pretend to represent the downtrodden in Nigeria. They argued that Nigeria could not have been rated as the POVERTY CAPITAL of the world if wastages were not entertained in governance!
Before these honourable gentlemen embarked on this noble mission, We of the Editorial Board of the  Zion B-BC Newsletter had canvassed for the same CHANGE, in some of our past editions and  encouraged the Buhari Administration to moot an Executive Bill for scrapping of the SENATE and divert all appropriations which would have otherwise accrued to the "distinguished Senators", to social intervention programmes in agriculture, education, health, job creation! etc.Check: "Go to the Ants & 74 legislators are sufficient. ....
Those 71 daring legislators, who moved against the several years of STATUS QUO of sharing illicit monies through dubious salaries, allowances, and annual budget paddings, rose in unison to debate the Bill and to amend the1999 Constitution of Nigeria to that effect. The Bill passed through First Reading and the 9th NASS legislators were urged to continue from where they stopped!

GAINS OF A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
First, it is not complicated; second, it is cost-effective; third, it bonds the government and its subjects for faster political, social and economic developments; fourth, it does not allow for incompetence among the executive and the legislature! A parliamentary system or parliamentary democracy is a system of democratic governance of a State where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislature. Under a parliamentary system of government, members of the Cabinet or the Executive Council are also members of the legislative arm of government who normally formed a unicameral parliament, having won elections in their various constituencies.

The Head of a parliamentary government who is addressed as Prime Minister, (Head of Government), must enjoy the confidence of his colleagues, to remain in authority and also consult with the Head of State, who is a ceremonial head. The British House of Commons which is perhaps the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world, serves as a case study in view of the trending challenges of BREXIT REFERENDUM of 23rd June, 2016.
Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron honourably resigned for failing to stop United Kingdom (UK), from exiting after 43 years of membership and now his successor, Mrs. Theresa May, is on her way out also, without achieving her ambition to take the UK out of the European Union (EU), because she was unable to convince her colleagues with neither fool-proof nor superior arguments!
In a parliamentary system of government, the role of the Head of State, though ceremonial, is not completely redundant because he must always be consulted according to constitution, to assent to bills of parliament into law and call on elected prime ministers to form new governments as at when due.

9TH SENATE MUST PUT NATIONAL INTEREST ABOVE EGOTISM AND SUPPORT THE BILL!
As the new House of Representatives members resuscitate the debate on re-introduction of Parliamentary system, Senators should not stand aloof but create a committee to work with the lower house to ensure a quick passage of bill with their concurrence and thereby WRITE THEIR NAMES IN LETTERS OF GOLD for posterity to judge them as true representatives of the talakawas!
Delegates to the 2014 National Conference, recommended a return to parliamentary system of government; and now socio-cultural groups, consisting of Afenifere, Ohaneze N'digbo, prominent Nigerians and politicians, have all backed the move by the 71 legislators because of the general consensus that the Presidential system has turned out to be the albatross of the Nigerian economy!
The ball is squarely in the court of the House of Representative legislators who must realise that a unicameral legislature is the best option for the nation to surmount challenges of unemployment, human development opportunities as more funds would be made available to cater for the Labour Sector of the economy!
They should also be ready to make sacrifices as the 360-strong membership figure will also be pruned to 74 legislators who will be assisted by a professional secretariat and work on part-time! In this 21st century age of computer science and hi-tech information/communication facilities, what excuses would any developing economy give for being saddled with 469 law makers who were virtually interested in eating the "national cake", without contributing time and resources to grow the economy!

THE SENATE HAD OVERSTAYED ITS WELCOME - LET'S EASE IT OUT!
Patriotic Nigerians are fed up with the Presidential system of government which favours squadermania and wastages! They are also tired of the desperation of money-bag politicians who have invaded and turned the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly (NASS), into a den of robbers, where illicit deals unknown to good governance were hatched and executed with impunity for only 469 persons out of about 200 million citizens, to continue a life of opulence at the expense of the TALKAWAS - the poor masses!
Why was their so much frenzy, hustle and bustle, so much horsetrading and desperation at the just concluded inauguration of the 9th NASS, on Tuesday, 11th June, 2019, for principal offices by ranking officers of the ruling and opposition parties, for transient positions of life and the ephemeral gains of money? It has been established that Nigeria Legislators are the highest paid politicians in the world! Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have not denied that they earn more money than their United States counterparts and even the Presidents of their country and that of America!

The year 2009 statistics of federal legislators emoluments revealed that they were the highest paid public servants in the world because a total of N102.8 billion, (5% of the country’s annual budget), comprising of N11.8billion as salaries and N90.96billion as allowances, was spent on 469 Nigerians; 109 Senators and 360 House of Representatives members! The largesse incredibly increased to N 150 billion naira from 2011 to date and those legislators continued to smile to the bank at the expense of the poor masses!

In the United States of America (USA), where minimum wage was USD$1.257, (N191.667), a US law maker earned USD$15,080 (N2.3million), per month while his Nigerian senator counterpart earned N29.472.749.00million totalling an annual haul of N182million, in a country where minimum wage is a paltry N18.000 and which many State Governments still owed up to seven months payment of arrears to workers!

It was revealed that Nigerian Senators got more money from their numerous allowances than from their annual basic salaries.
The allowances include but not limited to the following: Hardship allowance, 50% of basic salary, (BS); Constituency, 200% of BS; Furniture, 300% of BS; Newspapers, 50% of BS; Wardrobe, 25% of BS; Recess, 10% of BS; Accommodation, 200% of BS; Utilities, 30% of BS; Domestic Staff, 35% of BS; Entertainment, 30% of BS; Personal Assistant, 25% of BS; Vehicle maintenance, 75% of BS; Leave allowance, 10% of BS; Severance Gratuity, 300% of BS; paid once in four years and, Motor Vehicle allowance, 400% of BS, also paid once in four years! 

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, bequeathed to the nation by the Military, is full of several flaws which give room to clever politicians to manipulate wealth to themselves and further impoverish the citizens instead of improving their lots!
Of the Three Arms of government, the Legislature is the citadel of greedy politicians who claim to represent the masses and who claim outrageous salaries and allowances they are illicit because those monies were neither processed nor appropriated by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), the body that is constitutionally set up to fix salaries and allowances of all public officers, at the Federal and States levels! These politicians capitalize on Chapter V Section 80 (2) (3); 81(1) (2) (4) (a) (b); 82; 83 (1) (2) of the said faulty Constitution, which saddles them with oversight functions, including, scrutiny of the annual budgets which the document mandates the Executive to prepare and execute judiciously to ensure consistent economic growth! The RMAFC official salaries and allowances for legislators is less than TWO million naira per month, but these legislators appropriate a whooping N150 billion naira annually to themselves and their Administrative staff, and collect same in defiance to whatever figure was fixed by the Executive in the budget preparation.
Apart from this illegality which has been ongoing since 1999, annual BUDGET PADDING, which translates to, insertions of new amounts for Constituency Projects, re-writing, re-inventing and distortion of the entire document to accommodate their whims and caprices by arriving at a total figure completely different from the original!
The SENATE is also a recluse of some sort where Governors who had served the constitutional EIGHT years in office BUT would still smuggle themselves to spend the rest of their unproductive lives because of the LOVE OF MONEY! Apart from two former governors/senators, who were successfully prosecuted and eventually convicted to spend SEVEN YEARS in prison after several years of trial, majority of them who have been indicted by the EFCC still walk free, to contest and win elections!

THE NIGERIAN LEGISLATURE PAY PACKAGE IS SYNONYMOUS TO ROBBERY OF THE TREASURY!
Welcome and Severance Packages for Nigerian Legislators are not Christmas, Easter or Sallah Hampers, both terminologies were coined by National Assembly paymasters to identify tons of monies paid to Nigerian Legislators, at the points of entry and disengagement from their four-yearly bazaar/jamboree, at the "hallowed" chambers! They have begun to collect these largesse with impunity! IS RMAFC ON DUTY OR RECESS? APC MUST GET IT RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS 9TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY! There MUST be no jumbo salaries nor humongous allowances this time around!

WASTAGES IN GOVERNMENT MUST BE BLOCKED AT THIS NEXT LEVEL! What values have legislators added to the lives of the overall masses of the population they claim to represent from 1999-2019 - a period of 20 years, when most negative global indexes, relating to backwardness were the lot of successive governments until the last four years when fresh foundations for economic growth were laid by the incumbent APC Administration!
In 58 years of independence, has the lot of the TALAKAWAS improved with the annual figure of 469 legislators in the areas of education, health, transportation, housing, employment, SECURITY etc? The answer is NO! Interestingly these legislators were always the first to condemn Nigeria in concurrence to all foreign negative indexes in respect of the national poverty level, illiteracy level, insecurity, economy, corruption etc, when they should be held responsible for all socio-economic decays recorded against Nigeria!

NIGERIA SHOULD FOLLOW SENEGAL'S FOOTSTEPS AND SCRAP THE SENATE TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF THE DOWNTRODDEN!
On 19th September 2012, Senegalese legislators voted to SCRAP its Senate and SAVED an estimated United State $ 15 million dollars under the watch of Macky Sall, who was  re-elected in February, 2019, for a second term! President Buhari should do the same to create the necessary conducive atmosphere for the Parliamentary Democracy to take off from 2023! "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.

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA HAS MISSED THE MARK AGAIN!

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 304. 9th June, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA HAS MISSED THE MARK AGAIN!

The furore generated in the public domain by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), that the recent attendance of President Muhammadu Buhari, to the 14th Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Saudi Arabia, inferred a direct move to Islamise Nigeria, was nothing short of an absurdity, a mischief and myopic attempt to further widen the religious dichotomy between adherents of the two major FAITHS and incite them to "war, war" instead of dwelling together in harmony!

The body condemned the trip which it described as unconstitutional and queried if the President would attend the WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES or send his Vice to represent him whenever the members met?
It warned government not to overheat the polity through lopsided appointments in which people of the same ethnic and religious group as the President's, dominated the others and added that, "The preponderance of the Fulani people at the corridors of power is what Chief Obasanjo referred to as Fulanisation agenda."

SHOULD (CAN) FAN THE EMBERS OF A RELIGIOUS WAR BECAUSE SOME MISGUIDED (CAN) DIRECTORS WERE DISAPPOINTED THAT BUHARI WON HIS SECOND TERM BID ELECTION?
We believe that God favoured Buhari to serve for two terms according to our prophecy of 2014 and turned a deaf Ear to CAN supplications, intercessions, chain prayers, white fastings and night vigils for the opposition candidates to prevail, at both elections in 2015 and 2019! CAN's sing-song about Islamisation of Nigeria has assumed the sound of a broken record because the group did the same in 1986, when Nigeria official joined the OIC in order to shore up the nation's dwindling economy.
AND IN THE PAST TWENTY YEARS, 1999-2019, OIC HAS RECORDED THE ATTENDANCE OF FOUR NIGERIAN PRESIDENTS TO ITS VARIOUS SUMMITS - TWO CHRISTIANS AND TWO MUSLIMS!!
For 58 years, consecutive Nigerian Governments (military and democratic), had guarded jealously, the freedom of its citizens to religious association and worship because the individuals of different FAITHS, cut across genders, tribes, traditions, cultures, castes, etc, in order to avoid volatile situations that could occur through any form of rivalry or the assumption of superiority of one religion over another!

The two major religious Faiths - Christianity and Islam - control large number of adherents across Nigeria; the North, predominantly of the Islamic stock, while the South is domicile with Christians. Although their are other smaller religious groups and beliefs across all sides of the Niger and Benue Rivers, the drafters of the Nigerian Constitutions, had in their wisdom avoided any alignment of State to any religion!
According to this very sacred documents, Nigeria is described as a SECULAR STATE - that is, a State that allows for freedom of worship and does not adhere to a particular religious ideology to govern the country because global history is replete with the disastrous/devastating nature of religious wars of the past, which turned out to be very gory and inhumane, because of intolerance and rivalries! In addition to this status quo, Nigeria's foreign policy is predicated on the NON-ALIGNMENT plank!

WHO IS A RELIGIOUS VIOLATOR - AREMU OBASANJO, CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (CAN), OR MUHAMMADU BUHARI?
First it was ex-President, Aremu Obasanjo who, in his usual manner of seeking a lost political relevance, claimed that the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, was executing an agenda to "Fulanise and Islamise" Nigeria!

Second, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), condemned in strong terms, President Buhari's attendance of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, formerly, Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), Summit, which held in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, from Thursday, 30th May, to Saturday, 1st June, 2019, and defended ex-President Obasanjo's allegation that the incumbent President was bent on "Fulanising and Islamising" Nigeria, or;

Third, President Buhari, who hit the ground running immediately on the second day of his swearing- in ceremony on 29th May, 2019 to attend the OIC's 14th Summit in Saudi Arabia, with a mission to solicit for more support to end Nigeria's insecurity situation and also to secure assurances that would attract more international investments to boost Nigeria's economy?

NIGERIA JOINED OIC SINCE 1986!
Nigeria became 46th of the 57-member countries of the organisation in 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. OIC which had been in existence since 1969, is an organisation that advocates international economic cooperation through trade, science/technology, banking, environment, health, higher education, humanitarian, cultural, social and family affairs/women empowerment channels, that would enable member countries to grow rapidly, enjoy equal opportunities and be in better positions to cater for their citizens! 

In 33 years of Nigeria's membership of OIC which has a population of 1.8 billion, FOUR Presidents of Nigeria, Aremu Obasanjo, late Umaru Ya'Ardua, Ebele Jonathan and the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, have attended past summits! In 2013, Jonathan and wife were delegate and guest respectively at that Summit! It is also on record that ex-Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, a Christian, sent a Nigerian delegation led by Alhaji Abubakar Gumi, to represent Nigeria at the very first inaugural session of OIC in 1969! WHY SHOULD (CAN), NOW SPEARHEAD A PROPAGANDA OF CALUMNY AGAINST PRESIDENT BUHARI?
OIC's advocacy in about five decades of existence, no doubt has continued to prove that Islam was not a religion based on violence and that Muslims by nature were peaceful people because there had existed, a universal mis-conception that Jihadism (an act of holy war), which occurred in the 12th Century, was an act of terror against Islamic non-adherents; but this assumption has been denied severally by Islamic scholars who described ISLAM AS A RELIGION OF PEACE!

BUHARI PRAISED OIC FOR INTERVENTION IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM IN NIGERIA & AFRICA!
The President who read the collective statement of African countries at the Summit, passed a vote of confidence on several intervention  programmes of the member States all over Africa and especially in Nigeria in the areas of banking, industry, health, agriculture, trade, investment and most importantly, the fight against terrorism!
He said that the robust interventions of the various OIC Institutions and principally the Islamic Development Bank Group, had also been effective in rural development, food security, science, technology and innovation, poverty alleviation as well as women and youth empowerment. In the specific case of Nigeria, the President acknowledged the support of OIC Member States in countering the menace of terrorism and armed criminality in West Africa, the Lake Chad area and the Sahel Countries. He appreciated their contributions in the alleviation of the humanitarian crisis arising from the insurgency but urge them to do more.
He also highlighted the Inter-Water Basic transfer, aimed at re-charging, the Lake Chad, the National Food Security Programme, the Second Niger Bridge,, various Road/Schools rehabilitation projects, in Nigeria that have attracted the support of OIL Institutions adding that African members needed more support to overcome serious security problems of violent extremists and armed criminals, where they existed, etc, etc.

WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES OF OIL!
It is very instructive to note that apart from Nigeria, the following countries in the West African sub-region are also members of OIL: Republics of Mali (1969), Guinea (1969), Niger (1969), Chad (1969), Senegal (1969), Sierra Leone (1972), Cameroun (1974), Gambia (1974), Gabon (1974), Burkina Faso, formerly, Upper Volta (1974), Togo (1997), Benin (1983), and Cote d' Voice (2001). The theme of the 2019 Summit was #Session of Hand in Hand Toward the Future.

ARAB COUNTRIES DO NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM!
SAUDI ARABIA FORCES in concert with other Arab countries and the United States of America between 2014-2017, dislodged Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), militants which took advantage of the Syrian war to carve out an illegal "State" from where they launched attacks on other Arab States, including Saudi people and also bombed their mosques. ISIS which is reputed for violence and brutality, including beheadings and floggings, met its match in the allied forces, were defeated, disgraced and driven out of their illegal occupation! ISIS like Boko Haram has been tactically defeated degraded and has such resulted to suicide attacks/hit-and-run tactics to remain relevant!

TERRORISTS ARE MERCENARIES!
Most terrorists groups across the world have proved to be MERCENARIES who have no particular ideologies nor personal political convictions/motivations other than the acquisition of illicit money and illegal power! They are no respecter of persons, governments or constituted authorities! Most times, We, as social critics and political commentators wonder why mosques, churches and other places of worship are bombed indiscriminately; or why soft targets of innocent people at motor parks/bus stations, market places, remote communities domicile by law-abiding and peaceful peasants were deliberately attacked by gunmen, bandits, militia men, marauders, who also kidnap lots of them for ransom, used them as human shields, the women as wives, sex slaves, and cooks?

Terrorism has become big business, big industry! Who sponsors the heinous crimes through supply of logistics: arms/ammunitions, information, communications, transportation, food, medicine, clothing’s, etc,! Why do governments negotiate with terrorists and pay huge sums of money for the release of kidnapped victims? Why do governments exchange terrorists commanders/prisoners of war (POW), in exchange for abducted citizens and the cycle of atrocities continue unabated because they (governments), indirectly or inadvertently, supply huge funds for them (terrorists), to purchase more arms to continue the "thriving business" with precious human lives!
MAN'S INHUMANITY AGAINST MAN HAS DESTROYED WHAT IS LEFT OF THE SANCTITY OF LIFE; BUT INCITEMENT FOR A RELIGIOUS WAR WILL BE MUCH DISASTROUS!

This unfolding vicious scenario has nothing to do with Muslims or Christians, Religion or Faith - it has to do with the bestiality that is inherent in an average man who has no fear of GOD in him! And the earlier, Christians and Muslims close ranks and pray fervently to the Creator of the Heaven and the Earth, for divine intervention, not much will be achieved with human wisdom or understanding because Satan, the evil archangel is bent on truncating the PEACE, which has been promised to the entire humanity by the Lord Jesus Christ, who says, "In me, you will find peace, but in the world, you will find tribulation: but be of good cheer; for I have conquered the world." (John. 16:33).
Tribal, ethnic, chieftaincy, land or border disputes/conflicts, can be tamed; but RELIGIOUS WAR IS WILD FIRE THAT CANNOT BE QUENCHED AND MUST BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS! LET US ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT ISHMAEL AND ISAAC CAME OUT FROM THE LOINS OF ABRAHAM! WE MUST BE OUR BROTHERS KEEPER!

THE WHOLE WORLD IS NAMED AFTER GOD!
‘’If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land’’(2 Chron 7:14)

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.

OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT SPOKE TO NIGERIANS FROM EAGLE SQUARE!

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 303. 2nd June, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

OF COURSE, THE PRESIDENT SPOKE TO NIGERIANS FROM EAGLE SQUARE!

Contrary to the trending outbursts on the social media that it was "anathema", for President Buhari to have failed to deliver a written speech at the second term low-key swearing-in ceremony at the Eagle Square, Abuja, on Wednesday, 29th May, 2019; the President actually spoke to Nigerians through the journalists who play the critical role of ensuring accountability from government as stipulated in Chapter II Section 22, Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

In a question and answer session with the “Watch Dogs” at the Eagle Square, shortly after he took his fresh oath of office, President Buhari made the following statement: “Today is for oath-taking. It has to take place today because it is the constitution. Every other thing including the inauguration speech is moved to June 12th."

THE PRESIDENT SAYS “I AM NO LONGER BABA GO SLOW”!
The uncomplimentary toga of "Baba Go Slow", has been cast away because the President  is set to complete all campaign promises which are ongoing in respect of fool-proof security environment across Nigeria's 774 LGAs, an enviable position among the 20 top global economies by the year 2020, and an intensified war against institutional corruption, in martial "quick time"!

Unperturbed by the pressures generated through a frivolous litigation which sought to annul his second term swearing-in-ceremony because of the pending appeal against his victory at the Appeal Tribunal, the President unequivocally told Nigerians in a 24-minute interview on the NTA Network on 27th May, 2019, that he would initiate new directions, fast-track all government activities, and prod his new management team to keep on their toes for quick results! He equally promised to put up his best performances to justify the new mandate given to him by the electorate - majority of whom are the down-trodden in the political equation!

BUHARI ALSO SPOKE TO NIGERIANS IN A FRESH DECLARATION OF HIS ASSETS!
The President also declared and presented his sworn assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), before the swearing-in ceremony, according to the law to signify the end of his first four-year term. The assets which showed no significant difference to that of 2015, communicated to Nigerians, no doubt, the lofty ideals of transparent, faithful and righteous leadership qualities of a man of integrity!

According to his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, the number one frugal citizen did not build new houses, neither did he purchase new Shares nor operate new bank accounts at home or abroad. The 2015 declaration consisted of the following items which can still be verified by interested Nigerians according to the media aide: 270 cows, 25 sheep, five horses, birds and economic trees, five houses in Kaduna, Daura, Kano and Abuja, a mud house also in Daura, a plot of land each in Port Harcourt and Kano; an orchard, and some cars.

BUT FIFTH COLUMNISTS SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT FAILED TO DECLARE A NEW 2019 MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS S 560 (Maybach), purchased at a cost of USD $ 170 dollars, or N 61.2 million naira (at conversion rate of N 360.00, per dollar), and specially-designed for him, and which was unveiled as he drove into the Eagle Square venue on the 29th May 2019!
We are yet to confirm the veracity of the claim, but assuming that a new vehicle was added to the presidential fleet, did it make the vehicle the president's property?
Nigerians cannot be hoodwinked by the President's detractors who have refused to repent and follow the path of honour to build a brand new Nigeria devoid of the politics of calumny! When the President assumed office in 2015, he refused to purchase new vehicles contrary to requests by advisers but claimed that those he met on ground were still good to go and thereby saved billions of tax payers money which could have gone into corruption and deliberate wastage as was done by the consecutive 16 wasted years of PDP administrations!

THE OPPOSITION PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP), said that the President could not deliver a speech because the ruling All Progressives Party (APC), "was overburdened by the guilt of the rigged presidential election", though, government had earlier informed, not only Nigerians, but the entire global community through the erstwhile Minister of Information, that, 29th May, 2019, would be low key and for oath taking only in compliance with the Constitution; while all other inauguration activity - including the President's speech - for a fresh Four-year term would hold on June 12!

Following very wide consultations, President Buhari, announced last year, his decision to change the annual celebration of DEMOCRACY DAY from May 29, to June 12 in commemoration of the June 12,1993, Presidential Election, massively believed to have been won by a business icon,Chiel MKO Abiola, but annulled by the military junta of retired General Ibrahim Babangida and had promptly forwarded a bill to that effect to the National Assembly (NASS), for Constitutional amendment and passage into law!

BECAUSE BUHARI IS CARRYING THE ANOINTING, HIS ENEMIES SHALL BE DASHED INTO PIECES!
"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalm 2:1-12). THE LORD HAS SPOKEN: LET NO MAN CONTEND WITH HIM!

THE PRESIDENT IS SWORN IN AGAINST ALL ODDS - HE SHOULD PUT HIS ALL INTO THE NEXT LEVEL!
The President who was sworn in by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, took the oath-of-office at a low-key ceremony at the Eagle Square, on the 29th May, 2019, shortly after his Vice, Professor ‘Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, had been sworn in, exuded good health, vigour and vitality, but however, did not give a prepared inaugural address at the ceremony, which according to presidential sources, has been reserved for JUNE 12, 2019, which is the new and constitutionally-enacted Democracy Day!

Expectations of better performances at this NEXT LEVEL as promised by the President himself, are very high, both at home and the Diaspora. President Buhari should emulate South Africa's President CYRIL RAMAPHOSA'S example by swearing in his NEW CABINET, without any delay. Mr. Ramaphosa was sworn in on Saturday 25th May, 2019, and swore in his cabinet ministers on Thursday, 30th May, 2019!

WE believe that President Buhari has already laid a very good foundation to build on without further waste of time and that his new team should hit the ground running to implement the party's three cardinal promises of adequate security, very buoyant economy, intensify the war against institutional corruption, focus more on unemployment and agriculture in order to eradicate poverty and by extension, insurgency, terrorism, banditry and all forms of crimes/violence for the economy to  achieve the year 2020 target date of a place among the first 20 global economies!

In spite of the multi-farious challenges faced by APC Government in the last four years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that Nigeria's economy grew by 1.98 % in 2018, which the body regarded as the nation's fastest pace since RECESSION! IMF also forecast a growth of 2.1 % in 2019, but we believe that the new economic team would perform better than the forecast!
Nigeria's POROUS BORDERS, which are wide open in more than 400 areas of the nation's land mass (and through which terrorists and bandits had infiltrated to kill our people and destroy our collective psyche), MUST be quickly addressed by the President and all measures, including the deployment high technology of CCTV CAMERAS and DRONES, to all States in border areas, to seal these enemies of our beloved nation off permanently!
There is no doubt that the nation's security outfits are seriously overwhelmed, overstretched and heavily overlaboured but they have been very faithful to discharge their onerous duties this far to the best of their abilities BUT they need greater encouragement in additional manpower, sophisticated weapons, more of authentic intelligence information gathering and better WELFARE packages, to build up new incentives and patriotism!

BUHARI SHOULD SIGN THE PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA (PCN)  BILL NOW!!!
DO WE STILL NEED TO REMIND PRESIDENT BUHARI TO SIGN THE PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA (PCN), BILL WHICH WAS SUBMITTED BY NASS MONTHS BEFORE HIS FRESH ELECTION INTO LAW? IT IS ON RECORD THAT THE OVER THREE MILLION PATRIOTIC YOUTHS OF THAT NGO, VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY FOR HIS VICTORY!

NOW IS THE TIME TO FAVOUR THESE LEADERS OF TOMORROW BY GIVING THEM IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT THROUGH HIS SIGNATURE ON THE BILL AS HE RETURNS FROM OIC OFFICIAL ECONOMIC ASSIGNMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA! THE 8TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WILL REMAIN IN SESSION TILL 11TH/12TH JUNE, 2019.

The PCN, members will definitely augment the shortfalls in the strength of the overall security personnel and can be quickly deployed to all sensitive areas (especially, SOFT TARGETS), for information and intelligence gathering duties, including BORDER PATROLS! "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.

BUHARI'S FIRST TERM SCORECARD HAS PROVED HIS DETRACTORS WRONG!

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 302. 26th May, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

BUHARI'S FIRST TERM SCORECARD HAS PROVED HIS DETRACTORS WRONG!

When Muhammadu Buhari won the 2015 Presidential Election against all odds, the opposition was shaken to their very marrows and reacted like bad losers through defiant grandstanding and a hostile attitude which delayed the unorthodox hand-over ceremony to barely two weeks to the president's investiture! His acceptance speech of the 29th May, 2015, at the Eagle Square, Abuja, which spelt out a-three-pronged approach to combat insecurity, strengthen the battered economy, and eliminate corruption at all costs, left no one in doubt that it took him three decades to prepare a come-back to complete that assignment which he embarked upon as a military Head of State between 1984-1985!

Although it took him six months to put his cabinet together then, he was painstaking and very meticulous in his choice of ministers who served without blemish and had faithfully given accounts of their stewardship which tallied with the President's Valedictory speech of Wednesday, 22nd May, 2019, in which he attributed the success of the first term to the winning team.

EXCERPTS FROM PMB'S VALEDICTORY SPEECH.
".....We inherited a broken economy which eventually went into a recession in the second quarter of the Fiscal Year 2016. .... further compounded by insecurity and massive corruption. ......we pushed forward to deliver our campaign promise to rescue our country from its parlous state.....through a common vision, heated debates...... differing views that produced national decisions. I retained my cabinet for the full term. ....each of you had a unique skill and strength, we are a diverse but tolerant nation where no one is silenced and where every opinion should be heard and considered."
The President encouraged his ministers to remain PROUD for the following reasons:
Having served to the best of their ability,
Part of a government that liberated the local governments previously under Boko Haram rule,
To have contributed to food security and economic diversification agenda which led to revival of rural agrarian economy,
To have been part of the team that developed the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan which led Nigeria exiting its worst recession in decades,
To have introduced the social investment programme that enhanced livelihoods of millions of Nigerians,
To have participated in setting outstanding pensions of many senior citizens abandoned by previous governments while supporting state governments to meet their salary arrears, and
To have overseen the most ambitious road, rail and airport rehabilitation programmes in the history of Nigeria. He also assured the ministers that their achievements of three-and-a-half-years had guaranteed their position in the history books of Nigeria, having built the foundation for an improved economy and a more purposeful government.

WE COULD NOT AGREE MORE with the President, because we monitored the team right from the onset and did a background check on each of the ministers and this was our submission in the 170th edition of the Zion B-BC Newsletter of 13th November, 2016, on completion of their first 12 months: "These Federal Ministers Are Truly Round Pegs In Rounds Holes, Hurray"! And below are some of the convictions that compelled that conclusion.

EXCERPTS OF OUR 13TH NOVEMBER, 2016, EDITION.
"Nigeria’s Change Administration Ministers of President Muhammadu Buhari had been the most criticised, intimidated, harassed, disrespected and most lambasted of political office holders around the globe in recent times! Before the eligible chosen citizens were unveiled, bitter members of the failed opposition party unleashed all manner of reckless accusations that the President's nomination of his "kitchen cabinet", (i.e. close and personal aides), was predicated on a Northern agenda since majority of the appointees, were mostly of northern origin, and advocated civil disapproval against the government without success!
But in spite of all efforts by the opposition to stampede government to act at their bidding, it took a period between 29th May, 2015; to 12th November, 2015, (134 days), for the President, his "Think Tank"/Consultants to prayerfully, carefully and painstakingly conclude the selection and investiture of the Federal Ministers who, (inclusive of the first two citizens), made up the Federal Executive Cabinet (FEC). With the capable assistance of Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, President Muhammadu Buhari oversights the Ministry of Petroleum Resources as substantive minister.
The cabinet had been dogged, consistent, focused and resilient in its commitment to ensuring that all strategic economic policies were executed to the letter with the tacit support of the Private Sector and the Stock Exchange to keep the economy on course as business partners in spite of all distractions by the detractors of government. At that meeting of Wednesday 10th November, 2016, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President charged his ministers " to work harder to endear themselves to Nigerians" as he reviewed the progress, sundry challenges and social commitments of the cabinet to the people in one year." (End of excerpts).
It is on record that President Buhari never sacked any of the outgoing ministers - not even Aisha Alhassan (Mama Taraba), Minister of Women Affairs, who publicly pledged allegiance to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, whom she described as her godfather and whom she would vote for, at the 2019, polls!
In the run-up to the 2019 General Elections when Aitiku "atikulously atikulated" himself to become the presidential flag bearer of the opposition PDP, Mama Taraba held on to her position as Minister and continued to collect, salaries, allowances, including perks like foreign journeys, because  President Buhari ignored her antics, refused to sack her in spite of pressures from many powerful circles in the ruling party until it dawned on her to resign discreditably, "to pursue a higher political ambition in her state of origin!" Unfortunately, one death was recorded: - that of the Minister of State, Labour, Barrister James Enojo Ocholi, SAN, (Kogi), who lost his life in a ghastly motor accident, along with his wife and son, on the Kaduna-Abuja Highway, on 6th March, 2016, just four months into his appointment!

NIGERIA EXPECTS HIGHER AND BETTER PERFORMANCES IN THE NEXT LEVEL!
Unlike what happened in 2015, President Buhari will definitely not keep the list of appointment of ministers and his advisers to his chest for too long because the time is short! Nigerian masses have tasted true dividends of democracy for real and cannot wait even for ONE WEEK after his fresh inauguration on 29th May, 2019, to capitalize on the economic gains of his first term in office, Starting with the interest-free Market Women Credit Facilities, Market Money Programme, CBN's Anchors Borrowers Scheme for Farmers to attract more people into the economic diversification policy, N-Power Scheme for fresh University graduates, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), for that all-important sector which represents the backbone of great world economies; not forgetting the urgent need to deregulate the MIDDLE & UPSTREAM PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, that will surely open new doors for technical and professional cadres of employments!
To quickly accomplish all of these in sequences, THIRTY SIX MINISTERS, + ONE for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), MUST hit the ground running immediately after the inauguration of the 9TH National Assembly (NASS), on 10th June, 2019. The vetting and confirmation of these fresh ministers must take the front burner for the President to accomplish all of the tasks and challenges that also needed to be tackled in respect of total eradication of CORRUPTION AND RESTORATION OF ADEQUATE SECURITY for the ECONOMY to thrive!

WILL BUHARI BRING ON BOARD FRESH BLOOD OR FRESH BRAINS, OR A MERGER OF BOTH?
We suggest that Mr. President's new cabinet should be 100% BRAND NEW in all ramifications - and as the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he should change all the pilots with the exception of the Nigerian Police Force, who was confirmed on Thursday 23rd May, 2019, after five months in acting capacity! As far as We are concerned, NO ONE IS INDISPENSIBLE! All ministers of the First Term should officially hand over to their permanent secretaries on Tuesday, 28th May, 2019, and go home to ROOST!
The Grapevine told us that during one of the last-minute meetings of the unconstitutional Federal Executive Council (FEC), (27th March, 2019), an Architectural Design of 12- Storey Complex for the Departments of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Head Office, was awarded for a whooping mouth-watering N1.4 billion naira, while actual the edifice would go for a staggering sum of about N35 billion naira on completion, and Minister of State, Ibe Kachikwu said that the contract sum was normal!  How normal was this last-minute contract awarded to a Nigerian firm, Messers Arteck Practice Limited to design a proposed 12-floor on the plot in Abuja, at N 1.4 billion naira, which will seat new Head Office when moved from Lagos! DID PRESIDENT BUHARI ACTUALLY CHAIR THAT MEETING WHICH AWARDED N1.4 BILLION NAIRA FOR A 12-STOREY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN?
OUR CANDID OPINION IS THAT AN INDEPENDENT FORENSIC AUDITING SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT ON EACH FEDERAL MINISTRY BEFORE NEW MINISTERS COME ON BOARD! Mr. President should remember that the 2017 Budget was barely half-way implemented and was rolled over into the 2018 Appropriation which is yet to accomplish 60%!
When the new 2019 Budget is signed into law by Mr. President, the figures of unspent monies must swell in the Treasury Single Account (TSA), for urgent execution of uncompleted projects and provide ample opportunity for Government to revert to the constitutional January to December Budget , with new hands of Cabinet Ministers and competent and patriotic Legislators.

THE URGENT ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE, INTRODUCTION OF "TRUE"FEDERALISM/RESTRUCTURING DEVOLUTION OF POWERS AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY, ALL OF WHICH PRESIDENT BUHARI IS FAVOURABLY DISPOSED, SHOULD BE GIVEN TOPMOST PRIORITY AS SOON AS THE NEW MINISTERS ARE SWORN IN!
WE BELIEVE THAT FAULT-FINDERS OF THE OUT-GOING FEDERAL CABINET HAVE NOTHING TO PROVE AT ALL!
"He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich." (Proverbs10:4).

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.

WEEKLY FEC BILLION NAIRA CONTRACT APPROVALS MUST END WITH BUHARI'S FIRST TERM!

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 301. 18th May, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

WEEKLY FEC BILLION NAIRA CONTRACT APPROVALS MUST END WITH BUHARI'S FIRST TERM!

The acronym FEC, (Federal Executive Council), under which the regular weekly meetings between the President, his Vice and Ministers of Government is convened is an aberration - a misnomer, because the term neither exists nor conforms with any provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999!

Chapter VI, Section 148 (1) (2) (a) (b) (c), titled, "Executive responsibilities of Ministers" specifically charged that,” the President may, in his discretion, assign to the Vice President or any Minister. ...responsibility for any business of the Government of the Federation, including the administration of any department of government;.....HOLD REGULAR meetings with his Vice and all the Ministers. .... for the purposes of: .... DETERMINING the general direction of domestic and foreign policies of Government. ..... CO-ORDINATING the activities of the President, his Vice and Ministers of the Federation in the discharge of their executive responsibilities. ..... and ADVISING the President generally in the discharge of his executive functions ...... OTHER THAN. ...... those functions with respect to which he is required BY THE CONSTITUTION to SEEK the ADVICE or ACT on the RECOMMENDATION of any OTHER PERSON or BODY."

In view of the above Constitutional provisions, a change of nomenclature should be effected without further delay for the APC Administration to be Constitution compliant. The title, "PRESIDENT AND MINISTERS MEETING" (PMM), no doubt is a more appropriate appellation and not FEC; second, outside of constitutional budgets formulation and execution according to due process with Legislative oversight and approval, it was not stated that the President and his Ministers "in council", should approve weekly appropriation bills always solicited for by the ministers!

FEC, was introduced through an error of commission or omission or as a carry-over of the military mentality as the nation transited from martial to "civil" laws under a retired Army General! Although the aberration had been publicly criticised by the media, civil societies and various organisations, but the appointed professionals who should check the anomaly especially, in the Ministry of Information/National Orientation Agency, of the consecutive administrations since 1999, insist on correct procedure, did not bother to correct a glaring error which was at variance to the Federal Constitution! Approval of BILLION NAIRA CONTRACTS for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), including parastatals had been a weekly exercise in 20 years of the new democratic process, while less attention was given to more pressing demands of the nation's political, economic, and social programmes especially, the recalcitrant challenge of insecurity across board!
On our part, We had drawn the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari to this anomaly, and had pointed out that if the Constitution and the LAW had to prevail in the long run, all administrative and financial transactions of that body from 1999-2019, would be termed as VERY CORRUPT, NON-TRANSPARENT, IRREGULAR, UNLAWFUL, CRIMINALLY-MOTIVATED AND EXECUTED, would be declared NULL & VOID and should be punished appropriately!
The Presidents Management/Economic Teams, past and present, which were appointed on the basis of their professional capabilities/dexterity, (especially, the Ministers for Justice and Attorney Generals), who should have rightly interpreted the law, should first be held responsible while total blames rest on the executive presidents on whose tables," THE BUCK STOP!

WHERE WERE THE BILLIONS OF WEEKLY NAIRA CONTRACTS STACHED?
Until 2015, when some measure of sanity pervaded Nigeria's economic and fiscal responsibility space, through the advent of the Change APC Government, which was persistent on checks and balances through meticulous monitoring of budget execution and implementation, methods of budget approval on weekly basis, was an all-comers affair by PDP's consecutive PREDATOR Administrations which had no qualms about probity or the welfare/security of the citizens and most contract monies were embezzled with institutional impunity because the TREASURY was virtually empty at the exchange of guards! 

We have no doubt that the guilty would someday answer to posterity and to God in respect of discrepancies which they deliberately condoned for their illicit gains but to the hurt of the Talakawas who still wallow in abject poverty in the 21st Century where digital information technology infrastructure holds sway globally and can proffer solutions to virtually any subject or challenge under the Sun!

FLURRY OF CONTRACT AWARD ACTIVITIES AT FEC MEETINGS AS APC'S FIRST TERM WINDS UP!
If the transition from 29th May 2019, would not be a continuity of the All Progressives Congress (APC's), administration, the rate at which FEC Meetings of the past two months had awarded contracts worth billions of naira to Ministers/Ministries, SHOULD BE SUSPECT! Our attention is especially drawn to the Ministry of Aviation which committed the nation to the loss of millions of US dollars, during an adventurous solo-venture into its pet-dream of the launch of a National Carrier, tagged, "Nigeria Air`", initiated and, or, commissioned (?), without the blessings of the Federal Government, at a London Air Fair in July, 2018!
According to its Minister, the anticipated "Carrier" would have begun operations before December 2018, with Federal Government Share put at 05%, while undisclosed Private Partners' Share was fixed at 95%, but the CONTRACT was rejected and aborted because Government said, "it was not carried along"!
Having failed in that venture, the Ministry had sought for and succeeded in getting the following contracts through FEC:
N 743 million for procurement of security and safety gadgets as well as incidences laboratory for Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA),
N391.8 million for procurement of pavement marking machines - visual aid for pilots for safe operations;
N1.187, 960,000 million Euros or N 414,543,760.23 million naira, excluding taxes!
Up till Wednesday, 16th, May, 2019, contracts were still approved to MDA's but to what purpose were these financial contract approvals intended? How many billions of naira approved to contractors at this dying days of APC's first term? Could the contracts still be executed before 29th May, 2019  or rolled over to the 2019 Budget Appropriation yet to receive Presidential assent; or would unspent monies be returned the Federation/Treasury Single Account, just like in the days of the late President Umaru Yar'Adua, of blessed memory?
ARE THE ALLEGED BAD EGGS AMONG PMB'S KITCHEN CABINET STILL HOLDING SWAY? If it were ("before, before"), between 1999-2015, no one would have raised an eye brow, because the norm then was to deliberately delay contracts execution till the end of every budget year with a view to withdrawing lots of monies into private pockets of the awardees and their collaborators!

IF FEC IS THE PROCURER, WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT (BPP)?
We will not assume that our readers are accustomed to how annual budgets (itemized summary of intended expenditure), are formulated and executed, but will just break down the whole gamut in their proper perspectives according to the 1999 Federal Constitution: The Executive Arm is empowered to initiate proceedings of budget formulation being the Administrative Head of government by requesting all its Ministries, Departments and Agencies to forward to the Ministry of Finance, within a stipulated period, their sundry NEEDS, for a calendar year, for vetting, scrutiny and approval. [Chapter V, Section 81 (1) (2)].
THE National Assembly (NASS), has constitutional powers and control over public funds and also of oversight to subject the budget to rigorous scrutiny with the aim of sifting out discrepancies, according to Chapter V, Section 80 (1) (2) (3) (4), and also to conduct investigations, expose corruption, inefficiency or waste in the execution or administration of laws within its legislative competence and in the disbursement of administration of funds appropriated by it.
During the recent public hearing on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), held at the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Finance, Appropriation, Aids, Loans, and Debt Management, the following parameters for executing the 2019 Budget, were agreed on: (1) Oil Production of 2.3 million barrels per day (bpd); (2) Oil price benchmark of USD $ 60 dollars; (3) Foreign exchange rate of N305 naira to a dollar; (4) Inflation rate at single digit 9.98%; (5) Nominal consumption at N119.28 trillion; (6) Nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP),  N 139.65 trillion; and (7) GDP Growth Rate at 3.01%.
Once the budget received presidential assent as contained in the estimates, the Accountant General of the Federation will issue guidelines on public expenditure through: THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT WHICH ARE THE REGULATORY AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MONITORING AND OVERSIGHT OF: PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, HARMONIZING EXISTING GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PRACTICES THROUGH REGULATIONS, SETTING STANDARDS, DEVELOPING LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY FOR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN NIGERIA! "FEC" HAS NO BUSINESS IN CONTRACT APPROVALS!

Between the year 1999-2000, procurement assessment report exposed an on-going fraud that the sum of 60 kobo was always lost to under-hand practices out of every One naira spent by the Federal Government! A swift reaction by government in 2001, brought on board an intervention crack detectives of the "Budget monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit”, which quickly checkmated the national financial embarrassment! NIGERIANS MUST ALSO RISE IN UNISON TO MONITOR ALL THE RECENT FEC BILLION NAIRA ALLOCATIONS TO MDA's AND BLOW THE WHISTLE  AGAINST  ECONOMIC SABOTEURS IN BUHARI'S GOVERNMENT! FOLLOW THE MONEY - YOUNG HAMZA, NGOs, CSOs, ORGANISED LABOUR, STUDENT BODIES, NANS, SERAP!

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to all people.”(Proverbs. 14:34).

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIA IN SEARCH OF SELFLESS NATIONAL LEADERS!

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 300. 12th May, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIA IN SEARCH OF SELFLESS NATIONAL LEADERS!

[300TH SPECIAL EDITION]

The clamour for the restructuring of Nigeria's political system which in the recent past was a household demand, has gradually taken the back stage to pave way for a consensus public opinion that the surest way out of the nation's quagmire of national insecurity, was the emergence of divinely-endowed selfless leaders whose main pre-occupation would be cantered on a total welfare package for the citizens!

Political office holders since 1999 till date, were not oblivious to the demand of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of all organs Nigeria, Chapter II Section 13, 14 (1) (2) (a) (b) (c), (3) (4), which clearly spell out the responsibility of government to the citizens among which are the following: that sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government derives ALL ITS POWERS AND AUTHORITY; SECURITY AND WELFARE of the people shall be the PRIMARY PURPOSE of government etc. With this arrangement, the PEOPLE should be the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), who hire and fire!

But majority of those opportunists (especially in the National Assembly ), who invaded the political terrain as desperate merchants since 1999, were determined to profit at all cost having identified all the loop holes in the military-crafted document which favoured mercenary transactions with so much impunity, had cleverly manipulated the system to cover up their tracks!

At the present time in the history of this nation, 469 Legislators and their cronies regularly collected N150 BILLION naira as salaries/emoluments, minus other perks of office, working allowances, and the controversial Constituency Projects (usually converted to cash), Allowances, from the annual federal budgets contrary to Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), constitutional provisions; Chapter V, Sections 70 and 84 (1) (2) (3) (4), and imprudently referred to those illicit largesse  as "mere pittance" of the total budget percentage!

Those were bad leadership traits that pervaded the turf for too long before the advent of the Change APC Government which from 2015 had frontally confronted all of the bequeathed fraudulent practices because those fingered to have committed economic/financial crimes by the EFCC had fought back viciously with the alleged looted funds to prove their "innocence"!

Government as a gift of the Holy Spirit, (I Corinthians.12:),   is synonymous with the word, leadership, in that it is the management or control of a system or people, and that was why it was possible for those who performed creditably and diligently in office, past or present, to be so  endowed with the exemplary gift to work seamlessly without paying much attention to the lucre of office!

To lead means, to assume headship, show ability to guide others (presumably), in a right direction. Leadership position is not limited to the aged realm of society! Prophet Samuel was barely a teenager when God placed him as leader over Israel (1Sam 1, 2)! Emmanuel Macron, current President of France was only 39 years in, when he was elected to that exalted position by his people to serve!

NIGERIA'S BRITISH LEADERS!
Nigeria's colonial masters were national leaders in their own right! At least, they successfully, piloted the conglomerate of the entire mass of uncivilised 250 tribes, inundated with diverse opinions, languages, cultural beliefs, traditions, world views etc, for close to a century years at independence and handed over to compatriots selected/elected from among the indigenes!
Or, was the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern British protectorates, by Sir  Frederick Lord Lugard, in 1914, a ploy to further consolidate their very prosperous economic empire that guaranteed regular supplies of raw materials to their emerging industries back home because history did not confirm whether natives from both sides of the divide were ever consulted!
It should be recalled that British explorers/missionaries first made incursions/inroads into Nigeria with merchandise to trade and simultaneously preached religion in a manner that would endear them to the indigenes but along the line surreptitiously imposed themselves as masters with the aid of greedy chiefdoms and of superior fire power of sophisticated arms and ammunition which gave them the mantle of leadership with less resistance!

Before the emergence of the first set of indigenous politicians who took over at independence from 1960, the scenario plotted by the British masters foisted the existence of the three major tribes of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, to the detriment of the other 247, who were completely interwoven and completely knitted to the prominent tribes in trade, business, social engagements/interactions, traditional rites, religious/inter/intra marriages, chiefdom/community matters etc.
Nonetheless the Founding Fathers played along and pretended all was well, with the intention to first grab independence with both hands on a platter of gold and latter settle the score of who took what or who shared what, when the dust would have settled! WERE THEY NOT GOOD LEADERS? Of course they were also good leaders who did creditable nation-building assignments in the three regional groups.

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was quoted to have said that he was happy that Nigeria would attain independence in 1960, and would not be bothered if either himself, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, or the Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, became the first Prime Minister; rather, he would be satisfied that the country from the shackles of colonial rule! Well said but how well did they manage the freedom?
Did the first coupist not accuse them of tribalism, nepotism, corruption, aggrandizement, looting of the national treasury, etc, - which were not qualities of good leadership?
IF THE BRITISH COLONIAL MASTERS PRETENDED THAT NIGERIA WAS POPULATED BY THREE MAJOR TRIBES, WERE THE INDEGENES UNAWARE OF HOW MANY CHIDREN BORN TO THEIR FATHERLAND?

Some excerpts of the Lyrics of Nigeria's Anthem at independence are as follows: .........’’though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand................. that TRUTH and justice reign.................TO HAND UNTO OUR CHILDREN A BANNER WITHOUT STAIN’’. Etc
WHAT WAS SWEPT UNDER THE TABLE IN 1960 REARED ITS UGLY HEAD WITHIN SIX YEARS THROUGH THE NIGERIAN ARMY WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN APOLITICAL!
Imagine if force was not introduced during the teething stage of the nation's political, economic and social development, the stake holders would have, through "trial and error", surmounted the early hurdles of nation-building and democratic principles and build up egalitarian societies! THAT ANOMALY PRECIPITATED BAD LEADERSHIP IN GOVERNANCE UP TO 2015 BUT THERE'S FRESH HOPE FOR RESTITUTION AND RESTORATION!

ROADMAP TO FUTURE SELFLESS LEADERSHIP BEGINS WITH NIGERIAN YOUTHS!
The Change Administration has now positioned Nigerian Youths like never before, to take over the mantle of leadership when PMB would have successfully completed his second term in the year 2023!
THE SIGNING OF THE "NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE AND THE N30,000 NAIRA NATIONAL WAGE BILLS"" BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI INTO LAW, WAS DELIBERATE, STRATEGIC, WELL INTENTIONED AND MOTIVATED TO PREPARE THEM FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP POSITIONS FROM THEN ON!
Now, Nigerian youths need to change the attitude of pursuing short-cuts to life successes as exhibited by the present generation of politicians who predate on the common patrimony with reckless abandon and impunity to brazenly exhibit such outrageous larger-than-life- illicit wealth that could mislead the very WEAK among the emerging/patriotic "not-too-young-to-rule", to follow their very bad leadership examples!

They also needed to stop identifying with or supporting the condemnable deeds of looters of the treasury who have continued to deploy such illicit funds to destabilize the polity through the sponsorship of crimes and criminalities of terrorism, kidnappings, murders, arson, assassinations, etc,
They should jointly condemn those social media rats and youths whose reasoning faculties have been damaged through drugs and who see nothing good in all the concerted efforts by the present administration to shore up the economy and put Nigeria in perspective among the comity of nations.
Nigerians Youths should interact by faith with God and request for wisdom, knowledge and understanding in spiritual and world affairs in order to be prepared for future leader positions through diligence in hard work and labour.

There is dignity in labour NOT in laziness and stealing. There is work for every serious and determined youth in Agriculture, small scale medium business enterprises, for starters. They must not despise the beginning of small things.
YES, we cannot change our topography as a nation, we cannot change our diversity of tribes and tongues, we cannot change our psyche as a people BUT, WE CAN CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE TO LIFE THROUGH THE FEAR OF GOD WHICH IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM! (PROVERBS. 9:10), WITH WHICH TO BUILD A UNITED, STRONG, ECONOMICALLY-VIABLE EGALITARIAN SOCIETY AND TOTALLY SHUN THEIR LOVE OF MONEY WHICH IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL! (1Tim 6:10). AMEN!

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THE DOOM PROPHECY OF FRESH ECONOMIC RECESSION IN NIGERIA WILL NOT COME TRUE!

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 297. 5th  May, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE DOOM PROPHECY OF FRESH ECONOMIC RECESSION IN NIGERIA WILL NOT COME TRUE!

About twelve calendar months before Nigeria's 2019 General Elections, political pundits, prophets, eschatologists and soothsayers across the globe contested for spaces on the social, electronic and print media to predict for or against the success or failure of President Muhammadu Buhari at the polls which he had now convincingly and overwhelmingly won by the special grace of God, for him to continue in office for a second term from 29th May, 2019.
From Europe and United States were several predictions by private enterprises and government agencies, even by newspapers/magazines and financial institutions, just like in 2014/2015, of "sure predictions" which the forecasters claimed could never fail, but which eventually fell like pack of cards!
The most ridiculous of the prophesies was by a multinational banking and financial services company, HSBC which said that Buhari would lose but that per chance he won, Nigeria would immediately go into economic recession of great magnitude that would gravely stunt the economic development of the country!

ZAMFARA STATE Governor, Abdulaziz Yari must surely believe in the recession prediction to have re-echoed it on Monday, 29th April, 2019, when he addressed returning/newly-elected governors in Abuja, during a three-day retreat organised to sensitize them on the duties ahead. He was widely quoted as follows that:
There was possibility of another circle of recession by mid-2020.
Borrowing was not a reliable alternative to solving the country's economic problems.
They should be prepared to face challenges with good spirit of stewardship to contain the situation should there be one.
As members of the National Economic Council (NEC), they should work hand in hand to boost the economy in tandem with the global best practice.

Alhaji Abdulaziz, Chairman of the unconstitutional Nigerian Governor's Forum, (NGF), has been in the news for very negative reasons in the last Eight years of his tenure for non-performance, lack of integrity /probity, alleged corruption through mis-appropriation of State's funds, several allegations of financial impropriety by the Youths of Zamfara at various times, absenteeism during most of the incessant armed bandit attacks which had claimed lives of thousands of innocent citizens throughout  his two terms and most recently by Zamfara's prominent media personality, KADARIA AHMED, who organised an aggressive but well-conducted protest at the State House, Abuja against Abdulaziz, whom she described as "the worst governor in Nigeria"!

Zamfara in North West Nigeria with 4.1 million population, and practises the Sharia religious system, is one of the very poor States, low Internally Generated Revenues (IGR), poor health facilities/infrastructures; and health statistics of about 800,000 child/maternal annual mortality rate, and became very notorious during Yari's tenure for reckless loss of human lives through armed banditry, cattle rustling, thousands of death-related statistics through illegal mining of the state's solid mineral resources of Gold and Lead, which went on unabated  until the recent ban placed on all manner of mining, until absolute peace was restored to the very distraught State, which shares border with Niger Republic.

ABDULAZIZ YARI WAS OPPOSED TO THE N30, 000 NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE BILL!
Throughout the lifespan of the Tripartite Committee which negotiated and concluded the wages demand by organised labour unions, Gov. Yari, vehemently opposed the N30,000 figure by asserting that States would be handicapped to pay the new wage since the former package of N18,000, was still in contention in most States. But he failed to disclose what he did with the two Federal Bail-out tranches and the Paris Club Refund monies paid to him as the Chief Executive between 2015/2016!
He did not also disclose how much he had collected in Eight years as SECURITY VOTES, and how he had dispensed the huge amounts which were in billions! Can he explain his scale of preferences in respect of fiscal wastages/frivolities in his government?
How much did he invest on Education, Health, Housing etc. Why did the crime rate in Zamfara escalate throughout Yari's two term tenure?
This out-going governor who has, in spite of his lack-lustre performances smuggled himself into the SENATE has a lot of questions to answer and must not get away brazenly!
We are aware that he was quizzed in respect of money matters by the EFCC during his first tenure but could not be tried because of the immunity he enjoys - but that should terminate on 29th May 2019, for the security agency to dust up his files and demand for his account of stewardship!

NIGERIA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY GROWTH PLAN (ERGP) IS ON TRACK!
CONTRARY to Abdulaziz DIVERSIONARY TACTICS of prediction of a fresh recession for which he proffered no parameters to back up, WE make bold to state that that Nigeria's economy is solidly on track and that the nation is poised to join the prestigious group of the 20 topmost economically-viable global economies by the year 2020!
Nigeria will not go into recession but progression next year because the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has established that recession could only occur in any economy, if there was negative real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), growth during two consecutive quarters due to reduced economic activity but there is no such scenario in the country.
All recession indicators which precipitated the 2015-2016, like Insecurity, dependence on the foreign exchange earner mono-product crude oil, (which crashed to below $30 USD dollars per barrel) then, lack of adequate basic infrastructures, motorable roads, portable water, medical facilities, electricity power, basic education, high unemployment/high inflation rates etc, are being vigorously tackled!

Commodity prices were stable in the markets even during the festivities of Christmas, New Year and the just concluded Easter celebrations. There were surpluses of goods and services and healthy competitions with various choices to make from vendors who cheerfully enticed buyers to their stalls.

THE TRUE ECONOMIC CHANGE MANTRA!
In pursuant of its economic blueprint from inception, the All Progressives Congress ruling government in the year 2016, proved to detractors that its management team was very efficient,  capable and diligent to pull out the nation from a self-inflicted economic recession precipitated through fiscal mismanagement, recklessness and institutional corruption of past administrations!
APC has fulfilled almost all of the promises of social contracts with the citizens with the limited fiscal resources at its disposal and Nigerians are better for it. In spite of the precarious security situation which seemed to defy all solutions, when it took over in May, 2015, there is now Federal presence in every State of the Federation: for instance road projects are still on-going in all states while 34 States are enjoying Housing projects; others have improved transportation through the rails while all major airports in the six geo-political zones are receiving face lifts commensurate with international standards. Inclusive are the building of more health facilities, from primary to tertiary across board while education also received its fair share of the dividends of democracy - ASUU/ASUP Strikes were successfully resolved through provision of funds to meet both infrastructural/staff needs and the Organized Labour Unions were not abandoned as the much-sought-after N30, 0000 Minimum Wage Bill was signed by PMB into law from 18th April, 2019; which was also the effective date! The diversification of the economy from the mono-crude oil foreign exchange earner product, has been largely successful and has tremendously improved the Federal Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), through aggressive Agricultural revolution and  all-round support for indigenous farmers, Solid Mineral resources exploration/exploitation, Industrial/ Manufacturing Resuscitation, Tourism, Theatre Arts, Film/Entertainment Industry (Nollywood), etc, etc.
AND the Federal Government has intensified greater efforts to defeat criminals and their master-minds/sponsors, through accurate intelligence gatherings, Community policing/Vigilante support groups, scientific deployment of drones with the combination of air bombardments, massive attacks by ground troops; not excluding successful operations by the Naval Forces against the sea marauders/oil bunkerers, who operate on the high seas with foreign collaborators to steal Nigeria's crude oil!

HOWEVER, THE HIT-AND-RUN TACTICS OF CRIMINALS IS RUBBISHING SECURITY SUCCESSES!
IT IS VERY PAINFUL AND REGRETABLE TO NOTE that all of these security measures through the combined efforts of the Armed Forces, Police, DSS, Civil Defence Security Corps, Vigilante groups, etc, were hardly noticed nor appreciated by the citizens because of the HIT-AND-RUN tactics of gunmen/bandits attacks on soft targets, killer herdsmen/farmers clashes, highway kidnappers, professional assassins/murderers and remnant members of the Boko Haram terrorists, who kept the nations societies in fear through their nefarious criminal/dastard activities of man's inhumanity against man, and were much more publicised because BAD NEWS TRAVEL FAR!
BUT THIS EVIL WILL PASS AWAY VERY SOON BECAUSE GOD HAS CONFUSED THE LANGUAGE OF THOSE CRIMINALS AND THEIR SPONSORS WHO WOULD DESTROY ONE ANOTHER, EAT THEIR OWN FLESH AND DRINK THEIR OWN BLOOD AS IF IT IS SWEET WINE! (Isaiah 49:26; compare 2 Chronicles. 20: 18-25).

We hereby encourage all Nigerians who love and fear the Almighty GOD, to continue in intercessory prayers and also dispatch relevant and authentic information on crimes and criminalities to the appropriate quarters in a concerted manner and collectively expose those evil enemies of the society for appropriate punishments through the long arm of the law. We also advocate that all law enforcement agencies and their agents would not compromise the national trust placed on them by carrying out thorough investigations and speedily bringing suspects to justice!

THE PEOPLE WILL REJOICE AS CRIME RATES REDUCE DRASTICALLY AND AN ENDURING PEACE IS RESTORED TO ALL THE 774 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF THE NATION!

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

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

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), IS UNDER SEIGE: NIGERIANS MUST RESIST THE AFFRONT!

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 298. 28th April, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA), IS UNDER SEIGE: NIGERIANS MUST RESIST THE AFFRONT!

There can be no better time than now for all Nigerian compatriots to rise in unison as OMBUDSMAN, to protect the TSA common patrimony from desperate and vicious human predators who are bent on destroying the economic gains of the ruling APC Administration in its FIRST TERM
Since the PDP lost woefully at the last general elections, its wounded parliamentary political office holders had devised all available strategies to execute LAST MINUTE attacks on the TREASURY through both: (1) The 2019 Budget Padding and (2) Execution of Budget during Procurement Process;  since the headships of both National Assembly  (NASS), Chambers are still illegitimately and criminally held by Senator 'Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who were the arrowheads of the infamous LEGISLATIVE COUP of 2015, which held the Executive by the jugular right from their kangaroo inauguration of 9th June, 2015!
Their latest plot was to tacitly delay the 2019 Budget as they did to the 2018 Document which was delayed for SEVEN months before the President was forced to sign it in order to avoid any delay in the implementation of the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP). On Wednesday 24th April, 2019, at plenary, the Senate again postponed the passage of the N 8.83 trillion 2019, Budget proposals to Tuesday, 30th April, 2019, when the 8th National Assembly would have just about 38 days to wind up!
The same prank was played by these opportunists in government in 2017, when the Budget Bill was signed into law on JUNE 12, by the Vice President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, (SAN), who complained bitterly about the delay and the paddings through illegal insertions, re-writing, re-inventing, cutting of allocations to critical infrastructures in order to increase their fake Constituency Project Allowances and thereby making the original document very difficult to implement!

PRESIDENT BUHARI MADE THE FOLLOWING REMARKS AT THE DELAYED 2018 BUDGET SIGNING CEREMONY!
"The logic behind the Constitutional direction that budget should be proposed by the executive is that, it is the Executive that knows and defines its policies and projects.
Unfortunately that has not been given much regard in what has been sent to me. The National Assembly made cuts amounting to 347 billion Naira in the allocations to 4,700 projects submitted to them for consideration and introduced 6,403 projects of their own amounting to 578 billion Naira.
"Many of the projects cut are critical and may be difficult, if not impossible to implement with the reduced allocation. Some of the new projects inserted by National Assembly have not been properly conceptualized, designed and costed and will therefore be difficult to execute.
"Furthermore many of these new projects introduced by the National Assembly have been added to the budgets of most MDAs with no consideration for institutional capacity to execute them or the incremental recurrent expenditure that may be required, etc."

IF THIS IS NOT PADDING, THEN WHAT IS IT?
The brazen legislators made cuts from masses-beneficial strategic infrastructure projects as follows: Counterpart-funding for the Manbilla Power Plant; Second Niger Bridge/ancillary roads; * The East-West Road, Bonny-Bodo Road; Lagos-Ibadan Express Way and; Itakpe-Ajaokuta Rail Project, were cut by an aggregate of N11.5 billion Naira. Others are, some ongoing critical infrastructure projects in the FCT, Abuja, especially major arterial roads and the mass transit rail project, cut by a total of N 7.5 billion Naira.
Cuts in the Health and Education Sectors amounted to N7.45 billion Naira and N 3 billion respectively. In the National Housing Sector, an amount of 8.7 billion Naira was cut, while 70 new road projects  have been inserted into the budget of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing by appropriating some of the additional funds expected from their upward review of the Oil price benchmark from USD $45 to $51 dollars and AN INCREASE IN NASS BUDGET OF 125 BILLION TO 139.5 BILLION NAIRA WITHOUT ANY DISCUSSION WITH THE EXECUTIVE! HABA, HABA, HABA!!!!!

ASIWAJU AHMED 'BOLA TINUBU'S ALLEGATIONS OF 2019 PADDINGS BY OUT-GOING NASS!
All Progressives Congress (APC), National Leader, Chief 'Bola Tinubu has publicly alleged that the out-going NASS members of hatching some plan to pad the 2019 Budget Estimates for illicit gains! According to him, Saraki and Dogara and their ilk, hijacked the national budget process in the past four years and repeatedly sought to pad them with pet projects to the detriment of the average person who should benefit from well-intended capital projects! He advocated that a repeat of their malign control of NASS must never be repeated
Expectedly, both men have denied: FIRST - SARAKI, who said through his spokesperson that Tinubu should withdraw the allegations which they consider as careless, irresponsible and callous and also requested him to substantiate the issue of regular budget padding by NASS. He also said that Tinubu who served as a Senator for 22 months - though under a military regime - should know how the legislature worked.

THEN - DOGARA , who said that Tinubu's assertions were in pursuit of fascist agenda to control all levels of power in Nigeria, because only an ignorant person with dubious academic certificates would conclude that the author of a document padded a document which he alone could constitutionally draft!

WHAT HON. JIBRIN ABDUL MUMINI (FORMER CHAIRMAN APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE), CONFESSED ABOUT BUDGET PADDING!
When Hon. Jibrin Mummini, in 2016, AS AN INSIDER, exposed how budgets were padded annually to suit the whims and caprices of the legislators, he was very detailed and specific in his allegations with facts and figures about how much accrued to 10 principal officers, including the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, his Deputy 'Lasun Yusuf and himself! Though, he was maligned by the leadership which he accused and eventually suspended for 180 legislative days, he approached the court for redress, won, was recalled and paid all his salaries/allowances!

HOW CAN DOGARA AND SARAKI NOW DENY BUDGET PADDING? The responses of both men portray them as pathetic liars, who should neither represent the masses nor hold public offices at any level of government FOREVER!
OUTSIDE OF BUDGET PADDING, THESE INSATIABLE LEGISLATORS ALSO COLLECT HUMONGUS SALARIES/ALLOWANCES FOR NON-EXISTENT CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS!
SENATOR SHEHU SANNI EXPOSED ILLEGAL MONTHLY WORKING ALLOWANCE OF N13.5 MILLION APART FROM 15 OTHERS, WHICH HIS COLLEAGUES OF THE 8TH NASS COULD NOT DENY!

ALL CITIZENS - COMPATRIOTS, NGO'S & CSO'S - MUST RISE UP AS "WATCHMAN" OF THE TSA AND ALSO THE ILLEGAL SALARIES/ALLOWANCES OF ALL POLITICIANS/POLITICAL APPOINTEES - EXPOSE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH AND BLOW THE WHISTLE!
CODE OF CONDCT BUREAU (CCB), MUST WAKE UP AND ENFORCE THE ASSETS DECLARATION LAW, INSPECT, VET & SCRUTINIZE ALL CLAIMS AND MAKE THEM PUBLIC TO BLOCK ANTICIPATED CLAIMS BY ROUGISH POLITICIANS/APPOINTEES AND ALL PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS!
In addition to all of these suggestions, A BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION MUST BE CRAFTED BY THE LEGITIMATE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA, EARLY IN THE SECOND TERM, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SO-CALLED AMMENDMENTS OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, HAD FAILED AND HAVE COME TO NOTHING!
THE SENATE MUST BE SCRAPPED TO DESTROY ALL PRODIGALITY AND WASTAGES IN GOVERNMENT AND THIS 2019 SET OF SENATORS SHOULD BE THE LAST! Also the present number of 360 House of Representatives Members should be pruned to 74, should serve part-time and payed salaries according to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), recommendations!
This is the set time to put Nigeria back on a sound economic footing and register it among the 20 most-economical viable global nations by the year 2020! IT IS OUT COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY TO SALVAGE THIS PRECIOUS NATION FROM POLITICAL JOBBERS AND OPPORTUNISTS! A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE! "Righteousness exalts a nation, but SIN is a reproach to all people." (Proverbs 14:34).)

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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.