WHO WAN DIE? SH-E-E POLICEMAN BODY BE BULLET PROOF?

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A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 489. 25th December 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

WHO WAN DIE? SH-E-E POLICEMAN BODY BE BULLET PROOF?

(CHRISTMAS 2022 EDITION)

Senior advocate of Nigeria ‘Femi Falana sounded like a broken record when he said that criminal elements involved in various activities across the country generally operated without any challenge from security forces!

It is common knowledge among the populace that criminals of all genres (Boko Haram /IPOB terrorists , Fulani killer herdsmen, kidnappers, gunmen, bandits, assassins, murderers), rapists etc,  move freely without let or hindrance – and always left in their trail – bloodshed of human causalities, pains, sorrow, anguish etc. and disappear into thin air without apprehension, without trace… without trial! The erudite lawyer and human rights activist expressed fear that unless the security forces were prepared to deal with the anti-democratic forces that were currently disrupting the democratic process, the 2023 general elections might be sabotaged to the detriment of democracy and political stability in the country.

In a recent statement titled: “Halt Official Sabotage of 2023 General Elections”, Chief Falana vehemently complained that the violent attacks being carried out by suspected arsonists posed serious security threats to the impending election!

ONE ATTACK TOO MANY!

Not less than nine Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), regional offices had been , vandalized and torched within the last five months in Imo, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Anambra, Ogun and Osun States!

Chief Falana condemned the continuous attacks on INEC Offices and lamented over election and logistic materials worth millions of naira which were destroyed with malicious intent.

In spite of the assurance and promises by INEC that they would still be able to conduct the 2023 elections in spite of the orchestrated attacks, Chief Falana opined that security forces should live up to expectations and intensify their operations to ensure  free, fair, transparent and credible elections in the new year!

HOWEVER in one isolated incident in Imo State, three bandits were neutralized, two  captured alive while two policemen seated in a van close to the INEC office lost their lives, there had been no arrest of any attacker by police operatives!

THE POLICEMAN’S MODUS OPERANDI IS “I FIRST, OTHERS LAST”!

In these perilous times of desperate politicians who have access to all manner of sophisticated weapons with which they kit their thugs, law enforcement agents have become wiser to first and foremost defend their own lives  before attempting to attend to vulnerable and innocent citizens of their country whom they were constitutionally bound to  protect!

 In many cases of violent attacks on people in their homes on public highways, city centers or remote villages, the vandals always got away because no amount of desperate “save our souls” outbursts would empathize them to move their muscles until the dare-devils must have had a field day!

And whereas, Section 14 (1)(2)(a)(b)(c) Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria states as follows: (I) The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State based on the principles of democracy and social justice.

(2) It is hereby, accordingly, declared that:

(a) Sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution all its powers and authority.

(b) The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government: and 

(c) The participation by the people in their government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.

SECURITY OPERATIVES IN NIGERIA SAY THEY DO NOT POSSESS INVINCIBLE PROTECTION JACKETS!

In any event of a security breach that threatens lives and properties, Nigerian citizens have been advised to dial the emergency toll-free number 112 for quick redress through an intermediary RECEPTIONIST whose only duty was to transfer such desperate matter-of-life-and-death requests to “relevant authorities” that might never RESPOND!

FORTY (40) LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS UNDER TERRORISTS JURISDICTION!

When Major General President Muhammadu Buhari took up the mantle of leadership in 2015, SEVENTEEN Local Government Areas were said to be under the authority of BOKO HARAM terrorists and now at his departure lounge, the terrorists now have more local government areas under their jurisdiction: 17-40! 

Chief ‘Femi Falana also confirmed in a television interview that he had reliable information that the Terrorists were in control over 40 out of 774 LGAs in both North East and West of the country and wondered how elections would be held in those regions?

The ruling party’s Three-prong Manifesto was to fight corruption to a stand still, confront and defeat Boko Haram terrorists including all crimes and criminalities, overcome them and also get the economy on good footing to make Nigeria one of the 20 most successful economies of the world by the year 2020!

The Major General will be out next year 29th May 2023 - just about five months and yet Nigerians are not even sure whether the elections would be postponed like in 2015 and 2019 respectively or that the very much desired REFERENDUM for a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will produce PARLIAMENTARIANS AND A PRIME MINISTER IN THE YEAR 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS would be entrenched!

INSECURITY HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH THE NIGERIAN STATE THAT PEACE COULD NO LONGER BE VOUCHSAFED AT ANY GIVEN PERIOD!

APPEAL TO THE NIGERIA POLICE  FORCE FOR CHANGE OF ATTITUDE.

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, escaped imprisonment by the whiskers the other time for contempt of Court Orders but this time around he is already guilty as charged in the Court of Public Opinion for TOTAL DERELICTION OF DUTY in view of the avalanche of crimes and criminalities that have deluged the nation and should spend the rest of his tenure in prison!

From his assumption of office on 6th April, 2021 to date there had been an escalation or criminal activities across the length and breadth of the nation but in a sudden U-TURN on Thursday 15th December the Inspector General Police announced that the Nigeria Police had rescued 865 kidnapped victims and arrested 383 suspects between January and November 2022. 

He made this disclosure during a meeting in Abuja with strategic police managers from the rank of commissioners and above adding that 923 armed robbery suspects 335 murder suspects and 473 suspected cultists were also arrested in the same period mentioned earlier according to a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report!

38 KADUNA INNOCENT VILLAGERS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD ON SUNDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2022!

Bandits were reported to have invaded some communities in Southern Kaduna on Sunday night and killed 38 people, burnt down over 162 houses and 20 motorcycles in a situation described as very inhuman and most despicable!

The Police is investigating the immediate and remote causes of the attack which was said to have been carried out by about 100 bandits who rode of motorbikes to the various communities affected!

Where did these criminals emerge from?

THE IGP NEEDS TO BE MORE CREDIBLE IN INFORMATION GATHERING AND DISSEMINATION!

Merry Christmas to our numerous readers and followers across the world.

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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 in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO PROBE SLAUGHTER OF UNBORN BABIES BY NIGERIAN ARMY!

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A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 488. 18th December 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO PROBE SLAUGHTER OF UNBORN BABIES BY NIGERIAN ARMY!

 Nigerian governments since independence were quick to deny international negative reports or assessments  especially those that border on human rights abuses, institutional corruption, insecurity, terrorism, economy,  poverty etc!

Reuters News Agency on 7th December, 2022, published an indicting report titled: “THE ABORTION ASSAULT” [Nigerian Military ran secret mass abortion programme in war against Boko Haram], in the country’s North East Borno State!

The story was promptly denied and dismissed by both the Military and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), with a wave of the hand!

The thrust of the report was the allegation of an ongoing and systematic termination of pregnancies of liberated women from the Boko Haram Terrorists captivity without their consent by a hatchet top secret medical team of the 7 Division Nigerian Army stationed at the main theatre of war in Maiduguri!

 

It was alleged in Reuters very detailed investigative report that the military had surreptitiously and persistently conducted induced forced abortions on the unfortunate young women who were victims of abductions and rape by the insurgents and terrorists in the past nine years - 2013-2022!

The detailed story by this foreign media also claimed that not less than 10,000 girls and women in their teens and twenties were clandestinely administered with mysterious injections and pills which aborted the unborn babies without their permission or consent and forbidden to disclose their ordeal to anyone!

 Reuters whose reporters were on ground in Nigeria claimed that its investigation was based on interviews with 33 women and girls who said they underwent abortions while in the custody of the Nigerian army while just one woman said she freely gave her consent. 

 Reporters also interviewed five civilian health care workers and nine security personnel involved in the program, including soldiers and other government employees such as armed guards engaged in escorting pregnant women to abortion sites.

 In addition Reuters reviewed copies of military documents and civilian hospital records describing or tallying thousands of abortion procedures.

IRABOR AND LAI MOHAMMED DENY ON BEHALF OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

However the Federal Government of Major General  Muhammadu Buhari had risen quickly to deny and condemn the report that such illegal activities neither existed nor were ever conducted at the medical department of the Nigerian Army!

 Leading the pack of denials were the Chief of Defence Staff of the Nigerian Army, General Lucky  Irabor followed by government’s spokesman, Federal Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.

 It was evident from the cacophony of denials that swallowed up Reuters allegations, that the government agency involved was suspect because officials were yet to disclose steps taken to investigate the veracity: peradventure some part of the story was true!

WHY WOULD THE NIGERIAN ARMY BE INVOLVED IN SUCH DESPICABLE SLAUGHTER? 

Policy influencers of the Buhari Administration according to Reuters strongly believed that terrorists would definitely give birth to terrorists and within a short dispensation of time generations of Frankenstein Monsters would have subdued the great country of Nigeria to a jungle scenario like Somalia!

 To prevent and nip in the bud such unsavoury catastrophe, urgent steps should be taken to counter its occurrence in spite of the fact that cradle lives were involved just like Egypt’s Pharoah Seti  II, ordered the murder of male Hebrew infants to prevent increase of migrant Israeli able-bodied men of war from supporting invaders to overthrow his kingdom! [Exodus. 1:8-10,16].

REUTERS IS A HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL AND VERY CREDIBLE NEWS AGENCY!

REUTERS is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalist and 600 photojournalist in about 200 locations worldwide.

Reuters is one of the largest on-line news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German-born Paul writer.

The independent foreign news agency provides intelligence technology and human expertise needed to find trusted answers data and information to professionals across three different industries; legal tax and accounting and news and media.

According to Wikipedia Reuters is structured on 10 absolute dedicated journalistic tenets as follows: 1. Always holding accuracy sacrosanct. 2. Always correct an error openly. 3. Always strive for balance and freedom from bias. 4. Always reveal a conflict of interest to a manager.  5. Always respect privileged information. 6. Always protect their sources from the authorities. 7. Always guard against putting their opinion in a news story. 8. Never fabricate or plagiarize. 9. Never alter a still or moving image beyond the requirements of normal image enhancement. 10. Never pay for a story and never accept a bribe. 

Reuters is structured on  Accuracy, Independence, Freedom from bias and Integrity.

The outfit believes in accountable journalism, diligently conforms with its Writers Handbook of Journalism on Standards and Values, and religiously adheres to rules and ethics of journalism,

THE CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF HAS MADE A U-TURN!

On Friday 16th December 2022, Chief of Defence Staff, General Irabor, made a U-Turn and requested Nigerian Human Rights Commission (NHRC), to probe Reuters report on secret abortion to prevent Boko Haram children from stepping into their parents' shoes in future following public outcry and outrage over his earlier denial!

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres had also called on the Nigerian Government to investigate the allegation which Buhari's spokesman Lai Mohammed and General Irabor, had earlier described as evil!

The Chief of Defence Staff paid a visit to NHRC Headquarters in Abuja, and said that the leadership of the Nigerian military welcomed an independent and thorough probe of the allegations by a neutral organisation.

He also said being an institution that is guided by law; “We deem it fit to call on the Nigerian Human Rights Commission to investigate the allegations with a view to getting to the bottom of the issues raised.”

His visit was to formally assure the Executive Secretary of the NHRC and his management team that their doors would be open for them to conduct a thorough investigation. 

He also promised that his officers would be available to answer their questions and that they would be granted unfettered access to all military establishments not only in the Northeast but across the country.

General Irabor claimed that the Nigeria Army had always adhered to the tenets of international humanitarian laws and had also abided by their professional ethical codes together with the Military Standard Operation Procedures in all their activities across the country. He was assured by the executive secretary that his commission was already  poised to investigate Reuters allegations because of the human rights implications and added that the commission would soon announce further steps in the near future towards the constitution of a Panel of Investigation into the Reuters report.

We will not pre-empt outcome of the impending INDEPENDENT investigation but will request that evidences should neither be destroyed nor victims harassed into silence! He that should come to equity MUST come with clean hands!

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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 in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

CHIEF JUSTICE ARIWOOLA’S ROMANCE WITH THE POLITICIANS IS BOUND TO HAVE BACK LASH!

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A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 487. 11th December 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

CHIEF JUSTICE ARIWOOLA’S ROMANCE WITH THE POLITICIANS IS BOUND TO HAVE BACK LASH!

If only the dead could speak from the grave, late Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice John Idowu Conrad Taylor, would have frowned at the attitude of incumbent Chief Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola for frolicking with politicians  both at the Federal and State levels since his investiture at the State House, Abuja on Wednesday 12th October, 2022! 

On assumption of office as substantive Chief Justice, having been sworn in by Major General President Muhammadu Buhari and conferred with the second highest National honour of Grand Commander Order of the Niger (GCON), than the 68-year-old jurist began socialising and revelling with governors, political office holders, business moguls, movers and shakers of policies at the corridors of power!

From Oyo to Rivers State the red carpets were rolled out to treat him to sumptuous receptions and parties where glowing tributes and encomiums were lavishly showered on him!

The Rivers State Governor in particular got him to spend two days of banqueting and commissioning of Judicial Projects.

While in Port Harcourt, the CJN was reported to have said that he was happy that Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of his home State, (Oyo), was part of the G5  Integrity Group of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governors who were at loggerheads with their party’s National Executives!

Already, the Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Transparency and Good Governance has called for his resignation over this comment which was construed as “double standard” in respect of his exalted office and as regards “ethno-religious affiliations”.

They insisted that the CJN should not continue in that position having presented himself as an active player in a particular team.

It should be recalled that the CJN’s appointment came on the heels of a damnable leaked petition (bothering on Judges Welfare), by 14 Justices of the Supreme Court against his predecessor in office, C. J. Tanko Mohammad, who eventually retired voluntarily on health grounds! Ariwoola was the most senior in rank to the retired Justice.

WORDS ON MARBLE FOR LATE JUSTICE JOHN IDOWU CONRAD TAYLOR! 

He was an impeccable jurist with moral principles. A man of very high standards, respected for his integrity, diligence, commitment and devotion to duty with the foresight for decorum, finesse and perfection!

The following true story was told of the late Justice J. I. C. Taylor who was the Chief Judge of Lagos State during the Military Administration of Nigeria but honourably turned down his governor’s official invitation to a State Dinner on the following grounds: "Lagos State Government has several pending cases before me ….. I find it inappropriate to honour the invitation.”

At his demise the Military Head of State General Yakubu Gowon eulogized him for his sterling qualities.

ARE THERE MORE CORRUPT ELEMENTS IN THE JUDICIARY NOW?

A searchlight into the activities of Nigerian courts revealed dirty, sordid, gruesome manipulation and perversion of the course of justice by corrupt judges. According to an insider a retired President of the Court of Appeal, the Nigerian Judiciary harbours corrupt elements who are politicians and government apologists who attend all manner of social gatherings and frolic even with litigants with pending cases before the High Courts. 

“How can judges decide cases against their political parties and people they wine and dine with” queries the insider?

During his first tenure Major General President Buhari in a petition to the judiciary reminded the learned benchers that they should be in the forefront of efforts to develop right-based jurisprudence as an element of the multi-disciplinary approach advocated in the fight against corruption by enforcing applicable laws to avoid delay in ensuring criminal justice administration.

According to the President, corruption cases filed by government were not progressing as they should and in spite of the Criminal Justice Act of 2015, the courts allowed some lawyers to frustrate the reforms introduced by law and called for a change of attitude for a collective action in building a new Nigeria in the face of dwindling Revenue by tackling two ILLS – Waste and Corruption simultaneously.

Justice Ayo Salami, a retired Judge of the Appeal Court during a lecture said that Nigeria needed to sanitize and rid the Judiciary of corrupt elements who were dishonourable people not fit to be judges and senior lawyers but got into the system, made it to the highest level of the judicial career but subsequently frustrated the common man's quest for Justice and equity.

DSS STING OPERATION AGAINST JUDGES FROM 8TH TO 9TH OCTOBER 2016 WAS NOT A SUCCESS!

The well-coordinated search operations by the Directorate of Security Services (DSS), on the homes of suspected  High/Supreme Court Judges believed to possess bribe monies and properties illegally acquired was successful but highly condemned by the elites as unprecedented!

Although many of them were arraigned before the courts but were eventually discharged and acquitted with all seized properties/monies allegedly acquired returned with apologies!

CJN Ariwoola may not be as lucky as his predecessors! He has ruffled the BEES NEST, he should expect MANY STINGS!

“The cane with which the senior wife was flogged, the same is preserved to be used on the newly acquired young wife.” (Courtesy: Yoruba Proverb).

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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, 

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

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

BUHARI’S GENERALS GANG UP TO DISOBEY THE LAW COURTS!

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.48]. –DR. DAVID OLUFON.  2nd December, 2022.

BUHARI’S GENERALS GANG UP TO DISOBEY THE LAW COURTS!

Nigeria is truly living to its billing as a very lawless country where custodians of the law have become brazen lawbreakers!

Since the barrel of the gun was introduced on 15th January 1966, Nigeria never knew PEACE again!

Consecutive military governments ruled with the iron fist and bequeathed a UNITARY PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM to the country in which effontery for disobedience to lawful orders and impunity at all levels of government became a permanent way of life.

For instance there is no office of First Lady in the 1999 Military Constitution of the Federal Republic but Mrs. Aisha Buhari has been making waves as Nigeria's number one woman with abundant perks and paraphernalia!

There is also no nomenclature like ‘Federal Executive Council' (FEC), in the legal document in question but all governments at the federal level since 1999 held Wednesdays FEC Meetings to award contracts according to their whims and caprices under the watch of the civilians and military Generals!

Consecutive Federal Governments always chose which court orders to obey and which to disobey with impunity!

MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S SECURITY GENERALS HAVE FOLLOWED SUIT IN DISOBEDIENCE TO COURT ORDERS!

FIRST it was the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdul Rasheed Bawa who was ordered by a Federal High Court in Abuja to be remanded in prison custody at the Kuje Correctional Centre for contempt – disobedience and continued disobedience of the said order!

 He failed to carry out the order of the court made on 21st November 2018 to return to an applicant his Range Rover (supercharged) and to pay a fine of NGN40 million to the applicant as damages!

SECOND, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba also flouted the law by refusing to carry out an order to reinstate a forcibly retired police officer and was sentenced on Tuesday 29th November 2022 to three months in prison for disobeying valid court orders by a Federal High Court, Abuja. 

According to the report, a police officer Patrick Okoli who claimed he was unlawfully and compulsory retired from the Nigeria Police Force in June 1992, challenged the abnormally at a Bauchi High Court which on February 19, 1994 ordered his reinstatement with all rights and privileges.

But the Police Service Commission (PSC) letter dated 13th October, 2004 which directed the IGP to reinstate the petitioner was disregarded to date! In addition to the sentence the Inspector General of police was ordered to comply with the directive of the Police Service Commission by reinstating the applicant.

 

The court also ordered the payment of NGN10 million naira to the applicant being special and general damages for the unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional denial of his rights and privileges as a senior officer of the Nigeria Police Force from 1992 to date.

THIRD, on 1st December 2022, a High Court sitting in Minna, Niger State, issued a warrant of arrest and incarceration of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Faruk Yahaya for contempt of court!

The High Court Judge also ordered that the Commandant of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Minna, a Major General be arrested and imprisoned for a similar offence.

 Both men would remain in the custody of the Correctional Centre, Minna, until they purge themselves of contempt for disobeying the court order made on 12th October, 2022.

The judge order the arrest of the top Army officers at the resumed hearing of a case between one Adamu Makama and 42 others versus the executive Governor of Niger State and seven others in a suit numbered NSHC/225/2019, which was eventually adjourned to 8th December 2022.

QUESTION: Have the sentenced high-profile persons been arrested and incarcerated according to the law? Of course NO! They are all walking free because they are above the law!

1999 NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION IS A DOCUMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION!

It is  NOT TOO LATE for patriotic Nigerians to rally together, demand for REFERENDUM TO  REPLACE the obnoxious military constitution with a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION with which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), will conduct the 2023 General Elections that will produce a PRIME MINISTER  and hundreds of PARLIAMENTARIANS AS PANACEA TO PERMANENT PEACE IN NIGERIA!

REFERENDUM IS CONDUCTED IN ONE DAY! 

Nigerians should no longer be deceived by corrupt politicians whose only desire in life is to predate on the masses collective patrimony!

Please share this treatise on all social networks and internet portals for wider coverage.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. G-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

MOST NIGERIAN PRESS PRACTITIONERS ARE UNPRODUCTIVE AND VERY LAZY!

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A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 11.NO 486. 4h December 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

MOST NIGERIAN PRESS PRACTITIONERS ARE UNPRODUCTIVE AND VERY LAZY!

Contrary to its constitutional duties of general oversight of all government activities, the Nigerian Press relishes in dishing annual ludicrous “media titles” coined in enticing phrases to non-performing pilfering State Governors, captains of industry, political jobbers, self-acclaimed billionaires, portfolio investors etc, for pecuniary gains!

Some of the titles included, “Best Governor, Senator, Industrialist, Local Government Chairman, etc, of every year, year-on-year!

Chapter II Section 22 of the 1999 Military Constitution states that Press is saddled with the following responsibilities,: The Press, radio, television, and other agencies of the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this Chapter and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the Government to the people.” In other words the Nigerian press is expected to function as the WATCHDOG of the good citizens of this great nation of Nigeria and to report all activities of government, public or private for everyone to rightly conclude whether or not they have delivered on their promises.

Current members of the Nigerian Press should always stand out as an impeccable, the most vibrant, vigilant, brilliant, intelligent, intellectual, sagacious, articulate, dedicated, patriotic, celebral, courageous, and very fearless professionals in the world, because of antecedents bequeathed through engagements who negotiated INDEPENDENCE on a platter of gold!

In history pre/post independence journalist and writers like our first President Nnamdi Azikiwe, Herbert Macaulay, Obafemi Awolowo, Anthony Enahoro, Peter Enahoro (Peter Pan), Alade Odunewu (Allah De), Peter Osugo, Adamu Ciroma, Olabisi Onabanjo, Babatunde Jose, etc, played significant roles to enshrine, sustain and maintain the independence and sovereignty of the great nation of Nigeria even at  the peril of their lives!

It remains an indisputable fact that late Journalist cum Politician, Chief Anthony Enahoro, mooted the call for Nigerian Independence at the London Conference in 1956!

Chapter II Section 39 (1) – (3) (a) and (b) also stipulate other oversight duties of the Press.

IS THE NIGERIAN PRESS ENGAGED IN IS CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES AT THIS TIME OF THE NATION'S PREDICAMENTS?

Following the brutal take over of government in 1966 by the military to the present attempt of  a nascent democracy from 1999 to date, the Nigerian Press cannot point to any significant role it had played to nurture a new generation of politicians outside of those who frolicked, wined and dinned with the khaki boys during the almost 30 years of illegal martial occupation of the 

nation!

Regular journalists took over the centre ; reported political/ government engagements on invitation, collect press releases/ brown envelopes which subsidized paltry salaries by their employers; most times published foreign/fake/hate news that are found in abundance on the internet/social media to fill the gap!

Now that the election fever has gathered momentum, politicians who were ever ready to bribe their ways into political offices in the coming year have engaged unprofessional media men and women to propagate all their lies/ fake news with the view to having an edge over their opponents!

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME FEW MEDIA HOUSES INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IS ANATHEMA TO THE NIGERIAN MEDIA PRACTITIONER IN THIS 21st CENTURY!

It will be an understatement to assert that the Nigerian/International media have greater responsibility in governance, human rights protection, institutional development, protection of lives and properties and general welfare of the people as general overseers than those who were selected, elected or rigged themselves to run the day-to-day affairs of governance!

In the past 22 years of democratic diarchy in Nigeria, media practitioners only “sidon look” and report rummors or fables!

 There is none of them who is not aware that the present “dollar-consuming” naira- wasting 1999 Military Constitution of Nigeria is an abberation forced down the throat of hapless Nigerians who do not have the wherewithal to raise brimstone and fire like in other climes where citizens express very violent attitudes that drove sitting Heads of State into exile!

They would neither investigate nor engage in digging deep to unravel financial leakages/wastages/corruption at all levels of the THREE TIERS – the ANNUAL BUDGET PADDING which Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin provided on a platter of gold! What about the phantom CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS,?

None of them ever bothered to interogate  the honorable member of the House of Representatives in 2016 when he exposed the sordid corruption at such a high level of government and confront the efcc for failing to take necessary action to arrest and prosecute the honorable member and all the high-profile ranking members who were accused of the bare-faced robbery of common patrimony to date!

These media practitioners are so distant from grassroot citizens who were always ready to give free information to expose all the ills of a decadent society like Nigeria!

The 13-year-old Boko Haram insurgency which metamorphosed into terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, assasinations, and attacks are the “by-products” of INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION which the Press gave little or no attention to, except to publish PRESS HAND OUTS FROM GOVERNMENT OR THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES!

Outside of general commentaries, the media men/women in spite of the fact that they have many constituted bodies like Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ), National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Nigeria Press Council etc. had never pressurised consecutive governments to abbrogate the obnoxious document!

Have they ever collectively suggest and demand for the option of A REFERENDUM for the immediate enactment of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will collapse the unprofitable structure of the executive presidency, governorship at State levels, the legislative and local government administrations to usher a cash-friendly government of PARLIAMENTARIANS from the grassroots who will from among themselves choose a PRIME MINISTER in the 2023 General Elections!

MEDIA TOWN HALL POLITICAL BLABBING OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES!

It is Our candid opinion that majority of Nigerian media practitioners had not been very objective in the conduct of mushroom Village/Town Hall Meetings this far! Some gatherings were allegedly motivated for financial perks!

What is the role of the Press in asking irrelevant and inconsequential questions about the Climate or how to mitigate  Annual Flooding from presidential candidates whose mission is to make more money from such strategic projects and cared less whether the citizens swam or sank having been  thrown up from very corrupt party primaries? 

Were journalidts not supposed to have stopped these IMPOSTORS in the first instance by exposing all of their dirty past through deliberate and authentic investigation that would have given sufficient EVIDENCES TO  law enforcement agencies to arrest them and incarcerate them?

 

Are these practitioners not putting the HORSE BEHIND THE CART NOW?

WATERGATE in America was the brainchild of very dedicated journalists but DASUKIGATE in Nigeria was a HANDOUT from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for press publication!

Where were the Nigerian media practitioners when a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police – then a serving Senator of the Federal Republic said on the floor of the red Chamber that he was seated with criminals! Where were they?

This is shameful scenario that these generation of practitioners must braze up to ameliorate.

Apart from the THIS DAY AND CHANNELS GROUPS OF MEDIA PRACTITIONERS, who have established outstanding articulate, cerebral and very professional qualities locally and internationally in INVESTIGATIVE REPORTAGE – all the others just exist to fill the gap!

 

WE ENCOURAGE THE CHIEF  EXECUTIVE OF THIS DAY AND THE CHANNELS GROUP CONGLOMERATE TO CHAMPION THE MOVE FOR REFERENDUM WHICH WILL TAKE JUST ONE DAY TO DECIDE THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND PERMANENTLY DOUSE THE CURRENT VANDALIZATION OF INEC FACILITIES ACROSS NIGERIA AND LOSS OF PRECIOUS LIVES AND PROPERTIES!

We disagree that this move is TOO CLOSE to the elections! 

“With God all things are possible!”

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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, 

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

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

NIGERIA ROBBED FOR 13 YEARS FROM EVOLVING TO NATIONHOOD!

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. 11.NO 485. 27th November 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

NIGERIA ROBBED FOR 13 YEARS FROM EVOLVING TO NATIONHOOD!

Mallam Adamu’s lamentation of eight-year - two-term - failure as Nigeria Minister of Education has begun to yield dividends with the recent resuscitation of the exiled subject of History into the basic education curriculums.

History was removed from the primary/secondary school curriculums during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Administration of late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the 2009/2010 academic session but the minister ordered a re-introduction of the subject in 2019.

 For the fact that the reason for its removal was still shrouded in mystery, the minister confessed that history used to be one of the foundational subjects taught in the classrooms but for some inexplicable reasons the steam of teaching and learning was abolished.

In a speech at the flag-off ceremony of the re-introduction of the teaching of History on Thursday 24th November, 2022, in Abuja, Adamu also said that history was subsequently expunged from the list of subject combinations which students could offer in both external and internal examinations compared to the subjects that were made compulsory at basic and secondary levels in Nigeria.

The following are excerpts of the minister’s speech as delivered by his representative, Minister of State for Education at the flag-off ceremony:

“This single art no doubt relegated and eroded the knowledge and information that learners could otherwise have been exposed to.

“It was a monumental mistake and we have already started seeing the negative consequences. The loss created by the absence of this subject has led to a fall in moral values, erosion and civic values and disconnect from the past.

“ More worrisome was the neglect of the teaching of this subject at the basic and post-basic levels of education which invariably eroded the knowledge of the evolution of Nigeria as a country,”Adamu further lamented!

I HAVE WOEFULLY FAILED AS MINISTER OF EDUCATION!

Previously on Thursday 3rd November, 2022, Adamu confessed and did not deny but admitted that he was a total disaster to the education sector!

His conscience pricked him so badly especially in the manner he slothfully handled the eight-month-long (14th February – 14th October 2022), ASUU strike which almost robbed innocent tertiary students of a whole academic calendar year - while the dust is yet to settle down in respect of the pro-rata salaries paid to the revered and respected academics in October 2022 as if they were casual labourers!

During the 66th National Council on Education (NCE), held on 3rd November 2022, Abuja, Adamu who claimed to be the longest-serving minister in Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s administration noted that he had not been able to provide solutions to the problems facing the ministry. 

He was irked by the increasing number of out-of-school street children of over 13 million including the Academic Staff Union of (Public) Universities prolonged strike as part of his failure BUT he has not RESIGNED because he was determined to make RESTITUTION!

RE-INTRODUCTION CEREMONY/ TRAINING OF HISTORY TEACHERS AT THE BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL FLAGGED OFF ON 24TH NOVEMBER 2022 IN ABUJA.

Vital Information:

1) A total of 3,700 history teachers have been shortlisted for the first- round of training for enhanced teaching of the subject.

2) Focus of the introduction was the training and the re-training of teachers in order to enhance their capacity development which would lead to the mastery of the subject.

3) Teachers will be provided with the requisite skills needed to teach the subject through collaboration of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), which handled pro-rata selection of the 3,700 History teachers from the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for training.

4) UBEC and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), will work together to equip the new teachers with the necessary skills to teach the subject especially with the modification of its content.

QUESTIONS: 

a. What is History as a subject? In simple definition – it is a record of existence, past, present and future. Of accounts of genre of creation - the homo sapiens, mysteries of the environments, atmospheric/climate changes, vegetations etc.History is uniquely outstanding: inquisitive, ubiquitous! It probes into the artistic, scientific; asks questions and records answers for posterity! History is the life, breath and the very existence of the universe and its peoples as presently domicile!

b. Who is Adamu Adamu? Mallam Adamu Adamu CON, (born 25th May, 1954, aged 68), is an accountant, journalist and politician who is currently serving as Minister of Education. Adamu who is of the Northern extraction Azare, Katagum, Bauchi State assumed office on 11th November 2015 and still serving to date. He possesses bachelor's degree in accounting and master's degree in journalism. He served as a special assistant to Major General Muhammadu Buhari who, during the military interregnum, was Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) was also the secretary and member of Muhammadu Buhari’s APC Presidential Transition Committee. He was awarded in October 2022 a Nigerian national honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), by the retired Major General in spite of his calamitous failure as a minister of the Federal Republic! (Courtesy Wikipedia).

ADAMU MAKES RESTITUTION AS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESTORES HISTORY IN THE EDUCATION CURRICULUM 13 YEARS AFTER ITS EXCLUSION!

It will be a disservice to the lofty constitutional ideals as enacted that citizens’ rights to quality education was sacrosanct and at the same time assume that 13 years expulsion of the History subject in the Education curriculum of Nigerian students did not amount to a colossal damage and wastage to the acquisition of knowledge of unimaginable proportion of a whole generation of Nigerian YOUTHS!

BUT the Nigerian selfish leadership had in the past 13 years deprived the youth of the acquisition of the knowledge of the very important subject of History and ultimately the knowledge of their own country, it's past and present for over one decade!

THE SARDAUNA OF SOKOTO LENDS SUPPORT TO RESUSCITATION OF HISTORY!

Highly revered traditional ruler of the Caliphate in a goodwill message to the flag-off stated that Nigeria was still evolving and striving to achieve nationhood. and therefore appealed to traditional rulers as custodians of the nation's rich culture, traditions and values and indeed all Nigerians to support the whole step taken by the government to re-introduce the subject.

 He said “We owe it a duty to encourage research for the documentation of the history of our people and should be forthcoming in granting access to historical records in our custody.”

THE INCREDIBLE POSITION OF HISTORY AS THE MOST RELEVANT SUBJECT OF EDUCATION!

HISTORY IS AN ART.

The quote “history is an art” is a paraphrase of an idea by Ernest Renan who was a 19th-Century French philosopher, language expert and biblical scholar. His actual comment was, “history is as much and art as a science”.

In asking audiences to view history as an “art”, Renan is pushing back against the notion that history is simply what “happened”.

 Instead, considering history as “art “asks people to think of the past as a story that has been constructed.

 Even when scholars adopt rigorous methodologies and attend to tell a “balanced” story they are still forced to make choices. 

These choices could be considered “artistic” inasmuch as they depend more on the individual historian and not circumstances or things outside of him or her.

HISTORY AS HUMANISTIC LITERARY ACTIVITY.

As a humanistic and literary activity, history is both science and art. It is scientific in its method and technique but literary and artistic in its presentation. Courtesy: The Unity of Knowledge: History as Science and Art – D.I Ajaegbo. 2013.

WHY HISTORY IS CONSIDERED TO BE SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE!

The method of presenting history is different from that of other sciences. Even so, history uses the scientific method at every stage, namely, while looking for collecting evidence, examining the evidence and while putting it together.

When required, help is also taken from others sciences. That is why, history to be a scientific discipline.

History is not written solely on the basis of imagination – toppr.com

ADAMU’S LAST CARD FOR RESTITUTION!

Media reports say that Adamu is in league with Chris Ngige the interloper Labour Minister who is quoting an extant law of “no work no pay” to further exacerbate the unsavoury situation!

It is on record that Government always bent backwards to assuage and not compound such delicate issues that have to do with FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CITIZENS FROM WHOM THEY DERIVE THEIR  AUTHORITY AND POWER!

Adamu should advise his principal, to pay the lecturers all of their salaries and allowances during the period of the LEGITIMATE STRIKE WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!

Any action contrary to the above will result in a total conflagration of whatever legacy the All Progressives Congress (APC) and retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari hope to bequeath to POSTERITY!

“A word is sufficient to the Wise!”

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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, 

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

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

THE POVERTY CANCER HAS TOTALLY CONSUMED THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

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. 11.NO 484. 20th November 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

THE POVERTY CANCER HAS TOTALLY CONSUMED THE GIANT OF AFRICA.

A new poverty virus christened “Multi-dimensional” by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), is currently consuming 63% or 133 million of the over 200 million population – and it is official!

The Breaking News released from the NBS Portal Thursday 17th November 2022, were the results of the 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), Survey which was a collaborative effort between NBS, the National Social Safety-nets Co-ordinating Office (NASSCO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHDI).

The survey which sampled over 56,000 households across the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was conducted between November 2021 and February 2022 and provides multidimensional poverty estimates at senatorial District level.

Although the polymathic index of the virus exceeded the World Bank’s 2018 projection, the good news is that this brand is not “terminal” by nature even when not less than three of every five rural Nigerian were already “infected”!

In its overview on Nigeria’s economy the global bank in that year believed that although Nigeria made some significant progress in socio-economic terms its human capital development remained weak due to under investment and that it ranked 152 of 157 countries in the world.

The report further stated that if international crude oil price slided below USD $50 dollars, Nigeria would go into recession and that by the year 2030, thirty million Nigerians would become poorest of the poor globally!

In simple deduction, the 30 million figure of the World Bank’s statistics which predicted future poverty Index in 2030, is a far cry to the Federal Government’s Survey astronomical figure of 133 million presently in existence – in the NOW!

BUT WE DISMISSED - OPPOSED THE “OBNOXIOUS” WORLD BANK REPORT AND THE UNITED NATIONS SIMILAR REPORT OF 2016!

In 2016 the United Nations report tagged Common Country Analysis (CCA) adjudged Nigeria as one of the poorest countries in terms of per capita income in the world.

In the year 2017 it was reported that poverty-stricken Nigerians depended mostly on remittances from the diaspora as economic crisis bit harder in the first quarter and also in June 2018 second quarter, Nigeria according to World Poverty Clock (WPC), revealed that the country had about 87 million people living in poverty as against India's 73 million!

The adage which states that every LIE has a terminal date has dawned on all of us who were antagonistic to the accuracy of the various international perception index and will henceforth repent!

Since previous LIES in respect of the state of the Nigerian economy had been exposed, the only option open to a nepotic, tribalistic, die-hard, impunistic, wicked, culpable, complicit and clueless APC Government under the Watch of the Major General Muhammadu Buhari, was to come out CLEAN!

NIGERIA'S PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IS TOO CHEAP AND TOO CORRUPT!

The outgoing Major General Muhammadu Buhari promised in his desperation for a second term in 2019 that he would tackle poverty and will ensure that 100 million people were taken out of poverty in ten years at the rate of  10 million per annum – and now in 2022, the NBS says 133 million Nigerians are swimming in the ocean of poverty! Who is fooling who?

The National MPI Survey is 0.257 indicating that poor people in Nigeria experience just over one-quarter of all possible deprivations.

Sixty-five per cent of the poor (86 million people) live in the North, while 35% (nearly 47 million), live in the South. 

Poverty levels across States vary significantly, with the incidence of multidimensional poverty ranging from a low of 27% in Ondo to a high of 91% in Sokoto.

Over half of the population of Nigeria are multidimensional poor and cook with dung, wood or charcoal, rather than clean energy.

High deprivations are, also apparent nationally in sanitation, time to healthcare, food insecurity, and housing.

Also featured in the MPI Survey are that poorest States which included Sokoto, Bayelsa, Jigawa, Kebbi, Gombe and Yobe. 

Two-thirds (67.5%) of children aged (0-17) are multi-dimensionally poor according to the National MPI and half (51%) of all poor people are children.

Twenty nine per cent (29%), of all school-age children are not attending School while 94% of all out-of-school children are poor. Child poverty reduction is top national policy according to the report.

In general, the incidence of monetary poverty is lower than the incidence of multidimensional poverty across most States.

In Nigeria 40.1% of people are poor according to the 2018- 2019 national poverty monetary line and 63% are multidimensional poor according to the National MPI 2022.

RURAL AND CHILD POVERTY ACROSS GEO-POLITICAL ZONES!

Multidimensional poverty is higher in the rural areas where 72% of the people are poor compared to 42% of people in urban areas.

The highest deprivations are in the indicator of child engagements – where over half of all children lack the intellectual stimulation that is pivotal to early childhood development. Child poverty is prevalent in rural areas with almost 90% of rural children experiencing poverty.

Across the geo-political zones the child MPIshows higher poverty in the North-East and North-West (where 90% of children are poor) and lower poverty in the South East and Southwest (74% and 65.1% respectively).

The incidence of child MPI is above 50% in all states and greater than 95% in Bayelsa, Sokoto, Gombe and Kebbi. Four million Nigerians – 2.1% of the population - live with a child aged 15-17 who is the first generation in that household to have completed primary School!

THE WAY OUT OF THIS QUAGMIRE IS A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH REFERENDUM THAT WILL PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER AND FAITHFUL PARLIAMENTARIANS IN THE YEAR 2023 FROM ALL THE LOCAL COUNCIL AREAS OF NIGERIA!

VOICE POPULI VOICE DEI !

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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, 

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

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.45]. –DR. DAVID OLUFON. 13th November, 2022.

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.45]. –DR. DAVID OLUFON.  13th November, 2022.

NIGERIAN YOUTHS SHOULD HENCEFORTH GUARD ALL INEC FACILITIES PRO BONO!

One attack too many on government strategic infrastructures!

Outside of Correctional Institution and Police Station buildings across   Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Offices have become targets of arsonists as the 2023 General Elections approach.

Two INEC Office Facilities in Ogun and Osun South West Nigeria were simultaneously attacked and conflagrated early Tuesday 8th November 2022, to disenfranchise 65,699 Nigerians whose Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), were trapped in the Abeokuta inferno!

Nigeria's nascent democracy, a product of 30 years of illegal military occupation has witnessed quadrennial/off season electoral violence and all forms of malpractices from 1999 to date unabated!

The inordinate ambition for political power in the diarchy that should take the blame but consecutive administrations treaded the path of deceit that inadequate strength of security personnel in the Armed Forces, Police and para-military which is overstretched beyond limit was responsible!

According to INEC, there had been 50 attacks on its facilities in 21 States in recent years between February 2019 to date and hardly had anyone being caught, investigated or prosecuted so far!

Other Items destroyed in Abeokuta, Ogun State included 904 ballot boxes 29 voting cubicles, 30 megaphones, 57 election bags and eight electric power generators while only a portion of the Ede’s Office in Osun was burnt down!

A CALL TO NATIONAL DUTY FOR PATRIOTIC NIGERIAN YOUTHS!

Who were the criminal arsonists that attacked the two INEC Facilities? 

Indigenous youths who could scale perimeter fences with ease at an unholy hour of 01.40 am when law-abiding citizens were in bed? 

Youths with pre-meditated plans who also torched adjoining buildings with BREAD LOAVES heavily soaked in PMS (petrol)!

And who were the eyewitnesses of all the events which details were given with much accuracy?

The Local Youths who should have formed vigilante groups to watch over the facilities as contribution of their civic duties to the nation!

For the umpteenth time, We call on our youths – able-bodied men and women (60%) of the population to take advantage of the 2023 General Elections which will debut with the introduction of electronic BIVAS, the digital device that will capture both photos and fingerprints of all voters on the election dates and authenticate that every vote counted through electronic transmission of Ward Results to INEC Portals.

It is strongly believed that patriotic local youths in all the Local Government Areas of Nigeria can form formidable vigilante groups to monitor and protect all government institutions and buildings within their neighborhoods as their own contribution to national Security without expecting Naira and Kobo from any quarters instead of lending themselves to dubious politicians who do not care about their welfare! IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING!

We are championing and campaigning that there should be no violent agitations but that all patriotic Nigerians, especially the youths, should demand for REFERENDUM that will provide opportunity to vote for the enactment of a unicameral parliamentary constitution through which a PRIME MINISTER will emerge in 2023!

Of the four major political candidates making waves, none of them is fit to govern this country because they all have skeletons in their cupboards!

With a unicameral parliamentary system of government in place the youths will have the opportunity to elect one of their own candidate from the smaller parties or an independent candidate to fill the position of Prime Minister while several of them will become parliamentarians and a new Nigeria of our collective dreams will emerge!

A REFERENDUM EXERCISE TAKES PLACE IN ONE DAY AND EVERY DECISION VOTED FOR BECOME LAW AND SACROSANCT FOR IMPLEMENTATION BY THE GOVERNMENT IN POWER!

Please share with friends on all social networks and the internet for wider coverage.

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. G-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

DIASPORA NIGERIANS ARE ECONOMIC POWER BROKERS!

 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. 11.NO 483. 13th November 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

DIASPORA NIGERIANS ARE ECONOMIC POWER BROKERS!

Brain drain in every field of study in Nigeria had been so commonplace since independence in 1960 because the indigenous government could not offer adequate educational facilities needed by the youthful and exuberant population.

 In droves Nigerian youths took off to Britain and other European countries to look for greener pastures. As at that period in history, foreign countries encouraged migration to boost their workforce  and they had no reason to travel through the Sahara Desert or Libya, neither flaunt illegal papers nor travel documents as originals to get to their various destinations.

Visa was generously issued to all who would rather go to other countries and develop hosts economies to the detriment of their own native lands. 

 

MIGRATION FROM NIGERIA TO OTHER COUNTRIES EVENTUALLY TOOK DESPERATE DIMENSIONS!

Following the military interregnum from 1966-1979, Biafra War, July 1967-Jan. 1970, migration of youths from Nigeria took fearful dimension to escape the bloody, cruel, gruesome and very devastating atrocities that accompanied the calamities!

In addition, maladministration  coupled with gross mismanagement of the economy, abuse of power and institutional endemic corruption became the hallmark of the Military which had no qualms about the most unfortunate plight of the citizenry!

Thousands of thousands of the desperate youths still departed the shores of Nigeria especially when the twin evil of tribalism and religion were surreptitiously introduced to aggravate conflicts through persecution and deprivation/violations of fundamental human rights by pseudo administrators in government!

As at June 2022, there were about fifteen to twenty million Nigerians domicile in the UK, USA, and South Africa. 

ADVANTAGES OF DIASPORA REMITTANCES!

Diaspora remittances had always represented a buffer zone to Nigeria's economy whenever it is at its lowest ebb. At all times since independence these monetary transactions had provided the basic amenities which government at all levels failed to supply the Citizens.

Diaspora Nigerians in the year 2012, contributed a whooping sum of USD$12 billion dollars, to the Nigerian economy, annual revenue more than those of 34 States put together! Annual remmitance is pegged at USD$25billion.

However not all those who migrated to foreign countries were good ambassadors of their native lands. Some of them did drugs and committed nefarious crimes but were always fished out to be lawfully punished because of the well-established institutions of law enforcement in those countries.

 But all over the world patriotic Nigerian migrants have distinguished themselves and made the country very proud as established professionals in medicine, engineering, science and politics.

NIGERIAN-AMERICANS THAT HAVE MADE NIGERIA PROUD!

In the recently concluded Tuesday 8th November 2022 Midterm elections in the United States of America, eight Nigerian-Americans were re-elected to serve to the end of the first four-year-term of President Joe Biden.

According to the Nigerian American Public Affairs Committee (NAPAC), list release the Nigerian Americans have won legislative seats in the United States midterm elections.

They won seats in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and the District of Columbia DC. 

The Federal Government of Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari have  congratulated the politicians on their successes.

THERE IS NOW AN URGENT NEED FOR  DIASPORA VOTING!

Diaspora voting was deliberately opposed by past Nigerian administrations because of the sophistication of the Nigerian- Americans and their counterparts across the world who have been exposed to modern art of digital and electronic voting and who could easily influence innovations that would permanently stop electoral malpractices in their native land.

At this very time of the downturn of Nigeria's economy with a deficit 2022 Budget that cannot even fund Capital projects but can only pay salaries and allowances with borrowed funds from other nations, the Federal Government needs the assistance and expertise of Diaspora Nigerians.

NNPCL AND THE OIL THIEVES!

 

Oil theft had been another misnomer which has robbed Nigeria from enjoying the windfall which resulted from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in almost nine months or that Nigerians are not being told the whole truth about the daily liftings and the gains that accrued to the nation in the export of crude oil business.

 Recently Mr. President/Minister of Petroleum and all his lieutenants in the Oil and Gas industry have all agreed that subsidy on petroleum products, which has run into over NGN2.8 trillion Naira between Feburary2021- June2022, a period of 17 months is the greatest fraud of the century between NNPC marketers and their contractors. 

Another trending story is that an illegal connecting line of crude oil from export terminal into high Sea had been discovered by NNPCL after nine years of the bare-faced robbery of the only national asset that fetched foreign exchange earnings!

Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), in the month of October 2022, disclosed that an illegal oil pipeline connecting directly to the Sea was recently discovered!

He told the Nigerian Senate that the four-kilometre or 2.5-mile connection from the Forcados Export Terminals which typically exported around 250,000 barrels per day of oil into the Sea was discovered during a clampdown on oil theft operations! 

 According to him oil theft in the country has been going on for over 22 years but the dimension and the rate it has assumed in recent times was unprecedented.

He assured the lawmakers that his agency in collaboration with relevant security agencies had clamped down on the economic saboteurs and within a period of six weeks: 395 illegal refineries were deactivated, 274 reservoirs destroyed, 1561 metal tanks destroyed and 49 trucks seized!

He said oil thieves usually tapped land-based pipelines to siphon oil undetected but that an illegal line in the ocean was unusual and suggested a more sophisticated theft operation!

Diaspora economic power brokers must be encouraged to still support government at this crucial time of national debt embarrassment; the law makers needed to harvest their expertise in the Oil and Gas industry and to encourage them to invest in the coming years by ensuring that Diaspora Voting was firmly entrenched in the new PARLIAMENTARY UNICAMERAL CONSTITUTION THROUGH REFERENDUM THAT WILL PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER IN THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS!

All hands must be on deck to salvage what was left of this great nation which money bag politicians have tried to destroy at all cost.

Where there is a will, there is a way!

 [WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

 

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, 

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

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

CAN TINUBU HAND OVER ALL ASSETS OF “ALPHA BETA” TO THE COMMON-MAN?

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. 11.NO 482. 6th November 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

CAN TINUBU HAND OVER ALL ASSETS OF “ALPHA BETA” TO THE COMMON-MAN?

Presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ruling party Ahmed ‘Bola Tinubu, had over the years exhibited penchant for soothing economic disadvantages of the unfortunate common man from the vantage position of governance and immunity!

During his two-term tenure as Governor of Lagos State (1999-2007), he dispensed the Treasury as personal vault!

 He endeared the masses politically to himself through regular financial inducements which lifted a sizable population to hold allegiance to the Alliance to Democracy (AD), the Party in government which later metamorphosed into Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), between 1999-2013.

Those eight years at the helm of affairs in Lagos gave him the ample opportunity to entrench himself as business mogul and political juggernaut, classified as “godfather”!

Bola Tinubu played a major role in the formation in February 2013, the party now known as the All Progressives Congress (APC), which has been in power at the centre forward over seven years.

He led the Action Congress of Nigeria to merge with the Northern Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and the New PDP, a faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

Lagos State as the commercial capital of Nigeria, that enjoys a cosmopolitan status and hub of economic activities from around all continents of the world had always been in the lead in respect of Internally Generated Revenues (IGRs), among the 36 States and the Federal Capital City (FCT), of Nigeria. 

In 2021 Lagos State realised NGN535 billion naira as IGR and hopes to generate NGN980 billion naira in 2022!

‘Bola automatically became a king maker and handpicked governors that succeeded him from 2007 to date! His wish had never been faulted nor opposed!

MY LIFE AMBITION HAD ALWAYS BEEN TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA!

How 'Bola Tinubu became APC’s flag bearer to the 2023 General Elections is no longer in contention because the political campaigns have begun and the crowd are all surging around him – trusting that he would fulfill his dream.

In a recent conversation with Lagos captains of industries and businessmen from across various geo-political zones ‘Bola Tinubu still made mention of his desire that the “common man” should not suffer basic necessities of life any longer - especially electricity power – if he were elected president!

On his 62nd birthday anniversary on 29th March 2014, Tinubu tagged his Sixth Annual Colloquium Summit topic for discussion as “The Common Man”, and spoke passionately against the evil oligarchic nepotic and tribalistic tendencies of political actors and called for a new set of passionate leaders that would prepare the nation to sustainable growth of human development and prosperity.

Other speakers at colloquium also addressed issues  of government's ineptitude to provide basic necessities of life to its citizens in respect of education, access to health care facilities, unemployment among the youths and able-bodied men and women underemployment estimated at 20 million, lack of primary health care, annual infant and maternal mortality rates, number of out-of-school children of primary school age which was put in that year 2014 at 10.5 million!

TINUBU MUST NOW PUT HIS MOUTH WHERE HIS MONEY IS!

The flame of passion for the downtrodden is still burning fiercely in Tinubu and We believe that he would stop at nothing to prove to the world that he is  a “committed democrat” and a faithful philanthropist.

The year September-October 2022 deluge that devastated 31 of 36 States of Nigeria did not go unnoticed by the APC Flag bearer who had doled out millions of Naira to unfortunate victims to support Federal and State governments efforts.

He held his 2021 12th birthday Colloquium in the city of Kano and cancelled the 13th which should mark his 70th birthday anniversary on 29th March 2022, to honour victims of the Kaduna-Abuja Train attack by Boko Haram Terrorists!

BUT WILL AHMED BOLA TINUBU TRANSFER ALL OF HIS ASSETS AT THE “ALPHA BETA CONSULTING” TO THE POOR MASSES?

All of his political career what’s embroiled in all manner of allegations of corrupt practices mismanagement of funds and high-handedness in picking surrogates to fill political offices.

 He was accused during the 2019 Presidential elections of conveying monies in and out of his residence on Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi Lagos; but dammed public outcry with a wave of the hand that he could keep his money wherever he wished!

Apart from dubious educational qualifications Tinubu has been accused of involvement in a private tax-collecting firm known and registered as ALPHA BETA CONSULTING!

It is alleged that Tinubu owns the firm which collects taxes on behalf of the Lagos State Government in spite of the existence of the official State Inland Revenue Services!

Alpha Beta is paid monthly commissions which has just been increased in January 2022 from ₦800 million naira to ₦2.5 billion naira by incumbent surrogate Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwoolu in spite of court litigation against Ahmed tinubu and Alpha-Beta Consulting by a former managing director of the consulting firm!

BOLA TINUBU SHOULD BEQUEATH THE ASSETS OF ALPHA BETA TO THE “COMMON MAN” WHO NEEDS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

For the umpteenth time WE make bold to say that Nigerians are totally fed up with the ever corrupt Presidential System and are demanding through REFERENDUM, A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION THAT WILL PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER IN THE YEAR 2023!

Bola Tinubu and his shameless money bags in other Parties should join the moving train before it is too late or be CRUSHED in its tracks!

“A word is enough for the WISE!”

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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, 

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

If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray  this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament in your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and personal 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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

NIGERIA IS TERRORIZED WITH TERROR ALERTS!

#CAMPAIGN FOR REFERENDUM AND NOT VIOLENT AGITATIONS! [NO.44]. –DR. DAVID OLUFON.  5th November, 2022.

NIGERIA IS TERRORIZED WITH TERROR ALERTS!

Although terrorism is a global phenomenon, but when any nation is bereft of digital technologies for confronting heinous crimes it had inadvertently sold its sovereignty to international scammers and do-gooders!

“Terrror Alert” is not an exclusive preserve of  the United States United Kingdom or Canada but these advanced countries surreptitiously employ this uncanny weapon to keep most African countries in servitude and modern slavery!

 

They always claimed to direct such alerts to their citizens domicile in those countries but in actual fact had always suçceeded to stampede the nations in question to approach and negotiate measures to mitigate future occurrences but it has never been for free! 

Proper procedure for initiating and NOT aggravating terror alerts to sovereign countries according to international best practices should have been top secret affair between government to government under classified diplomatic information channel and not for general consumption as they have deliberately done  in the past and at the present times!

Imagine if the US, UK and Canada had sent classified information on terror attacks in Nigeria directly to the President and Commander-in -Chief who knows how best to deploy his security architecture to apprehend such criminals or terrorist to nip in the bud impending calamities or disasters, won’t human/material casualties be prevented and avoided?

THOSE TERROR ALERTS TO AFRICA WERE IN BAD TASTE!

Were the terror alerts to African countries not a ploy by former colonizers to aid and abbet terrorists planning behind the scenes to further perpetrate distabilization of such governments?

Were they not deliberately publicized, for such terror groups re-strategize and wait for the stampede to subside then strike when no one expected?

America, Britain and Canada could be more diplomatic but from all their past and present activities against African Nations especially the giant of Africa -  Nigeria - one could easily conclude that they are sworn enemies of progress of the Black Continent!

Every country in the world – including US, UK and Canada - is domicile with people of divergent views opposed to international norms, practices, leadership, governance systems, ideologies or policies at all levels.

 They claim exclusive knowledge in ethics, morality or religion and would go to any extreme to force their obsessions on innocent and law-abiding citizens, so, nothing stops Nigeria or South Africa to ACQUIRE LATEST DIGTAL TECHNOLOGY TO ROOT OUT AND ROUT THOSE ENEMIES OF STATE AND THEIR FOREIGN ACCOMPLICES FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT THEIR  SOVEREIGN STATES!

Nigeria needs DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION to overcome annual embarrassments of foreign countries terror alerts who were former colonial Task Masters! Digital technology gadgets cost fortunes and only incorruptible administrations could afford such funds to protect its citizens as  primary objective policies!

BUT to achieve this milestone, the current presidential and VERY ÇORRUPT ADMINISTRATION OF MAJOR GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI MUST GIVE WAY TO A UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THROUGH REFERENDUM AND PRODUCE A PRIME MINISTER IN 2023!

Please share this message with friends on internet and also on internet platforms for wider coverage as pressure groups to force this CORRUPT GOVERNMENT TO DO THE WILL OF the PEOPLE!

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. G-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

WILL REDESIGNED NAIRA NOTES OFFER SOME RESPITE TO THE DOWNTRODDEN?

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. 11.NO 481. 30th October 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

WILL REDESIGNED NAIRA NOTES OFFER SOME RESPITE TO THE DOWNTRODDEN?

The apex Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has announced plans to boost the battered economy with redesigned Nigerian currencies of 1000, 500, and 200 Naira denominations which will be in circulation from 15th December 2022 to 30th January 2023.

Of the three trillion naira currencies currently in circulation, ₦2.7 trillion are outside of the banking sector and have stifled economic transactions through massive infiltration of counterfeit and very dirty currencies that can no longer qualify as legal tender!

Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank governor who made the announcement last Thursday 27th October, 2022 reeled out  benefits that will complement the redesigned currencies as follows 1. Terminate counterfeiting. 2. Cancel further official money printing. 3. Check corruption. 4. Precipitate cashless economy and 5. Create liquidity to manage inflation.

FAKE CURRENCIES ARE AS OLD AS NIGERIA!

Before the advent of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), counterfeited currencies had dominated rural trading communities, urban commercial sectors and virtually the entire banking industry!

Fake Naira notes were rarely detected due to forgers perfection except they were detected by eagle eyes during exchange for goods and services; but such transactions in most cases always ended at police stations for arbitration!

In recent times even with the introduction of ATMs it has been detected that powerful syndicates operating in the banking sector have heightened the proliferation or fake Naira notes into the banks. In spite of the confidence of the ATM engineers that the machines would detect counterfeit notes, they passed seamlessly through the machines and into the hands of innocent customers who were eventually embarrassed when they presented such notes as legal tender!

In December 2017 precisely five years ago our Editorial Board launched an investigation to unravel the sources of fake Naira notes that were being dispensed from ATMs alongside legitimate currencies and discovered that a very powerful syndicate in the commercial banks were operating undetected by their principals!

Two fake N1000 currencies came into our possession through withdrawals from an ATM located within a commercial bank and another from the counter of a banking hall in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.

 We made so much noise about the two separate incidents and threatened to report the banks to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), while we also spoke to some officials the CBN who promised to investigate the complaint and get back to us until FOREVER!

We then called on the Federal Government to hold the CBN Governor responsible for the trillions of naira currencies in circulation all over Nigeria through our publication: Zion B-BC Newsletter, 226th Edition of 10th December, 2017, without response until now when Mr. Emefiele acted a ONE MAN SHOW — of redesigning of the designated currencies without any imput from the Federal Ministry of Finance and National Planning.

The Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning has warned that the new notes will have dire consequences on Naira’s value.

CBN CLAIMS TO HAVE FOLLOWED DUE PROCESS IN THE NAIRA DESIGNING!

CBN’s spokesman said that the management in line with provisions of Section 2 (b), Section 18 (a) and Section 19 (a) (b), of the CBN Act 2007, duly sought and obtained the approval of the President Muhammadu Buhari in writing to redesign, produce, release and circulate new series of 200, 500, and 1000 Naira banknotes to fulfill efficacy in the conduct of monetary policy.

He urged Nigerians to support the currency redesign project because it was in the overall interest of Nigerians since some persons were hoarding significant sums of banknotes outside the vault of commercial banks which threatened the integrity of the currency.

In respect of printing costs of the new Naira notes he said the cost will not be outrageous because they will be printed in Nigeria and within CBNs budget.

COMMENTS:

Well said but has CBN acted ultra vires to Citizens persistent appeal for SYNERGY between Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), in order to get best results and defeat Red Tapism/Bureaucracies that have escalated failures and despondency in the CIVIL SERVICE  to date?

MAYBE NOT! In view of the following facts that usually guarded monetary protocol at that level:

*CBN is totally independent of the Ministry of Finance according to a 1989 Decree believed to have been promulgated by General Ibrahim Babangida.

*Just like the Economic Advisory Council (EAC), the apex bank takes instructions and reports directly to the President.

*Redesigning or outright Change of legal currencies MUST be executed with utmost secrecy because it is national sensitive issue!

*Nigerian currencies were changed in 1968 during the Biafra War (1967-1970), with a strategic view of rendering all monies of former Eastern Nigeria as illegal tender!

*In 1973, 1977 and between 1979 and 2009, the Nigerian currencies underwent various forms of changes to boost the economy at those stages of the nation’s development.

*The ₦2.7 trillion naira (about 80% of the ₦3trillion outside of the banking sector) are believed to be hoarded by desperate political moneybags who would stop at nothing to remain in contention at the 2023 General Elections by hook and crook!

*The measure is also believed would greatly reduce general GDP Inflation, especially FOOD INFLATION!

*Minister of finance could not claim total ignorance of the CBN move because one of its Directors is a member of the apex bank board.

IF IT IS AN EGO PROBLEM, WE ADVISE ZAINAB AHMED TO BACK OFF AND FACE THE ENORMOUS DUTIES OF HER MINISTRY AND STOP BEING A MEDDLESOME INTERLOPER!

The Citizens need all positive measures that would cushion the miserable state of the nation's economy now more than ever! This drowning government of the APC must give way to a PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAT WILL PRODUCE FOR THIS GREAT NATION A PRIME MINISTER IN THE YEAR 2023! NO MORE NO LESS!

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13).

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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, 

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

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

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

CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS SHOULD DEMAND FOR REFERENDUM NOT FRESH BILLS!

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. 11.NO 480. 23rd October 2022.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).  PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

 

CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS SHOULD DEMAND FOR REFERENDUM NOT FRESH BILLS!

Efforts at constitutional amendments in Nigeria always failed because the spirit and letters of the sacred document were consistently mortgaged by selfish, ambitious and very greedy legislators whose manipulative tendencies are at variance with democratic norms!

Political principles by which states or organisations are governed especially in relation to the rights and privileges of the people as set out in statutory constitutions are usually fallible, incompetent or imperfect. 

For these reasons they are regularly open to amendments from time to time in order to ensure fiscal discipline, financial prudence and human rights compliance!

But Nigeria's case is different! For instance in July 2017, both Chambers of the National Assembly (NASS), voted on 33 major bills to amend the bogus Military 1999 Constitution, but the votes turned out to be OPPOSED TO THE YEARNINGS, ASPIRATIONS AND SENSIBILITIES OF THE CITIZENS who were  agitating for TRUE  FEDERALISM as follows:

*DEVOLUTION of powers from Federal to Federating States; NO! *IMMUNITY for legislators during Plenary and Committee Sittings; YES!

*EX-SENATE PRESIDENTS AND EX-HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKERS be absorbed as members of the COUNCIL OF  STATES in order to have equal ranking with Presidents, Vice Presidents and Governors; YES!

*To override PRESIDENTIAL VETO IN CONSTITUTIONAL ALTERATION; YES!

*Removal of LAW-MAKING POWER from the Executive Arm (in respect of National Security Agencies Act, National Complaints Commission, Land Use Act and National Youth Service Corps.) YES!

*35% AFFIRMATIVE INCLUSION OF WOMEN AS MINISTERS; NO!

*APPROVAL FOR 35 YEARS AS MINIMUM AGE FOR QUALIFICATION AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES; NO!

*Approval for INDEPENDENT CANDIDACY AT ALL ELECTIONS; NO!

At the end of their jamboree ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in a letter dated 13th April 2015 to NASS rejected the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution Alteration Bill 2015 because he perceived deliberate attempt by federal lawmakers to whittle down presidential powers!

On the whole he gave 10 reasons for vetoing the entire exercise and all the ONE BILLION NAIRA appropriated for the exercise went into the pockets of the greedy legislators without any query to date!

LAWMAKERS VOTED 44 CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS IN 2022!

Like its 2017 counterpart the current amendments to the 1999 Military Constitution of Nigeria took off on wrong footing and has hit the rocks!

The Amendments which were gender-unfriendly rejected FIVE GENDER BILLS; voted against provision for special seats for women in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly -208 members of the House of Representatives voted against it!

Both Chambers also voted against Affirmation Action for Women in political party administration while the Senate voted against the Bill on reserved QUOTA for Women and virtually dashed into pieces all provisions that were crafted to enhance greater activities for the Nigerian women in politics and administration!

The 44 voted bills which had been forwarded to all the 36 States to fulfill constitutional requirements that two thirds of STATE ASSEMBLIES must ratify them before they are passed to the President for assent into law since March 2022, were so far approved by only ELEVEN STATES!

QUESTION: How much did NASS appropriate for the wild goose chase – especially at this austere time of HYPER-INFLATION? In 2017, it was a whooping ₦ 1 BILLION NAIRA! It’s now FIVE YEARS ON …perhaps they managed ₦ 5 BILLION!

25 STATES HAVE DEMANDED THAT NEW BILLS MUST BE INCLUDED THE BEFORE THEIR APPROVAL!

State Assemblies working under the aegis of the CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY JOINT  COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW HAVE PRESENTED THE FOUR BILLS AS FOLLOWS : 

1) Establish STATE POLICE; 

2) Establish STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL; 

3) Streamline the procedure for removing Presiding Officers of State Houses of Assembly and;

4) Institutionalize Legislative Bureaucracy in the Constitution.

COMMENTS:

It is heartwarming that STATE GOVERNORS have supported their Legislative Assemblies to demand for the FOUR additional BILLS so that the entire AMENDMENTS EXERCISE WOULD SEE THE LIGHT OF THE DAY!

 

The flaws and loopholes of the 1999 Military Constitution were very glaringly to all LEGISLATORS AT ALL LEVELS FROM THE ONSET, but because of their greedy agenda an lifestyle for illicit gains from the SYSTEM preferred to persistently amend the unamendable instead of opting for the better PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT which is very cost-effective!

LEGISLATORS MUST NOT BE DEMANDING FOR BILLS TO PASS THROUGH BUREAUCRACY AT THIS AGE AND TIME ANYMORE!

THE BEST OPTION OPEN TO THEM IS THE CONVOCATION OF A REFERENDUM ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY ARE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE GOVERNORS!

Referendum will sort out all grey and contentious issues in respect of TRUE FEDERALISM and will produce INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES, (through a brand new UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION) one of whom will emerge as PRIME MINISTER in the 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS from among hundreds of hundreds of Members of Parliament from the Wards.

These States and their Governors must NOT miss this one opportunity to turn Nigeria around for the best and destroy once and for all the MONSTER CALLED INSECURITY! Failed Presidency MUST give way to Parliamentary Democracy!

“A stitch in time saves nine.”

 [WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]

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, 

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

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

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