NIGERIA’S NEW SECURITY ROADMAP MUST ERADICATE POVERTY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 330. 8th December, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

NIGERIA’S NEW SECURITY ROADMAP MUST ERADICATE POVERTY!

In spite of the hues and cries, massive protests and demands for the removal of all the Service Chiefs, except the Inspector General of Police who was appointed in 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari, of Nigeria refused to succumb because he trusted their potentials, capabilities, diligence, professionalism/resourcefulness. Instead, he upgraded and rewarded bravery, hard work, resilience and patriotism amongst the rungs of the ladder, for better and unbroken performances, in all theatres of war across the nation!

It is common knowledge that the socio-economic survival of any nation depended largely on the quality of security architecture/services provided by the government in power and Nigeria is not an exception. Insecurity is the absence of peace! It is the prevalence of violence chaos, anarchy, insurgency or terror; and no people or community could survive under such horrible conditions! Nigeria ingested its first dose of insecurity when Military adventurists who had no business in politics or governance took over the mantle of leadership with the barrels of the gun in January 1966!
The ripple effects of maladministration throughout military occupation continued to take its toll even at the debut of another attempt at democracy in the year 1999, because the 30 years of military dictatorship had distorted the psyche of the products of the first set of politicians which had no other choice than to produce a die-hard “retired” Army General, as its number one citizen!

REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY ROADMAP DOCUMENT.
Realising that posterity would never forgive this generation of political leaders, if the current trend of threatened security was not reversed, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the most conscientious, both as military/civilian citizen  launched a fresh National Security Roadmap Document on Wednesday, 4th, December, 2019, to revitalize the previous document which was last reviewed in 2014! The document is revised every five years.

DETAILS OF THE REVISED NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY 2019!
According to the President, who vowed to further enhance social security, the new document was a product of painstaking and rigorous deliberations by relevant stakeholders which was committed to achieving a safer, more secure Nigeria from internal/external threats. He confessed that the plethora of security challenges confronting the nation, especially the insurgency could become the albatross to national development, investment, growth and prosperity and called on all segments of the society/all elements of the national power to embrace and support the new initiative.
The President specifically addressed efforts at ending the insurgency in the North East and laying the foundation for sustainable peace and development in the region, the conflicts between farmers and herders and banditry! He revealed that the document elicited contributions from security, intelligence, law-enforcement agencies, armed forces including, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), and the civil society adding that overall security  entailed unity of purpose because it was a “a bottom to top” operation which must not suffer failure at any level!

PRIORITIES FOR SECOND TERM: Include, pursuit of improvements in education, healthcare and agriculture; enhance social security as a means of improving physical/human security

THE ALMAJIRI THREAT! The National Security Adviser, (NSA), Mohammad Babagana Monguno, while giving an overview of the new Security Strategy Document, raised fresh concern in respect of Almajiri System in the North and opined that it could no longer be swept under the carpet. The retired Army Major General said the issue must be addressed as part of the solution to insecurity in the country before it could become one of the regrettable security threats to the nation!

LATEST WORLD BANK REPORT  HINGED  ON WEAK HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, RECESSION/POVERTY AND INSECURITY!
According to its overview on Nigeria’s Economy, the global bank believed that though the country made significant progress in socio-economic terms in recent years, its human capital development remains weak due to under-investment and that it ranked 152 of 157 countries in the World Bank’s 2018 Human Capital Index. (This assessment was no doubt predicated of the seemingly insecurity challenges of the nation!).
*That if international crude oil price slide below US $50 dollars, Nigeria would go into recession! *That by the year 2030, thirty million Nigerians would become poorest of the poor globally!
Comment: World Bank has freedom to publish figments of their imaginations because greedy leaders have not stopped fleecing the nation’s commonwealth to render the vulnerable illiterate masses financially, economically and socially incapacitated!

MEASURES AGAINST WORLD BANK PREDICTIONS BY BUHARI ADMINISTRATION!
The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, had disclosed at the occasion of the presidential launch of the Security Document that “ a comprehensive approach to address, POVERTY, HEALTHCARE DELIVERY CHALLENGES AND OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, PARTICULARLY THE ALMAJIRI SYSTEM – were all embedded in the new strategy document!  He stated that the document also captured current and future threats and has proffered appropriate strategy for government to address them holistically – especially, the security implications in respect of out-of-school-children to safeguard the fast-growing population of youths because the issues of poverty and illiteracy were synonymously linked! 
COMMENTS: *The Almajiri phenomenon must no longer be treated with kid gloves - it MUST be addressed headlong to avoid another decade of insurgency/terrorism!
These innocent children MUST be afforded opportunities of FREE AND COMPULSORY early education –Islamic and Western – simultaneously as provided for in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999,  Chapter II, Section 18, but (“NOT AS AND WHEN PRACTICABLE”), to stimulate their intellectual capabilities from tender ages. They should also be given opportunities in vocational/technical studies, exposed to land cultivation and basic entrepreneurship at secondary levels. (It is their inalienable right!). Government should remember that illiterate street youths who were easily manipulated by some Qura’nic religious turncoats formed the nucleus of the Boko Haram terrorists group, which scars have formed indelible marks on the nation’s socio-economic identity.

Aggressive pursuit of Internally-Generated Revenues (IGRs), through the combined efforts of Federal and State Governments, should occupy the front burner of their economic thrusts while wastages in government through illicit acquisition of wealth at the expense of FREE EDUCATION must cease!

Corruption with impunity should be discouraged as righteous leaders take the lead from henceforth! It is common global knowledge that eradicating poverty in all its forms had been the greatest challenge that faced Africa which accounts for 80% of the people living in extreme poverty and that in spite of efforts by the United Nations and international donor agencies to redress the ugly situation through the platforms of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000-2015), and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015-2030), no nation could boast of having achieved 3% success in that direction – though the social goals were quite honourable and achievable! Nigeria must not allow the World Bank/IMF predictions come true by quickly taking the above analyzed intervention steps, very seriously and religiously.

BUHARI WILL TAKE 100 MILLION NIGERIANS OUT OF POVERTY IN 10YEARS!
In October 2019, President Buhari, in anticipation of the security blue-print, promised to take 10 million Nigerians annually from poverty in 10 years; but the idea was greeted with massive disbelief on the social media because he had less than 4 years to end his final term in office!
COMMENTS: We believe that the ambition is practicable when the following drastic measures were implemented: –

(1) Continuous partial land border closure until 2030. If China could do it Nigeria also can! In 1974, there were about 800 million Chinese who lived in poverty but as at 2019, efforts are being intensified by President Xi Jin Ping to remove the less than 20million still in poverty out of that level!
(2) Drastic reduction of civil service/political appointments to cut down on remunerations/allowances, wastages, leakages through annual budget paddings, dubious/questionable contract awards and total cancellation of inexistent CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS for genuine CAPITAL PROJECTS that would benefit the masses!
(3) Upgrade of budget appropriation to the Education Sector to at least 26% of the annual budget in compliance to UNESCO recommendation!
(4) SCRAPPING OF THE NIGERIA SENATE LEGISLATION BEFORE YEAR 2023 AND REDUCTION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LEGISLATORS TO 74 MEMBERS ON PART-TIME BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTIONS!
(5) Judicious compliance with the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), salary Chart for all government employees at all levels!
(6) Complete stoppage of annual humongous SECURITY VOTES (of at least N300 billion per Governor), cancellation of ridiculous SEVERANCE ALLOWANCES, paid to ex-State Governors and recovery of all monies already paid to them!
(7) Implementation of aggressive agricultural/mineral exploitation revolution must be sold to all Nigerians who must be given lands to cultivate to SUSTAIN FOOD SECURITY and opportunities to  explore/exploit natural mineral deposits to boost the nation’s foreign reserve!
(8) The Land Use Act must be reviewed to accommodated all land owners in NON-CADASTRAL AREAS, for them to use their God-given birthright to acquire bank loans for businesses in SMSES to boost the economy!
(9) The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), intervention programmes, especially in the agricultural sector and graduate employment opportunities must be strongly supported by the Federal Government in other to actualize the determination to truly get 10 million Nigerians out of poverty annually, since government administration is a continuum!

The immediate implementation of all these suggestions will definitely provide multiple funds for the Treasury Single Account (TSA), reduce internal/external borrowings/debt servicing and increase employment opportunities for jobless youths and able-bodied adults!
We advocate that President Buhari will give marching orders for quick implementation! Time and tide waits for no man!

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

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

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

A VERITABLE PUBLIC THEOLOGY WILL GUARANTEE NATIONAL UNITY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 329. 1st December, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

A VERITABLE PUBLIC THEOLOGY WILL GUARANTEE NATIONAL UNITY!

The urgent need for religious synergy between all adherents as posited by both the Federal Government and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), could not have been initiated at a better time than now following the unholy move by desperate politicians who whipped up ethnic/faith sentiments to perpetrate mayhem among the diverse electorate for the purpose of victory at the recently concluded governorship elections in Kogi (North Central), and Bayelsa (South South)!  Citizens of thirty-four States of Nigeria and security agents watched helplessly, hopelessly and in consternation as political gladiators in the two States engaged youth thugs in blood-spilling clashes that consumed the lives of about 17 people including an opposition female politician, who was burnt alive in her home, on the black Saturday (16th November, 2019), when the citizens should have voted peacefully to elect their preferred candidates!

The atrocities took religious and ethnic dimensions when most electorate rejected all electoral malpractices and refused to be cajoled into selling their votes for peanuts. The constitutionally-recognised and acclaimed “not-too-young-to-rule” youths in Kogi in particular, patrolled the streets in open vehicles, dressed in military camouflages and freely used dangerous weapons to harass, intimidate, maim, injure and kill  their opponents unrestricted! 
Before and after independence elections in Nigeria had always witnessed violence but must this civic obligation turn into a cycle of perpetual nightmare at every turn of electoral engagements?

At the National Executive Council Meeting of the NSCIA General Assembly held at the  Abuja Central Mosque on Friday, 29th November, 2019, Vice President, Professor ‘Yemi Osinbajo, who declared open the 3-day event, commended the Council for promoting religious tolerance in Nigeria because it serves as an important intermediary between Muslim community and persons of other Faith.
The theme was the “Role of Islam In the Development of a Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Nation.” Osinbajo was described by the Sultan of Sokoto as a pride to Nigeria.

ADVOCACY FOR A VIABLE PUBLIC THEOLOGY IS VERY APPROPRIATE NOW!
In the centuries before the two World Wars religious leaders could be said to have been very complacent in the demand for adequate social amenities for the  masses – and globally they constituted part of administrative dereliction of socio-economic contract in that regard! 

Roman Catholic Church (RC) was regarded as a State Institution and consecutive Popes as Heads of State were accorded with territorial powers plus the accompanying authorities and influences to administer their adherents in constitutionally demarcated areas allotted by the Italian Government according to the law!
Numerically RC is the largest body in the Christendom because its members (about 1 trillion), are found in every part of the world through full emancipation (1829), from politics and other disabilities they suffered in Britain from the time of the Reformation.  RC claim Apostolic authority through the unbroken succession, going back to the Apostle Peter, though it had been virtually docile in respect of massive advocacy for social welfare reforms of the downtrodden world especially in Africa, Latin America, the Philippines etc.

A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS!
However, history recorded the bravery of German Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemoller, a soldier-turned protestant Lutheran Pastor and theologian (14 January 1882 - 6th March, 1984), who vehemently opposed the Nazi Regime STATE CONTROL of Churches and atrocities during the 1930s, and was imprisoned in Concentration Camps from 1938-1945, but narrowly escaped death! After his ordeal, he still regretted that he did not do enough to help Nazi victims (especially semites of Jewish origin), over 6 million, who perished in holocausts because he was deceived by Herr Adolf Hitler, the German maximum ruler who promised not to interfere with neither the Church nor the JEWISH population but later reneged! In his very famous poem reproduced below, Niemoller stated as follows:
“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist; then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew; they came for the Catholics and I did not speak out because I was not a Catholic; and, then they came for me -  and there was no one left to speak for me.”

NOW, GLOBAL RELIGIOUS LEADERS INCLUDING NIGERIA AND THE DIASPORA ARE VEHEMENTLY SPEAKING OUT AGAINST BAD GOVERNANCE & BAD LEADERSHIP! THEY NOW CRITICIZE POLITICAL/ECONOMIC ISSUES AND ARE DEMANDING BETTER LIFE FOR THE MASSES! Niemoller has led the way and others have followed suit! Sultan of Sokoto is speaking out, the Emirs and Imams are all speaking out especially Abubakar Abdullahi of Plateau State, who saved the lives of over 200 Christians in his Mosque during the June 2018 religious clashes spoke loudly; Archbishop Matthew Kukah is speaking out, Apostle Suleiman, Pastor Adeboye, Bishops Oyedepo, Okonkwo and Praise etc, are also speaking out with one voice that all men (governments and the governed), MUST FEAR GOD AND OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS!

ISSUES TO BE QUICKLY ADDRESSED! Are the religious leaders not all witnesses to global societal ills, inequity, injustice, unfairness, abuse of inalienable human rights; terrorism, brigandage, kidnappings, ethnic and religious conflicts, discrepancies of abundance and squalor, wealth and poverty, opportunities and disadvantages which have long pervaded all mankind? And should these abnormalities not prick even holy consciences? Challenges of homeless families which have become refugees, and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), have become common place due to maladministration by successive SIT-TIGHT government officials and legislators in developing economies which failed to provide basic social amenities of security, education, health facilities, employment opportunities, housing accommodations, portable water, pliable roads etc, to the citizens especially the majority youths, whom they claimed to represent in government!

THE ABSENCE OF CONSENSUS PUBLIC THEOLOGY IS THE MISSING LINK!
Nigerian leaders especially the crop of politicians who took over from the Military in 1999, have derailed in national conversation, instead of engaging in a rational discourse on the doctrine of Public theology, which is a common denominator to the masses peaceful existence – they chanted instead; Restructuring of Nigeria along the discarded regional system, clamoured for more States creation when majority of the present 36 were unviable, others agitated for State Police, Power sharing/Derivation formula, etc, etc. THE 2014 NATIONAL CONFERENCE WHICH GULPED OVER N8 BILLION OF NAIRA TAXPAYERS MONEY WAS BARE-FACED ROBBERY OF THE COMMON WEALTH BY THE PAST ADMINISTRATION OF EX-PRESIDENT EBELE JONATHAN!

What is public theology?
Public Theology (PTh.), is religious or faith engagement, discourse/dialogue with the larger society which is predicated on cordial relationship between God and His Creation! PTh. Is not a new concept at all, it has existed from the beginning human existence and it was convenient for the United States of America (USA), to imbibe the public theology culture into their public domain and concluded with this motto: “In God we trust.”
Should anyone still wonder why the US remains the “numero uno” (number one), world power nation in military prowess, nuclear armament, economy, politics, social welfare, modern civilization ...... all roads lead to God’s own country!

And what stops Nigeria and Nigerians from emulating the US and several other countries whose democracies have been very successful, lucrative and peaceful for centuries through an acceptable public theology.
NIGERIA DOES NOT HAVE A UNIFIED AND ACCEPTABLE PUBLIC THEOLOGY LIKE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! We do not have a deep and broad concept of what God requires of humanity in our public behaviour in a broken, divided and threatened world – but a cacophony of discordant voices which were always at dagger drawn! It is true that everyone has the consciousness of God in a unique way as the SUPERNATURAL ONE in charge of all signs and wonders that are visible in Creation but the most important question is, “What do we collectively believe about Him? According to Martin R De Hann II: “Beliefs are at the root of everything we do. Those beliefs may be unexamined, illogical and blindly tied to our desires. But they are constantly fuelling and shaping what we do. This is why the highest priority must be given to what we belief and why. Nothing can shape human character more than minds and hearts determined to think right about ourselves, our God, our lives and our relationships.”

CONCLUSION:  All hands must be on deck: leadership & followership in religious, socio-economic, political and governance issues while greatest focus should be on protecting our human rights through God’s perspectives. This is our collective responsibility as a people and as a nation!
*POLITICS SHOULD BE MADE LESS ATTRACTIVE IN NIGERIA!
*THE SENATE MUST BE SCRAPPED BEFORE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS!
*THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS MUST BE PRUNED TO 74 ON PART-TIME!
*REMUNERATIONS OF ELECTIVE OR APPOINTED POLITICIANS MUST PEGGED TO RMAFC SALARY GRADES FOR ALL CIVIL SERVANTS!
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to all people!” (Proverbs. 34:14).

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

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

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

BUHARI MUST NOT BE DERAILED BY CHARLATANS!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 328. 24th November, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

BUHARI MUST NOT BE DERAILED BY CHARLATANS!
It is a fact that detractors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ruling party will never admit  that all positive results and claims itemized by the Federal Government in the three prioritized thrusts of the Change mantra of adequate security, war against corruption and the fight against insurgency were on course, but their mischief would not distort the glaring truth of those achievements within the period of the past four years!

Crimes and criminalities have reduced drastically, kidnappings, armed robberies, human trafficking, pastoral/farmers clashes, gunmen attacks, and Boko Haram terrorism onslaughts etc, have been contained to the barest minimum while the war against corruption has proved to be a respecter of no person or persons! A former Attorney General of the Federation, was recently arrested in Dubai in connection to fraud!

The Niger Delta insurgents have sheath their swords and have supported President Buhari to probe the over 1trillion naira, appropriated between 2005- 2019, to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC), for strategic structural developments which could not be located anywhere in the region.
The Armed Forces, Police, Department of State Security and all stake holders in the fight against terror, including the local vigilantes in all the 774 local governments areas are all united to bring to a permanent end all manner of violence that have ravaged the nation for too long!
President Buhari and his genuine, original APC founding members from the Action Congress (AC), All Nigeria Progressives Party (ANPP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), (except for the New Peoples Democratic Party (N-PDP), who were mere opportunists and most of whom have been divinely jettisoned from the party), can now access clearly that those moles almost derailed the change agenda before! During and even after the 2019 General Elections! They defected en-masse to the PDP to consume their vomit but for divine intervention, APC still had the day up to the Supreme Court decision of Wednesday, 11September, 2019, which they still want reversed if possible!

A TIME FOR DRASTIC MEASURES!
We believe that the next 42 months should be the most crucial in the life of APC which revolutionized and overthrew the unrepentant vicious cycle of taskmasters of consecutive PDP Governments of 16 years, 1999-2015, but neither exhibited remorse nor penitence!
President Buhari needed to remind himself that it was providence that gave him another shot at the presidency on the FOURTH attempt in 2015, having contested fruitlessly 2003, 2007, 2011, respectively!
That his first term was a near disaster, because of a breach amongst his so-called close allies and an unfaithful inherited security agencies which could not even detect the “successful” National Assembly (NASS), coup de tat by Saraki and his cohorts which caught the nation agape, moping and embarrassed!
The success of the first term which witnessed a recession of three consecutive quarters, virtually slowed down the pace of achievements especially with the brazen confrontations of the notorious 8th NASS which represented a very nasty and clandestine opposition throughout  its 48 months of atrocities against the ruling government, but were eventually surmounted through the special grace of God!
The President should remind himself that the remaining 42 months of this second and final months, could fly past in a twinkle of an eye if judicious care was not employed to work every SECOND of the hour for positive gains in all sectors of the common goal! HE SHOULD MAINTAIN THE PARTIAL BORDER CLOSURE UNTIL 2023!
President Buhari should realize that only few of his “associates” had similar ideologies and integrity like him because majority of them are political jobbers whose “modus operandi” is to follow the winning team irrespective of their clout!
He should remember that while he was on vacation recently, all manner of permutations in respect of the 2023 General Elections  dominated the political space in his absence to suffocate him and Vice President ‘Yemi Osinbajo, and re-direct the tempo of governance in its determined focus to complete the agenda of its concrete manifestoes!
“Once beaten twice shy,” the President should not take the current 9th NASS Legislators on their face value and continue to sing their praises about being co-operative in their working relations with the Executive! It’s all farce! Each of them is after how much money they could garner between now and 2023, for them to remain relevant in the electoral race!
How many of the present crop of APC Legislators can be trusted to support him righteously in the execution of the 2018 Budget which is about to dovetail into the 2019 Appropriation Document which was submitted early to return the January to December Budget cycle? Has the President forgotten so soon that most of them ported to APC from PDP for position of authority and financial gains?
Recently the President, acting ICPC’s report that Legislators  had been appropriated with 1 trillion naira worth of Constituency projects between 2011-2019, with no concrete project on ground to show to the grassroot and has called for probe. But the lower house has denied the allegation and claimed that he was misinformed because they were not contractors!
The President has few honourable friends among these mixed multitude and he  should not allow them to derail his plans for the betterment of the TALAKAWAS whom he pledged to defend to the uttermost!

NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS MUST HANDS OFF CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS!
Some Nigerian Legislators always cast overboard constitutional financial procedures, when they were desperate to grab un-entitled monetary allowances from the common wealth irrespective of what the sacred document of the “WE THE PEOPLE” said!  But there are certain facts that must be put in their proper perspectives to remind those set of politicians that they had long been exposed by one of them in 2016 for legislative pilfering outside of their legitimate salaries, allowances and emoluments under the cover of oversight functions of constituency allowances! 
Reproduced below is the true confession of the then Chairman of the House of Representatives Finance Committee:
"HOW WE SHARED NIGERIA MONEY BY HON. Abdulmumin JUBRIN "I got N650 million as my running cost as the Chairman of Appropriation Committee. Speaker Yakubu Dogara got N1.5 billion, His Deputy Yusuf Lasun got N800 million. House Majority Leader Femi Gbajabiamila got N1.2 billion; Deputy Majority Leader Buba Jibrin got N1.2 billion. House Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa got N1.2 billion, Deputy House Whip got N700 million. House Minority Leader Leo Ogor got N1.2 billion, Deputy Minority Leader Onyema got N800 million. Minority Whip got N700 million, Deputy Minority Whip got N700 million. I have documents to back up all these.
"TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABUJA.
My dear Colleagues, BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
"I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me yesterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship. "I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented. Consequent upon the above and before I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10 MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.”
Abulmumin was promptly suspended from legislative sittings for one calendar year; he went to court, won the case he instituted against the House leadership, was paid all of his emoluments for the period lost and reinstated! Did that matter die a natural death? Of course, but the same House still challenges President Buhari to a CONTEST OF INTEGRITY!

REVENUE MOBILISATION ALLOCATION AND FISCAL COMMISSION SHOULD RESCUE THE MASSES FROM THIS BRAZEN ROBBERY!
According to the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), the wardrobe allowance of legislators is 25% of their basic salary which is N506,600 per annum not N17million or N20 million as was reported in the newspapers! We shall give Mr. Chairman benefit of the doubt but we urge the electorate to watch closely every move of these lawmakers, majority of who were used to collecting the quarterly jumbo Constituency Allowances, because we are now aware that the monthly pay packets of legislators in the green and red chambers are N1.8million and N2 million respectively which we believe are still on the high side! We will still continue to agitate and insist that legislative duties should be on part time engagement in which only sitting and transport allowances would be paid as at when due considering the socio-economic realities on ground!

MR. PRESIDENT HAS FEW FAITHFUL FRIENDS ON THIS LAST LAP!
This should serve as a faithful warning to President Buhari to depend on God’s wisdom on this last lap and not on charlatans who are bent on discrediting his cherished reputation and integrity. He should be more focused, cut down on foreign trips, listen to the suffering masses who still believe he could still resolve their predicaments! The President should ask his faithful Chief of Staff to bring out the barrage of petitions written by those who seek redress for several injustices of the past and present and grant them desired reprieve! President should live up to his name and leave behind a legacy that would be difficult to attain by those who would come after him! “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.’’ (Prov 22:1)

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

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

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

WHO ‘S AFRAID OF NATASHA – THE INDOMITABLE AMAZON OF KOGI!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 327. 17th November, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

WHO ‘S AFRAID OF NATASHA – THE INDOMITABLE AMAZON OF KOGI!

Although, acts of harassment, intimidation, and assault of persons are listed as offences in the Electoral (Amendment) Act (No. 2), 2011 of Nigeria, the only female candidate, Natasha Hadiza Akpoti, in the Kogi State gubernatorial election which was concluded on Saturday, 16th November, 2019, tasted those bitter pills during the process that led to the re-emergence of the incumbent, Governor Yahaya Bello!

The print, electronic and social media were awash with the travails of Natasha, a legal practitioner and Social Democratic Party (SDP), candidate, [who strongly believed in gender equality and implementation of the 35 per cent Beijing Declaration of 1995  which advocates for stronger/effective female representation and participation in politics and governance], which began with the rejection of her candidacy by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for fielding an under-age running mate.
A flurry of legal tussles had to be initiated by her team of lawyers for the Abuja Appeal Court to rule in her favour before her Party’s name and logo were restored on the ballot! She had to cross other hurdles which included but not limited to late electioneering campaigns for votes, mostly from her women folks and the Kogi Youths, who turned out to be both her albatross and worst nightmare!

On one occasion when she was billed to attend a stakeholders meeting with INEC, in Lokoja, the State capital, irate youths barraged her with unprintable verbal insults and physical attacks in the open glare of law enforcement agents, who (according to those reports), turned the other eye “even when she was assaulted and pushed to the ground!”
Before that show of shame, the SDP Secretariat in Lokoja , Kogi State Capital, was razed by unknown criminals, its party Chairman and driver were attacked and assaulted by thugs who inflicted head and body injuries which landed the duo in hospital, while the official vehicle in which they travelled was totally vandalized!

According to security experts, Kogi State, was one of about EIGHT flash points identified for electoral violence across Nigeria and for that uncharitable appellation, its entire topography of polling units was flooded with about 30,000 Police and Civil Defence personnel to ensure adequate law and orderliness, in the 3,000 polling units; but did the massive deployment achieve the desired results?

ANY SOLIDARITY FOR NATASHA BY KOGI WOMEN FOLKS?
It has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that Nigerian women are their own “household enemies”! When Mrs. Sarah Jubril, an articulate and eloquent woman activist/politician, in 2003, offered herself to run for the presidency, she was sneered by her women folk at the party primaries where she garnered no votes but hers! But, a determined Natasha has proved beyond all reasonable doubts that with the right environment women could conveniently be better leaders than the male chauvinists through her determination never to give up! 
Nigerian women have the golden numerical advantage which they had obstinately failed to utilize to advantage over the years. Maybe they are satisfied to take the back seat in the KITCHEN but they needed to wake up and be their “sister keepers” because the digital 21st Century global village with its ICT Opportunities has provided great opportunities for the girl child and women to occupy the front seats in every endeavour of life without excluding the vulnerable “not-too-young-to-rule folks being used as criminals during electoral processes in Nigeria! The women, “as the hands that rock the cradle”, have proved to be better politicians, presidents, professionals, captain of industries, administrators, etc, in other climes!

NATASHA CALLS ON INEC TO CANCEL KOGI ELECTIONS!
Natasha stated that security situation during the Kogi election was very tense because criminals who were on a well coordinated rampage had free reign. SHE WAS CORROBORATED BY SOME FOREIGN OBSERVERS AND YAGA AFRICA, SAM ITODO’S UNBIASED LOCAL OBSERVER OUTFIT, AND HAS UNEQUIVOCALLY CALLED ON INEC TO CANCEL THE ENTIRE GOVERNORSHIP/KOGI WEST SENATORIAL DISTRICT ELECTIONS BECAUSE OF MULTIPLE FORMS OF MALPRACTICES AND VIOLENCE RECORDED IN ALMOST ALL POLLING UNITS! SHE CAME THIRD WITH 8,539, 000 VOTES!.

NIGERIAN WOMEN SHOULD SET UP A NATIONAL TRUST FUND (NTF)!
Women often complained about being unable to cope with the unwholesome trend of Nigeria’s money-induced politicking dominated by the male money bags! But have they ever thought of uniting to set up a National Trust Fund (NTF), which could be centrally administered to support the Amazons amongst them and beat the men folk to their game in the political turf?
NATASHA IS A WOMAN OF EXCELLENCE WHOSE POLITICS TRANSCENDS HER LOCALITY – SHE WILL SURVIVE ALL STORMS ANY DAY AND ANY TIME AND EMERGE STRONGER! WATCH OUT FOR NIGERIA’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN THIS WOMAN OF INTEGRITY!

REPORTS ON KOGI AND BAYELSA ELECTIONS BY OBSERVERS!
Beginning with logistics, INEC endorsed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with transport owners since it lacked its own fleet. Late arrival of materials which delayed registration, accreditation and voting were recorded in both States but INEC claimed that 90% and 80% delivery of voting materials arrived in both States respectively, before 10am of 16th November, 2019, in spite of pockets of disturbances and violence, which led to the alleged death of three persons on 13th November, 2018,  in Nembe, Bayelsa State, during an electioneering campaign.
INEC in a press release said that it was aware that there were pockets of violence, perpetrated through open vote buying, thuggery and ballot snatching. Police confirmed impersonation of security agents by criminals who dressed in camouflages and arrest of 21 persons including recovery of some quantities of live ammunitions. Where elections were disrupted, elections have to be cancelled and INEC would reorganize fresh ones according to extant laws, both the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act. Political actors and politicians always dragged INEC to court even when they had no strong petitions. INEC has performed creditably but the stakeholders needed to avoid further disruption of elections in desperate manner, the agency advocated.

THERE WERE EARLY WARNINGS AND YET IN 20 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY,  NEGATIVE INDICATORS STILL PREVAILED BEFORE EVERY ELECTION! PEACE ACCORD REPRESENTED MERE RHETORIC & FORMALITY! WHY WERE CRIMINALS ABLE TO CIRCUMVENT ABOUT 60,000 - STRONG SECURITY OUTFIT IN KOGI AND BAYELSA WHERE A NEW HELMSMAN, MR. DAVID LYON OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC), IS THE NEW SHERIFF?

SOLUTIONS: WAS IT NOT HIGH TIME ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM (E- VOTING), WAS INTRODUCED BY LAW? IT IS POSSIBLE IF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI COULD MUSTER THE POLITICAL WILL WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE LEGISLATORS OF THE 9TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS)! IN ADDITION, AN URGENT NEED FOR SERIOUS ADVOCACY FOR POLITICIANS TO DESIST FROM RESULTING TO ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT IN DESPERATION FOR VICTORY, SHOULD BE INITIATED BY THE RULING ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS PARTY QUICKLY TO CHANGE THE VICIOUS CYCLE!

WHAT WENT WRONG IN KOGI AND BAYELSA, WITH SUCH MASSIVE SECURITY OCCUPATION?
How did 30,000 Security personnel fail in KOGI and a similar figure in Bayelsa could not be ON TOP OF THE SITUATION IN ONLY TWO STATES?
A serious conversation on the urgent need for the introduction of PUBLIC THEOLOGY for national discourse which MUST simultaneously dovetail into educational curriculum at all levels is most appropriate at this critical period of our political and electioneering architecture!
WE WILL CHAMPION THE ADVOCACY IN OUR SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATIONS! Electioneering bloodshed MUST be eradicated and it should be now! “A stitch in time saves nine!”

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

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

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

WAS EX-SENATOR ‘SOLA ADEYEYE QUALIFIED TO CONDEMN NIGERIA’S CONSTITUTION?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 326. 10th November, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

WAS EX-SENATOR ‘SOLA ADEYEYE QUALIFIED TO CONDEMN NIGERIA’S CONSTITUTION?

When a Biology Scientist and former Senator of the 8th National Assembly (NASS), Professor ‘Sola Adeyeye, during a valedictory speech on the floor of the red chambers in April 2019, furiously, outrageously and  vehemently condemned the 1999 Nigerian Constitution and especially the  68 items on the Federal Exclusive Legislative List as contained in Second Schedule Part I,  (as amended), with which he got to the top, by describing them as clogs and obstacles for good governance, we painstakingly assessed his assertions and neither condemned the messenger nor his message because we believed he should know better!

Was it not high time that Nigerians stopped going round in circles as a people to look for scapegoats for our eternal predicaments which, if we were patient to calmly assess, would have discovered that their permanent solutions lie at our door steps?

Has it not become customary for most human beings to blame everybody except themselves when situations or circumstances of life did not favour their whims or caprices – especially when it concerned the basic necessities of life?

But the following truths needed to be digested for proper understanding that man will remain incapable of  enjoying better life as long as CLIMATIC CONDITIONS and not humans  dictate “the wellness or sickness” of the earth and its fullness that are spiritually and supernaturally controlled by the Creator:
As long as the earth remains; sunshine, rainfall, harmattan, winter, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, monsoon rains, tsunamis, excessive dryness/wetness, uncontrollable wild fires, famine (scarcity of food), etc, would be regular climatic occurrences – either through natural or unnatural causes.
Natural causes are the seasons which will always follow their due cycle while the unnatural are man-induced aggravation through reckless habits of distortion of nature’s landscapes through excavations, trees felling, excessive river dams, blockage of drainages, etc.
According to the spiritual account of creation, God created the Heaven, the Earth and Man in six days and commanded him to take charge through the doctrine of pro-creation, dominion and subjugation of all elements consisting of the vegetations and animals. Religious practitioners have not disputed these facts because subsequent dispensations of human governments had co-existed without rigid divine regulations!

WAS THE PROFESSOR SINCERE IN HIS SUBMISSIONS?
As a professed scientist, we believe that Senator Adeyeye’s  ‘Nunc Dimitis’  at the twilight of his departure was deliberately politicized to keep the social media occupied for that period of time!  Over the years, nature has unleashed incredible and unprecedented violence and man’s diverse activities to ensure good governance were forced to nose-dive in many instances and had attracted vicious criticisms since he had no power to prevent the unkindly visitations especially when they were very overwhelming!

It is a scientific fact that since creation, man and his environment had to co-exist like Siamese twins who must share all things in common although negative climatic conditions could be very unpredictable in the forced union. Annual budgeting and appropriations have become mere global rhetoric, rituals and cosmetics,  because they were never sufficient to meet up with environmental damages inflicted on all sides while pittance goes to social contracts. No country, not even the United States or China can meet challenges of environmental catastrophes and social indebtedness in adequate measures year on year because it is just impossible to cope!

NIGERIA’S INFRASTRUCTURES AT THE MERCY OF ANNUAL FLOODS!
In spite of the fact that Nigeria is lucky to be situated on the African Continent which  is highly favoured with milder climatic changes and conditions, the nation still battles with annual heavy rainfall and devastating floods which all the budgets , (Federal and States), put together could never mitigate!
Since Nigeria falls within the global community, the effects of climate change on World Economy would naturally affect its fortunes due to global over population, immigration, and emigration, massive environmental degradation/pollution resulting in serious epidemic proportions through open defecation in an overstretched and un-sanitized space!

Rivers Niger and Benue, the two major rivers which run down south from the north apart from States Rivers, were annually flooded with devastating economic deficits upon citizens and government. Most of these rivers have never been dredged and when they broke their bands, veered into farmlands, road networks and residences close to their shores!

On annual basis, billions of naira was appropriated to road construction, re-construction, rehabilitation or maintenance during the dry season and in the rainy season, soil erosion and landslides would wash both labour and all public funds down the drain while the masses spend unending hours on short distance journeys. 

Top on the list of major public complaints of annual calamities is the un-passable conditions of Nigerian roads.  In fact protests by over traumatized and aggrieved commuters on Nigerian road networks have become daily occurrences because the much funds ploughed annually into the projects did not yield appropriate dividends to the people over the years! Construction of more road bridges, railways, airways terminals, waterways and ports to reduce pressure on the roads have not come to fruition also!

ADEYEYE’S GROUSE OVER THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FEDERAL EXCLUSIVE LEGISLATIVE LIST!
The professor claimed that the Nigerian Constitution was the problem and could never give peace and progress especially the 68 items on the Federal Exclusive Legislative List which he claimed had virtually held the country by the jugular in a unitary type of government!
But he failed to prove what constituted the albatross in the constitution or the tagged list against other States of the Federation!
CAN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS FOR INSTANCE, BE TRANSFERRED TO A STATE THAT CANNOT PAY WORKERS SALARIES OR FUND SECONDARY HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE?
Ex-Senator Adeyeye had seen it all, experienced it all, gone through the ranks of the political terrain and has enjoyed the lucre of office especially when he enjoyed two terms at the red chambers, back to back! We want to believe that while in retirement, he would contribute from his immense wealth of political experience to nation building and posterity!
Question: Why do world leaders hold regular summits on Climatic Change issues which ravage all countries and habitations without respect of persons, race, creed or geographical landscape?
Answer: Because no country had the propensity to control turbulent climate rage!
Question: Why is abject POVERTY of several developing nations citizens traced to radical climatic changes?
Answer: Enormous climatic devastation – like annual over-flooding of roads, destruction of farmlands, damaged bridges or submerged dams, submerged or washed off homes and market plazas, destroyed electric poles, hydro-electric power and thermal stations, schools, factories, etc.!In addition outbreak of diseases, sicknesses, infections resulting in epidemic proportions that propelled massive social deprivations!
WAYS TO APPEASE VIOLENT CLIMATE CHANGES INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
STOPPAGE TO ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND POLLUTION;
NON DEPLETION OF THE OZONE LAYER;
DEFORESTATION;
NUCLEAR WARFARE;
DETONATION OF LETHAL BOMBS INTO THE ATMOSPHERIC SPACE AND GLOBAL RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENTS ETC.!
“Climate is created to both build and destroy; only God can tame its rage and storm when provoked!” 

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

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

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

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

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 325. 3rd November, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AFRICA, FOR HOW LONG WOULD YOU REMAIN A BEGGAR?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

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

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 324. 27th October, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

AFRICA, FOR HOW LONG WOULD YOU REMAIN A BEGGAR?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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