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target=_blank>How And Why I Stopped Going To Church By Remi Oyeyemi
Born a Christian, it has been difficult for me to justify remaining as one.
As far back as when I was 9 years old, I had issues with some stories in the Bible for not portraying God Almighty in good light. I had issues with stories that portrayed patent partialities being ascribed to God. I had issues with acts of unfairness perpetrated, allegedly by God. I learnt and read about the claims of bloodthirstiness of God. And so many ugly things about God. But I dared not verbalize my concerns and misgivings about a book that was and still remains the bedrock of the Christian beliefs, as a child.
Having been raised by my maternal grandmother, someone I considered and still considers the most marvellous woman that has ever walked the surface of the Earth, she had ingrained in me, a concept of a perfect God, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. This concept to me could not be violated because of the source whence it sprang.
In my psyche, as I traversed the schools and the churches; as I went through further developmental and socialisation processes, in different contexts, different environments in different towns and cities of my youth, anything that ran contrary to my grandmother’s conceptualisation of ELÉDÙMARÈ, the God of my forefathers, as the perfect Supreme Being, was easily jettisoned.
Together, we had attended the Anglican Church, Oke-Imobi, two or three times a week. We had attended the Bazaars. We had attended occasional vigils and revivals. We had enjoyed several types of Church Celebrations. It all remained a fantastic experience for me. It was a kind of experience that scribbled on the tabula rasa of my consciousness, the beauty of God and his perfection as taught to me by my grandmother.
With my grandmother, I also participated in the worshipping and celebration of Olode or Sonponna. The message about ELÉDÙMARÈ, from my grandmother, who acted as the Priestess of Olode during these worships, was not different. It was one and the same about the awesomeness of God of my fathers. We beseeched Olode with the same supplications that we had submitted in the church. We brought pure palm oil as our offering. With reverence and due soberness, we put our wishes at the feet of Olode and with the kind of joy and happiness that characterised those days, I was convinced that our supplications did not go unanswered.
My paternal grandfather had been a very powerful traditional Priest with awesome reputation of being a kind of a saviour of the afflicted. He lived less than three miles away at Ayetoro, but his reputation was far and wide. He was greatly and affectionately loved by all and sundry; poor and rich; the nobility and the ordinary man; kings and powerful kingmakers. In fact and indeed, before he died in 1948, he was the daily Ifa Priest to Owa Obokun Adimula, Ajimoko II, who reigned from 1942 to 1956 and who also happened to be a paternal uncle to my maternal grandmother.
My own father, and a powerful paternal uncle of mine had drank from the spirituality of Cherubim and Seraphim Church. My Uncle had joined others to create a branch in Ilesa. My father founded a new branch at Ife Road, in Ibadan. It is big now. I sauntered away from the Cherubim & Seraphim Church as I was leaving high school.
Even then, I still find the Aladura Churches more spiritually satiating and fulfilling than the Orthodox Churches. They are livelier, unpretentious, entertaining, deeper and more communal. The ascendancy of Pentecostalism has become the greatest undoing of Christianity in my own view. With all the questions about the Bible that have been nagging my mind, I began to search for answers, and with the benefit of hindsight now, in the wrong places. I began to look for a perfection that was non-existent.
I began to attend Methodist Church, Oke-Ese, Ilesa. I quit after 3 months. Then, through the influence of Mr. Akalugwu, I joined the Catholic Church, Oke-Iyin, Ilesa, whose Baba Ijo, was also my uncle, Pa Olarewaju. I quit after 6 months. I began to attend the Celestial Church of Christ, in Biladu, also in Ilesa. I quit after 2 months. Then, my classmate and friend, Gbenga Fadahunsi introduced me to Episcopal rave that held services at Agbowo Shopping Complex, Opposite the University of Ibadan. It was tagged the Businessmen Fellowship.I quit aftet 3 weeks.
I don’t remember now if this was the same church pastored by Femi Emmanuel, who once contested for the governorship of Oyo State. But I did not stay long.I found it boring, uninteresting and unduly mechanical. Then, it was Christ Apostolic Church, Sango, Ibadan, at Baba Obadare’s church. That one was more interesting. More convincing. The sermons were inspiring. But the questions, remained unanswered.
My efforts in this regard is best explained by the famous quote of the eminent English jurist, Lord Alfred Thompson Denning – “A blind man in a dark room, looking for a black hat that is not there.” It was a futility.
I studied and studied. Read and read. Researched and researched. My brief sojourn in Ibadan Grammar School as an A Level student threw ajar the door of knowledge about faiths and or religion(s). At Great Ife, I swam in the beautiful pool of knowledge that fostered the love of God as represented by Yoruba Traditional faiths and religion, and without being necessarily religious. This was a departure from the ugly mud of ignorance, indoctrination, threat and fear of God that Christianity and Islam had and have continued to foster and engender.
I came to appreciate the big difference between the “love of God” and the “fear of God.” This distinction, probably partially, explains the disposition and attitude of many adherents of both Islam and Christianity. It probably explains why they use faith as tools of exploitation rather than a tool of liberation. Rather than being an instrument of setting the minds free, it has been an instrument of mental captivity and enslavement with its paraphernalia of invisibility.
As I got inebriated in the opportunity of making forays into the field, researching about Yoruba Traditional Faiths, I fell in love with my discoveries. I felt free and liberated. I found out beautiful and arresting knowledge about my past, my history and my people. I came to recognise the ultimate threat of ignorance and indoctrination as represented by Christianity and Islam. I became horrified about the shackles and invisible chains that have come to cockle the mentality of my people by those foreign religions.
I found out that any faith of any genre that is substantive would not need to threaten its adherents to get them committed. Ask all these politicians to do their swearings-in with Ayélála, Sònpònná, Ògún, Sàngó, Òsun or any other Yoruba prophet, you would see them baulking. They know as a matter of fact, that they would not be able to swear falsely as they could with Bible or Quran.
They would look for excuses as to why they could not go by traditional faiths. They would dive insipidly, into the insidious pool of Eurocentric and Arabcentric banalities and inanities to mischievously characterize such as idolatrous and undesirable. They knew that swearing falsely with Sàngó or Sònpònná or Ayélála would have serious and devastating consequences. They would tag such as “evil” in order to have cover for their devilish intentions to steal public money.
My researches turned me into a big fan of YTFs while Christianity continued to drive me away with its authentic fakery. Islam too, held no attraction as a faith. It was and still remains too hollow for my liking. With my reading of many excerpts from Quran, it is not difficult to understand why it is a veritable tool of exploitation, confusion and enslavement of the unwary. It is too manipulative and, well like its fellow Middle-East inspired Abrahamic faith, too radioactive, unduly restrictive and antagonistic to the basic liberties of man.
I found Yoruba faiths more substantive, deeper, cleaner, more humane, more honest, more consequential and sincere in their philosophies. The Yoruba faiths are more liberating, unencumbering, unshackling and more friendly to the liberties of man. In their customary sacrifices, while they follow certain rules, they seek, engender and foster authentic spirituality. There is that protective chord from their God through their prophets, which the ignorant Eurocentric and Arabcentric commercialised Abrahamic Christianity and Islam, characterised as “small gods.”
Along the line, I came across Bertrand William Russel in his book, “Why I am Not a Christian.” You would have thought that the man was reading my mind while I was at St. Michael Primary School, Oke-Seni, Ibadan. All those questions nagging my mind. All those philosophical confusions espoused both in Old and New Testament books. All the confused contradictions in the Bible. All the denigration and misrepresentation of what God was, still is and would forever be. And so on.
My realisation of Islam and Christianity as being too shallow and hollow, were reinforced by the disgusting behaviours of many of those who profess to these faiths either as public office holders or leaders in their respective congregations or communities. Usually, they are the most religious on platforms of social media; they are the first to quote Quran and the Bible. It has always been a facade. They were and still are disgusting in their dishonesty, duplicity, defilement of women and children, uncouth and despicable appropriating of our commonwealth for their personal use and foisting as well as fostering the dregs of the dregs of immorality.
Unsatisfied, and in search of more control of power and the concomitant pecuniaries such as increasing the membership of their churches snd mosques, they have resorted to rituals, infesting the reputation of traditional faiths with the embedded negativity of Christianity and Islam. They have continued to negatively impact the milieu by indirectly glorifying illicit wealth, thus encouraging kidnapping of innocents for rituals of money and political power.
These churches and mosques, validate kleptomaniacs, glorify thugs, celebrate crooks and cannonize criminals. They apotheosize reprobate politicians, purveyors of parlous piety, propagators of falsehood, giving them pride of place in their supposed sanctuaries. These Pastors, Reverends, Bishops, GOs, Imams, Sheiks engage in false prophesies to deceive, mislead, misguide, misinform and miseducate their mentally comatose followers.
The followers too, already dindinrinised, sugomised and suegbeised, united and fortified in their donduism, with their thinking processes pruned, become pathetically lazier, lionized lethargic laggards; lousy and languid in their attitudes, expecting miracles on issues that demand practical application of intelligence and logic. Like “sheep” that they are called and characterised as, they live and function as herds, unable to use their God-given intelligence, and are easily manipulated with a sherpherd’s crook.
As they diddle in their donduism, fortified in their flailing foolishness, the followers have forgotten God and Allah. Like fatal accident victims, they no longer have a memory of why they gathered to worship. Rather than be awed by the greatness of Almighty, they are in awe of the diabolical, duplicitous and deceitful GOs, Reverends, Pastors, Imams and Sheiks. Hook, line and sinker, they bought into the asininity of “touch not my anointed.” They jackbootedly protect and excuse instinctively, the reprobates they should all have gathered to lynch, if they had not the mercy and patience to ex-communicate.
Watching them revel in the bliss of their stupidity, grandstanding with gusto in the grandeur of gory slavishness, one could not but be disgusted and repulsed. A manumitted mind marinating and luxuriating in liberty could only stay away, as far as possible, from such a congregation of groveling slogs. No self-respecting human being, in total control of his or her faculty, would want to be part of such an egregious gathering.
Churches and mosques, to me, have come to be worse than beer parlours, peppersoup joints or Iyan and Amala copulas. Those who frequent those places are honest, frank and unpretentious. When they discuss public affairs, they do so devoid of deceit and duplicity. Evidently, one is most likely to encounter unburnished truths in those places than you would in a church or a mosque.
Churches and mosques have become edifices of moral bankruptcy. They are monuments of miasma. They are habitats of heinous and hideous hits. They are citadels of crimimality. They are fortresses of faunal fiends. They are incubators and conduits of social contaminations.
They glorify in rapes, child defilement and greed. They swim in ostentatious, rapacious and conspicuous consumption. They glamourise avarice, sanctify absurdities, dedicate delusion, deodorize derangement, purify vice and vile, polish putridity and twist few verses in the Quran and the Bible to justify such.
Mosques and Churches have become destructive agents in our polity. Other than social felicitation, churches and mosques have no more value. And …. I stopped attending.
©Remi Oyeyemi.
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target=_blank>Oando Vs Securities & Exchange Commission: Oil Firm Secures Fresh Court Order To Quash SEC Sanction
CEO of OANDO, Wale Tinubu
CEO of OANDO, Wale Tinubu
The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has granted leave to Oando Plc to file a motion for a judicial review of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decision imposing a fine of N89,675,000 on it.
Justice Ayokunle Faji granted leave to the company to apply for “an order of certiorari bringing up to the Federal High Court for the purpose of being quashed, the decision of the first respondent (SEC) contained in its letter dated 31st May 2019”.
The court also granted leave to the company to apply for an order of certiorari for the quashing of SEC’s directive to Oando to convene an extra-ordinary general meeting on or before July 1 to appoint new directors and articulate remedial measures for the alleged corporate governance lapses.
Justice Faji further granted leave to Oando Plc to apply for an order of certiorari for the quashing of a press release by SEC on June 1 appointing an interim management team to be headed by Mr Mutiu Sunmonu (the third respondent) to oversee Oando’s affairs.
The leave granted by the court also permited Oando Plc to apply for “an order of prohibition and/or an injunction restraining and preventing the first and second respondents by themselves, agents, servants or whomsoever, howsoever from enforcing or seeking to enforce the decision contained in the letter dated 31 May 2019”, “an order of prohibition and/or an injunction restraining and preventing the second respondent from enforcing or seeking to enforce the decision of the first respondent contained in the press release made on Sunday, 2 June, 2019 appointing an interim management team to be headed by the third respondent to oversee the affairs of the applicant, a declaration that the first and second respondents acted ultra vires and without jurisdiction in making the decision contained in the letter of 31 May 2019 which conveyed the imposition of a fine of N89,675,000 on the applicant…”
Also granted was leave to apply for “an order directing that the leave sought herein if granted shall operate as a suspension and or stay of the decision of the first respondent contained aforesaid in its letter of 31 May 2019 as it relates to the applicant and as contained in the press release made on 2 June 2019 appointing an interim management team to be headed by the third respondent.”
Justice Faji directed Oando to ensure service on the respondents of the order and the application for judicial review within 48hours.
He adjourned until July 22 for hearing of the application for judicial review before the vacation judge.
SEC had on May 31 announced the conclusion of an investigation of Oando and ordered its Group Chief Executive Officer Mr Wale Tinubu, his deputy Mr Omamofe Boyo other affected board members to resign.
It barred Tinubu and Boyo from being directors of public companies for a period of five years.
SEC subsequently set up an interim management team headed by Sunmonu to oversee Oando’s affairs and to conduct an Extraordinary General Meeting on or before July 1.
In an ex-parte application filed through their counsel, Olasupo Shasore (SAN), Tinubu and Ojo prayed for an order of certiorari to quash SEC’s purported imposition of N91,125,000 fine on Tinubu. The application was granted.
Oando, also through Shasore, filed the latest application seeking for judicial review of the SEC decisions against it with a view to quashing them, which Justice Faji granted.
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target=_blank>Afreximbank Announces $1-billion Adjustment Facility, Other AfCFTA Support Measures As African Leaders Meet
Dr. Benedict Oramah, President, AfreximBank
Dr. Benedict Oramah, President, AfreximBank
Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), yesterday in Niamey, addressed the 12th Extraordinary Summit of African Union (AU) Heads of State, announcing a series of initiatives to support the implementation of the Agreement for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Prof. Oramah told the heads of state, who were gathered to mark the start of the operational phase of the AfCFTA, that Afreximbank was instituting a $1-billion AfCFTA Adjustment Facility to enable countries adjust in an orderly manner to sudden significant tariff revenue losses as a result of the implementation of the agreement.
“This facility will help countries to accelerate the ratification of the AfCFTA,” he said, telling the heads of state that, by starting the operational phase of the AfCFTA, “you have started a movement.”
“You must not look back,” continued the president. “This movement is now unstoppable.”
He added that, as part of its support for the implementation of the AfCFTA, the Bank had provided support to aid the work being done by the African Regional Standards Organisation and the AU in implementing the Agreement.
Prof. Oramah also informed the summit of the launch the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), the first continent-wide payment digital system focused on facilitating payments for goods and services in intra-African trade in African currencies.
“Today we will launch the Africa-wide digital payment infrastructure – the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) – that we developed in collaboration with the African Union,” he said. “It is a platform that will domesticate, intra-regional payments, save the continent more than $5 billion in payment transaction costs per annum, formalise a significant proportion of the estimated $50 billion of informal intra-African trade, and above all, contribute in boosting intra-African trade.”
Prof. Oramah stated that, by making it possible for Africans to pay for intra-regional trade in their local currencies, “the digital platform will deal a fatal blow to the underdevelopment of Africa caused by defragmentation of its economies. Our goal is to reduce, significantly, the foreign currency content of intra-African trade payments.”
Noting that “No people have achieved meaningful development when their economic progress depends on others,” he argued that, in the “renewed focus on industrial and value-chain development across the continent in trying to boost trade and investment, it is imperative that we address the economic costs of effecting so many payments in scarce foreign exchange.”
“Making cross-border payments easier, cheaper and safer is an obvious critical step in creating an Africa we want,” he concluded.
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target=_blank>Buhari, Governor Akeredolu Promoting Anti-party Activities In Ondo APC -Concerned Leaders Forum
Aggrieved stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State chapter have demanded the immediate dissolution of its working committee being led by its chairman, Ade Adetimehin.
The stakeholders, under the auspices of Concerned Leaders Forum (CLF), said they had lost the confidence in Mr. Adetimehin-led executive of APC in the state which they accused of anti-party activities in the 2019 elections.
The APC leaders made the demand in a communique issue on Monday.
Ali Olanusi, a former deputy governor of the state and member of the APC Board of Trustees (BoT) signed the communique.
The aggrieved leaders revealed that a meeting planned by leadership of the APC to end its crisis among the warring members in the state was turned into a jamboree to create an atmosphere that there was peace.
Their communique read: “We are surprised that a confab initially slated for the attendance of a few APC leaders to find solution to the crisis bedeviling the party in Ondo State has been turned to a jamboree and all-comers affairs as caretaker chairmen of all the 18 local governments in Ondo State, commissioners, house of assembly members and all other political appointees who are not part of this meeting based on the original plan have been directed by the Team Aketi to mobilize minimum of 180 people each from the 18 local governments to the venue with pro-Aketi placards to create a subterfuge and deception of our party leaders coming for the said confab.
“We recall that all these people mentioned above worked for Action Alliance in the last election which led to the failure of our party in Ondo State. We also have it on good authority that NURTW in Ondo State have been fully mobilized to ensure that none of the genuine leaders of APC is allowed to access the meeting venue at the Dome in Akure. These NURTW members are to destroy vehicles belonging to and physically assault genuine APC Leaders at the venue of the meeting.
“That we have written several letters of protest, petitions and have made several representations to the party at the national level analyzing the problems of APC in Ondo State but the party has ignored all the letters and representations and forge ahead as if nothing is wrong with reckless abundant.
“That we cannot sit down in any meeting in which Mr. Ade Adetimehin, who openly campaigned for Action Alliance in Ondo state at the expense of our party will sit down as the state chairman of APC in Ondo State as we do not know when Mr. Ade Adetimehin defected from AA to APC after the last election.
“It is on record that Mr. Ade Adetimehin lost all the elections in his unit, ward and local government to PDP, SDP and AA based on his alliance against our great party.
“That the party should not lose sight of the adverse implication of not applying the relevant sanctions provided in Article 21 of APC Constitution 2014 as amended against anyone who is guilty of anti-party activities without exception.
“Meeting with members of AA led by Ade Adetimehin at the confab will only encourage indiscipline and discourage hard work and loyalty among genuine APC Members and Leaders.
“That we are surprised that the leadership of the party has ignored all those that are involved in anti-party activities that led to the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari and our national assembly candidates in Ondo State at the last election and the party leadership has now called those who worked for AA for a confab while leaving out the genuine members and leaders of APC in Ondo State.
“That the governor of Ondo State has refused to patronize the genuine APC members with appointment but instead, the governor has been appointing and compensating members of AA AND ZLP into positions in Ondo State thereby discouraging hard work and encouraging anti-party activities in Ondo State.
“We wish to challenge the governor of Ondo State to tell the whole world the result of the senatorial election in his unit, ward and local government at the last election if he is not guilty of anti-party activities.
“Based on the above, we emphasize our clarion call for the dissolution of Mr. Ade Adetimehin-led State Executive of APC in Ondo State from State to Ward Level for obvious reasons. We also call on the leadership of our great party to immediately set up an Interim Management Committee to be put in place as a prelude to a genuine reconciliation in All Progressives Congress, Ondo State Chapter.”
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target=_blank>COZA Rape Scandal: Inspector General Of Police Trying To Scuttle Investigation Of Pastor Fatoyinbo, Coalition Of Lawyers Allege
A group, the Coalition of Public Interests Lawyers and Advocates (COPA), has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to shelve his plan to transfer the trial of Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, from Lagos to Abuja.
Busola Dakolo, popular photographer and wife of musician Timi Dakolo had alleged that the pastor raped her while she was a choir member as a teen in his church.
Few days after Dakolo’s allegation came to light, another woman, a former staff of the Fatoyinbos also accused the COZA pastor of rape while she cared for his children abroad.
Fatoyinbo has repeatedly denied the allegations.
COPA in a statement on Monday by its Convener, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said the police is moving suspiciously in the matter to give the suspect, Fatoyinbo, a soft-landing.
The statement read: “The recent adverse developments in the matter of the rape allegation against Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA by Busola Dakolo which has the tendency to imperil the thoroughness of the investigation underway has necessitated this press statement.
“You will recall that following the intense public outcry by individuals and groups, the Nigeria Police Force was moved into action to call, interrogate and make findings on the rape allegations against Fatoyinbo. However, our keen observation of the processes being undertaken by the Police Force on this matter reveals a lack-luster and suspicious plot underfoot to give a soft landing to the suspect.
“We have noticed with displeasure the usual mischievous moves that have come to characterize the Nigeria Police Force in the past whenever it is set to deliberately or negligently mess up a case of such importance.
“We do hereby state emphatically that the Nigeria Police Force is not handling the Fatoyinbo rape allegation with the urgency and seriousness it deserves. This is wrong, condemnable and very much in disregard of the need to ensure that justice is done in the matter regardless of whose ox is gored.
“On June 27 2019, even before it was made known to the media, Mrs Busola Dakolo filed a petition against popular Abuja-based pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA, at the Office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police in Alagbon, Ikoyi.
“Ordinarily, given the publicity the matter has generated, one would have thought that the Nigeria Police will swing into action and build the confidence of the Nigerian People that the Force is dependable and up to the task of rooting out the truth of the matter. It is not without great surprise and disappointment that we have noticed sinister moves by the force with the intention maybe to undermine the truth.
“Going further, a warrant of arrest was issued to secure Mr. Biodun Fatoyinbo to answer questions in line with the Police investigation. Unfortunately, nothing has been done and Fatoyinbo has continued to walk freely without reporting to the police station.
“Instead of arresting him for proper interrogation, the Police have now changed gear after days of filing the complaint with the victim now being unduly pressurized to relocate to Abuja or to fly to Abuja everyday as the Nigeria Police Force intend to transfer the matter here. This is unacceptable.
“We totally reject all attempts by the Inspector General of Police to unduly transfer the matter to Abuja where the accused is resident. This is like giving the accused person a red carpet treatment when he should actually be thoroughly investigated. Though we acknowledge the fact that the IGP have the administrative discretion to transfer matters to any division or jurisdiction for proper investigation, we make bold to say that same must be exercised judiciously and professionally.
“It must be noted that priority must also be given to the security and convenience of the vital and primary witness, which in this case is Mrs. Busayo Dakolo.
“We call on the IGP to drop his personal interest in this matter, where any, and allow justice take its full course as a respecter of no one. We have sufficient information that the IGP has taken personal interest in the case as Mr. Biodun Fatoyinbo has influenced him into redirecting the case to Abuja where it would most likely be suffocated and dropped.
“Our demands are simply that the matter be allowed its due course within the jurisdiction where the complaint was filed. Transferring the case to Abuja from Lagos where it was originally filed prejudices the complainant while extending a kid’s glove to the accused who perhaps feels too connected to deign to go to Lagos to answer to the serious allegations against him.
“We are vehemently opposed to such a move and demand that this matter be thoroughly investigated and the accused invited to the place of domicile of the victim especially given the matter was filed there.
“Let it be abundantly clear that we are sufficiently conscious of the law in matters of jurisdiction as to investigation and prosecution of criminal matters. In this matter, investigation can take place in Lagos, Nigeria and if any place should be given premium attention, it is the place of residence of the victim to aid and facilitate proper information needed by the police and not the place of residence of the accused.
“In any case, where the Nigeria Police Force attempts to bring up argument of where the elements of the offence took place to determine prosecution, let it be known that it is Ilorin, Kwara state, not Abuja. The alleged case happened in Ilorin years back. The victim now lives in Lagos and the suspect is in Abuja.
“In conclusion, we would like to remind the Nigeria Police Force that a valid and active warrant of arrest against Mr. Biodun Fatoyimbo is yet to be executed. The Nigeria Police Force is setting itself up for ridicule and suspicion, and are in themselves in gross contempt of their oath of office and duties as enforcers of civil and criminal discipline.
“COPA will diligently continue to monitor matters as they arise and unfold with a view to checking the abuse of the process by parties in this matter and duly communicating same to the public. The handling of such a delicate yet grievous allegation will go a long way to either mar or make the reputation of the Nigeria Police Force as an institution of discipline and an objective principal in the pursuit of justice.”
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*-toy-shop target=_blank>UPDATED: Senator Abbo Takes Selfies As Police Arraign Him For Assaulting Woman In S** Toy Shop
The Nigeria Police Force on Monday in Abuja arraigned Senator Elisha Abbo before a magistrate’s court in Zuba for allegedly assaulting a nursing woman in a s** toy shop in Abuja.
The offence that bordered on criminal force and assault which is contrary to section 263 and 264 of penal code.
Abbo mounted the dock at 2:55 pm and pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge brought against him.
The senator, who smiled throughout the proceedings, was also seen taking a selfie with people.
The prosecution counsel, James Idachaba, told the court that the police had not yet concluded investigation in the matter and they needed more time.
He asked the court for an adjournment to enable them to conclude their investigation and open their case.
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The defence counsel, Adegbite Isaac Adeniyi, prayed the court to admit his client to bail on self-recognition as a serving senator.
He argued that Abbo would not jump bail and would always be present to face his trial, pointing out that he will not interfere with the investigation.
He said, “He is a public figure and will not commit any offence and will not destroy any evidence that the prosecutor may have against him.”
He added that the alleged offence was bailable and if granted bail it will not undermine the purpose of criminal prosecution. In his ruling to the bail application, the magistrate Abdullahi Ilellah said that it was a bailable offence and the purpose of granting bail is to grant the defendant time to face his trial.
He, therefore, granted the defendant bail of N5 million with two sureties having a verifiable addresses within the Federal Capital Territory.
The magistrate adjourned the matter until July 22, 2019.
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target=_blank>Nigerians In Diaspora Rehabilitate Woman Whose Arm Was Cut Off, Husband Killed By Herdsmen
Nigerians in the Diaspora on the platform of Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria (GCSDN) have sent relief to the way of Mrs. Joy Terna whose right hand was chopped off by militant herdsmen when she was four months pregnant.
Her husband was killed by the herdsmen.
Mrs. Terna is from Giza, the Tiv-speaking area of Nasarawa State.
In response to a plea for support by the GCSDN coordinator, Frederick Odorige, Nigerians home and abroad raised about N400,000 for the rehabilitation of the woman and her son whom she delivered after the attack.
Mrs. Terna was taken from the Abagana shelter for Internally Displaced Persons and relocated to a rented apartment in Makurdi, Benue State which was renovated and furnished by the diaspora group.
With the supervision of the camp commander and other officials of the camp, Mrs. Terna and her son moved into the apartment on June 17, 2019, according to a statement by the group.
“In furtherance of the rehabilitation process, the organization hopes to enroll the child in a kindergarten and train him up to university level. Joy will be taught the art of trading for three months and a mini-supermarket will be opened for her,” the group said.
Odorige called on well-meaning Nigerians to join “in this project because a lot more still need to be done”.
He said, “Fund is still needed to pay the rent for another four years and to rent a shop for five years while we shop for prosthesis to replace her right hand. This is to enable her focus on the trade and get her properly settled. Other electronic devices and a generator are also needed to make her and the child feel at home in their new apartment.”
The Diaspora group expressed its gratitude to all those that “have contributed and continue to support this project”.
According to the statement, though the GCSDN is not a humanitarian association, the story of Mrs. Terna was “very touching”.
“We may not be able to help all but we could help one. A bank account has also been opened for Joy to enable direct donations which will be supervised by two managers of the project Onome Ekwe and Ukan Kurugh.
The bank account details for possible donation is: JOY TERNA, GT BANK, 0476476973,” the statement added.
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target=_blank>Re:Muhammad Gulani: Lying Sicko Defends Pastor RUGA Osinbajo By Bayo Oluwasanmi
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Muhammad Gulani’s response to my article, “Osinbajo: Serial Liar, Buhari’s Brain, Propagandist, Interpreter Of Buhari’s Maladies published July 4, 2019, by SaharaReporters, is a figment of imagination as useless as dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind.
Gulani’s defence of Pastor ‘RUGA’ Osinbajo portrays Gulani as a lying sicko full of empty rant with an appeal to twisted morbid reasoning.
I will not dignify the cow dung from Gulani by responding to every phantom of lies, probabilities, impossibilities, and pipe dreams dressed up as achievements of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. However, one or two comments will suffice.
Gulani’s voice of mysterious import begins by saying, “To think of the Vice-President as a liar and propagandist is to do a grave injustice to the truth itself, and to vex the millions of Nigerians that have benefited through the many ways his office has helped elevate people from poverty and unemployment…
“He has chaired so well the National Economic Council: leading the team whose efforts took us out of a recession, brought upon the country from many years of mismanagement.”
With deliberate deceit, Gulani conveniently tap-danced around lies oozed out by Osinbajo about endless kidnappings in Nigeria at a town hall meeting in New York. Instead, Gulani cherry picked the case of a “man who faked his kidnap in Nassarawa State.”
Salivating and fully inebriated with concoction of lies, Gulani says: “The administration has put in place the National Livestock Transformation Plan. It is one of the most comprehensive plans that aim at ending the several decades long conflict, while looking at the economic benefits of the livestock rearing, and ensuring that there is proper conflict management and justice.”
Touting false, invisible paper achievements of Buhari-Osinbajo government, Gulani asked: “Are the 500,000 N-Power beneficiaries not real people? Or the over 2 million beneficiaries of the Trader Moni? Or the 2nd Niger Bridge whose construction is evident for everyone to see despite the naysayers saying it wasn’t real?”
I am a radical truth-teller in my writings. Whenever I sit at my desk to build another cathedral of paragraphs to stubbornly repudiate lies, half-truths, corruption, incompetence, impotence, of Buhari-Osinbajo administration, I do it with the zeal of an evangelist.
I’m not subjected to the whims and caprices of contemptuous Gulanis of the world who are against “government of the people by the people and for the people.”
The few Nigerians who still retain their senses are no longer surprised by the mendacity of Buhari-Osinbajo sickening fabrications.
To put it mildly, Gulani’s defence of the indefensible is an ugly self-flagellation. Osinbajo has told Nigerians some memorable lies that have been spectacularly false and wrought grave harm. Some of these lies have caused untold damage. Indeed, such lies are responsible for unspeakable suffering, hardship, and even deaths of many Nigerians.
Because Nigerians have short memories, they have overlooked very many evil fabrications of the Buhari-Osinbajo regime.
Consider the following: Osinbajo lied that APC didn’t promise Nigerians restructuring. He lied about the number of Nigerians in poverty during Jonathan’s presidency. He said 112.7 million Nigerians were in poverty under Jonathan.
Whereas, United Nations and World Poverty Clock contradict Osinbajo.
According to the two bodies, 87 million Nigerians are in poverty in 2018 under Buhari. In addition, under Buhari, Nigeria has been declared the world poverty capital. Another world body characterized Nigerians as the saddest people in the world.
Osinbajo lied during the presidential town hall meeting. He said the legislature did not send the Disability bill, “Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Bill, 2018 to the executive arm of government.
The bill was sent to the president December 18, 2018.
While speaking to the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Osinbajo lied that the greatness of Nigeria is its diversity. The opposite is true. We all know for 58 years, the diversity of Nigeria has not translated into peace, progress, and prosperity.
How many jobs have been created by the office of Osinbajo? Who are the faceless millions of Nigerians that were lifted from poverty? It’s amusing that Gulani as a researcher and political scientist doesn’t know how to dig up the number of jobs that have been created by Osinbajo or Buhari.
Gulani must be talking about millions of young graduates who work as Okada commercial cyclists. Or millions of poverty-stricken Nigerians trying to flee the country for better opportunities overseas.
Gulani doesn’t know when a country is in recession or out of recession. A recession is when an economy declines significantly for at least six months with a drop in the following six economic indicators: real gross domestic product, housing, income, employment, manufacturing, and retail sales. Going by these indicators, Nigeria has been in perpetual recession. And we’re still in the doldrums!
Talking about the National Economic Council (NEC), the NEC is as good as dead. It has failed woefully to jumpstart the economy. The impact of NEC on poor Nigerians is nil.
By the way, what is National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP)? When was NLTP started? How many Nigerians know what NLTP is about? If NLTP was in place, why is Osinbajo and the spectator President Buhari trying to force RUGA down our throats? Like all other programs of Osinbajo-Buhari regime, NLTP is a fraud. It’s a scam. Its nonsense!
Gulani’s rebuttal is a foolish distraction. It’s a depraved and convoluted piece. It reads like narrative of madmen without specialists (apology to Wole Soyinka).
No doubt, evil days are here: hunger, unemployment, homelessness, sickness, fear, insecurity, crisis, chaos, violence, killings, kidnappings, lawlessness have taken over the land. Young ones are written off as lost generations.
The country is growing apart and falling apart. We should avoid the Gulanis of the world like a dissident stream in order to rebuild this lawless, hopeless, and God forsaken nation.
bjoluwasanmi@gmail.com
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Senator Elisha Abbo is currently being arraigned by the Nigeria Police Force in Zuba Magistrate’s Court, Abuja.
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Moment Chief Judge Of Kebbi, Elizabeth Karatu, Was Stopped From Giving Last Judgment
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Retired Acting Chief Judge of Kebbi State, Elizabeth Asabe Karatu, said the state government denied her being confirmed as the chief judge because she was a Christian.
The state government and lawmakers in Kebbi State House of Assembly have repeatedly denied the allegation.
They had accused Karatu of being in possession of seemingly doctored documents regarding her birth and age.
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