The General Overseer of God’s Mercy Revival Ministries (GOMERM), Lagos, Dr. James Akanbi, spoke with Adeola Ogunlade on national issues ahead of the Zion 2022 Power Conference of the church, which ends today. Excerpts

You clocked 60 in January. How does hitting the milestone make you feel?

I thank God that I was able to clock 60. It was a great joy for me. It was not about the age but the impact the Lord has enabled me to make in life at 60. Life is not about duration but its donation. It is not how long you lived but how much impact you made. I thank God for the few achievements I can point at 60. It is not just looking at the numerical strength of the people around me in ministry. By the special grace of God, I have some thousands of people around me in ministry in about eight countries of the world where the flag of God’s Mercy Revival Ministries is flying. I thank God for the pillars He has raised for the ministry. There is a son that will always be a source of joy to me in the ministry. The very first day we started the ministry he came in drunk but today he is a regional overseer in the ministry. He is anointed and soundly mature in the Lord and still growing. I sent him to several Bible Schools. He is like a trophy I am looking at in this ministry.

If you were a civil servant, you would be winding down. How soon do you plan to slow down after hitting 60?

If you are on the right route and you slow down, other people will overtake you. When you are at the centre of the will of God you cannot slow down. Being at the centre of God’s will gives one joy to move on. Age should actually ginger you to do more. I look at Noah when he was commissioned. I look at Papa Kumuyi; a wonderful mentor who I first met in 1981 as his student at the International Bible Training Centre (IBTC) of the Deeper Life Bible Church. Sitting down with him and I said to myself, I want to pick a future like his. If at 80 he is saying he feels 30, what should a small boy like me say? When you are at the centre of the will of God for your life, you will definitely have a great future for your life; you get going. You don’t want to slow down because you see what God called you to do.

 The theme for the conference is ‘Higher Ground.’  What informed it?

We have been on a particular level for almost 23 years now. When the Lord spoke to John, the Revelator, He told him, ‘come up! When God summons you to come up, it means He has a new agenda for you. When God summons you in that form it means He wants to raise the boundary. He wants to show you things you have never seen. He wants to restructure you and your system. He wants to do a new configuration for the system you are heading and the lives around you.

Higher Ground Life, as the theme of this year’s Zion Power Conference, which I received from the Lord, is a higher level of life. It is doing things in another and different way. It is life becoming better than where we are now. It is the ministry work becoming more effective and more efficient. God is actually saying there is a better thing up there, come and see it! I will deposit it into you and you go out there to manifest it. That is what the conference is all about.

 Ahead of 2023, what is your take on the church’s involvement in active politics?

With the situation that is playing out now in Nigeria politics and governance, the Nigerian Church and Christians generally will be forced to get into active politics. There are Christian parties in some countries. In Nigeria politics, it will take a very solid calling to get there. Calling is so powerful that it makes way for itself if it is genuine and the instruction from God is clear. If you have a calling into politics, definitely you will make it. But if you are not called, you will be cursed. We had some Christians in politics in the past but they messed them up. With the way it is going, we may end up having a Christian Party in Nigeria someday.

With the cloud of fears, agitations, uncertainties and religion apprehension, do you foresee Nigeria crashing someday?

Nigeria cannot crash. I believe God has not given up on this nation. Nigeria’s present situation is not as worse as the situation in Ezekiel 37 when the people were completely hopeless but God still raised a great army out of them. Yes, at the moment Nigeria is facing a lot of problems so serious that Nigerians do not trust one another anymore. The politics of religion has never come to the front burners as it is now.

There is no doubting the fact that Nigeria is treading the path of crisis with the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket. But I believe God knows how to have His way. I believe the numbers of the righteous people in Nigeria are more than those in Sodom and Gomorrah.

I believe there are some people calling on God with a very pure heart for Nigeria. God will still help this nation. I believe Nigeria will not crash. I often say that we cannot expect the world to become better. The situations in Nigeria and in all other countries of the world will continue running like this till the end time but individuals can call on God to rectify their personal situations

General Overseer of FMIC of Faith and Miracle International Church (FMIC) Snr Prophet G.F Adetuberu will hold a three-day power packed crusade tagged ‘Captives of the mighty’ from Friday August 19-Sunday, August 21 at the Indoor Sports Hall, Liberty Stadium, Ibadan.

According to Adetuberu, residents of Ibadan and her environs will receive destiny-shaping experience of the prophetic power of God.

He said: “ I am inviting both the believers and unbelievers for this crusade where they will be the beneficiary of the prophetic deliverance and miracle healing found in God through his son Jesus Christ. This miracle healing and deliverance explosion crusade will help many individuals find the true meaning of deliverance and give as many expectant individuals as possible the full taste of it.

“The three-day crusade promises to be spiritually refreshing and not-so-forgettable experience for those who come to the venue or stream online from any of the church media platforms be it Youtube at ‘official the vine tv’, we will also be airing on free-to-air and Dstv decoders at ‘the vine tv’.

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“Many individuals are suffering from various demonic oppressions such as terrible addiction of all kinds, sex fanatic, smoking, drinking, spirit spouse and many oppression experiences.

“The body of Christ can do this prophetic deliverance and healing miracles because Jesus who is the husband of the church has given the power to his disciples who are thirsty for the manifestation of the finished works of Christ among the believers and unbelievers.”

He added: “The scripture says is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Jesus freely gave us this power to heal the sick, deliver the oppressed, raise the dead and to perform other healing miracles so we will also continue to minister to people for free.”

Adetuberu further urged Christians to live as role models and support the downtrodden, poor, sick and vulnerable in the society “by exercising the office of the prophetic healing and deliverance through a fire-igniting crusade which is one of the assignments of Christ for true believers when he was ascending into heaven.”

He said: “God has used his servant to address many diverse ailments and God is readily expecting to do the same again for people like the “woman with the issue of blood” and “the Roman captain in Capernaum” who will come to the Lord for their miracle healing. I am calling everyone that has been assaulted financially and spiritually to endeavor to make it to this power-packed crusade.”

The Presiding Bishop of Holy Spirit, Mission (aka Happy Family Centre), Bishop Charles Ighele, recently spoke to Adeola Ogunlade on the state of the nation, the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, Christians participation in the 2023 elections, and the need for unity in Nigeria.

From the way things are going, are you happy with the present state of things in Nigeria?      

The present state of things in Nigeria is not cheering. Nigeria has met all the parameters of a failing state. Look at the security. From various data, Nigeria is said to be one of the worst nations to live on earth, though we can turn the tide through effective and responsive leadership. Now, look at our economy, when I was to buy my first car in the 80s Renault brand, new Mercedes Benz car, I bought it N7,200, the price went up to #24,000,  people were crying, I mean, you could go to the US, with a #1000 return ticket. Today, the Naira has completely lost its value, just like the Dutch Mark after the First World War. So in terms of economic development, there is nothing to write home about, price of foodstuff, nothing to write about, many are dying of poverty. As a pastor I know what we are passing through; a lot of our resources go towards taking care of the poor but more are needed to be done quickly and urgently to take more Nigerians out of poverty.

Unemployment is over 33%. Infrastructure, name them; I’m saying that it is a completely failed state.  Yes, there are some pockets of what you may call development, but what development, that is another definition entirely is, there may be one or two shining lights, from perhaps one or two state governments, but I am talking about this federal government of the day. I have said that the day this president will hand over power, that day, whoever wins is not even my concern, that day I will throw a party. I have said it long ago. That is how serious it is, I will throw a party. This is a government that has put many governors in trouble, but they can’t talk, when you talk they see you as an enemy. I know there are many governors in his party who at all don’t like what he is doing, they can’t talk, but for the sake of political unity and not to hurt their interests, but they know in their hearts. Every governor in this country right now can run this country better than Buhari, I tell you that, every minister can run the country better than Buhari. We are in trouble, greater trouble, unless he wakes up this remaining period that is left for him.

What should the government do to resolve its disagreement with ASUU?

Something happened that I couldn’t, I was to make a placard and T-shirt for myself and my wife to go to the street in support of the ASUU strike. Primary school destroyed. You see, nobody who earns even N50,000 a month will say my child go to a public primary school; secondary school destroyed

In some schools in Nigeria, about 500 pupils use one toilet. The teachers cannot speak good English, so people are taking their children from public primary schools to private primary schools, the secondary school, and now university education is also destroyed and people cannot take their children to private universities. So ASUU is fighting for the whole educational system whereby our children can finish from the University of Lagos, University of Ife and they go out to the US or UK and pick a job, but right now they cannot, because many of them are not competent, I have had people who passed through us and then went abroad to study they could not meet up, so now they have to sit again to get things done. So the entire education system has failed completely.

Now every thinking Nigerian should support the ASUU strike. The president said enough is enough, and then after that nothing, now I am telling him ‘President enough is enough.’

Also, It was Adam Smith who is known to be the father of capitalism and people always see him as a capitalist but he has written a book before on morality, the moral behind it but we forget the morality behind the story. He wrote that book, The Wealth of Nations, why are some nations richer than other nations? And then he brought these four things: Capital, entrepreneur, land and Labour. The educational system produces the labour force, look at what MAN said, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria some years ago, it said when they employ Nigerian graduates; it takes them time to retrain them.

Let’s look at the performance of the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Well you heard me say that any of the governors can do better than Buhari, now the problems of Lagos are huge. It is said it is one of the worst cities to live in the world, but now I am not going to use that to rate the performance of the governor of Lagos State. Lagos State has produced the most intelligent set of governors, this is my own assessment. When Tinubu came he was intelligent, Fashola, Ambode and now Sanwo-Olu. I listen to him and he speaks intelligently.  You see all the problems of Nigeria are being heaped on Lagos, so for these intelligent men to perform and get things in order is not easy at all. All the poor from my place, from your place, from the north, they are all coming here and they wear trousers and look like educated people.

So it is now compounding the problem, so to plan and get Lagos out of the mess is not easy. So when they criticize the governor of Lagos State, I like to be fair as a man of God, I don’t want to say evil of someone that doesn’t deserve that kind of a name evil. So this is the way I see it. Lagos is like American New York, everybody is coming here every year; all the problems are being imported into Lagos. One of the governors, I think Fashola, was talking about creating a night economy, that means even when everybody has gone to bed, people are still buying and selling. But now with the insecurity problem all over the country including Lagos, that can’t happen.

Your view on Moslem/Moslem ticket by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

I don’t think I and some of my colleagues have anything against Bola Ahmed Tinubu, personally, I have nothing against him, I know the time he was governor of Lagos State, that time I was still in Benin before I moved to Lagos when he took over from Colonel Buba Marwa, and Marwa was quite charismatic, he was popular. When Tinubu now took over as Governor of Lagos State, for the first year there were some criticisms, he was not performing well, now he rejigged, and I said on my pulpit in Benin City, I said watch out for this man, he is a strategist. This man will go somewhere high; he is a planner; so that was my impression of him. So I see him do all these. I am not surprised. I told my church then, that he would go somewhere, not as a prophecy but by seeing how he was trying to see how to get Lagos on a developmental process, which I like.

So it is not about Asiwaju Bola Tinubu but my concern is this, and this is what is disturbing me seriously. Now if he wins as president and he serves for two terms of eight years, which means under a Moslem/Moslem ticket, when it now gets back to North, another eight years, they will give it to another northerner, another Moslem/ Moslem will surely have it, and it is quite suffocating. During MKO Abiola; myself and my wife were enthusiastic, we queued up and voted for him, so my concern is what I told you right now. It is suffocating. Is it that there is no competent Christian, but now Buhari eight years, if Tinubu wins Eight years, that 16 years, and then it goes North again, eight years, that means 24 years, haba! It is suffocating, so that is really my concern.

A Rector of Methodist Theological Institute, Sagamu, Ogun State, Very Rev. Dr. Raphael Akhijemen Idialu, has advised students to spend less time on social media but more on studies, prayers and spiritual development.

Speaking at the combined matriculation ceremony of student ministers in the institute’s chapel, Idialu said that they must develop skills in critical thinking, be analytical, and learn how to question and receive information in a refined manner, rather than spending much of their time on social media.

He further advised, “there is nothing wrong in making use of social media. But do not let social media become an excuse for not engaging your mind intellectually. I will encourage you to be more open-minded and welcome new insights and revelations that come from research and reflections.

“I want you to appreciate early enough the fact that your future is in your hands and that it is really up to you to succeed in making it or failing to fulfill your ministry. Students who do not have a vision and a dream of what they want to achieve, are like a boat without a direction in turbulent waters. I encourage you to strive for academic excellence.  You will be on the way to achieving excellence if you are able to strike the right balance between your academics, spiritual formation, extracurricular activities and social life,” the rector admonished.

The Methodist Church Nigeria Presbyter admonished, “as your teachers, mentors and advisors shall be available to guide you, so long as you are willing to be guided. We will give you all the necessary support, but only if you use the legitimate means to seek such support.

“We look forward to teaching and interacting with you during your stay in the Institute. We pledge that we will do all we can to make your stay here as pleasant as possible. Enjoy your stay here; take advantage of every facility that is offered to develop yourself and to prepare you for the ministry vocation and life”.

“In this Institute, we pride ourselves in not only training students in academic work, but also in character and spiritual formation. So, that upon graduation the student will be fully ready to be a responsible minister and leader who will contribute to church and national development in a patriotic and result-oriented manner.

“I recommend that you emulate the example of your mentors and teachers in self-discipline, self-care, good mode of dressing, fidelity to your studies and work, and general comportment, so that you will not be found wanting at any time,” he advised.

In his remarks, the institute Registrar, Very Rev. Dr. Bamidele Adedeji, advised the students to be focused and serious in their programmes as God who called them into the ministry wouldn’t abandon them.

Among the eight students admitted to the institute for the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) programme, is a journalist, Stanley Ihedigbo, who is a candidate from Lagos North Diocese of Methodist Church Nigeria.

Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) Lagos Chapter, Dr. Enyinnaya Okwuonu has urged congregants to pray and interact with one another in order to succeed.

He spoke at the youth’s conference with its theme: ‘Fit For The Future.’ held at TREM Cathedral, Ijesha, Lagos.

According to him, the aim of the conference was to reposition  youths’ mindset towards achieving their core purpose, especially at this time when election is very near,  had lined up activities including prayer session, ministration from  Mass Choir across provinces, awards and recognitions of leaders among others.

“We are to identify with one another. Nobody succeeds alone, when the devil wants to deal with you they isolate you and when you stay alone is a sign of pride. We should have more of a relationship, whatever you are doing you have to relate with one another.

“I am appealing to the government at all levels to give the youths a chance.  God is at work, do not stay on the way. The coalition and the mass movement of youth is not man orchestrated, God’s hand is in it,” he said.

Deputy Chairman Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, Pastor Oluleke Akinola thanked God for what is happening in PFN, Lagos State saying it’s a new dawn and they are catching up with the vision of the new PFN.

“They are coming together to charge a future and we believe strongly that if we are going to get the future we must begin now. And we brought all the youths here to let them know where we are now and where we are going in the future.”

Lagos Chapter, PFN Director of Youths, Apostle Ken Chidubem, said that ‘it is a time of revival,  a time of salvation, a time of  impartation,  a time of recharging where youths are challenged in order to get the best that has ordained for them.”

Chidubem said the conference was a result of mobilising youths to understand their core purpose,

“We are here to let the youths know that the future starts today and we have been hearing the youths are the future of tomorrow but if we look around them, especially in the political world, we do not see that happening and we are to teach the youth how to make one fits for the future,” he added.

Saxophonist, Jeffrey Steven popularly known as Jeffrey Zion said: “I bless God and I have been into it for several years now and so much believe God and it must surely come to past because it is a future and it is a dream and believe the glory of God will continue in my life.”

AHEAD of the 2023 elections, politicians have been warned not to underrate the ongoing “reformation of heart” among many Nigerian masses, who are ready to downplay money and act in accordance with their conscience.

The words of caution came yesterday from a Lagos cleric, Prophet Lai Bamidele, in a chat with our correspondent.

Bamidele, who is General Overseer of Christ Glorious End-Time Evangelical Church with headquarters in Lagos, said several years of failed promises and dashed hopes from elected politicians had made the people learn their lessons in a hard way and were now ready to make amends.

“We have never had it so bad in the life of this country, as many of our elected representatives and governors cutting across all political parties have let down the people who voted for them.

“The level of corruption in high places also stinks badly, despite anti-graft agencies like the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and ICPC (Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission) in place.

“Most of our elected leaders, either as president, governor and lawmaker have failed to redeem their promises and dashed the hope of the masses who look up to them for direction, thus bringing more hardship on the poor masses in need of help,” he lamented.

The cleric who pointed at a recent comment by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that over 70 percent of recently registered, prospective voters were youths, said it was symptomatic of a people determined to make their votes count with no regard for pecuniary gains.

“The masses, especially the youths are now going through what I will call reformation of heart, and these are the people who are ready to downplay money and act in accordance with their conscience.

“It also shows God in action, in the affairs of this country, as I foresee a Nigeria where voters will ask contestants what they intend to do if elected and not how much they have to spend to get there,” he stressed.

OVER 100 widows were lifted as Salome Oguche Foundation in collaboration with Friends of Widows and Orphans Care Initiative donated cash, rice, packets of Maggi cubes, cartons of Indomie noodles, bags of salt , and toiletries.

The event was held at the Life Gate International Bible Ministry, Lagos. The event featured the 65th birthday and 37th wedding ceremony of Founder of Friends of Widows and Orphans Care Initiative, Rev Levi Adegbe and the launching of Salome Oguche Foundation.

Speaking at the event, Rev Adegbe, who was grateful to God for sparing him in the last 65th years, said that life has taught him to give hope to people.

He said the mandate of the Friends of Widows and Orphans Care Initiative is to go and feed the widows, adding that most of the widows who came in tears but having heard the word of encouragement and ceaseless prayers, God wiped away their tears. “Today, they are behind our ministry.”

Adegbe, who is also the Pastor of Life Gate International Bible Ministry, noted that aside from providing food items, the group also empowers widows by teaching them how to make soap,  disinfectants, among others.

Earlier, the Chairman of Salome Oguche Foundation, Uneku Oguche said that the launching of the foundation was to awaken the memory of his mother, the late Obuche Salome, who was caring, loving, and whose door was opened to everyone irrespective of their tribe and language.

He disclosed that the foundation would embark on several projects including community engagement and support for widows and orphans and provision of basic amenities like clean and drinkable water. “Also, we will be donating school materials to orphans, construction of classrooms for rural schools, and payments of school fees for children of widows and orphans.”

In his words, the convener of the programme, Divine Oguche said that the foundation was borne out of the passion to create an enabling channel where the needy, widow, orphans, and less privileged in society can be reached out through various avenues which include: society welfare packages like health, care support, education of the scholarships programmes, business set up, among others.
Oguche added that the main focus of the foundation is to rescue widows and orphans from basic reproaches and to provide help in our own little way.

WITH the arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019, the world was on lockdown with human movement and flight restrictions. These made many preachers and evangelists to adopt and adapt technology in promoting the gospel to diverse audiences across the social media space.

Adapting the gospel to the new media age no doubt came with its own challenges. But, for, the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, William F. Kumuyi it was time to move the Church from terrestrial into a full digital space.

For the 81 years old evangelist, it was time to key into the social media space with the gospel of Jesus Christ. As the convener of the ‘Global Crusade with Kumuyi (GCK)’, the church gave the youths some leeway to play in their space by trending #Kumuyi Says to connect with their peers on Twitter and other platforms – therefore delivering the message to the youth in a way they could easily relate with.

To deepen this trend further, the church on Sunday 31 July, launched the GCK global brand at the Lagos State University of Science & Technology (LASUSTECH) formerly LASPOTECH. This is in commitment to reaching more nations with the gospel. This also shows that the church is looking ahead into the future to build a digital footprint on the social media space beyond constructing cathedrals.

According to Kumuyi, the media as the fourth estate of the realm can be the publishers of grace. This he said was based on the fact that media professionals are held in high esteem as ambassadors of goodwill on God’s behalf and for mankind.

“As the convener of the GCK, I invite you to partner with us in this admittedly demanding voyage of reaching the whole world with the saving gospel of Christ at double quick time. I sincerely urge you, great men and women of the press and everyone who has joined us today to work with us in this endeavor so that together we can leave a mark that will endure for generations,” Kumuyi said.

Similarly, two books’ The Minister Shown Approved and Voyage to Liberation’ written by Kumuyi on the crusade was also launched to deepen knowledge on the crusade and the convener.

According to the book reviewer, Nancy Mastroeni, the book is an “easy read book”. Also, the GCK Daily, a 15 minutes content produced by Iyke Okafor, will run on all social media platforms, starting in September.

GCK brand analyst, Daniel Afolayan, explained that Kumuyi has built a brand that is digitally relevant and can stand the test of time globally. According to him, the GCK convener is currently the face of the global evangelical movement, known for his expository teachings.

“He has built the GCK brand, which is the global crusade with Kumuyi. This brand’s slogan is the gospel to every creature because the global crusade was birthed out of the need to further share the good news of Christ, and the purpose of this brand is changing lives through Christ,” Afolayan said.

THE joy is that God has been faithful. I have found my destiny, my talent and what God wants me to do for Him. There have been a lot of testimonies even unknown to me and even as l am unknown.”

A street preacher, Pastor Iheanyinchukwu Gilbert, of Praise and Worship Church of God said this in an interview with The Nation as he relayed his eight years of street preaching experience in Alimosho, a suburb of Lagos, despite losing his wife and sister 33 days apart.

The cleric who marked his eighth year of preaching in the streets a few days ago said he answered God’s call to preach in the streets on June 1, 2014, and he had stationed at Akowonjo roundabout ever since.

“To the glory of God this journey started the first day of June 2014 after a lot of torture, I had to surrender. I couldn’t walk, it was after one year of my paralysis, I cried to God. I couldn’t come out of my compound for a whole year. I was diagnosed with low blood pressure but to the glory of God, nobody treated me but God took it away after crying to Him and pleading for mercy.”

According to the preacher, it was not an easy journey but God saw him through.

“I had to surrender to God after my wife returned from her second fibroid operation in 2014. The first one was in 2010 at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. I used to preach like this when I was in the Anglican Church.

“When I heard I had been chosen, I ran to the Lord’s Chosen Church in 2010 but the voice was still disturbing me. I spent four years there and asked God what He wanted me to do but while in the church they were still telling me to go and do the work of God as if I wasn’t doing it. Then I surrendered to God and started, since then I had peace,” he narrated.

Asked if he is fulfilled, he said there is nothing like serving God.

“I would be praying here and God would be touching those passing, I don’t know how. A lady was passing and dropped a letter here and stated what God did in her life while on a vehicle as I was praying here, she dropped N3,000, till today I don’t know her,” he said.

Continuing, he said, “People have been coming for counseling and some even come for me to see vision for them and I do tell them I don’t see vision, I only preach the word of God and pray. I tell them I’m not a prophet. In Psalm 107:20, the Bible says He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their troubles. I only preach the word of God and pray.”

He also talked about the challenging moments that tested his faith.

“The Lord has been good to me despite the fact that my wife passed on December 22, 2021. We were married for a long time but had no child. God later answered us in 2017, she was 50 then and in 2019 she had cancer, she died last December and was buried on 11th Fe

“God has been so wonderful. During my wife’s burial, God raised support for me, people stood by me. The child she left behind is five years old and God just brought a man who placed her on scholarship. What else will I say God has not done for me? So I have resolved to continue to be on duty for Him,” he said.

The National Youth Leader of the Praying Band of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, (C&S), Afolabi Olaoke has appealed to the Federal Government to make the current Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike a priority and make sure public universities are reopened as soon as possible in the interest of youths.

Olaoke spoke at a briefing at the just concluded weeklong 20th Annual Youth Convention of the National Youth Fellowship of the Praying Band of C &S, Church at The Praying Band Praying Ground, Ogijo, Ogun State.

The event tagged Iri-Orun (Heaven’s Dew- Psalm 133: 3) will feature a visit to an orphanage home, career talk, relationship seminar, soul-lifting messages, and divine impartation.

He said: “We rise as a voice in this nation and beckon once again on the federal government of Nigeria to make the ASUU strike action a priority and making sure that the public universities are reopened in this month of August”.

He called on the youths to be politically involved by getting their Permanent Voters Cards(PVCs) and massively vote.

He restated the commitment of the church toward ensuring that the message of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ gets to the nooks and corners of the world, stressing that we believe that with God on our side and the support of the youth fellowship, will be a reality.