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  • GOMERM holds Covenant Day on Easter Sunday

    GOMERM holds Covenant Day on Easter Sunday

    All roads lead to Ofada on Easter Sunday as God’s Mercy Revival Ministries (GOMERM) holds its COVENANT DAY special programme at MERCY CAMPGROUND in Ofada, Ogun State by 9am. 

    The  programme, which will bring together delegates from different parts of Nigeria, has as its theme “NEW GARMENT FOR NEW WORLD: BREAKING FREE FROM STRONGHOLDS”.

    GOMERM General Overseer, Dr. James Akanbi will be ministering during the programme while celebrated gospel singer, Evangelist Bukola Bekes is Guest Artiste.

    According to a statement by the ministry’s Director of Communications and Public Relations, Pastor Femi Kolawole, there will be free transportation from different locations in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and other states to the campground which is located on Km. 4 Papa Lanto Road, Off Shagamu-Ibadan Expressway, Ofada, Ogun state.

    For the several thousands of people who will attend the service, it was gathered that free feeding arrangements have also been made in the spirit of the Easter celebrations.

    “As God’s people, we are set and our faith is strong. We are ready to meet with our faithful and covenant-keeping God of the Commission for a fresh supernatural impartation at this Easter as we celebrate the death and resurrection of our Lord and saviour,” Pastor Kolawole said.

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    “When Jesus Christ ascended up to heaven, the scriptures make us understand that He led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. During the COVENANT DAY programme, we believe that God will give out new garments that will bring forth new world in the lives of people, especially through the prophetic ministration of His anointed prophet and our father in the Lord, Dr. Akanbi,” Kolawole added.

  • Chief of Defence Staff felicitates troops at Easter

    Chief of Defence Staff felicitates troops at Easter

    The Chief of Defence (CDS) has urged personnel of the Nigerian military to remain steadfast in their resolve to overcome obstacles and strive for a brighter future.

    He also urged them to embody the message of hope, courage, and resilience, as their “dedication and unwavering commitment to securing our nation are commendable and deeply appreciated.”

    The CDS said this in his Easter message to troops on Friday, March 29.

    He said: “Easter serves as a poignant reminder of the ultimate sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. His selfless act underscores the importance of sacrifice, both individually and collectively.

    “It is a time for us to acknowledge the immense love and care bestowed upon us by God year after year.”

    “In the Armed Forces of Nigeria, sacrifice and courage are at the core of our professional calling, as they willingly lay down their lives in service to our nation, especially during challenging times when collective support is crucial in tackling security challenges.

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    “Despite the challenges we face as a nation, the message of Easter brings hope. Just as darkness gives way to light, we must remain steadfast in our resolve to overcome obstacles and strive for a brighter future.

    “As Chief of Defence Staff, I am committed to nurturing an Armed Forces that honors the sacrifices of our fallen heroes. Let us remember those who have paid the ultimate price, including those who recently lost their lives on a peace mission in Delta State.”

    The CDS urged Nigerians to join in prayer for the souls of our fallen heroes and for strength for their grieving families.

    He assured that the sacrifices of the fallens heroes would never be forgotten, and their memories would always be cherished.

  • Easter 2024: The Christian and the Antichrist

    Easter 2024: The Christian and the Antichrist

    For Christians with oil in the lamps of their souls like the Biblical Five Wise Virgins, Easter season reminder stories are incomplete without  AntiCHRIST stories . “AntiCHRIST stories are not in eulogy of the  personal fighter against the Divine Mission of Christ to the Earth, but to help us all to be more precise about Who is so  defined, He Who, it is assumed, would …”Raise His Head Just Before The Judgement”. Superficial understanding of this AntiCHRIST personality in Biblical revelation has lured many Christians, the Churches and priestly dignitaries to spiritual slumber. Predicted that the AntiCHRIST “will raise his head just  before the judgement”, it is assumed that He would appear and be active, ruinously,among mankind just before, perhaps, the sounding of trumpets of the World Judgement.  It is hardly  realised that the AntiCHRIST could have been active among men already and would reach the zenith of his malevolence against Christ’s Mission just before the judgement. Christians view the “trumpets” not as allegorise of  escalations, rapidity and quantum catastrophic events: collapse of several economies, disastrous weather, famine in the midst of plenty, sexual depravity, belief in the power of money, crimes, insurgencies and violence globally, among other indicators of an approaching End-Time. As  for the AntiCHRIST Who “would raise His Head just before the Judgement” man’kind’s  gaze is still fixed on the Middle-East region , a rich resource of human civilisation caged  today  by  Western technology. Whether in the BIBLE CODE of Michael Alan Drosnin or in  predictions of  seer Nostradamus,a.k.a,” the man who saw tomorrow”,this  Islamic region is expected to spit fire storms on  the rest of the earth, destroy  Christian Western  civilisation and instal Islamic hegemony. Already, Algeria, a once wholly Christian nation in northern Africa, has become about 98 percent Islamic. I am passionate about Constatinople, the first Christian capital on earth, which has become Islamic. It was here, Stephen  Lampe reports in his  book, THE Christian  The  Re-Incarnation,that a great, Christian episcopal conference took place in AD 553.

    Illiterate about  Christian history, many Christians are  easily spiritually imprisoned in  ordinances and dogmas behind which stand the AntiCHRIST of Whom they  know little. There were two  prime actors in the AD 553 Constantinople  conference of Bishops. These were  the Roman emperor Nero and the then  Pope, Justinian. Emperor Nero had personal ideas which he wanted Pope Justinian and the Bishops to erase from Christian thinking and Church teaching. One was abolition of  wide spread early Christian belief in re-incarnation. It was among several other anathemas he sought. Anathema means abolition. In seeking to abolish re-incarnation in the thinking of Christian and teaching of the Church, Emperor Nero, as the servant of the AntiCHRIST, set himself above Jesus Christ. About  533 years  before then, Christ had validated before His Disciples the reality of re-incarnation. Although He did not address the subject to a wider audience, it is inferred from the circumstance of His reference to His Disciples,that re-incarnation was a widely accepted conception among the populace. Had He lived for longer, Christ may have offered deeper and wider explanations about it.

    The knowledge of re-incarnation was one of the keys available to mankind at that time to understand the purpose of  their  existence on earth. They were in the infancy of their spiritual maturity in the earthly school of life. Re-incarnation was widely acknowledge by society. Father Origen and other early Christian fathers taught and emphasised  it. How  would they not when The Light  of  God on earth, Jesus Christ, confirmed it to His Disciples. Let us recall the meeting with them when He threw up the question: Who Do People Say I am”?

    Simon Peter gave him the correct answer: “The  Son of TheLiving  God”. Christ told them Peter was right.  But, they were to keep the knowledge to themselves for sometime.

    The disciples were confused. They wondered why, against the prophesies, The Son of God would be on earth before the re-incarnation  of  Elijah.

    The Lord replied them that Elijah had, indeed, returned,was not recognised by men and they  had done to him or with him what they wished.The Lord did not proceed beyond  this threshold of their understanding perhaps in recognition of their immaturity for higher revelations. That is why a careful reading of the reporting of this event in  the Bible will reveal an error, which is the fault in the interpretation of the reporting authority, Who says…

    And it became clear unto them that He spake of John the  Baptist.

    This verse is person opinion. Jesus did not say Elijah returned as John the Baptist.He did not tell the  disciples who re-incarnated as John the Baptist. Mathew reports  John emphatically told enquiring Pharisees he was neither Elijah nor the Messiah. Elijah and Moses appeared with the Messiah at His Transfiguration, after beheading of Jedohn.  In the expanded spiritual knowledge which the Lord promised humanity before the Judgement (…”And when He the Spirit of Truth is come…”), it is  now recognised that  the Primordial Human Spirit we know as John the Baptist was called Ismael when He helped to lead the first generation of human Spirit seed germs from their home  to the material world for their maturity. He is not one of us. His origin is far, far above our home in the Spiritual world, Paradise. We can not  exist in His own World because the energy and Pressure would dissolve us.  That was why Jesus  informed us that none of us was as great as  John  the  Baptist.  He returned to His Home after His beheading by King Herod Antipas at  the instigation of Salome.  And when He was well past our paradise, to which many of us may not be re-admitted, He caused The Bible’s Book of Revelations to be sent to us  on earth through one of us named John who was spiritually  mature to receive and to transmit it.

     Elijah re-incarnated but not as John The Baptist. This error placed my spirit at the alert whenever I comb the Bible or any other scriptural  book from other religions for spiritual knowledge.  Elijah and Moses were with the Lord Jesus at His Transfiguration.  Meanwhile, as humanity  is permitted again to now know, John The Baptist soon embarked  on another Mission to prepare all the Seven Universes for the  Judgement. Remember His message in The Book of Revelations to“The Seven Churches of Asia“ ”. Spiritually, “ the seven Churches” are the seven universes and “Asia” is the spiritual name of The World. Our Universe is called Ephesus.

    Everywhere in “Asia”, the work of salvation and redemption is going on before the Judgement and annihilation of recalcitrant human spirits. Should we not  now wonder why Emperor Nero fought the knowledge of  Re-incarnation if he was not a servant of the AntiCHRIST, the fighter against Christ?

    Revelation:12

    I wish to hurry to Lucifer. He was a stately, powerful Archangel. He led the mission to bring  human spirit seed germs from their spiritual home  to lower realms, there to plant them in material soil for their sprouting, germination, flowering and fruiting. On  maturing, they may become some day privileged to be permitted to become helpers in the up-building work always going on in creation.  Events in this chapter of the book of Revelations were revealed to John  from realms  higher than His. The woman with a child pursued by the dragon  does not refer to Mary the mother of Jesus and to Jesus. The opening sentence refers to “ Him Who  Was,Who  Is and  Who  is To Come”, that is one personality, and progresses to “And Peace also from Jesus Christ, The Faithful Witness”, A Second Personality.

    Humanity was spiritually dead when Christ incarnation among them, the  first one from the God head came. Jesus promised another would come(“ Which  is to   Come….”) Who would “reprove the world of sin and proclaim the Judgement”. This woman and the child  pursued by the Dragon could not be Mary,earthly mother of Jesus, and Jesus. She is the Queen of Heaven, and “That Which is to come” is shown  to us as a child because He was  in the infancy of preparations for His mission “Which is to come ” and which The Lord Jesus foretold.

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    Having failed in His Mission to support the spiritual maturation of human spirit seed germs by abandoning The Will of God and substituting  His own  Will and recognising the coming of a Mission to wrest from Him the symbol of authority and power and cast Him in  bounds for the  Millennium, Lucifer sought to destroy this mission.

    This should light up  our spirits well enough to recognise that  He could not have left the mission of the son of God Jesus in peace  as well. With this knowledge, we should recognise in their true colours the various encounters  with the Jesus  Mission about which not  much illumination is made .

    The Four Wse Men

    The encounter  of Emperor Nero  and Pope Justinian is not the first. I will quickly address it, because of the importance of re-incarnation.Bishops from the East and the West assembled in Constantinople at Nero’s request. Eastern Bishops rejected the anathemas and boycotted the conference. Nero brought a communique which supported his ideas for Pope  Justinian to sign. The Pope refused. Nero placed him under house arrest for two weeks and threatened to depose him. Pope Justinian caved in, the man who was supposed to be a representative of Simon Peter whose faith that the son of God was on earth led Christ to validate the fact of re-incarnation. Thanks to Stephen Lampe who, in The Christian And Recarnation, leads us through the Christian scriptures to show that Nero did not succeed in obliterating all the evidence.

    Where I am headed are the Four Wise Men. They were appointed , trained and anointed in higher spheres, one representing each of  the four pillars of Creation. Only three of them  made the trip to Baby Jesus in the manger. Earthly considerations placed on  his path by Lucifer made the fourth to arrive after the Baby had been taken  to hiding in Egypt by His parents. The three Wise men need not have informed Herod of his Birth. Unguarded,they endangered His life and caused the  unnecessary murder of newborn males in the fury of Lucifer to abort the Christ Mission.

    Like Nero’s story, those of The Four Wise Men is not well  told in the Easter story line to advise  us of their serious lessons. Did we hear of the three Wise men again?Yet they were to protect the adult Jesus with their  wealth, influence and knowledge, all given to them largely for this purpose! Lucifer, the fighter against Christ as the AntiCHRIST,  was behind it all!

    Virgin Birth

    This question, like that of immaculate conception, was spurn to make  Christ’s personality controversial.We cannot extricate it from Lucifer’s intrigues.  Jesus left us in no doubt that  He had come to “fulfil” and not “to oppose” the Laws of His Father. These Laws govern every happening, including the coming into being on earth and the separation from  the earth. Were it otherwise, could Jesus not have simply appeared in the sky  or even come down from the cross or continued to manifest in a non-physical body such as the  one Apostle Paul said he saw? To the Jews of those days,virgin birth was the first birth from any womb.  Spiritually, immaculate conception may be termed “pure” pregnancy. In fact, every earth woman is supposed to be capable of immaculate conception. Being unable to do so has now led to more than half of the earth  population coming from  nether  or darker regions around the  planet where  immature  souls are confined. For the immaculate conception of Jesus, a capable woman in the person of Mary was  identified. She was well connected with all the circumstances required for  pure conception. The Angel made the Annunciation to prepare her mind. The Love of  God comes to us  through  the Ray of  Divine Purity. That is why we cannot abound  in impurity and expect Grace to abound. A female Being from primordial Spiritual realms, where  the Spirits did not  have to come to the  earth for self development, connected with many  and the  Divine One in her womb.Jesus did not directly connect with Mary. Among earth pregnant women, how often do “conception” accidents not occur because  all their being is not well directly  focused on what is going  on within and around  them? Do  doctors nowdays not encourage them to involve in sexual frivolities during pregnancy? Which types of  souls may then approach them either to displace a more honourable soul or to cause other disturbances? In the  case of Jesus, High spiritual Beings surrounded His conception and stood by till 40 days after His birth. Kudos to those Nigerian  cultures that  do not  permit that a newborn be taken outside the house for  40 days! Till this day, the questions  of immaculate conception and virgin birth  needlessly strive to raise many  unnecessary questions about the  personality of Jesus. He came to teach us about  The Will of God which Mother  Nature His servant , teaches us in the language it speaks to us in  The Laws of Creation.  Who could be more natural than Jesus in His teaching, especially His Parables?Only the AntiCHRIST could be  behind controversies of His birth to challenge  His Authority and His Message.

    Judas and Pilate

    Judas was a disciple, Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor of Judea. Both were in Christ’s Mission. In a Mission, anointed ones are strategically placed to protect the mission. But often they fail, caught in the webs of material existence.  Peter, James and  John  belonged to the inner disciple  caucus. Judas through inordinate ambition nourished by the AntiCHRIST encouraged himself to create his own niche. That was earthly power.  He aligned with Jewish military rebels to over throw Roman rule during the Passover Feast and arranged a tumultuous reception for Jesus in Jerusalem for Him to be crowned King of  The Jews and ignite a revolution. In the temple, Jesus explained that My Kingdom is not of This World and preached, instead, The Brotherhood of all Men.  Had Judas succeeded, could he not have become a Minister in the new government? Jesus saw through his ambition. The rest  is history! Had Pontius Pilate  not feared for his high office of Governor of Judea and listened to the  entreaties of his wife to let Jesus go and the Crucification did not take place, could the  story of Christianity not be a  different one today? Do we  ever pause to find out  who those persons  were who were  guiding Pilate’s wife in her dreams to work on her husband to free Jesus? Although he symbolically washed the blood of Jesus off  his hands with soap and water, did he not fail at  his duty post  in the Chris Mission?

    The  Multitude

    They shouted “ Hossanah” today and screamed “Crucify Him” the next,  puppets of AntiCHRIST. Some of them are back on earth as the Stigmatists who bear the wound marks of Jesus on the Cross during the Easter season. Unfortunately, many Christians and the Church do not recognise them for who they are, former revilers and  murderers of the  Son of God, and worship and say prayers through them as blessed ones.

    The  Priest

    Encouraged by the AntiCHRIST, the Priestly dignitaries organised the murder of Christ as a blasphemer of the God Who sent Him to us and Whose Will they claim to obey and to serve. In reality, though, they carried out the murder to protect their earthly influence and power over the people which they believed  Jesus was eroding. They were all minions of the AntiCHRIST, Lucifer. Even when the curtains of the Holy of Holies were torn into shreds by Luminous Beings Who were protesting the murder, even when the earth quaked, in protest,  and the sun darkened, turning day into night, and the winds rushed, even when some among the gullible  multitude faintly recognised that  Jesus was truly the Son of God, and could have risen against the priestly order for misleading them into committing heinous murder,did the AntiCHRIST not provide the priest with an explanation many Christians even today still swallow line, hook and sinker…that Jesus came to die for their  Sins?  Does one of the 10 Commandments not say Thou  Shall Not Kill? Did Christ come to fulfil the Will of  God or to Oppose It? Christians should have been asking themselves:

    Does God change His Commandments? Do we not say of Him: “The same yesterday, today and forever?”Did Jesus not warn Judas to back out of it? Did Judas not commit suicide on recognising his  misdeed? Why has no Christian sect cannonised Judas if he helped Jesus to fulfil God’s Will that He die for men’s sins? Why does no Christian father or mother name his or her son Judas? The human spirit senses the Truth, but is too suffocated by the AntiCHRIST to free himself or herself from the darkness and escape from the coming annihilation.

    This subject is too vast to be exhausted in one article. The discussion will continue some other day.  

  • The church, the rich and Easter

    There’s much we don’t take cognizance of at Easter, the most eventful festival in the Christian calendar. We discountenance its deep, bottomless sacrifice content and message and concentrate on a fleeting euphoric aftermath of Good Friday and Resurrection Day. On Saturday after the death on the tree at Calvary, we wait for the grave to give up its Dead, knowing the Scriptures must, of necessity be fulfilled. At the break of dawn the next day when the tomb can no longer retain its Tenant, it releases Him, to declare the ordained victory of life over death.

    We experience the passion on Friday. We stay in our closet that day, sanctimoniously grieving for the ‘exit’ of the Lord. We miss Him. On Saturday, you remain in the valley mourning for the second successive day. Finally, on Sunday, there will be a shaking of the bones in the sepulcher to free the crucified Son of God. The Saviour has dealt a death blow to death itself.

    But what has been man’s response over the ages? We dash back into the snare and stranglehold of the wily enemy of our soul. How? We go back into Satan’s subtle system of sins that moved the Man of Galilee to go to Calvary in the first place. How? We organize feasts where we go into unbridled revelry, an orgy of celebrations antithetical to all Easter stands for. Now, all this is opposed to the purpose of the Salvation the Creator worked out for fallen man.

    The perception of Easter as a time to abandon ourselves in festivities and reenact the wild displays of the mythological Greek gods at parties on Mount Olympus led by Bacchus himself has blinded the church and its leaders. It is drowning church and society as we seek excitement and fulfillment outside the template of sacrifice. We are slumbering, cuddling in the nest of complacency. We are carried away by the noxious feeling that after resurrection day, we can go to sleep, waking up dead and expecting another crucifixion.

    No! Easter is a call to self-abnegation. It’s a call to remember that without Good Friday, there would be no Easter Sunday; there would be no Resurrection Sunday. We must perpetually honour that day by a continuous abstemious life of sacrifice. If Christ’s selfless death brought life, we must not go back to habits and practices that lead to death.

    But some Christians in Nigeria would okay post-Good Friday and Easter Sunday feel-good assemblies and congregations, along with the rolling out of riotous riches by our clerics flaunting a flamboyant lifestyle. They say these are evidence that you are a possessor of the riches brought the believer by the Master’s death. They must exhibit their wealth as proof Jesus went to the Cross to bring the ‘abundant life’. Those who are His children can’t but go about as the ‘King’s seed’, with royal gait and arrogance.

    How else are we to identify them if they are not distinguished and set apart from the common people by the wealth displayed at their immoderate feasts? Those who organize these gatherings at Easter would always ask the poor to come for the crumbs on offer. The deprived of the society are quick to take the bait, seeing it as an opportunity to have a ‘feel’ of the season and indirectly eat of the ‘national cake’ through the friends of the government. For indeed in Nigeria, as elsewhere in capitalist settings, all wealth comes from the state. The labour of the people create wealth. Millionaires and their cousin billionaires are a creation of their cronies in power. They don’t spring from nowhere.

    It is the involvement of these state and church-assisted patricians in the celebration of such festivals as Easter and Christmas that inject them with the Dionysian characteristics of ancient Grecian orgies. Otherwise, where would a plebeian, scavenging to survive and feed his family, get the loose resources for loose seasonal parties?

    Therefore the social parties the nation witnessed across the country on Easter Sunday along with all other secular and so-called religious ones constitute an abominable disavowal of what Jesus stood for. He was (and remains so) a friend of the poor, the deprived and the denied. But the wealthy class and their parties alienate this class of the citizens. You can’t claim to celebrate Jesus if you won’t be friends with His friends, the poor of the community.

    Now, it is disturbing that a section of the church itself is an accessory to the crime, as it were. The church is pitching its camp with the rich as its leadership continuously absorbs the lifestyle of the aristocratic class. The poor can’t satisfy the gargantuan demands of the ecclesiastical leaders. Only the rich can. And it does flagrantly. That draws the degenerate wing of the church and the corrupted rich into a sort of irreversible covenant. Christ, the founder and owner of the church, frowns at this unholy union, which disinherits the poor from what He left them.

    A feeble, feckless and fruitless clergy is what passes for most of the leadership of the church in Nigeria at the moment. Wielding an authority long disowned and disempowered by Heaven, they rest on lucre for recognition instead of on righteousness for the love of God. Discipline, sacrificial service in evangelism and work for their God without fleecing the vulnerable in the society have disappeared from their language. These were fruits Jesus Himself bore. And He says those who are His would do the same.

    Those who don’t, but are steeped in self-seeking, seedless and sybaritic conduct, are not His! They belong elsewhere.

     

    • Ojewale writes from Ota, Ogun State.

  • Why I spent my Easter with patients, by Obi

    Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Peter Obi has explained that he spent his Easter in hospitals across Anambra State following an inspiration he received in December.

    Obi spoke yesterday at the Anglican Diocesan Hospital in Umueje. He visited with the Anglican Bishop of Niger West, Rev. Johnson Ekwe, Prof. Stella Okunna and Chief Joe-Martins Uzodike.

    The former governor said: “In season and out of season, I visited schools all over the country, offering my modest support. During Christmas, I visited motherless babies’ homes and prisons, but upon reflection, as if by inexplicable inspiration, my mind kept urging me to visit the sick as another group that needed to be shown special love and concern.

    “This was how I resolved to visit hospitals in the state. Apart from few in the towns that enjoy special relationship with me, my resolution is to visit hospitals in the remotest parts of the state.”

    It was gathered that Obi, whose intention is to visit about 50 designated hospitals in the remotest parts of the state as part of his Easter celebration, has already visited 12 hospitals including – Diocesan Hospital of the Anglican Diocese of Amichi; St. Charles Borromeo Hospital of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha; Iyi-Enu Hospital of the Anglican Diocese on the Niger; Anglican Diocesan Hospital at Otuocha and Omor.

    He also visited the Umueje Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, Orsumoghu of the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi, among others.

    Obi, who donated over N1 million to each of the hospitals visited, encouraged other wealthy Nigerians to shun spending on frivolities for those things that would enrich humanity.

  • Easter: PDP urges prayers for national rebirth

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to use the occasion of this year’s Easter celebrations to pray for national rebirth and the fulfillment of their aspirations for a safe and prosperous nation where love, truth and justice will prevail.

    The Easter festival, which marks the celebration of the resurrection of the Jesus Christ from the dead, offers great lessons on the inevitable victory of life over death; truth over falsehood; light over darkness and freedom over captivity.

    In a statement yesterday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party urged Nigerians to use the occasion to rekindle their bonds of love, unity and oneness of purpose.

    It also urged the people to stand firm against oppressive forces that are using intimidation, lies, institutional manipulations, propaganda and deprivation in their desperation to divide, subjugate and ultimately subvert the collective will of the people.

    “The message of Easter amply demonstrates to us that no matter how long evil, falsehood or darkness appears to thrive in the life of a people; good, truth and the light will always prevail at the end of the day.

    “Nigerians must therefore remain optimistic in their undying expectation and hope that the presidential mandate, which they freely gave to Atiku Abubakar, will be retrieved at the tribunal as a pathway to national rebirth and the return of our nation to the path of unity, national cohesion and economic prosperity”, the statement added.

    The PDP also called on Nigerians to, in their usual brotherliness, use the occasion to show love to one another, particularly to victims of insurgency and bloodletting that have been ravaging our nation in the “last four years”.

    The party prayed for the nation and wished Nigerians happy Easter celebrations.

  • Hats tricks for Easter

    FEELING and looking good comes from being creative with your outlook. There are a number of things that you can do to jazz up your look and look very dynamic this Easter season. One of such is by tweaking the accessories in your wardrobe to bring out that significant outlook desired.

    One way to do this is by bringing the trendy hats to your rescue.

    Oldies hats trends have somehow found their way back into the fashion scene.

    This should not be surprising. Fashion is never static, it is always evolving. From fascinators to beanies hats, there are so many variations of hat; but you can never go wrong with a sophisticated fedora or Panama hat.

    A hat may not come with or without a brim nor festooned with flowers. But one thing you can be sure of is that it will come with a tasteful variety of styles.

  • Akeredolu greets Christians on Easter celebration

    Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, of Ondo State, has rejoiced with Christians across the country on the successful celebration of this year’s Easter.

    He urged the Christian community to continue to trust and believe the words of God which enjoins them to love one another.

    In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary(CPS) Segun Ajiboye,the governor noted that Easter, which is celebrated in remembrance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, preaches love and the hope of everlasting life, and he, therefore, asks Christians to continue to have hope and faith in the nation’s leaders’ capacities to develop the country.

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    While urging the Christian community to be diligent and steadfast in their worship of God, Akeredolu equally asked them not to forget to make moderation their watchword during the celebrations.

  • Easter: PDP urges prayers for national rebirth

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to use the occasion of this year’s Easter celebrations to pray for national rebirth and the fulfillment of their aspirations for a safe and prosperous nation where love, truth and justice will prevail.

    Easter, which marks the celebration of the resurrection of the Jesus Christ from the dead, offers great lessons on the inevitable victory of life over death; truth over falsehood; light over darkness and freedom over captivity.

    In a statement Saturday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party urged Nigerians to use the occasion to rekindle their bonds of love, unity and oneness of purpose.

    It also urged the people to stand firm against oppressive forces that are using intimidation, lies, institutional manipulations, propaganda and deprivation in their desperation to divide, subjugate and ultimately subvert the collective will of the people.

    “The message of Easter amply demonstrates to us that no matter how long evil, falsehood or darkness appears to thrive in the life of a people; good, truth and the light will always prevail at the end of the day.

    “Nigerians must therefore remain optimistic in their undying expectation and hope that the presidential mandate, which they freely gave to Atiku Abubakar, will be retrieved at the tribunal as a pathway to national rebirth and the return of our nation to the path of unity, national cohesion and economic prosperity,” the statement added.

    The PDP also called on Nigerians to, in their usual brotherliness, use the occasion to show love to one another, particularly to victims of insurgency and bloodletting that have been ravaging our nation in the “last four years”.

    The party prayed for the nation and wished Nigerians happy Easter celebrations.

  • Easter: Obi calls for prayers, says Nigeria is stressed

    The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 23 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to use the period of Easter to reflect on the situation in the country and pray for the survival of our democracy.

    In an Easter message released by his media office, Obi said the nation’s democracy, more than ever before, is under heavy stress that needed all hands to be on deck for its survival.

    He said that the nation’s economy is under pressure and required the commitment, and sincerity of purpose from critical stakeholders to survive.

    The former Anambra State governor charged the nation’s leaders to stand up for the truth and and justice to save the country from deteriorating, pointing out that no nation develops in an unjust environment.

    “This country has been undergoing a prolonged period of misfortune that this period of Easter provides huge opportunity for Christians to return to God in supplications for lasting solutions to our myriads of challenges”.

    He noted that at this critical stage in the nation’s journey to development, it’s only standing on the side of truth on the state of the nation can free it from the economic bondage.

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    “Indicators are apparent that the country is under siege and Nigerians should use this solemn period of Easter to pray for God to intervene and raise good leaders for the country”, he added.

    Obi charged Christians to see the Easter festivity, which also marks the end of the 40 days special fasting and prayers, as an ample period for positive attitude to one another.

    He admonished Nigerian leaders to absorb the lessons of Easter and allow it influence their conduct, especially as it concerns the less privileged in the society.

    Obi wished the Christian community and Nigerians in general happy Easter celebrations as he urged them to live in peace with one another.