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  • Adeboye holds open crusade in Ilogbo-Ekiti Dec 23

    Adeboye holds open crusade in Ilogbo-Ekiti Dec 23

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, will hold a one-day open crusade on Monday, December 23 in Ilogbo-Ekiti.

    Ilogbo-Ekiti is a community in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti.

    The crusade, themed ‘Operation Light Up Ilogbo-Ekiti’, is organised by the Ilogbo-Ekiti Roundtable Development Initiative (IRDI), a non-profit organisation established by distinguished sons and daughters of the community.

    This was disclosed in a statement signed by IRDI President, Prof. Olusola Aluko, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday.

    According to Aluko, the crusade aims to pray for the prosperity and development of Ilogbo-Ekiti, its people worldwide, and the good people of Ekiti state.

    “We are delighted to host a globally respected anointed man of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, in our community on behalf of the good people of Ekiti state.

    “This is not just an event for the Ilogbo-Ekiti community but a statewide programme. His Excellency, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, will attend with members of his cabinet to welcome our guest,” Aluko said.

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    Aluko, a Professor of Architecture at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, noted that the event would span seven days and include daily crusades, and free medical outreach.

    Also, the distribution of food items to the elderly, widows, and vulnerable individuals will be carried out.

    “All traditional rulers, religious leaders, and RCCG parishioners in Ekiti state and neighbouring states are expected at the crusade,” he added.

    Ilogbo-Ekiti is the hometown of the late Prof. Omotayo Olutoye, the first Professor of Oral Yoruba Literature, and his son, Prof Oluyinka Olutoye, who famously performed a successful surgical procedure on a 23-week-old foetus in the US.

    Dignitaries expected at the event include Gov. Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti, state executives, members of the House of Assembly, traditional rulers, and religious leaders.

    (NAN)

  • Xenophobia: Don’t retaliate against South Africa – Adeboye appeals to Nigerians

    Adeyinka Akintunde

     

    Following the Xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has appealed to Nigerians not to retaliate.

    He said that it is better to leave the matter for the government to handle, and not for citizens to take laws into their hands.

    He made this appeal on Friday night, at the monthly Holy Ghost Service of the church, tagged “Lifted into Glory.”

    Nigerians had during the week attacked business and firms of South African origin in major parts of the country, in retaliation of attacks suffered by Nigerians living in South Africa.

    It is alleged that the people of the rainbow nation were against the Nigerians because they believe that the foreigners are overtaking their jobs in their own land.

    Adeboye, speaking to his congregation at the Redemption Camp, recalled what happened in 1966, just before the Nigerian civil war, when the former leader of the Republic of Biafra, Odumegwu Ojukwu announced that he could not guarantee the safety of those who came outside the eastern region, asking them to return back home.

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    He recalled that the people of the east were nice to the strangers, as the university authorities made plans to transport them back home, until they got information that the students of the University of Ibadan were holding their people from the east hostage, saying they would not be released until everyone from the western region had returned.

    “You don’t know what it means to be in another man’s land, not knowing what will happen. Be careful. Don’t retaliate against South Africa because of the Nigerians who are still in South Africa,” Adeboye said.

    Speaking further, the General Overseer said “Anytime they say that a university is rioting, the people who are rioting are usually ten per cent of the population of the university, the rest of us lock ourselves in the room, reading.

    “The average South African is a decent person, I know that. Those who are causing the trouble are not many. If you have a South African living near you, show them love, protect them from any harm.

    “If the government was to repatriate all Nigerians from South Africa, they will be back in the next two months. Do we have enough jobs for those who stayed back in Nigeria, in the first place, not to talk of repatriating people back?

    “For the sake of your kit and kin, don’t retaliate against South Africa, let us leave this issue for government to handle, while we pray for God to give them wisdom and understanding to handle the situation,” the revered cleric appealed.

     

  • Adeboye urges prayers for security personnel

    THE General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday urged Nigerians to support the military and other security agencies with prayers in their efforts at addressing the security challenges in the country.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adeboye spoke at his monthly telecast message, with the theme: Our True Shield and Defence, via the church’s television at the Redemption Camp in Ogun State.

    NAN also reports that the prayer for the security agencies was coming against the backdrop of the spate of kidnapping, banditry and insurgency in the land.

    The military has been at the forefront of quelling the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the Northeast, while insecurity in other parts of the country is also being tackled.

    Adeboye expressed concern over the feelings by a section of Nigerians that the security agencies were not doing enough to curtail insecurity.

    The eminent cleric noted that they were doing their best.

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    He advised Nigerians to acknowledge the fact that the security operatives too had their limitations, which could also have adverse effect on their operations.

    The RCCG general overseer chided those who always criticise the military, saying they should rather pray for them to curtail insecurity so that the country could be at peace.

    “Some of us, all we know is to criticise the military. But we need to know that they too are human beings like us and they have their limitations. What we should do is to continue to pray for them so that they can record success in their operations,” Adeboye said.

    The renowned cleric said God was about to deal with the invincible enemies of Nigeria.

    NAN reports that the new calendar year of the church begins today.

     

  • Herdsmen abducted us to fund cost of bullets used in failed operation – victim

    CHIRMELA Iroha, one of the five persons rescued from their abductors off  the Lagos- Benin expressway said on Saturday that they were  victims of herdsmen desperate to recoup the cost of bullets they expended on their target that escaped.

    Iroha, son of the late James Iroha (Gregory stage name) of the now rested television series New Masquerade and Chidioze Eluwa, Okoro Ohowukwe, Ndubuizi Owuabueze, and Ibeleji Chidinma (female) were seized at Ogbere by gunmen on Thursday while on their way to Lagos from the Southeast.

    Contrary to earlier reports, only one of the kidnap victims is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG): Ibeleji Chidinma.

    The General Overseer of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye made the clarification on Friday night

    Incidentally, Chindinma was the first of the victims to be rescued on Saturday.

    Freedom came for the others a few hours later.

    None of them was hurt although they were left to starve and thirst all through the period of their abduction.

    Moments after the Ogun State Police Commissioner Bashir Makama briefed reporters on the rescue mission, Iroha spoke to The Nation on his ordeal in the hands of their tormentors.

    He said they were humiliated and tortured with any object available to the abductors.

    Iroha said: “It is an experience I wouldn’t wish my enemy to have because it looks nice for me to stand before you.

    “You needed to see me when I got rescued. I was manhandled, I was roughened, I was tortured, name it.

    “It’s horrible where this country is driving to. Those men shot for like one hour on the road until policemen came and they ran away and they took us inside the forest till this morning (yesterday).

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    “I want to use this opportunity to thank the police because the pressure they gave them led to our release. If there was no pressure they would have had a field day.

    “Why I am saying this is because, when we were held, we were put in a swamp, we slept in a swamp with insects and reptiles.

    “We moved like 30 kilometers inside the jungle where nobody has threaded.

    “They were comfortable there, they have very dangerous weapons, they have different ammunitions; but the moment we saw police helicopter that descended above our head, the kidnappers took to their heels and at some point and they started being erratic, they knew that some people were on their trail.

    “The local hunters too were always coming out. We used to see them. There are some areas they couldn’t get to because they thought people can’t be there but that was where we were.

    “Well from their looks, there are some things I can’t say because it’s a bit sensitive because the police are on the matter now for the sake of not destroying the evidence. From the language they spoke they are herdsmen. No doubt about it. I wouldn’t want to go further than that.

    “They don’t know me, I don’t know them either. I was in a bus, in fact they told us that they didn’t have any business with us, but the car they were shooting at drove away with bullets.

    “The guy managed to go with two tyres and they turned back and descended on us.

    “They picked us randomly; we never knew them from Adam.

    “They just said their bullets would not go away, they needed someone to pay for it and they took us. You don’t expect them to give you food, you’re in a dilemma.”

    Police Commissioner Makama said four suspects were arrested in connection with the abduction.

    Makama said contrary to the report that the victims were all pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), only one, a deaconess, is a member of RCCG.

    Pastor Adeboye, the general overseer of the RCCG had said on Friday night that police investigation had shown that it was only one pastor that was abducted alongside four other persons.

    He said: “People have been taunting me and challenging me that since I hear from God, how come this is happening to your church pastors.

    “I want to say it has been confirmed that only one pastor of the church was kidnapped along with four other people.

    In a testimony at the Redeemed Camp on Saturday, Ibeleji said their abductors were herdsmen and that she prayed that they might fall asleep. They did and she used the opportunity to escape.

     

  • COZA: Run away from evil, Adeboye advises youths

    Adeyinka Akintunde

     

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has called on youths to stay away from all forms of evil and lusts.

    He noted that there is no way a man can run away from the evil he has committed, no matter how long he has done it.

    He said this at the Redemption Camp during the July 2019 Holy Ghost Service of the church.

    In the programme tagged “Swimming in Glory, Part 7 – Born to be great”, the cleric noted that when a woman accuses a man of an offence, nobody would be interested in the defense the man wants to offer.

    He mentioned no names, but he spoke against the background of recent allegation against Biodun Fatoyinbo, senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA).

    A celebrity photographer, Busola Dakolo had gone public with an allegation that Fatoyinbo raped her at her parents’ residence in Ilorin when she was only 16. The allegation had drawn flanks from diverse quarters, forcing Fatoyinbo to “step down” from his position.

    Adeboye said: “You must abstain from every appearance of evil. The elders say “what you are not going to eat, don’t smell.

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    “It is written, There is nothing hidden that will not come to the open. Sooner or later, your sins will find you out.

    “If you have given your life to Jesus, and you continue in sin under the guise of grace, your sin will find you out.

    “When a woman accuses you of something, nobody is going to listen to you; they will listen to the woman. When they ask for witness, she will say ‘do they call people to such a thing?’

    “The same bible that says, resist the devil and he will flee is the same bible that said when you find yourself facing youthful lust, you should flee.

    Reacting to those that call him old-fashioned, the general overseer said: “I agree that I am old-fashioned. That is what they called me when I said that I will never have a private secretary who is a woman.

    “I was ordained in 1975 and I am still surviving. It is better to be old-fashioned and live than to be modern and die.”

    The general overseer had previously advised that everyone should always pray that God will have mercy on Nigeria so the shedding of innocent blood will end, noting that God stopped the Ebola virus in the country because at that time, “the cup of Nigeria was not yet full.”

    He announced that the church would be holding its annual convention from 5th to 11th August, 2019 with the theme, “And God said”

     

  • Adeboye to single ladies: don’t marry jobless men

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye has warned single ladies to avoid marrying jobless men.

    Jobless men, he said, have the tendencies to use, dump and abandon such ladies.

    Adeboye spoke on Sunday at the May Special Prayer and Thanksgiving service by the RCCG Throne of Grace, National Headquarters Ebute Metta, Lagos.

    According to him, a woman should not marry a man that has no work “if not you will be the work.”

    He noted it is not sinful for a single lady to politely ask any man proposing marriage whether or not he has a job.

    Stating that women are conceived as helpmeets, Adeboye argued only somebody who has a job can be helped.

    Adeboye, who spoke through the Assistant General Overseer, (RCCG) Personnel and Administration Pastor Johnson Odesola, said the man is key and the woman has only come to help.

    “Whatever the woman does is help.  The man is major director in the house,” he stressed.

    He stated taking care of the homes does not rest on the woman alone but the man and the woman who have come to help.

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    Adeboye blamed lack of proper home training for most of the ills in the society.

    “I still remember when I was young. My father will tell me that this name is the name of my father. Don’t spoil the name. So I was scared to do wrong. I could not shake the hand of a lady until I was 23.

    “Learning for any child should start from the home and parents should be their child first teachers.

    “The wife and the husband are the main teachers who will teach and model godly character to their children,” he stated.

    In his sermon, Adeboye, urged all Christians to strengthen their faith, saying there would always be storm in the lives of the believers.

    Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Otunba Gani Adams, who was at the service argued religion, is never the problem of Nigeria.

    According to him: “It is sad many people believe religion is Nigeria’s problem, but in truth, leadership, not religion is Nigeria’s problem.

    “For instance, I am a Muslim by birth. I grew up from a Christian background and as the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land and culture activist, I also believe in our traditional religion.”

     

     

  • Man impersonates Adeboye, Olukoya, T.B. Joshua to defraud Nigerians

    The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned a 27-year-old businessman, Yusuf Atanda, charged with impersonating Pastor Enoch Adeboye and two other church general overseers to defraud members of the public.

    According to the police, Atanda created fake facebook accounts of Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor D.K. Olukoya of Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministry, and Pastor T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations to dupe people.

    The defendant, who resides at Okokomaiko, Lagos, is being tried for cyber crime before Magistrate M.O Tanimola in Ikeja.

    Atanda, however, denied committing the offence, and was admitted to bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Tanimola said that the sureties should be gainfully employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    The Prosecutor, Insp. Aondohemba Koti, told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offence in October 2018 at Okokomaiko.

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    He added that the defendant used the names of the three general overseers on the internet without their consents.

    “Atanda created a fake facebook account of Pastor E.A Adeboye of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor D.K Olukoya of Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministry and Pastor T.B Joshua of Synagogue Church of All Nations.

    “He posed as the pastors and sent electronic messages to the public to deposit either N1, 000 or N2, 000 into a bank account to get N3, 000 or N5, 000, respectively, in four days.

    “If they pay and it is four days, he will block the persons’ numbers so they would not be able to reach him anymore.

    “Upon receipt of a written petition from one of the complainant’s legal counsel, the police swung into action, and the defendant was tracked and arrested.

    “The amount of money the defendant got from over 100 members of the public was yet to be ascertained,” the prosecutor said.

    The alleged offence violates Section 20 (1) of Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act, Law of Federation, 2015.

    The case was adjourned until April 17 for mention.

  • Adeboye to members: I am not God

    General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has warned church members to stop buying any item that displayed his picture, saying he is not God.

    Speaking at the ongoing Holy Ghost Congress 2018 at Mowe in Ogun, Adeboye said he had nothing to do with the items such as stickers, key holders and books, among others.

    According to Adeboye, displaying his pictures on items is against his God.

    He said he did not approve anyone to use his picture on key holders, stickers and other items.

    “I am human, I am not God, and I am not ready to take the Glory of God.

    “What this people are doing can lead to trouble for me, for God will not share his glory with anyone. If someone shares Glory with God, the person is as good as dead.

    “If you see anyone selling any item with my picture or my wife’s picture on it, report them to the police,” Adeboye said. (NAN)

  • Adeboye welcomes all as Holy Ghost Congress begins

    The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)’s Annual Holy Ghost Congress, 2018, kicked off on Monday night, at the Redemption Camp in Mowe, Ogun.

    The congress started with a song titled: “My Glory Has Come,’’ and the intercessory prayer to open the programme was taken by Pastor Johnson Odesola.

    This year’s programme is themed: ‘Glory Ahead’.

    In a brief address, the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, welcomed everyone to the programme and assured them to prepare for “Glory Ahead’’.

    In a sermon, titled: “A new name, with the passage taken from Rev. 2 Vs 17, Adeboye said that a good name was better than Gold and Diamond, adding that “God knows a name that affects one’s destiny.

    “When God gives someone a new name, then he becomes the light of the world and the salt of the nation.

    “When God gives a new name, when the person opens any door, no man can shut it and any door he shuts, no man can open.

    “Everywhere you go, the door will be opened for you all in Jesus name.

    “Let somebody shout Halleluyah,’’ he said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this year’s Holy Ghost Congress is the 21st of its kind by the church, which was established in 1952.

    The church had parishes in over 178 countries across the globe.

  • Closeness to God, a way to triumph over tribulations – Adeboye

    Closeness to God, a way to triumph over tribulations – Adeboye

    Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, says closeness to God is the only way for man to triumph over tribulations.

    He spoke at the 2015 Christmas Carol of the Oyo State Government held on Sunday evening at the Agodi Gardens, Ibadan.

    Adeboye said that there was also the need for every living being to secure the love of God to conquer all problems.

    “If the whole world forsakes you and God is on your side, you will always triumph over all tribulations.

    “ If God is against you, then you will experience failure through divine resistance.

    “Holiness, humility, love and obedience are also necessary to secure the love of God to fly higher,’’ he said.

    Adeboye prayed for the people, the state and the nation to overcome the array of problems they all encountered.

    Addressing newsmen after the programme, Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State assured the people of the state of better days ahead, especially in the coming year.

    He said that he was optimistic that God would make 2016 a bountiful year, with breakthroughs and resounding successes for all.

    Earlier, Mr Soji Eniade, Head of Service, Oyo State, asked the people to reflect on all they had been through during the year, urging them to rejoice in spite of the circumstances.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme featured special prayer sessions, lessons, special performances, candle lighting/ kingdom brass and fireworks display.

    Many eminent personalities in the state, including the Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Michael Adeyemo and the Oyo State APC Chairman, Chief Akin Oke, attended the carol service.

    It also attracted several royal fathers in the state.