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  • Olukoya hands over new medical centre to MTU

    General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) Worldwide Dr Daniel Olukoya has commissioned a one-storey medical centre built by the prayer city tent makers group and handed it over to the Mountain Top University (MTU).

    “I want it to be run excellently and professionally. That is why I handed it over to the Mountain Top University.

    “In future, MTU may have a medical school,” Olukoya stated, as he assured that the facility will be of international standard and run professionally.

    The medical centre has a delivery room, children, private, male and female wards, theatres, S.C.U.B., kitchenette, VIP ward, prayer room, among other sundry spaces.

    A foreign-based medical practitioner, who has commenced the installation of modern, world class equipment in the facility, including a diagnostic centre, said all the equipment is ready, assuring the centre will be fully equipped with the best of its kind infrastructure immediately.

    Olukoya thanked members of the prayer city tent makers group for taking the initiative, noting the gesture will encourage others to contribute to the development of the city.

  • Nigeria facing satanic witchcraft – Olukoya

    The General Overseer of the Mountain of fire and Ministries (MFM), Dr. Daniel Olukoya, has said the greatest conflict Nigerians are facing presently is war against satanic witchcraft.

    He stated this at the monthly “Power Must Change Hands” conference held at the Prayer City, Ogun State, on Saturday.

    He said: “Anywhere you see any bloodshed or massive death of people it is not terrorism but the work of satanic witchcraft.  An evil force is the one behind all those bloodshed”

    “Do you expect a sane human being to just slaughter another human being who is still alive when he will even think twice when killing a hen or cow?

    “Nigerians need to wake up from their slumber as there is a massive resurgence of witchcraft all over the world. Nigeria is in the era of the great wrath where so many mysterious things have occurred; I mean unexplainable sexual perversion, unavoidable terrorism, emergence of kidnappers who are hungry for blood and terrible accidents.

    “I urge all Nigerians to watch and pray and be vigilant as we are in the end time. So many things are happening.”

     

  • Christian youths need not seek excitement outside, says Olukoya

    Christian youths need not seek excitement outside, says Olukoya

    General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) Worldwide, Dr Daniel Olukoya, has declared that Christian youths do not need to go outside the church to find musical and entertainment excitement.

    He spoke at the maiden Mountain Top Mega Concert organised by MFM at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos.

    Olukoya said music can be an indicator of how far or close one is to God, citing the three categories of the archangels Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer as heads of the messengers, warriors and worshippers respectively.

    However, because of the beauty of worship songs, he asserted Lucifer is so jealous when Christians worship God.

    According to him, the three-and-half hour performance by different praise bands, groups and soloists, all of MFM ministries, was just twenty per cent of what the church has to offer, musically.

    The popular preacher assured the musicians and singers that could not perform at the first edition because of time will perform at the next edition of the concert.

    Olukoya and his wife, Pastor Sade, both choristers in their youth, were the hosts of the event.

    They commended the excited audience, pointing out that the country is endowed with talented youths only waiting for the window of opportunity to display their talents.

    Notable groups and solo performers that featured included the Youth Choir, which did Praise Medley; Seyi Moses; Uche Okereke and Richard Peters, who did worship medleys.

    Heavenly Voices Acappella Singers did Omi Iye (Living Water); Divine Symphony Orchestra did Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar while Osazee Adekola did He’s got the whole world (Negro Spiritual) and Why do the heathen rage (adapted from the Magic Flute by Wolfgang A. Mozart).

    Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and a host of others attended the classical concert.

     

  • Our 2018 predictions, by Adeboye, Olukoya

    Our 2018 predictions, by Adeboye, Olukoya

    General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has predicted a ray of hope for Nigerians.

    In his New Year message and predictions delivered during the Crossover Service at the RCCG camp on the Lagos –Ibdan Expressway, Adeboye said: “Many Nigerians will wake up in 2018 to realise that their future is not in the hands of any government and as a result, a lot of lost grounds will be reclaimed.

    “Some significant Goliaths will fall, just as before the end of 2018, there will be rays of hope that all will still be well in Nigeria.”

    He also announced that God told him that the countdown to the overthrow had begun in earnest, adding that the approval of sodomy in some countries and the perennial climate change were instruments to hasten the apocalypse.

    His specific predictions are:

    • Erstwhile stubborn mountains will move.
    • Many people will wake up to realise that their future is not in the hand of any government and as a result a lot of lost ground will be reclaimed.
    • Saboteurs will be disgraced and displaced.
    • Significant Goliaths will fall.
    • Before the end of the year, there will be rays of hope that all will still be well.

    On the international level, he said:

    • This year there will be less fire outbreaks but there will be more floods.
    • There will be misunderstandings amongst nation but no major wars.
    • Pray against assassination attempts globally.
    • There will record-breaking temperatures both high and low.
    • There will be a handful of breakthroughs both scientific and medical.
    • The count down to the end has started.”

  • Olukoya restates commitment to music education

    The General Overseer of The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, (MFM), Pastor Daniel Olukoya, has restated the commitment of the church to the promotion of quality music education.

    Pastor Odukoya made this known yesterday at the opening of the Mountain Top Conservatory of Music and Launching of Mountain Top Conservatory Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra held at the MFM, Grace Hall, Onike, Lagos.

    The event brought together government officials, academia, representatives of embassies and parastatals, and musical enthusiasts. It featured 170 choir and orchestra who sang 12 classical songs with various musical instruments to the admiration of the audience.  The Mountain Top Conservatory of Music is training schools for students and music ministers’ to achieve professional certificates in music and Diplomas in music.

    He said investment in quality music and sport are powerful tools to engage young people meaningfully in any part of the world.

    He lamented that music education in Nigeria has not been pulling its weight and we have sat down and allow music bastardised and the ancient art is in a state of coma.

    He noted that there is no proper structure put in place to allow young people develop their music talents and gifts as government is not paying little attention to music education.

     

     

     

    Olukoya added that other music genre that has taken prominence and yet the genre that imparts the proper training is being allowed to go into extinction.

     

    “That we are allowing the ancient art to go into decay while magnifying and strengthening fallacies and less edifying music to take control and many things have gone out of place is sad”, he said.

     

    He opined that popular genre which we have magnified is now replete with nudity and varied vices which the ancient art of music had not allowed because of the disciplined nature in both its impartation methods, and its methods of practice.

     

    “We are committed to developing quality music in Nigeria and over 5, 000 youths including destitutes, orphaned and vulnerable youths are under our various scholarship empowerment programme including musical traning across the world”, he said.

     

    He said “we want to encourage young ones in the church and in the environment. Bringing the examiners of the Associated Board of the Royals Schools of Music London to examine candidates in Nigeria both in Theory and Practical instruments and also organizing our own Mountaintop Music theory and practical examinations.

     

    Olukoya continue: we are offering scholarship to young ones who desire to study music at higher even up to PHD. Level at both local and foreign universities and school of mucic.

     

    In her words, the Director of Mountain Top Conservatory Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra, Mrs. Oyinkansola Akinselure called on music bodies, music practitioners and other stakeholders to  go back to the drawing board and chart a new course for music education in Nigeria.

     

    She said “It is time to revive and rebrand the ancient art of music education or be prepared to watch it die completely”.

     

    “It is one of the future plans and expectation to be able to award the degrees of Bachelors in music and Masters in Music, as it obtains in all conservatories of pedigree worldwide” she said.

     

  • There’ll be sorrow for corrupt people, says Olukoya

    General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya has sounded a stern warning to corrupt people, saying they will “reap multiple sorrow”.

    Olukoy spoke early yesterday while giving a 40-point prediction to spiritually guide Christians for 2017.

    He addressed worshippers at the MFM’s Prayer City at a service to herald into 2017.

    He declared 2017 as one of deep sorrow for the wicked, adding that it’s also a year of confused noises and meaningless storm.

    According to him, 2017 will “experience redemption in contention, while it is blowing heavenly final whistle against those attacking genuine God’s people, as several foundations of satanic problems will expire”.

    Noting that prayers would be required to avoid convulsion of the earth, in the form of earthquakes, hurricane, tsunami, he warned that lots of prayers would be required for nations treating the word of God with disdain.

    Giving the theme for 2017 as ‘Year of Indisputable Victory and Uncommon Deliverance ‘, Olukoya predicted that the New Year would witness fighting between the roads and road users, as well as experience incredible and energy sapping battles.

    He predicted that satanic recruitment to capture and cage innocent young girls into foreign sects would  be rampant, as sexual perversion is already on the rise and warned that the year is a bad one for fornicators and adulterers.

    Olukoya gave ten key survival strategies to hold on to in the year to include living a holy life, desist from unbelief, set a goal, be persistent, always seek divine directive and being filled with the Holy Ghost.

    Other keys are to disengage from unprofitable friends, being generous to God, locating one’s weaknesses and addressing them, as well as becoming a prayer and Bible addict.

  • Olukoya predicts harsh economy

    Olukoya predicts harsh economy

    Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries’ (MFM) General Overseer Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya yesterday predicted that this year would witness harsh economic crunch.

    The cleric, at the church’s annual crossover night service at its Prayer City, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, also predicted that the New Year would experience “acidic judgment on those who shed innocent blood, no matter their religion,” because “no man has the right to take the life of a fellow human being”.

    Saying 2016 would be a year of destruction of blood-thirsty campaigns, he said in his 40-point prediction for the year, tagged: “Year of Dominion Favour and Divine Acceleration”, that the citizens should pray against senseless massacres.

    Olukoya added that there would be more earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as mysterious crashes and disappearances, adding that “children of God need serious prayers to tackle activities of eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood in the New Year”.

    The cleric, who predicted that it would be a year of sudden change and turnaround, added that the New Year would witness slave catchers becoming slaves and labours of past years compensated.

    “Stubborn, long-time enemies of God’s children will be in trouble, while seats and positions of God’s children, presently occupied by wrong persons, shall be recovered this year, as evil gates of Christians’ father’s houses shall be forced open,” the cleric said.

    Olukoya said the year would “witness divine exchanges, overturning and overtaking, where the snail will be catching up with the dog”.

    On the international political scene, he called for prayers for the so-called super powers, some of whose decisions, he said, angered heaven.

     

  • GRASS TO GRACE How Olukoya transformed MFM into Premiership club

    GRASS TO GRACE How Olukoya transformed MFM into Premiership club

    It’s no news that religious organisations across Nigeria own and run football clubs, what is news is that the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, has become the first church team to qualify to play in the prestigious Nigeria Premier League, reports Ilugbekhai Emmanuel

    THIS is coming nearly two decades since Lagos State last had a team in the elite division of Nigerian football. All credit must go to Dr Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, the General Overseer of one of the largest pentecostal churches in Africa, a man whose large appetite for empowering the youth is legendary. The world is aware of his regular scholarship awards to first class graduates from various tertiary institutions ‎who are members of MFM scattered across the universe.

    He took this a notch higher with his Youth Repositioning Agenda, a divine instruction he received from God in 2006 with the birth of a football competition amongst MFM branches across Africa. Sports was part of his 70 point-agenda for youths.

    Four years into the competition, precisely 2011, MFM got into the amateur ‎League Two. And a season later, the team gained promotion to amateur division one.

    But while getting ready for the new season, there was a divine promotion to the more illustrious Nigerian Division One League, which is one step lower than the Nigerian Premier League.

    This opportunity came in 2013 when Alhaji Toyin Gafaar, proprietor of famed Ikorodu side, Bolowotan football club, gave up his place in the NNL to MFM.

    “I had to take a decision which was, firstly, listening to what God was saying to me to give my pet club to an organisation that would take very good care of it. The choice was obvious, it had to be MFM,” explained Gafaar.”Secondly, Lagos needed a team in the Nigerian Premier League in no distant future and I was confident that MFM can do it.

    “I had this at the back of my mind, the reason I rejected millions offered me to sell it to clubs outside Lagos. Looking back now, I thank God I took the right decision. They have just gained promotion to play in the NPL which is a dream that has come to pass for me,” noted the football enthusiast.

    With a strong financial base, moral and spiritual backing of Dr Olukoya, the sky was going to be the starting point for MFM FC.

    According to Godwin Enakhena, who is the chairman of MFM FC, the team was condemned to doing very well because of the support from its financiers.

    “From 2007 when MFM FC was founded, Dr Olukoya has not stopped giving us all we need to excel.

    “With a befitting hostel, regular payment of salaries, feeding of the players and their officials, the boys knew they had to deliver. A testament of how well motivated the players were manifested in December 2014 when MFM emerged the first church to win the maiden Church World Cup in Goa, India.

    “Gaining promotion to play in the Nigerian Premier League is a dream come through for us all at MFM,” concluded the sports journalist.

    An obviously delighted chairman of Lagos State Football Association, Barr Seyi Akinwunmi, also expressed his delight on the promotion of MFM FC to the premier league.

    “I’m very happy for Lagosians and by extension the FA and MFM that after 23 years absence, football is back in Lagos. Truth is, if I decide to quit this post today, I will be satisfied because football is back in Lagos.”

    ‎For MFM, the team’s promotion to the NPL is one achievement that has caught the attention of the world in the last two weeks.

    Aside loads of goodwill messages, the management of MFM FC has revived tons of coaching applications from coaches within and outside Nigeria who want to lead the newest baby in Nigerian football.

    The number one football person in Nigeria, Amaju Pinnick, who is the president of Nigeria Football Federation, was at MFM’s Yaba headquarters on Sunday to celebrate with the church.

    Pinnick, who described MFM FC’s rise to the top of Nigerian football as a model for others to follow, promised to support the church to ensure it stays at the pinnacle of football for a long time.

    “MFM has made history as the first church to qualify to play in the Nigerian Premier League, this is commendable. I salute the General Overseer, players and officials of the team for this youth development policy. I urge other religious organisations to borrow a leaf from MFM.”

    ‎It is on record that MFM FC produced players for the Nigerian under 17 side, popularly called the Golden Eaglets, en route to victory at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Abu Dhabi in 2013.

    MFM also had three players in the Nigeria U-20 side, the Flying Eagles, that won the Africa U-20 Championship in Senegal this year.

    Aside goalkeeper Joshua Enaholo who was in goal for the Flying Eagles, midfielder Ifeanyi Ifeanyi, Belgium-based Wilfred Ndidi‎, Akinjide Idowu and assistant coach, Nduka Ugbade, is the Technical Director of MFM FC.

    For the records, MFM is not only about football. Wrestler Odunayo Adekuoroye who won gold at the last Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, is a product of the church. This is not forgetting Africa and Commonwealth long jump gold medallist, Ese Brume, and sprinter Divine Oduduru who were discovered at the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Dr Olukoya National Under 18 Athletics championship which the GO has sponsored nonstop since 2012.

    Asked how MFM FC plans to keep pace with the big boys in the Nigerian Premier League, Enakhena who doubles as the Sports Director was confident that there won’t be problems: “MFM FC didn’t get into the league by default, we were ready from the word go, we planned and bided our time for the right opportunity to make a statement by qualifying for the Premier League.

    “Truth is, there’s nothing special about the NPL. We’ve been ready since 2007, so, there’s no cause for alarm. MFM FC is ready to play in the big league,” he noted.

  • 2015: Nigeria cannot disintegrate, says Olukoya

    2015: Nigeria cannot disintegrate, says Olukoya

    Nigeria will not disintegrate in 2015, the general overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. Daniel Olukoya, has assured.

    According to him: “Nobody can destroy Nigeria because it is a country of destiny.”

    This was part of Olukoya’s 2015 predictions at the church’s Prayer City along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway during the cross over service.

    He said: “No matter what happens, one way or the other, the prophetic agenda and prayers will bail it (Nigeria) out of whatever quagmire it gets into.

    “The Lord will not mind to kill or maim anyone who may want to destroy Nigeria.”

    He pointed out that Nigeria is strategically located on the continent and its shape on the continent is like the trigger of a gun, stressing the country is the most dangerous or most volatile part of Africa, which must not be toyed with.

    Olukoya charged Christians to pray to tackle the year he called “cautious, mysterious, dribbling,” warning that prayerless churches will suffer in the year.

  • New lab, a miracle, says Olukoya

    New lab, a miracle, says Olukoya

    The idea was mooted in 2009, during Prof Tolu Odugbemi’s tenure as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). However, for certain reasons, the project did not get to see the light of day.

    But on Wednesday last week, the General Overseer Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry Dr Kolawole Olukoya was all smiles as his baby, The Central Research Laboratory, was officially inaugurated during the 2013 convocation of the university.

    For the fiery cleric, the occasion was a dream fulfilled in his lifetime.

    “This project is a miracle,” Olukoya told the excited audience.

    And truly it was, according to chairman of the committee for the project Prof Kehinde Olayinka.

    Speaking on behalf of UNILAG shortly before the facility was inaugurated, Olayinka told guests that the project faced many challenges.

    “The project has gone through some challenging moments. At a point we felt things might not work out again. Nevertheless, we don’t want to talk about what we went through any longer. Our joy is that eventually, God took control and here we all are today to officially commission it,” he said.

    The project is a two-storey structure comprising an array of laboratories, lecture halls, and offices among others.

    Olukoya, who graduated with a first class in Microbiology from the university in 1979, said he was motivated to endow the facility to contribute his own quota to advancing research in his alma mater, and encourage other eminent Nigerians, particularly those that attended the university.

    He thanked Odugbemi, whom he called ‘his academic mentor’ for provoking scholarly inspirations in him; and the incumbent Vice Chancellor Prof Rahamon Bello whom he jokingly referred to as ‘Pastor Rahamon’.

    “He (Odugbemi) made me publish a paper before I even graduated, and by the time I took the paper to the Commonwealth Scholarship Board, they didn’t ask me many questions anymore.

    “They said: ‘Do you want a scholarship?’ I said ‘yes’. And then they asked again: ‘Did you say you had only one publication?’ Again I said ‘yes’; and the next thing was, ‘my friend, please get out,’” Olukoya said provoking a bout of laughter.

    The Executive-Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie who represented the Federal Government said the occasion was a challenge for other universities to learn how they can gain from their alumni to increase funding for facilities and research.

    “For those who know, Ivy League institutions generate 28 per cent of the total annual budget from alumni. What UNILAG has done is to show that the town and gown are actually meeting. You can see what is currently going on in some universities over increase in tuition. It simply shows that there has not been enough collaboration between the private sector and the university system,” he said.

    Thanking Olukoya for the project, Rahamon called on other alumni members to emulate him.