January 2022 – Page 47

Post Date : January 10, 2022

35-Year-Old Man Arrested For Killing Wife In Nasarawa

Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old man, Mr Ovye Yakubu, for allegedly killing his wife, Esther Aya, in Sabonpegi-Shabu community of Lafia. Confirming the incident to Daily Trust on Sunday in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ramhan Nansel, said the suspect was nabbed on Friday. He said investigation is ongoing at the State Criminal Investigation Department to find out the cause of the incident. He, however, maintained that the corpse of the woman had been deposited at the morgue for post mortem. Our correspondent learnt that the accused beat his wife to death after an argument. A source from the family, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, said the suspect started beating his wife for inviting a carpenter to work in the house. “The deceased engaged the service of a carpenter to fix a net on their windows to prevent mosquitoes entering, but the husband stopped the carpenter, which the wife resisted and he started beating her in the process,” the source said.

Post Date : January 9, 2022

Arms Deals: Nigerian Military Leaders Stole $15bn Within 20 Years – Report

As much as $15bn (N6.1trn at N411 to a dollar) have been frittered away through fraudulent arms procurement deals in the last 20 years, according to a report by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD). The report said political and security elite have monetised the conflicts and the resulting humanitarian crises. The report said successive presidents’ failure to rein in on corruption in the security sector has weakened Nigerian counter-terrorism capacity, allowing groups like Boko Haram to smoulder. CDD asserted that despite promises by the current administration to expose those sponsoring criminals, no individual, body or corporation had been convicted in Nigeria for funding terrorism since insurgency started in 2009. The report reads in part: “Thanks to lax legislative oversight, excessive secrecy and the fact that security spending is largely exempt from due process rules designed to prevent corruption. “Successive presidents’ failure to rein in security sector corruption is a highly consequential anti-corruption failure. It has led to widespread insecurity, verging on instability, and has weakened Nigerian counter-terrorism capacity, allowing groups like Boko Haram to smoulder. “Over the last decade, political and security elite have monetised the conflicts and the resulting humanitarian crises. “During the same period, military leaders allegedly stole as much as $15bn through fraudulent arms procurement deals; thanks to lax legislative oversight, excessive secrecy and the fact that security spending is largely exempt from due process rules designed to prevent corruption. “No individual, body or corporation had been convicted in Nigeria for funding terrorism since the insurgency started in 2009 despite promises by the current administration to expose those behind sponsorship of criminals,” the report added.

Post Date : January 9, 2022

Mummy G.O: I spent 990 years in kingdom of darkness

General Overseer, Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God, Evang. Funmilayo Adebayo, nicknamed Mummy G.O, has recounted how she spent many years in the kingdom of darkness. The controversial preacher, in an interview with BBC Pidgin monitored by our reporter, said she has been in the ministry for about 24 years. God, she said, gave her the mandate to preach about things of heaven and warn people against what can make them go to hell. The 54-year-old preacher in the past weeks, has been making waves on social media. She became more famous after several clips of her controversial sermons surfaced online. – Checks by The Nation show that her confession dates back to 2016, and it is recorded in an Audio Tape which comprise from series 1-5 titled “990 years in the kingdom of darkness” Recounting her many years of sojourn in the kingdom of darkness, she said: “I’ve been working in the kingdom of darkness den, doing all sorts of things in the church, attacking the church, molesting the work of God and pastors. “I once arrested a pastor who told me God is calling me to work for him, but when God revealed himself to me, I had no choice than to destroy all the powers of the kingdom of darkness. “My message is to ensure that people make heaven “I want them to avoid things that will prevent them from making heaven, things that will send them to hellfire. “My message also prepares people for the rapture because Jesus is coming back, whether people believe it or not. “Apart from the message I deliver, God is doing healings and miracles as we get testimonies from all over the world.”

Post Date : January 9, 2022

EXTRA: Criticizing Men Of God Can Cause Leprosy – Oyedepo

Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church has warned Christians to deviate from criticizing their prophets, saying such attitude attracts dangerous punishment from God, Native Reporters can report. The renowned clergy who gave the warning during the Leadership Empowerment Summit at the church’s headquarters, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, said speaking against men of God can attract leprosy. Oyedepo said many critics of his ministry must have been victims of the warning, stressing that the warnings are based on spiritual insights. He said, “Beware of speaking hurt against the Ministry you claim to be part of advancing, it’s a risk. “Beware of speaking hurt against a Prophet you claim to believe. It is dangerous. It can make a man leprous. It is dangerous. We don’t have the data of how many victims may have come from this warning, but I know quite some would have been victims. Native Reporters

Post Date : January 9, 2022

Antichrist will be introduced through World Cup —Evangelist Funmilayo ‘Mummy GO’

The founder of Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God, Evangelist Funmilayo Adebayo, has said the Antichrist will be introduced to the world through the football tournament known as World Cup. Evangelist Funmilayo, referred to as Mummy G.O by some social media users, said this while addressing a sermon in which she said footballers will go to hellfire. Speaking in an interview with BBC Pidgin, she said she’s not the only one that holds the opinion. “I’m not the only person who said that. We have people from Ghana who also said the same. Even white men said it too. Just go on Google, search for the god of soccer, it will be shown to you. Why didn’t I say the same about other sports? They just want to arouse every soccer lover against me. The event that will introduce the antichrist to the world will come through the World Cup,” she said. On how to make heaven, she said it has to do with obeying God, which is a difficult thing to do. “The only way to make heaven is the most difficult task on Earth and that is to obey God. The reason why I said it is the most difficult task is that obedience to God is the most painful thing. For example, there is a way we dress that we find appealing, some of which are seductive. Imagine Jesus saying you have to stop dressing in that manner before you can make heaven. Is that not difficult? Also, you have a girlfriend who understands you, gives you business ideas and is okay in every way. Sadly, you are a married man. When your wife nags about money, the girlfriend consoles you. Will it not be painful if you hear a sermon that warns against extra-marital affairs? 80 per cent of what we like are disliked by God. That is why obeying God is difficult,” she said.

Post Date : January 9, 2022

Nnamdi Kanu: FG harassing priests — IPOB

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, yesterday, told the Federal Government to stop what it described as harassment of priests who speak in favour of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It, however, commended men and women of God who “devoted their time and energy to pray for the protection” of Kanu. A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, entitled: Nigeria Government Should Stop Harassing the Clergy for Speaking in Favour of Nnamdi Kanu’, named some of the men of God allegedly harassed as Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka of Adoration Ministries Enugu, and Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, popularly know as Ebube Mmunso, of Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra State. Onuesoke tells FG to name, prosecute terrorism sponsors IPOB’s statement reads: “We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, are warning the Federal Government of Nigeria to stop using the Department of State Services, DSS, to intimidate, harass and humiliate men and women of God because they spoke the truth about the maltreatment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. “People should not be harassed because of their religious views. Nigeria is not for a particular ethnic group alone. People of God Almighty should rise and talk in unison. They have started with Ejike Mbaka. “We wish to commend men and women of God who devoted their precious time and energy to pray for the protection of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been incarcerated in the DSS custody in Abuja since June 2021. “The prayers of these men of God have turned Nigeria and its leadership into confusion since the beginning of this year 2022. We discovered that this ethnic group controlling the Federal Government of Nigeria and its security agencies are confused as a result of the intense prayers of these men of God including Rev. Fr. Ejikeme Mbaka of Adoration Ministries and Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, popularly known as Fr. Ebube Mmunso in Idemili, Anambra State.”

Post Date : January 9, 2022

Police Arrest Woman Taking Daughters To Bandits For Sex

The Intelligence Response Team (IRT), a special police unit fighting kidnapping, has arrested a woman who allegedly supplies women to bandits at Galadimawa forest in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Maryam Abubakar, a housewife and resident of Rugar Hanwa in Sabon Gari Local Government, who was arrested on December 21, confessed that she had been luring women, including her own daughters and nieces, to the bandits for sexual pleasure. Maryam said her clients were paying her N20,000 and that the women were being ferried to the forest on motorbikes. Also arrested was a girl named Fatima Jibril, who, in connivance with her boyfriend, Muslim Abubakar, both residents of the Sakadadi area in Sabon Gari, had also been supplying women to the bandits. The syndicate was exposed when the girls they had earlier procured from the criminals in the forest couldn’t return. Another woman, Jummai Ibrahim, was arrested on the suspicion that she had been engaging in an affair with the bandits’ kingpin in the forest. Ibrahim said she submitted herself to the bandits’ kingpin to protect her children and her father from their wraths because the bandits threatened to kill them, even after they had rustled the family’s cattle. Some of the women said they had passed the night only once with the bandits. One of them said the gunmen were living alongside their wives, only that they are hosted at different locations separate from their families. One of the girls said the gunmen had been inseparable from their guns round the clock and they were stockpiled with foodies. The arrested women were, however, remorseful for being in romance with the bandits in the forest. Most of the women told Daily Trust on Sunday that they, at least had secondary school education while some were making efforts to go to higher institutions.

Post Date : January 9, 2022

Footballers, women who wear makeup won’t make heaven, claims Mummy G.O again

General Overseer, Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God, Evang. Funmilayo Adebayo, nicknamed Mummy G.O, has reiterated her claims that footballers and women who wear makeup will not make heaven. These doctrinal claims are part of her controversial sermons which have become a subject of debate on social media. The controversial ‘woman of God’ backed her claims with personal interpretations she said were based on the scriptures. In an interview with BBC Pidgin monitored by our reporter, she said: “On women wearing makeup, I did say so and that wasn’t the first time I said so. “I’ve travelled to many Islamic countries, you will never see their women wear anything that will open their bodies. Advertisement – “Even their air hostesses, the way they dress shows they fear God. “My stance against indecency would have been supported if it was said 50 years ago. “Then, no woman could enter a church without wearing a scarf. “The God that frowned against women not wearing scarves, has he travelled or changed? “A Muslim lady dare not enter a mosque without her head covered. “But because I preached an old message, I’ve suddenly become a criminal. The truth remains the truth even if it’s just one person saying it. “Thousands of callers have told me that God told them to stop using makeup if they want to make heaven. The Bible doesn’t support makeup. “Jezebel was the first woman to wear makeup in the Bible. “If they say my preaching is too hard, are people expecting me to say the way they dress to a nightclub is allowed in the church? “No woman shall wear what pertains to a man and no man shall wear what pertains to a woman. Speaking on her claim that footballers will not make heaven, she said: “I’m not the only person who said that. “We have people from Ghana who also said the same. Even white men said it too. “Just go on Google, search for the god of soccer, it will be shown to you. Why didn’t I say the same about other sports? “They just want to arouse every soccer lover against me. “The event that will introduce the antichrist to the world will come through the World Cup.”

Post Date : January 9, 2022

2023: Get your PVCs to elect competent leaders, Sanusi advises Nigerians

Muhammad Sanusi II, president-general of the Jam’iyyatu Ansariddeen of Nigeria (Attijaniyya), has advised eligible citizens to get their permanent voters’ card (PVC) ahead of the 2023 elections. Sanusi said this on Saturday at the annual conference of the 4th Nigeria World Maulid anniversary in Lokoja, Kogi. The former Kano emir asked members of Attijaniyya not to fold their hands in matters involving politics, stressing that eligible members of the group must register to vote. Sanusi added that the group must vote for competent leaders across all positions irrespective of their political or religious affiliations. ”If our youths get employed, the economy of the entire country will improve,” he said. ”Most importantly, we are not a political party, but we cannot fold our arms and ignore politics. ”Every member of Attijaniyya from 18 years old and above — male or female — go and get your voters card. ”Allah commands you that you should place trust in the hands of those people who are trustworthy. ”Now, we are at the time where those who appoint leaders are the people, your vote is your power, you have a responsibility. ”I am not saying you must vote only for members of Attijaniyya, Muslim, or for any political party; you are to vote for every position the best person that is most competent. ”If you don’t take this responsibility, you have betrayed Islam. We must preserve the unity of this country to ensure self-reliance, education, peace and unity.” On his part, Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, said his government would continue to be fair and ensure equity for all, irrespective of religious affiliations or ethnicity. Bello added that he had learnt the ‘great messages of unity, love, hard work, peace, tolerance’ at the conference.

Post Date : January 9, 2022

SERAP sues Lawan, Gbajabiamila over ‘missing’ N4.1bn NASS funds

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, over “their failure to probe, and to refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies fresh allegations that N4.1bn of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated or stolen”. The suit followed the publication of the annual audited report for 2016 in which the Auditor-General of the Federation raised “concerns about alleged diversion and misappropriation of public funds and sought the recovery of any missing funds”. In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1609/2021 filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, SERAP is seeking, “an order of mandamus to direct and compel Dr Lawan and Mr Gbajabiamila to perform their constitutional oversight functions to promptly probe the allegations that fresh N4.1bn budgeted for the National Assembly may be missing.” In the suit, SERAP is arguing that “the National Assembly has legal and constitutional duties to prevent and combat corruption, as well as promote transparency and accountability in the management of public resources. “The National Assembly can only effectively perform its anti-corruption role if it can demonstrate exemplary leadership to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement involving the legislative body.” SERAP is also arguing that, “transparency and accountability in the management of public resources and wealth is essential for promoting development, people’s welfare and well-being, and their access to basic public services, as well as good governance and the rule of law.” SERAP is arguing that, “The failure of the National Assembly to promptly and thoroughly investigate, and to refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies the allegations documented in the annual audited report for 2016 is a fundamental breach of the oversight and public interest duties imposed on the legislative body. “The National Assembly has no legally justifiable reason to refuse to investigate the allegations documented by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.” The suit was filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers Kolawole Oluwadare and Kehinde Oyewumi. No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.