Improving church growth

SUGGESTED WAYS TO INCREASE CHURCH GROWTH FROM WORKERS

1.

Newcomers should be given or taken home after service by a worker or two to know their home and pray with them same Sunday of first visit.

2.

Apart from the general evangelism and follow-ups, all departments must have their day during the month to go out and evangelize.

3.

A check team should be put in place to monitor members absent from church. This will help to reach out to them and know why they are not in church at any particular time.

4.

Extending love i.e. brotherly love and kindness to each other.

5.

Organizing crusades within and around Edjeba town.

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Youth in church should be used to reach out to their mates as they are a source of influence on their peers in church and at school.

7.

Greater commitment to warfare praying and this should be anchored by the Pastor.

8.

Recognizing the Pastor and his leadership.

9.

Respect for one another ministers to ministers. Ministers to workers and members should recognize and respect their spiritual leaders no matter their person or position.

10.

Mini crusades in public places, parks and market places using missionaries and minded people.

11.

Hospital visitations on monthly basis. Minister to the sick and workers in ward and in materials.

12.

Provide more buses to bring people to church from far place. Church programs and Sunday series be put on air and buses be put in strategic places to bring people to church.

13.

Members should learn to invite people to church. The church has invitation cards and tracks that can be used to invite people to church. Co-workers, family members, friends and neighbours in Warri and environs. A breakfast meetings be organized for last Sundays of October, November and December. During this time, people can be ministered to in word and other areas of needs. Each attendee should be assigned to a church worker to follow-up and weekly report be given by the workers.

14.

Let members chose between themselves as they are seated in church a family or two to be visited at least twice a month. After which, you pick on another family.

15.

Special group programs be introduce at one time or the other that will help to minister differently i.e. that appeal to different class or group of people. This will help to invite all kinds of people to church.

16.

Make an effort to invite at least a person or two every week to church by giving them invitation card.

17.

All areas and provincial programs should be loaded on TVs and radios i.e. should be advertised.

18.

We need to attract the youths, who will eventually take over from these professionals in due course and recruit the good ones into our workers force through the training process. To attract youths, we need to use technology, by making our church a hot spot, anyone with a laptop can log onto the internet free with the church premises. They can obtain password from the church admin. We can eventually block the access and sell it when this strategy succeeds.

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The church has a lot of space. We can use some of the youth church to construct a gym, use some of the land for a swimming pool, this will attract members for a fee, and the church would have invested in the physical fitness of the members. If our equipment is good, it will attract members.  Our price naturally for now should be subsidized for members. 

20.

Encourage holiness of life among the present church members, starting with the workers. Purity of life wherever and whenever we find ourselves has a way of attracting sinners to the truth we confess. No matter how sweet the Jesus we preach sound to the ears of the hearers, without a corresponding lifestyle people will treat our words with levity. Matthew 5:16, John 12:32.

21.

Encourage a life of personal commitment among workers and members. When men lifts the Lord up in their commitment to programs (weekly and other times), they will also be committed to whatever vision the church pursues.

22.

Personal/Group Evangelism should be encouraged as much as possible. Every one of us have a mandate to preach the gospel, and it is the responsibility of the church (leadership) to teach the members the weight and importance God attaches to this commission. This must be emphasized, practiced and encouraged as often as possible. Preferably first and third Saturdays of every month. Individual/personal evangelism be made compulsory for all workers with target of one soul a month

23.

Worship services should be made as interesting as possible. One of the programs that we find new comers more in number is the Sunday worship service, and the moment we fail to make a positive impression on our first encounter, we stand a chance of losing the new comer. Our services should not only contain “power-packed and life transforming” messages but every activity in the service should minister grace to the congregation. This does not only affect our Sunday worship service, but also our weekly programs. I have pointed out in a family meeting/interactive session in the past that one reason we record low turn outs in weekly meetings for me, is the way studies are taken; almost like the outline is being read out word for word. I could as well stay in my office and read it online instead of bothering to take permission to attend Digging Deep in church or I could visit another parish on such days. I am aware of the new directive from the G.O on who takes the Digging Deep and I believe it is a welcome approach.

24.

As a follow up on above, Ministers and whoever climbs the stage should be given proper orientation on GOOD AND CORRECT STAGE PRESENTATION/GROOMING. I say this with all humility. A church as big as the Redeemed Christian Church of God attracts a wide range of people from different backgrounds and orientation, with some more socially inclined. Sir, it is a big turn-off very many times the way Ministers conduct/moderate services. The totality of the activities in a worship service is supposed to be connected; from the opening prayers to the benediction. Whoever is moderating a program should learn to encourage the congregation gets the best from the meeting. It does not matter what the person’s responsibility is at such gatherings. Let me share a scenario with you sir; imagine that the choir had just finished leading the praise worship session, and the whole congregation is lost in worship with some lying down, some crying and a of others lifting up holy hands unto the Lord. The moderator walks to the stage and abruptly says; in Jesus name we worship!!! He goes ahead to raise a song that is completely off tune and takes every one away from the mood they were in, and a whole lot of drama follows. This has been an issue with some ministers in the church. This does not only smolder the amber of grace in you, it also discourage attendance to such a church. Leading a section of a church should be linked to the previous one by short scriptural reference, prayers, corresponding similar song etc. It goes to show a whole lot of things that I may not be able to mention here. You will agree with me that the age the church finds herself today is so advanced, and so are people, some of us are quite touchy about this. The things that would not matter in the previous age do now. With the increase of televised churches, ministry, stage programs (reality shows), it has become NECESSARY that we take advantage of available knowledge and resources to reach out to the lost, like I said earlier; by all godly means possible, we must reach out and save as many as we can. Let it not be said of us that “the children of the world in their generation are wiser than the children of the kingdom” (Luke 16:8).

25.

We must improve on our MUSIC. I will not say so much here because our PCIP has earnestly begun a revolutionary effort in this regard. Permit me however to point here that the age we live today could also be described as “Music age”. Music has always moved people from time immemorial; however music in this age has been taken to a very different level. The quality of sound (whether in gospel or secular music) is of prime importance, even to the layman on the street. Good Music move people, either to the church or to the club house. I believe both the choir members and the pastorate are deeply conscious of this and are working to use this department in the achievement of the vision that is so boldly written “upon the tables” (Hab. 2:2). Also, if we can assemble some good professionalssingers, like pastor Okome invites some times, and do more of congregation participatory praise worship, we can attract members. The challenge is that we may pay some honorarium to these singers but I think it is worth it.

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We also must improve our sounds or generally; our audio-visual aids.Pastor, if you tune tour television to any Christian/secular channel on your DSTV, MYTV, HITV etc you will be impressed if not captivated by the quality of their audio-visual presentations; sounds, picture/video projections etc. the Technical group in Shekinah are trying considering the amount and quality of resources at their disposal-human and otherwise, but we can still do more I believe.

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Regularly organizing life impacting programs. It has become a tradition for churches to organize different types of programs, although the impacts in some cases are hardly felt or do not last as they should. Programs born out of vision and commitment go a long way touching lives to God’s glory. This I believe should be our drives when programs are organized. These programs could be; Bible expository (preaching/teaching the WORD), Music fiesta (worship or praise) which may involve inviting Born again Gospel artists (foreign or local- I strongly subscribe to this as this would not only bring in people but also encourage the host choir and members to serve God), economic empowerment summits.

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YOUTHS; I have reserved this for the last, though it is not the least of the issues. We cannot deny that the church is slowly but assuredly taking over the church. In as much as we announce that the youths are the leaders of tomorrow, we find it rather difficult to accept the change we so preach; difficult to allow them expression or encourage their spiritual or physical evolution (growth if you may). You will agree with me sir, that of all the suggestions you will receive from this exercise, 90% of the issues that will be discussed can ONLY and EFFECTIVELY be carried out by the youths. They have got the strength, mental capability, initiative, drive etc to move the church to the desired level. I have been appalled over time in this congregation that the youth are hardly encouraged from the pulpit. Certain of the ministers have hardly allowed their minds to see the potentials in these young people. They still see them as “Edjeba” or “Warri” youths-connoting worthlessness to say the least; this was the situation I met on ground when I came to this Parish and was one of the bitter the complaint of the youths, yet, despite all efforts from the Pastor and Youth Leadership, this perception still persists. There is power in the pulpit, and we must use it to encourage others in ways that both edify others and glorify God. Everyman is encouraged when he is recognized as “somebody” and the psychology of the youth is no different. Human perception is quite difficult to change but not impossible to deal with. I am still within the “youth” category myself, and I am concerned because of what I have felt and experienced since I came here. Accolades for these young people when they do right are scarce luxuries you can only longingly hope for, however when they do wrong, it is a different story; this ought not to be, (Prov. 22:6, Eph. 6:4). Pastor, please note that I am not saying that the rod should be spared here (Prov. 23:13-14, 29:15), but the human psychology is such that encouragement can sometimes do the magic reproof cannot perform. In this direction still, I propose approaches that will not only encourage the youths in the church but also draw others to the parish;

a.

Encourage creativity and diversity among the youths. Many of the youths who are hiding in the congregation are amazingly gifted and skilled in several arts and handiworks. The onus lies with the church leadership to provide an environment where they can find expression. Some of them are yearning to use their talents for God, and when they cannot do so they hide those talents. This could be in music, drama, technical, any other special group directed toward getting them out of their comfort zones and into the battle front. You may find them a whole lot different from what you are used to in your time as a young Christian or compared to the youths you know from whence you are coming, irrespective of whatever anybody may tell you, the youths must be found out, encouraged and challenged to get involved in the vision. And we will be amazed at what a quiver-full of youths can do (Psalm 127:4-5).

b.

Capacity building/empowerment seminars should be organized for the youths. This goes s long way to show them how much the church values her tomorrow-the youth. The national headquarters is seriously committed to this vision because of its usefulness and ripple effect which is both on the membership of the church and other potential members. Other ministries have long been taking advantage of such avenues to build leadership from and in their youths.

c.

Educational Aids/Grants to the Youths. Most of the youths here and students and some do not have the financial strength to comfortably go through their studies and so would need some aids to cushion whatever they get from home. Over time, some of us among the youths who are privileged to have some source of income have been trying to help in the little way we can though it has not been enough. We have tried registering some of them for JAMB, WAEC etc, aided their craft trainings, send funds to those in school etc. and we have noticed that most of the time they have been encouraged by such gestures to be more active in church and in their commitment to God; These in most cases have been our own encouragement.

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Jesus said in Matthew 24:28 and Luke 17:37 that wheresoever the body/carcass is, thither will the eagles be gathered together. If carcass is available in Shekinah, then no doubt eagles will come. Sir, let a notable lame walk, or a dear man restored to life, there will be no empty seat the following Sunday.

31.

People should be involved in prayer ministry.

32.

There should be more emphasis on the recognition of first timers after the message. Those first timers who came late should also be identified and recognized.

33.

The church should provide spiritual materials, that will develop and encourage the physically and spiritually growth of new comers.

34.

There should be training programs for the various departments of the church to enlighten them on the purpose of that department and encourage their commitment.

35.

The church should reach out to the needy in the congregation, especially those with; accommodation, fees and feeding problems.

36.

The church should also endeavor to reach out to widows; for instance during the forthcoming Christmas. We can organize a training workshop for them, and also empower those who need capital for business.

37.

The church should learn to practice love instead of just preach it.

38.

Organize special revival programs.

39.

Create a counseling program that will be championed by a full-time minister.

40.

Introduce a prayer chain program among workers and ministers.

DO NOT MOURN ME

DO NOT MOURN ME

Please do not mourn me,

If I fall in a battle field

For my fall is only a sacrifice

To my profession and my cause

Do not even ask for my remains

Or ask where I’m planted, ‘cause

Millions of me have been given to ensure

The survival of our race

Come not to ask me at the end of the war

Of what I saw during the war, ‘because I’ll likely say

I survived.

SHOCKING CONFESSIONS FROM EX-BOKO HARAM WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. ALLEGED IBB IS THE MAJOR SPONSOR OF BOKO HARAM

SHOCKING CONFESSIONS FROM EX-BOKO HARAM WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. ALLEGED IBB IS THE MAJOR SPONSOR OF BOKO HARAM

By Kanyi on February 5, 2012 | From kanyinulia.blogspot.com

Question: Who are you and where are you from?
Answer: My name is Sheik Sani Haliru. I am from Niger Republic, but my mother is from Bornu State of Nigeria and I grew up in Wulari, Maiduguri, (Northern Nigeria) where I was trained.
Q: Trained as what and under whose tutelage?
A: I was trained as an Almajiri, after four years, at the age of 14, I was sent to Kano City, Kano State where I was trained in the Sheik Abubakar Gummi School of Arabic studies.
Q: So you know Sheik Abubakar Gummi?
A: Yes, and I also know his children and obeyed all the teachings he laid down before he died.
Q: So who tutored you and who is your mentor?
A: Sheik Abubakar Gummi tutored me. My mentor was Osama bin Laden, and until my conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, my dreams and aspirations in life was to do more than Osama bin Laden did before he died on Sunday, May 1, 2011.
Q: You said that your mentor was Osama bin Laden. Is he still your mentor?
A: I am now a changed person. The Sheik Sani Haliru is now a new creature, old things have passed away because I now have Jesus Christ that I hated and persecuted for 44 years.
Q: Tell me about your past and how many countries of the World you have been to?
A: I cannot tell all about my past because it will take several days to tell my story and about my conversion experience to Christianity. I have been to eight countries.
Q: Can you please name them?
A: I have been to Sudan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and of course to my own country Niger Republic.
Q: Where did you receive your training and as what?
A: I received my training in Libya and Pakistan as an Attack Strategist. I was trained along side with some highly placed Nigerians and other foreign Nationals who were marked (he showed me the proof of his mark with a sign) in the form of a sword in the hand to fight and kill for Allah.
Q: Can you give me some of the names of your colleagues with whom you received training in Libya and Pakistan?
A: They are scattered all over the country and we were not too many then.
Q: Just mention but a few names.
A: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami Abubakar, Cletus Okar, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few.
Q: Which of the Asari’s do you mean?
A: The Niger Delta war king. He was a year ahead of me in Benghazi training camp in Libya.
Q: Who financed your training in Libya and Pakistan?
A: You will not believe me and only God will judge the Chief sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria whose name I will not mention because he is so powerful and even the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is so much afraid of the man.
Q: If you really know the Christ in you, why are you afraid to tell me the name of the man who sponsored you and the date or approximate period he sponsored you.
A: I am not afraid because he knows me and he cannot deny it if he sees me face to face.
Q: Then tell me, who is this powerful man?
A: The man is no other person than the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria.
Q: Did you say six hundred?
A: Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja (Nigeria’s capital).
Q: How do you mean by this statement “and even in the finance…”?
A: Yes, I mean every word I say; even the Islamic bank champion was planted by IBB to help in Islamizing Nigeria.
Q: So how can you describe IBB?
A: IBB is a “green snake” in green grass. He is the main problem of Nigeria along with members of the Cabal.
Q: Have you forwarded any of these evidence(s) to Aso Rock or to SSS (State Security Services)?
A: I attempted to do so a few weeks ago and I was arrested and detained for two days because IBB’S men are so many in SSS (State Security Services) as well. After I was released by the grace of God, they (the Police) warned me never to blow up the polity or provoke violence and I should keep my so-called-born-again with me or else I will go to jail.
Q: So you were a key member and a registered jihadist hardliner.
A: Yes, I was.
Q: Under what group?
A: I was a Boko Haramist. But Boko Haram is just a cover name to give it a name. I have my identity as a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.
Q: Apart from IBB, who are the other top sponsors of terrorism in this country?
A: They are many, but IBB is the major financier. He introduced the suicide bombing that started when he killed Dele Giwa. I have the names of six traditional rulers and seven present & ex-Governors as well as several top military and security officers who are co-sponsoring the so called Boko Haram. That apart, I have documented evidences to prove that General Mohammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abubaka Atiku and other top politicians and traditional rulers are some of the people behind Boko Haram. Very soon, nemesis will catch up with them.
Q: What if I use my influence to guarantee you safety, can you brief the press to expose IBB (General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) with all these documents that I am seeing with you right now.
A: Only God can guarantee my safety. He did so on that fateful day when the SSS and police wanted to secretly kill me because of what I unveiled. I would have been a dead man by now if not for a man of God who came as an “Angel” to quietly free me. Right now, I am wanted dead or alive by IBB and his agents of destruction in high places. The SSS are busy hunting for me up & down and arresting and torturing innocent people because of me.
Q: What if I connect you to a man of God by the name of Brother Mike Ejiofor, who is a lawyer, a professional negotiator and a mediator who was the Director of SSS until October 2010?
A: I only wish to be connected to God.
Q So how can you describe this country?
A: Nigeria is sifting under an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB). Only God can rescue this nation because 75% of Christians are prayer less. Why? Because they are in their own comfort zone. They do not know what the Christians in Northern Nigeria are passing through and they ignorantly are thinking that the Allah of the Muslims is the same as the God of Christians in the Holy Bible who says: “Thou shalt not kill”.
Q: What does the Qur’an say about Islam being referred to as a religion of peace by numerous Muslim scholars?
A: Let me tell you in a very clear language that Islam is not a religion of peace, but it is of violence, of killers and fighters as already stated in their so called “Holy” Qur’an which I ignorantly followed all these years when I was spiritually blinded as a Muslim.
Q: Can you prove these statements from the Qur’an?
A: [Sani Haliru, who is now known as Solomon Haliru (Paul Haliru’s brother)] brought out two copies of the original Qur’an in the Arabic & English translation. He gave me one, and told me to open the book to Surah Al- baqarah chapter 2 vs 216. It says, “Holy fighting is ordained (prescribed) for all muslims, whether they like it or not, as far as it is good and approved by Allah through his prophet Mohammed.”
Q: Where is it in the Qur’an that killing is also permitted by Allah?
A: Look at Surah Al-baqarah chapter 2 vs 191 “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. An Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-Al-Haram (the sanctuary at Makkah), unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.” Muslims are told to kill and fight in the cause of Allah.
Q: Does it mean that IBB and all these Muslim traditional rulers and Governors that are sponsoring Boko Haram to kill Christians and burn our churches in the North are not aware of the passage in the Qur’an that says there must not be compulsion in Islam as Mohammadu Buhari asserted in a widely publicized interview on Saturday, the 21st of April, 2011?
A: I have worked so closely with Mohammadu Buahri for five years, and I can prove it that General Buhari is the most notable outspoken jihadist hardliner in Nigeria who is also strategically sponsoring Boko Haram
. Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?
A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.
Q: How do you mean by saying that most Muslim millionaires and highly placed Muslims are “pretenders and shying away from the fact”?
A: What I mean is that they (Muslims-both rich and poor) are told to use their position of wealth (or otherwise) to promote Islam or else they will face destruction from Allah.
Q: Where can you find this in the Qu’ran?
A: Open Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:195, it is written here that you must use your wealth to champion Jihad of all kinds or else destruction is waiting for such a person on the last day.
“And spend in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad of all kinds) and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah), and do good. Truly, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).”
Q: Have you ever been detained or arrested?
A: Nobody could arrest me until the year 2009 soon after my immediate boss Mohammed Yusuf was killed. About 23 of us were arrested in one of our hideouts in Bauchi. But when Governor Isa Yagiuda heard about it, he immediately arranged for me to be free. Even before his official broadcast in 2010 that he was using his position as the executive Governor of Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) to free 28 prisoners from Bauchi Central Prison, I was already a free man along with several of my colleagues.
Q: Now can you tell me some of the horrible crimes that you committed and how you got born again and became converted.
A: Old things have passed away and I don’t want to talk about the past, because like Apostle Paul said, we need to press forward in Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
Q: Just mention a few to assist some of us who are making efforts to unravel the mystery of the menace called Boko Haram which you have renounced.
A: I took part in the Kaduna riot of 1992 and in several northern states of Nigeria, but the state I operated more from was Bornu (northern Nigeria) where I was the State Commander/Chief Strategist.
Q: So as Chief Attack Strategist, what crimes have or did you commit before you renounced the deadly sect?
A: In the early months of May 1986, I was among the 36 Jihadist hardliners, who went on a rampage to attack Christian students of the University of Sokoto (Sokoto State in northern Nigeria). In that same week, the Federal Government of Nigeria under the brutal leadership of IBB mobilized us and provided some military vans and Army uniforms which our men used and started killing innocent and defenseless Christians all over the Northern states. I and the son of the Emir of Kano, who is now a Christian by name Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, were among the Muslim fanatics who razed down the sculpture of Jesus at the University of Ibadan (Oyo State in western Nigeria).
The following year, March 5, 1987 to be very precise, the “Evil Genius” General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida secretly armed us through one of his close aids by the name of Captain Hassan Abubakar (now a Pastor with a fast growing church in Lagos). We went to go and kill some targeted Christians including Rev. Nuhu Kure (Throne room founder) after the destruction we committed at the College of Education in Kafanchan, Kaduna State (North Central Nigeria). And of recent, I was the leader of the team of soldiers of Allah that destroyed Church buildings and properties in Bornu State (northern Nigeria).
Q: Can you name some of the buildings and Churches you and your Boko Haramists destroyed?
A: There are many, but our main targets which we succeeded in destroying included: Goodnews & ECWA Church, Damboa Road, Maiduguri E.Y.N.L.C.C. Wulari, National Evangelical Mission Inc. Divisional Headquarters Wulari, Elijah Apostolic Christ Church, Oke Ayo Celestial Church of Christ, Deeper Life Bible Church, the Lord’s Chosen and six others in Railway Area and all over Wulari in Maiduguri, Borno State. Other church buildings we destroyed and looted include the Aposotic Church, COCIN Church, Evangelical Church/Mission Headquarters, Anglican Church, Baptist Church/Mission, Redeemed Christian Church of God, El-Shaddai Parish, Watchman Charismatic and several others.
Q: Where were the security officers when you were destroying all these church buildings and killing Christians?
A: Since 1985 when General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) started using us to persecute Christians, the Nigerian Army has been an extension or shall I say an arm of the Muslims agenda to Islamize Nigeria. Wherever they go to attack Christians, the Muslims in the top military positions give the cover by providing the logistics. Since the day of Babangida (1985) Christians suffer violence. This is the time that we must attack them and take what belongs to us by force.
Q: You don’t seem to like IBB and you talk so much of his evil deeds. Are you the only one he used or is there more revelation we can investigate or ascertain further?
A: Babangida is the most wicked and heartless man I have ever seen or worked with. He used many Muslim fanatics (Most of who are now Christians) to commit a lot of atrocities. For example, he used Alhaji Sannusi Dasuki (now Solomon Dasuki), Alhaji Ahmed Ado Bayero (now Rev. Paul Ado Bayero), Alhaji Mohammed Usman (now Evangelist Blessed Usman), Alhaji Sani Jegga (now Isaac Jegga) to attack the following men of God: Late Papa Idahosa, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Rev. Uma Ukpai, Rev. O. Ezekiel and other men of God. He used some of the people whose names mentioned above to burn down several million copies of the Holy Bible. Along with the late MKO Abiola, they both sponsored the sinking of three million copies of the Holy Bible into the high sea.
Q: With all these revelations, can’t IBB be arrested and charged to court?
A: Who will arrest him? Is it Goodluck or who? Even when we provided the proofs to them that IBB killed Dele Giwa and that he sponsored the burning and looting of the Jos main market (Terminus) and also planted the seed of the present crises in Plateau State in 1991, they refused to arrest him because he is very cunning in his evil ways. He leaves no trace of his evil deeds, but nemesis will soon catch up with him because the sardonic spirit in him will soon expire.
Q: In a simple language, how can you describe IBB?
A: Ibrahim Babangida is a wicked and heartless man. As a military officer he was very brutal and as a politician he is very selfish and tricky. He better repent and confess his numerous sins and wickedness before it will be too late.
Q: Can you prove to the readers that fighting and killing in the name of Allah is justified in the Holy Qur’an?
A: I can site more than 28 passages from the Holy Qur’an where fighting and killing is justified as approved in the cause and for the sake of Allah. Please turn to the Qur’an (it goes from the back to the front) and see the book Surah At-Taubah Chapter 9:29 “Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” In this passage, every true Muslim(s) is specifically instructed to fight against four (4) groups of people especially the Jews and Christians.
Q: So what is the meaning of Jizyah and how was the name coined?
A: From the footnote as you can see in the Qur’an, Jizyah is a tax levied against the people of the scriptures (i.e. the Christians) who are under the Islamic government. Jizyah was coined out after the Jaiz bank that the Muslims are wanting to use to take over the financial world via Islamic Banking.
Q: Are you saying indirectly that Islam is not a religion of peace as most Muslims will want us to believe?
A: I am saying it directly not indirectly that Islam is a religion of violence It is a religion of force. More than 95% of Nigerian journalists and people of the world are ignorant of what the Qur’an teaches and/or says about Islam and violence.
Q: How do you mean?
A: Open the Qur’an to Surah Muhammad Chapter 47:4. In this very passage, Muslims are commanded by Allah to kill and smite the neck of anyone who does not accept the teaching of Islam, and according to the satanic verses they (Muslims) would be helping Allah by so doing.
I quote exactly as it is written in the Muslims Holy Qur’an: “So, when you meet (in fight-Jihad in Allah’s Cause) those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free from them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam and are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight) in order to test some of you with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.”
Q: So is that why all Muslims are indirectly supporting Boko Haram?
A: Yes, Boko Haram is just a name coined by satan to Islamize the world. That is why every true Muslim is directly and indirectly supporting Boko Haram.
Q: Can you explain further?
A: In Surah Al-Baqarah 2:195, the wealthy Muslims and all those in high position of authority such as IBB, Buhari, Atiku, Isa Yaguda, etc. are told to use their wealth and any position they find themselves in to promote Islam and the cause of jihad of all kinds or else they will face destruction from Allah.
Q: Is that how the suicide bombers come into the picture?
A: Yes,
Q: My readers will like to know from the Qur’an if Islam is the zenith of wickedness as you earlier said.
A: In the Qur’an Allah commanded thus “(Remember) when your Lord revealed to the angels, Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.” (See the Qur’an of Surah Al-Anfal 8:12)
Q: So you did accordingly?
A: Yes! Satan used Buhari and Tunde Bakare, the false prophet, to smite the necks and chop off the fingers and toes of several Christians in Zaira, Maiduguri, Bauchi and several other places.
Q: Which passages say that the Christians are enemies of the Muslims? Some ignorant Christian leaders and pressmen are of the opinion that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
A: Christians and journalists (about 95%) are very ignorant. Let them search the original Qur’an (The Noble Qur’an). The more the Muslim leaders try to block the original Qur’an from circulation, the more the lie spreads that we’re serving the same God. That is why the Lord says “I will build my church; and the gates of (hades) hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
Q: Mention another satanic verse that makes every true Muslim(s) to hate Christians.
A: In addition to the several passages and mentioned earlier, please take a look at Surah An-Nisa 4:101 and I quote “For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies.”
Q: What is the solution to this problem of the Boko Haram menace?
A: The problem is not Boko Haram. The problem is the Spirit of Islam which must be crushed by the prayer of the Saints. Was it not through prayer that people like Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, Bishop K. K. Degaya, Apostle Johnson Suleman and hundreds of others got saved? Was it not through prayer that I got saved on my way to assassinate both Rev. Samuel Dasuki and Evangelist Blessed Usman when they were in their training camp in a crusade/ministration to their converts? I tell you from my experience this past few months as a Christian, many Christians are not united. In the north Christians are more united and sincere, but in the south & west, Christians are in comfort zones and if they don’t wake up, they will be surprised of what Muslims will do to them.
Q: What can Muslims do in Warri, Port Harcourt and other southern and western zones?
A: Look let me tell you one top secret. Before I repented, an average of 2,500 Muslim fanatics came to Delta State every month, 2,000 to the Eastern states and 2,000 to Cross River State and 2,500 to other zones. All of these Muslim fanatics were sent in preparation of the holy war (Jihad).
Q: Where are they camped?
A: In various Mosques and Islamic training schools which they use as training camps at odd hours (—for security reasons, the author/interviewer have decided not to publish the other details of this answer in print).
Q: What advice do you have for Christians in the comfort zones?
A: Pray for our Christian brethren in the north. Secondly, stop giving your ladies to Muslims. Thirdly, do no sell your land to a Muslim any longer. Fourth, do not employ them as security men. Fifth, beware of what they do with your finger nails and hair. Finally, watch them carefully and be very prayerful because Nigeria is sitting on an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB) and the Muslims are prepared to fight you in your backyard.
Q: Any advice for the president?
A: They are desperate to get him/his family by kidnap/killing them, not only by Spiritual means, but through some well trained security men who he think can never disappoint him. About six suicide bombers are in the presidency and one of them is a student from NDA-Nigerian Defence Academy (other details I am keeping for security reasons).
Q: Do you know anything about bombing?
A: In answer to this question, I shall give you a top secret document which is supposed to be for only committed Muslims which I smuggled out and gave to some Christian leaders in the south.
Q: But tell me a little of how they got the knowledge to manufacture a bomb? Who sponsored your people to do these wicked acts?
A: We were sponsored by the man they call IBB and some top Muslims within and outside the country. We also worked hand in hand with Al Qaeda. As far back as 12th of June, 2011 when I got converted to Christianity, I gave several documents to Police and SSS. They arrested and detained me. But the Holy Spirit released me the same day that they wanted to kill me secretly by poisoning.
Q: What secrets did you give them?
A: I told them that the Muslims are using trailer and vehicles in military colour and are escorted by northern soldiers to smuggle weapons to various mosques and Islamic training schools in Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Calabar, Sapele, Warri, Ebonyi and Enugu States, etc.
Q: What about the bomb manufacturers?
A: I told them that the Traditional Rulers in the northern part of Nigeria and many state governors in the far north are sponsoring Boko Haram. I told them that I was paid a deposit of 5 million Naira to go and bomb NDA in the month of August 2011 when they will be planning the graduation that just took place where I would have driven straight to the Commander’s Office with a covering letter from a Garrison Officer commander whose name I gave to the police and who is a close relative to IBB.
Q: Did you give the name of the bomb location where the training is going on?
A: Yes, I gave them and told them where they were training 65 new Islamic Youths in two bomb factories in Bauchi, Bornu and Niger states and also the bomb factory at Hanyan Nassarawa Iku, Niger State.
Q: Any more revelation?
A: Yes, I gave them many bomb factories even in the southern and eastern states and seven in Kaduna State, Plateau State and Abuja. It was in the Niger State bomb factory that we manufactured the improvised explosive devices that was used to operate in Abuja on October 1, 2010.
Q: Did the police take immediate action?
A: The news leaked to IBB immediately and he immediately instructed his ground soldiers to relocate the bombs. The Police and SSS were afraid to search some of the mosques because the presidency must be aware that by so doing, the country Will explode into a religious war between Christians and Muslims. That is why I said Nigeria is sitting on Islamic time bomb or shall I say Islamic Barbaric Bomb.
***This interview comes from the book Unveiling Islam/Boko Haram by Blessed Usman, JP.
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MAJOR ORKAR COUP SPEECH

APRIL(22nd) 1990 COUP D'ETAT SPEECH
Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

n behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.

The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well-conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.
Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.
They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.
It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.
Anything that has a beginning must have an end. It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.
For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration. The reasons are as follows:

(a) To stop Babangida’s desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria’s life president at all costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life. In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.
Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:
(1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.
(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.
(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.
(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.
(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.
(6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.

Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defense, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.
It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990’s, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.
Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few. This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians.
This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.
This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.
This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.
Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:
(1) The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.
(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida’s administration by the all-powerful clique.
(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.
(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.
(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well-being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.
(8) The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as they circumstances may dictate.
In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.

The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:
(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people’s choice.
(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practiced in any part of the Nigeria state.
By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.
They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today. They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.
In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria. A word is enough for the wise.
This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.
We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God. All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.
The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.

A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.
All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.

All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.
Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all.

SUCCESS SERIES PART 2: FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE

In the parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30, Lk. 19), the Lord of the house gave talents to his Servants according to their different abilities – strength and intellect; to one he gave five talents, to another two talents and to yet another one talent. However, while the servants with five and two talents were busy investing and profiting from their talents, the man with one talent was earnestly imitating those who had none.

In the record of Luke chapter 19, the Master charged the servants to “occupy” till he comes, after giving them the talents. Has it ever occurred to you dear, that they could have been more people in the Master’s life than the three servants in question, however not “everyone” got a talent. Sadly also, ‘Mr. One talent’ chose to live like the people who did not receive anything from the Lord of the house; sitting at ease in Zion while his talent wasted in the ground. He was angry at his Master for giving his neighbours more talents than himself, instead of realizing how much easier it is to profit with less responsibilities than it is with plenty.

The lesson is; if we focus on what we have instead of comparing ourselves with others, we are sure to succeed in life. You may not be a ‘Jack of all trade’ but you can the ‘Master of one’ or some. That comes when you FOCUS and you are DELIGENT in ‘whatever your hand findeth to do’. You surely have a talent-skill, ability in something. It could be in music, acting, mechanics, electrical repairs, scholarly pursuits, leadership, and interpersonal skills etc, all you need to do is to put your heart to it and someday success will come knocking on your door.