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- 3 Steps To Becoming God's Kingdom Ambassador
- The body on Teyanna Taylor is out of this world | Mr Olumide's Blog
- You are sick if you think it is ok for T.D Jakes to sell customized suits to the elite in the name of 'branding - Daddy Freeze | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Toni Braxton shares super sexy photos to celebrate her 50th birthday | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Police arrest suspected cultists in Benue | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Let me be your sugar mummy - 53-year old begs Timaya on IG | Mr Olumide's Blog
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- MYSTERY: Nigerian Lady Married to Dead Man for 5 Years
- Female Fraudster Arrested After 9 Months On The Run
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- What is the Pastor's Wife's Responsibility to the Church?
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| I need a break - Peter Okoye | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:19 AM PDT  Peter Okoye, who recently signed a deal with US label Empire, took to IG to reveal he needs a break. He wrote:
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| Davido hasn't reached out to anyone in the family - Tagbo's sister speaks up | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:19 AM PDT  "I am a year older than he was, and October 3 was supposed to be his 35th birthday. They're trying to portray him as a drunk or useless person, and that's not true. There's more to social media than what we see on the screen. He was not married and he didn't have any kids. He was an engineer but he was trying to diversify into the music business. Not as a musician, but maybe as a record label owner," she said. "He could upload some pictures of himself hanging out with his friends, but that does not mean that he doesn't have anything else he does with his life. He was a very caring and outgoing person, and he had a great future ahead of him. I would definitely not wish what we, his loved ones, are going through right now on anybody. Nobody deserves to die the way he did; abandoned at a time he needed help the most. Nobody deserves the nonchalance that the parties involved are displaying. It's really unfair. Our dad is late, and my mum is taking this one day at a time. Davido has not reached out to anyone in my family; not me, my mum, or Tagbo's brother. I only knew about my brother's friendship with Davido through social media; I had never met him. But they've been friends for some time now because I often see pictures of them together. I'm not really familiar with many of the artistes in Nigeria, but I know that on the night of the incident, Tagbo was with Davido and Dammy Krane. Right now, we're trying to gather as much information as possible to aid the investigation. All we need is justice; we don't need any financial gain from this sad incident. We would dig to the root of the matter and find out if it was the negligence of anybody that led to this, or there was any sort of tampering involved. The autopsy would be conducted on Monday; any contrary news is false." When Sunday Scoop reached out to Davido's team on their response to Tagbo's sister's claim, his manager Asa Asika said "We don't have any comment on this matter; there is nothing to say." Meanwhile, the police have also confirmed that the autopsy would be carried out on Monday.  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Nelly is innocent of the rape charges - Akon | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:19 AM PDT  Speaking with TMZ, Akon said:
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| 3 Steps To Becoming God's Kingdom Ambassador Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:58 AM PDT  2 Corinthians 5:20-21 God calls us to walk in the Spirit and keep in step with Him. That means that the life of the Christian is not passive. In order to be a Kingdom ambassador as He has called us to be, we need to take three important steps... the first is incarnational, the second is relational, and the final step is transformational. Step One - Incarnational: Letting the Holy Spirit Lead Jesus is the Word made flesh. He took on humanity and dwelt among us in order to fulfill God's plan to atone for our sin on the cross. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we become the physical vessels that Christ uses to reach others to reconcile them to Himself. We are His hands and feet, and when people encounter us, God's plan is that they would also be encountering Christ. We must take every opportunity to demonstrate the Gospel to others. Now, don't allow that to cause you to fear. It's not you that's doing the work, it's the Holy Spirit in you. The Holy Spirit empowers us to walk with people in the midst of the realities of life and to help them think from God's perspective. Don't feel like the person has to accept Christ on the spot or you have failed. Your job is to keep the divine appointments that God has set each day. For example, the next time you are out in public, don't be afraid to pray over your food in public. I typically also take this as an opportunity to ask the server if there's a request he or she would like me to lift up in prayer. This offer has NEVER been refused. At the end of the meal I make sure to let the server know that they will continue to be in my prayers, and also leave a generous tip. Even if I have to order less of a meal in order to be generous with the tip, it's worth it to be a good witness. Step Two - Relational: Caring about the Issues of Others News flash: you weren't saved merely for your own benefit. Yes, Christ died for you, but the Gospel is a whole lot bigger than that. God is a relational Father and cares deeply about what He has made. Because of the relational aspect of God, we must care about the concerns of others. In our friendships, at work, or even with our family, we care about the issues of their lives because we have concern for them as God would. It is the Christian relational witness that leads us to value, appreciate, and have concern for Creation, people of every nation, tribe and tongue. Whether it's politics or any other issue, it's all about people and that is what leads us to engage and lead in order to be Christ's witnesses Step Three - Transformational: Jesus Changes Everything Do you believe Jesus changes everything? Although there are individuals, institutions, and situations in which a spirit other than Christ is now reigning, God uses His ambassadors to change the current reality. The Millennial generation is typically described as those born between 1980 and 2000. Millenials are most likely to be religiously unaffiliated so unless something changes, they will not replace Baby Boomers in the pews of America's churches. In order to fulfill the Great Commission to this generation and the next we must make sure that we tell them our story, listen to God and also to the conversation going on in the world around us. Consider this: if you start putting yourself in proximity with sinners, over time you might actually meet someone God is interested in reaching with the redemptive good news of the Gospel. People can't hear what no one is saying. So, as Kingdom ambassadors we represent a King that is and always will be. If you wondered what on earth you are supposed to be doing today, that, my friend, is it. Time to step up to our calling. [written by Carmen LaBerge]  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| The body on Teyanna Taylor is out of this world | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:54 AM PDT |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:54 AM PDT  According to Daddy Freeze: If you think it is ok for this man to sell customized suits to the elite in the name of 'branding' then your brain is paining you! To collect tithe the levites are not allowed to own land or have an inheritance, this one not only has land and inheritance, he is selling suit? Where is my whip? - Deuteronomy 10:9 KJV [9] Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him. - Numbers 18:21 KJV [21] And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. - Last week Celine dion donated ALL THE PROCEEDS OF HER CONCERT to the Las Vegas shooting victims and this one is here selling suit? - Check the lyrics to Jay.z's song blueprint out, you can google and listen if you doubt me! - Blueprint [Verse 2] Can't y'all see that he's fake, the rap version of T.D. Jakes Prophesizin' on your CD's and tapes Won't break you a crumb of the little bit that he makes And this is with whom you want to place your faith I put dollars on mine, ask Columbine When the Twin Towers dropped, I was the first in line Donatin' proceeds off every ticket sold! ~JayZ  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Toni Braxton shares super sexy photos to celebrate her 50th birthday | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:54 AM PDT |
| Police arrest suspected cultists in Benue | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:54 AM PDT |
| Let me be your sugar mummy - 53-year old begs Timaya on IG | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:54 AM PDT |
| TSTV Fixes Date for Commencement of Operation Posted: 08 Oct 2017 03:28 AM PDT  Telcomm Satellite TV says its newly inaugurated tv, TSTV Africa, will begin commercial operation on November 1, 2017. The firm's Managing Director, Mr Bright Echefu, made this known while briefing journalists on Saturday in Abuja. Echefu added that TSTV would launch its services with about one million decoders nationwide. He said that at least 5,000 TSTV decoders would be released to the public next week for free, adding that it would use the first set of decoders with one month free subscription to test run its services. "Commercialization of our decoders will resume officially on November 1 and by that time, every part of Nigeria would have TSTV decoders for people to buy. "We are releasing about one million which can go round and our target for the first quarter is one million units. In every quarter we will bring one million units and we are targeting four million units within the next one year. "I can tell you categorically that some decoders will be released next week for Nigerians to test and we are going to cover the 36 states of the federation. "These decoders are going to be free," he said.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| MYSTERY: Nigerian Lady Married to Dead Man for 5 Years Posted: 08 Oct 2017 02:58 AM PDT  On a business trip sometime in February 2011, she encountered an alluring young man with whom she later fell in love. A reserved, handsome stranger who exuded a romantic charm that was shrouded in mystery swept her off her feet. Beginning of trouble Expectedly, her parents were full of joy when she arrived her village on a Saturday evening to commence the traditional marriage rites, but payment of the bride price was deferred because she was already pregnant and the tradition forbade such. Notwithstanding, they returned to Lafia, where they settled down and cohabited as a couple for over five years. A few months after presenting her heartthrob to her parents at Lokobo village in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State where she hails from, she was delivered of a baby boy, a development that further lifted her soul and strengthened their bond. Within a period of five years, she also had two miscarriages, which she believed, was an act of God. Unraveling the mystery man Suddenly, in March, this year, she discovered that for almost six years, she had been living with a dead man who she called her husband, the father of her child. It sounds like a fairy tale, but it's true. This is the story of 39-year-old Angela Tyoor Agber, a boisterous woman of Tiv extraction resident in Lafia, until the macabre encounter turned around her life. She is yet to recover from the shock, after an unscheduled visit by two guests to their home on Obi road, on the outskirts of Lafia, blew the veil off her ghost marriage. He disappeared since that day with her four-year- old son, Joseph Jnr., to a world unknown, leaving her in sorrow and fear. The bubble burst when Angela, who sells oranges, wanted to rent a shop at a plaza located close to the Lafia-Makurdi Roundabout to expand her business. As part of the conditions, the property owner, Alhaji Musa Usman, requested to meet her husband ostensibly to ensure she was a responsible woman. Unfortunately, her supposed 42-year-old husband, "Barrister" Tyopenda Joseph, was too busy to meet Usman, who decided to visit the couple at home on the fateful day. He was accompanied by a mason, Mr.Targba Iortim, whom Usman had contracted for a building project. Iortim, also a Tiv from Taraba State, had joined Usman in Lafia for a trip to Abuja. But Usman decided to meet Angela's husband before embarking on the journey. He drove to the couple's home without prior notice in company with the mason, unknown to him that Iortim was acquainted with Angela's husband at Andole village in Kashak Local Government Area of Taraba State, a Tiv community where he hailed from. Angela had barely ushered the visitors into the sitting room when the unexpected happened. Iortim was jolted when her husband emerged from the bedroom to meet his guests. There was pin-drop silence as Joseph, popularly known as Big Joe while alive, seemed to have frozen on seeing one of his visitors. Moments later, Iortim reportedly summoned courage and hailed him by his nickname, and then, added a shocker: "Big Joe, but you are no more, why are you here"? The response was a thunderous sound; when Angela and her guests recovered from the shock, her husband and child had vanished. Shock and disbelief She collapsed and went blank. After being revived, she was told her husband had died over 11 years ago, precisely December 2005, in an auto crash on Takum road in Taraba State. His body, which was badly mangled, was buried same month in his village. Four months after, members of his family were wiped out during a clash between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the state when his village was completely razed. Iortim, who said he attended Joseph's burial, gave horrendous details of the event. Angela eventually pulled herself together and briskly packed her belongings out of her "matrimonial home". Consumed by fear, she has relocated to Lokobo, her village, far away from Lafia where she had toiled since 2007 and barely savoured her blossoming trade in oranges. She has now realized why everything about Joseph was enigmatic; why she neither saw nor heard about members of his family and friends, why he rarely spoke of his past, beyond the fact that he hailed from Kashak in Taraba State, and his family perished during an invasion of his village by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Strange behaviour Though they lived in a secluded area on the outskirts of Lafia, Angela never suspected anything about her husband who told her he was a legal practitioner and relocated from Taraba State as a result of communal crises. Strangely, he vehemently opposed to enrolling Joseph Jnr., their only child in school even when he was aged four. While her son whom she described as a lively and gentle boy did not exhibit any strange behaviour, her husband was withdrawn and often spoke about death, which unsettled her. "Each time I complained about his quietness, he tells me that he was thinking about his people who died back home, and that he would join them someday. Most times, he talked about his terrible dreams, how water surrounded him while he was going to a farm. There was a day he asked me how I would feel if he slept one day and didn't wake up; there was a day he told me he had a dream that Joseph Jnr., our son, died and was buried. In all the years we spent together, he never attended a church service even for once; he had no friends. On the day he went to my village for our introduction, two young men and a woman accompanied us; he told me one of the men was his uncle who came from Kaduna, while the other was his friend from Makurdi. He said the woman was with us to represent his mother and was a relation from Makurdi. Since then, I had not seen any of them after they accompanied him to my village, but we sometimes talk only on his mobile phone. When I was delivered of my son, my mother visited and spent some days with us, but none of those people came. Whenever I raised the issue, he gave excuses. There was a time he promised taking me to his village in Taraba, but he later reneged on the grounds that herdsmen had taken over their community and I became afraid. "About two years before my shocking find, he kept travelling and hardly stayed around. All along, he gave me the impression that his village had been razed completely by the herdsmen and because of the stories we hear from there, I was convinced. I never knew I was married to a dead man", she lamented. Spiritual help It's a cruel fate for Angela which members of her family had resolved not to make public, as they seek spiritual help to cleanse her of any evil spell. Following a tip off by a relation of an arrangement for her to take sanctuary in a church led by a female prayer warrior at Otukpo, Benue State, our correspondent laid siege to a spot popularly known as Obi Bus Stop situated a few kilometers away from Lafia, from where they were to transit to their destination on the scheduled day for the trip. On Wednesday, last week, the effort paid off as Saturday Sun met Angela in company with her uncle, Anodohumba Adzor, as they embarked on the journey en route Otukpo. It was a horrifying encounter as she narrated how she got hooked to a ghost marriage, and a dark cloud of uncertainty that has enveloped her. She told Saturday Sun her story in detail. How we met "In 2007, I relocated from my village to Lafia with the assistance of Veronica, a close friend who sold oranges. Since I wasn't educated and couldn't farm, my late father raised a sum of N6000 for me and encouraged me to set up a business. I joined my friend in the orange business which made me travel frequently to purchase the fruit at interior villages in Konshisha, Ushongo and Gboko areas of Benue State where they are cultivated in large quantity and cheap. "My mother did not give her blessing to the business I was doing; she felt since I couldn't engage in farming, I should marry and settle down for whatever business I wanted to do in my husband's house. My father didn't send me to school, because he was opposed to sponsoring the education of a female child. So, my mother was against my stay in Lafia alone; she wanted me get married and complained about it each time I went to the village. Though, I had several boyfriends in Lafia, none was ready to marry me. They were only interested in having s*x, but my mother kept pressurizing me, more so, when my friend, Veronica got married. Due to the pressure, I also became desperate to marry, but could not find the right man. "In February, 2011, I was returning from a business trip to Konshisha via Makurdi en route Lafia. On that fateful day, I boarded a taxi at Makurdi to Lafia with about six sacks of oranges which filled up the back seats. The driver charged N2, 500 as my fare and my load and as I pleaded with him to collect N2000, a young man in black suit who was seated at the front, offered to make up the balance of N500 so that we could move immediately; he said he was in a hurry for an appointment in Lafia. "As we commenced the journey, he started a conversation with me; he probed into my life and when he realized that both of us were of the Tiv ethnic group, he changed to our language so that the driver, who was Hausa, would not understand our discussion. He identified himself as Barrister Tyopenda Joseph, hailed from Taraba State, and said he had just relocated to Lafia after being displaced by herdsmen/farmers clashes in Taraba which consumed his entire family. He said he was starting life afresh in Lafia, and we exchanged contacts. Eventually, we started an affair which led to marriage within a short period. Before then, he lived in a lonely area on Obi road; he told me how all his family members were killed in an attack on his village. It was sympathetic and based on the kind of stories he told me, I didn't bother anymore to probe into his roots in Taraba, though he told me he hailed from Kashak. At this point, we were deeply in love. He proposed marriage so that he could settle down properly, and that was the first time a man would propose to marry me. Since that was what I had long awaited, I did not give it a second thought to investigate him further, at least, within Lafia. I was already spending most of my nights in his house. I leave home early in the morning for my business and return late in the evening. Whenever I returned, he would tell me he had also just arrived home, and I believed everything he told me. He regularly assisted me with money for my business; really showed me love, and I loved him passionately. I was ready to do everything to please him, and one thing that made me give him my heart was that he satisfied me sexually, the way no man had done since I lost my virginity. Seven months into our relationship, I became pregnant and he gladly accepted to shoulder the responsibility. All along, I had wanted to marry because my only friend had married and I had gone an extra mile to make my dream a reality. He was about 42 years. I took him to my parents who were happy, particularly my mother. A forum of family members and elders of the village was convened, where he was introduced as my husband. He bought drinks and performed some traditional marriage rites, but the bride price was not paid instantly because I was pregnant and our tradition forbade collecting bride price for a pregnant woman. This was in November, 2011. He promised to pay the bride price after I was delivered of the baby. We returned to Lafia and lived in peaceful matrimony. He was reserved and had no friend. Daily, he left home by 6am and returned at about 8pm weekdays; he doesn't go out on weekends. I was delivered of a baby boy in June, 2012, and thereafter, had two miscarriages. Throughout the period of our marriage, he did not go back to the village to pay the bride price as he earlier promised. He kept giving excuses, but my family exercised patience with him because he catered for them; he solved every problem to which his attention was drawn. Our son behaved normal; he was a gentle boy always comfortable wherever you kept him. But one strange thing his father did was that he never allowed me to enroll him in school; he warned me not to enroll him in Lafia as he was planning to relocate to Abuja where he would attend a good school. My son was four years old at that time. I felt bad and reported the matter to my mother, but she told me I should allow my husband do what he desired for his son. "Sometime in March, 2017, I wanted to rent a shop at a plaza along Lafia/Makurdi Roundabout to expand my business. The property is owned by one Alhaji Musa Usman who requested to see my husband before letting the shop to me. I told him how busy my husband was, but he insisted and instead, offered to visit our home on a Saturday. He said he was travelling to Abuja same day for a business trip that would take him a month. I forgot to tell my husband about Alhaji's visit and the man came with a mason, a Tiv man who relocated from Taraba State to Makurdi who knew my husband while he was alive and attended his funeral when he died. That was when my world crashed like a pack of cards. I had no inkling my husband had died before, but I later believed because if it wasn't true, he wouldn't vanish with his son; it's true. I'm short of words to express how I feel, but have to accept my fate as an act of God. It is shocking, because we had come a long way and now, the man has gone". Family speaks Anodohumba Adzor, Angela's uncle who accompanied her to seek divine intervention at Otukpo, Benue State, said the family was concerned with how to manage the attendant stigmatization, following the incident. "When she packed her belongings and returned to the village, people thought she had misbehaved and was divorced by her husband. The truth is that except for few persons, most people are not aware of what happened. We want to manage the incident carefully so that her future will not be ruined; so that she can live her life in the future. Since the incident happened, we have approached several spiritualists who confirmed that the man was a ghost; he wasn't a human being and the woman need to undergo some traditional rites for living with a ghost for years. But we shall do our best for her to return to her normal life; that is why we are keeping her away from people. We have been directed to a woman at Otukpo for spiritual help and we are going there", he told The Sun. I attended Joseph's funeral – Iortim Targba Iortim, also a Tiv who hails from Taraba State, is the mason who unmasked Angela's ghost marriage. He spoke about her husband's lifetime in an interview with our correspondent, during which he revealed Joseph's true identity and members of his family. He gave his father's name as Mr. Gbamwuam Tyopenda, and his mother, Mrs. Oladi Tyopenda. He also mentioned Iorna Sunday Tyopenda and Akem Humphrey Tyopenda, as Joseph's younger siblings. Unfortunately, suspected Fulani herdsmen killed all in an attack on their village. That was however, after Joseph had died in an auto crash in 2005. "I knew him very well; he wasn't a lawyer. He did a diploma in Law at the Benue State University sometime in 2002. We used to live together in Taraba State. He was into politics, had two motorcycles and a Volkswagen Golf car, which he hired out for commercial purpose. He was a boyfriend to my late elder sister; in fact, he wanted to marry her before she took ill and died of cancer infection. I still have photographs he took with my late sister, but I don't have them here with me. He was always in our house; I knew him well. He died in an accident on Takum road in 2005, and I attended his funeral. He was a neat, gentle and humble man whose aspiration was to be a lawyer; he took the West African School Certificate Examination four times without a credit in Literature, but he refused to study any other course apart from Law. "You could hardly predict him, but he was in love with my sister. When she died, he left the village for an unknown destination for more than a year. A few months before he died, he travelled to Ibadan and spent about three months; when he returned, he started practicing as a medical personnel. At a point, he wanted to contest councillorship election, but later dropped his ambition. He lived a lonely life at Andole village in Kashak Local Government Area of Taraba State. He doesn't talk much and his favorite food was pounded yam as well as roasted yam served with palm oil, which my late sister used to prepare for him. He loved watching football". Friend corroborates Iortim was emphatic on his claims and linked our correspondent with Mathew Kpeber, his (Joseph's) close friend in Taraba who had also relocated to Makurdi, for a confirmation. When contacted on his mobile phone, he confirmed Joseph died over a decade ago. "I used to ride one of his commercial motorcycles in Taraba, but we fell apart after we had issues over remittance of proceeds. He died in an accident on Takum road, though I didn't attend his burial because I had a surgery at that time and was on admission in a hospital. But I know that Big Joe was dead".  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Female Fraudster Arrested After 9 Months On The Run Posted: 08 Oct 2017 02:28 AM PDT  The suspect, Bridget Enchill Obeng, is known to have duped over 10 suspects who have in turn reported her dealings to the police. It is believed that she has conned her suspects into paying her heavily. It is believed that Bridget operates with the alias Naana and was picked up at Awoshie, a suburb of Accra after police received a tip-off. She had been on the wanted list of the Airport police stations for nine months. The victims would then be asked to pick up the said car at a vantage point only to arrive there to meet an empty parking lot. Many of the suspects who reported the fraudulent activities of Naana to the police indicated that she always met with them in some of the popular hospitals in Accra including 37 Military hospital, Ridge Hospital and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to take their money.According to CID's Director of Operations, ACP Peter Gyimah, in an interview with Daily Guide, Naana paraded herself as a car dealer and conned people who wanted to buy cars. ACP Peter Gyimah indicated that Naana had a number of cars going around town with 'For Sale' inscriptions on them. When potential buyers called her, she in turn took them to see the 'owners' of the cars who are her accomplices. Naana then collected some agreed sums of money from the buyers and handed them fake car keys and documents.  She was finally arrested by the Osu Police in collaboration with the CID.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Police Boss Gives N1m To Man Who Helped In Rearrest Of Alleged Ritualist Posted: 08 Oct 2017 02:28 AM PDT |
| What is the Pastor's Wife's Responsibility to the Church? Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:53 AM PDT  The woman's daughter, perhaps 9 years old, stood nearby staring at Bertha. At length, she spoke up. "Do you sing?" she asked. "No, I'm afraid I don't sing," said Bertha. The child was quiet a long moment. Then, "Do you play the piano?" "No," Bertha answered. "I don't play the piano." The child stared at her while processing this information. Finally, she blurted out, "Don't you do anything?" Ask any pastor's wife. The expectations on her can be enormous. One would think that it was she who was being employed by the church and not her husband. In time, Bertha found her "job" in the church. In addition to taking very good care of the pastor (she cut Gary's hair and shined his shoes on Saturday nights!) and their two children, she became the unofficial greeter in churches they served. On Sundays she roamed the congregation greeting people, hugging the young and old, welcoming newcomers, and ministering to the seniors. She provided a depth of warmth and personalness which a pastor can only dream of having. To this day, Bertha–my bride of nine months–can be found all over the churches where I preach. As a schoolteacher all her adult life, she has no trouble meeting strangers, and roams up and down the aisles talking to everyone. When the service ends and we are heading for the parking lot, it's she who gets stopped by everyone and hugged and invited back. They hardly know I'm there. And I love it. When Larry and Sandy went to their big church, we were excited for them. Larry was a fine preacher and a solid leader "with his head on straight." Sandy would play the organ for the church whenever she was there. Sandy was a nurse. She worked in a large hospital in the downtown area. And from time to time, this required her to work weekends. So, there were times when the pastor's wife was not in church, but on duty at the local medical center caring for people in crisis. The criticism was immediate. How dare the pastor's wife not be in church every Sunday? Why, when Pastor Elrod was here, his wife was president of the missionary union? And she knew every child's name by heart. Isn't the pastor's wife sort of the hospitality leader of the church? I know it's not spelled out in the personnel manual anywhere, but isn't that just assumed? And then, something happened to stop the criticism. A church leader found himself having surgery, the life-threatening kind that puts the fear of the Lord into a person. And when he looked up and saw that the nurse was his pastor's wife, that sweet and lovely lady who often played the organ for worship, his heart jumped for joy. The comfort of her presence was immeasurable. You're a pastor's wife. What will you do? Every spouse of every minister gets asked this question. So, you may as well come up with a stock answer for it and have it ready. "I take care of the pastor so he can take care of you." That's a good response. And all that is necessary. Most people who ask that question – even the search committees – are not making demands on you, and they are definitely not trying to "start something." This is simply their way of inquiring how you see your role in the church. So, do not overreact. Do. Not. Overreact. Just have a simple, sweet answer ready. Say it, smile big, and be quiet. In most cases, they will be fine with that. There was a day, and it wasn't all that long ago, when enormous expectations were placed on the wife of the pastor. Perfect kids, dressed to the nines every Sunday, leadership in missions, and ready to bring an inspirational talk on the spur of the moment. They're not doing that any more, to my knowledge. More and more, pastors' wives are being allowed to find their niche and decide for themselves what the Lord has for them in that church. Here's a verse for you, pastor's wife… "Not that we are sufficient to think anything of ourselves. But our sufficiency is of God." (2 Corinthians 3:5) I've never met a pastor's wife who felt capable and adequate for the responsibility thrust upon her, particularly at first. But in time, the reality of 2 Corinthians 3:5 sets in and they find that the Lord is not only with her husband when he goes about the work of the shepherd, but He is just as much on the job with her. The real joy comes when she sees how God is using "my little bit." Those words of love and encouragement, her ministry of prayer, the loaves of banana bread she bakes (eight at a time!) and distributes to certain ones in the congregation, and such. God bless all pastors' wives. And yes, the husbands of pastors also. It's the greatest life there is. But I cannot leave this matter there. Please readMatthew 10 starting with verse 16 and going through the end of the chapter. This is the fine print on the call God has given you and your spouse. So, don't be surprised when the best people act in the worst way, my friend. Keep your eyes on the Lord and not on man. People will let you down; He never will. Your sufficiency is of Christ and only Him. [written by Joe McKeever]  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Buhari Apponts Tunde Lemo As Chairman of FERMA Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:23 AM PDT  A statement by Assistant Director (Press) in the Office of Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Nakorji, said the President also approved the appointments of the board's members. The board members are: Nurudeen Rafindadi; Buba Abdullahi; Babagana Aji; Shehu Abdullahi and Loretta Aniagolu. Others are Mujaidu Dako; Vincent Kolawole; Chukwunwike Uzo;?Olubunmi Siyanbola; Abdulrazak Ma'aji; Saidu Abdulkadir and Peter Osawe. The appointments are subject to the confirmation of the Senate. According to the statement, the President also approved the re-appointment of Mr. Peter Ewesor, as the Managing Director of Nigerian Electricity Management Service Agency for a final term of four years in accordance with the provisions of Section 7(3) of the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency Act, 2015. Ewezor's re-appointment took effect from October 3.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Woman Marries Pregnant Lady To Bear Kids For Late Son Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:53 AM PDT  A 1986 diploma holder in Catering and Hotel Management from Benue State Polytechnic, she worked as a caterer at the prestigious NICON-NOGA hotels in Abuja, between 1988 and 2001, before resigning, to set up a booming restaurant business on Makurdi Road in Lafia. How she lost husband and son Formerly married to Mr. Patrick Terlumum Antom from Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State and a retiree of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture (they got wedded in 1980), the union was blessed with only one child, Thomas Awuhe Antom. Born on June 13, 1990, the boy was in SS2 when he died in 2004, from a heart-related sickness. A year later, his father, Patrick, also died. That left the woman devastated. "Growing old is tough, but growing old without the support and company people close to you is tougher," she told The Sun. Add to that the fact she is diabetic and you begin to understand why she feels that life can never be tougher than she had seen and may climb to "toughest" if she does not do something drastic to secure not only the family name but also its property. "I had lived a happy life with my late husband," she explained. "We shared ideas and always kept our resources in one account. We achieved a lot during his lifetime, we had very good plans for our only son, but God took him away. To worsen matters, my husband also died. We have a lot of landed property; we equally have business establishments." Her worry Mrs. Antom popularly known as 'Hajia Mary,' said: "My worry is, when I die, who will take over this property? My husband had, while on sick bed, warned me seriously not to allow any of his relations to benefit from the property that both of us had laboured strenuously to acquire. He was not in good terms with them before he died." She was in a dilemma about how to solve the problem she was confronted with when a friend told her about a pretty young unmarried lady, one Miss Juliet Muese, from Obi LGA who was on the verge of being disowned by her parents for her inability to identify the guy responsible after becoming pregnant out of wedlock. All of the three men she mentioned, one of whom is Igbo, denied ever knowing her and even threatened to arrest her with the police for trying to defame them. Strange marriage On learning about the incident, Mrs. Antom became determined to seek Juliet's hand in marriage for her dead son, in keeping with Tiv tradition. She travelled to Obi, met with and held a close and lengthy discussion with members of Juliet's family on that score. The idea was to bring her into her home with high hope that she might deliver a baby boy who would later inherit their property. With the parents of Juliet readily agreeing to the marriage proposal after the long talks, Mrs. Antom repeated the visit accompanied by some elders from her husband's village to perform the traditional marriage rites that would formally seal the deal. "What I did is a well-known practice in our place and culture," she said in defence. "There are a lot of children, almost 18 per cent of them born after their father's death. Majority of them lost their fathers before they were born, it is not a new thing, such cases are everywhere in our place. These children answer their father's name, some of them have even won local elections; they are grown-up people today and nobody has said anything; they have gotten their dues in our community, so my case is not an exception; all I need is a grandchild and a bona fide inheritor of my property." The marriage that took place in 2007 has produced two boys with the third child on the way, although it is difficult at this stage to say whether it is going to be a boy or a girl. To start with, Juliet was delivered of a baby boy on December 1 of the same year. She became pregnant again and was delivered of another baby boy in March 2011. Right now, she is three-months pregnant for her third child. Mrs. Antom who is excited about the development told The Sun that her husband and son's names that would have gone into extinction are now going to be heard for a long time to come because they have somebody to answer to them. While the first son is named after her late son, Thomas Awuhe, the second son is named after her husband Patrick Terlumum. "I married a wife for my late husband and son so that I can keep their names alive," she enthused. "Their names cannot just die with them; they will grow up and inherit what we laboured for. Any other person in my shoe would have done that. I lost my husband and only son; more painful was my son who died unmarried. But I'm fulfilled that my late son now has two male children who are bearing his name. I looked at life and asked whether it was really worth it. I hope for death every day. Any time I wake up, I think about what the future holds since my husband and only son are late. They have gone leaving me alone. Their death till date is agonizing to me. But my consolation is that I have got a replacement for them." Happily married to a dead man She announced that any moment from now she would commence the process of changing all the documents regarding all her property to their names. She also has a big dream for their young mother, Juliet. "She is comfortable answering my son's name," she said. "She wrote JAMB and I'm processing her admission to the Federal University, Lafia. Hopefully, she will start a degree programme next year; she is humble, loyal and focused." Mrs. Juliet Muese Antom agrees that she is comfortable answering Mrs. Antom's son's name. "That is God's design for my life," she said. "My parents were fully prepared to shame me that I got pregnant while in the secondary school. I was very young then and could not tell exactly who among my boyfriends impregnated me. But I strongly suspected one Mark, but he denied and ran away. I was desperate without a place to go until Hajia came, so for me I'm very ok. "I have no problem, in fact I'm doing better than those who got married to living husbands. Hajia is planning to buy a car for me next year if I secure a university admission. It is unfortunate that I never met my late husband. I only see his pictures but that is how God designed it. As you can see, I'm looking sweet and people toast me a lot, but I shun them. At the moment, I have a boyfriend who is a student at the state university, Keffi. Though Hajia does not teleguide me but I make sure she does not know when I have s*x with my guy. She deserves that respect. "My first son's biological father denied him. My second son's biological father who is a student at Keffi is married. He is equally responsible for this very one l'm carrying, but he cannot come and claim them. So, there is no problem. I'm good to go." Village head reacts Speaking in a chat with The Sun , the village head in Doma LGA, Chief Angbande Hue, said what happened is a known tradition among his people, adding that the tradition was very rampant in the 60s. He explained that since the woman went there with elderly men from her village to ask for the girl's hand in marriage, it is traditionally genuine. Those children are accepted in that place and it has become their place of origin. He noted that most women who usually engaged in this kind of practice had passed the age of childbearing and most have lost their husbands and male children. "We have a lot of such cases in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states. Among the Tiv people, there is no problem with what she did. Under our tradition, even the biological father of those children cannot lay claim to them because they did not pay the bride price; it is the person who paid the bride price that is considered to be the legitimate owner." Lawyer agrees Emmanuel Akur, a legal practitioner said that such cases are handled in the customary court and the court looks at the custom of the tribe to take a decision. If the Tiv tradition says that the payment of bride price is a criterion for ascertaining the rightful owner of the child, so shall it be, he argued. "I think there is no issue here," he said. "Nobody has come to lay claim to these children. The woman, accompanied by elders of the village, paid the bride price of this girl to secure her hand in marriage. That makes it legal. So the origin of those children is not in doubt as far as customary law is concerned."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| BUHARI: "May God Give Nigerians Patience To Tolerate My Government" Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:23 AM PDT  Speaking at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Buhari insisted that his administration had been doing its best to overcome challenges it inherited from its predecessor. The President noted that his administration just started working. Buhari said, "I have said it so many times, I don't mind saying it now to you because some of you may not have even the time to listen to radio or watch television as regularly as other people do. "From 1999 to 2014, Nigeria has never realised so much resources since our independence, never, because the average production – go to any renowned financial or economic institution in the world; they know Nigeria produced an average of – (was) 2.1 million barrel per day at an average cost of 100 dollars per barrel. "But when we came in it crashed to 37 dollars per barrel, and we overlooked saving and there was no saving. So really, we have just started working and we hope God in his infinite mercy would give Nigerians the patience to tolerate us."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Ini Edo wows in gold for wedding(Photos) | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:04 AM PDT |
| Police Arrests Suspects In UNIBEN Lecturer's Murder Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:03 AM PDT  The Edo state police command have arrested three suspects over the murder of Prof Paul Otasowie, who is an Engineering lecturer in the University of Benin (UNIBEN). Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Moses Nkombe, confirmed the arrest, adding that the arrested suspects will assist the police in their investigation. The Nissan Premiere car used to track the victim to his house have also been recovered by the Edo state police command. He said: "In the course of trying to unravel the cause of the incident, three suspects were arrested and the Nissan Primera that was used in tracing the victim to his house was recovered by the police. "The suspects are helping the police currently to unravel the cause of that incident." Prof Otasowie was shot dead by gunmen in front of his residence on Ekehuan Road on Wednesday.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Are You 'Struggling' With Sin? Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:03 AM PDT  Here's why this language is starting to wear on me. I've noticed that way too often "I'm struggling with…" language seems to really mean "I don't like the fact that I like doing this sin that I'm going to keep doing, no matter what." In that sense, "I'm struggling" becomes a more spiritual sounding way of saying what a woman once told me about her explosive anger fits, "Well, that's just how I am." Often, this language comes up in discipleship settings with believers caught in some pattern or in marriages in crisis. When confronted with a pattern of disobedience, someone will say, "Well, yes, I struggle with addictive gambling," or "I struggle with straying from my wedding vows." There's something really right with the impulse here. "Struggling" is a good biblical metaphor. After all, "Israel" is a word that comes from Jacob struggling with God by the riverside. The Apostle Paul tells us we "wrestle" not with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers in the heavenly places. The language of fight is all over Scripture. What's also right is that God tells us that we should never see ourselves as free from sin. We should know not only that we are sinners but also that we should know where our specific points of vulnerability are. It does me no good to spend a lot of time studying how to manage fits of anger, unless I'm doing so to help someone else. My anger runs cold, not hot. I'm tempted not to combust in fury but to harbor bitterness. If I were to spend a lot of energy thinking about how to rein in an out-of-control temper I would just end up with a smugness about how easy it is to do that. It's easy for me, but maybe not for you. Likewise, it might be easy for you to forgive, when that's where I am really, really vulnerable to sin and to self-deception. Saying "I'm struggling with" something could be a confession of an area that needs constant guarding in someone's life. It might be the equivalent of Johnny Cash's "I keep a close watch on this heart of mine; I keep my eyes wide open all the time" applied to some area of life. But I've noticed that too often that's not what we mean. We use "I'm struggling" often not as a sign of brokenness, or a cry for help, but as a conversation-stopper. It becomes the equivalent of a cable company telling the family without service, "Yeah, we're working on that," just to get the complainers off the phone, or a robber telling the police with the search warrant, "Move on along; there's nothing to see here." If you use the language of "struggling," you should actually be struggling. That should mean that you are seeking the way of the Spirit to escape from your sin (1 Corinthians 10:13), that you are removing every possible obstacle to your overcoming this pattern (Matthew 18:9), and that you are relying on others in the Body of Christ to hold you accountable and to shepherd you out of it (Galatians 6:1-4). "I'm struggling" shouldn't be a way to end interrogation but to ask for it. "Struggling" is good biblical language. We're all either struggling with sin or surrendering to it. But we should use the language the way the Bible does. Instead we want all too often to use spiritual language for carnal ends. We should resist such temptation. [written by Russell Moore]  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
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| Davido should be blamed for the N26b NNPC scam - Reno Omokri | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:29 PM PDT   culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| It's safe to say Uche Maduagwu is brainless- fans come for him online | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:50 AM PDT   For whatsoever reason am sure normal people can not understand, severely sad attention thirsty can not be tagged actor, Uche Maduagwu, thought it wise to use his obviously empty [supposed to be filled with brain] head , to attack singer Simi, following the latter's new photos shared online. Uche came for the singer saying recession must have affected her so much to think using table cloth for her shoot. Of course Simi's fans came for her as we are doing here, but again, it's a must we show you some of the reactions.      culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| How God Saved Me From Plane Crash – Bishop Oyedepo Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:43 AM PDT  The Bishop shared the testimony at the 'Breakthrough Service' held at the church's headquarters in Ota, Ogun State and broadcast to all the zonal centres of the church in Ota and Lagos. Bishop Oyedepo told the congregation that the plane had a mid-air crisis, but added that "God took control and landed the plane." He said: "There was a mid-air crisis, there was serious turbulence, but there was no apprehension. Jesus took control. He landed the plane safely. And we were just celebrating the faithfulness of God."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| No F**ks given! Mercy Aigbe sends subtle message to husband Lanre Gentry | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:39 AM PDT  Well, the actress has made it known she could not be bothered by society needs as she sweetly ignored Mr.Gentry's birthday, which is today. Mr. Gentry however made himself happy with a message to himself. He wrote: "Happy birthday to me ,well in everything I still say thank you Lord in you I trust my God thank you and thank you for let me see moor year thank you Lord ." (sic)  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
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