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- My husband was ‘trashed’ after APC won 2015 election — Tinubu’s wife
- 5 Ways to Live the God-Centered Life
- How Security Guard At Lagos Airport Disappeared With Passengers' N83m
| My husband was ‘trashed’ after APC won 2015 election — Tinubu’s wife Posted: 20 Feb 2018 12:31 AM PST  President Muhammadu Buhari had mandated Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved party members ahead of the 2019 general elections, an assignment the former governor of Lagos State has since begun. But his wife, who is representing Lagos Central Senatorial District at the Senate, on Monday featured on Your View, a breakfast show of TVC, where she alleged that Tinubu was sidelined despite his efforts towards ensuring that APC won the polls. Mrs. Tinubu, who disclosed that she was forced to discourage her husband from his continued loyalty to the Presidency and the APC, said the party leader was always harping on the development of the country. She said, "He was campaigning, I did too. We were running three campaigns in my house. And for him to be trashed like that? But I saw somebody who has love for this country. I hate to speak because when I stand in the front of God, I don't want, because of this man, go to hell. "Occasionally, I would chip in and I would say, 'You're still helping out? Why are you helping out?' He would say, 'This country matters to me more'." Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, had lamented that those who worked for her husband to get into power had been sidelined in the scheme of things under the current administration. Mrs. Tinubu however pointed out that despite that the Buhari-led administration was now under massive criticisms, the President remained "the candidate to beat" in the forthcoming poll. She said, "Change takes only one person to champion. And you need leadership. For me, Buhari is still the candidate to beat. Leadership is inspirational. Management is technical. If you have all the degrees and you're smart and savvy, it is not about leadership. How many people are you inspiring? "And Buhari, how many years has he been there? I am not campaigning for him. I am not; because I have looked at the dynamics; the poor still trust him. I will tell you: when it comes to integrity, Buhari has it. I don't know about now."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| 5 Ways to Live the God-Centered Life Posted: 19 Feb 2018 11:41 AM PST  Here I offer five ways to live the God-centered life... 1. Immerse yourself in the all-sufficient wonder of the God who is. Immerse yourself — not in the fictionalized God of the blogosphere or the caricatured God of whichever God-hater is spouting his self-referential critique with God-given intelligence — but in the God who reveals himself in Scripture, in conscience, in creation, and ultimately in Christ. Let that beautiful, brilliant, all-powerful, transcendent, immanent, wondrous God — who cleared out the religious compromise of the temple and the hypocrisy of the Pharisee, who spoke the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount, and who died for the sins of the world — drive out the pagan idols of our culture's fascination with making gods of our own imagination. And let him leave you in awe. 2. Commit to a local Bible-teaching church. Few habits are safer predictors of long-term spiritual health than your willing, enthusiastic, wholehearted involvement with the local church of God. Why commit to church at all? Because the church is the bride of Christ, and if you love him you will love her. I know she is far from perfect, but despite her imperfections, the church is God's means of changing the world. Your local church is an outpost of heaven — an embassy of the kingdom — in a world adrift from love, grace, compassion, and truth. 3. Forgive, fear, fight. I easily lose insights when I gain them, so I summarize what I've learned in memorable form. Forgive others, fear God, fight the good fight of the faith. It's too easy to bear grudges against those who have betrayed, hurt, abandoned, or misused you. But such grudge-bearing does you no good. It only leaves you burdened with anger or depression or sadness, fruitlessly using energy in the internal life of your mind, over and over again, sometimes for years. The route to forgiveness is to reflect on what you've been forgiven of. Once you realize you deserved hell apart from Christ, then any action against you is potentially forgivable. This forgiveness then orients you to serve rather than pull back from others through fear of being hurt again. And if you live in the fear of God, you'll find the wisdom from above that's not people-pleasing but God-pleasing. Only this perspective will give you the ballast to fight the good fight of the faith. 4. Pursue the unfashionable virtues. In every age, some biblical virtues are easier to swallow than others. You're unlikely to be ostracized for preaching love and tolerance today. But if you talk of submission and humility, your approval ratings may tank. Now, this fact doesn't mean you should shove these virtues down the throats of others without doing the work of translating their meaning into the vernacular of our day. It means you're to pursue those virtues yourself and then discover — from the inside out — what they really mean. The scandal of submission is that we find it a dirty word when really it's a freeing word. Have you ever discovered the glorious freedom of letting someone godly have proper authority over you? Have you ever discovered the glorious joy of admitting you don't know the answer, and being humble enough to be wrong? 5. Use your mind. We're a culture that thinks with its feelings and hears with its eyes, as I think Ravi Zacharias once said. When someone wants to really know what is going on with you, they won't ask, "Tell me what you think about that." They'll say, "Tell me how you really feel." We believe the true, authentic self is encapsulated in how we feel, not how we think. Logic, reasoned conclusion, carefully articulated argument, chains of deduction, these are all considered somehow more fake than letting rip with unvarnished emotion. Important as our feelings are, however, they aren't the be-all and end-all of who we are. And if you feel bad about something, it doesn't necessarily mean the thing is bad for you. Christians today are critiqued for believing things that aren't rational or scientifically verifiable. But no irony could be deeper, for these critiques are coming and rising as our culture buries itself increasingly in a deep doctrine of emotionalism. Living the God-centered life is your calling and stewardship as a Christian. So seek first his kingdom and pursue his glory. As you do, you will find life and life to the full. [written by Josh Moody]  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| How Security Guard At Lagos Airport Disappeared With Passengers' N83m Posted: 19 Feb 2018 11:41 AM PST  Akinniran, 40, was arraigned by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) before Justice Agnes Nicole-Clay. He is standing trial on a four-count charge of conspiracy, stealing and receiving property suspected to have been stolen. Prosecuting counsel, Mr. Henry Obiazi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said Akinniran committed the alleged offences sometime in January 2016 at the company's headquarters, NAHCO House, MMIA, Lagos. Obiazi alleged that the defendant and his accomplices, who are at large, stole the money in tranches of $160,000, $20,000 and $50,000 from the office of their boss, Mr. Rahman Adeshola. He said the stolen money was the property of two Nigerian businessmen, Uchenna Okafor and Okwudili Onwuka, who kept it in Adeshola's custody for safekeeping. The alleged theft was discovered when Okafor and Onwuka arrived at the MMIA to catch a flight to China and requested for the money, which they intended to use for their import business. According to Obiazi, the offences contravened sections 280(1)(a)(b), 328(1),(2)(a) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 and punishable under same. Akinniran pleaded not guilty to the charges. Defence counsel, Grace Adenubi, prayed the court to grant the accused bail. She assured the judge that Akinniran would be available for trial. But Obiazi opposed her application for bail on liberal terms. He prayed the court to either remand the defendant in prison pending trial, or impose strict terms that would ensure his appearance for trial.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
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