The average Christian thinks he's shining for Jesus by earning more money and accumulating more fame.
Even if his business empire overworks staff and underpays employees.
We need to learn what being a light of the world and salt of the earth really means.
The obsession with "success" has twisted our perspective in a way that we have become useless to God aside from helping to build our church cathedrals.
The real shining is to display the nature of God in a wicked world.
Not by having more wealth or glamour but by demonstrating more virtue.
Let the "Esthers" fast and pray but let them also risk their lives and speak to the King.
God's generals who do "opening prayers" at political rallies and palaces should at least be loud about the bloodshed in the land.
However, if they are too afraid of losing the King's favor, they shouldn't expect their fasting and prayer to have much impact.
On this Children's Day, we remember the captive Nigerian child enduring the unthinkable in the bush, stripped of freedom by ruthless kidnappers. At the same time, we acknowledge the children enjoying the comfort of home alongside parents who champion bad governance. May you grow to build a nation where no child is left behind in the bush.
Anger is murder waiting for an opportunity.
Lust is adultery waiting for an opportunity.
Lying is stealing waiting for an opportunity.
Astrology is divination waiting for an opportunity.
Slander is witchcraft waiting for an opportunity.
In God’s eyes, the seed and the tree have the same substance. For with the opportunity of time and a fertile situation, the seed will become the tree.
Watching this Chude documentary of the kidnapped victims in Oyo state, the pain of the victims and the families are painful to see. Something needs to be done to protect lives and properties and these people need to be brought to book. 💔
Christianity is hard! The very reason you need God’s grace working in you in order to do his will.
Even though I find it difficult watching these videos and my natural inclination is to seek justice, I can’t help but worry about the eternal state of these depraved, brainwashed and pathetic souls.
They need Jesus!
Defence HQ has confirmed that the kidnappers deep in the Oyo state forests who killed the innocent school teacher, Michael Oyedokun, are part of the Boko Haram group.
It is interesting to note that these Boko Haram insurgencies usually happen in states and cities that are home to these Saudi funded Salafi Wahhabi schools that teach strict Islamic ideologies.
The original Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was introduced to this Salafi ideology by Islamic scholars in Maiduguri and Jos, like Sheikh Ja'afar, who were all educated and trained in Saudi Arabia before importing the ideology into Nigeria.
Even after this informal education, Yusuf personally traveled to Saudi Arabia on a full fledged scholarship and spent years there before finally coming to Nigeria to officially start the Boko Haram movement. And just like Mohammed Yusuf, it is important to emphasize that Al-Qaeda members and leaders, including Osama bin Laden, were all similarly raised in the Saudi Salafi Wahhabi networks.
Also, in a notable 2018 interview with The Washington Post, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman explicitly stated that Saudi Arabia's global export of Wahhabism during the Cold War was done at the request of Western allies to counter Soviet influence in Muslim countries.
Now, from the Cold War era to this day, Saudi Arabia has spent roughly one hundred billion dollars funding the establishment of these schools across different parts of the world. This money covers infrastructure, salaries for Islamic clerics, scholarships for young recruits, the mass printing of extremist literature, and the construction of massive mosques that totally overshadow local institutions.
Coincidentally, from the 1990s to the early 2000s, about twenty million dollars flowed from Saudi Arabia into Nigeria annually. This was the exact same time that Yusuf began his Boko Haram career.
Understand that Yusuf was an almajiri and had absolutely no access to formal education, but he was somehow able to afford foreign trips and establish a sophisticated army of Boko Haram fighters that had full military gear, advanced weaponry, fleets of tactical vehicles, and a vast intelligence network capable of outmaneuvering the Nigerian military.
In Oyo state, where this particular teacher was beheaded, there are over 150 Salafi Wahhabi schools. These schools operate under the exact same doctrine as those in Northern Nigeria where Mohammed Yusuf studied, and similarly to those in the Middle East that gave birth to Osama bin Laden.
They provide not just a radical interpretation of the Quran but also social welfare programs, free healthcare, daily meals, and financial support for impoverished families to ensure absolute loyalty to their foreign handlers.
These schools are essentially operating as a state within a state.
Of course, the federal government of Nigeria likes to pretend that there is absolutely no connection between these schools and the Boko Haram ideology. They claim the fighters are not students from these schools, but merely poor and desperate men and children who are recruited.
And when you point out that most of their leaders once studied in these very schools, they dismiss it as a mere coincidence, insisting that the schools do not represent the doctrines of Boko Haram.
Now, even if we accept this garbage story and decide to base our reasoning around it, it still does not add up. To convince a man to abandon his family and friends, his ideals and aspirations, and everything life has to offer, just to strap himself with bombs and blow himself up in public is not just a matter of money. It is a matter of absolute ideological conviction made possible by ruthless brainwashing.
We must also recognize that the open gun battles with soldiers are not all there is to the Boko Haram insurgencies. These fighters sometimes spend months in the forests training on how to use ammunition, drones, and various defensive tactics that allow them to survive in open combat. Sometimes they spend days smuggling food supplies across mountains, navigating treacherous terrains, enduring extreme weather conditions, and maintaining highly coordinated communication networks under constant military surveillance.
So even if they are still getting paid, we have to ask ourselves what ideological grounding paved the way and allowed tens of thousands of our youths to be reduced to disposable foot soldiers for a foreign agenda.
Until we start asking these difficult questions and confronting the root cause, we will constantly be locked in open gun battles, endlessly killing our own people.
“The recent incidence of kidnap in Oyo State was clearly perpetrated by terrorists of the JAS Group that have been dislodged from other parts of the country due to high intensity operations being conducted all over.”
South West Governors should tackle this issue immediately and ensure that these terrorist bastards are flushed out.
Boko Haram or any other terrorist group for that matter should never be allowed to establish a base in Yorubaland.
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My cousin told me two things when I got to the UK as a student. First was. Never do odd jobs; they are a trap. Second, sort out everything related to credit on time, as you are looking for something better to do.
That guy I met at Enfield 22 years ago, who was washing cars, did not have a credit card or a mortgage. He kept sending money home, but it kept losing value, thanks to inflation. Meanwhile, I know someone who has bought over 40 properties using the UK banking system (before the rules changed), and their properties have appreciated.
I have relatives who have lived abroad for decades and are still struggling with the mortgage for one property, and others who have a portfolio of assets, including businesses. The difference was how they started. Those who started with "struggle jobs" somehow maintain that siege mentality and think small.
Survival usually limits people's options, but I learned early that doing software testing gigs from the school library was a more sustainable option than carrying boxes at Tesco. If you have a university degree, you have to think bigger and better than those who do not.
"Terr0rists are going nowhere. They are part of us, and we are part of them. We must learn to live together and should never become enemies with them."
~Terrorists Advocate, Sheikh Gumi
Throwback: Gani Adams Warned of Planned Terror Attacks on Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos – Now Oyo Schools Are Under Siege
A throwback report has resurfaced showing Aare Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, warning that coordinated terrorist attacks were being planned for Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, and even Lagos States. At the time, many dismissed his claims as alarmist.
Now, armed bandits have struck three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, kidnapping 46 children and teachers, some as young as 2 years old. Hunters assisting the military revealed the kidnappers are wielding weapons similar to those used by Boko Haram.
Adams' warning is no longer a theory. It is today's nightmare. The question now is: will Ekiti, Ondo, and Lagos be next?
Here is the tiktoker Abdul Aminu Gwaska, a native of Zamfara State, who acts as the head of a dangerous mining syndicate currently expanding its footprint across Ilesha. The documented evidence reveals that he coordinates multiple high intensity illegal mining sites by actively recruiting a massive influx of external laborers to carry out the physical excavation and processing of gold.
To fuel this operation, his syndicate even utilizes a digital recruitment and sales infrastructure, providing a direct link for individuals to submit their personal information to join the illicit trade or purchase their illegal products.
Furthermore, intelligence shows that Aminu is actively collaborating with local village heads and traditional chiefs, who welcome and house these illegal miners within the community. This high level collusion grants his syndicate a social shield, effectively protecting their activities from accountability while they systematically destroy farmlands and pollute vital water bodies.
If this dangerous partnership between illegal miners and local leadership is allowed to persist, it will inevitably lead to a total security breach. The Osun State government must take immediate and decisive action to dismantle this network before this deep-seated collaboration spirals into an uncontrollable regional crisis
I can't believe the traditional rulers in Osun State especially Ilesa are making the same mistake of Northwest traditional rulers, how can you accommodate people like Abdul Aminu Gwaska in the name of mining?
This is the fastest way to create Banditry in your region because illegal mining attracts B@nd!ts t£rr0r!sts and JNIM t£rr0r!sts.