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‘Without The Church, Nigeria Would Have Been Forgotten’

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Everything about him speaks integrity and today, not only does his lifestyle reflect this virtue, he also preaches it. Prophet Isa El-Buba who believes integrity is not synonymous with money or wealth always stresses that it comes with good character and service to humanity.

Prophet El-Buba is from Maiduguri in Borno State, a former Islamic occultist who served the queen of heaven from his childhood as a dedicated child. He inherited Islamic occultism from birth. He is a man who only attended Arabic school without the opportunity of being within the four walls of a university, yet he has many honorary doctorate degrees from around the world. He was raised as a devoted muslim by disciplined and dedicated muslim parents.

His journey into Christianity began when the Lord showed him series of revelation of the reality of hell, and in 1982 he experienced the exceeding grace of the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ that brought salvation to him.

•Prophet Isa El-Buba, President-General...Overseer, Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International

•Prophet Isa El-Buba, President-General…Overseer, Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International

Of a truth is the saying: “When a virtuous man is raised, he brings glory to his posterity and success to his associates.” Without mincing words, Prophet El-Buba is a virtuous man who has left an indebible mark on the sands of time. Indeed, the prophet is a man who has been consistently bringing smiles to the faces of the erstwhile rejected and dejected and has restored their hope for a glorious tomorrow.

Asked about his guiding principle, the man who has chosen to live for the service and enhancement of the life of his fellow human beings said: “There are basic principles; the first is to know that we exist but exist for somebody, we actually don’t exist for ourselves. Secondly, never live for yourself because you don’t exist for yourself; whatever you do, do it for the benefit of others, by so doing God will certainly reward you. I was raised to understand that without discipline one cannot survive in life, so I was taught that to live a long, healthy and successful life, you have to be disciplined and live a decent life. I was also raised to know that without focus or a purpose-driven life you cannot function in life. So these are the principles that guide my life and I grew with them because I was raised with it and I got these principles from my father”.

Prophet El-Buba believes in service to humanity instead of acquiring cars, houses, wives and other things of the world. Worthy of note is his contribution to the development and enhancement of orphans, the less privileged, the homeless and others who he has touched through his ministry. Recently, the mission built 29 three-bedroom houses, self-contained apartments and rooms free of charge for residents of a local government area in Plateau State, and is still desirous of doing more. In fact, he has devoted great attention to the plight of people around him because he believes government cannot do it alone.

Asked if the churches are doing enough to promote peace and unity in the nation, the gentle, disciplined and God-fearing prophet said, “Without the existence of the church the country would have been a forgotten nation. Without the church Nigeria wouldn’t have been because I can tell you, millions of people are praying, crying to God for this nation. I have travelled to virtually all nations on the planet. What has kept this country above other nations is the prayer of the nation. From the beginning you find people that have drifted away from God but God doesn’t look at the majority and the multitude, He always looks at the few people that love him and keep purity in their heart and I believe that is the reason redemption is coming into this nation. Even though we have problems, these things are happening as responses to the shaking of the foundation. What we are experiencing now is what has been bottled up for years and prayer of the saints is breaking them. This however is leading us to the glorious place Nigeria is occupying in the comity of nations. So we can say categorically that the church is doing tremendously well today in terms of development. For instance, it brought education into this country. Secondly, the church is doing greatly in the transformation of people’s minds when they listen to the gospel because the greatest thing that could happen to a man is his mental transformation. I will say the church has helped in terms of education, employment, mental transformation, community development, infrastructural development, industries; in fact the church has done so much to help the government of the nation.”

Highly discipled and humble, Prophet El-Buba is a man with uncommon passion for the development and sustenance of the nation. His principles in life have made him maintain a Godly life style and propagate peaceful co-existence everywhere he goes.

When asked on the consequences of the bad image of Nigeria on the country and the citizenry, the Prophet said, “The bad image has done terrible harm to this nation and the citizenry. Let me give you this example: A fake preacher went to America and had the privilege of raising fund to help people and the fund was diverted for his personal use. Also, we do see civil servants on Level 8 living like somebody on Level 15. The level of corruption has eaten deep into our national life. This is affecting us but thank God, this is changing now, though some of us had to pay the extra price to prove that there are still honest Nigerians.

“I am a frequent traveler, I travel to America every month but I don’t spend more than four days at most. Each time I visit, it amazes the American leaders and I tell them that I come to America to deliver them with the gospel. Prophetically, Nigeria will lead the redemption of the world. Nigeria is the greatest nation in the world, so Nigeria will restore scriptural values to the nations of the world. Nigeria will be what Egypt was to Israel in those days because America is degenerating, Europe is also degenerating and so are other nations of the world. Nigeria is in this mess because of the wrong people that have gone ahead and have ruined the image of the great nation. There is hope however that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.”

Responding to a question on the spate of bombings and killings by the Boko Haram sect, the well travelled prophet said, “I will say the cause of the Boko Haram issue is nothing but the negligence of the religious leaders. It is totally wrong to attribute the Boko Haram bombings and killings to poverty because most of the sect members have wealthy parents. But I will first of all say that the family value system is to be considered. How were they raised?

“The issue of the Boko Haram sect is the issue of value ideology. It was recently that we began to face the reality about some of the Almajiri schools. I attended one in those days, there is always the teacher or the Mallam who is like a pastor. There is no balance in terms of what he presents to the children. I grew up with the mindset that anything that is not Islamic is an abomination, anyone that is not a muslim is a pagan. There are things that we pick from the Quran which lead to the destruction of the reality. So you see, the kind of ideology you grow up with will certainly affect your thinking, positively or otherwise. The solution is to recruit those mallams with education and exposure that will take these people out of their present thinking. Government needs to transform the mind of these people by moving them to a location where they can be put through skill acquisition, mind transformation and also have time for their religion because these people have become so demonic. The aim of the sect is not to take over government but to turn Nigeria to an Islamic nation.”

The man of God who believes so much in values responded to the question on the call for national conference thus: “It will be of help but national conference is not the actual solution to the problems on ground. First, the northern leaders need to do their homework well. National conference is when all blocks start bringing their pains and their cries and this is not an avenue for the agitation of Nigeria to break up.”

He continued: “Nigeria is established by God, Nigeria will never break because of the internal placement of Nigeria to the community of the world. It was God who brought us all together and He blessed all parts of the country. So the North needs the South, the West needs the East and vice versa, and that is the truth. We cannot do without each other. The strength of Nigeria is in our unity, differences and diversity. Instead of organising national conference, organise a committee of people with clean values. Not corrupt leaders who have been in the system for years and cannot proffer solutions to our problems. Nigeria still has honourable men of value.”

Advising young Nigerians, the prophet said, “They should know that there is no better life than to first fear God. Young Nigerians should not be driven by money or material things, but should live a purely principled life. Be consistent because somebody God has sent to help promote you is watching you closely. David was an example; he was focussed on his family business, he did not advertise himself but yet God elevated him to the position of a king. So, in summary, if young Nigerians can live a pure, focused and God-fearing life, they will be celebrated.”

—Temidayo Ajibade

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Kano Transfers Over 1,000 Almajiris To Different States Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Kano State Government on Saturday said it has transferred 1,098 ‘almajiris’ to different states of the country.

The commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo, disclosed this while presenting a report before the state’s task force on COVID-19 at the government house, Kano.

Almajiris are children who are supposed to be learning Islamic studies while living with their Islamic teachers. Majority of them, however, end up begging on the streets of Northern Nigeria. They constitute a large number of Nigeria’s over 10 million out-of-school children.

Mr Garo said the Kano government transported 419 almajiris to Katsina, 524 to Jigawa and 155 to Kaduna. He said all of them tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the Kano State.

Despite the coronavirus test done in Kano for the almajiris, the Jigawa government earlier said it would quarantine for two weeks all the almajiris that recently arrived from Kano.

Mr Garo said another 100 almajiris scheduled to be taken to Bauchi State also tested negative to COVID-19.

In a remark, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said the COVID-19 situation in Kano was getting worse. He appealed for a collaborative effort to curtail the spread of the virus in the state.

Mr Ganduje, who commended residents for complying with the lockdown imposed in the state, said the decision was taken to halt the spread of the virus.

Kano State, as of Saturday night, has 77 coronavirus cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

The decision to transfer the Kano almajiris is part of the agreement reached between Northern governors that almajiris in each state be transferred to their states of origin.

However, even before the latest agreement by the governors, the Kano government had been transferring almajiris to other states and neighbouring countries after it banned street begging in the state, most populous in Northern Nigeria.

Despite the transfers, however, no concrete step has been taken to ensure such children do not return to Kano streets as there is freedom of movement across Nigeria although interstate travel was recently banned to check the spread of the coronavirus.

 

Sourced From: Premium Times Nigeria

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COVID-19: ‘Bakassi Boys’ Foil Attempt To Smuggle 24 Women Into Abia In Container

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By Ugochukwu Alaribe

Operatives of the Abia State Vigilante Service, AVS, popularly known as ‘Bakassi Boys’ have arrested 24 market women hidden in a container truck, at Ekwereazu Ngwa, the boundary community between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.

The market women, said to be  from Akwa Ibom State, were on their way to Aba, when they were arrested with the truck driver and two of his conductors for violating the lockdown order by the state government.

Driver of the truck, Moses Asuquo, claimed he was going to Aba to purchase stock fish, but decided to assist the market women, because they were stranded.

A vigilante source told Sunday Vanguard that the vehicle was impounded while the market women were sent back to Akwa Ibom State.

Commissioner for Home Land Security, Prince Dan Okoli, who confirmed the incident, said that  smuggling of people into the state poses great threat to the state government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID- 19.

 

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Woman Kills Her Maid Over Salary Request

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Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba of the Lagos State police command have arrested one Mrs Nene Steve for allegedly killing her maid, Joy Adole

The maid was allegedly beaten to death by Nene for requesting for her salary at their residence located at 18, Ogundola Street, Bariga area in Lagos.

Narrating the incident, Philips Ejeh, an elder brother to the deceased said that he was sad when they informed him that his sister was beaten to death.

He explained that the deceased was an indigene of Benue State brought to Lagos through an agent and started working with her as a maid  in January 2020.

‘’She reported that her boss refused to pay her and anytime she asked for her salary she will start beating her.

She was making an attempt to leave the place but due to the total lockdown she remained there until Sunday when her boss said she caught her stealing noodles and this led to her serious beating and death,’’ Ejeh said.

He called on Lagos State Government and well- meaning people in the country to help them in getting justice for the victim.

The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, stated that the woman and her husband came to Bariga Police  Station to a report that their house girl had committed suicide.

Detectives were said to have visited the house and suspected foul play with the position of the rope and bruises all over the body which confirmed that the girl had been tortured to death and the boss decided to hang up the girl to make it look like suicide.

He said: “The police moved on with their investigation and found a lot of sign of violence on her body that she has been tortured before a rope was put on her neck.’’

He added that the police removed the corpse and deposited it in the mortuary for autopsy to further ascertain the cause of the death.

Elkana said the matter has been transferred from Bariga police station to Panti for further investigation while the couple have been arrested and will be charged to court.

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Boko Haram Attacks: Buhari Summons Urgent Meeting Of Service Chiefs

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President Buhari and the Service Chiefs in a meeting. (File photo)

Ostensibly alarmed by the latest killings of dozens of soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an urgent meeting of Service Chiefs to find ways to stop the trend. 

He has also dispatched the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to the neighbouring Republic of Chad for an urgent meeting with President Idris Deby and his defence counterpart. 

Knowledgeable sources said in Abuja on Friday that the president is worried by on the deterioration of security situation on the Nigeria – Chad Border that has led to the recently increased Boko Haram terrorism in the area.

The sources which did not want to be named in Abuja said: “Nigeria has a Chad  problem in the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) put together to secure the Lake Chad basin areas and repeal the Boko Haram terrorist attacks against all the countries neighbouring the Lake.”

The sources noted that Chad is believed to be having their own internal security challenges and this has reportedly led to their pulling away their own troops manning their own border around Lake Chad,  saying: “That lacuna is being exploited by the Boko Haram terrorists, who go in and out of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon to launch terrorist acts.  This is a clear illustration of the fact that terrorism is beyond national borders.”

When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed that the Defence Minister is going to Chad but said he is unaware of the purpose. 

Meanwhile, the military authorities are said to be in the process of identifying the families of the latest victims with a view to making contact with them. 

Credible sources revealed that it is the reason the president is yet to make any pronouncement on the matter. 

“The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs, as well as the fact that families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. This, it is understood, is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,” the source said. 

 

Sourced From: Tribune

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