​Who is talking to you? God or…

Have you ever wondered when you heard some people claiming to have gotten messages from God? You may have wondered and asked yourself; how they knew it was God’s voice that they heard.
In other words, how do you ascertain that those messages are actually coming from God?
John 10:27: 

Jesus said, “My sheep know my voice.” 
In the Bible, God used talking animals, a flaming bush, angels, visions, and a “still small voice” to speak to his people. It means that God can use anything to communicate to a person who is ready to hear.  He can speak through anything.
However, sometimes, distinguishing our own ideas from God’s leading is difficult. And what if those messages are actually coming from the enemy of our souls and not from God? 
In this country, a certain man of God once announced to the entire world that God told him he will be President of Nigeria and he went as far as registering a political party and contesting the presidential election. But did he win the election?
I had this experience in the late 90s and I feel I should share it with you today. 
Myself and a friend (now late) were to travel out of Nigeria and we decided to seek spiritual guidance. We went to a very popular church in Agege area of Lagos and we were attended to by a prophetess. After praying for me, the prophetess said God told her that I will get very good results in the examination that I just sat for (May/June Senior Secondary School Examination just ended and I did not sit for any examination). 
The prophetess said some other things that I can’t remember now. But there and then, I knew God was not speaking through her. She was only using her experience in public affairs. However, it is important to state here that I was only able to know that she didn’t hear from God because she goofed. How many of us have been hoodwinked by messages like this that was true just by coincidence?
Again, when I was going to leave my hometown, Okemesi-Ekiti for Lagos to learn a trade, I was made to visit a church for what they called spiritual guidance as to what trade I should learn. I remember that I wrote Shoe Making and Printing as my two choices and the prophet prayed. After praying, he said Shoe making was what God told him I should learn and went further to say that even though printing too was good, but it will be like “A FARMER THAT GOES TO THE FARM WITHOUT TOOLS.”
It was when I got to Lagos that I realised that the prophet’s position was based on his exposure as to the kind of equipment required to set up a printing press. Even though I tried to convince my uncles in Lagos to lean printing, they insisted that in obedience to what the prophet said God told him, I must learn shoe making. I did learn shoe making for three years and was actually a shoemaker for another three years.
However, am I a shoemaker today? 
Numbers 23:19 

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Like me, how many of us have been misled by those who told us what God did not say? How many children have been set against their parents, friends set against friends, husbands set against their wives and wives against their husbands just because of what God did not say?
How many have perished while in pursuit of actualisation of messages that did not come from God?
Do not misunderstand me. God do speak and like I have said, he can speak though any object. Most importantly, God can speak to you directly. But the most common ways God communicates are through the Bible and the leadings of the Holy Spirit. 
Prayer is one very key point in ascertaining whether or not God is the one talking to us. Even when your prophet or Daddy GO tells you that God gave him a message for you, still pray to God to clearly make His will known to you. 
What I am saying is; if we are confused about whether or not we are hearing God, it is good to pray for wisdom (James 1:5). We should ask God to clearly make His will known to us. 

Talk to God in prayer and earnestly wait for His response. However, keep in mind that sometimes He doesn’t give us all the answers we desire. He knows what we need to know at any given time, and He will tell us if it is best. Remember, God wants to show us the right path to take. He’s not in the business of hiding His will from those who seek Him. 
We must also study His Word by reading and studying the Bible. God speaks to us through His Word. While we speak to God in prayer, He speaks to us through His Word. 
Each time you hear a voice that appears like that of God or someone (prophet, pastor, Evangelist, etc) tells you God says; ask yourself:

1. Is the message confusing or vague – God is not the author of confusion; He is the bringer of peace (1 Corinthians 14:33).

2. Will following these promptings lead to sin? Those who live by the Spirit will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature (Galatians 5:16).

Remember the enemy is eager to supply diversions to distract us from God’s will (1 Peter 5:8). We must be vigilant to ensure that what we have heard is more than a feeling but is truly from God Himself.
Happy Sunday.
Lere Olayinka

​#Fayose@2: Oil is heavier than water

By Debola Akingbade

Now that the architect of modern Ekiti has yet again silenced his critics with visible developmental projects, and the pacesetter, the uncommon governor, has demonstrated that Abinibi is different from Ability. I, like majority of Ekiti people wonder what the Akotileta, Arungun-Omo People’s Congress (APC) in Ekiti will campaign with.
Will they come and tell Ekiti people that they are sorry for mismanaging their ‘bountiful’ resources they had the opportunity to manage?
Will they come and tell Ekiti that four years wasn’t enough to transform Ekiti to an Eldorado they promised us?
Atleast, nothing less than N216Billion Federal Allocation was gotten by their administration, and with huge amount of Federal Allocation gotten, plus additional excess crude oil fund, running to N50billion, and so many sides fund gotten by them between 2010 and 2014, will they come and tell Ekiti that there was paucity of fund during their inglorious reign?
What excuse will they give for leaving a whooping debt of over N70Billion in a state that was economically viable before they salamically took over in 2010?
Will they come and beg teachers that they are sorry for putting them through that rigorous and non-effective Competency Test? Or will they just come and say there won’t be reintroduction of Tipa-ti-kuku Test?
What excuse will they give for not paying Ekiti workers their July/August/September 2014 salaries, 2013/2014 Annual leave bonus?
How will they confront Ekiti workers whom they’d duped by diverting their 4-month cooperative deductions into Fayemi’s Kodurosoke Campaign account?
Will they tell Efon, Ise, Omuo, Ikole, Ikere that they are sorry they couldn’t dualize just a meter of road in their domains
The flyover project, which is the 7th longest flyover in Nigeria is no longer on paper, it is almost done. New Kings market in Ado is no longer a dream, it has sprang up. Ewi’s Amphitheatre is completed and commissioned. Awedele dual carriageway in Ado Ekiti is in use. Unprecedented physical developments, which are numerous to mention are ongoing in Ado Ekiti. Even the world famous stomach infrastructure concept where the financial and material needs of people are being met is still running. 
The PDP administration under the leadership of Oshokomole of universe in just two years has been able to do these with meager resources available at its disposal.
We are not saying we are saints, but one is actually heavier on carriage, between equal amounts of Oil and Water. PDP government we’ve all seen mean well for Ekiti state. 
On behalf of the New Media Team under the able leadership of Olalere Adisa Olayinka, Ajeji Ara’resa, I Prince Adebola Akingbade Aladesanmi (Omo Ewi Otu..) Heartily felicitate with an uncommon Governor, the people’s governor, Baba Awon boys on his second year anniversary as the returned-governor of Ekiti, your shadow will not grow lesser IJN!
I equally congratulate Ekiti state for having a visionary, dynamic, articulate and responsive leader in this period of recession. How would Ekiti have been by now if the Akotiletas that couldn’t manage the bountiful are the ones in charge of the scarce?
It was a right decision we have made for voting for Fayose’s PDP, thanking you for also standing by him. 
Another Oshelu has started, get your voters card ready, and be determined to retain PDP’s good governance. Reject those that couldn’t manage well your state when they had the opportunity of doing so. Reject those that plunged Ekiti in financial mess. Reject the buffoons that have plunged Nigeria into Economic and political recession.
Ure Ekiti Asoju  Kete ra ow. Aaaseeeee

Dear President Buhari: Nigerians are NOT Criminals

Your Excellency, finally, you have broken the proverbial straw with your comment about the notoriety of overseas crimes committed by Nigerians. Incidentally, I read an excerpt of the Telegraph UK interview wherein you made the statement while I watched a Netflix documentary titled “Virunga”.

Virunga is a 2014 documentary film focusing on the conservation work of rangers within Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the activity of a British company, Soco International, which began exploring for oil within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in April 2014. In the past month, I have also seen quite a few other documentaries around a similar theme – “Stealing Africa”, “How to rob Africa”, “The Great African Scandal”.

The consensus theme, albeit stereotypical, is that “The West is largely as responsible as Africans for the woes of the African continent”.

When it wasn’t giving out the entire democratic republic of Congo to King Leopold II as a private enterprise, it was granting pardons to her citizen who set the pace for defrauding African governments, now commonly known as “Subsidy scam” in Nigerian circles. There are even alleged conspiracies about how this pardoned individual financed the military coup that brought you to power the first time. But that is an entirely different issue for discussion. Since you rode to political power on the wave of a change(d) democrat, we can at least let bygones be bygones.

However, beyond the all-too-common rhetoric of a plundering west, I also found a few lessons from the documentaries that have evidently become relevant in the face of your comments during your many overseas trips since returning to power.

First, greed is human nature. A few Nigerians partaking in drug trafficking, sex racketeering, and basic as well as advanced fee fraud is not very different from a few westerners partaking in sponsored wars, unpaid royalties, and third party child labour. The key difference rests in the system of the crime and the strength of the law. While the foreign individuals stealing the continent have built corporations around their trade, Nigerian (African) criminals with a turf off the continent still run the show as crudely as many of their one-man businesses. Unfortunately, the strength of the law is a reverse in these scenarios. The corporations have to deal with ineffectual governments and weak institutions while the silo-styled Nigerian kingpin takes his chances against decade-old intelligent law enforcement institutions. Little wonder who the odds are against.

Second, charity begins at home, and I guess this is an intended double-edged truth. Wishing away the reality that corruption is endemic in today’s Nigeria is akin to a fool’s pilgrimage. If this is a generally accepted paradigm, why do we expect that our beat-the-system nature wouldn’t land us in murky waters when we face stiffer systems abroad? Or do we currently have a system that ensures only the righteous ones make it abroad?

Quite the contrary! Many of us who travel abroad have had to beat the system at least once along the value chain, from getting an international passport to what to bring into the plane proper.

Sir, if we really want to fix our image issue, then we must fold our sleeves back home and get to the trenches of strengthening institutions as against pelting us with the change rhetoric as if another election season is nigh.

Unfortunately, your disdain for the second edge of the home-taught charity pierces my heart more. A disturbing trend has emerged from your foreign trips, especially those in which you enjoy great spotlight from the foreign media. You often speak in the third person. Your stance on Nigerians at such times beggars belief. It’s almost as if you are the president of a people you do not want to be associated with, or don’t even know at all. If this were in the corporate world, it could easily be interpreted as if you are positioning yourself to be poached by the competition. Or sir, are you positioning for the UK to adopt you as Prime Minister?

That you choose to make controversial statements about your people through the foreign media while on foreign trips is a chain of bad decisions. Sadly, your handlers are managing the clap backs terribly.

On a final note sir, there are quite a lot of hardworking Nigerians seeking asylum abroad. That a lot of Nigerians can daily swallow the pills of a failing government, bad economic policies and a growing sense of insecurity doesn’t mean those who choose to opt out of that reality are fraudulent. When I feel a government cannot provide the basic conditions for my survival, am I not in danger? There is only so much a man can take and those who desire to pursue their own happiness should feel free to do so without their president equating such pursuit with crime.

Sir, you are the president of all Nigerians, home and abroad. What we expect from you is the CHANGE you and the All Progressives Congress (APC) promised, and not beating the drums of shame, hoping that the rhythm would nudge our hands to clap and our legs into dancing.

Change, please?

Signed:

Damilare Ogunleye

A social commentator writes via @ogunleyedami

THE DIGITALISED ANINI, MODERNIZED RAMBO: THE ARMLESS ROBBERS

Ours is a country that has produced hundreds of billionaire armless robbers under the “Garment of leaders” cannot but raise billionaire armed robbers. Take for instance, I read the stories of some deadly men of the underworld sometimes ago. I wish and so wish we all learn from history. It was recorded that; in 1976 or so close, he started work as a lorry driver (some say taxi driver) after his master fired him. He slowly transformed into a leader of the local motor parks, controlling and commanding touts.

Following the sudden overthrow of the politicians in the early 1980s and banning of politics in 1984 by the Buhari regime the highly-skilled driver (now of criminal gangs and godfathers) discovered that armed robbery was far more lucrative and decided to form his own deadly gang which included, Monday Osunbor, Friday Ofege, Henry Ekponwan, Eweka and Alhaji Zegezege who report says was never captured. They started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves. He sealed a pact with corrupt police officers and ruled with reckless abandon.

In early 1986, two members of his gang were tried and prosecuted against an earlier under-the-table ‘agreement’ they had with the police to destroy evidence against the gang members. His exact words while police apprehended him at his residence when he ran out of luck “Are you Anini?” And he replied, “My brother, I won’t deceive you; I won’t tell you lie, I am Anini.” While in the police net, Anini who had poor command of English and could only communicate in pidgin, made a lot of revelations. He disclosed, for instance that Osunbor, who had been arrested earlier, was his deputy, saying that Osunbor actually shot and wounded the former police boss of the state, Akagbosu. That was the story of a terrible armed bandit.

There was this story of a renowned gang leader I read somewhere a while. Report says; he was a hardened criminal, a terror and killer, one whom men of the security agencies will never forget in haste. A man mountain, towering about 6ft 5inch, well built, dark skinned and sweltering eyes, he carried out his operations, like a movie, in the broad day light, with sophisticated weapons, and bullet belts and explosives strapped roundabout him. He specialized in robbing exotic cars on highways and banks. Nothing could stop him, not even security operatives, he was totally invincible. He was Shina Rambo!

He recalls, “I remembered when I was about 7 years old, my father came home with a lot of money, foreign currencies, with blood on it, and they were using something like a woman’s scarf to wipe it, then I asked him, is this an animal’s blood, or human blood? But he wouldn’t answer me, they were just drinking, smoking, and merry making”. A repentant sinner, I learnt he was.

Today we have many Anini and Rambo sitting on our nation’s treasury. They are the classical political robbers we willingly gave opportunity to legitimately steal our resources. It doesn’t matter who you are once you are in line with them wearing same regalia. It only matters once your fabric is made of different color and style. Until emphasis is shifted from building empire to building names. From building men to building institution, the political stealing will continue.

The alternative government by lies, deceit, propaganda, failed electoral promises and the rule through the rule of gun and political tyranny will continue. The most sorrowful revelation is that; the least person in African most populous nation is interested more in national treasury looting in the dwindling economy and mass job failure.

We have many Anini and Rambo stealing blind their state in pretence. Party affinity has blindfolded even the self-acclaimed one time human right fighters. In the face of corruption fight, the stealing has gone digital. Maybe after now, the digitalised Anini and Rambo shall be made known.

 

Abraham Olusegun Adeleye

Writes from Okemesi Ekiti

My President is a FOOL Pt 2 – Olusoji Zion Oseni

Some people think its all politics or we are having fun hitting and heating Buhari.  No! We are not.  We are protecting our future, the future of our children and children’s children.

In the 1st place, no matter how you view it, Buhari is the ‘WRONGEST’ person to be occupying Aso Rock right now.

Ask; What is the present state of our generation (25yrs – 40 yrs) ?
– Acute Unemployment
– Sky-rocketing Insecurity and Criminality
– Huge Tribalism
– Heavily Decayed Infrastructures (Inherited)

Ask; From when/where did all these start?
Ans – from the Military era.
– The era of coups and counter coups
– The era of serious financial misappropriation and embezzlement

– The era, None of the past military tyrants didn’t build any tangible infrastructures, and couldn’t even maintain the ones they inherited from colonial era.

Ask; Where was Buhari during those years?
Ans – He was actively involved in the decay process.  He was right in the middle as a principal actor. (Do I need to go into details)

Ask; So how on earth did we allow a past evil come back to life?

Ans – The point is, this is a new generation I call “Proactive” generation.If our parents were as proactive as we are today, at least, 50% of the decay we have today “could” have been saved.

I stand to be corrected, have you ever heard of any past government that withdrew an already presented and submitted budget?

That is OUR Generation, we will whip a senseless government in line.

How can a government be so slow? How can a president be so dumb?  How can his special assistants be so stupid?

An illiterate president can’t understand jack about the budget. (Ok, we have accepted our fate)  He goes on national TV and arrogantly tells us he doesn’t know the contents of the budget (And some idiots want him to ‪FireOn‬). He goes on national TV and arrogantly says he won’t obey court ruling. (And some idiots say ‪#‎FireOnBuhari‬).

In less than a week, Buhari assistants issue statements telling us:

On the president’s statements at “Presidential Media Chat” : The president’s statements are his personal opinion, not the presidency.

On the budget: The budget figures are strange to us.

WTF! For heaven sake, did they have a Presidential Media chat or a Personal Media chat?

Haven’t they had their Personal outing where they choked rice crumbs down the throat of some youths to keep them quiet while they wreck the country? Is this not enough for a sane citizen to ask what is going on in the seat of power? If the president is an illiterate dumb, are all his assistants also illiterates?

Look at the global economy today as driven by crude oil

The IMF forecasts that crude oil will sell at “Below” $20 per barrel in 2016, but still our senseless government as led by this past evil brought back to life made a budget based on oil price of $38 per barrel.

WHO DOES THIS? If not a senseless government. Its a pity many people of this Our generation don’t look at things technically, logically and with common-sense. They just stay aloof from distance and scream empty praises.

Look at this government’s policies and see the effects on the economy. For instance, this government placed a restriction on forex, and now manufacturers are going “down-below”, gasping for survival, and as a result, thousands of people are losing their jobs and means of livelihood.
Other sectors are feeling different heats too, but the same government has the following evil figures in its budget;

N3.7B for BMW cars
N189M for Tyres
N1.5B for Travels. (46.7% higher than 2015)
N3.65B for maintenance of 10 presidential fleet of aircraft
N89M for canteen materials. (Did GEJ take away the former ones?)
N765M for recreation facilities (Villa now a play ground)                           N326M for Wildlife in Aso Rock. (1358% higher than 2015) Is the Villa a ZOO?
N322M for linking cables from driver’s rest-room (simply Stupid)

All these for a man that came into power under slogans like “Incorruptible” “Prudence” and above all “Change” where in the change?

A budget where Ministry of Information (headed by a man that lies more than devil) has higher figure than Housing, Power and Infrastructure. Wetin dem wan inform us wey we never hear before?

Ask:
How many infrastructural developments projects foundation has buhari laid in his almost 1yr in power? NONE! (Don’t forget the 1st structure buhari built as president was the helipad in Daura)

What plans has buhari unveiled for the youths? NOTHING!! (That’s if he has) GEJ gave us YouWin, where youth entrepreneurs were allocated funds for business. But Buhari is deceiving youths of this generation with a useless N5,000 monthly stipend, and they are happy.  Ask Sunday Akoji, how much he buys Jack Daniels in the club?

Buhari says he’s fighting corruption while wining and dinning with Amaechi, Atiku, Tinubu, Fashola, OBJ, IBB, Sylva etc.  Don’t forget his wife, Aisha was involved in Halliburton scandal. But Dasuki must die in jail.

Never in the past since after civil war have we witnessed so much secession agitation, but my president has brought in so much ethnic krinkrancum and so much marginalization into the polity but instead of adjusting and act as a national president , he prefers to be King of the North, incarcerate one of the mouthpiece of secession, against “Court” ruling, raising the tension in the land.

Things have become so bad and heading to the dunghill, the IMF boss has to personally come down here to hammer some senses into his head.
“Ok na, if our mouth dey smell, shebi they will listen to Oyinbo”.

Now ask, Is my president not a FOOL?!

If you expect me to back-down from calling him a Fool, you are sitting on a longggggggg ting! Because obviously, My President is a FOOL
If you don’t like it, imbibe Lie Mohammed’ theory “Sue Me to Court”

Dazzit and Dazzol.

Olusoji Zion Oseni Posted on his Facebook Time Line

 

Dasuki‬, Buhari, anti-corruption fight and the rule of law – Lere Olayinka

For me, I support President Buhari’s fight against corruption wholeheartedly. However, it must be done in accordance with our laws.

This is not about Dasuki or anyone, it is about the preservation of democratic governance.

If President Buhari does not want Dasuki and Kanu to be released on BAIL, what he should have done was to get the FG Prosecuting Counsel to make very strong legal representation against their BAIL APPLICATION.

We should not return Nigeria to the era where “an accused person is presumed guilty until he proves himself innocent.”

Rather, we should follow the principle of law that presumes an accused person innocent until his accuser(s) prove(s) him guilty.

Most importantly, in the case of Dasuki and Kanu, FG (Buhari) is the accuser and prosecutor. The president, who is the accuser and prosecutor can not at the same time be the judge.

If the president is capable of being the judge as well, there won’t be need to charge the accused to court.

In 2012 when I was hounded into detention by the Fayemi-led APC govt in Ekiti State, the story that the govt told the public was that I assaulted teachers who were writing Competency Test at Olaoluwa Muslims College, Ado Ekiti. It was on the State radio and television that I was arrested while throwing stones at the teachers.

With the information supplied to the public by the government then, I could have as well been jailed outright. But the same government that told the public that I was arrested while throwing stones at the teachers later charged me to court for SEDITION.

The case was struck out eventually.

The court saved me from Fayemi’s TYRANNY then, and the court must be allowed to either convict or acquit Dasuki, Nnamdi Kanu and others now.

It is for the executive arm of government to investigate and prosecute, it is for the judiciary to determine whether an accused person is guilty or not. This principle must be followed religiously if democracy must survive in Nigeria.

Today, it is Dasuki, Nnamdi Kanu and others. Tomorrow, it can be you and I.

‪‎I‬ Rep Rule of Law

Lere Olayinka

Senior Assistant on New Media and Public Communication to Ekiti State Governor

Who Is Ruling Nigeria Since Our President Is An Illiterate FOOL? – Olusoji Zion Oseni

Its perplexing and flabbergasting when a president goes on air and says he’s not aware of the contents of the country’s budget. Who the heck does that?

A sane person will be dazed and tell him to Quit
A foolish person will smile and tell him to Continue

So what is buhari? A dumb illiterate president who is just there for the sake of being there? Where some crooks who are fully aware of his dumbness take full advantage by giving him what they like, what will suit them for him to present, and he “Buhari” FOOLISHLY presents.

Why won’t he arrogantly say, none of his ministers are corrupt?
What does he know?

How can he substantiate that claim when he doesn’t even have an idea of how to run things?

I can stake my head, Buhari doesn’t know how many zeros make A Billion, talkless A Trillion.

Ok, he said he doesn’t know the contents of the budget, (pardonable, we know you are dumb) but the big question here “Did he ask?”
At least, if you are not intelligent to prepare the budget, as a leader, You must ask those that prepared it to tell you wetin and wetin dey the paper

So Buhari is just like his cows, who with a stick, you say go this way, and they go, cos with this budget thing, what they did to buhari was;
“Aboki, take- go and read to the people” and he just did!!! — No break, No jam, No sense!!

Omashey o. – What a shame!!
In a country of 180million people, this thing is what we have as president.

Before now, I had thought tinubu had buhari in his hands, cos the odour of that budget was a stench of corruption, but alas, tinubu’s print mouthpiece, the Nation newspaper washed tinubu off the budget.

When a corrupt Tinubu washes his hands off a corrupt budget- what is left?

So who is using Buhari’s empty head?
Osinbajo?
Hell-rufai?
Fashola?
Amaechi?

Who is ruling Nigeria since our president is an illiterate FOOL?

WHO???

WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT!

Olusoji Zion Oseni posted this on his facebook TimeLine some minutes ago