January 5, 2011
Category Archives: National Issues
December 8, 2010
Who should be our President in 2011?
I can’t help but remember how when I was very young and in primary school how my ambition when asked was to one day become the president of Nigeria. Then, all I could do was visualize myself as a military president because General Ibrahim Babangida was Head of State then. I’d also read in civics about the former presidents and regimes that had occurred and found out that the military had ruled for most of the time since our independence.
I obviously took it for granted as a naive young school pupil that the military uniform will perpetually remain the costume of our presidents. I therefore kept visualizing with all sorts of armed forces uniforms as my attire. Needless to say that things took a turn for the better and now in the civilian era. Many people will argue that we were better off during the military era than during the civil regime. That is a topic for another day. However, looking critically at Nigeria since the new civilian era started in 1999 with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo flagging it off, the country seems to have moved 2 paces forward and 5 backward. Continue reading
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October 25, 2010
DSTV – Don’t Sell Tomorrow’s Votes
“Question 1 for Winning a Samsung GT-S3100 – State the Activation codes and price for the daily, weekly and monthly mobile internet bundle plan” Please do not send the answers until you see question 3. Answers to be sent to seun.adelana at gmail.com
The hottest news on the Nigerian landscape today, are the inner maneuvers of those who desire to rule or lead us. Please pardon my seeming use of tautology, there is a world of difference between ruling and leading, we might actually not know the difference, haven been ruled for too long! There is an ongoing battle for the steering wheel of Nigeria, a lot of young people are being lobbied in different directions, myself inclusive. The strange phone calls from people whose reputations you only knew, the show of appreciation for the efforts that are almost 10yrs old that never won any notice, the invitations to meetings with the who is who? Handshakes are fast becoming tight hugs, the battle for the soul of the nation, is done on negotiation tables for the hearts of it’s youth. Continue reading
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October 2, 2010
A Week in My Life
Key activities in my week – 26th of September to 2nd of October .
Sunday
Went for an early Sunday service. I split my time in two, spent the first service in the adult church and the second service in the teens church. We returned home after the second service, rested and spent some time reviewing my work and life also read, chatted, prayed and meditated. Got involved with the house fellowship meeting in the evening. Spent quality after evening fellowship time in meetings with friends and ministry partners. Guests left my house after 11pm, had a late night, and then resumed the regulars.
Monday
Of course it was a Dollar Green Monday, with Avenues to Wealth/ Holidays and Cash, Mondays are green. Developed an update for Avenues to Wealth members, had a burning theme in my heart on – “it’s not all about you”. Realized the value of having someone else to help, and the effect it has on minimizing one’s personal problems. Commenced with negotiations with company interested in online promotions of about to be launched product. Had the regular Monday one to one meetings, read, meditated, prayed… also with my wife. Had a late evening out. A friend and distributor had scheduled a meeting with Rev. Victor Adeyemi on Avenues to Wealth. I was in his house till very late. Got home around 11pm. Spent quality time doing my regulars till usually 2am. Started creating awareness for the charity event slated for Friday. Continue reading
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September 18, 2010
He Got Away With It!
Being a working mother is a tough job, this particular woman lives in Ikeja G.R.A environs, tries to get home early enough from work, but her daughter usually gets home before her and waits at the security post for “mummy” to come. One day, mummy comes home a little earlier than normal, instead of seeing the 6yr old daughter waiting patiently outside the security post, she notices the girl coming out of the security post, and the security guard rushing out shortly after. Mummy, filled with worry, concern and “this can’t be possible”, decides to pull up her daughters gown… yeah, you guessed it. All over her thighs was the guards semen. Mummy could not contain her rage and anguish at the stack horror she had just unveiled, this had been going on for months. The average Nigerian mother feels it right to send away the guard and cover the shame, not this mother. She took it up legally, in fact what I know is as related by a judge. The guard is alive and well, and back to his normal life. He got away with it!
Nobody likes to be a laughing stock, and for the fear of being laughed at, many of us adults learned to keep our mouths shut. We even devised a proverb around it – better to be thought foolish and quiet, than to open our mouth and erase all doubt. This little 5yr old girl confided in her mum -”Mummy, Uncle Victor chucked pin in my bum bum”. Mummy laughed it off hilariously, and the little girl withdrew and kept quiet. She had not been educated to pronounce the word “penis” and said pin. Uncle Victor, continued to chuck pin in her bum bum for another 7yrs, and… He got away with it! Continue reading
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September 15, 2010
The Proud in 2011 Elections
So shall it be, not only for IBB but for everyone who thinks that this coming election is going to be business as usual. Thus says the Lord of Hosts, 2011 is mine! It’s the year in which Nigeria lives in it’s Jubilee! It’s the year of of New beginnings. It’s going to be a radical departure from the old, and the birthing place of the new. Up until now, Nigeria, you have had your way. You have been deceived by your lying prophets, and your unclean priests. Men have lied in my name, and the people have gotten what they deserved. The old is gone! All who have benefited from the corruption soaked order cannot be the plumbline in my year of Jubilee. Anyone who however thinks he has it under wraps this 2011, shall be surprised! This year, Nigeria will say, the Lord chose for us, and we made it happen!
Woe to him who relies on the arm of flesh, who says my hands or my intelligence have brought me victory. This year, don’t overlook the lowly, the unassuming, the underdog, the marginalized, the minority, the tender or the unlikely. Interested in the fate of IBB? PDP? Atiku? Buhari? Goodluck? or anyone who thinks it’s in their hands? Click More! Continue reading
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May 5, 2010
Adieu President Yar’Adua
Death is a very sensitive topic. I am usually amazed at how death makes celebrities out of people who’s CDs we never would have bought. I get amused at how it’s difficult to speak ill of the dead or wish the person anything other than heaven or a good place. I have attended a few burials in my life, and when the person was outrightly wicked and bound for nowhere else, we all still believe the best and hope that in his or her last moments, a mini dialog with God had made all things good. In the light of this, I do not wish to talk about the hear after, but the here and now! May his gentle soul rest in peace.
Isaiah 6:1a says, in the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord…
It is my sincere prayer tonight that in this hour that our president departs from the world as we know it, God will speak to His prophets! My hearty prayer tonight is that the blueprint of God for this nation will be proclaimed and he will set in power those who will execute his will! I prophesy this night and as we progress into morning, that God will destroy the Pharaoh spirit holding this nation captive! I declare you evil genius’, you antichrists, let my people Go! I decree plagues in the camp of the cabal, I decree that one event after the other will commence until the proverbial Pharaoh lets Nigeria Go! I pray that ears will be opened and the eyes of the Isaiah’s of this nation will see! Continue reading
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February 25, 2010
Nigeria – A time to PRAY
Those who contend for the soul of this nation, are not not resting on their oars. Underneath the obvious is an evil spiritual force fighting for the right to steal, kill and destroy the soul of this Nation. The Masters command to his disciples is not to disciple individuals, but to make disciples of Nations. God is interested in National influence and discipleship, the alignment of people groups is more important to him than the alignment of individuals. The shameless events being perpetrated by those who will stop at nothing to exert influence over this nation is disturbing, and even though we are in the season of ACTION, we are in that time as well, when we must pray. Trust me, prayer ranks high on our to do list, cause there is nobody there today to engage, nobody to walk against or publish anything about.
It’s not as if we haven’t been praying though, I only doubt if we have all been praying about the right things, I also doubt if we have the full picture about prayer. True prayer must be backed up by receiving action. Elijah prayed earnestly that it would not rain and for three and a half years it did not rain. It took another fervent prayer to release the clouds, before the clouds made sense he ran, he was sure that God doesn’t store prayers. When Jesus decreed about the fig tree, it wasn’t go and come back, it dried up! The true measure of prayer power is not length, it’s function. Today is not the day of diplomacy or standing in the middle, today is the day to take a prayer stand, backed up with the willingness to surrender ourselves to the process of answered prayers. Please circulate this far and wide, this is prayer with ultimatum, this is the time where we back up our prayers with oaths and a fast until our eyes see that which our soul desires. Here are the prayer points. Continue reading
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