TB JOSHUA'S PREDICTION ABOUT INDONESIAN PLANE COMES TRUE

In mid-2015 Prophet TB Joshua predicted the crash of the Indonesian plane and warned the Indonesians that there should be fervent prayers to avert disaster.  He particularly mentioned the country and he asked the nation to pray. Well, looks like the Indonesians ignored the warning!!! Or what do you make of this? On the 28th of December, the unthinkable happened when an Indonesian Air Asia Airbus 300 series plunged into the Java Sea, killing all 156 passengers and crew on board. While The Lagosian sincerely sympathizes with the victims and families, we cannot but wonder if this is not another sad tale of a doomed sheep refusing to heed the warning of its owner.

SOCIAL CRITIC DECRIES BUHARI'S DICTATORIAL HISTORY

THE REAL BUHARI: WICKEDNESS IS NOT ANTI-CORRUPTION; ANTI-CORRUPTION IS KINDNESS.

WHAT DID PROFESSOR AMBROSE ALLI DO?
Professor Ambrose Alli was elected the Governor of Bendel state, and later founded "Bendel state University" now "Ambrose Alli University", Ekpoma. Many campuses in Ekpoma, Abraka and Asaba were established during his tenure.. He brought massive development to Bendel in different sectors, from the establishment of numerous post-primary schools and tertiary institutions, and massive construction of roads and housing. His main thrust as governor was to increase educational opportunities. He established over 600 new secondary schools, and abolished secondary school fees. Apart from the establishment of the University, he also established various colleges of Education in Ekiadolor near Benin City, Agbor, Warri, Ozoro and Agbor, and three Polytechnics, with a college of agriculture and fishery proposed for Agenebode. He also established four teachers training colleges to supply staff to the new schools, as well as several other higher educational institutions. Other reforms included abolishing charges for services and drugs at state-owned hospitals and eliminating the flat-rate tax. [1] His administration carried out massive construction of roads to open up the rural areas.[2] In the housing sector he built low cost housing estates in Ugbowo, Ikpoba Hill in Benin City, and Bendel Estates in Warri. As Governor, he always wore sandals, joking that he was so busy working in Government House that he never had time to buy shoes for himself.[3]
When Ambrose Alli left office in 1983, he retired to his family house."

THE EL RUFAI STATEMENT CAUSING TERRIBLE DISCONTENT IN THE BUHARI CAMP!!!

Not a few observers of the current political terrain are puzzled by the sudden political volte face that saw Malam Nasir El Rufai, erstwhile FCT Minister going back to his vomit regarding his endorsement of ageing General Buhari's bid for the Presidency. For those who aren't aware of el-Rufai's opinion about four

IBB BOMBS APC CANDIDATE BUHARI: CALLS HIM WEAK, UNINTELLIGENT AND A STAFF COLLEGE FAILURE

The former Nigerian Military President, Gen Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) has described the former dictator and APC Presidential candidate for the 2015 election, Pa Muhammadu Buhari, as a weak leader and does not understand the differences in Nigeria..
Babangida said that "regrettably it turned out that Major General Buhari was too rigid and uncompromising in his attitudes to issues of National significance. Efforts to make him understand that a diverse Polity like Nigeria required recognition and appreciation of differences in both Cultural and Individual Perceptions only served to aggravate the Attitudes".
Pa Muhammadu Buhari (72) is the only Nigerian senior military officer that failed all the senior examinations in the history of Nigerian Military.
If you check the official names of officers likes of IBB, Idiagbon, Azazi, Diya, Danjuma, Akhigbe, Abdulsalami, Aikhomu. etc you see a suffix, FSS, Psc, MNi. Pa Muhammadu Buhari has none. He failed the Command and Staff College exams and all other Military examinations (Psc means Pass staff college).
Gen Babangida (rtd) Overthrew Pa Buhari when the engine and the anti-corruption crusader of that regime, Maj Gen Tunde Idiagbon was away on Pilgrimage to Mecca.

SOYINKA BOMBS OBJ, CALLS HIM GREEDY, UNFORGIVING AND SELFISH

BOMBSHELL FOR THE OTA GENERAL!!! SOYINKA, THE GUNSLINGER!

This is what Soyinka said about Obasanjo and Jonathans rift,
He said, “The seventh (creature) which is Obasanjo is not among those who set out to improve the world but rather to cause distress to its inhabitants. It was through manipulations that he Obasanjo attained a high position. Having achieved this however, he constantly blocked the progress of those behind him, like GEJ this being a most deplorable act in the eyes of God, and rank behaviour in the judgment of the dwellers of heaven – that anyone who has enjoyed upliftment in life should seek to be an obstacle for those who follow him.

“This man forgot the beings of earth, forgot the beings of heaven, in turn, he forgot the presence of God. The worst kind of behaviour agitated his hands – greed occupied the centre of his heart, and he was a creature that walked in darkness.

“This man wallowed in bribery, he was chairman of the circle of scheming, head of the gang of double-dealing, field-marshal of those who crept about in the dark of night. With his mouth, he ruined the work of others, while he used a big potsherd to cover the good works of some, that others might not see their attainments.

“He nosed around for secrets that would entrap his companions, and blew them up into monumental crimes in the eyes of the world. He who turns the world upside down, places the deceitful on the throne, casts the truthful down – because such is a being of base earth, he will never stand as equal among the uplifted.”

HOW THE WORLD RENOWNED BARITONE CROONER, JIM REEVES DIED

JIM REEVES:  The Crash, The Funeral and Photos 
  
August 4, 1964   
From the Panola Watchman 
Reeves Dies in Air Crash 
By James Smith

The body of Travis (Jim) Reeves returned to Panola County Tuesday afternoon just before dusk, to be buried in a site that will become a memorial. The site is a two-acre plot located one-half miles east of Carthage on the south side of U.S. Highway 79 near the Liberty Chapel Baptist Church.Double funeral services were held for the well-known country music singer from Panola County and his companion, Dean Manuel at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee.The two men were found dead in the wreckage of a private single engine plane 10 miles south of Nashville. Manuel was Reeves’ piano player and road manager and they were returning to their homes in Nashville from a business trip to Batesville, Arkansas.In an interview with Ray Baker, manager for Reeves, he told the Watchman of the accident as near as possible. The plane in which they were flying was rented from a Nashville airport and piloted by Reeves. He frequently flew on business trips and was a good pilot, related Baker. Less than ten minutes from their destination, Reeves radioed to the airport that they were flying in an extremely heavy thunder and rainstorm. The airport control tower later checked with Reeves—asking if he had passed through the storm. The answer was negative. Further attempts were made to contact the Reeves flight by radio—and all proved negative.The plane was reported down at 5 p.m. Friday, July 31. The light aircraft crashed in a wooded area about 100 feet behind a  house just off U.S. Highway 31. A Tennessee highway patrolman reported that residents of the house were away at the time of the crash.More than 700 volunteer searchers, Civil Defense workers and police combed a 20-square-mile area for two days. Many of the searchers were Reeves’ friends and associates in the country music business. They included guitarist Chet Atkins and singer Eddy Arnold, Stonewall Jackson and Ernest Tubb.Marty Robins, a close friend of Reeves and also an entertainer, lived within a short distance of where the plane crashed and heard the roar of an airplane engine Friday evening and then a loud thud…as if it had plunged into the ground. When he heard of the accident and searching operations, he notified authorities of what he heard and informed them the direction in which he thought the wreckage might be located.The wreckage was located at 1 p.m. Sunday and the engine of the plane was partly buried and it was reported by Tennessee highway patrolmen that it looked as if someone had gone out and dumped some debris and trash. Reeves’ body was identified from a driver’s license taken from the wreckage.The governor of Tennessee, Frank Clements was a personal friend of Jim Reeves and provided a four-engine U.S. Air Force Strato-Cruiser plane from the National Guard to transport his body, family and associates from Nashville to Shreveport. Hawthorn Funeral Home ambulance transferred the body from Shreveport to Carthage Tuesday evening.Baker said that Reeves had experienced a phenomenal growth in popularity in the United States and Europe during the past ten years. Several polls had recently been taken in England, Holland and other European countries that placed Jim Reeves as the number one favorite singer of country music. The big friendly smile and rich baritone voice of Jim Reeves will be a memory in the hearts of several million people for a long time. Panola County will always cherish his memory as one of her finest gentlemen.




August 6, 1964
HUNDREDS ATTEND
Funeral Services Held In Etex for Jim Reeves
By Tommy Yates
Shreveport Times Assistant State Editor

CARTHAGE, TEX--Country music singer Jim Reeves was returned to the red hills of his permanent home yesterday and the velvet-voiced singer drew his last packed house as some of the greats and near greats of the hillbilly field wiped tears from their eyes. Silent hundreds filed past his casket in the Hawthorn Funeral Home of Carthage all morning prior to the 3 p.m. funeral services for the singer who was killed last Friday in an airplane crash near Nashville, Tenn.Burial was in a private cemetery near Carthage where the 39-year-old singer once roamed the red hills of East Texas. The grave and memorial site is located just off the highway between Carthage and Shreveport.Gentleman Jim’s friends from throughout Texas and the musical world were here for the services and burial of the farm boy who sang and strummed his way to the top of the nation’s country and popular record lists in 11 tuneful years.The 400-seat Central Baptist Church, extra rooms and hallways were filled for the services. Extra chairs were placed in the aisles and halls, and those who could not find seats stood in the rear of the auditorium or outside the building.The estimated audience of 800 was silent throughout the 20-minute service. No songs were sung and only two organ selections were played: “The Old Rugged Cross,” and “What a Friend We Have in  Jesus.”The casket was surrounded by huge floral wreaths, one shaped like a harp, another like a guitar, one like a baseball and several like a musical note.Another wreath made of orchid asters and orchid doty mums was placed behind the casket in memory of his 1942 graduation class at Carthage High School. A color photograph of the smooth-voiced singer rested at the head of the casket, which was covered with yellow carnations and bronze mums.Dr. V. L. McKee, pastor of the church, paid tribute to the sophisticated styled country singer, who picked up the nickname of “Gentleman Jim” as a boy.Dr. McKee said, “His good name did not begin with his fame. It began when he was a small boy growing up here in this community…. He was a gentleman as a boy and a gentleman as a man. That is about as fine a tribute that could be paid to any citizen.”His nickname followed him throughout his career because, “He always had a minute to stop and talk,” said Bill Deaton of San Antonio, who handled Reeves’ engagements in Texas.Deaton was among hundreds of Reeves’ business associates and relatives who attended the services.Reeves’ widow, whom he has been married to for 16 years was present along with his brothers and sisters. The Reeves had no children. Reeves’ mother of DeBerry was not able to attend because of illness.Also present was Dick O’Shoughnessy, one of the supporting stars in Jim’s hit movie, “Kimberly Jim” which was recently filmed in South Africa and scheduled to be released soon.Other musicians present were Dewey Groom of Dallas, Ed McLemore of the Big D Jamboree, Horace Logan, who was in charge of the Louisiana Hayride when Jim first rose to fame, Bobby Garrett, a former member of Reeves’ band, Ray Baker, his business manager, and Cindy Walker, who wrote many of Jim’s songs.Reeves’ popularity was not limited to the United States. His song, “I Love You Because,” currently ranked in the top five songs in Scandinavian countries and Ireland. His songs have made the top of the hit list for the past five years in South Africa, where he learned to sing to the people in their own language.Considered a standout as far as an individual is concerned to those close to him, Reeves and his wife were recently in San Antonio looking for a ranch to buy. He flew to San Antonio in the same plane in which he died only days later.

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TB JOSHUA’S SYNAGOGUE CHURCH-THE TOURISM DIMENSION

TB JOSHUA’S SYNAGOGUE CHURCH-THE TOURISM DIMENSION

BY SOLA OJEWUSI

So much has been said and written about Prophet T.B Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN. In fact yours sincerely is one of the earliest journalists to have been to, seen and written about this international organization at the early stages of its trajectory. Then, because of the novelty of the Prophet’s styles, so much has been said and deduced around the nation and the world. But in spite of the shenanigans, the hear-says and style-criticism of this interesting church, one way or the other has mushroomed from seemingly primitive beginning to an international phenomenon. In those days mischievous critics and stay-at-home writers had dubbed T.B Joshua “primitive,’’ ’’uneducated’’,’’rash’’,’’satanic’’etc. Due to the astounding works of miracles in the church, some believed Joshua must have been possessed of evil powers to be able to inspire such dumbfounding facts in God’s name. But as Joshua’s Yoruba ancestors would say, everything has changed his name to ‘’Eebudola’’ meaning soughly ‘’critism has morphed into honour’’ or ‘’adversity has led to success’’. And for those who see ‘’evil in the many goods emanating from this church the question is: can evil be fighting against such evil as diseases, poverty, broken homes, depression etc as Joshua is doing? Today every nooks and crannies of the globe with access to cable TV has hooked to this Nigerian icon. Presidents, potentates, business gurus, entertainment and showbiz giants etc have continued to mingle with ordinary folks to throng the synagogue from all corners of the world.

More than many other national institutions, the T.B Joshua led SCOAN has brought so much pride to Nigeria; so much respect and impression that Nigerians could really be good people. Every day you visit the church, you meet hundreds tourists from around the world coming for one spiritual issue or the other while many also visit just to experience the joy of this Nigerian phenomenon. At a time when Nigeria’s image has been battered by the dastardly outrage of the Boko Haram lunatics, the synagogue is one of the outstanding oases of hope for the Nigerian image. Yours sincerely has been called by friends from around the world for information that could better enlighten them about the church. Visit the SCOAN website or Facebook page and you would be pleasantly shocked by thousands of posts from fellow Africans and other citizens of the world expressing warm, heartfelt impressions and goodwill about our nation as exemplified by the T.B Joshua example.

Now, I wonder what my compatriots at the Federal and State tourism organizations are doing to recognize this ‘hidden’ tourism treasure and explore its fantastic opportunities to further boost the image of Nigeria. So much has been done in the tourism ministries to promote the image of Nigeria at home and abroad without any seriously positive and discernible outcome. We spend millions on tourism fairs, gatherings and events worldwide yearly with trickles coming as dividends. Have we really considered the tourism potentials of places like the synagogue? This is not necessarily about religion. The Yorubas would say ‘’if your masquerade dances well, one would be elated’’. In bringing positive light upon our nation around the world, in attracting thousands of foreign visitors to Lagos; visitors who come here to see the good side of our land and relatively boost our economy while also boosting their personal spiritual well-being, the synagogue has helped advance our tourism industry. The earlier the tourism authorities found a way of reaching out to institutions like this for collaboration and ideas exchanges the better for us. 

Tourism is a money-spinner for countries that value it and explore its many ramifications. Saudi Arabia, Italy, India and China have earned much from religious tourism through the Hajj, the Vatican and Catholicism etc. What stops Nigerians from encouraging religious tourism, cashing in on the leading light already provided by the Synagogue Church of All Nations? The Redeemed Church is also helping in this through the influx of foreign visitors during its Holy Ghost Congress. But the Synagogue, to me, is unique in its clearly daily hosting of throngs of visitors from around the world. T.B Joshua has been honored with the Officer of the Federal Republic OFR award by the late President Yar A’dua for his contributions. I think our tourism authorities should work with icons like Joshua to further boost the image of Nigeria. One clue? The synagogue’s Emmanuel TV, seen around the world, can be used as a medium to further advertise the good things that would keep drawing people from around the world just like the synagogue church is doing.

WHO WINS THE PRESIDENCY? JONATHAN OR BUHARI?

WHO WINS THE PRESIDENCY?

THE DIE IS FINALLY CAST! IT IS JONATHAN AGAINST BUHARI ON VALENTINE'S DAY, 2015. WHO WINS THE PRESIDENCY?

POPULAR PREACHER, MYLES MUNROE, WIFE DAUGHTER DIE IN PLANE CRASH

Popular Bahamian televangelist, Bishop Myles Munroe has been killed in a Plane Crash on his way to a Leadership Summit in Nassau, Bahamas. The Lear Jet reportedly hit a crane while approaching the airport. The preacher's wife and daughter were also among the nine people killed in the private jet crash.