There is no real man of God in Nigeria – Oyegbami

Olusegun Oyegbami is an economist, an oil industry player, he is also the author of the book titled: ‘Reversing the Rot in Nigeria’. The economist in a recent interview with Vanguard gave some in-depth analysis of how Nigeria got into the current recession and what he thinks of Nigeria’s men of God.

Olusegun Oyegbami
First he spoke on the reason for the recession saying: “The over dependence on oil has actually led us into the situation we are in.

“Before the discovery of oil, agriculture happened to be the mainstay of the Nigerian economy, and it was providing employment for the teeming population.

“But when oil was discovered, we forgot about agriculture. We have also been running the oil industry in a fraudulent manner, manipulating everything. For now, we are just deceiving ourselves on the fight against corruption.”

Then Oyegbami delved into the religious lives of Nigerians, attacking what he called ‘so-called men of God’. Oyegbami says: “When life has become hopeless for people, they want to take any chance at all costs to get their bearings right.

“It is this kind of hopelessness that the so-called men of God exploit to even render them more prostrate, and that’s why I said that politicians have destroyed people’s lives.

“They have made them to become hopeless and now, in “going to God”, they have ended up being deceived further and their situation is exploited and the society becomes even worse.

“So, my postulation in the book is that there are really no men of God anywhere, anybody who is talking of God is doing it for his own personal benefits.

“That is why we now have the so-called men of God competing with politicians in the material acquisition of wealth, such that we now have men of God in Nigeria acquiring aeroplanes and building estates, amassing material properties, which is actually in contrast to what the Bible and the Quran teach.”

The author, also spoke on the high cost of tuition in universities owned by churches, saying: “But the men of God in Nigeria do not pull punches a bit.

“They are running universities where the tuition fees are very high, because the sector is not put in proper shape by government.

“These “men of God” take advantage of the situation just to make money. That is why we now have so many churches having universities.

“The money paid by people through their noses should have been enough to provide standard facilities and quality education if government were sincerely running the sector.”

In conclusion, he spoke about the place of religion and politics, saying: “Religion has been a key factor in politics, and that is why people think a Muslim/Christian ticket will fly in the country than a single religion domination.

“Can we separate religion from politics? In the first place, religion is divisive. Religion is not actually helping society to get it right. The problem we have in Nigeria is that we are almost 50:50 Muslims to Christians in our religious orientation.

“This is a big negative influence in our developmental process. In any society where everybody is looking towards a direction, they tend to make more progress, than when you now have religious dichotomy.”

Meanwhile, only recently, a South African Pastor Rufus Phala was caught on camera given a member of his church antiseptic liquid, Dettol, to drink.

The pastor popularly known as Prophet Rufus is the general overseer of AK Spiritual Christian Church in Makgodu, Limpopo.

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The Owner Of MMM Writes To Nigeria Federal Government

-Sergey Mavrodi, the MMM founder, has reportedly written an open letter to the federal government about the benefits of the ponzi scheme

– Mavrodi assures the President Buhari-led administration that the scheme won’t fail despite widespread reports that it would soon

MMM founder Sergey Mavrodi has assured FG that the scheme won’t fail.
The founder of ponzi scheme Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM) Sergey Mavrodi is reported to have written a letter to Nigeria’s federal government.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that the open letter was displayed on the page of all participants in the scheme.

In the letter Mavrodi listed the benefits of the scheme and urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to embrace the movement because of its many benefits through which it is helping Nigerians.

He noted that the government would leave the scheme alone to keep helping Nigerians if it knew how well it was catering to people’s welfare.

Mavrodi revealed that over 3 million Nigerians were already on the scheme.

He also shot down arguments that the scheme would soon fail and noted that with just 3 million Nigerians, the scheme has run for about a year and with many more Nigerians still left, there is no way the scheme would fail.

Mavrodi’s letter comes just days after one of Nigeria’s banks wrote to its customers, advising them to stay away from the scheme.

The banks letter follows the warning by the CBN that Nigerians should stay away from the scheme. Federal lawmakers also tried to stop the scheme with directives that its promoters should be detained by security agencies.

Mavrodi’s FULL letter

Open Letter from Sergey Mavrodi to the Nigerian Authorities
Honorable authorities,
So far MMM has come under a constant attack from you. In this regard, I would like to ask you a few simple questions.
Since you are concerned with the interests of millions of your fellow citizens, I hope that you would be so kind to answer them. What are you trying to get? Do you want the MMM System to collapse and millions of people to suffer? Who will support them then if now MMM is their only means of livelihood? Will you? You even don’t pay wages to people? Or might you not care about them?

Might you be using a trendy topic to make a good name for yourselves? What will you say to a mother who will have no money to buy food for her child? Will you let her child die for the sake of the higher interests of the economy? You say that MMM is a scam. What is the scam here, if all members are warned in advance about all the risks, the possible and impossible ones? They know there are no investments at all.
The warning is a red text on a yellow background placed on most prominent place of the website. You say that MMM is bad. Why? Yes, it produces nothing, but nothing gets out of the country either. The money is just redistributed among the citizens of Nigeria. It gets from those who are richer to poorer ones, in this way restoring social justice. What”s wrong with that?
You have repeatedly stated that “it should be investigated!.. researched!..” It means you know nothing about this System yet; you even haven’t understood how it works……… And finally. If you know what is right for people, why is the life so bad in the country? Sincerely yours, Sergey Mavrodi P.S. As for your statement that “everything will collapse soon”.
The system has been working in Nigeria for a year, and according to your estimates, the total number of members now is about 3 million people. In Nigeria the population is approximately 195 million. Can you calculate? Will it be “soon”? :-))

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Today In History

1753 George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers
an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley.

1770 The British soldiers responsible for the “Boston Massacre” are acquitted on murder charges.

1862 The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River.

1863 Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners.

1901 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland.

1927 Communists forces seize Canton, China.

1930 The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town.

1930 The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany.

1931 Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China.

1943 The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad.

1943 The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation.

1956 The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary.

1964 Kenya becomes a republic.

1964 Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon.

1967 The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.

1979 South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, acting without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa, alleging that the chief of staff was involved in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.

1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff at Gander, Newfoundland; among the 256 dead are 236 members of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

1991 The Russian Federation becomes independent from the USSR.

1995 Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco.

2000 The US Supreme Court announces its decision in Bush v. Gore, effectively ending legal changes to the results of that year’s Presidential election.

Born on December 12

1745 John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States.

1805 William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist who published The Liberator.

1821 Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart).

1863 Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (The Scream).

1893 Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for gangster roles.

1897 Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist.

1912 Henry Jackson Jr, boxer using the name Henry Armstrong, the only fighter to hold 3 professional boxing titles simultaneously.

1915 Frank Sinatra, American pop singer and actor.

1927 Robert Norton Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.

1928 Helen Frankenthaler, abstract painter.

1929 John Osbourne, playwright and film producer (Look Back in Anger).

1938 Connie Francis, singer.

1940 Dionne Warwick, singer, actress.

1943 Grover Washington Jr, singer, songwriter, musician, producer.

1952 Cathy Rigby, gymnast, actress.