THE PRESIDENTIAL PILGRIMAGE

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seems always dogged by controversy. No thanks to Sahara Reporters and Nigeria's many other online "media houses", Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, BlackBerry Messenger, LinkedIn and other social media. The previous tenants of Aso Rock Villa must be grateful that they only had to contend with the likes of Daily Times, Tribune, TELL, The News, Newswatch, Tempo, Daily Trust, Punch, Guardian, Vanguard and Thisday in their time!

The latest issue now causing a storm in Cyber9ja is the Presidential Pilgrimage to Israel. It has become the butt of all kinds of unsavoury jokes. Dr. Reuben Abati, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Reno Omokri have their work cut out....till the next controversy!

Pilgrimage to Israel is a personal choice for a Christian not a Biblical ordinance. I have never been to Israel. My friends who have been there say it is a glorious experience. They say their visit to the places mentioned in the Bible was uplifting for them spiritually as it brought home to them in a powerful way the reality of the Holy Scriptures and the certainty that their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, Saviour, King and God is not misplaced. I look forward to visiting Israel some day by God's Grace. I will be going as a TOURIST not as a "pilgrim". I am already on pilgrimage: I seek a City, a Heavenly City, which is to come; one whose Builder and Maker is God!

President Goodluck Jonathan's trip to Israel is essentially a State Visit. He is there with several Ministers, Governors and other public officers because it is an official trip. His visit to the "Holy Sites" (the pilgrimage) is a consequence of the State Visit not the true essence of the trip. Even President Barrack Obama, like many other world leaders who have been to Jerusalem, prayed at the Wailing Wall on his last trip to Israel just a few months ago. But nobody said President Obama went to Israel on "pilgrimage".

I am pleased that Nigeria's ambivalence in its relationship with Israel is finally over. Our past Presidents and Heads of State (including even those who professed Christianity) treated Israel almost as a pariah state so as not to offend the Arab countries even though most of them they had Israelis as their body-guards!

Whether you believe the Bible, God's Word, or not, the reality is that God has promised to bless the nations which bless Israel because of His Covenant with His Friend, Abraham. And there is no greater testimony of the truth of God's Word than the fact that Israel still exists as a nation on earth today despite the conspiracies of its enemies over the last two millenia to annihilate it. Hit Israel; GOD hits you! Bless Israel; God blesses you!!

There is much Nigeria will gain from being close friends with Israel. Israel should be seen as a strategic economic and technological partner for Nigeria.

God bless Israel!
Shalom Jerusalem!!

God bless Nigeria!
Nigeria di fure!!

LET US GIVE THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE A CHANCE

I welcome Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu back to Nigeria. I thank God that his knee surgery was successful and that he returned safely in good health. Praise God!

I am, however, disappointed (though not surprised) that Asiwaju Tinubu, in his very first press conference upon his arrival in a private jet (his private jet?) at the Execujet Terminal in Lagos, dismissed the up-coming National Conference, which has caused cheer and renewed optimism in many Nigerians about Nigeria's posterity as a nation, as a mere "diversionary step taken by a sinking ship". Though he said he would "abide by the decision of the All Progressives Congress" regarding the National Conference, it is clear his comment was designed to pre-empt his party and present it with a fait accompli as regards its position on the matter. It is unlikely the APC would take a stance different from its leader.

It is most unfortunate that some politicians are already playing politics with the planned National Conference. In the article I published a few days ago titled "THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE: OUR CHANCE TO REBUILD NIGERIA'S DESTROYED FOUNDATIONS", I wrote the following:

"Whatever may be President Goodluck Jonathan's motivation, Nigeria has embarked on an irreversible process. The events in our nation in the last two years are of such gravity and sensitivity that no politician or group should presume that the National Conference can be used as a mere temporary distraction or to achieve a pre-determined parochial agenda.

Most people who have resisted the idea of having a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) over the years have done so on the assumption that it will inevitably result in the dismemberment of Nigeria. That is not necessarily going to happen. But our continuity as one country must be discussed. If there are tribes or sections which are determined not to be part of Nigeria and they refuse to be persuaded to remain, they should be allowed to leave peacefully. There is no need for fear that the SNC is a ploy to divide the country.

......What most Nigerians want are Visionary Leadership, Good Governance, Peace, Prosperity and an Equal Opportunity to achieve their dreams. But our system is built on falsehood. Our foundation is destroyed. Inequity, injustice and lies are at the root of our nationhood. We cannot continue to pretend that we can achieve greatness without revisiting the very basis of our nationhood. No section of the country should feel exploited and manipulated. The SNC is now our only chance to pull back from the brink and work at truly building a nation where peace, truth, justice and prosperity can reign."

It is premature for anyone to dismiss the National Conference when the Advisory Committee, which is to be inaugurated tomorrow by President Goodluck Jonathan, has not even commenced its work of formulating the framework or operational modalities for the Conference. President Jonathan's sincerity or otherwise would be evident depending on what he does with the Advisory Committee's Report on the National Conference.

Frankly, I don't see how a Committee which has someone like Senator Femi Okorounmu of the Afenifere Group as its Chairman and other distinguished members like Prof. George
Obiozo; Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN), Senator Khairat Gwadabe, Col. Tony Nyiam (Rtd.) and Dr. Abubakar Sadiq would not come up with a workable framework for the National Conference which meets the yearnings and aspirations of most Nigerians who have longed for a genuine National Dialogue. If President Jonathan really meant to distract Nigerians by convening a National Conference then he shot himself in the foot by empanelling the calibre of Nigerians he appointed into the Committee and whose antecedents show that they are not people who can be pushed around.

Let us give the National Conference a chance.

God bless Nigeria! 

Nigeria di fure!
 

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE: OUR CHANCE TO REBUILD NIGERIA'S DESTROYED FOUNDATIONS

I applaud President Goodluck Jonathan for setting up an Advisory Committee comprising reputable Nigerians to come up with modalities for organising a National Dialogue or Conference. The men and women who make up the Committee are very knowledgeable people and have enviable antecedents. Some of them have long been advoca...tes of a Sovereign National Conference and have already done commendable research in that area. I am confident that they will not let Nigerians down.

The National Conference must have no "no-go areas" like in past attempts at having a national dialogue which ended up being merely wasteful talk-shops that led us nowhere. The outcomes of the National Conference this time around must not be subject to review by the Government or even the National Assembly. The Legislature's only role should be to give legal and constitutional effect to the decisions taken by representatives of all our ethnic nationalities and other legitimate stake-holders at the National Conference. The key challenge, therefore, facing the Senator Femi Okorounmu-led Advisory Committee is how best to get Conference Delegates who truly and equitably represent all facets of Nigeria's socio-economic and political mosaic.

Whatever may be President Goodluck Jonathan's motivation, Nigeria has embarked on an irreversible process. The events in our nation in the last two years are of such gravity and sensitivity that no politician or group should presume that the National Conference can be used as a mere temporary distraction or to achieve a pre-determined parochial agenda.

Most people who have resisted the idea of having a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) over the years have done so on the assumption that it will inevitably result in the dismemberment of Nigeria. That is not necessarily going to happen. But our continuity as one country must be discussed. If there are tribes or sections which are determined not to be part of Nigeria and they refuse to be persuaded to remain, they should be allowed to leave peacefully. There is no need for fear that the SNC is a ploy to divide the country.

But how will the country even be divided? There is no clear fault-line on which a clean division can be made. There are indigenous Christians and Muslims in each state. Many Nigerians are irreversibly bound together by marriage, friendship and business partnerships. While the very vocal tribal "activists" on social media platforms and some politicians would like us to believe that most Nigerians want the country divided into ethnic nations, the evidence does not support their claim. If you travel around Nigeria and interact with the mass of our people, it is obvious that they are all victims of poverty induced by the greed and corruption of our "leaders" at all levels of government and that they really do not care so much whether the President is Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Esan, Jukun, Igbirra or Ibibio; or whether the person is a Christian or Muslim.

What most Nigerians want are Visionary Leadership, Good Governance, Peace, Prosperity and an Equal Opportunity to achieve their dreams. But our system is built on falsehood. Our foundation is destroyed. Inequity, injustice and lies are at the root of our nationhood. We cannot continue to pretend that we can achieve greatness without revisiting the very basis of our nationhood. No section of the country should feel exploited and manipulated. The SNC is now our only chance to pull back from the brink and work at truly building a nation where peace, truth, justice and prosperity can reign.

Nigerians have yet another chance to re-build the foundations of our country and (re)negotiate our nationhood on the basis of truth, justice, equity and righteousness. We must not fail. Our posterity depends on it.

God bless Nigeria!

Nigeria di fure!!

A PRESIDENT AND THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING BELL

I have read a lot of uninformed (and very irritating) articles, posts, "analyses" and comments ridiculing President Goodluck Jonathan's recent visit to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) while he was in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Some folks actually believe that his being asked to ring the NYSE Closing Bell was insignificant and some of them have written about the "birds, dogs and cartoon characters" which have been similarly "honoured" as NYSE Opening or Closing Bell-ringers in the past. The discourse has been very animated in many Nigerian social media fora.

I feel somewhat duty-bound to try and educate my compatriots who hold this view even though I have long realised that this will be futile for those of my country-men who have become die-hard critics of the President and those who even pride themselves as "GEJ-haters". 

But ignorance should never be allowed to intimidate knowledge. Darkness does not comprehend light. So, let there be light on this subject despite its frivolity. 

The NYSE does not just bring in just any person or "bird, dog and cartoon character" to its trading floor on Wall Street for its famous Bell-ringing Ceremony. Not even every President or Head of State is brought in by the NYSE for what has become a famous tradition which is recognised world-wide and is now imitated by many of the world's popular bourses.

It may appear like a trivial event to some that President Goodluck Jonathan rang the NYSE Closing Bell, but it really is not. What I find so ridiculous is that while those knocking the President for the event have tried to down-play it, they have given it so much publicity that those who were not even aware that he visited the NYSE now know he did! And if it really is a non-issue, why make a big deal out of it? And how come President Jonathan is the first Nigerian President ring the NYSE Bell? I understand a former President even wrote to the NYSE to be allowed to ring the Bell and his application was politely turned down!! 

The NYSE Bell Ringing event is a big deal in the international business community.


Please read the piece below from http://www.investopedia.com/.../06/openingclosingbell.asp:

A common sight today is the highly publicized events in which a celebrity or executive from a corporation stands behind the NYSE podium and pushes the button that signals the bells to ring. Many consider the act of ringing the bells to be quite an honour and a symbol of a lifetime of achievement. Furthermore, due to the amount of coverage that the opening/closing bells receive, many companies coordinate new product launches and other marketing-related events to start on the same day as when the company's representatives ring the bell. This daily tradition wasn't always this highly publicized either. In fact, it was only in 1995 that the NYSE began having special guests ring the bells on a regular basis. Prior to that, ringing the bells was usually the responsibility of the exchange's floor managers.


It appears some of our people do not know the NYSE's Opening and Closing Bell-ringing Ceremony is of such symbolic significance to the international business community such that international business television stations, such as Bloomberg and CNBC, actually show the events LIVE each day? They even have programmes named after the Bell-ringing Ceremonies. Many other television stations, including CNN, BBC World, Euro News and Al-Jazeera, also show the Closing Bell-ringing Ceremony on most week days.
 
Of course, the NYSE Bell-ringing Ceremony is not in itself an earth-shaking event; but it has become emblematic in many ways. It's symbolic significance lies in the fact that the honour is only accorded in recognition of some accomplishment, as an indication of support for a cause or as a pointer to positive expectations about the future of companies, economies, products, services, brands, persons or even cartoon characters (yes, including the "birds and dogs" and Muppets!). It reveals the NYSE Management's prognosis of the Bell-ringer and/or its faith in the Bell-ringer's relevance to the American business community.

In Nigeria's case, despite the negative media reports, the NYSE obviously recognizes that the country's business environment is improving and is attracting interest from international investors including many American companies such as GE, IBM, Microsoft and HP. The reforms in the power sector are of particular interest to American investors and financial services companies. A number of them are already engaged in the Nigeria power sector.

The funny thing is that all those belly-aching that the President and his supporters regard the event as significant may NEVER even be allowed into the NYSE offices not to talk of ringing the Closing Bell in their life-time! LOL!!
 

Someone posted on Facebook the picture of Sponge Bob ringing the NYSE Closing Bell as "proof" of the comical nature of NYSE Bell-ringing and he questioned the economic significance of the cartoon character. I had to post a news article by ABC News about Sponge Bob on that discussion thread. Below are excerpts from the article:


WELCOME INSIDE THE NO. 1-RATED CHILDREN'S SHOW IN ALL OF TELEVISION.

(http://abcnews.go.com/.../story...)

If you're thinking the main character is yellow, you're right... but he's no Big Bird.

This is the world of "SpongeBob SquarePants," a show that's grown into a multi-billion dollar phenomenon so popular it is among the top-rated shows on all of cable television.................Another key to the show's success is that the humour hits for all age groups, said Clancy Brown, who voices Mr. Krabs. "I think adults these days are very immature," Brown said. "We are keeping them immature."

Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob himself, agreed.

"Luckily, the infantilization of the American culture has worked for us," Kenny said.

The show's creators say they're not necessarily writing kids stuff. A full 25 percent of the show's audience are adults who don't even have kids.

Making a children's cartoon isn't child's play: It takes nine months to make just one episode. ..................The cartoon has been going 10 years now. It's broadcast around the world in 25 languages and it has spawned an entire line of toys, clothing and food, with total sales estimated at nearly $1 billion a year.


And for those wondering about the "dogs" that rang the NYSE Opening Bell, please kindly read the following:

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE GOES TO THE DOGS TO SUPPORT ANIMAL CAUSES

(http://www.marketwatch.com/...)

Shelter and service dogs teamed up today to open and close the New York Stock Exchange raising awareness for pet adoption, service animals across the nation and celebrating the unconditional love between people and pets. Representatives from Procter & Gamble's (P&G) two leading pet care brands, Iams and Eukanuba, joined partners Helen Woodward Animal Center (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), New York City's Bideawee and Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) to ring the opening and closing bells.

Iams rang the closing bell in honor of Iams Home 4 the Holidays, one of the world's largest pet adoption drives. The campaign, in its 14th year, began Oct. 1, 2012 and runs through Jan. 2, 2013 and is a partnership between Iams and Helen Woodward Animal Center to give more orphaned pets a fresh start through adoption and nutrition to keep their bodies as strong as their love.

"We founded Iams Home 4 the Holidays to raise awareness about the importance of pet adoption," said Mike Arms, founder of the adoption drive and president of Helen Woodward Animal Center. "Coming to the New York Stock Exchange to ring the bell is an honor and another great way to remind people who are considering a new 4-legged family member about some of the amazing pets waiting for their second chance at love."

Eukanuba rang the opening bell with its partner in celebration of CCI's first IPO, a one of a kind Initial Puppy Offering, a fundraiser designed to provide highly-trained assistance dogs and ongoing follow-up services to children and adults with disabilities, free of charge.

So how does the NYSE Bell-ringing by our President make a difference to the "average" Nigerian? For one, the visibility the event gave Nigeria could translate to greater interest in Nigeria and the Nigerian economy by international investors. Some would reason "Oh! Nigeria must be doing something right which the NYSE has noticed". Positive publicity is never a bad thing for a developing country. Secondly, the event could lead to an increase in our Foreign Direct Investments and Foreign Portfolio Investments. When/if that happens, all Nigerians will be the better for it.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is retrogressive. It is destructive. In this age of cheap internet access, smart telephone handsets which cost as little as N10,000 and Google, you would have thought that people would educate themselves on a subject before enthusiastically hitting their key-boards or key-pads!

But hatred and rationality often do not co-habit.

 
God bless Nigeria!

Nigeria di fure!!

 

JUSTICE, EQUITY AND NIGERIA'S PENDING RESTITUTION

Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State was interviewed recently by The Will, an online news medium. Below is an excerpt from the interview:

"And if we really wanted to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account holder in the eastern region was given only £20? It did not matter whether your father had £10,000,000 or £50,000,000 before the war; you were given just £20. It was a take it or leave it situation. If your family survived and there was an account holder alive, he/she went to the bank, and collected just £20.

Could £20 pounds solve the Kwashiorkor that we were seeing? Could it reconstruct the houses that were burnt? Could it produce food? A lot of other things happened that I did not mention on that occasion. Don’t forget that it was shortly after the war in 1971 that the policy of indigenisation started, where most of the foreign industries and companies were sold to Nigerians, and the war-ravaged eastern regions, which include the entire South-South and the rest of them, could not buy, because no one who did not have money to even feed or clothe himself would have had money to buy any industry.

So, I was just wondering, as a young man, if that was true reconciliation, because one would have thought that the government would have gone to any extent to give them more money so that they could truly rehabilitate themselves.
They needed money from reconstruction, and I would have thought that reconstruction would have also started from the East."

(http://thewillnigeria.com/politics/14312.html)



A major mistake Gen. Yakubu Gowon made as Nigeria's Head of State when the Nigeria Civil War ended was that he did not initiate a Truth and Reconciliation Commission even though he declared that "there was no victor and no vanquished". Rwanda is a great example of how such a Commission can be useful in bringing wholeness to a country torn apart by war.

The various reactions motivated essentially by tribe to Late Prof. Chinua Achebe's book, "There was a country", proved how deep the wounds inflicted by the Nigeria Civil War were and how even those who did not experience the war were scarred by it. Nigeria and Nigerians have still not fully healed from the effect of that war even after four decades.

As Nigeria counts down to the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, which even the President and the Senate President now realise is inevitable (by whatever name it is called) if we are to move forward as a nation, I believe that as a major first step towards true national reconciliation, it is imperative that the Federal Government creates a special fund and pay back, with interest equivalent to at least the Central Bank of Nigeria's Monetary Policy Rates or the Minimum Rediscount Rates during the intervening period, all those Igbos and other Nigerians (or their successors) whose bank account balances were fraudulently appropriated when the Civil War ended. Justice and Equity demand that this be done at the least.


God bless Nigeria.

Nigeria di fure!

RIGHTLY DIVIDING BIBLICAL TRUTH: THE CASE OF CHRISTIAN CLICHES

Pastor Wale Adefuye wrote the following on his Facebook Timeline:

"HELP! HELP!! HELP!!!
A research effort needs your help in compiling a list of statements Christians utter, but are not consistent with Scriptures.

An example:
Someone dies and the Christian says, "May his soul rest in peace." "

And I made the following comments in response:
...
1. "I am strong".

Often said by sick Christians, not as a confession, but as an indication of ill-health.

2. Song: "Today oh, I will lift up my hands in praise.....when success comes my way, I will praise the Lord".

Anyone can praise the Lord "when success comes [their] way. The original song, in line with Scriptures, actually and correctly says "when TROUBLE comes my way, I will praise the Lord". It takes faith to praise God in trouble!

3. "God is in control".

Spoken as a fatalistic assumption that whatever happens is God's Will. God has given man authority on earth to permit whatever he wishes. God only takes control if and when He is given control by man's conscious submission of the situation to Him in faith.

4. "It is well".

Many Christians say this as a mere knee-jerk response to a statement or situation for which they have no rational answer or just to comfort themselves when they are troubled and perplexed. It is only truly well if and when the Christian engages the Wisdom of God, gains understanding and knows what he/she ought to do. Thus, the Christian can say it is well not merely in hope but in Word-grounded Faith.

5. "I claim it".

Spoken by many Christians to possess some material thing [usually a car, a house, a wife, a husband...etc] which the person making the statement is praying about and/or for which he/she is "believing God".
They say this as a "profession of faith" even when there is no specific indication from God that the object being "claimed" is in accord with His Revealed Will. Faith should begin when God's Will is known with certainty.

6. "You are blessed".

This is only true if the person to whom this statement is made is also a Christian. If the person does not know Jesus Christ as Lord, God and Saviour, he/she is NOT blessed. He/she may have much material possessions but he/she is a stranger from the commonwealth of Israel and is without God in this world.

7. "I am rich", "I am prosperous", "I am a billionaire" or such other confessions of financial blessings.

The declaration is only true and shall be fulfilled if the Christian is living in obedience to God. Many Christians are in sin, give bribes, tell lies, scheme and scam to make money yet they declare Covenant Blessings of financial prosperity when they are ruled by mammon. God is not mocked. True Kingdom Wealth, good success, comes from GOD. And it is such blessings from God which make rich and have no sorrow added. Gain is not godliness. Godliness is profitable and has the promise of this life and the one to come.

 

I must emphasize that the statements I listed above are all true and Scriptural by themselves in absolute terms. The error I am highlighting is that they have become mere clichés which many Christians mouth without any revelation or understanding of their Biblical context.

For example, if a Christian is sick and he/she declares "I am strong" as a confession of faith to be made whole, that is OK. But usually, the expression on the person's face and poise often make it evident that he/she wants to communicate that he/she is sick. If you ask such a person, "Why were you not in Church yesterday?", he/she would say "I was strong" to let you know he/she was indisposed. "Strong" is not a synonym for "sick"!

 

RE: EL RUFAI, CAN, APC AND THE PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS OF 2015: A POST SCRIPT

I have received several reactions to my article, "EL RUFAI, CAN, APC AND THE PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS OF 2015". Most of them were via Facebook.

Not unexpectedly, the comments were diverse and generally followed this pattern:

THE "AYES": Christians, PDP loyalists and Supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan's second term bid.

THE "NAYS": Fundamentalist Muslims, APC loyalists, "New PDP" Supporters, Buharists, El Rufaists and Anti-Jonathan Elements.

Nigerians are just hilarious. LOL! Again, not surprisingly, the most passionate comments were made by the Nays. Hence, the need for this Post Script.

I keep saying that Facebook is a leveller. There were commentators on the discussion thread who know me personally and call me "sir" when they meet me but who will spoke rudely about me.

But for Facebook, some commentators would never even engage with me. They will not even be allowed to see me if they filled a Visitor's Form and said they wanted to meet with me in my office. Some others would not even qualify to be employed as an Office Assistant or Driver in my Company. But na so Facebook dey be! LOL!

The hypocrisy of those accusing me of being a "religious bigot" and playing "religious politics" just reeks of the foulest odour! Most of them support APC because they are Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Kanuri, or Muslims. Others, because they just hate GEJ!

APC is the alliance of the Boko Haramist ANPP of the north-east, the feudal and Islamist CPC of the north-west and the Islamist but pretentious "progressive" ACN of the south-west.

Sadly, isn't Nigeria's politics today all about Religion, Tribe and Geo-Political Zones?!

Why do you think Nigeria was surreptitiously made a member of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (now "Cooperation") by Alhaji Gen. Ibrahim Babangida without the knowledge of his deputy, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe?

Why is there Shariah Law on criminal matters (in breach of Nigeria's Constitution) in the so-called "core" northern states? Even late Justice Mohammed Bello, Nigeria's former Chief Justice whose son (Abba Bello) was my classmate all through our days at King's College, Lagos, and remains a dear close friend till date, decalred that the introduction of Shariah Law over criminal matters by the paedophile Sani Yerima who was then the Governor of Zamfara State, was blatantly unconstitutional. Of course, Justice Bello was a very devout Muslim. Thank God the likes of Sheikh Gumi did not declare a fatwa on him!!

Why is the "Emir of Kano" hopeful, Alhaji Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, pushing Malaysia-style Islamic Banking in Nigeria despite being declared illegal and unconstitutional by Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja?

Why is there Boko Haram?

Why is GEJ being hounded by some of those who believe they must achieve Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello's dream of "dipping the Quran in the Atlantic Ocean" and making Nigeria the "estate of their jihadist grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio"?

Only a hypocrite will not acknowledge the reality that religion in Nigeria is politics!

I am not religious. I will never be religious. I hate religion. I am SPIRITUAL. There is a difference.

The spiritual man judges all things. But only the deep can call to the deep. Let the reader understand. Selah!

God bless Nigeria!

Nigeria di fure!!