Nigerians have been urged to cultivate the habit of using their various gifts to edify the Body of Christ, rather than destroying the Church.

THOSE familiar with contemporary Nigerian history will recall how erstwhile vice president Abubukar Atiku was manipulated out of the octopal Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ahead of the 2007 presidential elections. Neither will they forget in a hurry the intrigues and manipulations that made characters like Rotimi Amaechi to employ a tortuous legal voyage before they were able to restore their stolen mandate to rule over the people of Rivers State.

Then late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was in detention and he made a copy of the first agreement available to us at the student level. We went through it and we were not very happy. It was signed by Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Nnamdi Azikiwe and the document gave the full right to the British to use our airspace to test their air force planes. We felt this has negated the whole idea of our independence significantly and we mobilized the student movement and the country knew that we were serious and the Anglo-Nigeria Defence Pact was cancelled. Same thing with the census figures.

In every contest, you have to contend with the opposition. If you must possess your possession of good health, you must get up and fight. What you don’t want, you don’t watch! What you don’t fight has the right to prevail! What you don’t confront, you cannot conquer!

By Sam EYOBOKA  THE much advertised Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN conference aimed at choosing a new leadership for the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria may have come and gone but the reverberations will linger for a while yet. The two-day affair at the Ecumenical Centre in Abuja amply demonstrated beyond all reasonable doubt […]