Reverend Chukwuma Chukwuemezie Peters is the General Overseer of Fire Pentecostal Ministries at Akowonjo, Lagos. He spoke to OLAYINKA LATONA on security situation in the country especially the dreaded Boko Haram sect. Excerpts:

FOR two memorable days, children aged between five and 20 years from across the country gathered at the sprawling Redemption Camp of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for a time of refreshing away from pure academic endeavours.

The readiness to forgive demanded by the Lord’s prayer is a religious attitude rooted in the experience of a forgiving Father. Human forgiveness is both a consequence of and a condition for our being forgiven by God. Forgiveness is linked to a refusal to condemn because we are sinners and we cannot read hearts.

This is the Good News about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It began as the prophet Isaiah had written: “God said, ‘I ‘will send my messenger ahead of you’ to prepare the way for you. Someone is shouting in the desert. Prepare the way of the Lord, make a straight path for him to travelf” Matthew 3:3.

REVEREND Uma Ukpai is a unique evangelist with a unique anointing to make profound declarations including one he made two years ago that a remote village known as Toru-Orua in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State would produce a governor, prophecy that came to past with the recent election of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson.

THE Goodluck Jonathan administration deployed soldiers and tanks in the streets of Lagos. This was not because the city was under siege from an invading enemy army and therefore needed to be defended by the Nigerian Armed Forces. It was not to quell an insurrection by anarchists and seditious elements that had already overwhelmed the Nigeria Police Force.

Apostle Eunice Gordon Osagiede of the Spirit and Life Bible Church, is the initiator of Women in the New Nigeria for Empowerment and Positive Change, WINN, a non-profit, non-governmental, interfaith organization. She believes in the progress of Nigeria. In this interview with KENNETH EHIGIATOR, she proffers solutions to the numerous socio-political challenges currently facing the country.

Against the backdrop of the killings targeted at Christians in the north by Islamist group, Boko Haram, top Pentecostal pastors in the country say their members would not embark on reprisal attacks.

Reverend Chukwuma Chukwuemezie Peters is the General Overseer of Fire Pentecostal Ministries at Akowonjo, Lagos. He spoke to OLAYINKA LATONA on security situation in the country especially the dreaded Boko Haram sect. Excerpts:

A CHRISTIAN cleric has warned victims of Boko Haram bomb attacks to be wary of the gifts they accept in the name of compensations, arguing that many of such largesse often accompanying purported solidarity visits are aimed at wooing the Christian community to surreptitiously support the Boko Haram course.