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By Femi Aribisala In the churches, truth has fallen in the pews and falsehood has become the established doctrine.   Bishop David Oyedepo says poverty is not of God.  He insists a child of God has no business being poor and declares: “There’s a proven covenant cure for poverty.”  If this were true and proven, all the world’s poor would have become rich Christians by now.  Let us juxtapose the bishop’s enticing words with the word of God and see whose report should be believed.  Jesus says: “You will always have the poor among you.”   (John 12:8).    Moses says: “The poor will never cease from the land.”   (Deuteronomy 15:11).   So where does that leave Bishop Oyedepo’s “proven covenant cure for poverty?”  It is a pie in the sky. Wealth transfer A few years ago, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo organised a crusade in Port Harcourt , Nigeria captioned “The Coming Wealth Transfer.”  The import of this crusade was to bring t...

  Mark Amaza I am writing this article mainly for the benefit of Southern Nigerians who have never been to the North, and mostly have a warped and inaccurate view of the North. I have been driven to write this out of my many personal experiences, and those of friends and family, as has been shared with me. This is mainly an educative piece about what Northern Nigeria is in reality; a complete, holistic picture of this region. To make this piece a simple read and easy-to-follow, I am going to write it around five common perceptions about the North and debunk them: Religious Perception: The general belief held by most Southerners about the North is that the region is not just mainly Muslim, but wholly Muslim. Whenever I meet someone from the South and introduce myself, I am correctly placed as a Christian. But once I am asked my state and I say Borno State, the next question becomes, ‘Are you a Muslim?’ This is despite my name being a very common Biblical name, Mark, which is the...