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SUNDAY VANGUARD, FEBRUARY 14, 2021, PAGE 21 Insecurity: Give everyone sense of belonging, Baptist cleric advises FG By Olayinka Latona The New Estate Baptist Church, NEBC, has called on the Federal Government to give every Nigerian a sense of inclusiveness to prevent the country from degenerating into a state of anarchy. The church made the call while briefing journalists on the activities to mark the 60 anniversary of NEBC with the theme: "New Estate Baptist Church Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: An Enduring Legacy”. The Pastor in charge of the church, Rev. Amos Achi Kunat urged President Muhammadu Buhari led adminstration to be fully committed to the deepening of Nigeria’s democratic experiment by ensuring that all the sections and regions of the country were given a sense of belonging. In his words: "We call on the government to do all within its power and muster all resources available to it as well as employ the services of Nigerians across the different spectrums of life to find lasting solutions to the economic and security problems confronting the nation before they assume a dangerous curve. "Everything possible must be done to restructure the polity through constitutional Follow me as I follow Christ Text: 1 Corinthians 11:1 Today we want to look at the life of one character in the scriptures, one major spiritual heavyweight worthy of emulation, whose impact transcends time. He is no other person than Paul the Apostle. One of the spiritual figures whom the Lord used to turn the then world upside down. Through him the separation of Judaism and Christianity into two different religions became very clear and distinct. He was a man who chose to jeopardize his life for the purpose of the gospel. One By Pastor G.C. Osuigbo CAC Madaiyese Regional Headquaters Plot 701/702 Durumi District P.O. BOX 2577 Garki, Abuja. Contact us on: 08155555048, like us on facebook @cacdurumi Rev. Emmanuel Awazie *Assemblies of God Church Nigeria, 111 Clegg Street, Surulere, Lagos. Friendship with Jesus (1) Friendship is a rare oc currence but when it does happen, and by the design of God, that is the best thing that can ever happen to one. It is rare because a vast majority of us only want relationship that is cut and patterned after our personal, selfish and warped ways of thinking and being. The very essence of the natural man is myopic, selfish and exploitative. We are quick to manipulate and take advantage wherever and whenever we have the opportunity. What many had assumed to be friendship, have ended up in disappointment and greater damage to the individual and we all are guilty because at most times we have displayed means to ensure that every region of the country is equally catered for. “We believe strongly in the unity and indivisibility of the country because in unity we stand. Our diversity remains our strength and hallmark as a people and nation. Continuing: "Everything possible must be done to restructure the polity through constitutional means to ensure that every region of the country is equally catered for. Rev. Kunat added that more our lack of friendly dispositions “There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.” – Prov. 18:24 (NLT). A friend is one who selflessly makes me seek and do my very best in life. That is exactly what we stand to achieve through friendship with Jesus. Friendship with Jesus means that there is now something of the nature of Jesus in a man which has been imparted through a life of communion, on which God can base this friendship. It is this new disposition which is imparted and coming, not from within the individual, but akin to the benefactor Jesus Christ Himself and coming from Him powers must be devolved to the states and local government councils as well as allocate more resources to them to enable them cope with the responsibilities of modern day challenges and governance. While commending Nigerians for their resilience in the face of untold hardship, the cleric urged them to strive toward maintaining the oneness of the country as a single entity at all costs. L-R; Deacon Yinka Obalade, MD, Capital Express Global Assurance Limited, Lagos; Professor Grace Otinwa, Director, Quality Assurance and Servicom, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos; Rev. Amos Achi Kunat, pastor in charge of NEBC; Deacon Oji Alala, Chairman, International Control Systems Limited and Chairman, Board of Trustees, NEBC; Layi Babatunde (SAN), Editor - in - Chief, Newsbreed Law Publication and Secretary, Board of Trustees, NEBC and Deacon Bola Balogun,Chairman, NEBC 60th Anniversary Committee, during the press conference announcing the 60th anniversary of New Estate Baptist Church, Surlere, Lagos man who though he did not see Christ in the flesh, yet the impact of his ministry is seen by all and sundry. And by human judgment we can rightly say that he exceeded the impact of those who lived and walked physically with Jesus. Today the life of the Apostle Paul can be used as a template for faithfulness with regards to the life, ministry and calling of any true believers. The life of Paul is indeed a beacon for Christians relating to the faithfulness of a man who is connected to Christ Jesus. Before a product is introduced to the market, such a product must be proved, it must pass what we call the factory test. This is mandatory so as not to malign the name of the company. In fact, every product that is used in the market has guidelines as to its usage, and a range of what we can call permissive pressure before it buckles. This means that that product was designed specifically to withstand a particular range of pressure attesting to its durability and usability. Upon which if exceeded it fails. The life of Paul the Apostle is such as deserves both commendation and emulation. Paul was a man who was bold to ask people to copy his life style. How many preachers today can beat their chest and say such? Before Apostle Paul could make this boast in the Lord, God had to work upon his life. God is in the business of sitting upon the lives of individuals to effect proper pruning and moulding for spiritual development. alone, that forms the basis for, nurtures this friendship and produces the gains of this relationship. This disposition must be present and in place for the true realization of friendship because friendship places enormous demands on the people in the relationship and you could not place a demand on what was not present just as the exponentiation of zero would only give you an absolute zero. You will remember the story in the Gospel of Luke, chapter eleven on our Lord’s pattern for prayer and the story of the friend at midnight. The importunate request was predicated on a key factor in their relationship, as “...a friend loveth at all times....” Prov. 17:17. The story of the life of Abraham is very apt; he was called the friend of God, and God was obligated to the “ ... descendants of my good friend Abraham.” Isa. 41:8 (Msg.). YWCA worries over impact of COVID on women …Calls for integration of gender in national response By Chioma Obinna The Young Women’s Christian Association, YWCA, has expressed worry over the possible impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women and children. It also called for a holistic management approach to address the pandemic in communities. According to the YWCA leadership, gender factor must be integrated into the national response of the pandemic. Speaking during a stakeholders webinar recently to present findings of a need assessment survey carried out by the organisation in Lagos, Insecurity: Group tasks Yoruba on self-protection By Olayinka Ajayi A Yoruba movement, oth erwise known as Yoruba Nation Now, YNN, has urged Yoruba sons and daughters across South-West to be vigilant and protect themselves from killer herdsmen. In a statement, spokesperson for the group, Dr. Ola Ajanlekoko, maintained that recent happenings in Yoruba land could not be overlooked, saying:” We the Yoruba in Diaspora, hereby declare our firm commitments and undy- On this week’s Cable News Network (CNN) top-rated show, African Voices ChangeMakers, Bolanle Austen-Peters, commonly referred to as the Queen of Nigerian Theatre will be featured. The magazine show sponsored by Globacom will explore the unique journey of success the Nigerian creative icon has taken. Bolanle is a lawyer and award-winning film and the National General Secretary of YWCA, Mrs. Ijeoma Nweke through the Bread For The World Project funded by their World Movement in Geneva Switzerland, they carried out a need assessment to document the experience of women and girls in the state with COVID- 19. She added that the need assessment also set the gender specific advocacy agenda on COVID-19 response in Lagos and Nigeria at large. “With the global absence of an effective therapy or limited access to an effective vaccine it is anticipated that the pandemic will have more severe adverse consequences, *Calls for Sunday Igboho’s support he Peoples Democartic TParty, PDP, chieftain and former Delta State governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has condemned claim by the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, that herders should carry AK47. He also agreed with the Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State that bandits should be flushed out of the country. Mohammed was reported to have said that herders had no option than to carry AK47 for their protection and that of their cows. Addressing journalists in Asaba, Delta State, Onuesoke said it was not only shocking but embarrassing for a governor who is a chief security of a state, to make such an errant statement when “there is Nigerian Firearms Act (1990) which provides that no person shall have in his possession or under his control, any firearm or ammunition except such person has a license from the President or from the Inspector General of Police. “Allowing herdsmen to carry AK47 about means giving them preferential treatment than other Nigerians and it can also make them do and undo as law abiding Nigerians are ex- ing resolve to flush out any individuals, tribes, groups, associations and movements that are involved in crimes against humanity. “It is also beyond arguments that the Yoruba security has been compromised by the Nigerian oligarchy local, state and federal governance. We will neither negotiates nor enters into any bargain on the safety of the Yoruba natives. The group urged Yoruba sons and daughters to join hands with them to openly condemn killer herdsmen. “The clarion calls are on all By Osa Amadi The autobiography of Chief Mrs. Taiwo Taiwo titled, “My Mother’s Daughter” will be publicly presented on 16 February, 2021. Speaking to the press in Lagos yesterday, the author said the book, which offers valuable insights on inter-generational female entrepreneurship and mentorship, also contains materials on the importance of mentorship for young entrepreneurs. The online event will also be used to celebrate Taiwo’s mother with friends, family, business associates and members of her numerous mentorship groups, as she theatre director. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Terra Kulture, a Nigerian arts and culture centre located in Lagos, as well as a film company, BAP Productions, which has produced various musicals, including 'Saro The Musical', 'Wakaa The Musical', 'Moremi The Musical', 'Fela and the Kalakuta Queens’ and ‘Fela's Republic and The Kalakuta Queens'. The 52-year-old mother of two has also produced especially on women and girls who are usually the worse hit in health emergencies. “The effects will be direr on the vulnerable women and girls with primary focus on their sexual and reproductive health and rights, psycho-social and mental well-being. “The national response on COVID-19 is primarily centered on disease surveillance and prevention of infection transmission; which is an understandable approach. However it has missed the community response link that brings to bare the holistic approach to epidemic control.” Yoruba sons and daughters, at home and abroad to fully support every Yoruba agitators, including Chief Sunday Adisa Adeyemo a.k.a Chief Sunday Igboho,” it added. “In the pursuit of this agitation, all Yoruba should begin to protect themselves with all available means as advised by General T.Y Danjuma. Be vigilant in your environment and within your surroundings. “Yorubas should be proactive and be fully involved in stopping the criminal activities perpetrated by killer herdsmen, within our communities, highways and forests”. Banditry: Onuesoke backs El-Rufai, chides Bala Mohammed periencing at presents “And if the Governor says because of the hazard of their business then, the okada riders, the keke riders, the taxi drivers, farmers, traders and in short all Nigerians should carry AK-47 because there is no business without hazard,” he stated. Onuesoke disclosed that what is expected Governor Bala was to caution the herdsmen to respect the law and the people on whose lands they do business instead of forcefully occupying their lands, terrorising innocent citizens and molesting their women. While supporting the call by El-Rufai for the elimination of bandits, the PDP stalwart said the current level of insecurity in Nigeria must be confronted without mercy. Taiwo’s new book offer ers s mentor orship to young entrepreneurs clocks 70 years. Chief Mrs. Taiwo Taiwo is the Chairman, Lexham Investments (owners of Shonny Investment & Properties) Trustee. She is also the founding and immediate past Chairman of Atlantic Hall and Chairman, Aart of Life foundation. As a young lady who was thrown into the family business in her early 20s after finishing school in England, her many years of experience in entrepreneurship, as well as her roles as a vibrant activist in society building ventures like Atlantic Hall Secondary School, Aart of Life Foundation etc., will be very valuable to young girls and middleage women of the present generation. Nigeria’s ‘Queen of Theatre’, Bolanle Austen-Peters, features on Glo-Sponsored African Voices several films, including ‘93 Days’ and ‘Bling Lagosians’. She is currently nursing a new project, an online academy which has the prospect of expanding the Nigerian theatre. She is the daughter of Chief Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a graduate of the University of Lagos as well as a Master's degree holder in International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
PAGE 22—SUNDAY VANGUARD, FEBRUARY 14, 2021 In-depth research now proves size matters! One would have thought these busy-body scientists would have more beneficial things to do than delving into the anatomy of men. One of the great mysteries of mankind may have been solved by these Nosey Parkers. Scientists from King’s College in London have measured 15,000 penises in 16 countries. This work has allowed them, after feeding the findings into computers, making boffinish statistical adjustments, twiddling knobs and squinting at graphs, to announce an average size for men’s undercarriage. This in turn has been seized on as having psychological significance. Apparently, men are now less likely to have a nervous collapse about their own shortcomings. “We have not been told the logistical ins and outs, if that is the term, of this ground-breaking global operation,” commented Martin Letts, a social critique. “The research demanded at least two readings (one at ease, one standing to quivering attention) for each specimen. The mind boggles. Were the laboratory assistants who took the data dreary middle-aged men speaking in monotones, or were they busty, sultry ladies with husky larynxes and widening eyes? To what level of exactitude were the measurements taken? What instruments were employed - school rulers, tape measures, laser micrometers or (ouch) cold, industrial clippers? While we’re about it, exactly how in 16 languages, do you say ‘sorry to interrupt your busy day, monsieur, but would you mind dropping your drawers so that my pouting assistant Miss Droop can take the bore and length of your old man?” The ‘expert’ who led the psychiatrists from King’s College Hospital, announced that the average length of an erect penis is 5.6in. Typically, it sounds more in continental centimetres - 13.12cm. The figure shrivels to 3.6in when the member is in a state of genital repose. “I seriously doubt that many men are much concerned by these readings,” continued Martin. “I bet most of us, when we read the report, discreetly did some thumb work to try to work out what 5.6in looks like, and then had a rough gonder below decks to see how we fared by comparison. “But will men have been psychologically affected? Does size matter to them as it is said to matter, particularly to their wives and girlfriends? Or is this yet another attempt by the medical/psychiatric world to create colly wobbles where previously few existed? Dr. Veale said his findings would help doctors reassure the large majority of men that the size of their penis is in the normal range. He said he would ‘use the graphs to examine the discrepancy between what a man believes to be their position on the graph and their actual position’. Another doctor disclosed that some men, poor fellows, suffer from something called body dysmorphic disorder, which can cause a person to have a distorted view of how he looks. Apparently, this is a serious source of anxiety to some gents, who become convinced they are laughably tiny. One does not wish to downplay the gravity of body dysmorphic disorder which no doubt exists. One naturally has sympathy with those who may worry that they have been given short commons in the trousers department by the Almighty. “But is this perhaps a case of publicly employed scientists going to expensive lengths to investigate a not particularly widespread problem? Is male appendage size quite possibly a false hoo-hah created by society? There may be extreme cases of smallness or vastness, where it can create disharmony between men and their sexual partners. The late Elizabeth Taylor had physical difficulty with one of her early husbands, so enormous was his manhood. Wide as a beer can, apparently. But does any of this truly justify a research operation of the size (dread word) just carried out by these London medics? And anyway, are women really so concerned with measurements than size - namely love? “For millennia, the male member has occupied a curious place. Immediately riposte: Yes, mate, between your legs! Men know there is not much they can really do to alter the equipment fate has given them. Women can increase, decrease the size of their busts by visiting a plastic surgeon, but medical science offers men much less chance to vary their dimensions. Similarly, despite all those baldness cure adverts, there is not much they can do to stop their hairlines receding. You just have to accept it and get on with life. Adrian Mole may have agonised about this subject, but he was created by a woman. I simply don’t believe, even in this age of explicit advertisements with endless commercial emphasis on sex, that men give much thought to their willy size. “I attended boarding schools in the seventies and barely recall anyone mentioning how well hung they were. We did have one boy who was nicknamed ‘Chopper’, but that was because he was a notoriously dirty tackler on the football field. Did we size up one another in the communal showers? Not that I recall. Mind you, I have always been short-sighted and in showers, you naturally have to remove your spectacles. If I had been interested in seeing how a fellow-student measured up, then I would have had to peer down quite close for a proper gawp, and I’m not sure that would have been appreciated!” Networking/ Sponsorship Ramon needs financial help of N375,000, from well meaning Nigerians to enable him do hernia surgery. Account 1394331176 Access Bank, Ramon Parakoyi. 08032211604,07041939050 Chuks from Imo state, needs sponsorship of N100, 000, from good spirited Nigerians to enable him finance his poultry farm business, account number 0024199168, Unity Bank. 08165499638 Simon needs financial help of N 800,000, from well meaning Nigerians to enable him buy a mini bus, for transportation, account number 0055663914, Access Bank, Simon Andrew. 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HRM Okumagba 11 , the Orosuen of Okere Urhobo Kingdom and his wife HRH Mary Okumagba ( middle) and some chiefs of Okere Urhobo Kingdom after the installation of three kingmakers at the palace of the Orosuen of Okere Urhobo, Warri . man to satisfy her sexual urge. 08068684663 Gloria 52, civil servant, mother of two, resides in Ilorin Kwara State, needs a responsible and God fearing man, for a relationship. 08053761844 Grace 25, hot, busty, and sexually active, needs a man to satisfy her sexually. 08148595415 Sunshine 30, fair in complexion, average height, a single mother, from Delta State, needs a serious minded man, who is caring and loving, aged 34-45, for a relationship that will lead to marriage.08143828783 A lady 36, dark in complexion, from Anambra State, needs a comfortable man, aged 40-50, who is Igbo by tribe, for marriage. 09020248790 Searching Male Don't drag Omo-Agege's name into hijack of revalidation materials — Onokpite warns Achieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and legislative aide to the Deputy President of the Senate, Comrade Edafe Onokpite, yesterday, warned those alleging that his boss, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege hijacked the materials for revalidation and registration exercise in Delta. 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Onokpite who addressed newsmen in Ugono community, Okpe local government area of Delta State, said no reasonable person would think that the APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, Jones Erue connived with the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege to divert materials for the exercise, saying that the allegations is nothing but a figment of the writer's Augustine, from Onitsha, needs a fat and busty lady, that resides in Anambra, aged 23- 28, for a relationship, that will lead to marriage. 09039200125 Onyeka 36, from Delta State, needs a lady, aged 35- 45, for fun. 09038796410 Obi, from Anambra State, needs a sexy lady, for fun. 08126562447, 08064744381 A man, 41, employed, needs a lady, preferably in Warri and environs, aged 45 and above for a serious love relationship. 08036811482 Ifeanyi 40, a businessman, resides in Abuja, needs a God fearing lady, for a relationship that will lead to marriage. 07040233139 imagination. 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