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Idah Peterside, the Nigerian ex international who is a soccer analyst on DSTV has added another feather to his cap. The former Eagles goal keeper retired in South Africa and started a church there while also working for Multichoice, the owners of DSTV as a commentator on Supersport. After the 2010 World Cup, he relinquished the job of a spokesman of the Super Eagles, saying that he needed time to concentrate more on his church, The Christ Ambassador Church in Johannesburg which he said was “touching many lives.” Peterside informed yesterday that Christ Ambassador Church has established a cable television station named ATV. Said he: “It is a Christian Television and it is on  DSTV in South Africa. It is received in Australia, UK, parts of Europe like Spain and some Sub Sahara Africa. We do programmes on Gospel, lifestyle, Comedy and a few other things. We may add sports to it in a way soon. Christ Ambassador Church is gowing and one of the biggest in South Africa. God has been faithful ...

By Banji Ojewale To be honest, I think we failed (William Folorunsho) Kumuyi when he was so serious about Bible Study---Primate Joseph Abiodun Adetilo-ye (1929-2012) GOD planted Deeper Life Bible Church and asked William Folorunsho Kumuyi to tend it. Very much like the Edenic story: God organized a garden and put Adam in charge. The young evangelist and Mathematics lecturer at the University of Lagos insisted that God sent him to deliver nothing but the face value of the Bible he held as his authority. Few people took him seriously. God broke the deadlock in August 1973 when Kumuyi, still teaching, started a Bible Study Group in his official Flat 2 residence at Unilag. The 15-member team met every Monday under the leadership of William Folorunsho Kumuyi. Here, he sowed the seed of what God has turned into a huge church straddling all of Nigeria and reaching outwards across Africa and to several dozens of nations all over Planet Earth. What he taught principally on Day One – holiness wi...

By SAM EYOBOKA & OLAYINKA LATONA INTENSE intercessory prayers, horse trading and highwire politicking which began some weeks ago will today dovetail into the election of a new prelate who will pilot the affairs of the  Methodist Church Nigeria for the next five years. The polls will take place at the Williams Memorial Methodist Cathedral, Ebute-Metta, Lagos Central Diocese of the church with the outgoing prelate, Most Rev. Sunday Ola-tunji Amos Makinde who was inaugurated on November 12, 2006 at Trinity Methodist Church, Tinubu, Lagos, presiding. Sources close to the church told our reporter yesterday that there will be two services today; the first one starting at about 8.00 a.m. and the second which is the main event of the day, when the election is expected to hold, will be an exclusive affair with only invited guests in attendance. The morning service which may drag till around midday will be headlined by the ordination of some persons as priests. Our source said 145 persons wo...

By Johnson Omomadia We believe that God wants to move your life to a new realm that you have never experienced.  As you read this message, please try not to reason it out or rationalize it. Just accept it and you will see God’s manifestation in your life as you begin to apply it. Our main text will be taken from Prov. 3:5. “trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding”. The text started by saying that we should trust in the Lord. To trust means, to believe, to depend on, and to have absolute confidence in someone. This means that the one you trust must be the one that cannot fail. The word Lord implies Master, meaning the one that is in absolute control of circumstances. From this little definition, we can see that, when the bible says that we should trust in the Lord, we are been told that God is trustworthy and that you can depend on Him. He always does what He promises (see I Kings 8:56). The text also says we should trust God with all of our hea...

By Johnson Omomadia No matter how bad your case may be, it can still be changed for good. Everything that has a beginning surely has an end. The only thing that has no beginning and an end is God Himself. This is why He is called the unchangeable changer. I see Him intervening in your situation in the name of Jesus. You will laugh again. God is not through with you just yet. He is working things out for your good. I declare to you that by the mighty power of God, all your enemies will be put to shame. With your eyes will you behold the reward of the wicked?  Pharoah said who is the Lord that I should let the children of Israel go, so that they can worship Him (Exo. 5:2)? Pharaoh thought he had all power and that he was the all and all. He had no respect for God who created him. He forgot that the creature can never be greater than the Creator. He was so full of confidence that no one can free the isrealites from his domain. This year, your mockers and enemies will congratulate you in J...

By Sam Eyoboka A FEW days after the installation of a Catholic bishop for the university town of Nsukka in Enugu State, a senior lecturer with the University of Nigeria in the town, Dr. Tony Nwaezeigwe has expressed displeasure over the huge budget expended on the pro-ject, accusing the church lead-ership of insensitivity. Dr. Nwaezeigwe, a Senior Research Fellow at UNN’s Institute of African Studies, wondered why the Catholic Church which often frowns at the high level corruption in the current government should budget a whooping N335 million for the installation of a new bishop for Nsukka Diocese. [caption id="attachment_403129" align="alignnone" width="412"] *Bishop Godfrey Igwebuike Onah of Nsukka Diocese being crowned by His Eminence, John Cardinal Olorunfemi Onaiyekan. PHOTO: HILL EZEUGWU[/caption] In a statement made available to Vanguard , the lecturer wondered if the Church leadership is on the same page with “its teaming masses? Otherwise, why ...

By Johnson Omomadia Too many people are today being deceived that their future is hopeless and that nothing good can come out of it. They have been lied to by Satan that change is not possible. Some believe this lie or their present situation because probably they have tried certain things for years and yet no positive change has occurred. Thus, they have concluded that their lives can never be better. God has sent me to you today to let you know that His thought concerning you is of peace and not of evil and to give you an expected glorious end, a future and a hope (Jer. 29:11). God did not create you with a destiny that is useless. God is a glorious God. Everything He does is wonderful. This is why I know that your life is planned with great wonders waiting to happen. Don’t believe the lie that your present status is your destiny. It is not true. It can be changed. You can change it. Jabez in the Bible, was given the name by his mother. Jabez means sorrow, pain, displeasure etc. Jabe...

By CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA – THE Nigerian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (NIFES) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to assent to the bill prohibiting same sex marriage in the country without any further delay. The Gay Right Bill recently passed by the National Assembly stipulates 14 years jail term for any body found guilty of the offence. The national director of NIFES, Mr. Bala Usman, who made the call at a press conference on the NIFES Witness 2013 Mission Conference tagged; ‘The Ambassador’, in Abuja noted that, it is high time society stood against gayism, because of its ravaging effect on youths. He described homosexuality as “the zenith of immorality and immoral impunity which should not and never be allowed in our nation. “NIFES has strongly campaigned and stood against gayism and lesbianism which seek to ravage our youth and their future. We commend the National Assembly for prohibiting homosexualism and lesbianism through the passage of the bill, in spite of external ...

FOLLOWING poor performances of young persons in terminal public examinations and the decay that has enveloped the nation’s education sector and the need to restore the lost glory of Nigerian educational system, The Redeemed Christian Church of God RCCG, has declared a one-day special prayer/thanksgiving service for the sector, reports Olayinka Latona. The event with a theme, “Excellent Spirit” is scheduled for Sunday, July 7, at the church headquarters in Ebute Meta, Lagos and will feature the church’s General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye. Briefing newsmen at the church's national headquarters, Pastor Adeboye, who was represented by the Assistant Pastor-in-Charge (Social Responsibility), Pastor Goke Aniyeloye, said the programme will serve as a platform to ask God to revive Nigeria’s educational system and bring back its lost glory. In his words: “I believe that when lecturers, vice chancellors, rectors, executive vice chancellors, bursars, registrars and provosts of all higher i...