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OPINION: Discussing Portable, Apostle Suleiman, Fufeyin And Chosen Liars (1)

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Tunde Odesola

Inhumanity was an unknown word in humanity until some white perverts, backed by racist European royals, sailed all the way from Europe to motherland Africa under the darkness of commerce and christianisation, before drawing the guns of colonialism from under their cassocks to enslave Africa, despoil its minerals, loot its artefacts, condemn its culture and shatter its soul.

Since that singular misadventure and miscarriage of global sociocultural order about 200 years ago, the four cardinal directions of the compass – North, South, East and West – have, more than ever, pointed to insecurity, poverty, diseases and suspicion.

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Before the last chains of colonalism were broken, the West had murdered sleep, keeping an eye on the world, especially Africa. The West, like an old church bell in a concrete tower, despite its far-reaching sound, still needs the human hand to nudge it to perform its ringing function. The West looks pleasant and prosperous to the eye but it is indeed poor in soul and broken in spirit.

The West: rightly calls Adolf Hitler’s killing of six million Jews pogrom. This West: made a place for Israel in the Middle East. But their West has no name for the centuries-old forceful uprooting and shipping of millions of Africans from their aboriginal habitats to lands of harshest weathers, unfamiliar foods, foreign tongues and strange God.

That West has gone back to the West. But its footprints on the soul of Africa have congealed like the pawprints of the lion coagulate in the blood of its prey. The East is no better. To assuage the sorrows, tears and blood of Africans colonised and forced into slavery, the West needs to seek remission from Africa and embark on reparation. This will soothe the years of colonial hurt and assuage the economic imbalance prevalent in Africa. One wonders why African leacders can’t speak in one voice to demand reparation.

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But will the Nigerian government spend such a windfall judiciously if it ever comes? I won’t risk a bet on that, not in these hard times when a litre of petrol goes for N1,200, amid empty ‘e lo f’okan bale reassurance’. However, I believe Rwanda, Morocco, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana and some other serious African countries will spend theirs gazillion-dollar windfalls appropriately. If it ever comes.

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The importation of Christianity to Africa by Europeans, with its attendant fortes and foibles, was, essentially, a manipulative tool in the hands of the enslaving Europeans, to make Africans stupid enough to exploit, and not to win souls for Christ. How would a race preaching to save the African continent from hellfire also loot and enslave it? The boa constrictor does not cuddle for love’s sake.

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Christianity, I believe, would still have found its way to Africa without being escorted by colonisation, commerce and slavery because true western gospellers abound in Europe who would have brought Christianity to Africa with no strings attached.

Sixty-three years after independence, the wheel of religion has turned full cycle in Nigeria. The same end to which Europeans deployed religion as a tool of colonisation is the same end many Christian and Muslim clerics are today deploying religion as an opium to zombify worshippers. Particularly irritating are the actions of many Christian clerics that border on the absurd. Many Nigerian churches no longer preach hope and salvation to worshippers singed by government policies. Churches are now wrestling rings where pastors engage worshippers in body slams, takedowns, kicks and chokeholds to perform healings. Church services now provoke louder laughter than Tom and Jerry cartoons or ‘Visa On Arrival’ – a Nigerian TV series. The church is now a laughing stock.

But I didn’t laugh when I watched the video of one fellow in Auchi, Johnson Suleiman, who goes by the title of an apostle. Each time I wached the video, I shook my head in pity for the deceit that has engulfed Nigerian christendom. I watched it more than 20 times, hissing at each viewing.

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In the video, Suleiman claimed he raised the dead, that’s no problem; the snail once showed up in the gathering of horned creatures.

Suleiman told his jubilant congregation, “Three days ago, someone sent me a text from Monrovia, Monrovia is in Liberia, and he said, ‘My sister just died’. I said, ‘Oh, too bad, too bad, sorry about that’. He said, ‘My sister was your daughter’. I said, ‘Whose daughter?’ He said, ‘Your daughter.’ I said, ‘I don’t know,’ and he began to describe (her), ‘She comes to the headquarters, and (he) said a lot of things…I said, ‘Wait, wait, I know, I know that face; yes, that person you’ve mentioned gave me a seed and brought some stuff. He said, ‘Yes, she’s dead.’

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“I said, ‘Ehn!? Who permitted her to die!? I said where is the body? He said it’s in Enugu State. He said she died in the fiance’s house. I said give the boy my number, and the boy sent me text. I said where is she now? He said ‘we are taking her to the mortuary’. I said ‘turn back’. He said, ‘Sir, what do you mean?’ I said, ‘Turn back, go back home. When you get home, don’t send me a text, call’. And he called.

“And I said, ‘Put one hand on her and just hold the phone. And I said, ‘Lord, IT IS BETTER for 1,000 STINGY PEOPLE TO DIE THAN FOR ONE GIVER TO DIE! And I shouted, ‘Abigail, this is not your time, in the name of Jesus….”

This was how Suleiman raised the unknown dead woman, who didn’t deem it fit to come out openly for thanksgiving days after she was raised. There’s no video of the formerly dead Abigail in the public space; no one knows her, what an ingrate she probably is for melting into thin air like a fart. That Suleiman raised the dead because she wasn’t stingy is a classical example of transactional gospel which is anti-Christ. In the wisdom of Suleiman, it’s better for 1,000 stingy people to die than for him to pray for their forgiveness.

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I wonder if the God of Suleiman travelled to Baal when armed men attacked his convoy along the Benin-Auchi Road about two years, killing seven persons, including three policemen and four others. Suleiman, who was in a bulletproof car with his wife and children during the attack, said, “The truth of the matter is this, you can’t kill me. My life is in the hand of God.” The excort vehicles used by the police and the other persons killed in the attack were not bulltproof.

This Suleiman was the one who proclaimed he didn’t want COVID to end because he bought a jet during COVID lockdown a few years ago. Hear him, “In COVID, I bought a jet. The third one, I have three…I was praying for COVID not to end because I was resting. While people were complaining, my wife asked me, ‘Can life be this sweet?”

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Although Suleiman later came out in another video to say the statement was a slip of the tongue, claiming he never meant to say he was praying for COVID not to end, the questions that come to mind include: was the ‘can life be this sweet’ remark by his wife also a slip of the tongue? Or was he lying with his wife’s name? What life was his wife referring to as sweet – buying a plane when the whole world was on lockdown? Why did Suleiman have to wait till his reckless speech attracted a backlash before he renounced it? If he didn’t mean every word of his imprudent statement, he should have long repudiated it before it boomeranged.

Do you know what the street calls lamba? This is it. I don’t know how Suleiman’s congregation sat down calmly through this lie of a testimony which he delivered with so much braggadocio. If I was in his church, I would have shouted, “Oluwa mi, eyi o wa po ju!?,” and Gbenga Adeboye, the late fabulist and extraordinary comedian, would have turned in his grave. I don’t have the power to wake the dead.

Hear Suleiman’s lamba, “I got a jet and after three months, I noticed I need to service the jet. I sent the jet for servicing. As the people got the jet, it was very fine, the company that’s to service it, they didn’t touch it, they refused to service it, we would call them, call them, call them, they refused, for one year, they didn’t touch it, they made sure all the parts, because an aircraft, the way it works, every part of an aircraft has a timeframe, whether you use it or you don’t use it, if it’s more than one year, you have to change, they didn’t touch it, they made sure all the parts ran out of time. I struggled and bought the parts again. When they fixed the new parts, they were not picking call(s) again, they didn’t touch it…”

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“For three years, they were begging, they said ‘this plane is fine, please, sell it for us’. I said, ‘Are you people ok? Ok, don’t fix it again, give me’. But you cannot fly it when it is not in shape. I begged, I pleaded, I almost started crying…(I said) give me, they said, ‘sell it (to) us’, (I said), ‘give me’, they said, ‘sell it (to) us’…”

To be continued.

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Back To School: Lions Club Distributes Educational Materials In Edo Schools

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The Benin Etete Unique and Edo Heritage Lions of the International Association of Lions Club on Friday jointly distributed educational materials to two schools in Benin City as part of the association corporate services to humanity.

The two clubs in District 404-A4 Lions Nigeria, jointly carried out the distribution of notebooks, maths sets, school bags and sandals, pens and other writing materials to excited pupils in Ivbioba Primary School and Oghede-Ivioba Primary School, Ugbighoko, Egor Local Government Area, and Evbiyenava Primary School, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

Themed, Back to School Project, pupils were also engaged in Reading Action Program (RAP) and Spelling Bee Competition, after which winners were presented with special prizes.

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In their remarks, Lions Darlington Uyi and Franca Nikoro, presidents of Benin Etete Unique and Edo Heritage Lions Clubs stated that the vision of the Lions International is to serve humanity.

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They, therefore, tasked pupils on commitment to their studies in order to attain their fullest potentials in life.

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Emulate Lions in your visions for tomorrow. We have various professionals as members, and if you are committed to your studies, obedient to your parents and teachers, you will attain great heights,” Lion Uyi Darlinton Stated.

Our vision is to serve, and we are here like we do every period to ensure Literacy is inculcated in pupils to enable them to attain their full potential. It is our earnest desire that you grow into well rounded personalities. Literacy is important in order to actualize that aspiration,” Franca Nikoro stated.

Earlier, in his address, Lion Sir Dede Henry Idemudia, Zone 6A Chairperson, tasked the pupils on good conduct, honour to parents and guardians and obedience to instructions of school authority.

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NAFDAC Gives Nigerian Food Companies 18 Months To Cut Trans Fats

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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has set an 18-month grace period, effectively giving food companies until early 2026 before facing full enforcement of regulations to eliminate industrially produced Trans-Fatty Acids (TFA).

The initiative, launched as a comprehensive strategy and roadmap for TFA regulation, moves Nigeria from simply having the policy to enforcing its world-class standard: a regulatory limit of no more than two grams of industrially produced trans fat per 100 grams of total fat or oil.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, emphasised that the roadmap moves the country beyond policy creation to aggressive enforcement and implementation.

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This was contained in the NAFDAC DG’s keynote speech posted on the agency’s official X (formerly Twitter) on Friday.

Adeyeye stressed the moral imperative of the Agency’s mission.

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The removal of industrially produced trans fats from the food chain is not only a technical achievement, but a moral imperative.

“Eliminating industrially produced trans fats is possible, achievable, necessary, and urgent,” Adeyeye stated, calling for national collaboration.

The moratorium period is designed to allow manufacturers to exhaust existing stock with outdated labels and reformulate their products to comply with the legal limit.

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NAFDAC’s action targets a dangerous dietary risk factor strongly linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, and premature death globally.

Adeyeye emphasised the significance of the move beyond technical compliance, noting, “The removal of industrially produced trans fats from the food chain is not only a technical achievement, but a moral imperative.”

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This aggressive step builds upon Nigeria’s existing reputation; the country was recognised by the World Health Organisation in 2023 for adopting best-practice TFA elimination policies.

The new roadmap is key to securing WHO validation of Nigeria’s full TFA elimination programme, establishing the nation as a regional leader in public health interventions.

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Mohbad’s Father Urges Lagos AG To Prosecute Wife, Nurse, Others

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Joseph Aloba, the father of late singer Mohbad, has urged the Lagos State government to initiate criminal proceedings against individuals named in the coroner’s inquest into his son’s death.

Mohbad passed away on September 12, 2023, following an injection administered by auxiliary nurse Feyisayo Ogedengbe.

Despite being buried the next day, public outcry and ongoing investigations led to the exhumation of his body on September 21, 2023, for an autopsy.

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In a letter dated October 3 and addressed to the attorney general of Lagos State through his lawyers, Aloba demanded that criminal charges be filed against those indicted within 14 days.

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Specifically, we refer to persons indicted by the coroner’s verdict hereunder: Miss Ogedengbe Fisayo, indicted for unlawful medical practice and gross medical negligence; and Mrs. Omowunmi Aloba, indicted for negligence,” the letter reads.

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“This includes Ibrahim Owodunni, a.k.a. Prime Boy, and others who either facilitated the invitation of the auxiliary nurse or refused to take him promptly to a recognised medical facility for treatment.”

Mohbad’s father said he was concerned that despite the coroner’s clear verdict, no prosecutorial steps had been taken against those indicted nearly three months after the judgment.

He asked the attorney general to exercise prosecutorial powers within the 14 days, or, in the alternative, grant him and his legal team a fiat to prosecute the matter on behalf of the state.

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“Our Client, as a bereaved father desirous of ensuring that justice is done and seen to be done, is deeply concerned that notwithstanding the clear indictments contained in the Coroner’s Verdict, no prosecutorial steps have been taken against the aforementioned persons since the delivery of the Verdict on 11th July, 2025,” the letter reads.

The judicial observations amount to clear indictments warranting the prosecution of the said individuals in order to give full effect to the Coroner’s findings and recommendations, and to ensure that justice is manifestly and adequately served in this matter.

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“We request that you exercise your prosecutorial power on the above subject matter within 14 Days Next, in view of the high sensitivity of this matter and the public attention and outrage it has generated.”

In October 2023, Naira Marley and Sam Larry were arrested over allegations linking them to Mohbad’s death, but were released on bail after five weeks in detention.

By February 2025, a magistrate court cleared them of any involvement in the singer’s demise.

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