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GRACIOUS Akintayo is a journalist of many years experience and exposure. He worked in various media organization as a reporter, researcher and correspondent. He had attended many local and international organized professional, leadership and ministerial conference, training, seminars and workshops. He is a media consultant, editor, an inspirational writer, public speaker and social critics. He is the Editor/Publisher, PROVIDENCE News (a nondenominational general interest Christian publication), former President, Christian Press Association of Nigeria (CPAN) and currently, President, Nigeria Christian Media Forum (NCMF). Gracious is a member of many professional, social and Christian faith organization.

CHURCH:  The Defining Solution To Nigeria Crisis The level of wanting killings and the gruesome manner life is being snuffed out of people and wasted like animals with blood being shed like water is highly condemned and barbaric. There are too many unwarranted wastage of lives and shedding of mostly innocent blood in the land. No life is useless, every life is purposeful and has the right to live.  No sane person, religion, group or ethnics will ever support or encourage unnecessary killing and wastage of human life. The evil doers and the killers must be brought to book to…

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Dealing With Anger  -By Babatunde Olugboji Anger is a universal problem. It is not limited to one age group, culture, race, economic or social status or educational background. It is multi-generational, multicultural, and multi-dimensional. And this week we are starting a series addressing this problem. Unresolved anger destroys marriages,  families, and communities. Many instances of gender-based violence, murder, malice, and other proclivities could be traced to anger. It is often the root of many terrible things. It is a major cause of health problems and lack of productivity in the workplace, and a common denominator among juvenile delinquents.  People have…

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CAN Declares 3-Day Nationwide Prayer over Insecurity The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared a three-day prayer for the peace and unity of the country in the face of mounting insecurity. In a released statement signed by the General Secretary of CAN, Rev. Daramola Bade-Joseph, said that the prayer which would hold from May 28, until May 30, had become necessary following the spate of insecurity in many parts of the country. Bade-Joseph said that the prevailing  circumstance and situation in the country had made it imperative to seek God’s intervention to restore stability, peace and progress in Nigeria.…

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CAN Declares 3-day Nationwide Prayer over Insecurity The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared a three-day prayer for the peace and unity of the country in the face of mounting insecurity. In a released statement signed by the General Secretary of CAN, Rev. Daramola Bade-Joseph, said that the prayer which would hold from May 28, until May 30, had become necessary following the spate of insecurity in many parts of the country. Bade-Joseph said that the prevailing circumstance and situation in the country had made it imperative to seek God’s intervention to restore stability, peace and progress in Nigeria.…

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What The South West Have  Produced Most Are Area Boys And Fake Pastors -Sir Olu Okeowo Property merchant and billionaire realtor, Sir Olu Okeowo has said that should Nigeria disintegrate, the South West will lose out the most as the region has over the years been able to produce mostly area boys and fake pastors. Okeowo said this while speaking at a church service organized in his home to mark his birthday. He said, ”I have noticed, electricity is no longer in abundant supply because Shiroro has been surrounded. Gerreru has been surrounded. Electricity is being generated in the North.…

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FALSE ACCUSATION -By Gracious Akintayo Some case in life are always traumatic experience with happenings, especially when you become a subject of ridicule, false accusation, booed, jeered and insult by supposedly trusted or well known fellows who hounded and subject you to all manners of humiliation to an extent of annihilation without regards to your feeling or psychological effects. Some human beings are satanically creative, maniacally brilliant propagandists, great accusers and pathological liars who will convincingly manufacture falsehood to look exactly like truth. It is a spirit and force that comfortably drives some men. But when you come to the…

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10 SECRETS IN MARRIAGE Prepare, plan and pray to fight for your marriage. Make up your mind to protect your home, stay with your spouse in times of needs and challenges. His/her victory and success is yours. It is better to build than to destroy and better to cleave than to break. Do not be careless with your marriage. 1. Everyone you marry has a weakness. If you focus on your spouse’s weakness you can’t get the best out of his/her strength. 2. No one is an angel. Everyone has a dark history. When you get married or or…

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Who is Sunday Igboho?  -By Gracious Akintayo Is there no knowledgeable elder in the family of Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, to tell him he has stepped on bigger toes, misfired and crossed his bound.  Who is Sunday Igboho that Pastor Adeboye will require his sympathy over the death of his son, Pastor Dare Adeboye? And, by the way, who appointed him the spokesman of Yoruba nation or that qualified him to speak for the Yorubas or who made him an agitator for Yoruba Nation and what is his understanding of agitation? It is unfortunate that social media…

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Who is Igboho?  -By Gracious Akintayo Is there no any knowledgeable elder in the family of Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, to tell him he has stepped on bigger toes, misfired and cross his bound.  Who is Sunday Igboho that Pastor Adeboye will require his sympathy over the death of his son, Pastor Dare Adeboye? And, by the way who appointed him the spokesman of Yoruba nation or that qualified him to speak for the Yorubas or who made him an agitator for Yoruba Nation and what is his understanding of agitation? It is unfortunate that social media created…

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Don’t Settle For A Vegetable Garden -By Babatunde Olugboji This week, we will conclude the series on Ahab, Jezebel, Naboth, and the piece of land near the palace that Ahab coveted, using 1 Kings 21 as our main scripture. Chief to this narrative was Jezebel, King Ahab’s wife, who was one of the three most treacherous women in the Bible, the other two being Potiphar’s temptress wife and Samson’s treacherous Delilah. Doesn’t this narrative remind you of Paul advise to the Romans: ‘Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mold. Another Bible version says, stop imitating the ideals and…

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