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"Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul."-Acts 13:1

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Nno (welcome in Igbo-according to Uju Fashions)I never met so many Nigerians until I finished college-UMM in 1999. Probably the first one I really met was in 2000, who I met through other students that attended my local church. I then began to meet more after and got to know more of their culture.

I was meeting with one student at the college campus-TMC (Turtle Mountain Cafe), which she shared with me about her life and the division between the Muslims (predominately in the north) and Christians (predominately in South).

Earlier this summer (2003), I went to a christian music festival called, "Summer Music Fest" (spearheaded by Heart of the City Ministries). I met a Nigerian lady who works for International Students Incorporated, who was with some fellow international students from the Univeristy of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. She invited my friend and I to try some Nigerian "finger food", which was very yummmy!

Nigerian Agriculturalist Informal Interview

Just today (9.14.03), I decided to do this website after an unexpected interview with a Nigerian visiting Morris for 3 months work at the local U.S. Soils Laboratory-West Central Research & Outreach Center. He was here earlier this year for short-term work, and then he came back after teaching back in Nigeria for the summer.

On one Sunday afternoon after church service, I started asking him some questions about him. I met him earlier last year, but never really had the chance to get to know him because of the "busyness" after sunday morning church services. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity I was with him.

Agriculture

He is from the Abia State (Eastern Nigeria (1)), which he is a professor of an agriculture school there. During his months here, he hopes to learn some agriculture techniques (eg. Wheat growing) in the U.S. to help better increase the agriculture production in his home country. For example, the farmland here in the U.S. is so vast, which is the opposite in Nigeria. I asked him how the harvest was this year as I told him about our severe drought we had in West-Central Minnesota towards the end of this summer. He repeatedly shared this with others after being asked by several people during lunch-there are two seasons in Nigeria: Rainy season from June-October and Dry season from November to May.

During our Sunday afternoon lunch, he continued to share with me the life over there. Including his personal life: 4 kids and a wife. This being the early season of America's football season, I asked him about the popular sports there. He told me that soccer is big, but they don't make "big money" like the sports athletes in America.

After my experience in the Philippines 2 years ago, I asked him about the social class level of the rich and poor. Like in the Philippines, he told me that there is really no evidence of a "middle class" because of the extreme levels of the rich and poor.

After lunch, I gave him a tour of Morris-the smaller residential housing and bigger residential housing. He told me that the houses in Nigeria really don't have basements, which I told him my parents' home in St. Paul does not have one too.

Acts 13:1 - "In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul."

Miracle Obeta wins MCSA Presidency Run-off election averted by a mere two votes in higher turnout than 2005
(Thursday, April 13, 2006 - Volume 18, Issue 22)

"Though the number of UMM students who voted in Wednesday's MCSA election was small proportionate to the total number of students, turnout was high relative to last year. Miracle Obeta won the Presidency with 186 votes, receiving one more than the required 185 for a majority. The Presidency was the only contested position, with Joseph Basel opposing Obeta. In his campaign, and in the debate in TMC on Tuesday night, Basel emphasized his two years of experience on MCSA. Obeta centered his campaign around his leadership and connection to multi-ethnic groups on campus.
"I'd like to thank everyone that supported me," said Obeta, after hearing news of his victory. "They believed in me for all the right reasons." Obeta's opponent Basel received 95 votes, there were 77 votes of no confidence and 10 Write-ins.
"I appreciate everyone turning out for the election. It was a good turn out, given the general voter apathy of the campus," said Basel. "Mr. Obeta and I have already exchanged niceties and will meet next week to see what we can do to bring this campus together. I'm really looking forward to working with him and the rest of MCSA next year, and I am hopeful for the direction that we will be able to take this campus in the future." "

-from University Register

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Lopez, Obeta receive 2007 Cesar Chavez Award Morris Sun Tribune Published Wednesday, May 09, 2007
"By Theresa Novak
UMM News Service
University of Minnesota, Morris computer science professor Andy Lopez (left) and UMM junior Miracle Obeta received the 2007 Cesar Chavez Award. Photo by David Nieves, UMM News Service University of Minnesota, Morris computer science professor Andy Lopez (left) and UMM junior Miracle Obeta received the 2007 Cesar Chavez Award. Photo by David Nieves, UMM News Service Two members of the University of Minnesota, Morris community are recipients of the 2007 C�sar Ch?vez Award.
Andy Lopez, professor of computer science, and junior Miracle Obeta, St. Paul, were nominated by the United Latinos at UMM for their outstanding leadership.
The C�sar E. Ch?vez Award is presented each year to a UMM student and a UMM faculty or staff member. Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to the Latino community, communities of color, and for support of workers rights while personifying the values embodied by the late labor and civil rights leader, C�sar E. Ch?vez.
These values include service to others, sacrifice, a preference to help the most needy, determination, non-violence, tolerance, respect for life, celebrating community, knowledge, and innovation.
�I think the current leaders of United Latinos are outstanding people,� Lopez, who has been at UMM for 37 years, said. �They are very committed and responsible.�
Lopez, as the adviser to the United Latinos, has helped with their organization for 15 years. He has enjoyed working with them and is honored to win this prestigious award, which recognizes the work Lopez has been committed to for the past 37 years.
�I identify very strongly with C�sar Chavez and the things he was trying to do,� Lopez said, �I was very pleased when we had his son stop by a couple years ago to visit UMM.�
Lopez recognizes the hard work students put into their studies and teaches with the mentality that it is not for him to just pass judgment on students, but rather to help them when they need him.
Student recipient, Miracle Obeta, was nominated by United Latinos based on his active leadership roles.
�The C�sar Ch?vez award is essential to me,� Obeta said, �and I greatly appreciate it because of the great importance of Ch?vez and his struggle to end those things which plague our world today.�
Obeta, former president of the Morris Student Campus Association (2006-2007), has been president of IMANI (2005), a member of the Black Student Union, chair of the MCSA Executive Council, a Campus Ambassador, and an Activities Fee Review Committee member (2006).
�Ch?vez, and those like him, give people, including myself, someone to look up to,� said Obeta.
The UMM campus has also named a street in honor of Ch?vez, who was instrumental in the development of the National Farm Workers Association."

  • Religions Information Resources: Twin Cities Ethnic Scope, Nigerians are tied for the 4th largest African-Nation ethnic-group

    • UMM Students
    -    Tope Adebara (00'-04'); attends University of Iowa-Med School
    -Adetola (00'-04')
    -Adeola (01'-05')
    -Miracle Obeta (04'-07') -Adetoro (04'-06')

    State-GoodnewsMinnesota

    Restauants

  • Wazobian Nigerian Cafe, check out some Reviews-from twinnix.com

    • Sports

  • Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-born Timberwolves 03'-04' player

    • Nation-GoodnewsUSA


    *see Bible

    (Sal)

    Military

    -Terrorists

    Al Qaeda Plane Bombing Fails At Detroit Airport

    "A Nigerian reported to be studying in Britain allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic airliner on Christmas Day in what the White House called an attempted act of terrorism. The suspect, claiming links to al-Qaeda, was taken into custody with burns after allegedly trying to detonate explosives on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. He was identified by ABC News as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, an engineering student at University College London.
    He was reportedly on a US intelligence watch-list but not on the US Governments no-fly list.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news...
    How al-Qaeda airline fiend used leg bomb and syringe
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national...
    The White House says the attempt to blow up an airliner as it landed in Detroit is being treated as an act of terrorism. (AP) "

  • Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane, By JIM IRWIN, Associated Press Writer Jim Irwin, Associated Press Writer – 18 mins ago (Saturday, December 26th of 2009)

    • "ROMULUS, Mich. – An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke — sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said.
    The commotion began as Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew members from Amsterdam, prepared to land in Detroit just before noon Friday. Travelers said they smelled smoke, saw a glow, and heard what sounded like firecrackers. At least one person climbed over others and jumped on the man, who officials say was trying to ignite an explosive device.
    "It sounded like a firecracker in a pillowcase," said Peter Smith, a passenger from the Netherlands. "First there was a pop, and then (there) was smoke."
    Smith said one passenger, sitting opposite the man, climbed over passengers, went across the aisle and tried to restrain the man. The heroic passenger appeared to have been burned.
    Afterward, the suspect was taken to a front-row seat with his pants cut off and his legs burned. Multiple law enforcement officials also said the man appeared badly burned on his legs, indicating the explosive was strapped there. The components were apparently mixed in-flight and included a powdery substance, multiple law enforcement and counterterrorism officials said.
    The White House said it believed it was an attempted act of terrorism and stricter security measures were quickly imposed on airline travel. Dutch anti-terrorism authorities said the U.S. has asked all airlines to take extra precautions on flights worldwide that are bound for the United States.
    The incident was reminiscent of Richard Reid, who tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 with explosives hidden in his shoes, but was subdued by other passengers.
    Multiple law enforcement officials identified the suspect in Friday's attempted attack as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. He was described as Nigerian....
    A spokesman for the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Akin Olukunle, said all passengers and their luggage are screened before boarding international flights. He also said the airport in Lagos cleared a U.S. Transportation Security Administration audit in November.
    "We had a pass mark," Olukunle said. "We actually are up to standards in all senses."
    Nigeria's information minister, Dora Akunyili, condemned the attempted bombing. She said the government has opened its own investigation into the suspect and will work with U.S. authorities.
    "We state very clearly that as a nation we abhor all forms of violence," Akunyili said in a statement issued Saturday. ...
    *see GoodnewsUSA.info Michigan & GoodnewsEverybody.com Religious: Islam, Muslim, Qu'ran/Koran, Allah, Mohammed, etc... Government Allowed Plane Bomber to Attempt Attack , Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Sunday, December 27, 2009
    "...Crucially, Haskell said that after the plane landed he saw another man being taken into custody by the FBI along with Mutallab. However, the FBI later said that Mutallab was the only individual taken into custody.
    Were the feds retrieving their own agent, the sharp dressed man who ensured that Mutallab boarded the plane despite his overwhelmingly suspicious circumstances?
    Mutallab was a known security threat who was on the terror watch list. He is barred from entering Britain after being refused a new visa due to applying for a fake university course. Separate reports said that he did hold a valid visa, which begs the question, how can someone on a terror watch list be allowed to fly?
    “On the one hand, it seems he’s been on the terror watch list but not on the no-fly list,” he said. “That doesn’t square because the American Department for Homeland Security has pretty stringent data-mining capability. I don’t understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list,” Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies told the London Independent.
    It has also been revealed that Mutallab’s father contacted U.S. intelligence officials a month ago and warned them that his son was a threat, but nothing was done.
    The bomber’s father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was a a former minister and chairman of First Bank in Nigeria. The bomber does not fit the image of a disgruntled, rag-tag terrorist. His considerable wealth allowed him to live in luxury at an imposing London mansion...
  • Religious hatred simmers in terror suspect's homeland By John Blake, CNN December 31, 2009 3:41 p.m. EST

    • "(CNN) -- Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab wouldn't have to go to an al Qaeda training camp in Yemen to learn how to hate.
    He had plenty of examples in his own country.
    AbdulMutallab is the 23-year-old Nigerian being held for allegedly trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. While much attention has focused on his privileged background, less has been said about the religious conflict in his homeland.
    Christians and Muslims have been killing each other in Nigeria for much of AbdulMutallab's lifetime. At least 10,000 Nigerians have died during Christian-Muslim riots and ethnic violence during the past decade....
    Another side of Nigeria's religious story
    The ferocity of religious disagreement is also fanned by unscrupulous political leaders, says Mohammed Ladan, a Nigerian Muslim who now works as a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia.
    "Some of the politicians engineer this violence for their own political end," Ladan says. "If they can play Christians against Muslims, it can take attention away from the real problems of society."
    Ladan says he never felt persecuted by Christians while growing up in northern Nigeria. Like several other Nigerians interviewed, he says it would be simplistic to say most Nigerian Christians and Muslims are engaged in a permanent civil war...
    Abiola, a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says many Nigerians turn to religion because they don't think they can rely on the state. Though the country is rich with oil wealth, the cities are full of beggars and prostitutes -- it's common to see police officers brazenly demanding money at checkpoints, she says.

    Missions

  • Embassy Network of Churches, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria and U.S.A. churches

  • Nigeria * Journal 1973 , The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt


    • "..Almost all the time there were crowds in this wonderful country.
    I carried the cross from the Benin border on to Logos. From there I carried the cross to Benin City and then to Enugu. I then walked on to the border with Cameroon.
    My driver for most of this time was a man named 'God Power'! I just loved the name and loved him. He was a good driver and interpreter and lived up to the name.
    There was just day after day of cross walking and people and preaching. Buses stopped and I prayed with busloads of people at a time. ...
    One day some people dressed in white came out on the road to give me some food and one can of hot beer. These were the best gifts they had. They had driven many miles to find me and to see the cross and hear the message of Jesus. Oh, they loved Jesus! I too loved then and we talked for a long time and prayed together. I felt we should have communion together to remember the Body and Blood of Jesus our Lord. I took some of the bread and prayed and blessed it and shared it in remembrance of the Body of Jesus. Then I opened the beer and prayed and blessed it and we shared it in remembrance of the Blood of Jesus. It was one of the most glorious communions of my entire life.
    One time Jesus turned water into wine and should it be important to Him I was sure He could change this beer into wine. It was that or hot water.
    I preached in many churches along the way and met many wonderful new friends.
    Many thousands of people came to Jesus in Nigeria. All glory to God. ...
    *see GoodnewsEverybody.com Movies: The Passion, Crucification, Easter, Resurrection, etc..

    Politics

  • "MILLER ELECTED TO WORLD METHODIST COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE; VISITS ENGLAND, NIGERIA ", from Indiana State Senator Miller

    • Sports

    -Football
    "Kalu is now trying to pull together a group of Nigerian NFL players to organize an annual football camp in their native land. There are approximately 17 other Nigerian players currently in the league"-Philadelphia Eagles
    Samkon Gado of the Green Bay Packers stats
    "�I would not be the football player I am today were it not for my relationship with Jesus Christ.� "-Liberty University

    Global-Multicultural

    Church-Missisons

    -Churches

  • The Fountain of Life Church

    • Parish
  • Redeeming Christian Church of God

  • All Nigerian Churches, database for churches and pastors
  • Christ For All Nations, raised from the dead story that still happens today!
  • Grace Family International, church in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Serving in Missions, from United Kingdom

    • Culture


    "This video contains footage of Nigerian life such as a traditional marriage, Lagos street culture, tribal village gatherings, beach life, and birthday parties. http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/nigeria..."
    -People
    Yoruba

    Dreams

    Mohammed (Nigeria) Hausa* english subtitles

    ""A Jesus Encounter " "Mohammed (Nigeria) - This Fulani herdsman in Nigeria found the deep love and lordship of Jesus Christ through a series of remarkable dreams. Jesus' appearance in those dreams altered the course of his life. Though his father tried to kill him in the wake of his conversion, he survived the various attempts on his life and eventually led his father to faith in Christ." by The Ministry "More Than Dreams" www.MoreThanDreams.tv"

    Languages

  • Languages and Greetings, from motherlandnigeria

    • Life

    -Dead Raised

    Miracles in Nigeria 13 - Raising the Dead

    "Brace yourself: a man gets raised from the dead! That is, if you believe it's genuine ... what do you think? "

    Military

  • Nigerian army balks at U.S. training, from maykuth

    • Ministry

    -Deliverance
    Demon Possessed Man Set Free On Camera

    "This man is spotted in the crowd and confesses that he is a demon. The Holy Spirit sets him free through Prophet TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos Nigeria."

    Missions

  • Nigeria * Journal 1973, from The Official Website of Arthur Blessitt

    • "...One day some people dressed in white came out on the road to give me some food and one can of hot beer. These were the best gifts they had. They had driven many miles to find me and to see the cross and hear the message of Jesus. Oh, they loved Jesus! I too loved then and we talked for a long time and prayed together. I felt we should have communion together to remember the Body and Blood of Jesus our Lord. I took some of the bread and prayed and blessed it and shared it in remembrance of the Body of Jesus. Then I opened the beer and prayed and blessed it and we shared it in remembrance of the Blood of Jesus. It was one of the most glorious communions of my entire life.
    One time Jesus turned water into wine and should it be important to Him I was sure He could change this beer into wine. It was that or hot water.
    I preached in many churches along the way and met many wonderful new friends.
    Many thousands of people came to Jesus in Nigeria. All glory to God. ...
    *see GoodnewsEverybody.com Movies: The Passion, Crucification, Easter, Resurrection, etc..

    Music

  • Motherland Nigeria, various music

    • -Hip Hop

  • Metalokan


    • "New song by Nigeria's hottest gospel boyz group. Soul lifting stuff"
    -Worship
    Praising in an African manner

    Persecution

    Christians Under Attack in Nigeria

    "This story discuses the attacks that have happened on Christians by militant islamist in Nigeria."

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    "BODIES WERE STILL LYING IN THE STREETS"
    Open Doors Co-Worker Provides Dramatic Eyewitness
    Report On Religious
    Violence in Kaduna, Nigeria
    By Dan Wooding

    KADUNA, NIGERIA (March 8, 2000) -- An Open Doors co-worker has provided a harrowing eyewitness report from violence-torn Kaduna, Nigeria, following a recent clash between Christians and Muslims. The fierce fighting resulted in more than 300 deaths as Muslim youths attacked Christians protesting the adoption of Sharia (Islamic law) in the state.

  • Appeals for calm after Nigerian sectarian slaughter, by Aminu Abubakar Aminu Abubakar – 1 hr 49 mins ago (Monday, March 8th 2010) news.yahoo.com

    • " JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.
    Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group.
    While troops were deployed to the villages to prevent new attacks, security forces detained 95 suspects but faced bitter criticism over how the killers were able to go on the rampage at a time when a curfew was meant to be in force.
    Media reported that Muslim residents of the villages in Plateau state had been warned by phone text message, two days prior to the attack, so they could make good their escape before the exit points were sealed off.
    Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis from members of the rival Berom group by chanting 'nagge', the Fulani word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same language were hacked to death.
    One local paper said the gangs shouted Allah Akhbar (God is Great) before breaking into homes and setting them alight in the early hours of Sunday. Churches were among the buildings that were burned down.
    The Vatican led a wave of outrage with spokesman Federico Lombardi expressing the Roman Catholic Church's "sadness" at the "horrible acts of violence".
    The UN chief told reporters he was "deeply concerned".
    "I appeal to all concerned to exercise maximum restraint," he said.
    "Nigeria's political and religious leaders should work together to address the underlying causes and to achieve a permanent solution to the crisis in Jos."
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged "all parties to exercise restraint", but also called on the Nigerian government to "make sure the perpetrators are brought to justice."
    "The Nigerian government should ensure that the perpetrators of acts of violence are brought to justice under the rule of law and that human rights are respected as order is restored," the chief US diplomat said.
    The death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but then shot up. The information ministry said pregnant women were among those killed and around 200 people were being treated in hospital.
    "We have over 500 killed in three villages and the survivors are busy burying their dead," said state information commissioner Gregory Yenlong.
    "People were attacked with axes, daggers and cutlasses -- many of them children, the aged and pregnant women."
    Survivors wail as children, women buried in Nigeria
    Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa, where gangs set fire to straw-thatched mud huts as they went on their rampage.
    The explosion of violence is the latest between rival ethnic and religious groups. In January 326 people died in clashes in and around Jos, according to police although rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.
    "The attack is yet another jihad and provocation," the Plateau State Christian Elders Consulatative Forum (PSCEF) said.
    However the archbishop of the capital Abuja, John Onaiyekan, told Vatican Radio that the violence was rooted not in religion but in social, economic and tribal differences.
    "It is a classic conflict between pastoralists and farmers, except that all the Fulani are Muslims and all the Berom are Christians," he said.
    Fulani are mainly nomadic cattle rearers while Beroms are traditionally farmers.
    A curfew imposed after January's unrest is supposed to be still in place but Christian leaders said the authorities did nothing to prevent the bloodshed.
    The PSCEF said it took the army two hours to react from the time a distress call was put through and "the attackers had finished their job and left".
    Witnesses said armed gangs had scared people out of their homes by firing into the air but most of the killings were the result of machete attacks.
    "We were caught unawares ... and as we tried to escape, the Fulani who were already waiting, slaughtered many of us," said Dayop Gyang, of Dogo Nahawa.
    Gbong Gwon Jos, a Muslim resident of Dogo Nahawa, told The Nation daily he received advanced warnings of the attacks.
    "I got a text message about movement of the people."
    Rights activists said the slaughter appeared to be revenge for the January attacks in which mainly Muslims were killed.
    Locals said that the attacks on Sunday were the result of a feud which had been first ignited by a theft of cattle and then fuelled by deadly reprisals.
    Acting President Goodluck Jonathan placed security services in Plateau and nearby states on red alert to contain the violence before he sacked his chief security advisor. "

    Political

  • ’Inaccurate Reporting’ Causes Resentment Among Christian Community By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service (Wednesday, December 3, 2008 )
    • Nigeria: Six Pastors Killed, 40 Churches Razed In Jos Violence- As smoke clears, mayhem ignited by Muslim attacks leaves 25,000 people displaced, By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries Friday, December 12, 2008
    "...“What began as outrage over suspected vote fraud in local elections quickly hit the religious fault line that quakes from time to time in this city located between the Islamic north and Christian south, as angry Muslims took aim at Christian sites rather than at political targets,” said the Compass Direct News story. “Police and troops reportedly killed about 400 rampaging Muslims in an effort to quell the unrest, and Islamists shot, slashed or stabbed to death most of more than 100 Christians.
    “Among Christians killed was Joseph Yari of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), Angwan Clinic, Tudun-Wada in Jos. On Nov. 28, his wife Mary Yari told Compass, he had returned from his workplace along Ibrahim Taiwo Road saying he was going to a Baptist church that Muslims were setting on fire.”
    Mary Yari was reported by Compass Direct as saying, “Shortly after my husband left, I heard anguished cries, only to be told that my husband had been shot dead on the premises of the church.”
    Her grief notwithstanding, she said she had forgiven the killers, as “they were ignorant of the crime they have committed because they do not know Jesus Christ.”
    *see GoodnewsEverybody: Life-Forgiveness
    "...“Like the blood of Abel cried out for justice, they will not die in vain,” he said. “God will revenge.”
    Compass added that Akande’s parents also spoke at his funeral service.
    “God knows why it happened that way,” Akande’s father, 84-year-old Pa J.A. Akande, said. “Oluwaleke, you will be remembered always for your love, steadfastness, courage, obedience and other attributes of your life with which you were endowed by your Maker. Sleep well in the bosom of your Maker.”
    Akande’s mother, Madam Akande, told those attending the funeral that her 28-year-old son was too young to die.
    “Little did I realize that your telephone call to me on Thursday, the 27th of November, 2008 would be our last conversation,” she said. “No leaf can fall from the tree without the authority, power and knowledge of God. And so I believe you shall rest peacefully in the bosom of our Lord Jesus.”
    Akande was a graduate of physics/electronics at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, doing his one-year mandatory national service to Plateau State when he was murdered.
    Rev. Nasara of ECWA Plateau Church told Compass that church history shows “the blood of the martyrs brings about the birth of the church. We see these ones who have gone ahead of us as the seeds that God is using to make the church in Jos North and Plateau state to germinate.” ...
    “We strongly feel that it was not political but a pre-meditated act under the guise of elections,” Kaigama said. ...
    The Compass Direct website can be found at www.compassdirect.org."

    Religion

    -Islam & Christianity

  • Speech: Remarks at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding June 15, 2006 New York, NY (clintonfoundation.org)

    • "...Nestle in Nigeria, in Search for a Common Ground, is developing a reality TV show to promote religious reconciliation in Nigeria. This, by the way, is really exciting. I might like to see one of these in America. Think about what it could be. If people actually could turn on television and see real people with whom they could identify actually having serious conversations about both their religious convictions and how they do or don�t translate into their daily lives. I think it�s very exciting. And one of my favorite groups, Vital Voices, which Hillary has done a lot to help spread throughout the world, began in Northern Ireland as a dialogue between Catholic and Protestant women. And those women played a major, major role in the ultimate success of the Irish peace process. They are now working with Israeli and Palestinian women to try to save conflict revolution strategies there. They have worked in the Balkans. They have worked in Africa. I have done everything I could to support them, but it has been fascinating to me to see..."
    Ashoka.org
    ..James Wuye, a Christian pastor and Imam Mohammed Ashafa, a Muslim cleric, are working together to end violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. Their goal is to achieve peaceful coexistence through inter-faith cooperation and community education..."

    Social Life

  • 1 Up Info, country guide study

    • Travel

  • Lonely Planet, inside look of Nigeria

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    Answer the call of our Lord Jesus Christ crying in heaven on the state of his church. Weeping and groaning and constantly interceding at the right hand of the Father on what his body ?The church? has turned into, on her shameful and awful predicament.

    The Bible says, ?Woe onto them that are at ease in Zion.? My brethren this is the time for sighing and weeping with a broken heart to our Lord for a total restoration and return of all things back to the way it has been laid down to us by the early apostles. The Bible teaches us that the latter church shall be more glorious than the former.

    Come rise to the cry of Deborah (Judges 5), Wake up to the help of the Lord. In lieu of this the Lord has called us to this latter day move. We are organising a program in the second quarter of next year, 2005 that will help to a great length to foster this move of God.

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    Let us join our Lord Jesus in enforcing God?s will here on earth as it is in heaven.

    In line with the above, we are starting with a major programme coming up at the Gymnassium Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos, Nigerian by second quarter this year (2005)

    PLEASE WE WANT YOU TO GIVE FINANCIALLY TO HELP THE LORD FOR THIS REVIVAL PROGRAMS (Exodus 25:2)

    Yours in His Vineyard,
    PASTOR SAMUEL A. MOMO

    Blow ye the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain.......Joel 2:1

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    BEWARE! JUNK-E-MAIL!

    From :
    Sent : Friday, December 19, 2003 6:07 AM
    To : pmotete@tiscali.co.uk
    Subject : Strictly Personal ( Please Help me because of God

    The Palace of King of Ogoni Kingdom,
    Ogoni Oil producing community,
    Rivers State Nigeria.

    Attention:

    Dearest in The Lord,

    My Dear I know this letter will come to you as a surprise, I have already thought of what will come to your mind or how you will feel when you see my mail, but because of the persuation I have in the spirit, and the convinction God has placed in my mind, I picked up courage to write you knowing that it is God wish.

    I am Princess Mary Otete, daughter of Chief Oti Otete, the king of Ogoni Kingdom. I am 25 years old and a graduate of Mass Communication. My father was the king of Ogoni Kingdom the highest oil producing area in Nigeria. He was in charge of reviving royalties from the multi-national oil companies and government on behalf of the oil producing communities in Nigeria.

    After the hanging of the Ogoni Nine(9) including Ken Saro Wiwa by the late dictator General Sani Abacha, my father suffered stroke and died in August 27th last year. But before his death, he called me and told me he has Twenty Three Million Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand Dollars (USD23,560,000.00) cash in his possession, specially deposited in a Security vault company here. He advised me not to tell anybody except my mother who is the last wife of the (8) eight wives that he married.

    My mother did not bear any male child for him. Which implies that all my father's properties, companies e.t.c., we have no share in them because my mother has no male child according to African Tradition. My father therefore secretly gave me all the relevant documents of the said money, and told me that I should use this money with my mother and my younger sisters because he knows that traditionally, if he dies we cannot get anything, as inheritance. He importantly advised me that I should seek foreign assistannce and that I should not invest this money here in Nigeria because of his other wives and male children who happen to be my elders. I am soliciting for your immediate assistance to get a Bungalow for us, where I will live with my mother and two younger sisters and further advise me where and how I will invest the balance money overseas, possibly on products of your company and other profitable ventures.

    I believe that by the special grace of God, you will help us move this money out of Nigeria to any country of your choice where we can invest this money judiciously with you. You are entitled to a reasonable part of this money based on our agreement, and God will bless you as you help us, Please reply through my e-mail

    Looking forward to hear from you as soon as possible. Please reply through my mail box:

    Remain blessed.

    Princess Mary Otete

    From : Ahmed Musa
    To : ahmedus234@123.com
    Subject : FROM AHMED
    Date : Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:48:53 -0700
     (TRANSFER OF USD$22MILLION INTO YOUR ACCOUNT}

    Dear Sir,

    I, on behalf of my other colleagues from different organs of Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) owned parastatals decided to solicit your assistance as regards transfer of the above-mentioned amount into your bank account. This fund accrued from over in voicing of various contract awarded in my parastatal to certain Foreign Contractors sometimes ago. We, as holders of sensitive position in our various parastatals, were mandated by the Federal Government to Scrutinise all payments made to certain foreign Contractors and we discovered that some of the contracts they executed were grossly over-invoiced either by omission or commission.

    In the process the sum of US$27M (Twenty Seven Million US Dollars only) was found lying in the parastatal suspense account after the foreign contractors had been paid their rightful dues for executing the said contracts. We all agreed that this over-invoiced amount be transferred (for our own use) into a bank account provided by a foreign partner, because we are government workers and the Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate foreign accounts.

    However, we have succeeded in transferring some of this money precisely US$5.0M (Five Million US Dollars only) into a foreign account in MOROCCO (North Africa), but the provider of the account in MOROCCO is up to some mischief and refuses to comply to the earlier mutual agreement by insisting that the total amount be paid into his nominated bank account before disbursement will take effect. If for a meagre sum of US$5.0M (Five Million US Dollars only) we are not compensated, is it when the balance of US $22M (Twenty-two Million US Dollars)is transferred that we will be sure of our full compensation? Of course, this abuse of trust and inhumanity calls for sober reflection and search for absolute trust.

    Thus we are seeking your unwavering assistance that the remaining amount of US$22M can be speedily processed and fully remitted into your nominated bank account. On successful remittance of the fund into your account, you will be compensated with 30% of the amount for your assistance and services.

    However, much have been said and due to our sensitive positions, we cannot afford a slip in this transaction neither can we give out identity as regards our espective offices, but whereby cordial relationship is established, smooth operations commences, you will be furnished with details of all deserve to know, because all logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth actualization of the transaction within fourteen working days of commencement after receipt of the following information through the above E-mail, Your company's name and address, your telephone/fax number, your full banking information.

    I am at your disposition to entertain any question from you with respect to this transaction, so contact me immediately through my e:mail for further information on the requirements and procedure for this transaction.

    Please, treat with the strictest confidentiality and utmost urgency, and when repling ensure you use my ulternative E-mail address: ahmedus234@ecplaza.net

    Have a nice day.

    Yours faithfully, Mr. Ahmed Mallam Musa

    Huge global bust nets Web scam artists
    Updated: 05/23/2006 04:36:30 PM
    Print Story

    By MARK SHERMAN
    Associated Press Writer

    WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 2.8 million people in the U.S. paid to obtain credit cards, claim sweepstakes winnings and get in on lucrative investments that turned out to be too good to be true, officials said Tuesday as they announced hundreds of arrests in an international investigation.
    Authorities in five countries have arrested 565 people in fraud schemes that netted more than $1 billion. Many of those arrested are west Africans who were attempting variations of the notorious Nigerian Internet scam, the Justice Department said.
    Many of the victims were elderly or immigrants. One scam consisted of telephone calls to Spanish-speaking U.S. residents who were seeking to establish credit and were promised credit cards in return for a couple of hundred dollars. The cards didn't exist, said Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras.
    "Those that prey on consumers know their vulnerabilities," Majoras said at a Justice Department news conference with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. "They zero in on those who will actually believe them."
    The scams were carried out through telemarketing, mass mailings and the Internet and included bogus lottery, prize and sweepstakes offerings, invitations to pour money into nonexistent investments and supposedly legal enticements to avoid paying taxes, officials said.
    In the Nigerian scam, criminals send junk e-mail to thousands of unsuspecting people offering them a share in a large fortune in exchange for a smaller amount of money up front. The con artist takes the money and then disappears.
    Gonzales called the 14-month investigation, dubbed Operation Global Con, "the largest enforcement operation of its kind." It has so far resulted in 139 arrests and 61 convictions in the United States and another 426 arrests in Canada, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and Spain.
    Last week, Costa Rican and U.S. authorities made arrests in a telephone-based scam in which prospective victims received offers of up to $4.5 million from the Sweepstakes Security Commission and other fictitious organizations. The winners first had to pay "insurance fees." Some victims were contacted again, this time by people pretending to be customs officials who demanded additional payments, the department said.
    On the Net:
    Justice Department: http://www.usdoj.gov
    Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov
    FBI: http://www.fbi.gov
    Postal Inspection Service: http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors

    Look at the World of Nigerian Scams, from ABC News 20/20
    *saw this ("I Go Chop Your Dollar"-a Nigerian Hit song about scamming "gullable" people of their money via e-mail) on Friday, December 8th of 2006

    Related Sites:
    Nigerian 4-1-9 Scam
    ABC News: Savvy Consumer: The Nightmare of Nigerian Letter Scams (April 2006)
    On the Trail of the Nigerian Scammers

    " On the Trail of the Nigerian Scammers. (less) Added: January 13, 2007
    Victims Still Falling Prey to Nigerian E-Mail Scam Wednesday, November 29, 2006 By Cassie Carothers (fox news)

    Today (September 17th of 2007), I decided to e-mail 20/20 on a recent scam I decided to play along...

    "Hi,

    I wanted to follow-up on a series you did on "ABC News: Savvy Consumer: The Nightmare of Nigerian Letter Scams" (April 06')

    Since a show like this was aired and reading this article on this show above online, I've been very careful of internet scams. I usually ignor it. Well, I decided to play "FBI"..more...

    http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/ummalpha/african.nigerian.html

    Sal:)

    The site wouldn't allowed me to add more to this e-mail. I was going to e-mail them the copies of the e-mails and chats. Below are just some important details...

    E-mail:
    Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Send an Instant Message "mimi mimi" mimi.mimi2@yahoo.com
    Subject: Hello Sal.......Good Morning.
    To: "Alpha Omega"

    " Hello Sal good morning how are you doing and i hope you had a very lovely night ? i just woke up and prayed for both of us.Well i jusy talked to the Cafe attendant yesterday and i showed her our Conversation not to worried that you will be lending me the $450 today so i could pay to have access to internet so right now am browsing on credit bases pending the time you get back to me that you have sent the fund today.Plz Sal dont put me into Shame,we are both Christians and we know what Shame means.i will also need your contact phone number so as soon as i get the call card i can give you a call to hear your voice.And i pray the lord will seek us through.And i want you to know that i will end my contract here this week and i will be free to come to the states anytime this weekend,so Sal give me chance to get to know you better so i can come to U,as you know i dont have anywhere going in the States.I like to know if I will be welcomed,so that I can come straight to you as soon as i am there ...but i will keep you posted on my arrival schedule and how its all going on here.
    I wish you good day at work and i want you to know that Mimi is coming soon to treat you like a real King that you are.Till i read from you again,remain blessed and be fine.

    Chat: mimi mimi has signed back in. (9/16/2007 3:15 PM)

    mimi mimi: Sal will you be able to borow me the Money
    ummalpha: I'll see what i can do
    mimi mimi: i will refund the Money
    ummalpha: what's your full name I need to send to?
    mimi mimi: thats a promise
    mimi mimi: i cant recieve the Money here cos i dont have an id
    ummalpha: ok what name ?
    mimi mimi: you can send it to the Managers (of Cyber Cafe)full name and address Sal
    ummalpha: ok
    mimi mimi: his full name is...JOHN OLUDARA
    mimi mimi: let me check for his address hold on
    ummalpha: oi
    ummalpha: ok
    mimi mimi: address.....20 COPPER ROAD,IKOYI
    mimi mimi: LAGOS-NIGERIA
    ummalpha: ok
    ummalpha: any zip code?
    mimi mimi: ZIPCODE...23401
    mimi mimi: Thats all Sal
    ummalpha: ok, I gotta go, i was supposed to be at a friend's house -keep in touch
    mimi mimi: Sal i really want to get to know you better before i come over to you

    As I was doing some re"search" on some info "she" gave me, I couldn't find any cafe of that address...see Cybercafes in Nigeria. I e-mailed 20/20 to see who I can contact for an investigation on this and see if there have been many people that have been fooled by similar e-mail/chats (using beautiful model pictures->elli.jpg) like these. I just want to prevent folks out there falling for these.

    Sept 15th 3-4pm

    Chat:
    ummalpha: who is eli?
    ummalpha: or ellie?
    ummalpha: each pic is titled it
    mimi mimi: Yes ellie
    mimi mimi: thats the cafe attendant that helped my scanned the pux here
    mimi mimi: pix
    mimi mimi: to thier PC
    mimi mimi: and i saved them to my inbox
    ummalpha: ok

    Here is someone from myspace that directly e-mailed me. Her "name" is Anna Smith...

    Aug 18, 2007 11:36 AM
    Flag as Spam or Report Abuse [ ? ]
    Subject: RE: Sal-yes, love to chat...RE: hi
    Body:
    " Thanks for dropping me a line ....I tried to Include in my profile that i was a missionary and travelled around but it wasnt accepted.Well I just got posted from london to a village in Africa called Nigeria,on my mission trip.I have travelled to several countries in my short time as a missionary and i have gathered different experiences and views about life. I joined the ministry and i work with the underpriviledged,orphanages,and motherless babies,and help to eradicate hiv/aids,and i equaly teach self esteem to sick kids....i will be getting home soon,finally, and i want to meet a soul mate who will be there for me at all times in life....Its my first time of doing this online thing,and i hope it works out for me.I resolved to this online dating stuff cos i have been burned before. i will be coming back home soon any way,say in some few weeks time but in the mean time i need a company, someone i can always communicate with while i am here cos i get bored most times after the days work then see where it goes from there. I will prefer we get to talk more on yahoo chat(angeljames000),write me as to when u will be online, so i can probably look for u and until then its goodbye and God bless, sincerely,
    ann smith

    Nigeria grapples with e-mail scams, Tuesday, 23 April, 2002, 11:00 GMT 12:00 UK
    "Most often they say the money is the proceeds of an over-invoiced contracts, which is up for grabs once it is transferred abroad.
    The deal is for their intended victim to facilitate the transfer of the money into a foreign bank account in return for millions of dollars. "

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