Important Notice To All 2014 Batch ‘C’ Corps Members

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) wishes to inform all Corps Lawyers currently under-going orientation in NYSC orientation Camps and are due for Screening/Call to Bar, that they will be released by State Coordinators on 15th November 2014 to attend the programme.

However, such Corps Lawyers must complete all necessary orientation course documentation before they can leave the camp.

Affected Corps Lawyers are expected to return to their States of deployment latest on 2nd December 2014 to pick up their posting letters.

Best of luck To You all…

Myles Munroe, Wife Die In Tragic Plane Crash

(CNN) -- A jet crashed Sunday near Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, killing all nine people on board, authorities said.

The aircraft hit a crane at the Freeport Ship Yard and crashed into a nearby "junk site," police said.

No U.S. agencies are involved, and the Royal Bahamas Police Force is handling the investigation, a police spokesman said.

Police released the names of five victims Monday that includes Myles Munroe and his wife Ruth.

Myles Munroe was the senior pastor of Bahamas Faith Ministries International Fellowship, that group's website says. Ruth served as co-pastor.

The two were friends of Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who was also scheduled to arrive in Freeport.
"Ambassador Young expresses his deep sadness over the tragic death of his friends Dr. Myles and Mrs. Ruth Munroe. He offers condolences to the Munroe family and the families of the other souls who lost their lives as a result of this shocking plane crash," the Andrew Young Foundation said in a statement.

Young is scheduled to speak at a conference starting Monday in Freeport.

The Global Leadership Forum will continue this week, according to Munroe's organization.

"On behalf of Myles Munroe International and ITWLA. We would like to inform you that the Global Leadership Forum will continue," Myles Munroe International posted on its Facebook page. "This is what Dr. Munroe would have wanted."

The other identified victims are Stanley Jerome Thurston, Richard Howard Pinder and Frankhan Demeyer Cooper, all residents of the Bahamas.


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OAU Alumnus Appointed To Pennsylvania State Board

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has named Dr Teni Atalabi Osundeko to the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counsellors in October 2014. Her appointment was recently approved by the Senate of Pennsylvania.

Osundeko assumes a vital role in protecting public safety through the regulatory process. As a member of the Board, she will assist in the promulgating rules and regulations on the practice of social work in Pennsylvania.

Teni Osundeko is an American who was born and raised in Nigeria with roots in Emure Ekiti. She is an Author, Public Speaker, Business Owner and Psychotherapist. Dr Osundeko earned her undergraduate degree from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She holds several graduate degrees including one from Capella University and the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

She is owner and Clinical Director of Teni Counseling & Consulting Services; one of Central Pennsylvania’s few black and female owned counseling agencies.
Teni has also been an adjunct faculty at the Temple University Graduate School of Social Work.

She is an active volunteer and has served on the Executive Board of many organisations both at home and abroad.
She is Founder and Director of the Bibi Atalabi Foundation, a charity that provides educational scholarships and resources to disadvantaged children in Nigeria. She is also Founder and President of the Praying Mothers of USA. Teni is passionate about the Yoruba language and culture and holds an annual Yoruba summer camp for children in the Harrisburg area.

Teni and her husband of 25 years, Dr Sola Osundeko (a physician) have three children. Teni is an ordained Minister of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and currently serves as co-pastor of RCCG Livingspring, York, Pennsylvania.

Dr Osundeko is excited and humbled to have this unique opportunity to serve Pennsylvanians in this capacity.

She stated that “it is critical to protect our citizens from unprofessional and unauthorised practice of social work. Social Workers must do no harm as we seek to help others”.


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BBC Calls Winners Chapel "Witchcraft Church"

The news dedicated to winners chapel int'l and its plans to establish school in the UK, the BBC introduced under the headline "Nigerian witchcraft Church in bid to open Kent school"

What exactly have Nigeria done wrong to deserve this accolade of embarrassments from the international media?

Below is the article:

A Nigerian church accused of linking poor discipline to witchcraft wants to open an independent school in Kent.

Winners' Chapel International, which is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission, wants to open the school at its Dartford site.

Human rights campaigners and the National Secular Society are urging the government to turn down the school bid.

The church, whose leader Bishop David Oyedpo was filmed accusing a woman of being a witch, declined an interview.

The organisation, which has its headquarters in Nigeria, is known as Living Faith Church Worldwide and also Winners' Chapel International (WCI).
Bishop Oyedepo, its leader in Nigeria, has been shown on YouTube slapping a woman and accusing her of being a witch.

His son David Oyedepo Junior is the pastor at WCI's European headquarters in Dartford, where the church organisation wants to open Kingdom Heritage Model School for children aged four to seven.

But groups including the National Secular Society (NSS) have raised concerns amid claims the church links child "disobedience" to witchcraft - citing the David Oyedepo Ministries website, which states "disobedience is as terrible as witchcraft".

Stephen Evans, from the NSS, said the Metropolitan Police had investigated 27 cases of child abuse related to witchcraft this year.

He said: "There's a need to be vigilant and there's a need to tackle this.

"You don't do this by allowing organisations that believe in witchcraft and are associated with witch-hunting to open in the UK."


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Blessing Okagbare Finally Ties The Knot

 

Nigerian track and field athlete and Olympic and World Championships gold medalist Blessing Okagbare, 26, is getting married as you read this. Her traditional wedding to Otegheri Jude Igho is happening right now in Sapele, Delta state in the presence of family and friends.

Their white wedding will hold tomorrow, November 8th, at St Patrick Catholic Church Sapele. A big congratulations to them.

MTN Launches N10 Recharge Card Today

Subscribers to the telecommunications service provider, MTN Nigeria will, as from today, have the opportunity to recharge their phones for as low as N10.

The Chief Marketing Officer of MTN, Bayo Adekanmbi, revealed this in a statement on Thursday.

The statement quoted Adekambi to have said that the initiative, to be launched in Kano, was to ensure that no Nigerian was shut out of the values that the network offers.

It stated, “Apart from making it possible for customers to purchase airtime at the lowest rates, it also offers opportunities for small scale entrepreneurs to sell low-unit portion packs of recharge cards as a new revenue stream. Again, everyday people such as Maishayi, neighbourhood stalls, housewives, students, etc would also benefit immensely from this proposition.”


But seriously, will this N10 airtime be really useful? It looks like not necessary to me jor!

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Baptist Student Fellowship Graduates 125 FFBS Students

Sunday was a joyous moment at Baptist Student Fellowship a.k.a The Jesus People as the Foundation and Follow-up Bible School (FFBS) unit graduated 125 students. This is coming after months of intensive training of the students in the Word of God.

The graduands who were dressed colourfully in Black and Purple uniforms looked radiant as many well wishers and friends travel from far and near to felicitate with them. The sermon of the day saw the graduands and the whole congregation admonished and charged by the Guest Minister, Rev.(Mrs) Femi Okunola on the topic "Unveiled Transformed Agents of Transformation". She emphasized the need for them to be the agents of transformation in our present day Nigeria.
The ceremony never ended without the high pitch moment when outstanding students in various categories were awarded. Adekanmbi Blessing whose name was the song of the day emerged the overall Best Graduating Student. She received numerous prizes for best performances in various categories. Our correspondent's effort to reach Blessing after the event proved abortive but our chat with her teacher, Sister Ruth Brooks who coincidentally during her own time as an FFBS student graduated as the overall Best Graduating Student revealed that Blessing was deservedly awarded. In her response, she gave all glory back to God as her own impact was to teach and motivate her.

Best Graduating Studen; Adekanmbi Blessing receiving her prize from the President of the Fellowship

The Principal of the FFBS, Brother Ezekiel Olaniran in his own reaction appreciated God over the success of the programme which was meant to be the last major event of the current tenure. He gave an insight into what the FFBS is all about. In his words, "Foundation and Follow-Up Bible School BSF for this session involved both theoretical and practical aspect. The practical aspect involved Prayer Sessions, Morning Cries, Hospital and Prison Visitations among others.