Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, Chairman, Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, being presented with Forbes Best of Africa Award, by Mrs. Olayinka Fayomi, Chairman, Foreign investment network in Abuja this Weekend
Category: Society & Lifestyle
Dr. Aderemi Emmanuel Awode Celebrates 57th Birthday
In his usual style, the fine man behind the finecoast conglomerate, maintaining the social distancing order, gathered a few friends, staff and family to appreciate God’s abundance joy over him.
He would have thrown a large soiree and made the bubbling with activities with live-band on stage as he does annually but the Covid-19 regulations have caused a restriction as he just had his management staff and family to rejoice with him on his special day.
Awode who left no stone unturned to fete the little gathering was full of joy as he beamed with smile all through at his palatial office at Casso Lagos/Abeokuta expressway where they were given a memorable treat.
As they say, “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Mr. Awode is one of those whose business success has become a case study as he makes good use of his time and resources to raise others up businesswise.
Top Society Magazine Partners Satoshi Africa On A 3-Day Wealth Creation Summit
Globally, the experience has been so dastardly and hitching because losing one’s sources of income is simply unimaginable. Our dear country, Nigeria is not an exception as top blue-chip corporate organisations have drastically reduced their staff strength, sacking quite a humongous number of their workforce. This has brought unbearable situations into so many homes with many families at the helms of breaking apart because of the financial incapability of the breadwinner.
To avoid these aggravating pains and exasperating experience, the Publisher of one of Nigeria’s most widely read softsell TOP SOCIETY MAGAZINE’S, Isaac Ifeanyi Agwazim has decided to organize a 3-Day Wealth Creation Summit in partnership with Satoshi Africa. The theme of the summit is “CRYPTO-CURRENCY, THE NEXT OIL”. The summit will hold on Tuesday 15th, Thursday 17th and Saturday 19th September, 2020. The Three-days summit is scheduled to hold by 11:00AM daily.
The summit will focus on maximizing the enormous opportunities in crypto space. It will also educate the attendees on how to use their mobile phone to create wealth in the comfort of their homes and workspace. The Country Director of Tonoit Africa and Leader Satoshi Africa, Engr. Edward Igberaese, a Blockchain expert will take the audience on the training and impact deep knowledge on how to be successful in crypto currency faming.
This summit is organized to rescue worrying Nigerians on their financial status. A lot of people have asked questions like: how do I change my financial status, how do I take charge of my resources, how do I build a stable income at this hard time, what other businesses can I venture into? But attending this crypto currency farming summit will go a long way in solving this puzzles.
Additionally, a lot of phone users are caught up in the web of wasting their data on frivolities rather than being involved in all these, it is better to stop wasting precious times and make money without stress through this summit. It is time to convert your phones into an asset.
Some of the speakers at the summit are Modupe Adebayo a.k.a Lady Billion Dollars, Engr. Levi Johnson, Pastor Okey, Mr. Enobong.
How to register for this life changing summit, simply send your NAME & DATE (eg. ISAAC AIFEANYI AGWAZIM, THRU. 17TH SEPT. 2020) to 08180221535. The details of the summit with venue shall be communicated to you upon your registration.
You shall definitely be glad you did as the summit will give a new turn into your financial life and give you the much anticipated success you have always desired.
Shut-up! Social Media user Lambast Daddy Freeze over Bishop Oyedepo’s Teaching on Marriage
Twitter and other social media platforms has been set on fire over the reaction of popular Nigerian-Romanian born On Air Personality (AOP) Ifedayo Olarinde popularly known as Daddy Freeze to a social media write-up of the presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Tabernacle a.k.a Winners Chapel. Bishop Oyedepo in a series of tweets on marriage has written “The only way to a fruitful marriage is submission on the part of the wife. Until it is in place, every other thing she tries to do will be out of place. As a woman, you might even be a minister of the gospel, and your husband is not, the Word of God still says to submit to him.
” One of the ways a husband should express his love for his wife is by giving. A husband should willingly and joyfully give gifts to his wife. How much is given is not the issue. He should rather accept his responsibility, by joyfully giving his wife gifts. That is what counts.”
But in his way of doing things Daddy Freeze had capitalized on the first part of the tweet to lash onto the revered man of God on his own twitter handle where he responded by saying submission in the Bible goes both ways and that it is both the wife and the husband that must submit to one another.
His response has however elicited harsh words from many twitter users who questioned his right to give marriage advice where he failed in the past not too long, according to one twitter user with @jesusemmanuel_ty47 handle he questioned the rationale where a man whose marriage ended in divorce is questioning a man with over 30 years marriage and this in turn attract reaction from the AOP a situation that has seen others weighing in.
CAN CHAIRMAN COMMENDS PDI’S GRASSROOTS TELEHEALTHCARE INITIATIVE
The Kano State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Samuel Adeyemo, has called on philanthropic organisations and governments at all levels in the country to intensify efforts towards providing cheap and practical solutions to the continued inability of poor and vulnerable grassroots dwellers to access basic healthcare to meet common health challenges.
Reverend Adeyemo who is also the General Overseer of the Believers World Baptist Fellowship in Kano made the appeal during a visit by officials of the PreDiagnosis International to the leadership of the Kano State CAN Chapter last week Monday.
While lauding the extension of PreDiagnosis International’s grassroots telehealthcare initiative coverage to Kano State, the CAN leader noted that lack of compassionate interventions by people of means as well as poverty and ignorance among the citizens have worsened the standard of living among grassroots communities across the country.
“The suffering brought to majority of the citizens by lack of access to basic healthcare is really huge. The CAN Leadership in this State is therefore excited by this initiative of PreDiagnosis International to help the masses get basic access to healthcare. This is because access to qualified doctors from the comfort of wherever one can use technology is something every citizen needs in order for many health challenges to be resolved at an early stage”, he stated.
Earlier in his remarks, the Leader of the PDI team, Dr. John Iguve, explained that the coming of the company to Kano and adjoining states in the Northern part of the country was a step further in PDI’s commitment to making affordable healthcare services available at the doorstep of the people especially the poor and the vulnerable across Nigeria.
According to him, PDI’s operational focus was based on the determination to meet the target of delivering efficient and affordable modern healthcare to at least 20 million poor and vulnerable Nigerians between 2020 and 2030.
Dr. Iguve appealed to the CAN Leadership and other cadres of leadership across the State to help in spreading the news among the citizens in order for the benefits of the Initiative to be fully enjoyed by the people.
“We are happy to announce that we are moving a step further in our campaign to make affordable healthcare services available at the doorstep of the people, especially the poor and the vulnerable across Nigeria. We need the community leaders at all levels to help us spread the news among our people so that everyone can benefit.
“As a semi-philanthropic hybrid health service company, PDI is determined, through our bouquet of technology-based and mass-market targeted medical services, to be at the forefront of meaningful efforts to ensure public healthcare delivery to the poor and vulnerable. Our decision to come and establish strong presence in the Northern part of the country and Kano in particular is aimed at further opening up the frontiers to reach, rescue and fortify many more Nigerians through our modern day Ark of telemedicine in the country,” he disclosed.
CAMA 2020: CASON Urges Churches to Reposition for Accountability, Growth
The Church Administrators Society of Nigeria (CASON) has announced the need for churches in Nigeria to see the new Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 as a call to reposition themselves; improve self-regulation and entrench proper administration, rather than see it as persecution by government.
Addressing professional members, invited pastors, church administrators and members of the public at a webinar hosted online in Lagos, Nigeria Wednesday August 25, CASON President, Pastor Seyi Oladimeji said, “Understanding the law and applying it to the way churches are run is an administrative issue. That is why we seek to educate The Church today.”
Speaking at the webinar, CASON Board Member and Adviser on Legal Matters, Mr. Tomi Vincent submitted that if Nigerians embraced CAMA 2020, the law would help in building more credible businesses and not-for-profit institutions, including churches.
“The new law also grants power to the Corporate Affairs Commission with the approval of the Minister of Trade in cases of misconduct or mismanagement to suspend trustees for the purpose of protecting the property of the association or for public interest or for abatement of fraudulent administration, which also include frivolous remuneration or reward of persons acting in the affairs of the association or other frivolous administrative expenses e.g. indiscriminate honoraria for guest speakers without established policy or protocol” Vincent said.
It was noted at the webinar that certain features of CAMA 2020 provide for prosecution, fines and suspension of trustees where falsehood, misconduct, criminal negligence etc are discovered in the registration, activities and operations of a church under ‘Incorporated Trustees.’
Also speaking at the webinar, CASON Treasurer and Governing Council Member, Mr. Segun Shelleh, who is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, explained that CAMA 2020 specifies clearly, the legal framework for the registration of churches as incorporated trustees, appointment, qualification and removal of the trustees, constitution of the church, appointment of its governing body, application of its income and property, rendering of accounts, annual returns and dissolution of the organisation.
Shelleh said, “It is advisable to apply the funds of a church strictly for the purposes set out in its constitution. Proper steps should be taken to include in the church constitution, every legitimate purpose of the church that is not already in its constitution, which may include approaching the CAC to alter such constitution in line with section 833 of CAMA 2020.
“Any trustee of the church who needs to draw salaries from the organisation, should immediately consider removing himself/herself from the trustees’ body and remain just a staff of the organisation rendering his/her service to the church dutifully in compensation for every salary or remuneration received” Shelleh advised.
CASON has promised to issue a communiqué following the webinar on CAMA 2020 as an advisory to its constituents who are the founders, leaders and administrators of churches in Nigeria.
In concluding his address, CASON president, Oladimeji said: “If churches are better self-regulated, we would not need to be externally supervised by any government agency for we would function by the law. That is why CASON organized this webinar even as we get ready to host our 2020 annual conference in September.
“Our detailed professional advice to the Body of Christ in Nigeria shall be contained in a communiqué soon to be published and circulated to all our constituents” Oladimeji said.
Joshua Iginla Spits Fire On CAMA, Describes Law as Coup Against Christianity ( video)
Under the law, religious bodies, and charity organisations will be strictly regulated by the registrar-general of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister.
Section 839 (1) and (2) of the CAMA law provides that the commission may by order, suspend the trustees of an association or a religious body and appoint an interim manager or managers to coordinate its affairs where it reasonably believes that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement, or where the affairs of the association are being run fraudulently or where it is necessary or desirable for the purpose of public interest.
While reacting to this development, Iginla blamed some church leaders for creating division in Christianity, hereby allowing the government to trample on churches without fear.
He lambasted them for having unnecessary doctrinal argument when there are other issues to deal with
‘One of the reasons the body of Christ in Nigeria is having problem is because we don’t know our capacity. We have lost focus and spent time having doctrinal argument. We are the light of Nigeria.
If we want to ensure that a Christian becomes the president of this country, we have the capacity but we are so self-centered and divided that we are running to people that should be running to us, everything doesn’t end in prayer, there are things we don’t need prayer for in Nigeria. We have the capacity to strengthen things but the church has lost her tastes. We are in days when we no longer attack the devil but ourselves.
The reason people from other religion will continue to do better is because they understand their capacity.
If as a Christian leader, you are corrupt or found wanting, you should be dealt with but I disagree that someone will propound a law into a spiritual entity. Its because the church is asleep. Last year, I prophecied that the church will face persecution because the church is asleep’
Also, Iginla made his stand known on the CAMA law, explaining that the law is a coup against Christianity and that some pastors are ready to die to prevent the law from being implemented on churches.
He maintained that the church was built by the labour of pastors and appointment of trustees who know nothing about the growth of the church, the affairs of the church is highly condemnable
‘’Do you know what it took some of us to labor to grow a church up to this level and someone will say he will appoint a trustee over the Church. You don’t even know how the church came about. If a pastor is corrupt, let him face the law and go to jail but appointing a trustee? Some of us are ready to die before you do that to us, it is absolutely wrong.
Do you know why it is happening like this? Because the church isn’t feared.
How do you make a law for the church? You change the trustee and put your own trustees? When has some organization become a spiritual entity? Are you about to preach, do deliverance, in what capacity will you control the church? Make laws that prevent men of God from being corrupt and if they are corrupt, take them to court but putting your trustees is a coup against the church’’
Furthermore, He advised the government to divert its attention and energy into fight against corruption in the government
‘Sometime I laugh. Thank God for this government and what they are doing, but I must say their energy must be channeled on the right thing. Those who have looted our money and sent our children to live in penury, those governors that have embezzled money should be sent to jail. Its only in my country that those who are fighting corruption are even corrupt. Money that was spent on Covid-19 , how many got it? Those who are in charge should be sent to jail. Leave the church alone. We are not government. If any pastor is found looting with the government, send him to jail but hunting the church is the last place of priority in the fight against corruption.
The government should intensify efforts against those ones. These are people we should use as scapegoats. I am not saying they should not look into the church, look into it but appointing a trustee in the church is wrong. If anyone is appointed to take my sit in my church, except the Lord hasn’t anointed me, He or she will not live to see the next seven days’’.
Labour, Civil Society want National Water Resources bill trashed
National president, Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Employees (AUPCTRE), Comrade Benjamin Anthony said there is a hidden conspiracy behind the bill, adding that it is fraught with contentious sections and with no iota of public interest.
“They must withdraw the bill because we are going to adequately mobilise the civil society and the entire country to resist it. We can’t take it, it is evil, and the bill is not even good for amendment and should be thrown away.
“There was no stakeholders’ engagement, and it is tailored to make Nigerians miserable. We must collaborate, unite, and engage to take our right back. Our water is our right, it is our human right, we will dare government if they do not jettison this bill because they cannot contain what they will see. There is no transparency in it, it has a lot of flaws” he warned.
The activist said that the surreptitious plot to ram it through the legislature speaks volume for some hidden agenda but vowed to mobilise the entire well-meaning citizens in mass unrest that the government would not be able to contain.
Also, Akinbode Oluwafemi of Corporate Accountability Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) noted that the bill was arbitrarily reintroduced in the Green Chambers, just as he called on Nigerian “to rise up and defend their human right to water”
“They arbitrarily reintroduced it in the Green Chambers, in breach of its rules, legislative convention and the provisions of the 1999 constitution before the House adjourned for a two-month recess on Thursday, July 23, 2020. We think that the National Assembly would do well to once again trash this detestable bill in the public interest to save the country from avoidable disaster.
“Our so-called representatives of the people should better let the sleeping dog lie to avoid another round of crisis in our already volatile polity because we cannot accept it and the patience, as well as the good nature of the Nigerian people, should not be tried. They should remember that when Nigerians are mobilised to fight for their right no government power can stop them. They fought the military and we are ready again if the government continues to show insensitivity”
Also speaking, Comrade Musa Ukpo, said the National Assembly “must trash this bill or be ready to face the consequences of their action with massive protest and revolt from the people. Enough is enough of this nonsense”
It will be recalled that when the bill was first introduced in the 8th Senate, it generated intense controversy across the country and was rejected in 2018, due to its desire to have the federal government take control of lands and water resources in the country.
PDI Takes Telehealth To Grassroots Northern Communities
According to a media statement signed by the Managing Director of PDI, Dr. John Iguve, the company’s foray into Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna, and Abuja is in furtherance of PDI’s determination to meet the target of delivering efficient and affordable modern healthcare to 20 million poor and vulnerable Nigerians between 2020 and 2030.
Dr. Iguve explained that the four cities were selected for the pilot scheme of the PDI 20-2030 Reach, Rescue, and Fortify project in the North after the successes recorded in the South West area over the last two years. He said plans to extend the reach to every nook and corner of the Northern region were already afoot.
“We are happy to announce that we are moving a step further in our campaign to make affordable healthcare services available at the doorstep of the people especially the poor and the vulnerable across Nigeria. Our recent decision to establish strong presence in the Northern part of the country is aimed at helping more Nigerians to enjoy access to basic affordable telehealth. As a semi-philanthropic hybrid health service company, PDI is determined to lead in the efforts to ensure public health care delivery to the poor and vulnerable through our bouquet of mass-market targeted medical services”, he explained.
Joshua Iginla Begins Work on 100,000 seater city of wonders in South Africa
The internationally revered Prophet visited the site where the building is being erected with his wife, Prophetess Stella Iginla, and some of his team members. The ultra modern structure we learnt sits on a multi-million naira expanse of land acquired in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In a post on his facebook page, He also revealed that he was at the city of wonders and prayer mountain in South Africa
‘Maranatha Majestic Generation, indeed God is ever faithful. Yesterday I was at the City of Wonders and Prayer Mountain right here in South Africa, to the Glory of God Almighty.
GOODNEWS!!! Work has began in the City of wonders.The God of wonders who has brought us this far will surely preserve us
Recieve uncommon grace to finish strong!!!’’
City of wonders is a Prophetic name given to Joshua Iginla’s 100,000-seater auditorium in Abuja which was built some years ago.
In a bid to take the gospel across the shores of Nigeria, Brother Joshua Iginla decided to take the gospel to South Africa and also replicate the city of wonders in the country too.
Interestingly, Joshua Iginla is one of the most philanthropic prophets in Nigeria, having given out cars, houses to the desolate, financial needs to the less privileges, scholarships, placing widows on full time salary, to mention a few.
