Loan: UK-Based Nigerian Appeals To Former Pastor To Pay Back £198,000 Collected Six Years Ago

Loan: UK-Based Nigerian Appeals To Former Pastor To Pay Back £198,000 Collected Six Years Ago

An indigene of Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government of Delta State, based in the United Kingdom (UK), Mrs. Rachel Anayo Nwombasi, has appealed to her former pastor, Dapo Adegboyega, in charge of the UK branch of World Evangelism Bible Church, WEBIC (before it shut down), to pay back a loan of 198, 000 Pounds she helped him collect from Halifax Bank, UK, eight years ago.

Rachel, a trained nurse now was a pastor in under him many years ago before she left for another ministry.

A close relative of Rachel who spoke to Oasis Magazine (OM) on the matter under conditions of anonymity, said the fact that Adegboyega is a cleric made Rachel consider his loan request, saying that the agreement signed with the bank has been broken.

The said pastor hails from Sango, Ibadan Nigeria.

According to the relative, the pastor has refused to reply her lawyer’s countless letters, adding that the bank is furious over the issue.

“The police and the fraud department in the UK are all aware and know how they scam people here,” she added.

She continued: “The father of Dapo, Prophet Samson Adegboyega, Founder, Salvation Proclamations Anointed Church (SPAC), Ibadan is also aware of the whole issue and did nothing about it. Even Dapo’s wife, Lola Adegboyega and brother, Tobi Adegboyega are all in this scam together.”

“Rachel is looking for a way to contact the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) or any pastor’s organization to help her compel him to pay this loan,” she said.

“To tell you how close she is to the Adegboyegas, anytime Prophet Samson goes to the UK to minister, they always ministered together and if he does not see her, he will not minister. She was like a daughter to them all.

“Her former pastor has kept on promising to pay for over five years now. He said he wants to build a church with the money. No church was built. After taking the loan and he refused to pay, he now ran to his father’s church.”

Based on findings, the initial sum was 110, 000 Pounds. The interest added made it 198, 000.

Rachel has been paying the interest on the loan, while the pastor is said to be on the run after his church closed down.

OM gathered that if not for the lockdown, he would have since returned to Nigeria.

When contacted, Prophet Samson Adegboyega said he was not in the know of the while issue but said it was mentioned to him many years ago.

The cleric said “it was a lie from the pit of hell that Dapo was planning to come back to Nigeria.”

“His family is in the UK. What is. he coming to do in Nigeria? The courts are there and I expect her to take him to court,” he opined.

IPDI Calls On Gov. Douye Diri To Conduct INC Inconclusive Election, Warns ljaw Affairs Commissioner Against Manipulation

IPDI Calls On Gov. Douye Diri To ConductINC Inconclusive Election, Warns ljaw Affairs Commissioner Against Manipulation

JANUARY 9, 2021

PRESS STATEMENT

IPDI CALLS FOR COMPLETION OF INC INCONCLUSIVE ELECTIONS-WARNS IJAW AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER AGAINST MANIPULATION

Our attention has been drawn to the pointless delay in completing the inconclusive INC elections held in 2018. It is our call that His Excellency Sen. Douye Diri should respond timely and positively to this call and ensure that the INC election is concluded without further delay. Every day the election is not conducted the destiny of Ijaw Nation is stagnated. It is worrisome that Ijaw nation is in disarray. The leaders are confused, elders are wondering and youth are locking horns in division, because the head is sick. 

The delay in completing the INC disrupted election shows that truth has been murdered and buried in Ijaw nation. Ijaw nation cannot be seen as a banana republic. It is shameful! Ijaw leadership must do the needful. INC must be resuscitated to provide leadership for Ijaw nation.

Again, information reaching us reveals that some persons from the previous administration of Bayelsa State have started plotting to manipulate the electoral process, directing the new Commissioner of Ijaw affairs, Bayelsa State to unilaterally dissolve the existing ELECO and other organs in INC without the mandate of CITRE and reappoint preferred elements as members of ELECO and other organs that matter. This position, if true, is capable of fanning discord in the electoral process of the unconcluded INC election. All to ensure an easy ride for their preferred candidate again.

Meanwhile, Ijaw nation had not said new Steering Committee and ELECO should be appointed. We still have confidence in those committees and until Ijaw nation decide in one voice to replace those bodies it will be a sick joke to unilaterally dissolve the existing ELECO and other adhoc organs in the Ijaw Apex body.

It will be recalled that there was a strong attempt to impose leadership on INC by the Seriake Dickson led government of restoration. We stood on our feets to dislodge Seriake Dickson’s conspiracy theory. We will not accept any attempt to manipulate the electoral process by anybody. Both members of the Steering Committee and ELECO were nominated to represent the various zones recognised by the constitution of Ijaw National Congress. So far the zones in question have not found their members wanting. The Commissioner of Ijaw affairs should ask about IPDI and learn from the errors of the previous administration on INC issues. 

However, we admonish every litigant in INC to sheath sword. Let us bury some personal interests to rejuvenate INC for the general good of Ijaw nation as the need to conclude the INC inconclusive election cannot be overemphasized. We also advice that the existing ELECO be funded and let it do its job uninterrupted.

A nation without a head has lost its bearing. At this critical hour of our existence in Nigeria, we cannot move forward when we lack leadership. Our neighbours are taking advantage of our weak system and many things have gone bad because of our pursuit of politics of self-centeredness.

IPDI as a group will not be a party to any attempt to manipulate the electoral process. The INC matters are not only Bayelsa state issues. They spread across the six states in Nigeria Ijaws are located geographically and politically. The Commissioner Ijaw affairs should not create problem when and where there is none. He should know that the entire Ijaws from, Delta, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Lagos, Abuja, Akwa-Ibom, Cross river etc are interested in it. We will not hesitate to call for his sack and rubbish him in court if he does not stop the ongoing conspiracy theory to manipulate the electoral process.

We urge the governor of Bayelsa state, Chief host to the INC, to preside over the electoral process by himself as we have started losing confidence in his Ijaw affairs Commissioner.

It is our candid advice that he (Douye) should call for INC stakeholders meeting and seek the opinion of the concerned stakeholders to determine the way forward as to conduct free, fair and credible supplementary (unconcluded) INC election in no distance time.

Signed

Comrade Ozobo Austin

National president, Ijaw People's Development Initiative, IPDI.

IPDI Endorses Call on Buhari to Relocate Presidential Amnesty Office To Niger Delta

IPDI Endorses Call on Buhari to Relocate Presidential Amnesty Office To Niger Delta

Asaba______ The foremost Niger Delta group, the Ijaw People's Development initiative,IPDI, has thrown its support for the call for relocation of Presidential Amnesty Office to Niger Delta region to effectively and efficiently served beneficiaries of the programme. 

The call was made by the national president of the the group, Comrade Ozobo Austin following similar calls earlier made by Elder Comrade Morris Alagoa, Niger Delta frontline environmentalist and others.

The group said president Muhammadu Buhari should ordered the immediate relocation of the presidential amnesty Office to Niger Delta region as it had to do with the people of Niger Delta.

Ozobo reiterated that relocating the amnesty Office to Niger Delta would helped to serve the people better.

IPDI added that the relocation of the amnesty Office to Niger Delta would end undue inference of meticulous northerns and other crminals in the program.

Ozobo further stated that the relocation of the office would reduce corruption and manipulations of accounts and stipends of beneficiaries of the amnesty programme.

He asserted that it would helped various contractors and successive coordinators to be accountable and focused.

Gen. Ogunbos Excapes Death As Aggrieved Militants Bomb His Home ln Bayelsa

Gen. Ogunbos Excapes Death As Aggrieved Militants Bomb His Home ln Bayelsa

Francis Tayor

Yenagoa______ A coalition of aggrieved militants in Niger Delta has bombed the country home of a former militant leader in Bayelsa State, Mr. Paul Eris, alias “General” Ogunbos, who they claimed abandoned his boys to suffer in the creeks and is living big in the city.

The aggrieved militants under the auspices of Niger-Delta Cleansing Force for Development, NDCFD, weekend, bombed his country home in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State for the second time in one week.

A source revealed the former militant leader managed to escape, adding that the invasion of his home was the beginning of planned attack by foot soldiers on their erstwhile leaders, across the oil region.

The irate militants had on December 25, launched a similar attack on the the former militant leader’s home, accusing him and others of feeding fat on Presidential Amnesty Programme funds.

Our reporter could not reach the ex-militant leader yesterday, for comments as his phone lines were switched off, but a source close to him denied that he neglected his boys or misappropriated their funds, describing the allegations as false.

Spokesman of  NDCFD, Blacky Peres, in a statement, Sunday, confirmed the two  attacks, saying more attacks will come.

His words: “The group, which is made up of a coalition of militants from different camps and groups, is also responsible for the second round deadly attack on “General” Ogunbos, which took place today, Sunday,  January 3,2021 in his community.

“The militants under the NDCFD are those who fought with some self acclaimed generals for the emancipation of the zone but were neglected and left to suffer in the creeks while they live in affluence without carrying their boys along, instead set them up to be killed by the military.

“The boys are now out to cleanse the Niger Delta and most painful is that the so-called “generals” neglected their strength which is their foot soldiers and decided to live selfish life styles to the detriment of the long neglected region and we will not stop until our desire is achieved.

“All those who have used the sweat of the struggle for their personal aggrandizement will not be left out as we have fully identified  all of them in different parts of the region and we will go after them one after the other.

“Our governors, NDDC Board members, Niger Delta Ministry and other agencies of the federal and state governments supervising development for the zone that have turned public funds to their personal own will not be left out in this cleansing until we see a clear picture of development, enough is enough.”

“It is painful that Niger Deltans have continued to connived with ex militant generals, International Oil Companies, federal and state governments to shortchange the region of its needed development, this trend must stop because nobody is bigger than the region.

“What is supposed to come to the regions is diverted mid way while the people and region wallow in abject poverty, deprivation and gross underdevelopment, the so called General claim to the lords over the people, our bullets will visit them,” the rebelling militants asserted.

Ijaw Group Backs NDDC Forensic Audit, Charges Youths Of The Region To Maintain Peace

Ijaw Group Backs NDDC Forensic Audit, Charges Youths Of The Region To Maintain Peace

Francis Tayor

Warri_____ A group of Niger Delta youths under the aegis of ljaw Progressive Youth Leaders (IPYL), has throw their weight behind the forensic audit panel on NDDC approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in order to sanitize and check mate the activities of the Niger Delta development agency over the years of its operation.

The group in a Press Statement signed by Snr Comrade. Franklin D. Magada (Convener), Comrade. Jackson Agbor (Coordinator) and Gen. Sunny Clark (Stakeholder) released on Tuesday 5th January, 2021 at Warri, Delta State charged Niger Delta youths to always tow the line of peace and refrained from the habit of Pull Him Down (PHD) syndrome of their political leaders, saying it will not do the region any good rather than to impede the region from rapid social-ecinomic and infrastructural development.

The group further said they are disappointed on the activities of some youths of Niger Delta region been sponsored by some selfish politicians who sees NDDC as Cow to maintain their flamboyant lifestyle in dragging NDDC to the media on bad light before the public over corruption, Forensic Audit, lnterim Management Committee (IMC), Substantive Board and Sole Administrator appointments that was meant to sanitize the system from total collapse in the hands of corrupt politicians in the region.

According to the Press Statement, read:

Ijaw Progressive Youth Leaders

Press Release:

This Day 5th of January, 2021.

"Arising from a critical stake holders meeting in Warri, on the state of affairs of Our region Niger Delta, we deem it fit to brief the press of our resolutions as fellow:

1). As youths leaders, we have watched with a total dismay over the past few months whereby the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is opt to be interventional development agency is being dragged to the media on bad light every now and then over corruption, forensic audit, interim Management Committee, (IMC), substantive board and sole administrator. Which are sponsored by section of disgruntled Politicians from the region, who sees the NDDC as a cash Cow to maintain their flamboyant life-style.

2). We condemn the consistence Niger Delta Life style of "Pull Him Down Syndrome" of it's leader's, and that of our own Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha, Chief James Ibori all have suffered the same fate in the past is now mounted on Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs in it's entirety and especially the recent incident where some Ijaw Youths, groups disrupt the office of the minister in Abuja, and we say' that is a foreign practice to the Niger Delta Youth mode of engagement which is intellectual approach, and that is a total affront to the authority and directive of the President of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), who is the leader of the Ijaw council world-wide. 

3). We the Niger Delta Progressive Youths Leaders, are in a total support of the forensic audit on NDDC, hence the administration of President Buhari only acted on the demands of the Niger Delta Governors of which Mr. President approved the forensic audit and again obey court orders in appointing a sole administrator to finalised the forensic auditing process. 

4). Lastly, our humble appeal to every youth in the region is to give peace a chance."

Signed:

Senior Comrade Franklin D. Magada - Convener

Senior Comrade Jackson Agbor - Coordinator

Gen. Sunny Clark -  Stake Holder.

Olorogun Gbagi Visits Tompolo Ahead Of 2023 Governorship Ambition

Olorogun Gbagi Visits Tompolo Ahead Of 2023 Governorship Ambition

Francis Tayor

Warri_____ Ahead of 2023 Delta State governorship election, the former Minister of State for Education and a frontline Governorship aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olorogun (Barr) Kenneth Gbagi has been given a warm reception In Gbaramtu Kingdom during the Yuletide to celebrate with High Chief. Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo.

The visit was tagged as a visit to his younger brother, High Chief Government Ekpomolo (AKA Tompolo), a former warlord of Niger Delta to celebrate the new year during the weekend at his country home Oporoza, in Warri South-West LGA, Delta State.

According to Tompolo, said: " My elder brother, Chief Gbagi, you have done well to visit your younger brother in the season of celebration, especially the end of the year, which is a season of celebration and to show love to one another. May the good Lord continue to protect and guide us as we enter 2021, he remarked."

In his reaction, Chief Gbagi thanked High Chief. Tompolo for the warm reception, stressing that he will not only visit Tompolo during Christmas and New Year but always when necessary. " As my younger brother. I will visit you whenever the need arises, Gbagi noted“.

Just-ln: Gov. Okowa, Diri, Others To Attend Ogbe-ljoh Amafini Festival On 8th/9th Jan, 2021

Just-ln: Gov. Okowa, Diri, Others To Attend Ogbe-ljoh Amafini Festival On 8th/9th Jan, 2021

Francis Tayor

Warri_____ Preparation is on top gear as the 1001 edition of the popular annual Amafini Festival of the great ancient Ogbe-ljoh Warri Kingdom is around the corner for the year 2021.

According to the Olori-ln-Council on behalf of Ogbe-ljoh Warri Kingdom, Chief. Hitler Koridigha said: " The 1001 edition would take place on the 8th and 9th January, 2021 at Ogbe-ljoh Main Town, Headquarters of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. Time scheduled is 10:am prompt.

His Excellencies, Sen Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of Delta State and his Bayelsa State counterpart, Sen. Douye Diri would be the Special Guest of honours at the occasions. Other dignitaries from business, political and religious world from far and near the shores of Nigeria are also expected to attend this years event.

The statement further adds that, there shall be a display of special side attractions on that day to entertain invited guests as well as to spice up the occasion."

Some of the activities to be featured includes; display of Chief. Tinuwei Cultural Troupes, cultural dancing competition, Ogele dance among other social-cultural activities. 

However, the general public is by this notice invited to grace this years occasion, noting that music would be supplied by Alfred Izonebi alias JKing on that day.