The Charlatan called Odumeje

The Charlatan called Odumeje 

Odumeje is the only self-acclaimed prophet in present-day Nigeria that boldly epitomizes and embodies charlatanry even to the point of upgrading it to an enviable level. 

How is it funny that Odumeje will gather sick people in his "church", I mean people who are suffering and are in pain, he will put cameras on them, and make them disclose their health issues in public. . . then as they narrate their problems, Odumeje will make fun of it in his characteristic manner. .  .the videos will then be shared online and the rest of us will watch and use the video as comedy and joke...????

Someone should make this make sense to me. What did Odumeje give us to blind us from seeing all these for what it is? Something must be collectively wrong with all of us.

Okay, maybe you don't get the point. I want you to just simply stay calm and imagine that the woman in the video below is your mum, or your sister, or your daughter diagnosed with acute stomach cancer, and is being treated that way while others are laughing. Say the truth, will you still find the video funny?

I am guessing that it is acute gastrointestinal cancer she was trying to call. Take your time and google it. That woman is in severe pain. But what do we do, we convert the video to TikTok content, watermark our names on it boldly, and share it for fun.

For someone to be diagnosed with such sickness, and Odumeje's church is where she is taken to for a solution, it shows how evil the country you live in is and the fact that medical help is zero.

In medical ethics, there is dignity and privacy accorded to patients in matters of disclosing their medical condition to others. But Odumeje doesn't know that. Yet, you think it is a funny video.

In a serious country, when such cases come up publicly, people will be moved to see that the woman gets proper medical attention. Doctors watching the video will act. The government will intervene. 

But for us, it is a joke. . . 

And note: this video is just one out of many.

This is how you people keep fueling these people to make a mockery of your faith. 

Why did Odumeje not perform any of those theatrics during his London visit? Why did he convert what ought to be a church gathering of power and healing and prophecy as advertised to a music show with comedy?

The simple answer is that in Nigeria and Africa, anything goes. They know we don't have sense. They will insult us and insult our fathers, and we will answer,  "Thank you, sir!"

#PurestPurity

FRAILTY OF MANKIND**

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(PSALMS 8:3)

😭I see a God who has not been explored at all!

😭His MERCIES are too visible to our eyes, yet we perceive them not.

😭His POWERS are too EVIDENT before us, yet we walk in weaknesses as a people.

😭Our MALADY as creatures are too ENGULFING!

😭Too DEEP is the OCEAN of His faithfulness than we EXPLORE!

😭Our NUMEROUS TESTIMONIES of His MIGHTINESS is a RIDICULE to His name!

😭The ABUNDANCE of His SPLENDOUR is CONSUMING, yet we STINK!

❓Why would we be in lack of that which readily available?

❓For how long would the world walk in sickness and shackles when healings and deliverance are within our fingers?

😭 AVAILABILITY without UTILIZATION is WASTAGE!

😭I insist, I see a God who has not been explored at all.

🙏Give STRENGTH to our feeble hands to handle the WEIGHT of your glory.

🙏Brighten our eyes to behold your virgin marvelous light.

🙏Help us oh Lord to pick with our hands, those treasures we daily trample under our dirty feet.

🙏 ONLY on YOU we rely solely!

THE STORY OF PRINCE NICO MBARGA ( SWEET MOTHER I NO GO FORGET YOU)

THE STORY OF PRINCE NICO MBARGA ( SWEET MOTHER I NO GO FORGET YOU)

Prince Nico Mbarga as he was fondly called  made a living by playing music every Sunday night at Onitsha plaza hotel, though not many knew this story. There is probably no street or building named after him. And when Nigerians list the legends of this country, Nico’s name doesn’t make the cut. But on the board of the most sold singles in the world (1998) – where Elton John’s Candle In The Wind, Celine Dion’s My Heart Goes On, etc., were captured – only one African, with over 13 million copies sold, made the list. And that was Nico Mbarga.

You see, Nico was the child of a Cameroonian father and a Nigerian woman from Mbembe (Obubra LGA, Cross Rivers State.) 

He was born and raised in Ikom – present-day Cross River State. He started fishing as a boy, and his father, who sawed timber, was a nice man. He bought his boy a secondhand Philip Radio, and the boy became addicted to highlife music. He couldn’t stop listening to Bobby Benson’s ‘Taxi Driver.’ But the death of his father when he was still too tender made his mother, a peasant farmer, the sole breadwinner.

The mother suffered a lot, but the boy wasn’t a prodigal. He moved from one bar to the other doing what he loved - singing. Sometimes he got a little pay, others didn’t pay at all. At his 17th year, the Nigerian – Biafra war broke out. And while his mother stayed back in Nigeria, Nico found his way to Mamfe – Cameroon. That’s where he met Lucy.  Both lovers were so poor they couldn’t afford a pot of boiling water. But Lucy married Nico anyways.

In 1970, the Biafran Nigeria War come to an end, and Nico and Lucy  without a penny to their names, or passports traverse “the bush way” to make it back to Nigeria, settling in Onitsha, a trading town on the Niger River. And why the choice of the  town Onitsha?

Onitsha was booming, literally. And it was there that God blessed Nico. He became a darling of the town. He built a band named Rocafil Jazz. There, EMI – a record company, signed Nico and Rocafil Jazz. In 1971, Nico released his first song, ‘I No Go Marry My Papa’ – inspired by his wife, Lucy. The song helped him to build his brand, and he remembered that there was one song that was in his memory. The words were: ‘Sweet Mother, I no go forget you, for this suffer you suffer for me…’

But EMI record that liked the song initially later thought that it was childish and didn’t produce it. But Sweet Mother wasn’t just a song to Nico; it was his life, his autobiography. So, wherever he went with his band, he sang the song. It was while he was singing the song at a joint that an Onitsha Independent Record owner, Romanus Okonkwo of Rogers All Star, heard the song, and that encounter led to Nico breaking off from EMI.

Romanus Okonkwo would produce ‘Sweet Mother’ and release it through his fledging label. It was an instant hit. The story had it that the song became an anthem. It got every Nigerian to their feet, belting ‘Sweet Mother’ at the top of their lungs.

The song took them to Ghana, Togo, Kenya. Nico became larger than the Nigerian Market. They even went on a London Tour. But you see, the fame and money  as recorded came too fast for Rocafil Jazz. The band fell apart, made up, then folded up and never made any music together again.

But in Rocafil’s prime  and the years thereafter  “Sweet Mother” , with the bite of pirated copies sold more than 13 million copies. Yes, Prince Nico Mbarga’s “Sweet Mother” has sold more copies than “Macarena.” And even The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

But the story have not ended of  what became of Prince Nico Mbarga and his sweet Mother. According to  David Zabinsky in his articles on the life and time of Prince Nico Mbargas  noted that  that Nico on his way to Ikom probably to see ‘Sweet Mother,’ his biological mother, Nico’s car ran out of petrol. So he hailed down an okada, a local motorbike. But while on top, an accident sent Nico flying. He hit his head badly. Nico died two weeks later in the hospital. Never able to play “Sweet Mother” one last time. Or say goodbye to his mother.

Back in Ikom, when Nico’s mother now elderly  heard the news, she fell in shock. She’d never get back up, either. She died shortly after.

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Nigerians get grace

Nigerians get grace, anything wey you dey do try make sure say one Naija person dey there, e get why.

• When Napoli dey find league title because e don tey wey dem carry am last, naso Victor Osimhen enter, guess what?, Victor Osimhen goal against Udinese follow give Napoli their first league title in 33 years.

• E don tey wey Bayer Leverkusen win trophy infact e don reach 31 years wey Bayer Leverkusen win trophy, di last time wey Bayer Leverkusen touch trophy,  na hand referee dey use do whistle but as soon as Naija enter with grace everything change.

• Bayer Leverkusen go win Bundesliga if dem win Werder Bremen today and e go be their first ever league title in their history.

• Victor Boniface go score that one sure, abeg make una get ready, today all of us go support Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich don too win that league.

SO TOUCHING AND EMOTIONAL.

Legendary Nollywood director and producer Chidi Chikere pens down an emotional message for late Junior pope. 

“My boy. My son . Adieu. I feel like a man who has lost a son. You came to dance in my music video. I paid you and you said ‘Thank you sir’ I was touched by your gratefulness and I asked my production manager to call you back. I took your number and told you I d push your career cos out of all the people I paid that day you were the only one who said THANK YOU. So one month later  and after auditions , I cast in a leading role in the movie DEEPER THAN FACES. I surrounded you with established actors like Tonto Dikeh. Uche Elendu and the legend Uncle Pete Edochie. Cos I knew casting you among them would make you fly. And fly you did. I carried your career AMAKA MUSTAPHA. BE NOT AFRAID. NEW JOY etcetera, and you kept flying.

Others began to cast you and I was happy watching you grow. Casting you as Churchill son of legendary actor Kanayo O Kanayo in GLOBACOM’s sitcom Professor Johnbull was one of the best decisions of my career because again you showed your versatility. 

I don’t know how this happened, it s only God that knows, JP, for me you are not dead, you have only gone to another level. That is the only way I can cope with this terrible news. We will keep holding the flag until we meet again”. 

My brother if you have good people like Chidi Chikere around you who support you genuinely and take special interest in making you great please love and respect them cos their kind is rare.

Why did God create evil?

This is probably the best answer l've ever heard to the question, "Why did God create evil?"

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Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!

A professor at the university asked his students the following question:

- Everything that exists was created by God?

One student bravely answered:

- Yes, created by God.

- Did God create everything? - a professor asked.

"Yes, sir," replied the student.

The professor asked :

- If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.

The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said:

- Can I ask you a question, professor?

"Of course," replied the professor.

A student got up and asked:

- Professor, is cold a thing?

- What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?

Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:

- Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist.

According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.

Absolute zero (-460 degrees

Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature.

Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.

A student continued:

- Professor, does darkness exist?

— Of course it exists.

- You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness.

We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.

In the end, the young man asked the professor:

- Sir. does evil exist?

This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:

- Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.

To this, the student answered:

- Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light.

The student's name was Albert Einstein.