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My child’s illness made me go to Redeemed Church + I had uncountable Girlfriends – General Overseer RCCG, Pst E.A Adeboye reveals
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A Adeboye has a lot of stories to say about his past which a lot of people don’t know.
In this interview with Sunday Alabi, Adetunji Adeyombo, Tunde Opalana, Tolu Olamiriki and Taiwo Olanrewaju , he explained how he met his wife, his first encounter in RCCG, and how he used to have a lot of girlfriends.
Talking about what made him choose the work of the ministry over his teaching career, he said,
”Well, I have shared the testimony that I had a problem that all my mathematics couldn’t solve.
The problem had to do with one of my children who had a sickness that the doctors couldn’t handle and somebody referred me to the Redeemed Christian Church of God. I got there, they prayed for the child and the child was made whole. Well, they were alright, I must confess I didn’t like their mode of worship, their worship was too noisy for me. But the first
thing that attracted me to the Redeemed Christian Church of God was their sincerity and their fervour. Whatever they were doing, they were doing it with their whole heart, they were not pretending. I also saw in the faces of the leaders, they were always contented, they looked as if they had no problem in the world at all, they had peace more than anything else.
Fortunately for me, they didn’t solve the problem of my child immediately, they kept on saying I must surrender my life to Jesus Christ, I must confess my sins to Him, which irritated me to start with because I felt that I didn’t know about sin. What they were calling sin then by my own interpretation was just a way of life. We were doing everything everybody was doing. You have a wife in the house, one or two girlfriends by the side. That was what everybody was doing. But after about one month, suddenly the message penetrated and I suddenly realised that they were not asking me to surrender to any man, they were asking me to surrender to my God, my maker. I grew up in a home where you can’t call it holiness but at least where they taught us to fear God. After I grew up, particularly around the time I was about to enter the university, all these pranks became the order of the day. I remembered those days when early piety became the order of the day and I thought it was a good time really.Then I felt if what these people are saying is that I should return to those days, then why not.
I went forward, gave my life to Jesus Christ and everything changed. Everything changed since then till now.’
Talking about the first miracle God performed through him, He said,
Oh! you are talking about the first healingmiracle. The first one I can say is spectacular, because there are several others, the first was the healing of a dumb child. The mother brought the child, the child was babbling a lot, the child was eleven or twelve years old and has never spoken all her life and the mother brought her, she said this my child is dumb. I
was going to pray like any other pastor and believe that over the next weeks or months, the child will begin to talk or something. As I lay my hand on that child and I said, “In The Name of Jesus”, the child said “Amen”. This frightened me that I nearly jumped out of the window because I was not expecting the child to speak even after I have prayed and I have not prayed.
All I have said was, “In The Name of Jesus” and the child said “Amen”. Of course, the mother was on the floor rolling and there was no need to pray any more. I believe God did it that way so that I won’t take any credit for it. Not just because I prayed, but because God just wanted to perform the miracle.
When exactly was that sir?
It was a long time ago. I am sorry I cannot remember.
Furthermore, he was asked about his past relationship with girls and how he met his wife, He said,
”That is quite an interesting story, so I will tell you. I said when I was growing up, I grew up where piety was the order of the day. I can still say very proudly today that all my elder sisters, when they got married, they were virgins. That was how rigid my parents were. I was raised up like that. Then as I grow, I became a sports man, my hobby happens to be photography.
That is a dangerous combination for a young man because it opens the door to having as many girlfriends as possible. Ladies love a sportsman particularly if he is winning medals and if you are a photographer and always take pictures of women. So, I ended up having so many girlfriends to the extent that at a point in time, I didn’t even know their numbers And I have fun of giving them various days of the year as my birthday. To one girlfriend, my birthday will be January something, to another, it may be September something. The reason of course is that when I’m celebrating, only one girlfriend would show up. So, the birthday is for you as a particular person. And I expect of course on my birthday, that the girlfriend should bring a gift. When it was the turn of the lady I married, she sent me a gift. I was at
Nsukka when she was in Ibadan. She posted the gift to arrive on my birthday and it was a small parcel. As soon as I collected the parcel at the Post Office, I said ah, this one has lost. She wants to marry me an undergraduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and she is sending me this kind of a gift. Then I opened the gift and it was a New Testament Bible and two snow-white handkerchiefs. I said she has lost double now. Can you imagine sending a Bible to me on my birthday? But before that day was over, I have written off the other girls. It was as if the Bible was charmed (I’m using the word charmed the way a sinner will use it). I just found that from the Post Office to my hostel, something came over me and all of a sudden I began to remember my days when I used to be a holy boy and said this girl is calling me back to my former days, the handkerchiefs were so white and of course I knew this is the girl I would marry. I didn’t sleep that night until I have written the others to tell them sorry, no quarrel but let us go our various ways. That is how that one happened.”
NNPCL and Corruption’s Final Throes
By Pius Olasanmi
In the twilight of the Obasanjo administration, when Nigerians were still capable of being outraged, when Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of refineries was a buzzword that still held some mysticism to bamboozle citizens, during a conversation, a certain man said something profound. The man said, “As a businessman, if I were the owner of these refineries, knowing that they are three decades old, I would take the last money I have, hire bulldozers, raze them to the ground, and obtain loans to build new ones.”
When we pressed him further on why he would engage in such waste, he explained that repairing the refineries is the real waste. He explained that even if the TAM were honestly carried out, a thirty-year-old refinery would never compete favourably with a new one that would integrate contemporary technology. Operating at its best, such a refinery would never be comparatively more efficient. It is therefore pointless to have spent another one naira on the refineries at that point.
A few months later, I had a conversation with a then-lawmaker on an entirely different matter. I mentioned that the National Assembly has failed by not crafting legislation that would criminalise and punish public office holders who foist wrong decisions on the country. The logic: a public office holder need not steal to be punished, wrong decisions should attract penalties for an office holder who opts for the worst of all options when there are less injurious ones.
These established premises speak to the ongoing nauseating efforts at revisionism by those who wrecked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and its previous iteration, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Notably, this campaign to rewrite history is traceable to Engineer Mele Kolo Kyari, the disgraced immediate past Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL and his hirelings. They have suffocated the news and the public opinion space with even more lies than they spun while in office.
The Saint Kyari campaign is anchored on convincing Nigerians that the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna Refineries were fully functional when he was booted out of office. So brazen is the campaign that one of its talking heads challenged the group chief executive officer (GCEO), Engr. Bayo Ojulari, to “inform Nigerians categorically what happened to the functioning refineries he inherited from his predecessor, Engr. Mele Kyari.” The effrontery.
We have not forgotten so soon the charade that followed the baffling claim that Nigeria has spent $2.8 billion on the repair of the refineries, while they are not churning out even a single litre of refined product among them. Saint Kyari and his goons played all manner of tricks, all of which embarrassed President Bola Tinubu, who had counted on ticking off the return to productivity of the refineries as part of his achievements, only to realise that he was deceived into celebrating phantoms. Tragic.
Lest we forget, 200 trucks were arranged as props in a well-directed video clip to celebrate the re-streaming of the Port Harcourt Refinery. The disappointment. Nigerians were to learn from several reports that the Port Harcourt refinery was not producing and was instead using old, stored petroleum products to load trucks. Worse still, the Kyari crew was passing off sanction-tainted Russian-sourced crude oil refined in Malta as locally refined products. More insult was piled on the assault on our collective sensibility with the lies that the Port Harcourt Refinery exported semi-finished products. Brazen.
Meanwhile, Kyari and his hirelings called those who pointed out or protested these glaring scams all manner of names. They hid behind industry technicalities and jargon to create the impression that those of us who knew Nigerians were being robbed did not understand what we were saying. The point remains that a $2.8 billion investment can potentially build a refinery with a capacity of around 100,000 barrels per day (bpd). Of course, the actual capacity of such a refinery will depend on various factors, including the complexity of the refinery, the technology used, and the location. That is the amount that Kyari’s regime at the NNPCL took and did not give Nigerians refined products.
Fast forward to Kyari’s sack and the appointment of Engineer Bayo Ojulari, who has demonstrated that things can indeed be done differently. Kyari’s exit was expectedly followed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) going after him and his associates. The extent of the theft is better understood against the backdrop of N80 billion being found in the bank account of one of his associates. They went on the run.
Perhaps because the EFCC was biding its time on securing international warrants for the arrests of these characters on the lam, they have become emboldened. They have decided to fight back and rewrite the story of their participation in the greatest fraud against Nigerians. Engineer Ojulari’s renewed mindset, which is entrenching a semblance of the transparency Nigerians demand, became their natural target. The demons that once roamed around the corporation came out with malevolence. They started spinning stories of corruption to tarnish the incumbent who refused to hide their crimes. The objective: bring Ojulari down. But alas, he is winning the war as it stands.
His innocence is proven, and it is glaring that those who want him out are mere charlatans who can no longer ply their corrupt wares because of the impact of the new reforms. Corruption in the NNPCL is in its final throes. The fake news being unleashed against the incumbent leadership is akin to corruption’s last kicks as reforms in the sector strangulate it and its practitioners. The reforms must take place in the NNPCL, whether the industry demons like it or not.
As a parting shot, Kyari and his associates would do well to prepare their defence. In addition to accounting for the $2.8 billion they laundered in the name of repairing the moribund refineries, they must also answer for the poor decision to fix that which is irretrievably broken. Awarding contracts for Turn Around Maintenance of 59-year-old refineries that a right-thinking person had suggested should be demolished almost twenty years ago, when they were only 30 years old, is criminal. Trying to deceive Nigerians that the fake repairs worked is treason.
Olasanmi is a public affairs analyst writing from Lagos.
GRANDIS 5STAR LUXURY APARTMENT & SUITES SET TO REDEFINE LIVING IN VICTORIA ISLAND
Set to Rise elegantly against the Lagos skyline, is the Grandis 5Star Luxury Apartment & Suites. According to Adejuwon Ademola, The General Manager of the Development company, it is more than just a residential building
“it’s a lifestyle statement. Standing 17 floors high in the heart of Victoria Island, this revolutionary masterpiece of modern architecture will offer a panoramic 360° view of Eko Atlantic, Victoria Island, and Ikoyi, transforming every apartment into an exclusive penthouse experience for the world’s most discerning elite.”
Developed by Dumarco Construction Limited, a globally acclaimed company with decades of delivering complex, high-value projects in the highly regulated petroleum, oil, and gas industries, Grandis 5Star brings unmatched international safety standards, uncompromising quality, and timeless elegance into Nigeria’s luxury property market.
> “When you live in Grandis, you’re not just buying a home—you’re investing in peace of mind, world-class safety, and an effortless luxury experience that will remain pristine for decades,” says Adejuwon A. Ademola, General Manager of Dumarco Construction Limited.
The Gold Standard in Safety and Quality
Dumarco’s roots in the oil and gas sector mean the company operates to some of the strictest safety protocols in the world. Every stage—from conceptualization, design, construction, to long-term maintenance—follows internationally accepted procedures and quality assurance measures. Cutting corners is simply not in Dumarco’s vocabulary.
> “In the oil and gas industry, there’s no room for compromise. We’ve brought that same discipline and zero-tolerance for mediocrity into property development,” says Ademola. “That’s why Grandis will be one of the safest and most enduring residential developments in Nigeria.”
To ensure transparency and prevent (project complacency), Dumarco deliberately separates the developer, contractor, and consultant roles, engaging only the most competent professionals in each respective field. Dumarco’s project team includes globally recognized contractors such as Julius Berger, Cappa & D’Alberto, and Elalan, Migliore Construczione & Tecniche (MC&T) and their partners VENCO IMTIAZ CONTRACTING COMPANY (VICC) based in Dubai, UAE, Business Contracting Limited, alongside leading consultants like Morgan Omanitan & Abe, LAMBERT, and James Cubitt.
Grandis – Investments, appreciation, returns and profitability
Our selection process for the location of the project alone was pains-taking and completely thorough scientific process. Top professional companies were employed to conduct a scientific data acquisition and analytical survey of the entire Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lekki and Eko Atlantic before a project site is selected. Analyzing and acquiring areas developmental charts and trends, studying and gathering historical and present sale prices, rental charge and occupancy rates over a 50 year period from every individual street before the selection of the location of any of our developments especially true for the Grandis Project
He adds,
“Our clients and residents can be rest assured that the location of Grandis has been scientifically proven through all existing data to provide our clients with a 100% occupancy rate, highest developmental location, highest rental income and investment returns. ”
The Grandis Experience
Located minutes away from international corporate headquarters, embassies, and landmarks such as Eko Hotel, Radisson Blu, and the Radisson Red, Grandis offers unmatched convenience for professionals, diplomats, and high-net-worth individuals. Every residence is designed for both indulgence and efficiency, with high-grade finishes, smart-home systems, and private amenities that ensure seamless living.
From sunrise over the Atlantic to the glittering Lagos night skyline, residents will enjoy uninterrupted luxury, supported by discreet and highly trained staff, advanced security systems, and a design that prioritizes comfort and privacy.
> “We designed Grandis for people who want everything—security, elegance, convenience, and the assurance that their home will look as spectacular in 20 years as it does on day one,” Ademola notes.
A Legacy That Lasts
With its combination of visionary architecture, peerless safety, and meticulous maintenance planning, Grandis is built to remain iconic for generations. Thanks to Dumarco’s meticulous approach, the building’s service charges are expected to remain low while its value and appeal continue to appreciate over time.
In a market often marred by shortcuts and substandard practices, Mr Ademola says
Grandis stands as a beacon of what luxury living should be—safe, spectacular, and built to last.
“Grandis 5Star Luxury Apartment & Suites — Where safety meets sophistication, and every detail is designed for a life well-lived.”
He added
Website -www.dumarcoltd.com
Project website – www.26idowutaylor.com
Email [email protected]
Tel / WhatsApp +234 9077777883
GM – Adejuwon A. Ademola
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