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Remi Tinubu, SanwoOlu, Southwest Governors, Osoba, Ooni, Primate Alogbo, Others To Grace Eritosin’s Prayer Convention for Nigeria in Ikorodu

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Remi Tinubu, SanwoOlu, Southwest Governors, Osoba, Ooni, Primate Alogbo, Others To Grace Eritosin’s Prayer Convention for Nigeria in Ikorodu

 

First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Dapo Abiodun, Ademola Adeleke, Seyi Makinde, former Ogun State Governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi and Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun are among top dignitaries expected to attend the 2025 annual convention and Harvest of Divine Grace of Apata Ayeraye C&S International (Unification) Church shepherd by Revd (Dr) Captain Mother Kehinde Osoba, Chancellor, College of Chaplaincy and Social Sciences, Nigeria on Sunday, 28th December, 2025 in Ikorodu.

Others are Primate Emmanuel Abiodun Alogbo, Supreme Head of C&S Unification, Prophetess Esther Ajayi, Ayangburen of Ikorodu, HRM Oba Kabiru Adewale Shotobi and Hon Olawande George, Son of KSA and Chairman of Royal Majesty Place, while Ace Comedian, Ali Baba will also have special appearance at the harvest.

The theme of this year’s celebration, “Arise, Shine; for thy light has come” (Isaiah 60:1), has been described as both timely and profoundly
instructive for the restoration of the glory of Nigeria

According to a congratulatory message of sent to the Church by former presidential candidate of the SDP, Prince Adewole Adebayo, who is also expected to attend the convention “it speaks not only to spiritual awakening but also to the collective responsibility of faith communities in illuminating the path of righteousness, justice, and national renewal for Nigeria”

The Ikorodu venue of the grand finale is already agog as worshippers continue to troop in for the spiritual gathering, where prayers will be offered for the stability and security of Nigeria on Sunday.

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My Daughter Is Under a Spell,’ Says Joy Igene’s Mother — The Truth Behind the Judas Allegations

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My Daughter Is Under a Spell,’ Says Joy Igene’s Mother — The Truth Behind the Judas Allegations

 

For those coming to this story for the first time, here is a full, compiled account based on my extensive investigations, interviews, and evidence gathered. I swear on my honor and all I hold sacred that every detail here is the truth.

 

THE BACKGROUND: JOY’S ACTUAL ROLE & HISTORY

 

Joy Igene Mustapha initially worked at Prayer City with Deborah Amaka, sharing a room on instruction from the church leadership. Due to her promiscuity, she was moved back to the headquarters and assigned to the SPECIAL DUTY OFFICE—a department that handles critical investigations and assigned tasks (like uncovering financial misappropriation by individuals such as Sunday Baruwa Olowoyeye). In this office, she worked under Emmanuel Aro, Samuel Omotola, Bukky, and others. Her duties included supervising some teenage orchestra members, through whom all support was channeled.

 

She was never a confidential secretary to Dr. D.K. Olukoya. The General Overseer’s office is an open, busy protocol-driven environment, typically with at least 8 pastors present, and operates like a hospital with people waiting from as early as 5:30 AM. There are no secret rooms. Dr. Olukoya’s office is publicly accessible and constantly attended to by staff and visitors seeking prayers and help. (For a perfect description, see Badmus Olalekan’s post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17dVVqsYcc/)

 

Joy’s claim that Dr. Olukoya asked if she was a virgin is not only absurd but inconsistent with her known character and the setting of the office. She was suspended and later dismissed for promiscuity. So, who will ask such a question from a public dog? The head of the GO’s office is Pastor Taiwo and he supervises everything. She should provide an appointment letter if truly she is the confidential secretary as claimed.

 

The real question is why she was not dismissed earlier, given her lifestyle. Dr. Olukoya is known for giving people multiple chances, believing they can change. His weakness, if it can be called that, is his deep compassion for people, especially the less privileged or someone he doesn’t want the devil to harvest.

 

INTERVIEWS WITH FAMILY & ASSOCIATES: A PATTERN OF INGRATITUDE & MANIPULATION

 

My investigation led me to speak directly with Joy’s mother, Mrs. Bukola Mustapha (0705997****), a strong MFM member. She was bitter and in distress, stating that her daughter had been “manipulated and placed under a spell” by evil people.

 

I also interviewed Mrs. Glory Igene (0808447****), her uncle’s wife, whose children were sponsored through university by Dr. Olukoya. They are currently seeking his help for their Master’s degrees. This fact underscores the depth of ingratitude: Joy’s own siblings are direct beneficiaries of the man she now slanders.

 

Joy showed little interest in education. Deborah Amaka also confirmed this in a previous video (https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Br78Wrdft/). Joy only pursued a degree because Emmanuel Aro said he wouldn’t marry her without one (https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16mFzcwNc6/). Dr. Olukoya sponsors anyone around him willing to go to school—Joy simply was not interested.

 

THE CORE EVIDENCE: BEGGARY, UNREQUITED REQUESTS & BETRAYAL

 

The heart of the matter lies in Joy’s own communication records. For years, she sent Dr. Olukoya repeated messages pleading for financial assistance—for rent, business, family emergencies—often including her account details. There was no formal relationship or obligation between them, and no promises were made. Dr. Olukoya did not solicit these messages; they were unilateral appeals from Joy. The door of mercy was shut against Joy after she had been pardoned severally. By 2021, she started trying to come back by sending messages to this great man but received no response.

 

On the 27th of October 2021, Joy wrote: “Good day sir, pls can you help me with just 800k. Thank you sir. I want to use it for my rent. GTBank: MUSTAPHA AMINAT IGENE JOY ACC NO: 017394”. In November 2021, she sent another message saying: “Instead of me to do anything bad for money ,I prefer to ask of you. I prefer to swallow my pride and ask you.”

 

As recently as August this year, Joy still sent messages to “this baba” and got no answer. By September, she got in touch with Barrister Davidson Adejumo, the church lawyer and a close friend, pleading with him to help her out because Dr. Olukoya wasn’t responding. She stated she would likely go to his office, but Davidson advised her not to go as it would be embarrassing for her if the protocols sent her back.

 

When these pleas did not yield the desired response, Joy’s allegiance shifted. Prior to this, She invested in a Ponzi scheme. The first time, she received both her capital and profit, after which she reinvested. Eventually, the company collapsed. Joy then reported the matter to the General Overseer, alleging that Brother Samson had duped her. However, after investigation, the allegation was found to be untrue. She is a smooth liar who will do anything to get money.

 

I interviewed Barrister Davidson Adejumo. He wept, revealing Joy’s desperate financial situation—unpaid contracts in Oshogbo—and described her as someone who “would do anything for money and eventually sell you out.” Immediately after Davidson saw Joy’s video on Funke Ashekun’s platform, he sent her a message which reads: “I AM JUST SEEING THIS, JESUS CHRIST!! I needed to hear from you that this is truly coming from you and not that I am crying.” This was sent with emojis. And he asked, “babe why?” Joy never responded because of a guilty conscience.

 

A RECENT FRAUDULENT SCHEME: THE CASE OF STEVEN IN CANADA

 

Further investigation reveals that Joy’s pattern of deceit extends beyond this matter. Just a few weeks after she began peddling these lies, she was in contact with a man in Canada. In a calculated move to extort money, she falsely claimed to have suffered a broken leg—meanwhile, this accident was in 2023, yet she used it to scam in 2025 (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSPTvY5fg/). She succeeded in duping the innocent man of his funds. This recent act confirms her established character as a manipulator who fabricates crises for financial gain, and underscores why her current allegations must be viewed with extreme skepticism.

 

Most damning is a voice note from July 15, 2025, where Joy sweetly celebrates the birthdays of Dr. and Mrs. Olukoya, praying for them and expressing gratitude. Weeks later, she was parroting Funke Ashekun’s lies online. This is the height of hypocrisy.

 

THE JUDAS SYNDICATE: FUNKE ASHEKUN’S MINISTRY OF BETRAYAL

 

Funke Ashekun operates as a modern-day Caiaphas (Matthew 26:3-4), running a digital coven that recruits the disgruntled and desperate. Her goal is to bring down God’s anointed through subtle lies packaged as concern. Funke Ashekun is a failure and has a very short time, doing anything and everything to hang on. As Revelation 12:12 states: “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” This is why Funke is running helter-skelter to recruit people.

 

Joy Igene became her perfect recruit—a profile matching Judas Iscariot (Matthew 26:14-15). In her financial desperation, she went to the “chief priest” Ashekun and effectively asked, “What will you give me?” in exchange for betrayal. Funke Ashekun, like a scavenger, goes into people’s inboxes and lures them with money to come say what is not true. Her early recruits include Richard Ayotunde, who was helped with his house rent less than two months into his suspension; Wale Akpeji, who was given $6100 for school fees and had a car ( for Uber) bought for him that he later sold; and Yewande Roberts, who requested to be sent abroad and claimed her glory( useless glory that fetched her no progress without MFM) was used when it didn’t happen. Now, it’s Joy.

 

All these individuals have one thing in common: greed and entitlement.

 

Ashekun’s syndicate seeks false witnesses (Matthew 26:59-60). Another member, Bolu, by her own admission has never met Dr. Olukoya, yet she tags him with evil allegations—the very definition of reckless, baseless false witness.

 

THE BIBLICAL WARNING & PROPHETIC DECLARATION

 

The trajectory of such betrayal is biblically prescribed. Like Judas, when the temporary “silver” (YouTube relevance and funds) fades, remorse and ruin follow (Matthew 27:5; Acts 1:18). The money becomes a “cankerworm” in their destiny (Habakkuk 2:9-11).

 

Charity Okorie is another person who knows Joy too well and she’s one of the beneficiaries of Dr. Olukoya’s kindness. You can check her page (https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16PzLDSLQg/). Funke Ashekun is already suffering from ailments as a result of her actions against MFM/Dr. Olukoya.

 

MY FINAL CHALLENGE AND WARNING:

 

To the public: Mark those who cause divisions and avoid them (Romans 16:17-18). These are spiritual vampires driven by their own bellies. Joy’s exploitation of Steven in Canada is a clear warning to all.

 

The question I want to ask all of them, including Funke Ashekun, is this: Has your father done 2% of what Dr. Daniel Olukoya has done for you? If you are very sure, take your firstborn and swear with him/her. And for you Joy, you do not have any child, come out and swear with your womb that you are saying the truth.

 

· To Joy Igene: Your mother and family weep for you. Your siblings are funded by the man you malign. Your fraudulent act against Steven in Canada is a testament to your character. REPENT. Delete the lies. The silver is not worth your soul.

· To Bolu: You who have never met him yet bear false witness—FEAR GOD. You will account for every idle word (Matthew 12:36).

· To Funke Ashekun (Caiaphas): Your council will scatter. “The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.” (Psalm 37:13).

 

I challenge Joy and Funke: if they believe their lies, let them swear on the lives and futures of their own children and let Joy swear with her womb publicly since she hasn’t had any child

 

The truth of the matter is FUNKE ASHEKUN is dying silently with an ailment which she has refused to share with these cohorts. She feeds them with lies . She keep filing for different motion in US because it is finished for her both physically and spiritually.

 

Dr. Olukoya, who serves in silence and bears burdens, remains unmoved. He is attacked because he rescues souls from darkness.

 

This is my full report. The evidence—chats, voice notes, eyewitness accounts, and documented fraud—speaks for itself. The Word of God validates the outcome.

 

My challenge to Joy Igene, do a screen record of your chat with Dr Olukoya and publish to the world and make yourself available for forensic analysis. I promise to sponsor the project 100%.

 

Dr. Daniel Olukoya, sir,

I know you are not bothered, and anyone around you knows that when you see things like this, you simply laugh and say the devil will always fight back because of how God is using you to deliver people from his hands. But sometimes, as a human being, you might reflect on them occasionally.

I say this to you, sir: be strong for us and for the hundreds of thousands—indeed, millions—who look up to you. Don’t stop helping because of these charlatans. After all, Demas forsook Paul (2 Timothy 4:10).

 

Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. John 17:12 (KJV)

 

I, Samuel Kayode Jolaosho, have spoken. Let the world see the rot and heed the warning.

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From National influence to community leadership; Prince Tonye Princewill’s quiet homecoming to serve 

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From National influence to community leadership; Prince Tonye Princewill's quiet homecoming to serve By; Al Humphrey Onyanabo 

From National influence to community leadership; Prince Tonye Princewill’s quiet homecoming to serve

By; Al Humphrey Onyanabo 

 

 

Prince Tonye T. J. T Princewill, son of the late Amanyanabo of the Kalabari Kingdom (Amachree 11th), has long lived the life of a true citizen of the world. Equally at ease in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Abuja, London, or New York, he moves effortlessly among power brokers, creatives, and investors, leaving a trail of success across every venture he touches.

 

Yet, in a move that has surprised many, Princewill has spent the last six months quietly relocating to the coastal town of Buguma in Rivers State. Away from the glare of paparazzi and the relentless pace of international travel, he has chosen a different path—one defined by service, presence, and a renewed commitment to his people as their Paramount Chief.

Buguma now sets the rhythm of his days.

 

I met him there, living simply, focused on community engagement and the painstaking work of restoring hope. On two occasions, I watched him walk from the Buguma Town Hall after meetings to his nearby residence. Each time, he was surrounded by clusters of young men, deeply engaged in conversation—listening, questioning, learning.

It was a telling image: a familiar international figure not insulated by status, but immersed in the everyday realities of his people. A man of the world deliberately returning to the grassroots, choosing proximity over pageantry, and leadership by presence over distance.

 

Storytelling on Screen: From ’76 to ’77 to the Kalabari Narrative

 

Beyond business, politics, and royalty, Prince Tonye has long understood the power of storytelling—particularly film—as a tool for memory, identity, and national reflection. That conviction found one of its strongest expressions in ’76, the critically acclaimed historical drama for which he served as Executive Producer.

’76 revisited one of Nigeria’s most delicate and painful chapters—the aftermath of the failed 1976 military coup and the execution of General Murtala Mohammed.

 

At a time when such subjects were often avoided or oversimplified, the film stood out for its emotional depth, historical sensitivity, and cinematic ambition. For Princewill, the project was never merely about filmmaking; it was about preserving the truth, provoking dialogue, and using art to confront history with honesty and empathy.

 

 

Building on that legacy, Princewill reveals plans to return with ’77, a follow-up project that is expected to explore another defining moment in Nigeria’s national journey. It is built around Festac ’77. Preparations are already underway for its release, with discussions with distributors ongoing and a festival tour being scheduled. Like its predecessor, ’77 is envisioned as a film that blends historical consciousness with human storytelling—continuing a cinematic tradition that challenges, educates, and heals.

 

Beyond these nationally themed works, Princewill is also turning his creative lens homeward. He speaks passionately about developing films that tell the Kalabari story—its origins, struggles, royalty, waterways, trade routes, and cultural resilience. He will focus on King Amachree 1.

 

These projects, he says, are aimed not only at entertainment but at cultural preservation: capturing the soul of a people whose history has too often been left to oral tradition and fading memory.

In this sense, filmmaking becomes an extension of his role as Paramount Chief—another platform through which to safeguard heritage, inspire pride among the youth, and project Kalabari identity onto the global stage. Just as ’76 helped Nigeria reckon with its past, Princewill believes the untold stories of Kalabari land deserve the same cinematic dignity.

 

Prince Tonye Princewill is a brilliant mind and he weaves his words so beautifully. We had a wonderful time taking about a whole bunch of stuff. Enjoy….

 

What do you miss most about your dad?

From National influence to community leadership; Prince Tonye Princewill's quiet homecoming to serve

By; Al Humphrey Onyanabo 

Oh! It’s the wisdom, the calm, the steady hand. When somebody is there, you take them for granted, because you think they will be there forever. There are so many questions that I will now love to ask him. Yes, when he was alive, I was interested in what goes on in Kalabari kingdom, but now I am a lot more interested than I was then.

It would have been nice to hear and capture some of these perspectives, deeper perspectives, now that I have gotten a better understanding. I miss that. People say it’s cliché, but I actually feel he is still with me. We communicate in different ways on a regular basis but off course, it’s not the same thing as being here. His presence is here. You see his posters in the centre of the community, we are doing an event for his memorial in a few weeks time. The King is dead. Long live the King.

 

Apart from him being your dad, how will you rate his tenure as Amanyanabo?

 

It was good. It was peaceful. There was not a lot of inter tribal conflicts. He was a man of peace. Described as His Serene Majesty. I think that is very apt. He was very gracious, very accommodating. He was all for unity and peace. I think some of his more enduring successes actually came after he had left. His burial, bringing 33 communities to bury one man ….

I think that right there was just an amazing demonstration of what he represented. I don’t think anybody will be able to pull that off now. It’s something that speaks to what he had built. Unity.

 

You have transited from Prince to Chief, can you tell us more about that?

 

People say transiting from Prince to Chief. I have been a chief for a long while. My dear father in his wisdom convinced me several years ago to become a chief. What happened this time is that instead of just being a chief, I am now the paramount ruler of a number of several prominent houses. That is quite noble of my people to choose me to do that.

Really, in looking at what I am doing now, and what I have been doing, there is not much difference, except that the responsibility is formal. I have always been interested in the forward progression of the family. I have always been interested in how we can improve things, but I was doing it from the outside, looking in. Then it was like a secondary responsibility. Now it’s a primary responsibility. I am quite excited about what is possible.

I wanted to be Governor of a whole state, so being a “Governor” of a small group of families in a kingdom, to me is a walk in the park.

It’s not something that I should lose a lot of sleep over and I am not. I am doing what I can in my stride.

After fifty days in office, I was already quite excited about what we have achieved. And now with hundred days in office coming up, I think we will have even more to talk about. There are a lot of activities, things going on. This woman that you just saw that brought fish for me, she is one of twenty that received N500,000 to boost her business. She invested the money in her business, made profit and she has come back to give me fish. We have other people that we have touched. People with health challenges, interventions that we have made. We want to see how we can get students into universities, helping them pay their fees, helping them through their clearance. Having run for Governor twice in 2007 and again in 2015, you build a network of people across Rivers state, so you get requests coming from here and there. As much as we do what we can concerning those requests, these days, I focus my energy on requests that are coming from this community or group of houses that are now under my responsibility. So, I have to be honest with you, life is a lot easier for me than before when you have to deal with requests from 23 local governments and 319 wards, you are dealing with so many people and so many problems. Life is much easier now.

 

 

You seem to spend a lot of time in Buguma?

 

I live here. I have been living here for the past six months. I have not left here for longer than a week. If I go, I do what I have to do and I come back.

 

How do you coordinate all your businesses and investments from here?

 

I do everything from here. When they started calling it Buguma city they were not wrong. I have everything I want here, maybe I even have more here. I have more help than I could ever need. If I need somebody to help me call someone over there, I will just lean over this balcony and give an instruction. Yes, you are confronted with more challenges, yes, you have to deal with more pressing emergencies but most of the problems we see here are small problems. Then there are also problems of orientation and training. People don’t understand the need to look inward. They always feel that their solution is outside. By the time you speak to them, they get to change their perspective.

 

And how is your immediate family coping with your relocation?

 

I have always had a very loving and supporting family. My wife, my kids, amazing. They’ve just been nothing but supportive. I was telling my staff earlier on today when we had a meeting that they should all just make sure they have a good wife. Because once you have a good wife, it makes life so much easier. My wife I guess is happy about this role that I am playing and so it’s also really about making sure that I am always happy, and once I am happy, as I am, she is also happy.

When I was burying my father, people were telling me the need to come and spend more time here and I told them they should not even think about it.

For me, I always felt that the solutions were out there and I needed to go and get those solutions. But life is not all about getting solutions, it’s also about living life. So for me, the solutions can be out there, but I can still access them from here. I have access to the internet, I have solar so I have light at every point in time. Sitting on the balcony here, you can enjoy the sweet breeze, you can hear the noise, kids playing in the background. This is boisterous, full of life. The only thing that is missing, which we are already address is employment. You can’t gather people and not employ them. Ultimately, we need to crack that nut and we are on our way. I just came back from an overseas trip where this was the topic and purpose of my trip. The feedback was very positive and I look forward to us setting up small to medium scale industries here, to employ our people and keep them engaged and make them employable not just here but elsewhere, so I am excited about that. We are working through this Christmas period.As early as the first quarter of next year things will start taking shape.

 

 

Sometimes do you wish your dad was alive to see you in this role?

 

Yeah….but I think he had to go for me to do this. One of the biggest triggers for me was when he passed and I saw the numbers of people that he was supporting and helping, I felt so bad because if we did not step into the vacuum, a lot of people will be in a very difficult place. It’s impossible to fill his shoes, but I am just in my own little way doing the best I can. But what would not have been an option would have been to just abandon them. He of course had travelled the world, he had ridden to dizzying heights in the academia and for him to come here , you have to say whatever the allure was for this, I can’t escape it either. But he was king, and as king, his responsibilities were completely different from mine.

 

But before he became king, he was head of this family like I am now and I am happy that we have a very good start and I hope we will have a good legacy when we look back many years from now. By His grace.

 

What has the support been from the people?

 

Absolutely overwhelming. Sometimes, I am amazed by it. Because what am I doing? I am looking at it as my responsibility, but they are looking at it like I am doing them a favour. I am not doing them a favour. There are some billboards we used to put up in Port Harcourt when I was running for Governor, that said, “You are blessed to Bless others”. In my brother Mujahid Asari Dokubo, you can see the same dynamic there. It’s not that you have been given something and you will just enter your house and close the door. No.

There is a purpose to your blessing, you really have to find a way of using it to impact the people that you can. I always warn my people that I don’t have money, so if I give you my money and you go and waste it, it will hurt. I have been doing scholarships since year 2000, that is for about 25 years, both here and in other parts of the state. We have been giving back, and it’s not easy especially at this time. I am not relying on any state or Federal Government contract for my resources. By God’s Grace, we shall overcome. I am busy developing and creating my own and it is very very difficult. But by God’s Grace we shall overcome and do even more, and make an impact even in the small space that we are, so people can feel the difference.

 

In the past 50 days that you have been paramount ruler, (Polo Dabo) what have been your challenges?

 

Hmmmm, mindset really. I came in, I read the riot act to everyone. I said I don’t want to hear shouting because I see people shout and quarrel over the most trivial of things. I am not having it. We can have disagreements but we can do it agreeably. We can have conversations between ourselves without our volume being at a high temperature.

People trouble themselves over things that they should not and sometimes they relax over things when they shouldn’t. It’s getting their mindset to be right and getting them to believe it’s possible. Most of them sometimes feel that the odds are stacked against them, that there is no way out. It’s important to constantly remind them that that is not the case. And that even if the odds are stacked against them, that in itself should be a motivation. So it’s getting them off to the right mindset but we have to live by example. That means being calm, confronting pressure, that means sitting in the middle of the fire and telling them that it is not as bad as it is and that there is a way out.

 

My brother, O.K. Isokariari is over there in that white storey building and he is telling me he wants to come over for a couple of drinks or I should come over. These are people who could otherwise be anywhere in the world, but not here. But he too is here.

So if we can encourage enough of us to come back to make an impact in our community, then the rest as they say, is history. I am excited about the future and I see us slowly making a difference.

 

Looking back since you became a paramount ruler, what do you think has changed in you?

 

I think it will only be captured by the phrase where they say that what you are looking for in Sokoto is in your Shokoto. I always used to say, that everywhere I travel around the world, anywhere I land, I am working. Then it became pretty obvious that it does not matter where you are, you can work from anywhere. And now with the advent of technology and mobile communication, I am working from here. I can do anything I want from here. I can have a meeting, do zoom on this balcony, I can even manage meetings from anywhere in the world with my people here. I can sit them downstairs in the conference hall and talk to them as a group. There are so many things technology has brought. Unfortunately, we had to go through COVID to really appreciate some of these things.

What I now appreciate from coming here is that this could have been my base all along. I did not need to be travelling all over, I could have just operated from here and connected with others around the world, with whatever I want to do.

 

What is happening to your other business and investments around the world?

 

 

I have different business and I am always developing them. I like to build a business, man it with the right people, and move on. Because I see myself as having to constantly develop ideas. I think that you look, see a problem and fix it. If you focus on fixing the problem, the resources and the revenue will come naturally. In a place like Buguma, I am asking myself, I am giving people 500,000 to do things, why don’t I bring them together. Instead of them going individually to go to the market to buy what they want to sell here, why don’t we put all of them in a vehicle once a week. It takes all of them, they do the buying and they all come back together. That way, the economics of scale is cheaper.

I am looking at what we have here to create advantages for the people to create growth not only financially but mentally.

 

You are a film maker, you seem to have been quiet on that front?

 

No, we have not been quiet at all. We finished ’76 and we did very well with that movie. We are now onto ’77, the Festac conspiracy, which is about the FESTAC 77 Nigeria hosted. For those that were not alive then, it was a very big festival of arts and culture from across Africa that took place here, in Lagos. It was the reason for which the FESTAC Town was built. 77 is not yet out, we have the luxury of being able to wait until we find that the time is right, before we release the movie. In the meantime Afrexim bank’s CCI Division has joined the team to support post production and marketing. We are also working on another movie about King Amachree the 1st. To me I think ’76 and ’77 were the perfect prerequisite for the King Amachree 1 movie. We understand ourselves even better as a group, and so Amachree 1, will be an even better collaboration than ’76 or ’77 were.

 

’76 won best movie in Africa, Best Director, Best Actress, Best script, Best Set Design, Best Costume Design, etc. 15 nominations, 9 wins. We had a lot of good stories to tell. We did well with ’76 and we hope to do well with 77. But my hope is that with the King Amachree movie, we will be able to do even better.

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Yuletide: Primate Tasks FG To Secure Lives, Properties 

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By Ifeoma Ikem 

 

The Primate of the African Church Cathedral, His Eminence Julius Olayinka Osayande Abbe, has called on the Nigerian government to prioritize the security of citizens’ lives and properties, emphasizing that it is a fundamental responsibility of the government.

 

Speaking during his Christmas Day message, Abbe commended President Bola Tinubu’s administration for its multi-faceted approach to addressing the country’s security challenges. He, however, urged the government to do more, citing the need for individual support in tackling insecurity.

 

“Let us love one another and forget Yoruba, Ibo, or Hausa, until we have lasting solutions,” Abbe appealed, stressing the importance of unity in addressing the nation’s challenges.

 

The Primate described Christmas as a significant occasion for all, Christians and non-Christians alike, noting that Christ’s birth was a pivotal moment in history. He urged Christians to reflect on the uncommon nature of Christ’s birth and to trust in God’s plans for their lives.

 

 

“We should hold our peace, trust God, and accept Christ into our lives,” Abbe said, encouraging believers to keep their faith alive amidst challenging times.

 

Abbe also prayed for the government, asking God to guide them in making decisions that would improve the lives of citizens. He acknowledged the country’s challenges, including youth unemployment, but expressed hope that the situation would improve with God’s intervention.

 

 

“Youths should support this government… they meant well,” Abbe said, urging patience and prayer for the government to succeed in its efforts to rearrange the nation’s affairs.

 

The Primate expressed optimism that 2026 would be a better year, with improved opportunities for Nigerian youths, and encouraged citizens to continue praying for their leaders.

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