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  • People who criticized my church have gotten leprosy – Bishop Oyedepo

    People who criticized my church have gotten leprosy – Bishop Oyedepo

    Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel has said speaking against men of God can attract leprosy and that many critics of his ministry have been victims of the warning.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Bishop Oyedepo made this known during the Leadership Empowerment Summit at the church’s headquarters, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State.

    Oyedepo, who said there was no data to back his claim, however, warned Christians to deviate from criticizing their prophets, saying such attitude attracts dangerous punishment from God.

    He said: “Beware of speaking hurt against the Ministry you claim to be part of advancing, it’s a risk.

    “Beware of speaking hurt against a Prophet you claim to believe. It is dangerous. It can make a man leprous. It is dangerous. We don’t have the data of how many victims may have come from this warning, but I know quite some would have been victims.

    “One of the Leaders in this Nation said, “what we are saying now, Bishop is in his room. he is hearing.” When we give warnings, we give it based on prophetic insights.”

    The African richest pastor, however, admitted that criticism is part of what prophets of God must endure, saying it is not a problem.

    “Every prophet is ordained to be spoken against. So it is not a problem. It is already written. It is not that it is something that is new,” he said.

  • Drama as strange man attacks Bishop Oyedepo on pulpit

    Drama as strange man attacks Bishop Oyedepo on pulpit

    There was a mild drama recently during one of the services of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Canaanland, Ogun after founder and presiding Bishop of the megachurch, Bishop David Oyedepo was attacked on the pulpit.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the yet to be identified man beat the security network of the church and ascended the pulpit where Bishop Oyedepo was ministering, holding and dragging one of his legs.

    It took efforts of security in the church to prevent the Bishop from falling over, while the security battled to keep the strange man away.

    TNG learnt the incident occurred two Sundays before the Shiloh programme organised by the church last week.

    A top source from the church said that the intruder came through the Love wing entrance of the church and tactically, was able to access the altar while Oyedepo was preaching.

    There was a lapse in security as the huge crowd at the fourth service saw the strange man in white suit, made his way to the altar.

    In a video that has gone viral on social media, the man held Bishop Oyedepo on one of his legs and was dragging him and would have brought him down before the security officers quickly intervened.

    The security men and some leaders on the altar, including Oyedepo’s son David had to forcefully pulled the man away from the Bishop to prevent him from falling on the altar.

    The man was bundled out of the church and was given the beating of his life by Oyedepo’s security operatives.

    Since that ugly incident, security had been beefed up in the church and it was tighter at the just concluded Shiloh.

    The security operatives who were on duty when the incident occurred have been changed.

  • Why Nigerian youths must be humble – Oyedepo

    Why Nigerian youths must be humble – Oyedepo

    The Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Dr David Oyedepo, on Sunday emphasised the need for the youths to be humble in order to fulfill their various destinies in life.

    Oyedepo gave the advice in Ota, Ogun on the sidelines of the 19th Founder Day Celebration of the institution.

    He urged the youths not to allow arrogance of this era to rob their destinies.

    “Pride goes before a destruction, I urge them to humble themselves before man and God so that they could be exalted, “he said.

    The chancellor said youths or student who made first class in universities were robbed of their destinies because of pride.

    Oyedepo said that the ability of the youths to humble themselves would prepare them for greater future.

  • Oyedepo curses future leader of his church who borrows money

    Oyedepo curses future leader of his church who borrows money

    Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Worldwide, David Oyedepo has placed a curse on any future leader of his church who attempts to borrow money on behalf of the church.

    Oyedepo, in a sermon on Sunday said “imagine if we were a borrowing church, we would have borrowed ourselves out.

    ”The banks will be at all our entrances fighting over who will collect this side and who will collect the other one.

    ”God delivered me and this mission from any temptation of borrowing before we had the need to borrow..by light. You cannot serve 2 masters he said, you have to choose one and despise the other.

    “I said I despise the devil, I choose my Saviour. He is also my provider. We have never borrowed, 40 years have come and God, we have never borrowed,” he said.

    According to Oyedepo, “When I am going to heaven I will write it down as a covenant for the future leaders of this Commission that whosever borrows will come under a curse.

    ”If He brought us to where we are without borrowing, then he must have been possessed by something to go and start borrowing.

  • BREAKING: Soldiers foil attack on Oyedepo’s Faith Academy in Kaduna

    BREAKING: Soldiers foil attack on Oyedepo’s Faith Academy in Kaduna

    Soldiers on Monday foiled an attempt by gunmen to attack Faith Academy, a secondary school owned by Living Faith Church Worldwide, founded by Bishop David Oyedpo.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the school is located in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State, not far from a boarding school where many students were abducted by the gunmen in an attack that happened in the early hours of Monday.

    While the gunmen abducted students at Bethel School, the attack on Faith Academy was foiled by the soldiers.

    Daily Trust gathered that gunmen had launched coordinated attacks on both Bethel secondary school and Faith Academy in the early hours of Monday.

    A security agent confirmed to our correspondent that the gunmen broke into the premises of Faith Academy through the back fence around 1am but were repelled by soldiers, with assistance from the school security team.

    A parent, whose son attends the school, told our correspondent that the school management had last week instructed all students to go home, except SS3 students who were preparing for final year exams.

    She said adequate provision has been made to move the SS3 students to Barnawa in Kaduna south local government area where they are expected to continue with their studies.

    She commended security agents for their timely intervention, saying her son and others who were in the hostel during the attack are safe and have been evacuated from the school premises.

    When contacted, the Kaduna State Police Command through the Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, said he could not confirm it but security agents were busy thwarting attacks by bandits throughout the night.

  • What I will do if Nigeria is engulfed in crisis – Oyedepo

    What I will do if Nigeria is engulfed in crisis – Oyedepo

    Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo has revealed what he would do if Nigeria is engulfed in crisis.

    Oyedepo, in one of his sermons said he would be the last person to leave Nigeria if the nation is engulfed in crisis.

    “If there is crisis in this Nation, I will be the last to leave here,” he said.

    Oyedepo’s view is different from Pastor Paul Adefarasin of the House on the Rock, who told his members to plan an escape route out of Nigeria.

    The clergyman said the escape route is important because the crises rocking the country could degenerate into a civil war.

    But Oyedepo admitted that things were currently wrong in Nigeria, but said he would be the last to leave if things degenerated into serious crisis.

    However, Oyedepo said nobody could enjoy and sustain the flow of favour without the fear of God as a lifestyle.

    “Don’t rob nobody, don’t cheat on anyone. Don’t outsmart your business partners. Don’t swear falsely. Don’t take bribes. Favour is the companion of all that fear God and favour shall be your companion from now.

    “Flowing in favour demands the doing of righteousness. You know there is the appropriation of righteousness that people emphasize today, but don’t be deceived, he that doeth righteousness is righteous. The doing righteousness: favour!

    “There was an explosion of favour, until the time that his Word came. The Word of the Lord tried him,” he said.

  • Last 5 years most gruesome in history of Nigeria – Bishop Oyedepo

    Last 5 years most gruesome in history of Nigeria – Bishop Oyedepo

    Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide has said the most gruesome season in the history of Nigeria is the last 5 years.

    Bishop Oyedepo stated this on Sunday at Canaan land, and while lending support for the #EndSARS protests, said youths have a right to express their displeasure and pains.

    The cleric said he was silent over the protest because he warned Nigerians in 2015 but was humiliated.

    “We have been having spades of protests across the nation, Every man has a right, legitimately so to express their displeasure and pain, everybody does.

    “I kept quiet for a while because in 2015 I warned this nation vehemently consistently because I saw the danger ahead and you can tell.

    “The most gruesome season in the history of this nation is the last 5 years, where lives have no value, quantum killing, now they have face the youth, and because they don’t know who is next, they have a right to say enough is enough.

    “Any system that has no value for human-right is irrelevant, if they were killed when they were youths will they be where they are today?

    “And now it would be a sacrilege to shoot the protesters who are not looting, who are not ravaging.

    “When you push a goat to the wall then you will know that goats have teeth to bite.

    “It is a sacrilege to kill youths during a protest, this protest is legitimate,” Oyedepo said.

  • CAMA law: Buhari’s aide drops bombshell allegation against Oyedepo’s church

    CAMA law: Buhari’s aide drops bombshell allegation against Oyedepo’s church

    Lauretta Onochie, a media aide of President Muhammadu Buhari has again called out the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo over the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA).

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Onochie on Monday via her official Twitter handle dropped a bombshell allegation against Bishop Oyedepo’s church and Nicholas Mutu, House Committee Chair on Oil and Gas.

    The Buhari’s aide, while stressing that “there is a difference between control and regulation” and that “CAMA aims at regulation”, alleged in her tweet that the House Committee Chair on Oil and Gas paid N20 million in a day to Oyedepo’s church.

    “Theres a difference between CONTROL & REGULATION

    CAMA aims at REGULATION. Where Nicholas Mutu, House Committee Chair on Oil & Gas, regularly received money from @NDDCOnline & also paid ₦20m in a day to Mr Oyedepo’s church, Nigerians want the regulation in place,” Onochie tweeted.

    Recall that Onochie had earlier openly criticized Oyedepo for rejecting the CAMA law, saying it is irrational to subject churches to the same laws as companies.

    Under CAMA, signed into law on August 7, religious bodies and charity organisations will be strictly regulated by the registrar-general of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister.

    But Oyedepo said the law was borne out of the government’s jealousy about the prosperity recorded by the church.

    Reacting in a tweet, Ononchie said Oyedepo would have to abide by the government’s law as long as he dwells in the country.

    “I hope this is not true. If it is, Oyedepo will have to manufacture his own country and live by his own laws.

    “As long as he lives and operates within the entity called Nigeria, he will live by Nigerian rules and laws. He will do as he’s told by the law. Enough of lawlessness,” she stated.

  • Government seals Oyedepo’s church for breaching COVID-19 protocols

    One of the branches of Bishop David Oyedepo’s church in Bayelsa State was on Sunday sealed alongside five other churches in the State for breaching ”operational protocols” required to conduct services during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

    Recall that the State Government on May 7 relaxed its restriction on social gatherings and allowed churches to hold services with up to 50 worshipers.

    The relaxation was granted subject to compliance with strict conditions on the provision of handwashing facilities, wearing of face masks and observance of social distancing in the seating arrangements.

    Mr Freston Akpor, Permanent Secretary, Bayelsa Ministry of Information on Monday in Yenagoa, said the Security Sub-Committee of the State’s Task Force on COVID- 19 sealed the churches during its surveillance on Sunday.

    “The six churches were sealed for failure to comply with safety measures put in place by the government to contain the spread of the pandemic and protect the people of Bayelsa.

    “The affected churches are, Living Faith Church, Igbogene, Salvation Victory Centre, Igbogene, Shalom International Christian Centre, along Tombia-Amassoma road and Great Grace Distinguished Assembly, Okutukutu.

    “Others are Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Opolo and Hebrews International Church, Ayama road.

    “The churches will remain sealed until further notice to serve as deterrent to other churches.

    “The move will help in ensuring that other churches adhere to the protocols on hand washing, use of face masks and social distancing as measures to check the spread of the virus in the state,” Akpor told NAN.

    He said the security sub-committee of the task force on COVID-19, unsealed two churches earlier shutdown for violating safety measures on the pandemic.

    Akpor explained that the two churches , the Halleluya Deliverance Ministry International and Embassy Faith churches were unsealed after undertaken to comply with prescribed safety protocols.

  • Bishop Oyedepo calls for peaceful succession to Olomu throne in Kwara

    Bishop Oyedepo calls for peaceful succession to Olomu throne in Kwara

    Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners Chapel ) has called for peaceful succession to the throne of Olomu of Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara.

    Oyedepo, an indigene of Omu-Aran, made the call on Tuesday during an annual general meeting of Omu-Aran Development Association (ODA) held at Omu-Aran City Complex.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the throne became vacant following the death of 64-year-old Oba Charles Ibitoye on Dec. 1 during an illness.

    Oyedepo urged the Olomu-in-council and the ODA leadership to ensure transparency in the selection of the next king.

    “I think we are capable of handling our domestic affairs successfully by ourselves.

    “We should not give room for external influence or rancour in choosing our leader or leaders.

    “We have people of proven integrity and immense wisdom including professors, permanent secretaries, industrialists and the likes in our midst,” he said.

    The cleric said that the death of some kingmakers within the year called for more prayers by the community.

    The ODA President, Chief Bisi Adeyemi, said that the association had embraced peace, unity, education, security and infrastructure maintenance as catalysts for socio-economic development of the community.

    He said that the association had given attention to the town’s waterworks, Agbaa River bridge and some road projects.

    Adeyemi called for donations toward the rehabilitation of the Omu-Aran City Complex to enable it to continue to serve the purpose for which it was built.

    “The community is lucky to have three 500 KVA and 300 KVA transformers to boost power supply,’’ remarked.

    Chief Festus Awoniyi, the Peru Tayero of Omu-Aran, who led the Olomu-in-council, urged the people to remain united and peaceful.

    He said that the council was working tirelessly to ensure that the death of Ibitoye would not create unnecessary vacuum in the administration of the community.

    The Chief Imam of Omu-Aran, Alhaji Sodiq Afolayan, urged the community members to use dialogue rather than confrontation to resolve disputes.

    Chief Jide Adebayo, the Chairman of Omu-Aran Festival of Clubs 2017, announced the postponement of the festival scheduled for Dec. 30.

    Adebayo, a former NAN Director, said that the postponement was in honour of the late Ibitoye.