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  • I will lay bare hands on COVID-19 patients – Bishop Oyedepo

    I will lay bare hands on COVID-19 patients – Bishop Oyedepo

    Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, a.k.a Winners Chapel, has averred that he would embrace and breath into COVID-19 patients.

    Oyedepo said he would lay his bare hands on any coronavirus patient brought to him for prayer.

    He also noted that he would not wear gloves to attend to COVID-19 patients but would lay his bare hands on them to receive healing.

    “COVID-19 cannot be any reason why your own ‘Breaking Limit’ package will not be delivered,” Bishop Oyedepo said while addressing his congregation on Sunday.

    “It’s not a tenable reason,” he said.

    The revered preacher noted that no condition on earth will make God’s covenant come to no effect.

    “Can you imagine anyone bringing coronavirus patient to me and I won’t lay hands on him?

    “Will I wear gloves to lay hands on them?

    “I will lay hands on them, breathe into them, embrace them.

    “What you carry is eternal life, it’s not human life,” he said

  • Winners Chapel: thugs slap, lands member in hospital

    Winners Chapel: thugs slap, lands member in hospital

    Nosa Aigbogun, a member of the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners Chapel), Uwasota branch in Benin, Edo state, has been admitted in hospital, following injuries inflicted on him by suspected thugs in military uniform, allegedly hired by a Pastor in the church.

    The pastor who is said to be a relative of the General Overseer of the church, Bishop David Oyedepo, was accused of constantly harassing and assaulting members of his branch, slapping them at will.

    Aigbogun, who is recuperating at a medical facility in Benin, said he was the latest to be slapped by the Pastor.

    He said since he was transferred to their branch as resident pastor he has enthroned himself as emperor and has become a problem to members of the church.

    He appealed to the founder of the church, Bishop Oyedepo, to rescue them from further beatings from the pastor.

    “I want concerned authorities to rescue us from him, we have received enough slaps. We are begging Bishop David Oyedepo, to save us from the overnight emperor before is too late.

    “Since his arrival at our branch, he has slapped two persons and he keeps saying nobody can do him anything. He has turned the branch to something else.

    “They called for unity meeting on Sunday and I was part of those that attended. All of a sudden, he just turned to me and started calling me devil, idiot.

    “Before you know it, he just slapped me and he said I cannot do him anything and that he has been planing to deal with some of us in the church.

    “His P.A. joined him, I wanted to retaliate, but other members pleaded and I listened. But today, on his instruction, his P.A. went and brought soldiers who they said were from Supply and Transport (S&T) Barracks.

    A friend of mine who saw them before me, alerted me and suggested that I should run. I hid myself but they searched and located me and demanded that I follow them. When I asked where they were from, they pounced on me, rough-handled me and beat the hell out of me,” he said.

    Aigbogun who said he had reported the case at Okhoro Police Station, said all he wants is justice.

    Other members of the church told journalists that the Pastor threatens that should his brother who owns the church act on complaints of members and perhaps drop him, he will form a white garment church of his own.

    Efforts to get reaction from the Pastor failed, as he neither responded to a call made to his mobile phone, nor responded to text messages sent to him.

  • Winners Chapel bomb suspect name revealed, not Samuel

    Winners Chapel bomb suspect name revealed, not Samuel

    The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna State, Rev. John Hayab, says the bombing suspect arrested while attempting to blow up a Winners’ Chapel Parish in Kaduna State on Sunday identified himself as Mohammed Sani when he was apprehended by the church.

    Hayab claimed after the church handed him over to the police, the suspect’s name suddenly changed to Samuel Nathaniel.

    He, therefore, said there was a need for the matter to be thoroughly investigated.

    According to Punch, the cleric said, “The church was in session when the young man came in, dropped his bag and exited as if he was going to the toilet, but didn’t come back in time. Some church members became suspicious. The church had put security measures in place such that they monitor everything going on in the church and they even have CCTV cameras.

    “They discovered that what was in the bag looked like explosives, so they called the police. Let me state clearly that it was not the police that arrested him. It was the church that arrested him and then handed him over to the police.

    “The police came to pick him up at the church. At the time he was interrogated at the church, he told the church that his name was Mohammed Sani, but when he was handed over to the police, the police told everyone that his name was Samuel Nathaniel.”

    Hayab said the mix-up in the name of the suspect had further given credence to the claims by the United States that Nigeria remained a terrorist-prone country because of a lack of database.

    He said the religion which the suspect practises should not be the focus of public discussions but the act of terrorism.

    The cleric said the police had failed to effectively investigate and profile suspects, adding that a few weeks ago, the force also arrested a hoodlum and erroneously paraded him as a pastor.

    The CAN chief said, “This incident justifies the US’ decision to place visa restrictions on Nigerians. The US Government told us that one of the reasons for the visa ban was that Nigeria do not do proper background checks on people.

    “So, a criminal can go to one part of Kaduna and bear John, travel to another part of the state and bear Abdullahi or Oluwole or Emeka and nobody will know. So, let us stop focusing on his name but his crime. A criminal is a criminal.

    “There are now two versions, one from the church and one from the police.

    “I don’t care what his name is. All I know is that a criminal wanted to blow up a church and kill people. The police should find out who his sponsors are and not play politics with names. Last week, a man was paraded by the police for faking his kidnap and identified as a pastor, only for us to find out he was never a pastor.”

    Hayab said there were Christians bearing Muslim names and vice versa.

    “I know Muslims that bear Paul, I know Christians that bear Mohammed. Our CAN chairman in Borno State is Mohammed Laga. I have a cousin that bears Mohammed Paul. So, let us not focus on the name but on the act of terrorism,” he said.

    Hayab said it was curious that the attempted bombing took place at the same time CAN’s rally against terrorism was taking place.

    He said the church would not be intimidated by anyone.

  • Winners’ Chapel: Bishop Oyedepo releases N650m for roads

    Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church also called Winners’ Chapel has released N650 million for the repair of roads leading to Canaanland.

    The roads which are under repair cover the old toll gate bordering Lagos and Ogun states.

    Also, the repair work will affect stretches of roads at the Idi-Iroko Expressway from Oju Ore to Iyana Iyesi and Sango.

    The Winners’ Chapel embarked on the project as worshippers and other road users have had terrible experiences along the road to the border, Agbara and other towns.

    It is the biggest single intervention of the church which has at other times embarked on the reconstruction of roads leading to the Canaanland.

    Presidential Prophecy

    Bishop Abraham Udeh of Mount Zion Faith Global Liberation Ministries Inc has claimed that the North would let the South East produce the president in 2023.

    President Muhammadu Buhari will end his second term in 2023 and under the unwritten power rotation agreement in the country, he is expected to hand over to someone from the southern part of the nation.

    There have claims and counter-claims on which region of the West African nation will produce the next president with A former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu’s campaign office opened.

    But Bishop Udeh whose church is based in Nnewi, Anambra State, has claimed that there is a Hausa-Fulani agenda to let an Igbo man become President, subject to their control.

    He noted, however, that he saw in the spiritual realm that the South East wants Biafra and not the Presidency in 2023.

    The clergyman, therefore, called on the Igbo nation to work for the realisation of Biafra as he reeled out prophecies to his church members on Wednesday.

    “The Igbo rejected the option of a president of Igbo extraction and rather faced the actualization of Sovereign State of Biafran with one mind,” he said.