Prime Minister of Israel invites Pastor Chris Oyakhilome to special reception celebrating US EmbassyPublished on May 17, 2018 By Daily Post Staff

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome was invited to a special event hosted by the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. The official reception for the event, celebrating the move of the US Embassy, took place throughout the 2018 Holy Land Tour with Pastor Chris. It was a trip that included countless followers fulfilling their dream of a once in a life time pilgrimage.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome stated: “Every Christian must love Israel because adoring Israel is loving Jesus”during leading the Holy Tour at Israel.”

The exclusive event took place at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs with invitees that comprised of ambassadors and official state agents.

The Prime Minister of Israel is famously close to the American Evangelical community, embracing people who support the state of Israel. Pastor Chris is quoted saying: “Evangelical Christians are Israel’s greatest Buddies”

This is the third year that Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, along with members of the Believers’ LoveWorld (BLW), will be touring the Holy Land. Chris Oyakhilome is the creator of this BLW Inc. also called the Christ Embassy Church. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome stated in his announcement that this year is the Year of the Supernatural, so the trip to Israel can’t be more suitable.

This is a milestone year for the nation of Israel and thus the Tour will highlight the importance of this season’s trip for a period of reflection, inspiration, and enlightenment.

The tour to Israel provides participants the chance to walk in exactly the same avenues that Jesus Christ walked, bringing the Bible to come alive. Christians may familiarize themselves with different aspects of the Holy Land, experiencing an in-depth look at the numerous sites the property has to offer you. The BLW group provides guides to highlight different historic information and biblical references.

This tour is occurring at one of most outstanding times ever for Israel, celebrating its 70th year of Independence in addition to the movement of the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Based on remarks that were made by Pastor Chris in the past, the State of Israel occupies an essential status in the fulfillment of Bible prophecies regarding the future of Earth.

Throughout the excursion Pastor Chris spoke out: “Israel is open currently because it has embraced Democracy, unlike its neighbours.”

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President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the 2014 governorship election which produced Governor, Ayodele Fayose was characterised by “hanky-panky.”

Speaking while hosting members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, South-West caucus to a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari described the situation as an unfortunate saga.

The President urged APC leaders to do everything possible to prevent subversion of the will of the people again.

Buhari said, “This is crucial because I remember the hanky-panky that attended the last gubernatorial election in Ekiti State in 2014. I recall the firsthand account I received from some of the dramatis personae in that unfortunate saga.

“We must do everything to ensure that we do not allow any subversion of the will of the people this time round.

“Now that the primary is over and we have a candidate, all hands must be on deck to achieve a positive result.”

Source: NAN

Political allies have taken to the streets to jubilate for paralysing Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha in the fight to take control of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

There have been wide jubilation in Imo because we have rescued the party from Gov. Okorocha, we have made it impossible for him to get help from anywhere, the Imo stakeholders and bigwigs have said.

They said that they have made Okorocha politically irrelevant in their determination to rescue the party from imminent collapse in the state.

Dr Theo Ekechi, who spoke to newsmen after a close-door meeting with the APC national leadership on Thursday in Abuja, said the stakeholders had overwhelming evidences against Okorocha.

This, he said, had made it impossible for the governor to get attention from any quarter in the state and in the South-East region.

He cannot run to any political figure in the state because none is with him, he cannot approach any clergyman in the state.

In his desperation, he ran to Sokoto, Daura and even to the Vice President, but help has refused to come, he said.

Ekechi said Rochass inaction was responsible for the problems facing the party in the state and the South-East generally.

In a petition submitted to the partys national leadership, the stakeholders chronicled what they described as the governors sins and appealed for state of emergency in the state.

He called on the partys national chairman to bring to the notice of President Muhammadu Buhari the crisis in Imo before it completely gets out of hand.

Ekechi alleged that the state was being mis- managed under Okorocha, adding that the governor was running the state like a personal estate.

He also alleged that the governor was harassing and intimidating perceived opponents in the state. (NAN)

Source: NAN

Officers of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have returned to seaports and land borders to control importation of unregulated products.

The agency is collaborating with relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and with the active support of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), and Ministry of Transport.

According to the agency, this is to effectively control importation of unregulated products, falsified and substandard drugs, unwholesome foods, narcotic drugs and hazardous chemical substances and foods into the country.

NAFDAC said it received the notice on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 in a letter dated 29th March, 2018 from the office of the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo as part of the PEBEC reforms.

In a statement signed on Thursday, the Director General of NAFDAC, Professor Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye, said thousands of Nigerians have died because of falsified and substandard medicines.

He also noted that the development became even more necessary following a recently released documentary on codeine abuse.

He said: Many are currently ill, most likely due to unwholesome foods, drugs and abuse of narcotics and controlled substances, such as codeine, tramadol,
pentazocine, etc. These are partly due to exclusion of NAFDAC from our ports since 2011. The recent documentary on codeine abuse brought more attention to the issue.

He further stated that apart from the dangers posed to public health, drug abuse weakens and slows down economic and national development, as well as increases the threats to national security.

The need for return of NAFDAC officials to the Ports and borders has been emphasized in different fora by the new NAFDACs DG but received a boost in the Communique issued by the Office of the National Security Adviser at the end of the National Chemical Security Training Conference in Abuja on 16th March, 2018.

The theme of the conference was Towards a Secured Importation, Distribution, Storage and Use of Chemicals in Nigeria, the statement noted.

The agency expressed gratitude to the Office of the NSA, the Chemical Society of Nigeria, The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMGMAN), among other key stakeholders for recognizing it as a key player in the national security architecture,

It therefore, promised that with the help of Nigerian Customs Service, the Shippers Council and other sister agencies, it will ensure that products that pose danger to the population are controlled at the point of entry.

In addition, the presence of NAFDAC at the ports and borders will reduce significantly the evasion of payments of statutory fees for importation of regulated products, thus increasing the Agencys internally generated revenue and that of the Federal Government, the agency stated.

Source: NAN

Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission, on Thursday gave an update on the results for 18 chairmanship seats out of the 23 Local Governments in the just concluded May 12 local councils polls.

The chairman of the Commission, Dr Saratu Dikko who confirmed the results in Kaduna, said the All progressives Congress (APC) won 14 local government chairmanship seats, while the PDP won fourseats.

Dikko said the commission would hold elections in the remaining five local government areas on June 2, 2018.

According to her, the APC won in Birnin-Gwari, Giwa, Igabi, Ikara, Kaduna North, Sabon-Gari, Kagarko,Kubau, Kudan, Lere, Makarfi, Sanga, Soba and Zaria, whilethe PDP won in Jemaa, Kachia, Kauru and Zango-Kataf.

The KSIEC had initially given Sanga to PDP.

According to her, Kaura, Jaba and Kajuru local governments would hold fresh elections on June 2.

This conclude the confirmation of the result, she said, adding that the outstanding elections in four wards in Chikun and two wards in Kaduna South local governments would also hold on the same day.

She said Certificates of Return would be issued to the winners on Saturday, May 19, 2018.

Source: NAN

Dozens of designer handbags stuffed with cash and jewellery were seized during Malaysian police raids on luxury properties linked to former prime minister Najib Razak on Friday, as a corruption probe gathered pace.

Officers removed Hermes, Birkin and Louis Vuitton bags as part of a trove whose value they said they could not yet estimate because of its sheer volume.

In the Taman Duta home of Najib, the police said they seized 52 luxury handbags. The handbags included 16 from Chanel, 10 from Gucci, eight from Versace and five from Oscar de la Renta, the Straits Times reported.

The operation also yielded a haul of ten luxury watches including several Rolexes, a Hublot and a Patek Philippe, as well as RM537,000 (S$181,000) and 2.87 million Sri Lankan rupees (S$24,400) in cash.

According to Straits Times, the haul was in addition to the 284 boxes containing luxury handbags and 72 bags filled with jewellery, cash of various denominations, watches and other valuables that were seized late on Thursday night after the police raided three apartments owned by Datuk Seri Najibs family in Pavilion Residences, a posh condominium development in Kuala Lumpurs shopping district.

At one of these apartments, the police took what was likely to be their biggest haul, loading five police trucks with hundreds of orange boxes containing Hermes Birkin bags. A Birkin costs anywhere between US$12,000 (S$16,105) and US$300,000.

The discovery adds significantly to the peril faced by Najib, who just last week had seemed to be cruising toward an election victory before a stunning upset.

The raids made good on a pledge by the new government headed by 92-year-old Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to investigate Najib.

Officers had previously declined to comment on the searches.

But Amar Singh, head of the Malaysian police commercial crime investigation unit, on Friday confirmed the raids were linked to investigations into accusations that Najib, his family, and cronies looted billions from a state investment fund he founded.

I cant give an estimated value of the items, Amar told reporters at the upscale Kuala Lumpur condo complex where the raids were carried out.

We have sealed the bags but we know they contain money and we know they contain jewellery.

He said 72 of the bags were filled with large amounts of various currencies, including Malaysian ringgit, US dollars, watches and jewellery.

The amount of jewellery is rather big, he said.

Footage captured by local media showed cardboard boxes and suitcases, sealed in plastic wrapping, being loaded into a black police truck. It took five trucks to remove all of the seized items, reports said.

Just last week, 64-year-old Najib was widely expected to lead his powerful Barisan Nasional (National Front) political machine to victory, extending a more than six-decade reign that had made it one of the worlds longest-serving governments.

But his coalition accused of ballot-box stuffing and gerrymandering was unexpectedly trounced by a diverse alliance that rallied public support against Najibs suspected corruption and increasingly repressive tactics.

The handbag discovery will add to public scorn for Najibs wife Rosmah Mansor, who has long been reviled by Malaysians for her perceived haughty demeanour and reported vast collection of designer bags, clothing and jewellery collected on jet-set overseas shopping trips.

Her reputation contributed to voter perceptions of rot in a ruling establishment that had lost touch with economically struggling and middle-class Malaysians.

Mahathir had already barred Najib from leaving the country in the wake of last weeks election over allegations that he oversaw the looting of billions of dollars from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in a breathtaking and complex campaign of fraud and money-laundering stretching around the world.

The police actions have fuelled speculation in Malaysia that Najib would soon be taken into custody, but so far there has been no indication that his arrest was imminent.

Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim, the former opposition leader who was jailed under Najib but freed on Wednesday, indicated this week that they expected charges to be filed against Najib soon.

Source: NAN

University lecturers in Kenya grouped under the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) have ended a strike over low pay after reaching an agreement with authorities, a union official said, allowing classes to resume after being suspended since early March.

Strikes by public workers in the country have become more frequent in recent years, often over low pay and other grievances.

Constantine Wasonga, secretary general of the union said the union had reached an agreement with the Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF), which negotiates lecturers welfare with the government.

As the strike is now over, all students are invited to resume their studies immediately, Wasonga said.

He did not provide details of the agreement, but said negotiations with the government would continue.

Aside from the pay issue, the lecturers had also demanded access to services available to other public servants like car loans and higher quality medical insurance.

Some public workers accuse the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta of neglecting them and failing to curb widespread corruption that they say swallows money that could be used to raise their pay.

Government officials deny the accusation.

Source: NAN

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Nigerias President Muhamadu Buhari and reaffirmed the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and Nigeria, U.S. Department of State said.

Spokesperson for the Department, Ms Heather Nauert, said Pompeo, during the call, also underscored Buharis visit to the U.S. on April 30, and recognised Nigerias leadership in Africa.

Nauert said: On May 17, Secretary Pompeo called Nigerian President Buhari.

The Secretary noted the longstanding relationship between the Nigerian and American people and underscored the themes of the April 30 official working visit of President Buhari to the White House.

He recognized Nigerian leadership across the African continent on priorities we share: countering terrorism and other threats to peace and security, creating economic opportunity, fighting corruption, and advancing democracy and stability.

The Secretary welcomed continued cooperation in advancing our nations mutual prosperity.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Buhari visited the U.S. on April 30 at the invitation of President Donald Trump, and held bilateral meetings with the U.S. counterpart at the White House.

The meetings, which also had cabinet members from both sides, focused on security, economy and the fight against corruption. (NAN)

Source: NAN

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje has waded into the crisis that almost engulfed the Kano State House of Assembly following a threat by aggrieved lawmakers to impeach the speaker and his deputy.

The spokesman of the aggrieved legislators and former Speaker of the House, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum, announced at a news conference in Kano on Wednesday night that the lawmakers have agreed to shelve their plan to impeach the Speaker, Alhaji Yusuf Ata, after the governors intervention.

We wish to inform you that the Executive Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as well as party leadership in the state have waded into the crisis that engulfed our assembly.

They also ensured that the crisis ended in an no winner no vanquished.

As loyal legislators of this honourable House, who respect the supremacy of the leadership of the Executive Governor and party leaders in our state, we wish to state that we are in agreement with the decision taken, he said.

He said the concerned members were fully in support and in agreement with the decision taken during the meeting which took place on Tuesday night, May 15 at the Government House, Kano presided over by Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje.

He said the agreement reached at the meeting are as follows:
1.That Yusuf Abdallah Ata (Fagge constituency) should remain as Speaker.

2. That Kabiru Rurum (Rano constituency) to serve as Deputy Speaker.
3. That Mohammed Bello Butu-butu (RiminGado/Tofa constituency) to serve as Majority leader.
4. That Bappa Babba Dan agundi (Kano Municipal constituency) to serve as Chief Whip.
5. That Sanusi Usman Bataiya (Albasu constituency) to serve as Deputy Majority leader.
6. That Ayuba Labaran Durum (Kabo constituency) to serve as Majority Whip.

He, therefore, appealed to all members and the general public to remain calm and assured them of their commitment to the rule of law and total discharge of their legislative duties in the interest of the electorate.

He said the House would reconvene on Thursday, May 17 for deliberation.

Source: NAN

President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged South West caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to bring Ekiti state back into the fold of progressive states.

The president, who gave the challenge during a dinner meeting with the caucus of the party in the South West on Wednesday night, said they could achieve this by ensuring electoral victory for the APC gubernatorial candidate, Kayode Fayemi , in the forthcoming governorship elections in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed July 14 for the conduct of the governorship elections in Ekiti state,

The President said members of the party must work together in the state to ensure that the will of the people was not subverted.

I know Ekiti fairly well and Ekiti people are well known for their forthrightness, candour and integrity.

All of these values seem to have been lost and we must restore these values and return Ekiti to its pride of place in the comity of states.

I know Ekiti fairly well and Ekiti people are well known for their forthrightness, candour and integrity.All of these values seem to have been lost and we must restore these values and return Ekiti to its pride of place in the comity of statesBuhari.

As we approach the 2019 elections, the return of Ekiti into the fold of progressive states is important as the election of July 14 is going to be a key pointer to subsequent elections, he said.

President Buhari, who reiterated his determination never to interfere in the internal affairs of the party at any level, commended his minister of Solid Mineral Resources, Kayode Fayemi for reaching out to his co-contestants who lost out in the Saturday primaries.

He therefore enjoined all members and supporters of the APC in Ekiti state and beyond to see the July 14 governorship elections as a collective mission to rescue Ekiti and promote development.

Chief Bisi Akande, who spoke to State House correspondents after the meeting, assured that the caucus would do all it could within the electoral process to secure victory for the APC candidate in the July 14 election.

Among those at the dinner were Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, National Leader of the APC and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Segun Osoba and the National Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun.

All the 33 governorship aspirants, along with Fayemi and former governor Segun Oni, partook in the dinner.

Governors at the meeting included Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) and the Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, who was the chairman of APC Ekiti Governorship primaries committee.

Some members of the National Assembly, Ministers and stakeholders from the South West were also in attendance.

Source: NAN