Connect with us

News

Oyedepo calls sacked Winners’ Chapel Pastors unfruitful, blatant failure

Published

on

OYEDEPO

 

Following the public reaction that greeted the recent sack of over 40 pastors by the Living Faith Church International aka Winners’ Chapel, the founder of the church, Bishop David Oyedepo has broken his silence, describing the sacked pastors as unfruitful and failure.

The Bishop was reacting to allegation by one of the affected Pastors, Peter Godwin, that they were sacked for not generating enough income.

Godwin, who was in one of the church’s branches in Ekiti State, had claimed: “I was told by the management that the church doesn’t operate at a loss.

“They also told me that the total income that is being generated from my station should be able to cater for my welfare and accommodation, so as a result of low income, I’m hereby dismissed.”

Nigerians reacted massively to the issue on social media with some stating it was within the rights of the church to hire and fire while others said the church was wrong to use income generation to evaluate pastors.

READ  2023: Atiku appoints Tambuwal, Udom as campaign DG, chairman

But, speaking to the church on the matter, Oyedepo said the sacked pastors were “unfruitful and blatant failure.”

He said: “People are confused about our Ministry. I learnt some fellows said, “you know, they are not bringing income, that is why they asked them to go”.

“We asked you to go because you are unfruitful. Unfruitful! Blatant failure. Doing what there? We have no patience with failure here.

“When we employed 7,000 people at a time, social media was dead.

“We have more employees in this organisation than most of the states. No one is owed a dime salary and we don’t borrow, we don’t beg. Ask our bank whether we take overdraft.

“We are covenant bound, working in the light of God’s word, enjoying an open Heaven.”

He said the sack was not about money. According to him: “Money? Nonsense. We have never lacked it and yet we have never prayed for it.

READ  Good morning! Here Are Some Major News Headlines In The Newspapers Today: Leaked audio call featuring me and Oyedepo is fake, says Obi

“We are just simply obeying God and He is backing up what He is asking us to do. Awesome God.”

 

Continue Reading
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

News

Tribunal stops MultiChoice from increasing DStv, Gotv subscription rates

Published

on

By

 

A competition and consumer protection tribunal (CCPT) in Abuja has stopped Multi-Choice Nigeria Limited from increasing its tariffs and cost of products and services scheduled to begin on May 1.

 

A three-member tribunal led by Saratu Shafii gave the interim order following an ex-parte motion moved by Ejiro Awaritoma, counsel to Festus Onifade, the applicant.

 

The tribunal, in the ruling, restrained Multi-Choice from going ahead with the impending price increase pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed before it.

 

“The 1st defendant is hereby restrained from taking any step(s) that may negatively affect the rights of the claimant and other consumers in respect of the suit pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice,” Shafii ruled.

Shafii also directed all parties in the suit to appear before the tribunal at 10 a.m. on May 7 for the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

 

READ  Good morning! Here Are Some Major News Headlines In The Newspapers Today: Leaked audio call featuring me and Oyedepo is fake, says Obi

Onifade, a legal practitioner, filed the suit marked CCPT/OP/2/2024, against Multi-Choice Nigeria Ltd and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) on Monday.

 

On April 24, Multichoice Nigeria announced an increase in the cost of subscriptions for its DStv and GOtv packages.

The pay-TV firm cited the rise in the cost of business operations as the rationale behind the price increase.

Continue Reading

News

How to check 2024 JAMB UTME results

Published

on

By

 

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released modalities for the checking of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results via SMS.

For candidates who took part in the 2024 UTME organised by JAMB, the examination body said the results of the exercise can be checked following some simple steps.

 

“Candidates are advised to use the phone numbers they used to register to text UTMERESULT to 55019/66019. There is no need to approach any CBT centre or cybercafé to check results,” JAMB said.

 

“The following are the responses to be expected hence, a candidate with a result will receive the message: ‘Dear ‘Candidate X’, your result is as follows (and the details will be provided).’”

READ  Focus on knowing, worshipping God, not your pastors – Uche Jombo
Continue Reading

News

JAMB releases 2024 UTME results, 8,401 score 300 and above

Published

on

By

 

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

 

JAMB’s Registrar Ishaq Oloyede announced the release of the UTME results in a press conference held at the board’s headquarters in Bwari on the outskirts of Abuja.

 

According to Oloyede, over 1.94 million candidates registered and sat for the examination in 118 towns and over 700 centres across the country.

 

The examination which began on Friday the 19th of April ended on Monday the 29th of April. Out of the 1,989,668 registered candidates, 80, 810 were absent. A total of 1, 904, 189 sat the UTME within the six days of the examination.

“Out of the 1,842,464 released results, a paltry 0.4% scored above 300 while 24% scored 50% (200/400) and above,” the JAMB chief said.

 

He said 1,1,402,490, which is 76 per cent of the candidates got below 200. JAMB, however, re-echoed its resolve not to publish the name of the highest-scoring candidate.

READ  NDLEA intercepts large consignment of "Loud" hidden in loudspeakers

 

“It is common knowledge that the Board has, at various fora, restated its unwillingness to publish the names of its best-performing candidates, as it considers its UTME as only a ranking examination on account of the other parameters that would constitute what would later be considered the minimum admissible score for candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions,” Oloyede noted.

 

More Female Enrolees
A further breakdown of the number of candidates who sat for the examination showed that the females were more than males.

The JAMB registrar said 982,393 males representing 49.4 per cent enrolled for the 2024 UTME as against 1,007,275 females which is 50.6 per cent.

 

Oloyede said “it is evident that there is a significant improvement in the enrolment of females, with over one million girls registering for the examination.

 

“This is the first time in three years that the number of females will be more than that of their male counterparts.

READ  Insecurity: What I’ll do if there's war in Nigeria – Oyedepo

 

“Out of the total registration, 3,164 were persons living with disabilities.”

 

“There is a 36.2% increase in the enrolment of PLWDs as compared to the last year,” the JAMB boss told the gathering.

 

 

Continue Reading

Trending News