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June 1, 2017


The Day Abacha Died!


If Christians don't Bless  the People, then who will?


Posted by Ambassador T .Brikins

Africans and indeed Nigerians don’t rejoice or  speak evil of  dead persons. But the day Abacha died…exactly nineteen years ago  by June 8, 2017! 
I was forced by the roar outside to dash to the balcony of my office overlooking the historic Queens Street in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. The  people shouted. The people leaped and jumped   hysterically in diverse directions. They embraced and carried one another. They raised beer bottles to the open  skies. They sang. They danced.The vehicles blared and hooted their horns in mad frenzy. My radical professor friends from the University of Lagos which is near  came with green branches of trees in their hands, waving and dancing to the rhythmic  chorus, ’Abacha is dead, Abacha is dead, Abacha is dead. Abacha don die’’.
This hysterical expression of happiness marked the end of military rule and the commencement of Nigeria’s march to democracy amid bumps on a road yet to be scientifically defined after 18 years of democratic rule.

Democracy Day in Nigeria

May 29th ,2017


…Beyond Buhari’s Absence. God   Cares for Nations…1.


Democracy is about the People

Posted by Ambassador T. Brikins

General Muhamadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who has been ailing was absent today as the nation celebrates its Democracy Day... The Vice- President Professor Yemi Osibanjo   marked their two years in power. However, the reason for democracy Day in Nigeria is beyond personalities. It is about Nigeria as a nation.It is about the well being of Nigerians.

General Ibrahim Babangida: Wedding Brings 30 Aircrafts

May 25th , 2017

Supernatural Secrets of Successful Marriage 3

...The Power of Word Pictures and Power of the Word


God's  Word  Shines Visible or  Invisible Light on Our Path often Paved with    Dark Danger Unknown

Posted by Ambassador T. Brikins
We can realize our dreams in marriage. But dreams require actions or  engagement of relevant knowledge.  About three  years ago,   a grandmother approached me to   narrate her marital pain.  She had been married for about thirty   years. The marriage  was  blessed with male and female children who at the time were University graduates and in good employment.
To her surprise, her   husband who is an ordained minister married another woman and brought her to the matrimonial home. This was on for about twelve years when she narrated this story to me.
My advice was simple but I made  her realize   that believing is an active verb that does something and it is also work.
I commended her to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build a marriage up, and to give her a blissful marriage inheritance among all of them which are sanctified. (Acts 20:32)
She was made to focus, imagine, confess, meditate, pray and praise God for His word concerning marriage. She carried the vision of a blissful Edenic marriage despising the urgly reality in her home. She never let go from her consciousness the pictures the word   showed neither did she waver but maintained absolute believe in the power that  word of God  carries.
Three years later her marriage was restored as she desired. The other woman left.


General Ibrahim Babangida: Wedding Brings 30 Aircrafts

May 23rd , 2017

 Supernatural Secrets of Successful Marriage 11

Responsibility  and Purpose  in  Marriage


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Posted by Ambassador T. Brikins

Why do we  marry? How compatible are  our purpose for love and marriage with Biblical Principles on love and marriage?

Social Trends sometimes reflect the biblical purposes of marriage  especially in the West. This trend played out in a Survey carried out on Love and Marriage by Pew Research Center in the United States of America in February 13,2013. In the report, 93% of   married did it for love while 84% of the unmarried said they will marry for love. 
87%  married  for making a life long commitment and 74% will marry for long life commitment. 
81% married did it for  companionship while 63% of unmarried will marry for companionship
59% married for having children while 44% of unmarried will marry for having children. 
31% married for financial stability while 30% of unmarried will marry for financial stability.  
The research asked  married and unmarried separately...1,306 for married 1,386 for unmarried.

Apart from financial stability, the other motivating purposes for marriage align with biblical purposes. But the question would be why the problems and  high divorce rate in marriage ? 


General Ibrahim Babangida: Wedding Brings 30 Aircrafts

May 21, 2017


Supernatural Secrets of Successful Marriage 1

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Halima Babangida

Posted by Ambassador T. Brikins

Wedlock is a voluntary   relationship that locks up a man and a woman intimately into one in all things. The positive prescription   to successful marriage is to understand   the purpose,   character   and power of God’s word concerning marriage, live by the picture it inspires and do it.
What is the purpose, character and power in God’s word concerning marriage?
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The new couple and the Bride's Father General Ibrahim Babangida

It was a gathering of who – is- who in Nigeria on the 12th of May at Minna, Capital of Niger State, Nigeria.  Private and public activities stopped for the wedding of Nigeria’s former military President General Babangida’s daughter Halima. It was emotional as Halima, the baby of the Babangida family was born when her father was military President of Nigeria. Inside reports have it that the birth  was a serious medical case at the time as her late mother was said to have reached an age deemed unsafe for child bearing.

The birth of Halima also revealed IBB’S love for children. A cartoonist depicted the military president in military uniform feeding the new baby from a feeding bottle on a sofa. When the president was in the midst of journalists he asked them  who did the work and actually congratulated the cartoonist  for depicting what he actually does.