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Hardship: Mbaka warns of danger, advocates return of fuel subsidy
By our reporter
The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has warmed the federal government of Nigeria against the looming danger that may erupt as a result of hardship and suffering meted on Nigerians due to the removal of fuel subsidy.
The fiery Priest, urged the Federal government to return the fuel subsidy since the removal has caused hardship to the people, adding that nobody can stop the looming protest when it starts.
Mbaka who made this call on Sunday during a homely tittled, “Miracle of open doors” warned that the subsidy removal should not mean enriching the governors with billions every month and suffering the poor masses.
He warned those hijacking the economy of Nigeria and causing suffering on the people to beware of the anger of God, saying, “Hammer of God is coming to unlock the key of evil one, no padlock is difficult for hammer of God to shatter it”.
He urged President Bola Ahmed to hire experts to help the federal government provide solution to the economic quagmire to ameloriate the suffering and hardship in the country.
He warned that all hands must be on desk to avert the looming danger that would befall on all the leaders irrespective of political party or political position saying, “once the power of God that’s prophetic begins to roll away from the sanctuary the government will begin to suffer”.
“Look at what is happening in the country with a buoyant riches of liquid and solid minerals with best ecological weather in the whole world. The demographic structure of the country is wonderful, the quality of children is excellence.
“A country blessed with children of orbit and excellence. Interns of education Nigerian children are among the best out oil is the best in the world. Our trees are wonderful, our land is fertile for any type of crops but look at us importing garri, rice, pencil, matches, soap, toothpaste, importing our own crude oil.
“If you go to filing station the tank you used to fill with N10k, you can’t fill it with N50k again and how much will be the salaries of our civil servants by the time they go to school and come back for two weeks has their salary not finished. This problem started from the past government but I believe the present government can do something.
“We can not continue like this. Shall we continue like this?, never we can not. I am not blaming anybody but I am thinking that If they can not provide solution, you look for those who can provide solution. I am not blaming the present government but I am noticing that there are many square pegs in round holes, people who do not know how to solve problems. Somebody who doesn’t know how to solve maths, you ask him to be a mathematics teacher, you can’t give what you don’t have.
“Nigeria is ganged up. Nigeria is locked up, Nigeria is in a siege, Nigeria is caged, Nigeria is passing through a casket experience. We need to be unlocked. Our youths are running away and when you run to another country without quality paper, you are there worst than what it ought to be here. Many are languishing having gone out but despite what they are suffering there it is better for them than when they are here.
“Why can’t there be steady power supply, why can’t the interest for producers and industrialist from the banks be lowered, how can somebody be effectively take a loan from the bank and be paying 40℅, how? It’s an indirect way of increasing criminality. Its a subtle way of perpetrating anachronisms of kidnapping and insecurity. It’s a matter of who can say it.
“I am not talking about protest but I mean that the present government should sit up or sit down and plan on what to do to ameliorate the suffering of the poor masses, Mortuaries are being filled with people who died out of hopelessness. It’s even effecting the spirituality and morality of our people. People can not eat. Imaging a parent with 6 children, his many cups of garri will they eat in a day?
“Some can’t even go to the hospital, if you go to the hospital and drugs are prescribed, how will you eat because it’s after meal that you take drugs. Can you even pay for the hospital bill? Every week the problem is multiplying, our case is becoming amoebic like amoebae, shapeless.
“Look at the wonderful communiqué the Bishops wrote, we have read them in the church, how will that be promulgated? I know that all in the Aso Rock, Major two groups, Christians and Muslims who are handling Bible and Quran. Either you’re reading the Bible or you’re reading the Quran, can’t you because of Jesus or Muhammad make this country a home worthy of existence.
“Why have you forgotten your spiritual origin? Shall we continue like this until when, is it not time we uncage this country? And Jesus looked up to heaven and say efe-tal open, can’t we open the doors of industrialization and technology. Look at what is happening in Bukinafaso, small country like one state in Nigeria has gone up to the space to mount technological facilities to take care of the whole county. If you take any pin anywhere in Bukinafaso that technological facilities will locate you.
“The international Monetary Fund, IMF have been asking them to come and borrow money and the said no that they don’t need it. Nigeria is perpetually borrowing and borrowing. Some of you may be blaming the present government not knowing that they have been caged. The money the last government burrowed. I don’t think the present government can finish paying it. Remember when they give you the money, you use what you have as collateral.
“I don’t know how many years oil they will carry before we begin to enjoy our own. What we are passing noe is hunger. Famine time is coming, I told you this many years ago. Don’t sit down in your house, open your door and enter the bush to farm, go out and do something, don’t wait for government to do things for you otherwise you’re looking for magic but I am praying for miracle.
Miracle and magic are not the same. Miracle is supernaturally organic. Magic is the fake. It could be a product of deception. Look at what the Bible says in book of Isaiah 35, “We shall tell those who are saddened to fear not” despite what is happening in the country, I tell you fear not but woe be tied to those who are perpetuating this over suffering and a cronyism thinking that nothing will happen. And say do you know who I am, I am the minister, Senator, Honourable representing this and that, I am the governor, President.
“I don’t care who you are. Who you are is six feet. In summary, one day all these wealth you have acquired will be somewhere and you can’t lay your hands on any of them. Vanity upon vanity, rubbish.
“The leaders have the key to open the doors of this suffering and people will begging to enjoy the wealth of the land. It’s now shameful thing to tell anybody that you’re from Nigeria because our youths are doing anything possible to survive. Man must survive. It’s an instinct, survival in a massculus psychology, one of the basic fact is how will I survive. And a time when immortality will become a culture and tradition. That’s what is happening and it will soon effect the church with the social media trend.
“The church leaders should prepare to give their faithful what to eat. The time for that is fast approaching because some of our church leaders are romancing unhealthy with the so called politicians that you can’t look at their face and tell them that what they’re doing is wrong.
“That the cost of oil in Nigeria is becoming something else we can’t imagine and somebody is telling us is because subsidy is removed and that is why. If the removal of subsidy will bring hardship to us, let them put it back. If subsidy means that governors should be enriching themselves in billions every months and the poor masses are suffering and dying, let them put back the subsidy because the danger of it is coming.
“I have been silent on it and once the power of God that prophetic begins to roll away from the sanctuary the government will begin to suffer. We can not continue like this. The doors must open. Look at, the doors to foreign country opens and the doors to enter Nigeria closed. How many Americans are coming to invest here, how many new company are rising in Nigeria, even local investors are closing down.
“What you buy today, go back and price it tomorrow. Economic instability as a result if demonic inflation. Church has never had it thus way in thus country. The cars that have been climbing the hills has failed break and everybody should begin to call on his own God
I believe there are gurus in this country that can come together and bring solution irrespective of party they are in because when what will happen, happens, nobody will tell anybody to protest or not to protest.
‘It will be a problem beyond party or whatever. Some of us who are not political, even doe being constantly misunderstood, if I am saying the truth, they will misunderstand Mbaka. This is what I have been cring over the Years that a time is coming and that time has come now. Mbaka close your mouth! Mbaka close your mouth!! it’s now happening.
“The question I am asking is how will our parents feed their children morning, afternoon and night, with what from what? We are not talking about school fees, house rent not even the fuel whatever because we can trek to wherever we used to enter motor to. It’s a matter of leaving very early in the morning.
“We are going back to our roots, those who used to eat only indomie is now looking for wewe to help them eat. Back to the root. Are you going to the village, do you have any house in the village? Is the farm safe? The cancer in Nigeria has become maligners and metastasize. We need miracle of God to open the door of healings,” he said.
OSOGBO — The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the outcome of the August 15, 2026, Osun State governorship election as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), insisting that it is not convinced that Governor Ademola Adeleke secured the highest number of valid votes.
INEC on Sunday declared Adeleke the winner after the Returning Officer, Prof. Joshua Olalekan Ogunwale, announced the final results at the commission’s headquarters in Osogbo.
Adeleke, who contested on the platform of the Accord Party, polled 511,067 votes to defeat the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji, who scored 444,815 votes. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Dr Najeem Salaam, came third with 17,180 votes.
However, the APC said it would not accept the declaration without conducting a comprehensive review of the electoral process.
Speaking on Arise TV’s Prime Time programme on Monday, the Director-General of the APC campaign for the Osun governorship election, Hon. Oluwole Oke, said the party had commenced an audit of the results and electoral materials from the poll.
Oke said the party had directed its agents across the state to submit relevant result sheets for scrutiny as it investigates alleged infractions.
“We need to do the needful which is to evaluate the process, review the process and then form an opinion. We’ve embarked on an audit process; we’ve asked all our party agents to submit copies of Form EC8A, B, C to our secretariat for review. We need to inspect all the materials because we do not agree with the declaration of INEC, and that’s our position for now,” he said.
The APC campaign chief also dismissed suggestions that the party was under pressure to immediately accept the outcome following President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s congratulatory message to Adeleke.
Tinubu had congratulated Adeleke after the declaration, describing the outcome as a reflection of the will of the people.
Reacting to the President’s position, Oke said Tinubu spoke in his capacity as President and a democrat following INEC’s declaration.
“Mr. President spoke as the Father of the nation and a democrat following the declaration by INEC,” he said.
Oke, however, maintained that the APC would rely on its own assessment of the election after completing its review.
“We’re on ground and politics is local and, like I’ve told you, what we’re doing is to conduct a thorough review of the entire process and form an opinion,” he said.
He added that the party would not be rushed into congratulating Adeleke, insisting that its preliminary position was that the governor did not secure the highest number of valid votes.
“We won’t be under any subtle pressure to easily reach out to congratulate Senator Ademola Adeleke because we believe he didn’t score the highest valid votes,” Oke said.
The APC is expected to determine its next course of action after completing its audit and reviewing the electoral materials and results submitted by its agents.
ABAKALIKI — The 2027 governorship race in Ebonyi State is gathering momentum, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Chief Ifeanyi Odii, unveiling a package of reforms aimed at improving the welfare of workers, teachers and retirees.
Odii made the commitments during a meeting with representatives of Ebonyi civil servants and members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) at his Lagos residence, where he outlined his plans for a comprehensive reform of the state’s public service.
A major component of his agenda is a workers’ housing scheme designed to provide 1,000 housing units within his first year in office and up to 5,000 units over four years if elected governor.
Odii said the housing programme would be structured to minimise dependence on direct government funding, with workers’ contributions and existing pension assets forming part of the financing framework.
He said the initiative would address the housing difficulties faced by workers and retirees, particularly retirees who often struggle to sustain rented accommodation after leaving government service.
The PDP candidate also proposed a paperless digital loan platform that would allow workers to access loans against their contributory pension savings without the bureaucratic delays associated with the existing system.
On retirement benefits, Odii pledged that workers would have access to their entitlements immediately upon retirement, arguing that retirees should not endure prolonged delays in receiving benefits accrued during their years of service.
He further promised to reform the promotion process through computer-based promotion examinations capable of producing results instantly.
According to him, the digital system would reduce delays, curb opportunities for manipulation and promote greater transparency and fairness in the career progression of civil servants.
Odii said the proposed reforms were aimed at creating a public service where workers would have improved access to housing, credit facilities and timely retirement benefits, while ensuring a more transparent promotion system.
He presented the proposals as part of his broader agenda to improve workers’ welfare and reposition the Ebonyi State civil service for greater efficiency if elected governor in 2027.
The MainPower Electricity Distribution Limited (MEDL) has confirmed the death of one of its operations staff in an electrical accident.
The Head of Communications, MEDL, Mr Emeka Ezeh, who confirmed the incident in Enugu on Monday, said that the incident occured on Aug. 13 at Eke in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Ezeh said that the incident, which occurred at about 1p.m., involved Mr. Samson Okechi, the Team Lead, Abor, attached to the company’s 9th Mile District.
He said, “Okechi was carrying out maintenance work on a 50kVA/11kV pole-mounted distribution substation at Eke when he sustained an electric shock.
“Okechi was immediately evacuated to Our Saviour Hospital, Ngwo, for medical attention but was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty. His remains were subsequently deposited at a mortuary.”
He said that the incident was formally reported at the Ngwo Police Station for documentation and other necessary statutory actions.
Ezeh also debunked claims circulating on some social media platforms that Okechi was murdered or that the incident was the result of sabotage.
“I wonder why some people take pleasure in conjuring unfounded narratives and circulating them, thereby creating unnecessary tension and bad blood. This is so unfair,” he said.
He urged members of the public to disregard the claims, describing them as baseless.
According to him, Okechi had requested a Station Guarantee (SG) for the Okwe 11kV Feeder, which was granted at about 11:06 a.m. at the 9th Mile Injection Substation. The feeder was subsequently opened and tagged.
“This is a very unfortunate development and a big shock to all of us, his colleagues. Our hearts go out to his immediate family as they grieve,” Ezeh said.
The MEDL spokesman disclosed that MainPower management had commenced a comprehensive investigation to establish the immediate, underlying and root causes of the accident.
He said, “We are committed to ensuring that the investigation is thorough and evidence-based.
“The findings will be used to identify any gaps, determine appropriate corrective measures, and strengthen safety procedures and operational controls where necessary.”
Ezeh MEDL assured its customers and stakeholders that safety remained a paramount priority in its operations, adding that appropriate measures would be taken based on the outcome of the investigation.
Idiaye, a third-term lawmaker, takes over from Blessing Agbebaku, who resigned as Speaker on Monday amid moves by lawmakers to impeach him.
The emergence of Idiaye was said to have been influenced by the gentleman’s zoning arrangement in the Assembly, which provides that when the governor is from the Edo Central Senatorial District, the Speaker should come from Edo North.
Idiaye, being the oldest member from the Edo North Senatorial District, was subsequently elected Speaker.
Without the zoning arrangement, the Deputy Speaker would have automatically succeeded Agbebaku, according to the new Speaker.
Members of the Assembly were at the Government House to inform Governor Monday Okpebholo of the change in leadership.
Agbebaku was said to have resigned early on Monday following alleged moves by lawmakers to impeach him.
Reports gathered that 17 of the 24 lawmakers had signed a notice of impeachment on Sunday night, a development that may have prompted his resignation.
Agbebaku’s resignation was confirmed by Ebojele, who said details of the development would be made public later.
She said, “I can confirm the Speaker’s resignation but details will be made public later.”
The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, has resigned from his position.
Agbebaku stepped down on Monday amid moves by some lawmakers to impeach him.
His resignation was confirmed on Facebook by his media aide, Ivy Adodo-Ebojele, who said further details on the circumstances surrounding his exit would be made public later.
“EDO ASSEMBLY SPEAKER RT HON CHIEF BLESSING AGBEBAKU RESIGNS,” she wrote.
The development has thrown the Edo State House of Assembly into a fresh leadership crisis, with lawmakers expected to determine a new Speaker.
Details shortly…
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