Youths in the country have pronounced Dr Solomon Uchenna Wining as ‘’ The right man for the presidential job cum 2023’’

Speaking at the launching of a grassroots movement aimed at making Dr Solomon wining the country’s next president, the youths under the aegis of Youth Coalition of Nigeria commended Dr Wining for making himself available to redeem Nigeria from Poor leadership.

The youths spoke with deep sincerity at the colourful ceremony held in Owerri over the weekend, however described Dr Solomon Wining as a man of Courage and faith.

Hon. Usman Katsina from Kano State who is the spokesman and National Co ordinator of group, praised Dr Solomon Wining for his promise of positive contribution to Nigeria’s recovery, restoration of the country’s pride, repairing of Nigeria’s reputation on the world stage, adding that his vision and appetite for a better Nigeria remain the propelling force behind their support for his Presidential aspiration .

According to Katsina,” Gentlemen of the press, on day of 20th January 2022, We the Youth Coalition of Nigeria are in Owerri primarily to appeal to Dr Solomon Uchenna Wining to come forward, recover and rebuild Nigeria. We are very impressed with his political profile and believed strongly that Nigeria will be functional and better under as President come 2023.”

” We are also happy that Dr Solomon Wining placed more emphasis on Peace, unity, security, economic refertilization , youths and Women empowerment which is lacking in the present administration of President Muhammed Buhari. We sincerely appeal to Dr Solomon Wining not to disappoint the youths of this Country, he should make himself available and we will partner and support him to achieve victory come 2023.”

It’s an amazing thing whenever one has the opportunity to observe true Christianity in its simplicity.

I arrived in Oxford barely a few months ago and the strucrure and culture of the local church here, which I attend is nothing short of a joy to behold.

The leadership is steered not by any known face you can link the church to, but simply a team of elders.

If you came into the church and asked, “please, who’s the head or senior pastor here?”. The people who but stare at you in bewilderment. Because there’s no such thing.

They will kindly ask you to specify the name of the leader you’re asking after or point out a person or two to you who are in the team of leaders. There’s no ranking among them. They just complement one another and may perform different roles.

No one sits in the Lord’s congregation as the numeros uno or primus inter pares.

No man is regarded as so-called “set man”. The leaders come into church and they simply sit wherever they find space.

All seats are the same. And no usher will stand you up to say, “oh, sorry, this spot is reserved for so and so, priest, could you please, sit elsewhere? ” Eventhough the leaders who take one or function or the tend to find seats somewhat closer to the podium for the need of having to go there often.

Leaders do not wear the most expensive attires to differentiate themselves from everyone else. They wear normal sweaters, Chinuse, Jeans, shirts like everyone else.

No one is so flamboyantly dressed nor does dressing or societal position acords anyone any special status in the assembly.

No one greets his brother, calling them by their titles or bows or prostrates.

Oxford is a highly academic community and one in five persons you meet even casually is likely a professor, a PhD or studying towards those. Yet, none of that matters.

Everyone is simply the same and placed in a mesh pot of homogeneity. No one aims to impress anyone.

Big and small, drink coffee together and have interactive session where every member and his contribution is equally valued.

No one prays in the name of the God of a pastor or the commission but in the name of the name of Jesus and to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus.

Flyers for programmes which are often rare, just have beautiful religious graphics, timing of schedules and sometimes names of speakers, and hardly any images.

Not a single person is in your face day-in-day-out talking at you from the podium. You show up in church, and the speaker could just be the dude who ushered you in at the door. You never know who it’d be in the next meeting. He may just be a committed member and not necessarily in the team of leaders.

There is not a single face, you may link or hold unto as the face of the assembly.

Not once have I heard the word “tithe” here. Not once have I heard the phrase, “offering time, blessing time”. Not once has a collection basket been passed in my four months since arriving here.

After attending a few weeks, I got disturbed and asked a German friend who’s been in the assembly much longer: “hey bro, don’t you guys give offerings or make donations here?”.

He laughed, and simply said they used to pass baskets prior to the Corona pandemic, but since the pandemic, people make donations volitionally online with or without it being mentioned in a church meeting.

Some working people also instruct their banks to credit the church at intervals based on whatever they wish.

The church funds multi-programme and resource-intensive missionary activities all across the world especially in Asia in Africa and intermittently the leaders on their own accord give a break down of how they’re managing financial resources to the congregation. They in turn call for advise, critique, scrutiny, suggestions etc which may be expressed verbally or in writing.

Thus, the people can see the transparency and financial prudence of their leaders and are incentivised to always give by their own volition without the need for manipulation, pschying or coercion.

No one talks about building more magnificent edifices here. The burden of the people is simply preaching Christ to the far end of the earth and to as many as care to listen.

Focus of the messages are hinged on eternal realities, Godly living, evangelism and missions.

Not once has a prayer being said about “any devil who does not want you to prosper, die by fire.”

Songs are carefully selected spiritual songs with edifying meaning, mostly slow-styled, hymns, psalms and reflective songs. No rhythms which encourages mere dances in the flesh.

Brethren see themselves as brothers and no one claims to be the “spiritual father” or “covering” over the brethren.

Leaders carry their own stuff, have no bouncers or body guards and everyone has access to everyone.

The humility in the congregation is palpable and joy to see.

Bible study is super-participatory and leaders facilitate but speak less. And when a brother gives a more reasonable interpretation to a passage, a leader openly declares that they have learned something or their initial perspective may not have been as good or precise.

Yet, this is not necessarily a small fellowship but fairly large or medium-sized one, running numerous programmes all across the world with no evidence of financial strain or organisational disorder.

Of course, it is not a perfect church and there are biblic subject areas where they have less insight and talk about less, it is predominantly white, a few blacks and Asians, it is denominated although tries to run in a non-denominational way, non-tòngue talking, minimal emphasis on spiritual gifts etc.

Yet, one thing remains inescapably certain and it is that, this humble people bear in them the fruits of the Spirit to a great degree and live in the simplicity of the Gospel.

My experience was also similar, when I lived in Edinburgh.

The Gospel of Christ is simple, but it got to America and Africa and became convoluted.

Mark Godwin

• Says Retreat will help evolve new roadmap for stabilizing internal security

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc, with the support of His Excellency, Udom Emmanuel, the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, will on 7th and 8th February, 2022, host a 2-day Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers comprising Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs), Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) and Commissioners of Police, and other Heads of Police Formations, in the beautiful city of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State Capital.

The Conference and Retreat, themed “The New Police Vision: A Roadmap for Stabilizing Internal Security in Nigeria”, is part of efforts by the current Police leadership to collaborate with critical stakeholders in driving a policing vision that would amongst other benefits, avail Police Strategic Managers with contemporary and vantage opportunities to effectively deliver on their mandates. It will also afford the Police leadership the opportunity to identify and set measurable crime fighting agenda for the Force in the year 2022.

The IGP notes that the Conference and Retreat will equally provide a unique opportunity for the Strategic Managers of the Force and carefully selected Public Safety Experts to engage in peer review and cross fertilization of ideas for improved internal security management in the country. This is in addition to providing new traction for driving the new NPF policy aimed at modernization, re-orientation and re-tooling of the Force.

The IGP, while assuring the nation of concerted efforts at improving Police service delivery, public safety and crime management in the year 2022 and beyond, expresses belief that the Retreat will help to evolve new pathways to tackling crimes and other law enforcement challenges in the Country.

The Conference and Retreat is being coordinated by Matchmakers Consult International – the approved facilitators of the event.

Describing how the cybercrime group runs the ransomeware, the ngCERT advisory says the USB drives contain so-called ‘BadUSB’ attacks. The BadUSB exploits the USB standards versatility and allows an attacker to reprogram a USB drive to emulate a keyboard to+ create keystrokes and commands on a computer. It then installs malware prior to the operating system booting, or spoofs a network card to redirect traffic.

Numerous attack tools are also installed in the process that allows for exploitation of personal computers (PCs), lateral movement across a network, and installation of additional malware. The tools were used to deploy multiple ransomware strains, including BlackBatter and REvil.

According to ngCERT, the attack has been seen in the US where the USB drives were sent in the mail through the Postal Service and Parcel Service. One type contained a message impersonating the US Department of Health and Human Services and claimed to be a COVID-19 warning. Other malicious USBs were sent in the post with a gift card claiming to be from Amazon.

However, ngCERT has offered recommendations that will enable corporate and individual networks to mitigate the impact of this new cyber attack and be protected from the ransomware.

These recommendations include a call on individuals and organisations not to insert USB drives from unknown sources, even if they’re addressed to you or your organization. In addition, if the USB drive comes from a company or a person one is not familiar with and trusts, it is recommended that one contacts the source to confirm they actually sent the USB drive.

Finally, ngCERT has advised Information and Communication Technology as well as other Internet users to report any incident of system compromises to ngCERT via incident@cert.gov.ng, for technical assistance.