Author: David Ayo Akerele

In 2019, myself and wife were rushing to Gatwick airport in London for a 7am flight to Toronto, CA. It was the eve to the global lockdown in Europe against the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our journey to Gatwick was routed through one of London’s underground train stations. We should have hired a taxi or an Uber from Kings Cross St Pancras, but my love and thrill for “London underground tubes” played a fast one on me, and consequently, we decided to ride through trains to Gatwick airport. While waiting on the platform for the arrival of the train…

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A pandemic of apathy and ignorance has hit the world. Interestingly, apathy is not the same as ignorance, though, both are connected. A question-and-answer time was facilitated in a seminar by Dr David Jeremiah, a foremost American bible teacher. In this seminar, he asked one of the participants, “What is the difference between apathy and ignorance”? Someone replied, “I don’t know, and I don’t care”. Sadly, this is the mindset of so many believers around the world? We have become so accustomed to the deluge of troubles and crises rocking our world that we seem to be less concerned about…

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Sister Rose said to me, “Pastor, I have been attending many deliverance sessions, and I think I need more prayers to overcome this unemployment situation”. Why, If I may ask? Sister Rose replied, “I have been applying for jobs for months, and till date, not one single employer has called me or acknowledged my application”. I think there is a “generational curse” on my CV! In my usual curious nature, I requested to see Sister Rose’s CV (not her real name). When I sighted it, it was in shambles. The length of her name occupied virtually the entire length of…

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First, I write to congratulate you for this honorable appointment that to many of us had been long overdue, considering your decades of immense sacrifice for Nigeria. I cannot forget in a hurry how you criss-crossed the entire 36 states of Nigeria by road, as instructed by God, praying and anointing every state capital. Your appointment could not have come at a much better time sir. I have been advocating for many years that the Nigerian church takes a more central and strategic role in shaping the political destiny of Nigeria. My advocacy stems from the strategic positioning of the…

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