The world bank has given the Nigerian government a grant of about US$168m to be given to entrepreneurs as incentive to business expansion and start ups.

The world bank has given the Nigerian government a grant of about US$168m to be given to entrepreneurs as incentive to business expansion and start ups.

To benefit from this grant, owners and managers od small businesses in ICT, hospitality and entertainment, construction and light industries must register now on www bigportal.org.ng.

The conditions which are simple are well stated when you open the site. No fees or charges.

Also, NYPF set to launch N.5bn Grant for Entrepreneurs and Students.

As part of efforts to grow more indigenous entrepreneurs, encourage the
culture of self-reliance and deepen the Nigeria economy, the Nigerian
Young Professionals Forum (NYPF) in partnership with Heritage Bank and its
development partners is set to launch a N500 million special seed fund
(YESGrant) for young Nigerians on Tuesday 22nd March 2016.

According to the Director of Communications Miss. Owomilere Obe, the
scheme was borne out of the need to address the enormous challenges young
people go through in their quest towards achieving set goals in their
small scale businesses and in their academic pursuits.  She noted that the
grant will enable young entrepreneurial postulants with creative ideas in
Agriculture, ICT and creative industry start or expand their business
concepts and provide over 500 Nigerian students schooling locally or
abroad with tuition to pursue their academic dreams and aspiration in the
areas of research and technological/scientific innovation.

“The main objective of the NYPF (YESGrant) Programme is to deepen the
Nigerian economy by deliberately encouraging and supporting aspiring
entrepreneurs in Nigeria to develop and execute business ideas that will
lead to massive job creation and also paying tuition for indigent students
so that they can be relevant to the society by having relevant skills that
employer’s needs. Jobs are a foundation of economic and social
development, improving living standards, productivity and social cohesion.
Jobs are responsible for moving people out of poverty”. She said.
Owomilere, therefore encouraged all to apply through the grants online
application system that will be available at www.yesgrant.com and provide all supporting documentation on or before June 2016 to be eligible for the first year disbursement to award recipients in August 2016.

To qualify for YESGrant, prospective recipients must be between the ages
of 18- 40, be registered members of the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum
(NYPF), and be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
using their registered companies and have an account with Heritage Bank
prior to disbursement of fund. Student’s award recipients must In addition
provide their matriculation number and academic progression report.

The Nigerian Young Professionals Forum, a non-governmental organisation that has been in the forefront lead of building the next generation of business
frontiers through intervention programmes for young Nigerians. In 2015,
over 1000 carefully selected entrepreneurs made up of young business
owners residing in Nigeria and in the Diaspora met at the International
Conference Centre in Abuja for the debut of the Young Nigerians CEO’s
Conference and Exhibition 2015 organized by the NYPF. The conference with
the theme, “Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Building Economic
Leaders for Tomorrow” afforded young entrepreneurs in Nigeria the
opportunity to exchange ideas with their peers from other parts of the
world and also served as a platform for the young business owners to
discuss challenges they encounter in their operations and its impact on
the Nigerian economy.

Owomilere Obe
Director of Communications - NYPF

Regards

RE: The Legal Perspective of the MPC Rule and Role of Management in the Recent Students Uprising in Niger Delta University.

RE: The Legal Perspective of the MPC Rule and Role of Management in the Recent Students Uprising in Niger Delta University.

 

Niger Delta University

Having been duly briefed on the M.P.C. regulation in the Niger Delta University, I write to state that the law passed by the institution was duly passed in the eyes of the Law.

This is coming after a studio session with the school repreatative Ebipadou Sapre-Obi who I was squared against on Royalfm 95.5 Yenagoa 'X-ray' program. The rule which is aimed at improving the performance of students have caused an unenvisaged hardships on students following the riot that rocked the school with the enforcement of the rule.

I which to reiterate the fact that I did not intend to encourage mediocrity in our schools with my earlier publication, but was only concerned about the position of the law and to ensure that in dealing with the issue, the school follows strictly, the provisions of the Law.

I want to admonish the students of Faculty of Engineering, to be Law abiding, especially those affected by such rule and those who have been asked to withdraw from the University, to comply.

Having said that, I call on the University to reconsider its sanction against the students as it will be fanning injustice in the institution to punish those who actually perpetrated the act of violence in the school and those who did not take part alike. Citing section 24 of the Criminal Code as my reason.

In order to get the best out of students, the Universities should also do everything it can to ensure that students are being protected agianst exploitation. Some of those students who failed M. P.C. did not fail because they were intellectually inept. There should be some quality of assurance in the results. University is a citadel of learning and therefore academic hard work and diligence should be duly rewarded as students have the right to sit for and pass examination, a test or other promotional or professional exercise embarked upon by the school authorities, which is implicit in the right to enroll in a school. If a student have performed well, the better he or she has performed, the better he or she is expected to pass. These are intrisic rights to education and not to be victimized as it is in most of the case.

The school should have done thorough investigation into the matter before coming up with such stringent sanctions. If such investigation is carried out, then responsibility should lie at the doorstep of those indicted. Those implicated should be given an ample time of fair hearing, as a student cannot be suspended or expelled from campus without being heard on the allegations against him, neither can he be punished or liable for an offence within the University without having being heard on the allegations levelled against him. Glymn v Keel University (1971) 1 W.L.R 487.

Students have the right to put in writing, addressed to the Senate of the University with proof, that they should be exempted from responsibility of the mayhem.

Aluzu Ebikebuna Augustine

Hon. Aluzu Ebikebuna Augustine.

Member representing Constituency III

LAWSAN House of Representatives

University of Uyo, Uyo.

The Legal Perspective of the MPC Rule and Role of Management in the Recent Students Uprising in Niger Delta University.

The Legal Perspective of the MPC Rule and Role of Management in the Recent Students Uprising in Niger Delta University.

According to various reportage on 13 February 2016, that the Niger Delta University asked students of the Engineering Faculty who are in their final year of study to repeat 200 level courses and others to withdraw pursuant to the enforcement of a certain Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (MPC) law.

From the contents of the various reportage and a voyage of facts finding, personally carried out, certain facts are deducible and imperative, namely;

(1). That a certain rule was passed by the Faculty of Engineering, Niger Delta University in 2013.

(2). That this rule is otherwise known as M.P.C. law and it states that: Effective from 2013/2014 academic session, all students are to pass all Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry hence they cannot progress to the next level. These students will be given another chance in the next academic session and If they fail anyone of the M.P.C's again, such student will be asked to withdraw from the Faculty.

(I). Students in 200 level and above *(those who were admitted before 2013/2014) are not affected by this law, it only concerns students admitted from the 2013/2014 academic session.

The law was published in the students Faculty handbook, not on the schools official gazzette.

(II). This law was Unilaterally made by the Faculty of Engineering, and not Niger Delta University.

In dissecting the legal implication above or otherwise, I am guided by the need to eschew sensational submissions capable of fueling the bad blood between students and management of the school. This article is not in anyway intended to offend the management or student body of the school.

Nearly all Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria is established by law. In most cases therefore, statutory provisions have been enacted to enable these Institutions run their internal affairs without unnecessary interference whatsoever. All the Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have been established by statutes, and one common or particular thread running through these various statutes however, is that they are all materially thesame in tenor and layout. Thus, section 17 of the University of Porth-Harcourt Act Cap 461 laws of the Federation 1990 is the same thing as section 17 of the University of Maiduguri Act Cap 461 etc., this therefore makes an authority decided in respect of one University to have a binding force on similar situations arising from another University.

Schools and Institutions have power to make rules and regulations as authorized by the parent authority vid an enabling Act to make such rules and regulations.

Such rules and regulations are binding and enforceable and commands obedience to the people they relate to. For example, section 17(1) of the University of Porth-Harcourt Act, which is in parri material with similar provisions in other Federal Universities Act, is to this effect;

17(1) "Subject to the provision of this section... the Vice Chancellor may without prejudice to other disciplinary power conferred on him by statute or regulation, direct..."

It is not enough for Agencies to make rules or regulations, such rules or regulations according to the enabling statute must be published. For example, section 21 of the Interpretation Law of Oyo state requires that all orders made under the enabling laws of the state shall be published in the state's gazzette. Such laws makes rules and regulations mandatory to be published.

Publication of these rules may be discreetional at times, though àctions taken under and by virtue of such law may be unconstitutional, or otherwise unlawful and may be liable to be set aside on such grounds. Though the Faculty of Engineering did not publish such law in the official gazzette of the University, whether such law can be faulted on procedural ultra vires is dependent on the enabling statute of Interpretation Act of Bayelsa State.

The Faculty of Engineering does not have unilateral powers to make laws on academic matters relating to results and grading of students as that is the exclusive jurisdiction of the National University Commission (NUC) which is the right body vested with such power. The Faculty can only make laws relating to dress code and other related matters, as such the M.P.C. law is invalid, void and of no effect whatsoever for want of legitimate authority. See Egwu v University of Porth-Harcourt (1995) 8 N.W.L.R (pt. 157) 1195. Recourse can also be made to the recent abolishment of pass degree in Universities by the NUC

The body which made the law is incompetent of making such law as no Faculty is competent of making such law unless expressly provided in the NUC regulations. The said law is only applicable to the Faculty of Engineering in Niger Delta University and not applicable in any other university duly established by law across the country.

From the above, it is my submission that the M.P.C. law is void and of no effect whatsoever and students who purportedly failed the course and asked to withdraw should be reinstated with immediate effect.

Role of Management in the Recent Students Uprising in Niger Delta University.

Civil disobedience under normal circumstances usually aim at an ideal of social conditions. It is also aimed at rectifying evil or wrong, or attain a goal within an existing practical framework for the purpose of rectifying unjust law, system or practice.

When all means of seeking legal redress becomes exhaustive, civil disobedience is used as a last resort and under the control of a responsible leadership. Civil disobedience as means of correcting injustice in the society is legitimate and right. If not handled with utmost circumspection, it degenerates into riots and finally civil unrest.

The management of NDU from the above facts is fingered, for provoking the unrest in the school by implementing an unjust rule which is wanting for lack of authority.

Also, it has been fingered for not being able to handle the unrest maturedly.

It is criminally wrong to put a punishment at the feet of someone for an act which happened independently of the exercise of his will, therefore coercing those who do not took part in the riot to pay surcharge fee is itself a crime. See section 24 of the Criminal Code

As such, the purported surcharge fee payment of N30,000.00 and N50,000.00 respectively for both new and old students is highly obnoxious as it amounts to reaping from your own wrong doing. See Sigworth's case and also ammounting to academic fraud.

In some department, especially Mechanical Engineering. There are discrepancies relating to results release in 2013 which carries pass marks for the students (pass and cleared) when the first semester results were published are now reflecting as failed courses.

Again, there is no quality of assurance in the results sent to the faculty from the department of Chemistry and Physics. University is a citadel of learning and therefore academic hard work and diligence should be duly rewarded as students have the right to sit for and pass examination, a test or other promotional or professional exercise embarked upon by the school authorities, which is implicit in the right to enroll in a school. If a student have performed well, the better he or she has performed, the better he or she is expected to pass. These are intrisic rights to education.

Right of Tertiary Institutions to Punish Students.

Ordinarily, the rights of students to gather and move freely is guaranteed under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. However, it is doubtful If students can be allowed, in guise of freedom of movement and of association, to wreak havoc on campus and engage in criminality.

A University have the right to punish students for act of misconduct, but when such act constitute offence defined by a written law like arson, looting and assault, such students can be held liable only by regular courts as long as such misconduct constitutes crimes against the state. It is no longer a matter of internal discipline of the University but a matter for a Court or Tribunal vested with such judicial powers to try such offence. It is only after conviction of the student involved by the Court or Tribunal that the Vice Chancellor or University can proceed to exercise disciplinary powers to expel the students or make them pay fine. See the case of Garba v. University of Maiduguri (1986) 1 NSCC 245.

But, a student cannot be suspended or expelled from campus without being heard on the allegations against him, neither can he be punished or liable for an offence within the University without having being heard on the allegations levelled against him. Glymn v Keel University (1971) 1 W.L.R 487.

For God and conscience.

I am Hon. Aluzu Ebikebuna Augustine
Member Representing Constituency III
LAWSAN House of Assembly
University of Uyo, Uyo.

LAWSAN President breaches LAWSAN Constitution, submits budget 16 days after the first sitting of the LAWSAN House of Assembly

LAWSAN President finally submits budget (26/2/2016) 16 days after inauguration of the house. Though in breach of the provision of Section 22(1)(c) of the LAWSAN Constitution which states that:

(1) THE PRESIDENT

c) The President shall present an Appropriation Bill of the Executive Council to the LAWSAN House of Assembly within 14 working days of the first sitting of the LAWSAN House of Assembly.

The LAWSAN House of Assembly on its fifth sitting (16 days after its first sitting) received the President's budget titled 'BUDGETARY PROPOSAL FOR THE 2015/2016 SESSION'

The budget which have:

Capital Expenditure             = N835,000.00

Recurrent Expenditure       = N4,555,000.00

Extra Budgetary Expenses = N35,000.00

GRAND TOTAL                      = N5,425,000.00

Below, is the breakdown of the budget;

SOURCES OF REVENUE:
This administration is determined to maximize its use of the students fund and at the same time source for funds from external sources.

Funds will be generated from the following sources:

(1) LAWSAN dues

(2) Donations

(3) Payment of practicing fees

(4) Any other source that may be approved by the LAWSAN House of Assembly

EXPENDITURE PATTERN:

(1) Recurrent expenditure

(2) Capital expenditure

I) CAPITAL EXPENDITURE

a) Rehabilitation of the LAWSAN toilet -  N120,000.00

b) Provision of Result Board - N30,000.00

c) Provision of LAWSAN Constitution (300 copies) - N200,000.00

d) Creating a LAWSAN website - N75,000.00

e) Rehabilitation of L.A.H, L.L.H., and Law Clinic - N150,000.00

f) Purchase of 4 wigs and 4 gowns - N120,000.00

g) Renovation of President's office - N100,000.00

h) Renovation of Moot Court and Offices - N40,000.00

RECURRENT EXPENDITURE

a) Fresher's Reception/Opening of Legal year - N200,000.00

b) Allowance to Arms of Government

I) Executive - N100,000.00

II) Legislature - N80,000.00

III) Judiciary - N60,000.00

c) Grants to Committees

I) Moot Court Committee - N30,000.00

II) Editorial Committee - N15,000.00

III) Sports Committee - N50,000.00

IV) Social Activities Committee - N20,000.00

d) LAWSAN DINNER - N4,000,000.00

EXTRA BUDGETARY EXPENSES

a) Stationary for LAWSAN - N20,000.00

b) Out of Pocket Expenses - N15,000.00

GRAND TOTAL - N5,425,000.00 (Five million, four hundred and twenty five thousand Naira)

Please, what are your thoughts on this budget, do you think the President can reposition LAWSAN on the path of the much talked about 'intellectual revolution'?

We at Revolutionary Youths think it is hypocrisy that the budget did not talk about the Faculty Library, so much for the 'Intellectual Revolution'

© Revolutionary Youths 2016

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INYENE JOHN; Tales of a revolution of impunity and the untold story of a power drunk dictator!

Sampson Ibifrank and Blessing Augustine becomes De-facto LAWSAN President and Vice President.

This is certainly not the best of times for LAWSAN. It appears the much talked about revolution is now a revolution of impunity as the man who just 25 days ago swore to defend and protect the LAWSAN Constitution is now colluding with his lieutenants to openly rape the same constitution. It was a show of shame yesterday 15/2/2016 during the meeting of the LAWSAN Bar Association. Our reporter gathered that not long after the meeting had kicked off, it was unanimously agreed that the meeting be rescheduled to allow for more time and notice to be given to interested counsels to pay their practicing fees and join the LAWSAN Bar. Just before the meeting was formally adjourned, two of the LAWSAN President's foot soldiers stormed the Law Assembly Hall in a commando styled show of aggression and disrupted the meeting. Our sources later gathered that the two men had not paid their practicing fees in line with section 55(5)(a) of the LAWSAN Constitution and therefore had no business with the said meeting of the Bar and were only acting a script. Again, trouble brewed on the evening of Monday 15/2/2016 about 16:00hours GMT around the vicinity of the Faculty of Law when Samson Ibifrank a 500 level Law student of Law who goes with the self styled title of the 'DG' and the sole 'GOdfather' of the current LAWSAN President, threw caution to the wind, even at the risk of portraying the noble profession of Law in disrepute, shouting to top heavens that "no one has the right to contribute any meaningful ideas or suggest to the President except him, especially if that person did not support the President during the electioneering period, and that those who did not vote for the President has no right to use the LAWSAN facilities." This threat played out today, Tuesday (16/2/2016) when in fulfilment of the requirement of the LAWSAN Constitution the Registrar of the LAWSAN Judiciary and secretary of the LAWSAN Judicial Council pasted a few notices emanating from the LAWSAN Judicial Council and a notice calling for counsels to pay their practicing fees in front of the Faculty. Our reporter learnt that the notices calling for qualified Lawsanites in year IV to submit application to the LAWSAN Judicial Council for onward recommendation to the LAWSAN President for appointment as Judges in line with section 41(2) of the LAWSAN Constitution did not go down well with the LAWSAN President. Few minutes thereafter, the LAWSAN President Mr. Inyene John with the assistance of one Sampson Frank and Blessing Augustine in year V openly vow to flush all Judges and Justices from the LAWSAN Judiciary and equally vowed not to take any recommendations from the LAWSAN Judicial Council in appointing judicial officers irrespective of what the LAWSAN Constitution provides. This is coming barely 2 weeks after one Mr. Ukeme Akpakpan, a member of the year 5 class was shamefully locked out of the LAWSAN Moot Court by another lieutenant of the LAWSAN President and was sternly warned that the LAWSAN Moot Court is out of bounce for him because he didn't vote for Inyene John. Sampson Ibifrank, together with Blessing Augustine swung into action. They tore the notice in the presence of other students and rant vituperations against the members of the LAWSAN Bar. It should be noted that Sampson is a common LAWSANite and as such, has no right to such action. Blessing Augustine, the former Vice President who was booted out of office by the then Dean College of Classreps Idongesit Etim (Asiwaju), and whose predicament led to the civil suit against the Dean College of Classreps (Idongesit Etim) for usurping her functions. It is now clear, that she in turn has usurped the functions of the current President (Sifon Bassey), while Sampson on the other hand is the De-facto LAWSAN President, relinquishing Iyene John to play second fiddler. Sadly, this tyrannical act is coming from a President who strolled to victory at the polls consequent of the actions of similar acttion of the then Dean College of Classreps. For a President who's ambition would have been dead and buried was he to be successfully shortchanged in congress on the day of ELECO formation but not for the courageous activism and spartan show of legal industry by a few Lawsanites who braved the odds to ensure justice, equity and transparency on that historic day. His new found love for impunity and lawlessness is terribly absurd and heartbreaking. Twenty five (25) days after swearing in, the LAWSAN President has attempted no single item of his campaign promises, even the 7 days emergency intervention programmes has become a farce. As more and more LAWSANites continue to grumble over the cluelessness of the LAWSAN government, there are emerging although unconfirmed stories that many key and renowned Lawsanites who supported Inyene John's candidacy are slowly abandoning him on daily basis due to his sudden attempt to return LAWSAN to the dark era.

As the government continues groping, more and more LAWSANites are increasingly afraid of the coming days... © Revolutionary Youths

CAN GOD GIVE YOU YOUR PARTNER?

So yesterday, I was reclining on my bed, with my ear piece in, I was listening to random songs when suddenly I heard this popular preacher man (name withheld) said "you have to seek God's face as a Christian for a life partner. Let GOD GIVE YOU YOUR PARTNER!"

This made me curious, and so I was fastidious to the message he had to tell. Mr preacher said inter alia that many marriages do not work out well because the Partner is not the one God had prepared for you.

Being the skeptical me, i whispered to myself, CAN GOD TELL YOU WHO TO MARRY?

Choice of marital partner is man’s exclusive jurisdiction. Man takes responsibility. You can’t put responsibility on God or any other Cosmic force.

This will definitely teach you a whole lot.

CAN GOD GIVE YOU YOUR PARTNER?

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Please, do not confuse this with "Submission to a divine call" they are two different things

A lot of controversy or talking points may arise from this that's why we have highlighted each point numerically.

1.  RADICAL deals bluntly and frontally with questions on Christianity sent in by readers of Leke Alder’s #Illuminare blog.

2.  The question of spiritual discernment of marriage partner is an old issue in the body of Christ.

3. Central to this quest is the question of God’s will and avoidance of mistake.

4. Thus emerged the divination school of marriage, with the Christian praying and the Spirit of God “revealing” the partner.

5.  Whereupon the man to whom this is “revealed” then approaches the lady with a “Thus saith the Lord” prophetic proposal.

6. The woman thereafter goes to seek the face of the Lord for confirmation.

7. A substrate of this religious ideology of marital choice is the belief that there’s only ONE person for each one of us.

8. This is what is called the “missing rib” theology, which of course creates an incredible probability ratio of 1:3.7bn.

9. But what if the person dies before he gets to make his choice? Will the counterparty never marry again?

10. There are people earnestly praying for “revelation” – some vision or picture of future spouse, or voice from heaven.

11. Then there are dangerous extensions of the doctrine in which a Man of God “prophetically” determines a marriage partner. Some even break homes by brazenly telling a married wo/man that "your husband/wife is not your husband/wife.

12. This sometimes entails breaking up a relationship bound for the altar, and replacing it with another marital equation.

13. Because of the authority of the Man of God such marital pairing is erroneously deemed a mandate from God.

14. The only problem with this “revelatory” system of choice is, it’s not Biblical! Can’t be found in the Bible!  Because I waited for him to make a Biblical reference but it never came. He only used anecdotes to pass his message across to his numerous gullible crowd.

15. There’s not one instance in the New Testament in which such methodology is prescribed. (I stand to be corrected).

16. And there’s not one instance in the history of the Old Testament where God CHOSE a wife for someone.

17. Choice of marital partner is man’s exclusive jurisdiction. Man takes responsibility. You can’t put responsibility on God.

18. It’s why Adam’s attempt to blame God didn’t pan out! HE made Eve his wife. Your spouse is your choice, not God’s

19. All the heroes of the Old Testament – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David…not one did God choose a spouse for.

20. The simple answer to questions on Christian faith is, Show me in the Bible!

21. Isaac’s marriage fits more in the mold of an arranged marriage. That Eliezer prayed doesn’t make it marriage by prophecy.

22. The often cited case study used in support of the notion of “prophetic marriage” is that of Prophet Hosea.

23. Hosea was instructed by God to marry a prostitute as prophetic dramatization of the whoring of Israel after strange gods.

24. But even at that the prophet still chose which prostitute to marry! “HE PICKED Gomer daughter of Diblaim.” (Hos. 1:3)

25. I am aware some Christians contracted their marriage this way, but our practices cannot validate or invalidate God’s word.

26. Foreknowledge is not the same as causality.

27. That God shows you a vision of who you'll end up marrying doesn't mean he mandated the marriage.

28. That you dream about someone doesn't mean God is telling you to marry the someone. We dream our dominant thoughts.

29. Here are seven problems with the idea of marriage by prophetic declaration or divination:

30. One, it erroneously transfers responsibility for choice of spouse from man and places it squarely on God as “matchmaker."

31. Two, marriage by prophetic declaration has the patina of spiritual blackmail.

32. No one wants to be out of the will of God. When someone says God mandates a marriage that is a major burden and blackmail.

33. Three, it has an error component embedded. We must assume the man, or woman heard God right.

34. Four, the methodology makes a horrendous assumption – that a Christian can marry ANYONE as long as they’re Christian.

35. Nothing could be farther from the truth. There are critical proprietary factors that inform choice of marriage partner.

36. Five, marriage by prophecy ignores the importance of the physical dimension in the choice of marriage partner.

37. Physical attraction matters in marriage, as it goes to the issue of sexual congress, fidelity, tolerance and happiness.

38. There’s a reason God pointed out the beauty of women like Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel in the Bible.

39. There’s also a reason God pointed out that Leah was not an attractive proposition to Jacob.

40. But the principle of marriage by prophetic divination takes away a woman’s right to be attracted to whom she wants.

41. Of course there’s the argument that God knows what is best for us, but that same God gave us freewill!

42. And not just physical attraction, sexual attraction matters as well. It’s why the Song of Songs has graphic content.

43. Six, marriage by prophetic declaration rules out the question of falling in love with someone.

44. It substitutes it with a “love will develop” ideology. But suppose the love never develops?

45. A marriage without love and affection is a recipe for depression and disaster.

46. The marriage of Leah to Jacob shows the danger of loveless marriage. (At times, man's arrangements can still err)

47. With the Song of Songs God made a point that romance matters in marriage. So does erotic love, as well as friendship.

48. Lastly, perhaps the most dangerous dimension of prophetic marriage is that it puts the cart before the horse.

49. The wooing and knowledge discovery begin AFTER commitment to marriage. The marriage is a fait accompli.

50. How do you commit to marry someone and then begin to discover what should have informed the choice THEREAFTER!

51. It does not afford the parties to get to know each other first and on the basis of that make a commitment to marriage.

52. The parties cannot back out if they do find themselves incompatible. That would be disobedience to the “heavenly vision.” or tantamount to calling God a liar. #Illuminare

53. It is unfortunate that in the seeking of God’s “perfect will” we have chosen to complicate basic sociological processes. #Illuminare

54. We’ve replaced them with a contrived artificiality that criminalises normality and falling in love. #Illuminare

55. And so in seeking the spectacular we miss the simplicity and naturalness of the beauty of love.

56. God promised to lead us by his Spirit, and he does so in our everyday decisions and ablutions of life.

57. Leading suggests something natural, a simple life progression. It does not suggest the dramatic or spectacular.

58. “Leading” in the New Testament is the image of a shepherd and his sheep, not the image of lightning and thundering.

59. But we don’t seem to want the simple nudges of the Spirit. We want to hear a loud voice from Heaven!

60. Which incidentally is a demonstration of faithlessness. You have replaced faith with lust for signs and wonders.

61. It is within the parameters of God’s leading to like someone, to fall in love with someone, to want to go on a date.

62. Jesus enjoins us to learn the “unforced rhythms of grace.” (Mat. 11:28-30 MSG)

63. Once it’s contrived, or being forced to fit into a rigid spiritual mold, it is not grace.

64. Jesus said, “I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you…You’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” (Mat. 11:28-30 MSG)

65. When a marriage decision becomes a heavy burden on the heart, a compulsion or duty, that’s not God!

66. Go natural. Because God is leading you, he will tug at your heartstrings if you seek to turn in a wrong direction.

67. You’ll feel an unease and get warnings if things are not right. Your spirit will be heavy and you’ll feel “tired.”

68. That is God trying to dissuade you. The leading of God’s Spirit should be so natural to the Christian.

69. Am I saying don’t pray about your choice of marriage partner? Of course pray! You’re a child of God. Talk to your Father. You are his child, and that man is His Servant (Servant of God) child and servant, who will he confide in more, especially with issues such as this?

70. You may present your options to him. He’ll give you his personal opinion, which can be very blunt.

71. Instead of looking for dramatic revelation on marriage why don’t you trust God to guide you in the natural course of life.

72. You’ve got to be careful about hearing voices, laying out fleeces. Satan is a sound engineer, a special effects specialist.

73. As many as are led by the Spirit are the sons of God, not as many as are led by signs and wonders. (Rom. 8:14). What if the person God directed you to is HIV positive?

74. God cannot force anyone to marry anyone. That’s a violation of freewill, and he’s never ever done so, except you are Jonah

75. It’s important you love the person you want to marry. It is good to fall in love. It does not violate the word of God.

76. It is also important you LIKE the person you want to marry. Friendship sustains marriage. Sometimes, it takes more than love to keep a marriage going.

77. Physical attraction as well as cultural fit are equally important. Don’t ignore your taste.

78. And values are critical. It’s the underpinning of character. And you must consider the economic viability of the union too.

79. Still, your level of faith may also come into consideration here. Because your friend claimed he got married to his wife after GOD had revealed to him that she is His wife does not mean your case is the same.

79. Christianity is an individual race not a collective race, the same principle, grace does not apply to everybody.

80. Sometimes, couple's do have different reasons for getting married, GOD might reveal to you that someone is your partner, whereas that person is getting married to you because you are financially bouyant, in the end what is the place of Gof in it?

81. Some Clergy find themselves in a situation when they are not happy in marriage, but because they find themselves in a situation where their religion abhors divorce, they just sit tight in the marriage and endure. Marriage is something to be enjoyed, and not endured.

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Edited by: Aluzu Ebikebuna Augustine