FEDEX 419 SCAM, WATCH OUT!

Warning, pictured left is the face of a Nigerian 419 scam artist; his name is Mr. Ezenwa and he is desperately trying to fleece you of your money just to in their local parlance, "kill dead body" - ocholu igbu ozu? In a wider context, he wants to get rich (make it big) quick without much sweating? This criminal is fronting Fedex to try and scam you of your $190 dollars? How pitiable that your $190 dollars is all what this bandit needs? But stop, he must be and the whole world including the real Fedex wants your help to bring this Nigerian 419 criminal to justice! Mr. Ezenwa has not heard of the Dora Akuniyili's re-branding effort to salvage the image of Nigeria which his likes are destroying or better still, have destroyed? Please take a good look at the face of a Nigerian 419 criminal and deal with him accordingly! You are looking at the face of "Icheoku Most wanted Nigerian 419 criminal" and please help us, help the authorities catch him today! Contact EFCC, the Nigerian police, Interpol, FBI or simply write to the Facilitator@icheoku.com with information on the suspect!

Icheoku has received so many letters purporting to come from FedexExpress, asking that we send them some money in order to receive a registered express mail? Concerned because of the absurdity of this request, we contacted Fedex and were advised that a scam, using their norm genre is afoot and we should be wary. So should you receive similar mail, please Fedex advises that you forward it to them via abuse@fedex.com.

There are several alarm bells with this email from "FEDEX EXPRESS PLC" so called?

1. Fedex has their own domain portal and does not domicile their website through YAHOO? Their website is @Fedex.com and not @ Yahoo.com which makes fedexexpressp@yahoo.com suspect.

2. The amount purportedly ready to be sent to you in this parcel, pictured right, is stated at $2 million dollars bankers check and you wonder why you? In their own writing, "This is to notify you that your parcel is still in our possession, this parcel contained an International Cashier Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of $2 Million dollars only and it is ready for delivery to your door step. Meanwhile, before the delivery or shipment will take place, you are advice to send to us the following datas mention below:?

3. Their provided address is FedEx Nigeria Head Office 70 International Airport Road Mafoluku, Lagos. Tel +234-8067611519.

4. The gist of their mail is "your package on my desk ready for instant dispatchment... 46744 MR SAM BROWN MD FEDEX COURIER EXPRESS DELIVERY Call me for more details, +2348067611519 Custormers Service Hours--Monday To Saturday:Office Hours Monday To Saturday:" ( they ).

5. Their grammar is puerile and should be enough to raise the red-flag as they could not even spell customer in "customer service hours" above correctly? Also their unceasing request for the $190 dollars will tip you off, of some weird desperation by these folks in Nigeria. A reasonable person would expect, if you have $8million dollars with you to give away, why are you demanding for a "paltry" $190 dollars from someone else? Why not just keep the largess to yourself or give it to your family member? But that is the spam, they just want to fleece you of your $190 dollars, period!

Now a little read of the offensive 419 scam letter,
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"We write to acknowledge your email, we are going to dispatch your parcel, As soon as we recieve your payment to this office today, we write to inform you that we are going to send you a tracking number of your parcel, but before we send your delivery information and tracking number you are advice once again to pay the balance left by your sender $190 which your sender owns this company on the process of recovery your parcel when the incident occurs. Note that this is the only money we ask you to pay before we can send you the tracking number and you will receive your parcel within 48 hours as soon as we receive your payment information today. Look my friend as you can see i have packaged your parcel very well just take a look at it the display image of your package on my desk ready for instant dispatchment. Without hesitation proceed to western union and make the payment with bellow information and we advice you to send the $190 to the name of our office cashier Mr. Peter Onabu. The recievers name to the sum of $190 USD.

PAYMENT INFORMATION OFFICE
RECIEVERS NAME------MR.PETER ONABU; RECIEVERS COUNTRY----LAGOS NIGERIA. TEXT QUESTION------------TO WHOM
TEXT ANSWER---------------.TO PETER
AMOUNT TO BE PAID---------$190
As soon as you have made the payment you are to send these below payment information:
SENDERS NAME----------- SENDERS COUNTRY--------
MTCN----------------------
Do your best to send the money today and email me with the payment Details. FedEx is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies -a FedEx that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.

MR.CHRIS HENRY
Dispatch Director.Tel: +234-8067611519

P.S: Below is the display image of your package on my desk ready for instant dispatchment...

46744 MR SAM BROWN MD FEDEX COURIER EXPRESS DELIVERY; Call me for more details +2348067611519. This update has been sent to you by FedEx on the behalf of your packages. Thanks for your Co-operation" **************

Now, so many things are wrong with this criminal Nigeria 419 scam mail, but suffice it to say that the real Fedex charges shippers upfront fees for their services, before taking delivery of any parcel for shipment. Real Fedex do not second-guess the cost of freight as they have measures and scales to weigh the parcels correctly for shipments. In other words real Fedex provide to a shipper the actual cost of shipment which is normally paid upfront before receiving and shipping such parcel. But these criminals are so desperately looking for your $190 that their air-heads forgot this cardinal policy of Fedex! Also if it were the real Fedex, whatever money they ask or receive should be payable to their corporate account and not to one faceless criminal somewhere in Lagos Nigeria?

You have now been put on notice, so do not let these Nigeria 419 criminals get hold of you as there is no parcel to be sent to you from their "Fedex"? They are fraudsters and like virus are hiding under a look-alike Fedex name to try to scam you. Give them a bloody nose, delete any such received mail from FedexExpress Nigeria or simply forward them to abuse@fedex.com. Do not fall prey to their mediocre scam tactics, Icheoku has warned you!

YOUR SUNDAY WITH PROPHET MKO TIBETAN!

The sermon for today is "DON'T LOOK BACK - Genesis 19:26"! We are all advised to forget the past because yesterday is gone; but instead to focus on today as it is here with us. Just focus your mind on God and it shall be well with you!

So many Christians today, fool themselves by saying, my church is the best and yours is not good? But I ask you, where in the bible did Jesus make any reference to any church? Instead, he dwells in our hearts and will you surrender your life to him today and let Him in; or do you want to remain like the ten foolish maidens in the bible? See Matthew 25:1 –10; Luke 16:10 – 31.

When you look at the world today, the number of registered churches are getting outrageously too many. Do we call this civilization or the end of time? The answer is simply a big No; everybody is just becoming lazy, as computers and churches are gradually crippling the whole world and taking people along with them? I say to you, the worst is still yet to come and unless we press the reset button and go back to the basics, to the farm and till the land, we cannot enjoy the fruit of the land. God gave us hands to work so we must use them. If you look at Genesis 1, 2, 3, you will see how hard-working the Lord our God, Himself is; but everyone else want the best for themselves and live big without necessarily dirtying their hands?

We have forgotten that we will still have to eat, so why don’t we go back to the farm and be productive? Back in the day, people are very proud of their farm-work and what they can produce, but now the whole world are instead gambling, betting on futures and manufacturing war instruments? Banks are now lending money to holiday-makers to go on holidays but not to farmers who really can use some help to produce more foods. Even governments themselves are setting up new cities but not new farms? The solution is for us to go back to the Lord and he will show us the true and correct way. See Jeremiah 6:16; Jeremiah 7; Genesis 40; 41; 42; 47.

Brethren in Christ, after reading this sermon, I want you to know that the best is still around you; because you can still use what you have to get what you want. See Act 10; Daniel 4; Esther 6; Proverb 22; Proverb 26:1-3. When you look at the story of Cornelius in the bible and that of the good Samaritan, you will see that they were all very hardworking. Because the good Samaritan was such a serious minded person, he never allowed the wounded man to take his time but instead, he put him up in a paid lodge and moved on with his business! See Luke 9; Luke 10:30-37. When Jesus Christ was in the house of Mary and Martha, Jesus Christ was worrying for Martha because she put her mind too much on worldly things and not on things of God. Brethren, know ye that there will come a time, when all these things will pass away including the troubles in your life today. Jesus Christ was always telling Martha not to waist her time worrying about things; so when Lazarus died they were so depressed because they never had time to put the word through to the Lord?

Brethren are you depressed today? If so, surrender everything to Jesus and you shall be whole again. Remember, Jesus will not force you to give your life to him, the decision is entirely yours to make and until you are ready, He can only wait on you to give up your old ways! Can’t you see you cannot do it with only your own wisdom, you need God to direct your path, so put him first before everything and he will direct you. With Him, you can never go wrong! So stop looking back, forget the past, and focus on the today's. Please remember to read Job 3:20-26, Haggai1:3-10; Galatians 5:15-26. Until next Sunday when we shall meet again, happy Easter and remember that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, He died on the cross and triumphantly rose from the dead on the third day! Will you rise from the dead of your sinful ways and share in this momentous festivities throughout the Christendom. God bless you!

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL MEN & WOMEN OF FAITH!

Easter, the highest feast and/or celebration in the entire Christendom is betrayal, death and resurrection, all put in one? Our Lord Jesus Christ was betrayed by one of his own apostle; He was crucified by his people and He resurrected in triumph over death.

The significance is that (1) sometimes your nemesis is on the same dinning table with you sharing a hot meal; (2) people very close to you can sometimes kill you and above all, (3) ask yourself if you have the capacity to rise and shine again from all the troubles of the world placed on your shoulders?

If you advised yourself of these three things correctly, then your understanding of what our Lord is trying to teach you with his own experience, during this time of Easter, is complete. With the aforesaid in mind, Icheoku wishes you a HAPPY EASTER and pray you find the true meaning of life during this season, and use same as your life's guiding-light! Once again, Christ is dead, Christ is risen and Christ will come again! Just believe and you shall be set free!

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, SUPREME COURT SAYS NO!

The last open door for the supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal to try and spring him out of death row, have now slammed shut? The United States Supreme Court refused to entertain their petition that prosecutors in his case, improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia city police officer, Daniel Faulkner?

It appears that Mumia will now face a certain death, having exhausted all his reasonable options, since that his 1982 murder conviction by a Philadelphia jury? This is however contigent on the appeal court's decision to void the sentence of death being thrown out.

Abu-Jamal, 54, was a former Black Panther and one-time radio reporter. Reacting to the Supreme Court decision not to take up the case, Abu-Jamal's attorney, San Francisco's Robert R. Bryan , said his client's trial was "a mockery of justice" and promised to seek a rehearing by the high court. While the prosecutor, Hugh Burns said that "for practical purposes, this was the last remotely realistic chance for getting a new trial." Which position of this two gentlemen meets with truism will be a function of time?

According to the prosecution's account of what happened on that fateful day in 1981, 25-year-old police officer Daniel Faulkner had pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother on a darkened Philadelphia downtown street. Abu-Jamal saw the traffic stop and shot Faulkner, who managed to shoot back. A wounded Abu-Jamal, his own gun lying nearby, was still at the scene when police arrived. Authorities considered the evidence against him overwhelming and he was convicted by the jury? In March 2008, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but ruled his death sentence invalid; citing the flawed instructions given to the jury during the penalty phase of his trial. A new death penalty hearing would give jurors the option of sentencing Abu-Jamal to life in prison or affirming the death penalty.

Icheoku says in view of the controversial distance this particular case has travelled, there should be a meeting of the grounds now for both sides; so that both the slain officer's family and Mumia's supporters, could conclusively get some form of justice. An officer was killed 26 years ago and a wife lost her husband, a family lost their brother, son and uncle? Mumia's people also lost the incarcerated Abu-Jamal companionship and services, but at least they still have him around? But be that as it may, and based on the circumstance as well as the evidence of a wounded Mumia lying within the vicinity of the crime-scene; there being no reasonable explanation as to the coincidences; a life term would just serve right?

Hopefully, the ballistics test of the slain officer's gun matched the slog in Mumia as well as the gun-powder residue? There must be justice for both sides and Mumia appears to argue, not that a crime was committed, but that the jury was devoid of black folks? Icheoku says, what the constitutional provision on trial by jury says is jury of your peers and not necessarily jury of your color?

SOMALIA PIRATES, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S 3.00AM RED-PHONE CALL?

True to type of the office of the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, President Barack Obama was woken up in the wee-hours of Wednesday morning to answer to a red phone call? The crisis, the errant Somalia pirates have taken a United States registered merchant vessel, the Maersk Alabama, with its cargo and twenty United States citizens crew on board.

The president was calm, cool and collected as he took the red phone; and was briefed on the developing story. President Barack Obama is presently working with his national security team to find the best possible solution to resolve the crisis; as their options may be limited by the presence of a hostage. Icheoku wishes the president, a King Solomon's wisdom in finding the most effective solution to the crisis as well as a safe return of the captain of the ship, Richard Phillips of Vermont, who has been taken hostage by the Somalian criminals. According to inside sources, President Barack Obama is getting regular updates on the situation and the United States will take whatever steps are needed to protect U.S. shipping interests against pirates in the Somalian waters or other waters anywhere? However the good news is that the US crew members have since recaptured their ship but the captain is still being held hostage by the attackers. The pirates with their hostage are currently adrift and floating in a life boat on the Indian ocean within the perimeters where the Maersk Alabama was assaulted.

The 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama, pictured left, carrying U.N. food aid for East Africa, was attacked and momentarily taken about 500km (311 miles) off Somalia's coast by these pirates of Somalia.

Icheoku says that these bold-faced pirates deserve a resounding showdown to forever put an end to the scourge, which has made maritime activities off the coast of Somalia more cumbersome. If it means re-deploying some of the drones presently operating in the lawless northwestern Wazaristan territories of Pakistan to the Somalian waters, to track and incinerate these hoodlums for a watery grave, so be it; but this ship-taking and ransom collection illegality must be stopped. This is necessary to put to an end, a someday fully armed terrorist group, which with the ransom money may become fully equipped and armed to the teeth to challenge any authority both within and outside Somalia. Who even knows if Al-queida is behind this menace and supplying the logistics of this piracy? Every available hands and tools must be put in place to dislodge this criminal pirate activities off the Somalia coastal waters.

With about 130 pirate incidents in 2008 and 50 successful hijacks, this problem is growing out of proportion and should be checkmated now and immediately forthwith. In 2008, pirates made a whopping $80m (£54m) as proceeds from ransom for hijacked ships? The US Maersk Alabama is the sixth ship seized by the Somalian pirates within the last week alone and the first U.S.-flagged ship? It is also the first United States registered ship to be taken by pirates in the last one hundred years, which increases the stake to secure the next hundred years free from any hijack!

Like 9/11, the Somalian pirates have bitten more than they can chew as their days of carefree hijacks of ships off the Somalian coast has now come to an end. This particular hijack is a finger-pointing in the face of America and as always, America stands tall and proud not to be pointed at by little Somalian rascals. There will be consequences for this thoughtless act of hijacking one ship too many. No one messes with the Americans, ask Bin Laden and his thugs! However it ends, the outcome will make these pirates think twice before trying to seize any other ship; especially when that ship is an American registered ship!

This ship-taking is one heck of a miscalculation as according to Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Omaar, the pirates "have got themselves into a situation where they have to extricate themselves because there is no way they can win." What a frank assessment of the situation by the Somalia minister who is well aware of the fearsome awesome power of the United States of America, roundly. Icheoku says, a wise man does not start a fight he cannot win and these Somalian pirates are imbeciles and very idiotic. American warship, the USS Bainbridge, has already reached the waters of Somalia to face-down these hostage-taking pirates of Somalia.

Somalian pirates usually go to sea in open skiffs with outboard engines, working in concert with larger ships that tow them out to sea. Using satellite navigational and communications equipment, and with very intimate knowledge of their local waters, the pirates, usually armed with AK47s, clamber aboard ships with ladders and grappling hooks to foment their hostage-taking and ransom trouble?

Icheoku concludes that these pirates might have taken their last ship in life; as their lives may end with this or they will forever be put out of commission as a consequence! Either way, they deserve their fate, as they brought the mighty American searchlight to beam on them menacingly.

GOT HAIR?

Are you one of those feeding the over-flowing bank accounts of Korea hair manufacturers? Do you feel incomplete because of your nappy-hair and sometimes wish that there is a medical cure to scanty hair? Anyway, here feed your hair-fantasy as this lady in red, shows off her God given flowing mane, and in the wind! Wish you were her? Beggars want to ride horses too!

ALBERTO FUJIMORI, A PRESIDENT CORNERED AND CAGED!

Peruvians have proved once again that presidents can be held accountable long after they leave office; so Nigerians, what are you waiting for to indict Olusegun Obasanjo for the massacres of Odi, and Zaki Ibiam respectively? If Peru can do it, why not Nigeria? Yet President Umaru Yar'Adua is whining that Nigeria was not invited to the G20 meeting in London instead of, that Nigeria has not yet indicted Olusegun Obasanjo for his crimes against humanity?

Alberto Fujimori, once hailed as the president who extinguished Peru's brutal guerrilla conflict, was found guilty of waging a dirty war against insurgents, kidnappings and massacres. Presiding Judges dismissed his claim that he had not known of extrajudicial killings and persecutions during his ten-year war against Maoist guerrillas? Icheoku says, this lame defense is akin to despots all over the world, who suddenly become naive and ignorant of their dealings while in office, once they fall from power. Like Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo who now claims that he did not know that his then vice president Abubarkar Atiku and others took bribes from Halliburton?

At 70 years old, the same age-range with Obasanjo, Fujimori is no longer a springs' chicken and with a possible 30 years sentence for his crimes, his life is now definitely over. Alberto Fujimori's campaign of “policy of pacification” against Shining Path during his 1990-2000 presidency, claimed the lives of more than 70,000 Peruvians? Icheoku says, how many Nigerians Obasanjo took their lives, directly or indirectly, is indeterminate; but suffice it that the well publicised Odi and Zaki Ibiam bloody suppressions are more than enough to put this monster of Otta, away for good? Fujimori's "I did not personally do it" defense fell flat as the prosecutor argued that his failure, as commander-in-chief, to stop the killings amounts to personal responsibility. Icheoku concurs with this valid legal argument of vicarious liability; as president, the bulk stopped on his desk! Fujimori was specifically found guilty of murder in the 1991 killings of 15 people, including an eight-year-old boy, at a barbecue in Lima, the Peruvian capital; as well as the 1992 raid at La Cantuta University that left nine students and a professor dead. Their charred bodies were found a year later after the incident.

Like Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Alberto Fujimori was seen as a strongman with little respect for democracy and rule of law. What an act of fate that this two former presidents shared so much in common and should invariably be made to partake in the same fate, - a trial and jail term also for Olusegun Obasanjo? It is noteworthy that Fujimori is already serving six years in prison for abuse of power in relation to some bribery scandal and still faces two corruption trials, the first of which is due to begin next month in May. Human Rights Watch applauded the trial verdict as the first time that a democratically elected president had been brought to justice in his own country; and such promises to end “the tendency that has existed in Latin America for many years of impunity in the face of these type of crimes”. Icheoku adds, if only Nigeria could summon the courage to engrave her name in such a historic way by applying the full letters of the law to every citizen, including an errant former President Olusegun Obasanjo!

KEVIN GARNER, WHO STILL WANTS A DIVORCE?

Icheoku asks, who still wants these lawyers in business, after the hell that was let loose today, Tuesday April 7, 2009 in rural north Alabama, Morgan County's Green Hill, Priceville and Somerville?

A man facing a divorce from his wife of many years, felt he has invested so much to just let go and loose everything? With a handgun, he shot and killed his estranged wife, their teenage daughter, the wife's visiting sister and her son! He thereafter burnt his wife's Subaru Legacy car before returning his home; which he then burnt to the grounds, using some accelerant. With nothing left of him in this world, he strode into a nearby brush and turned the gun on himself for a painful quick escape from both the law and this earth?

The victims were identified as Garner's estranged wife, Tammy Garner, 40; their 16-year-old daughter, Chelsie Garner; Garner's sister, Karen Beaty of Illinois; and Beaty's 11-year-old son Master Beaty ? A neighbour discovered their bodies and called the police.

The distraught maniac, Kevin Garner's mayhem brings to eight, the number of murder-suicides in America within the last one month and according records, the third so far in Alabama within the same period? The other two mass murders, include the stabbing deaths of four people in a home in Hueytown, near Birmingham, on March 7, and the shooting to deaths of 10 people on March 10 by a gunman in south Alabama who also took his own life. Alabama it should be noted is one of the poorest states in the United States of America and is pretty much very rural? Icheoku says, possibly economics is playing some subtle role in these heinous madness?

Kevin and Tammy's divorce trial was to start tomorrow, Wednesday April 8, 2009. All the victims had attended a pre-trial proceedings yesterday, Monday, April 6, 2009 preparatory to the beginning of the trial. According to witnesses, Kevin masked his devilish plot very well and nothing in his demeanour revealed any tension whatsoever? In the divorce filing, Tammy Garner sought custody of their daughter and alleged that her husband "has been both physically and emotionally abusive." Kevin Garner accused her of adultery and of taking $38,000 out of their joint bank account when they separated last May 27.

Icheoku says this animal, Kevin Garner, pictured right, deserves the hottest place in burning hell for dispatching God's children to earlier graves, especially during this Holy week of Easter? A popular word of wisdom says, 'what you cannot afford to loose is not worth having' but this selfish mass murderer, it would appear never advised himself accordingly? With what happened in Alabama today, FGA Law Firm should find alternative areas of practice, or better still change their marketing campaign advertorial. Enough of this lunacy!

RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, A MYTH OR REALITY? - an article by Pastor Bob Paulson!

Did the Resurrection of Jesus Really Happen? The truth may surprise you, this week as we celebrate Easter! This is the day that our Lord rose from the dead. But did Jesus Christ really die on the cross and then rise from the dead three days later? I mean when you think logically about it, how can it be true? Wasn't their a documentary a couple years ago that said they found the bones of Jesus Christ?

Well let's look at the facts behind this. One of the first theories that came about and it is often used by Muslims is that Jesus did not really die on the cross. Since this is the easiest one to prove, I think I will start here. Now if you are ever in a discussion with a Non Christian I always find it easier to start with the fact that their was a man named Jesus Christ (Again that is translated from the Greek). Historians agree that he was born and he was in fact crucified. So let us look at this theory that Jesus actually survived the crucification and that is the reason all these people saw Jesus walking around after the crucification. We have to remember that the Roman guards who were in charge of the crucifixion knew what they were doing. When someone is crucified, they die from asphyxiation, blood loss, hypovolemic shock, sepsis or even dehydration. Their is only one record of a person surviving crucification. The Emperor Titus had three people taken down off the cross and given medical treatment. Only one of them survived.

So we can take it as a fact that crucification was pretty good at killing people. Now because it was Passover, it was important for the Jews to have this finished by sundown. Again the guards in charge were very familiar and knew how to move things along. In order to stay alive a person being crucified would push up on his feet to breathe. Yes with a huge spike in your feet it was painful. So in order to move it along, the soldiers would simply break the legs on the person. This way they could not push up and they would suffocate quickly. This is exactly what happened to the men being crucified with Jesus. But they did not break Jesus's legs, why? Well the Guards saw that Jesus was not pushing up on his legs to breathe. So instead of exerting energy by picking up the heavy mallet and crushing his legs, they simply stabbed him with a spear.

Now the people who claim he didn't die often cite the fact that the Bible says water and blood came poured out and that dead people do not bleed. Well this is just wrong. Remember, he just died and you can ask any medical doctor that if a person died recently and is stabbed through the heart sac and lungs would blood come out? The answer is yes. Plus you have to remember that Jesus was beaten terribly before being crucified. If you ever watched the movie by Mel Gibson, even though it was not Biblically accurate it showed a pretty accurate portrayal of his scourging and flogging. Our Lord was beaten so badly that he could not even walk to the crucification site! OK lets just say that after Jesus was beaten to near death, had large spikes pounded into his wrist and feet (This alone would kill a person), hung on the cross for hours so weak that he could not even push up on his feet to breathe, then stabbed in the heart and lungs, he was taken down and was alive. What happened next? He was anointed for the burial. Than means between 50 and 100 pound of oils and spices were placed all over his body and he then was wrapped tightly with cloth. Their is no way he could have lived through that! He would have asphyxiated! Remember the only recorded survival of a crucification had immediate medical attention. Jesus was placed in a cold dark tomb and had armed guards on the outside. Their is no way he was alive through this.

Now the second theory is that Jesus did not resurrect at all. This is pretty easy to dismiss as well. Remember it was about 500 years from the time of Malachi to the time of Jesus. Their were prophets all over the place preaching. If Jesus did not come back from the dead, he would have simply been forgotten. But the Bible tells us that over 500 people saw him. That is the reason he was not forgotten. The second thing I bring up is a man named Paul who used to be called Saul. He was a highly educated Jewish scholar who hated and hunted down these Christians. The only way his mind could have possibly been changed is by Jesus Christ himself. And because of his transformation he became the biggest evangelist our world has ever seen. My friends, Jesus is real, he was born as a human, he was tortured and died and yes he absolutely rose again on the third day! Praise the Lord, our Christ has risen and whosoever believeth in Him shall have ever lasting life! May you have a blessed Easter.

Yours In Christ,
Pastor Bob Paulson

Fonder, Christian Living Ministry

7040 W Palmetto Park Rd #4-664

Boca Raton, FL 33433

MARTHA KARUA, KENYA'S JUSTICE MINISTER QUITS!

Kenya's Justice Minister Martha Karua has resigned from office, stating as a reason that her office was being undermined. According to her, judges were being appointed without her knowledge and her reform agenda was being undermined by the powers in Nairobi making her position as justice minister no longer tenable?

This followed the appointment last week by the sit-tight President Mwai Kibaki of seven judges without any input from the now former justice minister. In her own words, "I realised I cannot institute reforms in my ministry as justice minister because I am being undermined. Judges are being appointed without my knowledge and a lot more."

Icheoku congratulates this Amazon for taking a principled stand in an African political climate, where merely being seen around the corridor's of power is a thing many people will kill for. But not this lady, who has now earned Icheoku's commendation for standing out of the pack. Congratulations, Martha Karua for your strong convictions and resolve;

Icheoku prays that your counterpart in Nigeria, Michael Aondoakaa could be man enough, to follow through on so many things that need urgent resolutions in Nigeria, such as a conclusive investigation of the murder of former attorney general Bola Ige? Or in its absence, follow your lead and resign his office, if stopped? Until other African leaders start to behave like you, nothing good will ever come out of the decrepitude political class of Africa. Once again, congratulations Martha Karua, for having a soul!

IRIS KYLE, A WOMAN?

Her name is Iris Kyle, the body-builder, the woman, the two times Miss Olympia and now the 2009 Miss International body builder! Iris Kyle won the Miss International body building competition 2009 at the Arnold Sports Festival on Friday, March 6, 2009, in Columbus, Ohio.

Miss Internation Body Building was born on August 22, 1974 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the youngest of six, in a family of four boys and two sisters.

Icheoku says, this Houston Texas resident is what health and fitness doctors ordered? Iris is an embodiment of what a passionate athlete can be transformed into, in the body building world of fitness. With little knowledge about her marital status or love life, Icheoku says, she is one heck of a chiseled piece of humanity but we shall definitely pass! Congratulations, Iris!

THE PALINS OF ALASKA, ANOTHER ONE IN TROUBLE?

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is once again in the news? Her sister-in-law, Diana Palin was arrested for burglary, accused of breaking into the same home twice to steal some money. Icheoku says whether she needed this money for some other drugs or methamphetamine is not yet clear?

Diana Palin is the half-sister of the governor's husband Todd Palin. 35-year-old Diana Palin was arrested last Thursday April 2, 2009 at the home she had burglarised in Governor Sarah Palin hometown of Wasilla. She faces two counts of felony burglary and misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and theft. Tire tracks and shoe prints tied Diana Palin to another break-in Tuesday in another house in Wasilla in which $400 was stolen.

Icheoku says, the Palin family represents all the shades of life:- from the air-head governor of Alaska Sarah, to the young and highly sexed single-mother Bristol, to the methamphetamine hawking mother of Bristol's baby-daddy Levy, Sherry Johnson? Who knows what this family will be treating the world to the next time? Until then, Icheoku will keep watching and will surely keep you posted accordingly!

DORA AKUNYILI, DISPARAGES NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA?

Nigeria's Re-branding Madam, Professor Dorathy Akunyili, Nee Edemobi, recently said that, "Nigerians in the Diaspora are the worst when it comes to bad mouthing Nigeria". The Nigeria government chief propagandist also added, "When you hear Nigerians overseas talk about Nigeria, you will weep for this country".

Hello, "Madam Re-Branding" what has come over you or have you, chicken, left the knife that killed you and is now bending your head at the pot? Where is your beef with self-exiled Nigerians, majority of whom left Nigeria out of despondency to some distant foreign lands for survival, and in order to maintain their sanity? Madam Akunyili, are you seriously questioning this expression of disgusted disenchantment at Nigeria by these Diaspora Nigerians; when you are fully well aware of where their disappointment is coming from?

It is their privileged position of having been elsewhere, to understand the difference between a non-functioning country, Nigeria and other well-oiled countries of the world that fuel their complaints! These Nigerians have eaten the "Nigerian-forbidden fruit of decency" elsewhere, and are now questioning why their experiences overseas cannot be replicated back home in Nigeria? Simply put, this group of Nigerians have wised up to have an opinion, and can no longer take the tales by moonlight being told to a country of "blind-men led by a blind-man", that it is not yet daytime? These Nigerians now know better and are complaining loudly that things ought to change for the better in Nigeria! A wise person listens to criticisms and improves upon the agitating issues, but the obtuse maddog sees such as ranting of a deranged mind that needs to be crushed. Nigeria should pray that these fury will not boil over someday, wherein there shall be a demand for a rendering of account by the gestapos who have held Nigeria hostage all these years, since her independence and continuing till today?

Those well travelled Nigerians and/or those residing abroad know the difference between not having lights for several months and being able to stock your freezer with meat products that will last you for some years, if need be. This writer still has a goat-head from 2007, just stocked in the freezer for God knows what? For instance, availability of power in Nigeria should not be confined to only those who can afford a generator and this is the gist of the disdain being expressed by these Nigerians in Diaspora? Those Nigerian residing abroad know what it is like to drive on a well paved road for several thousands of miles without encountering any pot-hole? Those Nigerians abroad know how not to be molested by miserable policemen at various checking-points, demanding for some hand-outs of bribes at the pain of sometimes, loosing your life if you piss them off? Those Nigerians living abroad understand that when you have an emergency and dial that magic telephone number 911, that help is on the way? Those Nigerians abroad know that ambulances are for rushing sick people to the hospital and not to carry dead bodies back home or burial grounds? Those Nigerians abroad know that if you are sick and go to the hospital, that you will be treated and your prescription, not adulterated or white-powder stuffed in capsules, is available at the pharmacy? Those Nigerians abroad know that at grocery stores, you can find fresh okra, fresh corn/maize, fresh vegetables, fresh tomatoes and all sorts of fresh produce, 24/7; and that food products are not seasonal? Those Nigerians abroad know that o/s (out of stock) is a phrase mostly found in Nigerian dictionary only? Our dear Dora, those Nigerians are aware that there is consequence for every action and that a country's sitting attorney general cannot be just murdered without the suspect/s being tried for the crime? Nigerians know exactly who these marauders are and have been wondering why they have remained untouchables? Those Nigerians living abroad understand that human-beings have civil-rights and that you cannot just be slapped around by a policeman for just refusing to hand over to him some bills of currency? Dora this is why the refernced Nigerians complain! They wonder aloud why such could not be obtainable in Nigeria due to the curse of bad leaderships afflicting Nigeria?

Madam re-branding, do you want some more reasons why expatriate Nigerians complain loudest about disorganised Nigeria? Madam Dora, who elected your government into power? So you now know why that Nigerian living abroad who knows something about free and fair election is complaining? That Nigerian abroad understands that you can pull up at a gas station anytime, any where and fill up your gas tank? That Nigerian abroad understands that you do not have to pay to play, especially in contracts awards? That Nigerian abroad understands that when a candidate for president or a sitting president is afflicted with an illness, that he goes on a national television to fully disclose the nature of his ailment to the electorates whom he serves at their pleasure? What your boss, President Umaru Yar'Adua is dying from, no one in Nigeria knows and possibly not even you, his information minister? A Nigerian Information Minister whose responsibility it is to inform Nigerians on matters of the state and government should have made the sickness afflicting President Umaru Yar'Adua a top priority; to disclose in full all that she knows about the state of health of the president? Why the secrecy cloud hanging over the president's sickness has not been lifted is beyond comprehension and Nigeria has an information minister busy with beating the drum of re-branding?

Do you now get it, Madam Re-branding, that Nigerians in Diaspora are complaining out loud, asking why can't there be available in Nigeria, the same amenities and/or services as obtained abroad? They are perplexed that Nigeria has refused to do good by and for her citizens? Simply put, those exposed-Nigerians know better and are trying so hard to sensitize other Nigerians on what is out there and also possible in Nigeria. They know fully well the difference between night and day? They know there could be a difference if the Nigeria society understands what is due to them from their leadership and this is the only reason why they complain the loudest! When you are used to certain standards in life, it is usually very difficult to step down from what is given to what is available? Luckily some of these Nigerians are the engines driving some of their adopted countries' economies and you wonder why Nigeria cannot seek their help to move the country forward? Icheoku knows of one Nigerian who is a top manager in a petroleum engineering firm, who had propositioned the Nigeria government before to use his contacts to reposition the refineries in Port Harcourt and Kaduna. He was declined and yet petroleum products' scarcity still persists and Dora, tell Icheoku why this Nigerian would not complain when next he goes back to visit and couldn't find gasoline to put in his vehicle?

Furthermore, these Nigerians are the ones who can look you and your government in the face and call a spade for what it is. They are not pliable or amenable to your manipulations with contract-awards or the shrivelling "madam/oga" syndrome in Nigeria? These few privileged Nigerians speak for the millions of other silent majority Nigerians, some of whom has never left their local government area, to know any difference? Like a blind-man, many of them are used to darkness and does not have a clue of what light means or looks like. The fear you are expressing is that if the Nigerian populace become well informed, they may demand for a change and this is what your pay-masters do not want to have happen? Icheoku says, such a date can only be delayed but for how long?

A paragraph in Sonala Olumhense's "Akunyili: Dishonorable, Divisive", described you in this unflattering terms:- "She is part of a government that does not know whether it is coming or going. This government has all kinds of proclamations, including the seven-point agenda, Vision 2020, rule of law, anti-corruption. But they are all empty, self-serving cliches with no respectable or identifiable content, and no traceable value. Icheoku concurs to this well rounded summation of the despicable government which you serves; and adds that you have seemingly derailed? Your present trajectory does not bode well for Nigeria and fuels the suspicion in the public domain, that a scientist is not a good fit for the information ministry; otherwise you would have started your duty there by levelling with Nigerians on what is ailing their President Umaru Yar'Adua? You have become a victim of the inebriating power which you have tasted; and atypical of all mortals who have once held power in Nigeria, it may not end on a very high note? Hopefully you will wake up from your corridor of power induced-diatribe, soon enough, before you lose your remaining admirers, including our humble self! Icheoku advises Dora Akunyili to concentrate her energies on unravelling why there is a general discontent with Nigeria and not on who is expressing or vocalising such? Until that epiphany, Dora Akunyili, please note that your re-branding has died a natural death and should be buried, without any ceremonies or funfares whatever and immediately!

LONDON G20 SUMMIT MINUS NIGERIA - briefs from Chinedu Akuta!

“By any measure, the London summit was historic. It was historic because of the size and the scope of the challenge that we face and because of the timeliness and the magnitude of our response” - Barack Obama, United States President.

“This is the day that the world came together, to fight back against the global recession. Not with words, but a plan for global recovery and for reform and with a clear timetable” - Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister.

“Since Bretton Woods, the world has been living on a financial model, the Anglo-Saxon model. It’s not my place to criticise it, it has its advantages. Clearly, today, a page has been turned” - Nikolas Sarkozy, French President.

“I would like to say that this is a turning point…but as a responsible man I cannot say this twenty or 25 years ago. One could not even imagine that such different countries with such different economies, such different mentalities and historic traditions would sit at the table and could agree in such a difficult situation on how to act, especially so quickly” - Dmitry Medvedev, Russian President.

“We have agreed to set up a clear financial market architecture. We have taken an important step towards creating order in an area in the world where there was previously no order” -Angela Markel, German Chancellor.

The excerpts above were how the world leaders described the London G2O summit which was a historic event. This summit ended on April 2 2009. Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua expressed sadness and regrets that Nigeria was not invited to the London G20 summit.

Dear Musa Yar’Adua , Nigeria was not invited because the Nigerian house is not in order, otherwise Nigeria deserves a sit on the G20. Mr President (Musa Yar’Adua), since you have expressed regret over the exclusion of Nigeria from the G20, the task is now on your desk to put Nigeria on the right track so that the outside world would take us serious. Another G20 summit is coming up again in September 2009, perhaps if you can steer the ship of Nigerian state with transparency, honesty and selflessness the world might decide to invite Nigeria . Nigeria certainly deserves a place in G20 because of her size, her population (about 140 million), her strategic position in Africa , her position as the sixth largest oil producer, and the country with the largest black people. If for no other thing, Nigeria could go as an observer. After all Spain was invited, even though she is not a member of the G20.

Mr President (Musa Yar’Adua), this is another reminder that the world does not take Nigeria serious. To even make matters worse, Nigeria was grouped among some 20 failed states in an article that appeared on Guardian Newspaper of UK, Thursday November 27 2008 page 23. This will do a terrible damage on our battered image abroad. Our clamour for foreign investors will be a joke taking into account our poor image.

I will advise you to make a viable and transparent plan of action so that Nigeria and the Nigerian masses can benefit from the funds which the G20 pledged to developing nations. Nigeria is part of the global economy, therefore your government should fashion out a way by which Nigeria should benefit from this biggest global economic stimulus of our time as announced by the G20. However for us to benefit from G20 global economic recovery package, transparency will be highly needed on the Nigerian economic sector. Transparency is what your administration should endeavour to establish. May God bless Nigeria .

Chinedu Vincent Akuta
An activist and leader of “Support Option A4 Group” Leicester-UK

YOUR SUNDAY WITH PROPHET MKO TIBETAN!

By His special grace, from the Mighty One on-High, I come to you again, today Sunday April 5, 2009. Our topic for today's sermon is "CANADA DRY"! People in Africa back in the days, used to drink this particular soft-drink in parties, homes, as well as other gatherings; but they did not bother to understand the meaning of the word "Canada Dry"? It means that Canada is dry, literally speaking, as majority of its territorial land space is frozen in time of near arctic condition? Today, it’s not only Canada that is dry, as everywhere in the world have become dry too; because we refused to follow the way of our Lord.

Now, from the look of things, both spiritually and humanly, it is no longer just Canada; the whole world is being afflicted simply because we have forsaken the good path and forgotten that the Lord created everything from the body, soul and spirit? When we were still very much younger, filled with innocence, the Lord provided for us as our bread winner? See Philippians 4:19; Luke 9:10 – 16; Exodus 16; Exodus 15:22 – 27. Now, as grown ups, we started committing sins, we are left with the body and the soul to cater for. When you ask people, where are they going? Their answer usually is "we are checking out of the country, going to Europe, America, Asia etc! This is happening because the spirit of God has departed from us and we are now only left with our body body and soul; now can you understand why Canada is dry? Also when you look at it, from the perspective of a country like Nigeria, you will see that the most flourishing business today are politics, pastoral callings, gambling etc? Criminals are walking freely on the street and even controlling the affairs therein in the country. Even some countries such as America, Canada, Britain, France, and Russian are forcing themselves, to take the place of God in the world society today? But in their schools, homes and public places, the word of God is not preached! Read Hosea 8:1 – 5. Now you can see that it is not only Canada that is dry; the whole world is dry. Read also, Jeremiah 5:20 – 25; Jeremiah 17:1 – 10; Jeremiah 30:19 – 20; Jeremiah 32:42–44: Exodus 2:19.

We need to allow the spirit of God to direct us in whatever we do, so that we will not go off course. When Jesus was leaving from this sinful world, he asked his disciples to remain in the upper room in Jerusalem until they receive the prove of the holy spirit . See Acts 1:5. A nation and/or a household that is being directed by the Holy Spirit will never suffer or lack any good thing; darkness can never be their portion and they will make no mistakes! Take for instance, the money wasted and still being wasted on Iraq and Afghanistan, money being spent on ammunition etc could have been more wisely spent to a more productive end. Also the mistake of robots that has replaced humans in vehicle manufacturing companies, has kept many people off assembly lines, thus fuelling the unemployment situation in the world. These are examples of mistakes which a Godless society or man make; they are caused by people that do not know God, people who can be referred to as Adolf Hitler of our time, and Nebuchadnezzar of our time?

The point here is to illustrate that people actively contributed to the dryness of the world today? A solution thereto is for all of us to start thinking before acting; and always mindful of what will please God. Let us start making use of our five God-given senses! Let us all learn how to wait on the Lord and allow the spirit of God to rule and take control of us and our actions; for there is nothing more we can do! See Ecclsiastes 3:10 – 16; Isaiah 40:5 – 8; Jeremiah 7; Psalm 49:4–20; 2Samuel 14:14. From this sermon today it is clear that “no sinner shall go unpunished”. See Roman 8:1–10. So brethren in Christ try and amend your ways, trace your way back to God because when you do this, dryness will no longer be your portion. Until next Sunday, remain blessed!

PRESIDENT UMARU YAR'ADUA, RESIGN NOW!

Icheoku calls on President Umaru Yar'Adua, to please resign his office immediately and set Nigeria free!

Nigeria was snubbed by the G20 because of your ineptitude and lack of leadership; which has forced Nigeria once again into the doldrums in the international arena? Even the ignoble Obasanjo did well to project Nigeria through his assertive years in power. But you are such a weakling, that even your demands are always ignored by such little tiny countries, like Guinea Bissau and Madagascar? You did not win the presidency in the first place, so we understood your tepidity that far; but since becoming legitimized by the Supreme court, no other excuse suffices for your continuing aloofness in actual governance of Nigeria. Also it has now been demonstrated several times over, that you are clueless on how to move the country forward; and nobody knows if this your inability to govern is by reason of your indisposition, caused by your yet to be disclosed debilitating illness? Now, you have in addition, lost the world's confidence as Nigeria's president! So the question is, what use is your remaining in Aso Rock to Nigeria? Our verdict, NONE! So take a bow and make your exit!

Icheoku learnt that you were wondering why the exclusion of Nigeria from the G20 and ask you, to wonder no more; as you are the sole reason why Nigeria was so humiliated, excluded from the world's best twenty's gathering in London. Action has consequences and so it is that, nobody wants any further continuing relationship with a corrupt, thieving, 419, election rigging and imposed leadership country? Nigeria has no clout or credibility left in the international community to warrant her associationship with their best? When Icheoku warned of the Ostrich that buries its head in the sand-syndrome of many a Nigerian leadership, it was our candid apposite assessment of the situation in Nigeria. Today, it is official as Nigeria has, by necessary implication, been declared a pariah-state by those countries that matter in world? Even Turkey, India, Brazil and South Africa made it to the G20 to the utter chagrin of Nigeria? Now, tell Icheoku who is that proud Nigerian left, in view of the lowest rock-bottom ranking Nigeria now occupies in the international arena; necessitating its exclusion from the G20? President Umaru Yar'Adua's leadership is not leading at all and should step aside, and make way for a better patriot to mount the saddle in Nigeria! Enough of this crawling go-slow of a government led by President Umaru Yar'Adua!

Nigeria's absence at the just ended 2009 world economic summit in London says a lot, the real world has passed their verdict on Nigeria:- they cannot continue to deal with a corruption-shielding and incubating, incompetent, election-cheating, leadership in Nigeria? Based on above premises, Icheoku says it is about time you left the presidency? Your resignation is therefore the proper thing to do and also our collective wish, no, demand! President Umaru Yar'Adua, please throw in the towel; remove yourself from clogging up the wheel of progress of Nigeria so that things may move forward once again! President Umaru Yar'Adua, please read the hand-writing on the wall, QUIT NOW!

MALAWI, LET THE LITTLE GIRL GO!

President Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, of the Republic of Malawi, Icheoku appeals to you to use your good offices to enlighten the anti-adoption groups in Malawi. Make it known to them that Madonna's intended adoption of their little girl will be highly beneficial to her as well as Malawi; which stands to gain more than lose with a successful adoption. Such adoption by Madonna is comparable to a family who is betrothing their daughter to a wealthy in-law? Get it?

The little girl Mercy James and her "brother" David Banda are undeniably Africans and upon majority, can decide to re-migrate back to Africa? Their story is in print and nothing can wish it away. All the sentiments notwithstanding, her odds with Madonna and in America is second to none and when compared with Malawi, Icheoku says, none existent. The opportunities are overwhelmingly better in America than Africa? It is going to be much easier for Mercy James to succeed in America than she would in Malawi with such untoward, unfavorable conditions?

Icheoku says you already have enough starving mouths to feed, and if in doubt take a look at the beautiful starving Malawian girl, pictured left above? Your country have so many Starving Janes to worry about little Miss Sunshine, Mercy James! These left-behinds as above left, are more than sufficient in number to keep your bureacrcy incharge busy? Please direct your energies to finding solutions for the likes of this, concentrate your energies on them and not spend it worrying about a little girl whose fortunes have smiled down from heaven. Little Mercy James has a date to keep with destiny and so, let no man sabotage that! Please Mr. President, do not allow Malawians, by your failure to intervene to save this adoption, to become known as a petty, jealous Africans who cannot stand a successful woman trying so hard to improve the lot of a little Malawi girl? Do this for little Mercy James; do it for Malawi; do it for Africa; let Madonna adopt the little girl. It can only help!

If there is any law implicated otherwise, let there be passed immediately, a bye-law or your executive order, amending such provision. This will facilitate the hands of the appellate court to intervene and save the adoption by reversing the judgment today denying the petition. Do that and you will have your name etched in later history as that fore-sighted, progressive African president of Malawi, who understood that the present world order is changing and that land boundaries are becoming unpopular? The little girl has a fate with her destiny and let no man be on her way; to simply deny her this golden opportunity which is knocking on her door, is homicidal! Posterity will not be kind to all and/or any of the conspirators and antagonists of such a Godly act of and by Madonna. Let the decision be vacated so that Madonna can have her Malawi daughter.