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Buhari’s Economic Policies Not Yielding Results- Bakare

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Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to change his economic policies, which he said have failed to yield the desired results in the past 18 months of his administration.
He, however, acknowledged that the present government inherited an economy in dire straits due to revenue unaccounted for, in the preceding oil boom era, with reported massive looting through oil subsidies and diverted defence budgets.
Bakare, who was a guest lecturer at the 14th year anniversary of the Foursquare Gospel Church, Asokoro, Abuja, last Saturday spoke extensively on the topic: “Church and economic recession”.
“In the past 18 months, attempts at salvaging the economy have not yielded lasting results. While the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrunk by 0.36 percent as at the first quarter of 2016, production dipped by 2.06 percent as at the second quarter. Evidently, Nigeria’s recession is largely self-inflicted and could have been avoided,” he said.
He said the recession currently experienced in Nigeria “is an opportunity for the church to take responsibility for the destiny of Nigeria”.
The vice presidential candidate in 2011 elections recalled that price of oil peaked at $145 per barrel around 2008 and, after a brief fall, rose and, subsequently, hovered around $100 until December 2014, when it began to crash. But, the biggest oil boom experience, he said, fell into the hands of an unprepared leadership.
“Hence, with our revenue unaccounted for in the preceding boom era, and with reported massive looting through oil subsidies and diverted defence budgets, the present government inherited a Nigerian economy in dire straits.
Bakare, who is the convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), said he never regretted occupying the street in January, 2012, following the fuel subsidy removal by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“I have no single regret about my action in 2012. If I have another opportunity, I will do it again. Save Nigeria Group (SNG) campaign was not about fuel subsidy, but against corruption. We insisted on ‘kill corruption and not Nigeria’. It was corruption in that government that we fought.
“We simply made the then government to understand that sovereignty belongs to the people and we demonstrated it through our actions. And we will do it again and again if time demands for it,”  he said.

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Pastors Adeboye, Bakare To Lead Over 300 Clerics For Hannah Awolowo Burial

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The family of late Hannah Awolowo on Thursday released her burial arrangements, disclosing that over 5,000 guests would attend the funeral at the Ikenne hometown of the deceased.

The burial committee chairperson, Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, made this known at a press conference held at the family home in preparation for the burial scheduled to hold between November 15 and 25.

Accompanied by her elder sister, Tola Oyediran, and other members of the burial committee, the chairperson said that arrangements for the event were in top gear.

She listed priority areas as security, transportation, church service, medical services.

She also disclosed that, Pastors Adejare Adeboye of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly, as well as 60 Anglican Bishops, 300 Priests, would be among several ministers of God who would participate in the two-week burial programme.

?The daughter of the deceased, who is a former Nigerian Ambassador to the Netherlands, said that since Our Saviour Anglican Church, where the service would hold has capacity for 619 people, large television screens would be provided around the church and Awolowo Square for guests.
?The committee gave the programme of events as follows:
November 15 at 12 pm: Lying-in-state at Park Lane, Apapa, Lagos, followed by Christian interdenominational service.

November 16: Body would depart to Ibadan and lying-in-state at Oke Bola, Ibadan.

November 17-24: Lying-in-state at Ikenne, home town of the Awolowos.
The organising committee noted that there would not be vehicular movement in and out of the town on the last day of the programme, adding that many musicians, including Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey, as well as Adewale Ayuba, Funmi Aragbaye and Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, would be on the bandstand.

?The Ogun State Government on its part said it has invited all the 35 state governors to be guests at the burial, adding that special fanfare would be organized for the celebration of the late matriarch at Sagamu stadium of November 23.

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Bakare Denies Appointment As Head Of Transition Committee

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Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has denied reports that he has been appointed by President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari to head the Transition Committee. Speaking through his spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin, Bakare on Monday said the news of his appointment is strange and not true.

He stated that he read the news with surprise just like other Nigerians on Monday. He accused mischief makers of spreading the false news. Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in 2011 under the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

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