Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Prof Ben Onyeukwu MONEY FROM MARINE KINGDOM
Prof Ben Onyeukwu RECKLESS TRANSITION TO ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE
RECKLESS TRANSITION TO ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE:
By Prof Ben Onyeukwu
One of the problems ravaging the Church of JESUS CHRIST today is having certain elements with certain academic or professional backgrounds, that have nothing to do with Church Administration or any other ministerial assignments, assuming pastoral duties without theological or pastoral training. It is a reckless decision for medical doctors, lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, or people trained in other professions, who may have been called of GOD, amid their secular services, to assume duties as a bishop or pastor, in the assumption that their previous education, equally qualifies them for sacred duties.
The office of the bishop or pastor, is a sacred office that demands the highest level of moral and spiritual discipline, which cannot be obtained in any secular institution or schools without spiritual or moral undertone. This makes it vital, for those coming into the Gospel Ministry from other professions, to be trained ministerially, so as to become qualified and suitable for the holy job which demands uncompromised socio-spiritual discipline.
Having stressed the above, it becomes important to draw attention to a subtle infiltration of certain undesirable ministerial patterns which are often introduced to the Church of JESUS CHRIST today, by some individuals called from secular professions, who refused to be trained for their new duties as bishops or pastors. For instance, the idea of consulting a pastor with certain stipulated fees before prayer", which nowadays portrays the Body of CHRIST in bad light, is often traceable to certain elements who joined the ministry from medical or legal professions, without pastoral education. Also, journalists who joined the ministry without pastoral training, may have been the brain behind the "brown-envelope" syndrome, to the Christian Church, which is a dint in the journalism profession. The list is endless, as there are noticeable blackspots, from un-ministerially trained church personnel, from other fields of human endeavour, on the Church of JESUS CHRIST, and so, portrays it, as business center, instead of a soul winning foundation.
In conclusion, it is difficult for those who come to the ministry with just secular education to truly understand and adopt the ministerial standard which says that,..."a bishop (or pastor) then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence. He must equally not be a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil". REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL! (See 1 Timothy 3:1-7).
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Prof Ben Onyeukwu DON'T WASTE TIME DISPUTING WITH HERETICS
DON'T WASTE TIME
DISPUTING WITH HERETICS:
By Prof Ben Onyeukwu
By way of introduction, the Holy Scripture says,..."avoid foolish disputes on genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless, stating further that the Church must reject a person who is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, knowing that such an individual has become warped and sinning, being self-condemned. And, for the purpose of understanding who is a heretic, the EN English Dictionary renders that, a heretic is, "someone whose beliefs and teachings are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to".
Every truly called and well informed Gospel Preacher vividly understands that, they are not called to debate the gospel, but to preach the irrefutable truth of salvation, which JESUS CHRIST Himself, commissioned them to preach. It is true that certain open clarifications may be necessary whenever false teachings show up, but to constantly give personal attention to heretics or false teachers makes them feel relevant, as well as gives them the opportunity to market more of their falsehood.
The above narrative, is not to erase the importance of Christian Apologetics, or defenders of the faith, in the Body of CHRIST, but to cite biblical approach in handling false teachers and their false teachings. In keeping with this, it is important to note once more that, the Apostle Paul sternly admonishes that, one who is a heretic must be rejected, after first and second admonition. This does not mean to ignore the dangerous spiritual poison that go with the teachings of false teachers, which often destroy the faith of the weak christians, but to remind the preacher of the gospel of the need to always bear in mind that, he is called to defend the faith of the believers, and not to win arguments, which open gospel debates often drive at.
Having stressed the above, the writer canvasses that, in the apperent manifest of rampaging false teachers, meticulous steps must be taken by the concerned preacher to critically examine every content of the message of the heretics, or false teachers, and in turn, internally correct the members of his congregation, as a way of saving them from the adverse impact the misleading message(s) may have on them, instead of engaging in open debates with the deceiving teachers, which the Scripture refers to as unprofitable and useless effort. Furthermore, correctional Gospel Refutals could be written and made public, with no citations or reference to the works or preachings of the false teacher, as a long term measures that seeks to gradually correct the negative effects, which the permanent, written or oral works of the heretic(s), may have had on the unsuspecting gullible public.
In summary, every preacher should again, know that they are called to win souls, not arguments. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL! (See Titus 3:9-11).
Friday, 21 August 2026
Prof Ben Onyeukwu PULPIT INTRUDERS
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Prof Ben Onyeukwu NEVER TOO LATE TO TRY AGAIN
Saturday, 20 June 2026
Prof. Ben Onyeukwu- IPOB THE CRISES, NOT A PROBLEM
IPOB CRISES,
NOT A PROBLEM:
By Prof. Ben Onyeukwu
With strong conviction, the writer affirms that, the crises currently rocking the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is not a problem to the full restoration of the sovereign nation of Biafra. Kudos to Dr. Ngozi Orabueze, the Chief of Staff and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Biafra Government in Exile (BRIGIE) and the Autopilot movement, who on November 29, 2024, in Lahti Finland, despite the arrest and detention of Mazi Simon Ekpa, by the Finnish police, redeclared the sovereign nation of Biafra, in continuation of the first declaration in Enugu, on May 30, 1967, by the then, Lt. Col. Chuhwumeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who later became the General and the Commander-in-Chief of the first Republic of Biafra, which now makes the United States of Biafra (USB), as was redeclared, a national movement, and not just a self-determination group.
It is common knowledge that, a vast majority of the IPOB and the Autopilot leaderships and members, have constantly and unanimously affirmed Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as the recognized supreme leader of the two groups, which unofficially suggests that in the foreseeable chain of power, in the real and future Government of Biafra, the groups may endorse Nnamdi Kanu as President, Simon Ekpa as Prime Minister and Dr. Ngozi Orabueze as the Deputy Prime Minister of the new country.
Having stated the above, please, recall that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group, is a worldwide aclaimed self-determination movement founded by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in 2012, which some reports also mention 2014, when it was registered as a company in the United Kingdom (UK), for the purpose of the restoration of an independent State of Biafra, in the Nigeria's South-East. However, this peaceful and non-violent agitation organization, was proscribed by the Nigeria's Federal High Court in Abuja, under Justice Abdul Abdu- Kafarati, who granted an ex parte order prescribing the group and declaring all its activities illegal, in keeping with an application by the then, Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami. This was formalized by the Federal Government of Nigeria, on September 20, 2017. The court order was signed and gazetted on the same date. Also, the Federal Government published the “Terrorism (Prevention) (Proscription Order) Notice, 2017” in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette, Volume 104 on September 20, 2017. In the same vein, in September 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari signed a presidential proclamation proscribing IPOB.
Yes, after the cited period, the claims and counter-claims of betrayals, prominently became noticeable in the IPOB family, yet unable to crack the solid foundation and superstructure of the organization, built by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, even with the alleged double standards of the Nigerian section of the group. Instead of declining in strength, the association became more powerful, in every segment of its worldwide outlets, notwithstanding, the arest, trial
and life imprisonment sentence of its supreme leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as recent crisis resulting from the alleged sack of DOS leadership of the association, from the view point of the writer is nothing to worry about. From a feeler, IPOB said Kanu, using powers in the IPOB Code of Conduct, had already dissolved the 3rd DOS led by Edoziem and inaugurated a new 4th DOS under Chris Nwaọgụ, stating that, IPOB Code says “the power to appoint, suspend or dismiss erring Principal officers vests exclusively on the leader of IPOB, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”, as the group upholds that, no Coordinator, Principal Officer, Directorate, Committee... possesses any constitutional authority to suspend, remove, or overrule the Supreme Leader”.
Nevertheless, from rumour mills, on 18-19 June 2026, Chikadibia Edoziem, Head of DOS, announced that the “Directorate of State of IPOB has indefinitely suspended the Office of the Leader of IPOB and the position of Director of Radio Biafra, both previously held by Nnamdi Kanu”, pointing to “unguarded utterances”, security concerns, and monitored prison communications from Sokoto prison. But, IPOB’s spokesperson Emma Powerful immediately rejected it, noting that, Edoziem and his group were members of the “dissolved third administration of DOS” whose tenure had already been terminated, with the affirmation that, “no person can derive authority from an office that has already ceased to exist”. The bottom line here, is that the whole drama is an internal IPOB power struggle, wherein, one DOS faction “suspended” Kanu, but the Kanu-backed DOS faction says that faction was already dissolved and the suspension is illegal.
Despite the foregoing, anyone thinking that the reviewed IPOB crises, or even the alleged Nigerian Government sponsored conflicts, that have been fueling inter-group crises between the IPOB and Autopilot organizations, can hinder the restoration of the Sovereign State of Biafra, is definitely daydreaming.