G GOSPEL: TRUE LIFE STORY! A GOSPEL SINGER "ALIVE" TESTIFIED OF BEING THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S WORD IN REVELATION 19, THAT SATAN IS NO MORE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE ONLY CHURCH FOUNDED IN THE BIBLE(ACT 10:15) WHILE PASTOR CHRIS OYAHKILOME WAS THE ONLY PASTOR WHO KNEW THAT THE CHURCH WAS IN TRIAL IN 2020.

My name is Okor Akpojotor Peter Frank(Akpos) popularly known as "ALIVE" and also the first to put "AKPOSJOKES" ring-back tones on "Telecommunications" in Nigeria. I was an Afro pop singer who once came out with a club banger "ACHARAUGO" that pervaded on various platforms such as MITV,Music Africa,London Stream, most radio stations in Lagos and online platforms and I have done shows with notable names in the Nigerian Music industry before I found our Lord "JESUS CHRIST. Names I had come in contacts with in my career are the likes of Malamspicy,Yaw,Gordons,Willy Willy at Wazobia,DJAN where I met Dj Jimmy jatt,Kcee,Harry Song, Late OJB and the likes though I started in the days of Danfo Drivers where I did a job with Cornerstone and also my appearance with Jay Jay and Dj Humility at Mad Skills on STV,meanwhile, I was a closed friend to late Dj Midas at Rythm FM and popular Dj Real which is to testify that I am fully in the Nigerian Music industry before my encounter with our Lord "JESUS CHRIST" to fulfill the scripture in Revelation 19 by putting the 'DEVIL" into his chain. Having all the aforesaid portfolio, things were not going well as I wanted especially when I got married,so I left for Delta State to knowing what was wrong in my life since I originated from there.Then I was took to an idol shrine for findings but the Lord appeared unto me in Delta State by revealing the forest the native doctor took me to as the lord showed me in a trance with his word in Revelation 19 while he appeared with his angels to conquer every demons and evil powers though before then the "Holyspirit had also appeared in my dreams as soon as I got to Delta State(Numbers12:1-16). Meanwhile,after I went to the idols shrines I was attacked by various evil powers with differ voices over a million I did hear at a time,accusing me of various sins and as well the sins of others for any sin anyone committed, I would be the one the voice would attack to give account while nothing done by the idols worked.Then the Lord asked me to get a "BIBLE" during my trauma which I bought for one thousand five hundred naira only(N1,500) out of the one thousand six hundred I had though my mother had spent over four hundred thousand naira on my case with various idols without a solution because the trauma almost made me gone mad but the "Lord" stood on our side even at when we derailed.Then the lord taught me every verse in the bible that made me whole till this day and also he revealed himself again explaining his word in Revelation 19 as he appeared in a trance to conquer "SATAN" and his evil angels after alots of battle by me in the revelation which is in accordant with the discription of the word of God in Revelation 19 in the bible, "how the whole world bowed unto satan including fake prophets before they were conquered by the "Lord" though I never understood at that time it was to fulfill the scripture in Revelation 19 by chaining "SATAN" absolutely for God's word in Revelation 20 to come into manifestation, which means we are presently living in this era without sin and God has made it known to all men so there would be no medium for excuses(Romans1:19).This is the reason for my testimony, for it was made a reality to places you can go and make confirmation if you do have any doubt inregards to what happened for it took close to four years torments on me before the "LORD" notified me that it was to fulfill the scripture in Revelations 19. Whole lots of christians fought against the "LORD" spiritually by supporting "SATAN" according to the revelation and life experience,some even belittled me physically and hated me for no good reason just because I stood for "JESUS CHRIST".This experience made me to understand that everyone in the world can see spiritually(Romans1:19) and many, especially the christians do not serve God to their spirit man(Matthew 3,John 4:24). Spiritually they do not want to hear the name "JESUS" though this happened more at my village for those in the city were free thinkers to know the truth spiritually even as some Muslims I encountered during the trail because the "LORD" took me to a Muslim community at Epe-Ilara in Lagos were someone died during the trial that was during their festival as a witnessed upon the Muslim community that "JESUS" is God with his word in Matthew 28 during Easter season when the lord asked during the spiritual battle that which of the alter lives during their seven days festival which the idol of the land wrestled with me on the sixth day during the early hours of "1AM to 5AM" and on that very day they lost someone and could not continue their festival to the seventh day, and that was the season pastor Chris Oyahkilome ministered on a radio station(SME FM)from Ogun State that the church was in a trial and everyone should pray with God's word in Revelation 19 which was thesame verse the "LORD" had showed me its manifestation in a trance before then and also in the bible before the time the voice supporting the Muslim religion asked me which of the churches presently existing today is in the "BIBLE" since I claimed that my God in the bible"JESUS" knows it all and changeth not(Heb 13:8,Romans8:28,Jeremiah1:5,Psalm94),for I was the testimony that "JESUS" lives, for if "JESUS" was not alive, I was destined to die during the trial because my believe was about the bible and that was who the Muslim voice stood against and not God the father(Luke 10,John14:1-6)even to some point a voice also challenged me about"JEHOVAH WITNESS" who acknowledged their prayers to Jehovah directly and not through "JESUS" my master(Phillipian2:10-11) for all that substained me during the trial was the bible with physical facts,that was when God showed me the Catholic church in the book of "Act 10:15" how Peter went to Capernuam which is Italy today to found the church which was the gospel of "JESUS CHRIST" to the Centurion, and "HE" also asked me to asked the power if they have seen God before(John 4:24)!And while would they believe that man is God's image for God created the "Sun,Moon and other creation,why would not they believe that God looks like any of his other creation but man alone believe is like God(Genesis 1-31)! And who has proven that God really looks like man in any religion!No other doctrine has a prove of an heavenly being which existed as man sent by God and not just a prophect but God's son that looks like man himself to prove to man that man is like God which is "JESUS!".This was when the Muslim voice was conquered and I got my peace though there were many other occurrences and testimonies during the trial. In order to confirm about this revelation for it happened live for people to bear witness(Hebrew 4:4),you can go to Abraham Adesanya Estate at Ajah Lekki-Lagos by reaching the Catholic church, then asked after "Akpos" or in Agbarho Community behind Obada street closed to the "Deeper Life Church" in Delta State to as well . Then for you to get the song the lord revealed unto me during the trial(google Alive Holyghost "mercy")and you can as well follow me on twitter @Aliveokor to get more of the testimonies,"JESUS IS LORD".

G NEWS SPLASH: BIDEN DECLARED TRUMP AS A DANGEROUS BEING TO BE AVOIDED

Following the "BBC NEWS" interview which went on today, Trump is now seen by the American president as a threat to the American people due to the uncontroled use of his words,Biden strived to end Trump's intelligence access in order to protect the interest of the country towards foreign policies by rebranding certain areas of the United State in the opinion of the international world.He gave access to true democracy by replanting mediums in America to its former glory as the poineer of democracy we practise today, then as well encouraged the world to take a new view in America with what America is known for from the onset which is proper democracy and liberty. He discribed why he was made to believe that Trump is a dangerous being to let some of his policies emerge,for his words are toxic for any standard society to rely on,therefore,he is putting an end to his intelligence policies. Trump legacy might not end well with the Democrat due to some of his racial approach during his administration.

G NEWS SPLASH: BIDEN CRAVED TO UPGRADE US MINIMUIM WAGE

When President Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal earlier this month, few were surprised by the plan’s hefty price tag or sweeping scope. More striking was Biden’s inclusion of a measure to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15. The move, backed by leading Democrats including left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders, establishes the fight for higher wages as a top priority for the new administration, potentially leading to one of Washington’s boldest adjustments in US social and labor policy in decades. The fate of the initiative — which so far lacks support from Republicans — will help determine whether Biden delivers on a core pocketbook issue as US income inequality widens during the Covid-19 pandemic.Sanders, a former presidential candidate, called the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour a “starvation wage” as he unveiled the proposal for an increase in Congress. The senator said he hopes Republicans “will understand the severity of the crisis,” but added that Democrats should be prepared to enact the policy on a narrow party-line vote. Such an increase would boost wages for more than 32 million US workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. The Sanders bill proposes “a significant increase in the minimum wage,” Ben Zipperer, an economist at the institute, told AFP. “Unfortunately, we have quite a big hole to dig out of in terms of providing what low-income workers need.”The bill would put the United States on par with a growing number of states and cities that have already enacted the hike at the urging of the “Fight for $15” movement launched by fast-food workers in the early 2010s.“The bump up made it a little bit easier,” said Maggie Breshears, who works at grocery store and retailer Fred Meyer in Seattle and has gone from making about $10 per hour in 2013 to $17.59 after Seattle lifted its minimum wage in 2014. The US minimum wage was first enacted in 1938 as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal reforms. The measure has been periodically increased since then, most recently in 2007, when Congress lifted it gradually from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour, which would equal a $15,000 annual salary.Barack Obama was unable to win a boost during his eight-year presidency from 2009 to 2017. In 2019, the House of Representatives approved an increase, but the bill died in the Republican-led Senate. Supporters of an increase draw hope from rising public support apparent in 2020, when Florida voters backed a hike to $15 per hour at the same time the state voted for Republican President Donald Trump, who ended up losing re-election.In Arkansas, another Republican state, 68 percent of voters in 2018 backed gradually increasing the wage to $11 an hour.“If we had left it to the legislature, it would have stayed at $6.25,” where it was before the most recent federal increase, said Kristin Foster, an Arkansas political consultant who directed the 2018 campaign. “The only way it was able to pass was through the ballot.” Several large companies, including Amazon, Target and Starbucks, have set $15 as their minimum wage for US workers.Others that once fought the measure have given ground. These include McDonald’s, which said the discussion on the minimum wage represents an “important one that McDonald’s looks to advance, not impede.” Supporters of the wage increase welcome large companies’ endorsements, but say it is too soon to know whether they will shift the politics of the issue. The Business Roundtable, which represents the biggest US companies, said the Sanders bill was a starting point.“We agree that the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 is too low, and we are in favor of an increase at the federal level,” said a spokeswoman.But the Sanders bill drew criticism from other groups, including those representing small businesses and restaurants, which say they have suffered more than large firms during Covid-19. Howard Wright, the chief executive of Seattle Hospitality Group and the co-author of Seattle’s 2014 wage hike, said companies should be able to raise the wage as long as it is done gradually.“What we are averse to is surprise and having things we can’t control,” said Wright, who favors correlating the wage level to the local cost of living, given the diversity of the US. In response to written questions on whether to index local costs, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen emphasized the need for a “nationwide” wage hike “phased in over time.” Holly Sklar, the founder of activist network Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, rejected indexing the wage to regional costs. “The minimum wage is supposed to be something that helps everyone rise,” she said. “Any state can go higher.”

G SPORTS: BARCELONA'S CLAIM OVER MESSI'S CONTRACT HAD CAUSED THEM A LAW-SUITE

Barcelona will take legal action against the Spanish newspaper El Mundo after it published details on Sunday of Lionel Messi’s current contract, which it says is worth up to 555 million euros ($674 million) over four years. Barca responded by also insisting they were not responsible for the leak, although the club did not deny the details of the report.El Mundo say the deal signed by Messi in 2017 is the “largest in the history of sport” and called it the “colossal contract that ruins Barcelona”. The 33-year-old could end up collecting a maximum of 555,237,619 euros before it expires on June 30 this year, if all conditions were met. With six months left of the deal to run, “the player has already earned 511,290,052 euros, almost 92 per cent of the possible total”, the report claims. The leak comes as Barcelona are wrestling with a dire financial situation, worsened by the pandemic, and with Messi’s future still up in the air, given the striker can leave the club for free this summer. “In view of the information published today in the newspaper El Mundo, in relation to the professional contract signed between FC Barcelona and the player Lionel Messi, the club regrets its publication given that it is a private document governed by the principle of confidentiality between the parties,” said Barcelona in a statement. – ‘Absolute support’ -“FC Barcelona categorically denies any responsibility for the publication of this document, and will take appropriate legal action against the newspaper El Mundo, for any damage that may be caused as a result of this publication. “FC Barcelona expresses its absolute support for Lionel Messi, especially in the face of any attempt to discredit his image, and to damage his relationship with the club where he has worked to become the best player in the world and in football history.” According to the report, Messi earned 115 million euros just for signing the contract in 2017 and among his potential bonuses is a 3,548,644-euro reward for winning the Champions League and 2,365,766 euros for winning La Liga, El Mundo claims. His club contract dwarfs those of the other top earners in global sport. Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, last year signed the biggest contract in North American sport, worth a minimum of 450 million dollars, but it is 10 years long. Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract with Juventus is worth a reported 30 million euros a year, but bonuses may have taken it up to 70 million euros last season. Ronaldo also earns more from endorsements than Messi. Messi is set to decide in the coming months whether he wants to stay at Barcelona or leave the club he joined as a 13-year-old and where he has become arguably the greatest player of all time. Frustrated with Barca’s decline in recent years, the Argentinian also feels unfairly blamed for worsening performances on the pitch. Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are the favourites to sign Messi if he chooses to leave.

G NEWS SPLASH: NIGERIA RANKED AMONGST CORRUPT COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

• As Nigeria drops to lowest point on corruption index since 2013 • Buhari deserves credit for diminishing corruption, says Presidency • ‘War against corruption requires participation of all citizens’ Transparency International (TI) has, again, passed a damning verdict on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, ranking the country 149th on its yearly Corruption Perception Index (CPI) after it picked 25 points, the worst since 2013. With the rating, Nigeria dropped three points from its last (2019) ranking when it sat 146th on the table. The 2020’s index was co-led by New Zealand and Denmark after they polled 88 points individually. They were followed by Finland, Switzerland and Singapore (a country that emerged from a stinky official corruption history under the late Lee Kuan Yew) in that order.In the latest assessment, Nigeria picked the same point with Cameroon, Mozambique, Madagascar and Tajikistan for the 149th position out of 179 countries surveyed. Nigeria ranks ahead of Somalia, which sits at the bottom, South Sudan, Sudan, Congo, Chad, Burundi, Guinea Bissau and a few other African countries. It, however, falls short of its peers such as Angola, Egypt, Algeria, Kenya and many others. Stakeholders have described the latest rating as an open testimony of President Muhammadu Buhari’s inability to tame corruption in fulfillment of his electioneering promises ab out six year ago. The Centre for Democracy and Development, Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Budgit Nigeria and other stakeholders are worried that the government’s inability to stem the tide is pushing the country to the extreme. They have also noted that corruption has continued to manifest in the handling of COVID-19 relief disbursement, appointments and promotions in public offices, growing bribery and extortion in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), lack of commitment to framework that would enable anti-graft agencies to succeed, poor justice system and lack of commitment to implementing reports on cases of corruption by public officials. President of the CITN, Dame Gladys Olajumoke Simplice, told The Guardian that rising cases of official corruption “makes the jobs of professionals very difficult” and the investment market unattractive to foreigners. She said “it is most unfortunate and sad” that the government appears helpless. “There is no sanction for wrong doing. If people know that if they steal N1 billion they will be able to bribe their ways through with N500 million and get away with the balance, they will continue to steal. This is taxpayers’ money. How do you then encourage the people to pay their taxes?” she asked. Also speaking, a former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Monday Ubani, described the TI ranking as a true reflection of the government’s handling of pending corruption cases. He recalled that the government has failed to take a firm and fair position on the case involving the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu. Stressing that it makes no difference if the country agrees with the rating or not, Ubani said: “TI assessed all the previous administrations. When the All Progressives Congress (APC) was in opposition, it agreed with the rating. So, they must agree with it this time.” The Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani, referencing data from the World Bank, said impacts of the prevailing challenges could force Nigeria into a decade of economic backwardness and where it was in the 1980s. Rafsanjani, who said the government has been tackling civil society organisations instead of addressing the deteriorating corruption in the country, stressed that growing cases of kidnapping, standing at 2,860 between 2019 and 2020, 27.1 per cent unemployment rate and other issues are direct consequences of corruption. A Senior Officer with CDD, Austin Aigbe, noted that there is a lack of transparency in the emergency response of government on the COVID-19, adding that the processes were fraught with “incessant flouting of procurement guidelines, hoarding of relief materials and diversion of items for personal use.” He also raised alarm over growing nepotism in public service appointments and promotions, pointing to the controversies that followed the decision of the National Judicial Council (NJC) when eight of 33 judges recommended for appointment were children and relatives of current and retired justices of the Supreme or Appeal courts as a classic case of high-level corruption. Commercialisation of employment into public offices, extortion and other issues were also, according to him, reasons Nigeria’s corruption perception is deteriorating. Manager, Open Government and Institutional Partnership, BudgIT Nigeria, Tolulope Agunloye, lamented the inability of the administration to stop corruption in the security sector.He decried the bribery and extortion in the Police, citing the recent protest against police brutality as direct implications of decades of corruption in the force. A public policy expert and Principal Partner at Nextier, Patrick Okigbo, said the country is not yet ready to fight corruption. “When we are ready to fight corruption, many of the pragmatic ideas to adopt are well documented,” Okigbo told The Guardian. A development economist, Dr. Chiwuike Uba, described the cost of rising corruption is “immeasurable”. “It has economic, social, financial, and even cultural and spiritual implications,” he said. Uba, who is also the Board Chairman of Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF), continued: “The financial costs include the direct stealing of money that would have been deployed to the provision of public goods and services – quality and accessible healthcare, good education, human capital development, good roads, and other facilities.

G GLOBAL INFO:THE WAY YOUR BRAIN FUNCTIONS MAKE YOU DIFFER FROM OTHERS

Humans have evolved a unique form of intelligence, with cognitive complexity unseen in other species. This has been the secret behind our agricultural, scientific and technological progress. It has let us dominate a planet and understand vast amounts about the universe. But it has also brought us to the brink of catastrophe: climate change looms and a mass extinction is already under way, yet there is little sign of a concerted effort to change our ways. Our troubles could be compounded by the fact that human genetic diversity is abysmally low. “One small group of chimpanzees has more genetic diversity than the entire human species,” says Michael Graziano of Princeton University. It’s not unthinkable that a global disaster could wipe us out. For this, we have an awkward double-act to blame. Metzinger argues that we have reached this point because our intellectual prowess must still work alongside hardwired primitive traits. “It is cognitive complexity, but without compassion and flexibility in our motivational structure,” says Metzinger. In other words, we are still motivated by some rather basic instincts, such as greed and jealousy, and not by a desire for global solidarity, empathy or rationality. And it’s unclear whether we will evolve the necessary social skills in time.

G GLOBAL INFO:THE HISTORY OF EUROPE

In the Iberian Peninsula the impetus of the counteroffensive against the Moors carried the Portuguese to probe the West African coastline and the Spanish to attempt the expulsion of Islam from the western Mediterranean. In the last years of the 15th century, Portuguese navigators established the sea route to India and within a decade had secured control of the trade routes in the Indian Ocean and its approaches. Mercantile interests, crusading and missionary zeal, and scientific curiosity were intermingled as the motives for this epic achievement. Similar hopes inspired Spanish exploitation of the discovery by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean outposts of the American continent in 1492. The Treaties of Tordesillas and Saragossa in 1494 and 1529 defined the limits of westward Spanish exploration and the eastern ventures of Portugal. The two states acting as the vanguard of the expansion of Europe had thus divided the newly discovered sea lanes of the world between them. By the time of the Treaty of Saragossa, when Portugal secured the exclusion of Spain from the East Indies, Spain had begun the conquest of Central and South America. In 1519, the year in which Ferdinand Magellan embarked on the westward circumnavigation of the globe, Hernán Cortés launched his expedition against Mexico. The seizure of Peru by Francisco Pizarro and the enforcement of Portuguese claims to Brazil completed the major steps in the Iberian occupation of the continent. By the middle of the century, the age of the conquistadores was replaced by an era of colonization, based both on the procurement of precious metal by Indian labour and on pastoral and plantation economies using imported African slaves. The influx of bullion into Europe became significant in the late 1520s, and from about 1550 it began to produce a profound effect upon the economy of the Old World.