17 October 2016: The Law, The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of Nigeria, Code of Corporate Governance, takes effect. The FRC of Nigeria, under Jim Obazee, had directed not-for-profit organisations – including Churches and Mosques — to comply with a corporate governance code stipulating a term of 20 years for heads of such entities. This is the law which made Pastor Adeboye resign as RCCG National Leader on 7th January, 2017 and named Pastor Joshua Obayemi as National Overseer. The Federal Government suspended the law on 9 January 2017.
17 October 2021: Bishop Oyedepo announces that no dime is coming in from any foreign nation towards the Ark project and that many international companies are jostling for different parts of the Project.
17 October 2021: “I honour Oyedepo to the point that if you talk about him negatively, I will chew you raw.” – Pastor David Ibiyeomie declares.
17 October: Reverend Dr Uche Ume is born. He is the Senior Pastor, Power World Ministries and hails from Ohafia in Abia State.
17 October 1979: Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1949, Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city.
17 October 108: According to tradition, Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, was martyred on this date. The Apostolic Father closest in thought to the New Testament writers, Ignatius wrote 7 letters under armed guard on his way to Rome—some asking that the Church not interfere with his “true sacrifice”
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