17th 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.
17th October: Reverend Dr Uche Ume is born. He is the Senior Pastor, Power World Ministries and hails from Ohafia in Abia State.
17th October 2021: Pastor David Ibiyeomie declares, “I honour Oyedepo to the point that if you talk about him negatively, I will chew you raw.”
17th October 2016: The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of Nigeria introduces a Code of Corporate Governance Law that mandated not-for-profit organizations, including Churches and mosques, to adhere to a 20-year term limit for leaders of these entities. This law led to Pastor E.A. Adeboye’s resignation as the National Leader of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) on 7th January, 2017 and the subsequent appointment of Pastor Joseph Obayemi as National Overseer. However, the Federal Government swiftly suspended the law just two days later, on 9th January, 2017 and also sacked the head of the FRC, Jim Obazee, who implemented the law.
17th 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.
17th 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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