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Don’t Play Junk Music as a Christian – Pastor Ibiyeomie
By Eric Elezuo
The Presiding Pastor of the Salvation Ministries, Worldwide, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, has cautioned christian faithful to desist from playing any music that is not edifying to the soul nor minister love of God, classifying such as junk music. He informed the congregation that every music has a spirit that follows it, and the listener immediately contacts the said spirit while listening to the music.
“If you listen to immoral music, you are likely to tend towards immorality. In the same vein, if you listen to worship songs, the Holy Spirit takes over your being. So it is important you stop playing junk music as a christian,” he said.
He drew inference from the beginning, using Lucifer, whom he explained was the ‘music director’ in heaven before his great fall.
Pastor Ibiyeomie made these remarks Sunday during a live worship session at the Ministries’ headquarters in Port Harcourt, and viewed via satellite by millions around the world.
Teaching on the topic, Winning Financially Part 8, the Shepherd who holds five Holy Ghost filled services every Sunday with a large crowd of followers every service, itemised certain skills which he termed important for the christian to win in life. Among them were creativity and innovation as well as personal development.
Ibiyeomie, harping on personal development, told the congregation that it is imperative to continue developing oneself all through life in order to keep abreast of events, stay ahead of others and improve one’s financial standing.
Hear him: “To be ahead, you must have something in your head. To grow, you must continually invest in yourself. To be ahead of others, learn to grow faster than others. Any knowledge not improved upon will become obsolete. Any information not updated will become outdated.”
Outlining keys for continuous self improvement and learning, Ibiyeomie advised the christian to ‘read at least one hour every day, and more when you can in your chosen field’, noting that as exercise expands the physical body, so does reading expand the mind, drawing his reference from 1 Timothy 4:15.
Other keys, according to the man of God, are listening to inspirational audio types in the car while travelling from place to place and attending courses and seminars, adding that to make the keys functional, some pure practical steps need to be introduced immediately.
The steps, he said, are: begin a daily reading programme immediately where one can change his sleeping and waking pattern, and read for at least two hours before going to work; turn your car into a University on wheels so that even if you cannot read, you can listen to something educative and then be disciplined enough to implement what you read and heard.
Salvation Ministries, a world renowned church, recently celebrated 22 years of existence and Godly impartation.
Apart from running a 24 hours television station known as Salvation TV, Ibiyeomie has a commanding presence in major TV stations across the world at large where he teaches without equivocation the raw and undiluted gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the political adviser to President Bola Tinubu, has resigned his appointment.
Reports say the former spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) tendered his resignation about two weeks ago.
Further reports quoting presidency sources did not, however, provide details of the reasons for his decision, but only stated that it was on personal grounds.
Baba-Ahmed was appointed in September 2023 as Special Adviser on Political Matters in the Office of Vice President Kashim Shettima.
Over the past 17 months, he had represented the presidency at several public fora, including a recent national conference themed: “Strengthening Nigeria’s Democracy: Pathway to Good Governance and Political Integrity”, which held from January 28 and 29, 2025 in Abuja.
The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja recognising Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP).
In a unanimous judgment, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure National Chairman of the Labour Party, after finding out earlier that the substance of the case was about the party’s leadership.
The apex court held that the issue of leadership was an internal affair of a party, over which courts lacks jurisdiction.
The court further allowed the appeal filed by Senator Nenadi Usman and one other, and held that it is meritorious.
It also proceeded to dismiss the cross-appeal filed by the Abure group of the Labour Party for being unmeritorious.
In January, the Court of Appeal in Abuja reiterated that Abure remained the chairman of the LP.
A three-member panel of the appellate court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Hamma Barka, held that its judgment of November 13, 2024, which recognises Abure as national chairman, subsists and has not been set aside by any court.
Justice Barka made the declaration while delivering judgment in two separate appeals filed by Senator Esther Nenadi Usman and the caretaker committee and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The appellate court in the two separate appeals held that it did not delve into the issue of the leadership of the Labour Party because such issues are not justiciable.
It said that anything done outside jurisdiction amounts to a nullity. Hence, the judgment of the Federal High Court delivered on October 8, 2024, by Justice Emeka Nwite is of no effect because it was delivered without jurisdiction.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied being partisan in handling the failed recall of the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to Chairman of INEC Mahmood Yakubu, who was on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, explained how the Commission handled the process.
“In the case of the Kogi Central District, we received a petition and a cover letter and of course what Nigerians were saying was that we were taking sides,” Oyekanmi said on the programme.
“But what happened was that in the covering letter, the representatives of the petitioners did not include their address as required in our regulations and guidelines and what we just did was to ask them to supply their address, it has nothing to do with the petition.
“And of course, there is nowhere in the law where INEC is asked to reject a petition just because the cover letter did not contain the address. So, there was no hanky-panky in what we did.”
Earlier on Thursday, INEC rejected the petition to recall Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, saying that it has not met the requirements.
The electoral commission said the petition to recall Senator Natasha did not meet constitutional requirements.
Senator Natasha was suspended for breaching Senate rules, prompting some of her constituents to initiate her recall. They claimed the move was to ensure their constituency did not lack representation following the suspension of the 45-year-old senator.
Asked whether there could be a repeat of the recall process, the INEC spokesperson said the law did not specify if the process could be repeated and how many times.
“The law just talks about the threshold, the threshold meaning that if you want to recall, you must have, in addition to your petition, 50 per cent plus one signatures. The law did not specify how many times you can undertake that,” he said.
The lawmaker has made headlines in recent months after she accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment, a claim the Akwa Ibom lawmaker has equally denied.
She was, thereafter, suspended by the Red Chamber for violation of its rule of conduct.
