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OMNIFARIOUS GOD: The Reverence of Essence, to the glory of ‘The Maker’
By Tolulope A. Adegoke
“You’ve got to enjoy His perfect varieties, by surrendering to His perfect will. Our diversity is meant for our glorious unity, for sanity, sanctity, and for humanity; above all, Divinity- all to His perfect glory.
Graces are in levels, standards have its substances: your consciousness and your unconsciousness; your ‘good’ and your ‘bad’; Light and darkness are varieties, all to His perfect glory, The Omnifarious God! The Omniscient, I bow in awe of your majesty!”- Tolulope A. Adegoke
Life is in stages: yesterday, today and the next days to come; and they are all to the glory of the Maker.
Men are in sizes: the tall, the short, the fat, the thin, small, the big, the slim, the medium; and they are all to the glory of the Maker.
Men are in diverse colours: the red, the black, the white, the brown; and they are all to the glory of the Maker. What makes one smile; is what makes another cry:
one man’s food is another man’s poison;
one man’s luxury is another man’s waste;
one man’s treasure; is another man’s trash;
one man’s pain is another man’s gain;
one man’s crown is another man’s cross;
one man’s faith is another man’s fate;
one man’s poison is another man’s palace;
one man’s gift is another man’s grief. Variety is a unique expression of showing ‘thank you’, and that is it. It is gratitude in ingratitude. For it is all in the uniqueness of nature, left for us to nurture with our creative nature as created by the Maker, and they are all to His glory.
The events of life are in dynamic occurrences, with reverence in essence, thereby fulfilling sensitivity of purpose:
somethings come and go;
some beings come to stay, while some have come to leave;
some leave to remain; some leave to remain with you like forever, and I bet with you, they are all to the glory of the Maker.
Both sides of the coin; makes a coin to be the coin;
Both sides of life, are what makes life happen; and they are all to the glory of the Maker. In a world where both the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are happening for the good of them that love God:
Life is pain and gain; bitter, better, and sweetness. It is peace in pieces, and peace and pieces; cross and crown; and they are all to the glory of the Maker.
Shoes are in sizes, it all differs, based on our sizes. For your sizes isn’t mine, and mine isn’t yours. What suit and suits me, may not be your taste of values; it simply depicts the volume of our various kinds of being for things, and in things; and they are all to the glory of the Maker. Either it is consciously done and unconsciously.
Some love the jazz, while some love the blues. In fact, they are all to the glory of the Maker.
If truly you living all to the glory of the Maker alone, then why worry about anything? Both the ‘fuji’ and ‘apala’ are sweet-smelling savour, sweet-smelling genre of suiting sounds that suit and suits Him. Therefore, you’ve got to praise Him anyway, anyhow and everywhere; every day, every time and everywhere, because there are no rules in praise: you need to lose yourself to lose the shackles and fetters of iron with your praise and in praise, in spirit and in truth; for the Creator is also looking for those that would worship Him in truth and in spirit. You’ve got to condemn no one for losing their swags in the atmosphere of true worship. You just did not know what they have been through to arrive at the sublime state. You’ve got to join the course and scatter the floor, change the atmosphere with praise and worship. If the Creator were to be hungry, all the goats in the wild, and all the flocks in the field are His. Your food doesn’t move Him; even your mansion doesn’t freak Him, He owns them all. He is the Giver, and also the Taker, because all things belong to Him, all to His perfect glory. It is your undiluted praise in every manner that suits Him to retaliate by massively causing unrestricted outpouring of His whole into your being, to living as a wonder in His ‘will’ and for His ‘will’ forevermore, to the shame of the devil. You just can’t box God, by restricting yourself only to one angle, to one aspect of His being. You think he doesn’t know? You think he doesn’t know His intention of creation? He created the Moon, the Sun and the galaxies of Stars. He could have created just one to fulfil His purpose. But He is surely a God of Dynamis: The Omnifarious, the Omniscient God. Haven’t you thought about Him creating the day and the night. It is for you to come to the understanding, and consciousness of values of light over darkness. And the essence of fighting and winning the battles of life, by His grace. Joy comes in the morning. Both light and darkness, day and night; ‘good’ and ‘bad’; life and death are all to His Perfect glory. Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord! Who can contest with Him? No one! Nothing! No being. Everything glorifies His Majesty. All you need to do is to surrender your whole, for His magnificent entrance into your all being. Praise no rules, Worship cannot be boxed! Your packaging and un-packaging doesn’t move Him at all, but moves you in extent to His divine presence in the Holy of Holies. He is the Omnifarious God! The Omniscient! The Lover of Varieties- He cannot just be boxed, nor be bought! If you fail to praise Him, He said, He would raise the stones as a mighty replacement for you are!
He uses the ‘basket’ to fetch water, just to disgrace the ‘bucket’;
He uses the egg to crack the nuts, just to disgrace to stones;
He uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise! You’ve got to enjoy His perfect varieties, by surrendering to His perfect will. Our diversity is meant for our glorious unity, for sanity, sanctity, and for humanity; and above all divinity, all to His perfect glory.
Graces are in levels, standards have its substances; your consciousness and your unconsciousness; your ‘good’ and you ‘bad’; Light and darkness are varieties, all to His perfect glory, The Omnifarious God! The Omniscient, I bow in awe of your majesty!
Thank you all for reading.
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By Eric Elezuo
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, has announced the release of the Computer-Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (CB-WASSCE) for Private Candidates, 2025–Second Series.
The examination, according to a statement signed by the Ag. Head, Public Affairs, Ms Moyo Adesina was written between Tuesday, November 11 and Wednesday, December 17, 2025 with a total of
SIXTY-NINE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED AND FOUR (69,604) candidates, in 370) centres across the country.
The statement noted that “Out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE (61,943) candidates, representing 94.21 % have their results fully processed and released while THREE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINE (3,809) candidates, representing 5.79% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some errors traceable to them.”
It further added that “THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE (33,989) candidates representing 51.69% obtained credit and above in a minimum of FIVE (5) subjects (with or without English Language and/or Mathematics) while TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN (27,727) candidates representing 42.17% obtained credit and above in a minimum of FIVE (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The Council said that a total of 1,899 Candidates’ results, representing 2.89 % of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice, and that the cases are being investigated.
The Council therefore, advised candidates to check their results by visiting www.waecdirect.org to ascertain their status before visiting the Digital Certificate platform (www.waec.org) to access the digital copies of their certificates, which have been released along with the results.
The Federal government has filed a three-count charge against a former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, over the alleged interception of communications belonging to Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu.
Last week, El-Rufai claimed in an interview that he and other unnamed individuals listened to conversations from Ribadu’s phone after it was tapped by a third party. While acknowledging that such interception is technically unlawful, he argued that illegal surveillance was not unusual.
However, the Federal Government, through the Department of State Services (DSS), filed charges against El-Rufai at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
According to the charge sheet obtained by Channels Television on Monday, the government stated that El-Rufai admitted that he and his cohorts allegedly intercepted the NSA’s phone conversations.
The charges:
Count 1
That you, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, adult, male, on 13th February, 2026, while appearing as a guest on Arise TV Station’s Prime Time Programme in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did admit during the interview that you and your cohorts unlawfully intercepted the Phone Communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 12 (1) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024.
Count 2
That you, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, adult, male, on 13th February, 2026, while appearing as a guest on Arise TV Station’s Prime Time Programme in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did state during the interview that you know and relate with certain individual, who unlawfully intercepted the Phone Communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, without reporting the said individual to relevant Security agencies and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 27 (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024.
Count 3
That you, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, adult, male, and other still at large, sometime in 2026, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, with others still at large did use technical equipment or systems which compromised public safety, national security and instilling reasonable apprehension of insecurity among Nigerians by unlawfully intercepting the Phone Communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to which you admitted during an interview on 13th February, 2026, on Arise TV Station’s Prime Time Programme in Abuja and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 131 (2) Nigerian Communications Act 2003.
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INEC Consults, Seeks Legislative Intervention As Reactions Trail Release of 2027 Election Timetable
The Independent National Electoral Commission has acknowledged public concerns over the timing of the 2027 general elections, which coincide with the holy month of Ramadan, a period of fasting and prayers for Muslims, and said it may seek legislative intervention if necessary.
This was disclosed in a statement by the National Commissioner, Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Kudu Haruna, on Friday.
The commission explained that the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2027 general election was developed in strict compliance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2022, and INEC’s own Guidelines and Regulations for the Conduct of Elections, 2022.
The statement highlighted that the Regulations and Guidelines, issued since 2019, prescribe the dates for elections:
Accordingly, INEC fixed Saturday, February 20, 2027 for the presidential and National Assembly elections, and Saturday, March 6, 2027, for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly Elections.
However, the commission acknowledged public concerns regarding the timing of the elections, which coincide with the holy month of Ramadan.
INEC said it is sensitive to such considerations and remains open to adjustments.
“Notwithstanding the foregoing, the commission has taken due notice of concerns expressed by stakeholders regarding the coincidence of the scheduled dates with certain nationally recognised holidays and observances.
“The commission wishes to assure the public that it remains sensitive to all legitimate concerns that may impact electoral participation and the overall conduct of elections.
“In view of these representations, the commission is currently undertaking consultations and may, where necessary, seek appropriate legislative intervention to address the concerns raised, while ensuring that any adjustment remains consistent with constitutional and statutory requirements,” the statement said.
INEC reaffirmed its commitment to transparency, inclusivity, and the credible conduct of the 2027 general elections, promising to keep the public informed of any changes.
The commission had earlier scheduled party primaries between May 22 and June 20, 2026, for the nomination of candidates, alongside the general election dates.
Recall political figures like former presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and former presidential aide Bashir Ahmad have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to reconsider the February 20, 2027 date announced for the next general elections.
They expressed concerns that the timing coincides with the holy month of Ramadan, which could affect participation by Muslim voters.
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