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Pastor Toyin Ogundipe of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 20, Lagos Island Family has been suspended by the mission over his attempt to invite the popular fuji artiste, Wasiu Pasuma, along with Tope Alabi, Pastor Keji Hamilton and a former band leader of Fela Anikulapo’s Egypt 80 Band, Kereke Jike into his parish for a programme. The social media was awash with critics and fans over the publicity flier for the said programme slated between Friday, October 23, 2015 and Sunday, October 25, 2015, to be held at Martins Street, opposite Oluwole Car Park, in Mushin, Lagos. According to a report on Encomium magazine, the attention of The Redeemed Christian Church of God authority was drawn to the controversial outreach, which warranted summon of the Pastor in charge of RCCG Lagos Province 20, who was directed to take appropriate action immediate. According to information made available says, the handbill was not properly designed in line with the church policy.

                                          The presidential media adviser had flawed gender because he had no real self or moral substance, in the last dispensation. Ultimately, he played errand boy and court sycophant to Mr. President. He could be likened to the celebrity hairdresser, boudoir confidant or presidential lounge lizard perpetually nodding in affirmative to the caprices of his principal, the president. He was constantly engaged at the feet and filth attic of the president. Flattery and malice leapt from his forked tongue as he attacked the president’s perceived detractors. Last dispensation, the Special Adviser to the President on Media Affairs was pliable and servile, a deformation of Castiglione’s courtier. He projected with slavish plasticity, the president’s whim and wile. His identity was self-evacuated as he persistently opened himself like a glove to the presidential palm. Like Castiglione’s male harlots, his shameless self abasement was unmanly and amoral

                                 POB: For me, Indian-born Parvez Sharma is bold to direct and make a movie like this, the movie is controversial, has attracted death threats and an online hate campaign against him. The confession of a Pakistani murderer. Overzealous religious police. An Arab angered after his pregnant wife was molested in the holiest site known to Islam. A new film made by a gay Muslim pilgrim offers the world a warts-and-all view of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in a documentary that has attracted death threats and an online hate campaign. It is a rebuke of Saudi Arabia and its strict Wahhabi form of Islam, but it is also deeply personal — a man trying to reconcile his faith with his sexuality. From that perspective which includes footage of his wedding to his American husband in New York, millions of Muslims will likely find “A Sinner in Mecca” provocative if not offensive. But director and pilgrim, Indian-born New Yorker Parvez S