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DCLM Daily Manna 19 August 2025 Devotional By Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Standing Up For The Faith   TOPIC: Standing Up For The Faith (DCLM Daily Manna 19 August 2025) KEY VERSE: “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3). TEXT: Jude 1:1-3 (KJV) 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus…

A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has stated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lacks the ‘muscle and the guts’ to call politicians to order because people in government have already started politicking before others. Naija News reports that Galadima made this known on Monday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. Galadima accused the current administration of abandoning governance for politicking just two years after it took office. According to him, since the INEC cannot stop the current politicking, one cannot expect them to conduct a free and fair election under the…

A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of violating the constitution and conducting an illegal by-elections. Naija News reports that INEC, past Saturday, conducted by-elections across the country to fill various vacant political positions. Speaking on Monday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Galadima accused INEC of violating a section of the Constitution which stipulates that the commission is under obligation to conduct a by-election within three months whenever a vacancy occurs. Galadima said: “Well, the by-elections have come and gone, except it’s being trailed by so…

Local contractors in the Federal Capital Territory stormed the gate of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, on Monday over alleged unpaid contract bills said to total about ₦5.2 billion. Some of the protesters claimed that individual debts owed ran into hundreds of millions, appealing to Wike to meet them directly to understand their plight. One of the contractors, Okeke Benardine, told Punch that, “The thing is that we’ve done jobs with the FCT over the years. When the minister came, he paid us some. Most of our liability presently are from the present administration. But we have not been paid…

Local contractors in the Federal Capital Territory stormed the gate of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, on Monday over alleged unpaid contract bills said to total about ₦5.2 billion. Some of the protesters claimed that individual debts owed ran into hundreds of millions, appealing to Wike to meet them directly to understand their plight. One of the contractors, Okeke Benardine, told Punch that, “The thing is that we’ve done jobs with the FCT over the years. When the minister came, he paid us some. Most of our liability presently are from the present administration. But we have not been paid…

Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, has claimed that the alleged presence of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, in Nigeria may be a clandestine plot to murder Muslim leaders in the country. In a statement on his Facebook page, Gumi referenced the death of former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, alleging he was poisoned on the night he hosted the late Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, in Abuja. The cleric wrote: “Mossad in Abuja!? One should expect the clandestine murder of muslim leaders in Nigeria soon.  “Abacha was poisoned the night he welcomed Yasir Arafat into Nigeria. “How can…

Loyalists of the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, have declared that the countdown to his expected return on September 18, 2025, has begun, with just a month to the end of the six-month emergency rule. The governor’s media aide, Jerry Omatsogunwa, told Punch that residents were eagerly awaiting his return “to continue the good work he was doing.” Omatsogunwa said, “Expectations for the governor’s return are very high. He had been doing wonderfully well as head of the Rivers State Government. Several projects were ongoing, including the multi-billion-naira Port Harcourt Ring Road, which cuts across about six local…

Saudi Arabia authorities have arrested and detained a Kano woman, Maryam Hussaini-Abdullahi, after a bag containing Marijuana was allegedly mismatched with her luggage by Ethiopian Airlines. Mrs Abdullahi had left Nigeria on August 6 alongside her husband, Abdullahi Baffa, to perform a lesser Hajj. She was detained in Makkah after the police linked a strange “Ghana must go” sack to her name. Speaking to Daily Nigerian, her husband accused the airline of adding the strange bag to his wife’s luggage without her consent. Baffa said he alongside his wife had travelled with only one bag each, which were duly cleared before…

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, on Monday gave the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, 48 hours to revoke the chieftaincy title conferred on a businessman, Dotun Sanusi. In a statement by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, the monarch asserted that the Ooni lacks the exclusive right to confer the chieftaincy title of Okanlomo of Yorubaland on the businessman. He fumed that the Ooni’s action challenged his authority, adding that the exclusive right to confer titles that extend across Yorubaland rests solely with the Alaafin. He explained that the Ooni’s instrument of office confines his authority…

Residents of the Okuama community in Ewu-Urhobo Kingdom, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, have called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene in the continued detention of their community leaders, who have been held in military custody for one year without trial. Naija News understands that the detainees were arrested in connection with the killing of 17 military officers and soldiers on a peace mission to the community on March 14, 2024. Speaking at a press conference in Okuama on Monday, the Chairman of Citizens Right Concern Enhancement Initiative (CRCEI), Comrade Edewor Egedegbe, described the prolonged incarceration…