Ugbu Lois, Akinjobi Gbemisola and Faniyi Oluwatomiwa Win Big in New Man Gospel Writing Contest

On Monday, 18th April, 2022, The New Man Movement, organisers of the New Man Gospel Writing Contest released its final winners list for the gospel writing competition. In an official release published on the website, the founder and President of the New Man Movment, Mr. Nelson Vincent Ayomitunde congratulated the participants of the writing contest with special mention to

Weeks earlier, we duly reported that the New Man Gospel Writing Contest was open for entries into its 2022 edition of the annual gospel writing contest. The contest which has held since 2016

New Man Movement Shortlists 100+ in 2022 Gospel Writing Contest

Coming few days after the official closure of it's submission portal, the New Man Movement, in a press release on its website has announced the release of it's final shortlist for the New Man Gospel Writing Contest 2022. 

The shortlist which contained about 100 entries was selected from a handful of poems, articles, stories and drama pieces which were submitted over the open period from January 31st through March 11th, 2022.

In our earlier report, we gathered that the 2022 edition of the writing contest which has held yearly since 2016 is a gospel writing contest where creative writers across the genres of poetry, drama, prose and article writing are given a space to show their literary expertise. 

We also reported that Nelson Vincent Ayomitunde, President of the New Man Movement revealed through the release on the website that the writing contest has evolved to recognise the efforts and excellence of Christian writers as well as showing them to the world thus, propagating the gospel through creative writing.

The New Man Gospel Writing contest which is in its sixth year is a fully gospel writing contest with the theme, Burning Altars which is taken from the Bible book of Leviticus 6:12.

According to the organisers of the writing contest, entries are open to all Christians and true believers without restrictions to age, race, nationality or location. Submission of entries into the New Man Writing Contest is also free.

Mr Nelson Vincent while speaking to our correspondent on Monday also added that while the participants are currently engaged in an online voting process on the ministry's website, the New Man Writing Contest judges are tirelessly working to ensure that winners emerge in the coming weeks. According to him, the judges including James Coburn, OlaKristi Ayo Obiremi and himself are seasoned literary writers who will look into the entries to select the final winners in the coming weeks.

New Man Movement Organises 2022 Edition of Gospel Writing Contest

The New Man Movement, in a press release on its website, dated 31st January, 2022 has officially announced a Call for Submissions into the New Man Gospel Writing Contest. 

The 2022 edition of the writing contest which has held yearly since 2016 is a gospel writing contest where creative writers across the genres of poetry, drama, prose and article writing are given a space to show their literary expertise. 

Nelson Vincent Ayomitunde, President of the New Man Movement revealed through the release on the website that the writing contest has evolved to recognise the efforts and excellence of Christian writers as well as showing them to the world thus, propagating the gospel through creative writing.

The New Man writing contest which is in its sixth year is a fully gospel writing contest with the theme, Burning Altars which is taken from the Bible book of Leviticus 6:12.

According to the Press release, entries are open to all Christians and true believers without restrictions to age, race, nationality or location. Submission of entries into the New Man Writing Contest is also free.

Entries into the writing contest are expected to be creatively written in line with the general theme. These entries can be in form of Prose/short story, Poetry, Drama or Essay/Articles All entries are required to be properly typed in Microsoft Word(and uploaded to the submission portal via the ministry's website. 

The press release also indicated that participants in the New Man Gospel Writing Contest are entitled to submit a maximum of two entries ONLY.  Meanwhile, the contest is open for submissions from January 31st till March 11th, 2022.

Apostle Olopade Heals Man With COVID-19, Requests to Visit Isolation Centres

Another Popular cleric in Ondo State, Apostle Olopade Elijah Oluwatosin, who is the lead pastor of the House of Encounters International Ministries, has called on the government and the general public to permit him into isolation centers to pray for people with COVID-19 symptoms. Apostle Elijah stated that he already prayed for a case which now tests negative as a testimony. This is coming after Apostle Johnson Suleiman of the Omega Fire Ministries made the same declaration of healing COVID-19 patients in a Sunday service video.

In an official statement released via his social media handle, Apostle Elijah Olopade said:

"In case you have anyone with the Covid-19 symptoms, or you know any isolation center that will permit me to come pray, please send a text or call me directly on +234(0)9069652349."

 

According to the cleric, he is on the search for such cases to prove the healing power of God at work. In his words, "To God's glory, I've been able to pray for a case. God healed him and the symptoms stopped. So I'm looking for more cases."

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NELOC News had earlier reported that the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic broke out as at December 2019 in Wuhan China and has risen in infections by large numbers  according to the World Health Organisation and the Nigerian National Centre for Disease Control.

Tsion Academy Launches Education Fund Bank to Sponsor Out of School Children

In Africa, reports and statistics show that as at 2018, 258 million children were out of school. Today, the numbers are rising geometrically; yet the social, political and economic factors in many African countries are not helping the situation of things.

 

During the COVID-19 pandemic year, Abayomi Adeola Della alongside a team of volunteers started a program in Osogbo, Ilorin and Akure, hosting over 300 children and teaching them Basic Education. Within three months of running, the team realized the increasing rate of out of school children and decided to launch the academy.

To do this, the team lead, Abayomi Adeola Della joined other women to fund the education of 100 children and get them into a mentoring programme with seasoned mentors. Between April and July 2021, they adopted and included over 25 children, putting them into the mentoring programme that ran from April through July 2021.

 

 

If we get more children to school - a school that caters for their academics, life skills and global citizenship education, nurtured with Mentorship, imagine what Africa would look like.

According to the official release, Adeola Abayomi Della's visionary assignment is to establish a FREE and QUALITY basic school for children where they can be groomed on relevant subjects, talents and life skills, having assessed their skills, passion and interests. The school is proposed to kick off from Ile-Ife, South-Western Nigeria, with at least 150 children.

 

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The official release also shows the proposed plan by Tsion Academy to adequately take care of activities that many traditional schools  cannot operate. The team has gathered information and research work about the out of school children since July 2020 and now seeks to establish the free part time school for these out of school children. The Tsion Academy also hopes to focus on teaching the students monetized crafts and exposing them to solving global problems and challenges.

1. To start a *free and quality school* to complement what the children are taught in school but with the mix of teaching them tech, arts and crafts, dance, entrepreneurship and other global opportunities we can plug into that would be relevant to the goal.

2. We would be creating an *Education Fund Bank* that would cater for children whenever they need school fees. We would build a bank that would take care of at least 150 children in low income communities conveniently and keep funding the bank at 3-6 months intervals.

 

The release closed with an official call to fund the education bank. For interested donations, individuals, brands and organisations are advised to pay online using Flutterwave here or use the official fundraiser page hosted on Donate-NG. As an alternative, direct donations and funding can also be made payable via transfers only to Tsion Academy, WEMA Bank, 7810904848.

 

To actively join the Education Project in building the Education Fund bank, you can simply send a request to join the team here

Coronavirus: Our Health in Nose Masks

As Government partially ease lockdown in various Countries globally, world governments through the United Nations World Health Organisation and several Health Organsations have now advised the use of nose masks in public settings.

Nose and face masks particularly became popular in use since the commencement of the lockdown on movement in various countries across the world in a means to reduce the wide spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Currently there is no clinically proven vaccine for Covid-19 (as at the time of publishing this content), and it appears that several country's economy is crashing down, in order to prevent the crashing of the economy and as well reducing the spread of COVID-19 by the use of nosemasks.

The use of Nose masks as the "New Normal" all across the world and the main question is does the use of a nose mask prevent COVID-19? Although the advise on the use of nosemasks when outside the house in a community setting is way different in various Countries. In Asia Countries, the wearing of nose masks in public has been a new normal since the outbreak of COVID-19.

In some European countries like Austria, Spain and the UK, there are enforcement on the use of nose masks in public gathering,

In some African countries like Nigeria where lockdown has been partially eased the use of Nose masks is enforced in order to prevent the wide spread of respiratory infectious disease such as the COVID-19.

The use of Nose masks is not an alternative to staying at home when you feel sick, the Government advised that when feel sick staying at home (self isolation) is one of the best way to reduce the spread of the virus. And it is not an alternative for hygiene such as washing the hand with soap and alcohol based hand sanitizer.

What experts Say about Nosemasks in prevention of COVID-19.

According to Prof Trish Greenhalgh, the professor of primary Health Care sciences, Niffield department of primary care health sciences, the University of Oxford. He said; 'The science on this is clear: Covid-19 is most commonly transmitted by droplets emitted when we cough, sneeze, shout, sing and even just breathe in close proximity to others. Cloth face coverings are highly effective at blocking droplets coming out of the mouth and nose. They’re not perfect, but if you can stop 90 or 95% of the droplets this will cause a very dramatic reduction in the number of people who catch the virus'.

'Face coverings, which can be made out of a double layer of cloth, are a crucially important measure for bringing the country out of lockdown, since in reality few of us can get properly back to work without getting within 2 metres of other people (either while travelling to work or in offices and factories). We can’t stay behind our front doors forever, and nobody wants a second wave of Covid-19, so covering our faces will become the new normal in public places, workplaces and on public transport.'


However, World Health Organization (WHO) published on April 6,2020 stated that "wearing a nosemask in the public is one of the means and measures to prevent and limit the spread of certain respiratory disease including the COVID-19. Importantly, WHO warns that facemasks and nosemasks are not a replacement for other protective such as Social distancing combined with other measures such as hygiene.

How Sahr Eric M'bayo and the KDEA Team chose Fraud over Integrity

Since the full completion of a business contract agreement in December 2019, Eric M'bayo and the Kono District Entertainment Awards (KDEA)have remained unfaithful to their parts of the agreement

Below are screenshots of the completed website which was used for voting