{"id":64057,"date":"2022-05-01T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa"},"modified":"2022-05-01T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T18:34:08","slug":"blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa","title":{"rendered":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for blocking the phone lines of Nigerians over the NIN-SIM policy.<\/p>\n<p>Giwa, who fumed at the decision, said the move was not a smart one from the government, particularly that insecurity has continued unabated in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari had on April 2, 2022 approved the implementation of the NIN-SIM policy which restricts calls on any SIM not linked with NIN.<\/p>\n<p>Pointedly, the fiery pastor maintained that if the government is serious about securing lives and property of the Nigerian people, surveillance cameras ought to have been set up across the country instead of blocking people from speaking to their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sunday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Giwa, noted that those giving the President advice lacked the technical skills for such a move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is senseless to block over 72 million Nigerians from making calls to their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari has again demonstrated to the world that he is incompetent to lead a nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much will it cost the government to install CCTV cameras across the country? President Buhari or whoever that advised him to make such a decision lacks technical skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it not possible for someone to walk into a registration center with fake information and enroll for NIN?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince they made that poor decision, has it stopped insecurity in Nigeria? Then, what is the purpose of blocking the sim cards of innocent Nigerians? The Scripture says in James 1: 5 that \u2018he who lacks wisdom should ask God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese leaders lack wisdom because their hearts are far away from God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for blocking the phone lines of Nigerians over the NIN-SIM policy. Giwa, who fumed at the decision, said the move was not a smart one from the government, particularly that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,1670,2261,875],"class_list":["post-64057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerians","tag-nin","tag-pastor-giwa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhamm ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhamm ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-01T17:23:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-01T18:34:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-01T17:23:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-01T18:34:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"nigerians\",\"NIN\",\"Pastor Giwa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\",\"name\":\"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-01T17:23:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-01T18:34:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhamm ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":920,\"caption\":\"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa - Nigeria","description":"The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhamm ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa","og_description":"The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhamm ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2022-05-01T17:23:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-05-01T18:34:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":920,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa","datePublished":"2022-05-01T17:23:30+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-01T18:34:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa"},"wordCount":297,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Nigeria","nigerians","NIN","Pastor Giwa"],"articleSection":["all news","Community","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa","name":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-01T17:23:30+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-01T18:34:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has lashed out at the President Muhamm ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_14.jpg","width":1280,"height":920,"caption":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/blocking-over-72-million-nigerians-over-nin-senseless-pastor-giwa#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Blocking over 72 million Nigerians over NIN, senseless \u2013 Pastor Giwa"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}