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Put God First in your Marriage, Dr. Rebecca Godwin-Isaac Urges Women

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2 months ago

August 2, 2025

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Abuja, Aug 2, 2025 The Founder of a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), the Girl Yesterday, the Woman today (GYWT), Dr Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac has urged women to put God first in their marriages.

Godwin-Isaac made the call during her 10th marriage anniversary in Abuja.

She advised women to also resist competition and the lures of money as conditions for love.

“My message to people out there is that in everything that you must do, God should be the centre of your home.

“I didn’t marry for money, I didn’t marry because my peers are getting married or my mates were getting married.

“I married when God chose a husband for me and I decided to say God , you are welcome into my home, you are the pillar

“You are the centre of my home, come take the way. So that’s what I have learnt and with that, God has been sustaining us,” she said.

Also speaking, the husband, Mr Isaac Yusuf affirmed the inevitability of challenges in marriages and the ability to surmount it through God’s help.

Yusuf who thanked God for his grace in the past ten years of their marriage, urged homes to embrace love.

“We have had so many challenging times, but we have kept God in the forefront of our relationship and as well, we have kept love as well in our home.

“And that has helped us far a lot in overcoming the challenges, we see challenges daily but we are able to overcome them no matter what the challenge is.”

Earlier, the officiating cleric, Pastor Aki Eke, had adminished husbands to love their wives and wives to respect their husbands.

Eke however described Christ as the symbol of marriages as illustrated by God.

“When God uses Christ symbolically in marriage, we are simply saying that husband love your wife.

“I have also seen the love bring the solution . I pray that as we love , God will bring solutions in our homes.

“And peace will reign in our in our homes. What God has put together, let no man put asunder.”

The bride’s father, Pastor Godwin Aliyu prayed God to continue to unite the couple with abundant love and understanding.

Aliyu who frowned at divorce and separation, said he advised the daughter to always preserve her marriage.

“As a father, I have been praying for them, success unity, more love, more oneness that their home will not break.

“I tell my daughter that she should not allow anything that will make her family to break up.”

On his own, the groom’s father, Mr Yusuf Wunduh, described the son as a gentle and hardworking man whose unity with the wife have benefitted them a lot.

“My son is a very hardworking person, a gentleman in the true sense of the word, they have achieved a lot together.”

The Bride’s mother, Mrs Gladys Aliyu who described the daughter as a loving and caring person, exprrssed joy over their unity in marriage.

“I feel happy, I feel joyful as a mother, I feel happy and I feel joyful. I am grateful to God as well.

“Other mothers there, in marriage, there is always ups and downs, they should have endurance and perseverance and advise their children to live in peace and in unity.”

“She is a very good daughter of mine, a loving one, caring one, hardworking lady.”

A friend of the couple and legal practitioner, Mr Tadas Okonkwo saluted the resilience and integrity of the couple in living together for ten years.

Okonkwo who described them as fantastic couple, said their marriage was built on honesty and love.

“I see them to be honest, they are real, they are genuine in whatever they do.

“For these these beautiful couple, handsome young man, Engr Isaac Yusuf and her Excellency Rebecca, for them to be together, that shows , they are people of integrity.”

The highlight of the event was the couple’s renewal of marriage vow by Venerable Chukwuma Okafor.

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Tin City Warms Up for President Tinubu as North Central Embraces Renewed Hope

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1 day ago

October 4, 2025

The Gleamer

By Sunday Dare

When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu berths on the plains and rolling hills that dominate the Jos landscape tomorrow, he will meet a people resourceful, friendly and resilient but weighed down by conflict, yet unbowed by adversity.

So, tommorrow, national attention turns to the Plateau- a locale laden with history and rich with potential. From the tin mines that gave the city of Jos its name, to the Irish potato, strawberry farms and beetroot plantations that dot its landscape, Jos remains a land of promise—truly the Home of Peace and Tourism.

Jos is also deeply woven into Nigeria’s political history. Plateau is home to towering figures such as Generals JD Gomwalk, Yakubu Gowon, John Shagaya, Joshua Dogoyaro, and Jerry Useni. Solomon Lar, Senator Ibrahim Mantu and numerous others also stand tall in the annals Plateau political history.

Jos was also the rallying ground of the famed Langtang Mafia—a group of influential military officers from Langtang in Plateau State who, at the height of their power, played a significant role in Nigeria’s political and military affairs.

The story of Jos is both exciting and excruciating. The city lost its innocence some two and a half decades ago, when the popular Terminus Market was reduced to rubble through acts of arson and looting.

Thus at the turn of the millennium by 2001, Jos—and by extension, Plateau—was thrown into a cycle of unending conflict. Ethnic tensions, clothed in religious garb, tore through the city and spread across the state, dragging Jos into an abyss of violence, almost of Kigali proportions. Peace gave way to war, and tourism jaunts became undertakings to the undertaker.

Yet Jos has never surrendered. Every time it is written off, it rises again—scarred, but resilient. With its multi-ethnic, multi-religious fabric, the Plateau continues to trudge on in pursuit of peace, development, and egalitarian ideals.

It was here, in Jos, that Nigeria’s democratic resurgence was birthed. The historic SDP convention, where late General Shehu Yar’Adua and Chief Moshood Abiola held sway, took place in this city. Jos gave political life to Abiola, our hero of democracy in 1992

Now, thirty three years later, another hero of democracy and of the June 12 struggle returns to the Plateau. President Tinubu’s return and visit to Plateau State is not just to honor the transition to glory of Nana Lydia Yilwatda, the mother of the APC National Chairman.

It is a visit that carries deeper meaning—one of empathy, solidarity, and renewed hope for a people who have endured decades of turmoil. It is a mission to preach peace, console the bereaved, bind wounds, and assure Plateau of its central place in the Nigerian project.

Mr President comes not just to mourn, but to reconnect. He comes to parley with the North Central, to commiserate with a people who have suffered, and to extend the hand of renewed hope. That Renewed Hope is laying a solid foundation as evidenced by Naira at N1,455 per dollar, rising Foreign Reserves at $43bn, Trade surplus heading for N25tr. Revenues up 411% and Inflation down to about 20 per cent. Over 600,000 students benefiting from NELFUND.

This visit is more than ceremonial. It is a journey into the very soul of a people who have known pain, yet remain resilient; a land scarred by conflict, yet still brimming with hope and promise. As the Tin City opens its arms, Jos will not just receive the President—it will receive a message of solidarity, healing, and renewal.

Tomorrow is about remembering the glorious past, confronting the present, and charting a path to a peaceful and prosperous Plateau within a united Nigeria. With President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, Jos once again stands at the intersection of history and destiny.

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