President, Living Faith Worldwide (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, has said Nigeria needs prayers, given the myriad of problems bedeviling it.
Bishop Oyedepo, who is the Chancellor of Landmark University, spoke at Omu-Aran, Irepodun local government area, Kwara state during the maiden convocation of the institution.
Oyedepo said 386 students would graduate in 13 programmes.
He gave a breakdown of the graduands as: 39 First Class; 186 Second Class Upper; 152 Second Class Lower and nine Third Class.
He said the programmes with graduating students included: Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology and Economics.
Others are: Industrial Physics, Industrial Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Industrial Mathematics and Computer Science.
The cleric blamed strike in the country on corruption and mismanagement of funds.
He challenged the country’s leaders to learn from other countries who had experienced such crises on how best to manage them.
He said: “Industrial actions are always prompted by economic crisis or mismanagement of resources and it is a global phenomenon. All we need is for God to give our leaders more wisdom in dealing with issues before they get out of hand. It is very pathetic that a medical corps of the country will close their eye and walk out of dying patient.
“It is inhuman. If this thing is properly managed, it would not have gotten to this level. Trade dispute is a global issue. There should not be apartheid in knowledge. If you are deficient in managing something; go find out from those who have managed it well. Nigeria needs prayers. Let me stop at that.”
Bishop Oyedepo said strikes by various institutions, particularly, in the education sector, were eroding the values’ and ‘killing the system’.
He said workers should not be allowed to see strike as the only effective means through which they could get attention, because institutions would continue to employ the action, thereby, “making the system struggle to survive.”
On Landmark’s agricultural revolution, he described “food shortage as the greatest problem” confronting Nigeria.
He pointed out that the university was providing solutions to the food crisis through its agricultural revolution programmes designed to ensure food security for the nation and Africa continent at large.
“Our prayer is that God should give our leaders the wisdom and direction in dealings with where our problems are, as we are faced with enormous problems. Food shortage is one of the greatest problems confronting us now. No amount of policy can stop people from importing food,” he added.
Banning of some food items, according to him, will not ensure food sufficiency. He urged the country’s leaders to enunciate policies and programmes that would banish food shortage for good.
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