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OBOT AKARA AND IT'S NEGLECTED NAE BY DA EFFIONG DANIEL AFRICANHOLYLAND AKWA IBOM STATE NIGERIA

Obot Akara And Its Neglected Name - April 25, 2021 It may surprise many that the etymology of where is now referred to as Obot Akara Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State is Andibot Akara, meaning, who created, rules. This invariably means that it is the Creator who rules and dominates (Gen.1: 1:26-28; Jer.10:12). What people should know is that the name of the area was ab initio, Andibot Akara, and not Obot Akara, which might have been deliberately corrupted from the original name. The People of Obot Akara, because of their love for the Almighty God who made the heaven and the earth, named the place after God. As the name changes, it did not occur to them that appellation was no longer meant for the Almighty God (Andibot) but for an individual’s personal spirit (obot or obot emana). It should be noted here that obot emana is a name for a personal spirit which is equivalent to Igbo’s version called chi as mentioned in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Thos...

testimony of Farrar

He did the extraordinary work in the land that only extra ordinary men designed for an extraordinary work could do.” Evang Ime Eyara, Church of Christ pastor Abiakpo Ikot Abasi Inyang Spiritually God used him to destroy shrines in places like Onitsha-Ngwa, Nlari, Obakri etc. There was a shrine in our village (Nlari) called Mbarekpe, when Dr. Farrar and his Four ministers entered there and prayed, the demonic forces of the shrine attacked the four ministers,they slumped and died but God used Farrar fervent prayer and brought them back to life and the community was shaken, that the Whiteman have raise the dead hence the popularity of the church and the hospital in that community. Dr. Farrar came with an apostolic authority to destroy negative stronghold powers in Africa, he was able to bring back life like Paul the apostle. He broke an established African tradition which is not possible for someone from another culture to break which strongly backup with evil forces. But he came...