Redeemed Church to build 3-kilometre long church auditorium!

By Olumide T. Agunbiade

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, announced last week, through its General Overseer Pastor Adeboye that they will build a three kilometre long auditorium because the current one they have now, Redemption Camp, on the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way in Mowe, Ogun state which was built in 2000 with a capacity to sit one million people could no longer accommodate the millions of people who attend service there.

THE TRAGEDY OF SOCIAL MEDIA!

By Olumide T. Agunbiade

SOCIAL media has no doubt provided additional platform for people to share information and knowledge about things happening in their immediate communities and around the world.

But social media has equally exposed the beast in humans, at a level never experienced since creation.

In Nigeria, people now use the social media to peddle all forms of lies and outrageous allegations against anybody they wish to attack without fear of what such baseless and unsubstantiated stories would have on their victims.

The tragedy is that there is no law that controls the proliferation of the social media which is fast eroding the journalism profession in the country.

The situation is so bad that anybody can own a blog and publish whatever they want without care in the world. Most of the stories peddled by some bloggers have no by-line and there is no credit given to the source.

Nigerians must learn from advanced countries on how to use social media to shape an event of global interest. Why? Well, during the Boston Marathon bombings in United State of America, more than a quarter of Americans immediately took to social media to follow the story.

According to a survey report by the Pew Research Center, the online activity continued to shape the efforts; it has even been credited with helping identify suspects.