One of Most Powerful Man In Africa is a Christian

 

Pastor E.A. Adeboye was named 49th most powerful man in the World in 2009 according to Newsweek elite list in USA.

In the same list comes U.S. president Barack Obama as the 1st, China’s president Hu Jintao, 2nd with is French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, coming third. There is also British prime minister, Gordon Brown, German chancellor, Angela Markel, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia and Ayotollah Ali Khamenei of Iran. Others are Kim Jong II of North Korea, Bill and Hillary Clinton, American Billionaire Warren Buffet, U.S. speaker of the house of representative, Nancy Pelosi; New York Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Pope Benedict who came 37th.Adeboye and the Pope are the only Christian leader’s featured in the list

Daddy G.O,the pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God is one of the most successful preachers in the world. He boasts that his church has outposts in 110 countries. He has 14,000 branches—claiming 5 million members—in his home country of Nigeria alone. There are 360 RCCG churches in Britain, and about the same number in U.S. cities like Chicago, Dallas, and Tallahassee, Fla. Adeboye says he has sent missionaries to China and such Islamic countries as Pakistan and Malaysia. His aspirations are outsize. He wants to save souls, and he wants to do so by planting churches the way Starbucks used to build coffee shops: everywhere.

E.A. Adeboye was born on 2nd March 1942 at Ifewara in the present day Osun State.
He under went primary and secondary education which were almost curtailed due to the problem of funds, barefooted and in tears. He recalls �for the first seventeen years of my life, I never had to wear shoes�.

Graduate from the University in 1967, at the age of 25. Between 1967 and 1975 he had added two more degrees, an M.Sc in hydrodynamics and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, and lectured at the University of Lagos and university of Ilorin. Before his lectureship at these Universities, the G.O had taught mathematics at two secondary schools viz: Okeigbo Grammar School, Okeigbo near Ondo and the Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere � Lagos.