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Topic: Healed through Obedience [Monday 22, August 2016] Memorise:  His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. –   John 2:5 Read: 2 Kings 5:9-14 (KJV) 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when h...

Written by the Editorial board of The Guardian Newspaper Frustrated by the low patronage occasioned by scarcity of foreign exchange and biting economic recession in Nigeria, no fewer than 14 foreign airlines have closed shop to forestall further losses.Of course, the airlines are not the only companies in such a mess in the aviation sector, operators of travel agencies, hotels and providers of other services are also facing the same hardship. There are fears that more companies would exit the country except the Federal Government addresses the problem to reduce the forex policy’s impact on the airlines and, indeed, the travel industry as a whole. An enabling environment thus needs to be created for the aviation and tourism industry to flourish. Already, the airlines have reportedly lost a whopping N64 billion in the wake of the new forex policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a development, which has exerted more pressure on the economy, as thousands of citizens have los...