Calls for fasting, prayer for global survival

Nigeria’s first elected female deputy governor, Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu, has declared October 23, 2025 – her 80th birthday anniversary— as a day of sobriety, urging people across the world to fast and pray for survival, sustenance, and divine intervention amid global hardship.

Ojikutu, in a statement she personally signed to commemorate her birthday, said that the divine message came to her strongly, stressing the need for collective fasting and prayers on her birthday to reduce the hardship occasioned by the economic meltdown across the globe.

According to her, the level of hardship is deepening, and there is an urgent need to seek God’s mercy to guide world leaders towards selfless and wise decisions.

The former deputy governor of Lagos State, who is expected to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to offer prayers for her birthday and also seek the face of Allah to have mercy, urged all God-fearing individuals and loving people in the universe to fast and pray to avert the looming disaster.

She implored that all gifts meant for her birthday should instead be converted into acts of charity for the deprived and less privileged, encouraging people to share pictures of such gestures with her as their gifts.

“The message from God is coming to me very strongly that there’s a need to humble ourselves through fasting and prayers to ease the suffering in the land. It’s not only in Nigeria but also across the world.

“My birthday request is that all gifts should be turned into support for the deprived and less privileged. The wave of suffering across the globe, according to divine revelation, will worsen unless we fast and pray to avert it,” she said.