Happy Birthday, Pastor Loveth Nkadi – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

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Friday, August 15, 2025 belonged in a special way to Pastor Loveth Nkadi. It was her birthday …and that marked a big day in Asaba where she has for over a decade been a major prophetess ministering to both the high and the mighty as well as the lowest of the low.

In these days of Mega Church­es, Pastor Loveth has so far shunned the denomination chal­lenge which has often divided the Christian family in Nigeria and elsewhere and has been minister­ing to one and all. So, she heads an inter-denominational Chris­tian prayer ministry named the Peculiar Solution And Miracle Ministry (PSMN). For now, its prayer sessions hold on Tues­days, starting from 10: AM, at Ma­duemezie Hall, Konwe Road, Off Nnebisi Road, Asaba. The Asaba ministry started in 2012 and has exploded in great measure.

Pastor Loveth is from Ossissa town in Ndokwa East LGA, near Kwale in Delta North Part of Delta State. But she grew up in Uchi, Owele, Okomedo area of Anambra state. Okumedo is a village within the Umuoji community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. Pastor Nkadi’s trajectory in the prophetic minis­try did not begin as in the stories of most others you ever knew. No, her own is special, unique and sometimes frightening. Think of a child, a mere child often not knowing her left from her right seeing a fully grown up person and then begin to drop frightful and fright­ening messages about that person. The first reaction of by-standers would be to­tal shock about the goings on concerning such a strange child. The second is that the parents would begin to straighten out the child…through beatings to correct the malady. The third would be to take that child to spir­itualists, both hues of churches and traditionalists to find an­swers to the mystery. All of this played out in the life of the child that grew up to become today’s Pastor Loveth.

Yet, no amount of beating would stop her from narrat­ing her visions because the child in her innocently as­sumed that the visions she was seeing were open to all persons and that such was actually the way of the world.

Then, as she was approaching age 15, she saw a woman who was passing. She began to cry and shout that that woman who was passing was actually inside a coffin. That woman was preg­nant and was accompanied by her daughter. Ah, that was the height of it all; she was given the beating of her life just to teach her to shut up her mouth. Then, just hours later, a loud cried dis­turbed the entire vicinity; it came from that woman’s daughter and it bore the ominous message that her mother had succumbed to a sudden death.

Pastor Loveth’s parent’s re­action was, well, not strange. They began to flog her as though that would solve the “problem”. It got to the point where she was often asked to be looking skywards or downwards if they were taking her anywhere so that she wouldn’t see any strange visions. Or they would order her never to open her mouth until she was safely back in the confines of the family house.

At age 18, she came to Ibusa to live with her aunt to learn a trade but illness intervened and she re­turned to the parents at Owelechi. Then she started following her age mates to churches, and she began to channel her heavenly messages through Pastors. She was lucky then to belong to the Ministry of Perfection but af­ter her marriage, she entered the Christ Royal Ambassadors Ministry, Ibusa, where she actually found a mentor who guided her to climb higher on the spiritual ladder. The Pastor of that church, Reverend Favour Esezobo, put her under his wings, gave her much encouragement. Under him, she experienced her first true mentorship. Even at present, she calls Rev. Esezobo her spiritual father. They still meet, they still pray together in a father-daughter-like collabora­tion.

She later attended the Bi­ble School of Faith Libera­tion Church (Jubilee Cen­tre), Asaba, which Bishop Nuel Ikeakanam, a one time-journalist, oversees. Ikeakanam, from Issele-Uku, started his jour­nalism career at NTA Benin, then he was on the Editorial Board of New Nigerian Newspapers, Kaduna and later became Editor, Nigerian Observer newspaper, Benin-City, before heeding the call to serve in the Lord’s Vineyard. (Oh, Nuel’s schoolmates at St. Anthony’s Col­lege, Ubulu-Uku, the university and journalist colleagues still re­member him as the very gentle and soft-spoken Tony).

How has her spiritual journey been? Pastor Loveth’s reply was short and pointed: “My brother, it was war, pure war. My family did everything to stop me. My people even carried me to a shrine to wash my head so that I would stop seeing strange vi­sions. But I resisted. Three days later, the priest­ess of that shrine died”. Then she remembered how she warned her father not to travel home during a par­ticular New Yam Festival of her home town because ene­mies with satanic spiritual powers would attack him there. Her father disdained that prophesy after all he had been traveling home before that. Unfortunately, it was only after he made that visit and died that the members of her family be­gan to take her serious. That experience still haunts her because he she loved her fa­ther dearly and still cherish­es her memory.

Now, Pastor Loveth Nka­di, married with children, has become one ofthe Asa­ba landmarks. Her name has become a household word in Asaba and people with prob­lems come to her from all across the federation.

Some members of her prayer ministry re­counted their experienc­es: The first, a lady from Isoko, Delta South Sena­torial District, Mrs. Linda Nwokolo said, “I heard of Pastor Loveth and her ministry when a neighbour invited one of my friends who was going through a difficult patch. She asked for my opinion and I asked her to take an exploratory trip and report back to me because I, too, needed spiritual help. That was in 2016, September, and she was highly impressed. So, I ac­companied her the next Tuesday and I couldn’t believe my eyes. I attend Living Faith Church where we pray kingdom advance­ment prayers, but here, I was in­troduced to liberation prayer.

In no time God solved the problems that took me there. One particular challenge I had was health. My doctor had told me that I would not able to give birth again after I had my first child. On seeing Pastor Loveth for the first time, she told me that I had a child already and that she saw me having more children as well as a surgery. She asked me not to be afraid that the surgery would be successful. Yes, I had my second child and then successfully had that surgery af­ter which I had a third child. I had all my children in that same hos­pital so the doctor that had said I would be unable to have more than a child was dumbfounded. I still see him and we laugh over it because I was then suffering from epigastric hernia and my stomach was massively swollen”.

The second testimony came from Mrs. Ebietan Judith Bosede. She said “I met Pastor Loveth, through my friend who was a pastor under her. My brother was wrongly accused, arrested and detained at Police Headquar­ters, here in Asaba. My mother was a Pastor in Warri, so her Pastor colleagues had prayed but nothing worked. On a Friday evening, we went to the church from which Pastor Loveth moved to Maduemezie Plaza but she was not around. We waited. Within 30 minutes she walked in and announced that she was headed to the market but the Lord asked her to return to attend to the tor­tured souls waiting for her and she began giving us messages even without asking us any ques­tions. She told us that my brother was innocent and that the bribe I wanted to give to a Policeman would not work as my brother would not be released immediate­ly. She said we should hold on to God and be patient because the boy would not come out now, but would later come out unexpected­ly and that God would make him rich, a millionaire, straight from prison.

“I didn’t obey her instructions because it didn’t make sense that someone would become a million­aire from prison, and even a pau­per would not want to remain in prison. So, I gathered N350, 000 meant for that Police IPO and re­turned to Pastor Loveth to pray over it. She said again that the IPO would collect the money but my brother would not be released. I didn’t trust her after all, the IPO had given us every assurance. On the appointed day, the IPO asked that my brother be remanded in prison custody. The Judge accept­ed and I fainted. Yes, I fainted.

So, I returned to Pastor Loveth and pleaded with her to forgive my unbelief. She reiterated that God would release my brother after favouring him. My brother was released in 2021. You won’t believe it but he bought his large tract of land from the prison. The big generator they have now in Okere Prison, Warri, my broth­er bought it. From the prison, he released more than five inmates. Remember that Pastor Loveth had told us that my brother would be favoured from the prison and God did it; right in the prison, he met a lady who changed his life. Now, my mother is dead and I head her church ministry. Pas­tor Loveth is the minister to me who is the head of that ministry – Holy Ghost Prophetic Solution Ministry, Eterigbe, Warri, near the Federal Petroleum Universi­ty”.

When Mrs. Ebietan spoke with me, she was visiting Asa­ba to honour Pastor Loveth on her birthday, just to hon­our her. God honours her words. When she tells you that such and such are going to hap­pen, you better believe her – in your own interest.

Pastor Loveth is married with children. Often she is just an ordinary wife and mother concerned about ordi­nary things; children’s school, their health. Other times, she would talk lovingly about her brothers and her aged mother who is living with her. At such times she would leave you wondering when and how she goes from the physical world to the realm of the spiritual. She attributes it all to God, the Almighty who knows all things but whom we can’t comprehend.