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Some Nigerian Pentecostal/ Charismatic clerics who had predicted that Nigeria’s Super Eagles were going to defeat the Elephants of Cote Ivoire in the final match of the African Cup of Nations, 2023, are now being treated with scorn by their compatriots. Although many Nigerians waxed religious,  praying, speaking in tongues and ‘binding and losing’ for  the heavens to smile at Nigeria at different stages in the tournament, the pulpit declarations and prophecies of those preachers who purportedly had God’s ears and possessed the special anointing to “decree a thing have it established” ostensibly strengthened the hope of not a…

South-West May Get Additional Three States As Lawmaker Presents Fresh Bil A bill seeking the creation of three additional states in the South-West has been listed for presentation in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by the lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Osun State, Oluwole Oke, the proposed law is seeking the creation of Oke-Ogun, Ijebu and Ife-Ijesa states. The proposed legislation is titled “A Bill for an Act to amend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)”. It seeks an amendment to the First Schedule, Part I of the Constitution to read, “The First Schedule, Part…

The police in Borno State have apprehended a couple having sex inside the All Saints Protestant Church, Police College, Maiduguri, the capital of the northeast state. The couple, identified as Kaka Ali Umar of Damboa Road and Khadija Adam of Ngomari area, Maiduguri, were arrested in the act on Monday, February 12, 2024, at about 11:40 am. Rev Danjuma Adamu told the police that they were having sex right inside his church when they were caught. Khadija said Kaka Ali paid her N1,000 for a short time. The two suspects have been detained for further investigation.

Some gunmen have killed a police inspector and released seven inmates in an attack on Okigwe Correctional Farm Settlement in Umualomoke, Okigwe in Imo State. The gunmen also attacked the residence of Senator Patrick Ndubeze in Okigwe, while they abducted the officer in charge of the farm settlement. The state Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, ordered the immediate deployment of the command’s Special Tactical Squad to work with the military and other sister security agencies to hunt down the suspected IPOB/ESN operatives. Danjuma also mandated that the abducted officer be rescued unhurt and the fleeing inmates arrested and made to…

The two hostages freed in an overnight operation have said they were held captive in the home of a family in Rafah, the Ynet news site reports. According to the report, Fernando Marman, 61, and Louis Har, 70, told Sheba Medical Center, where they are now being treated, that the reason for their relatively good health despite being held hostage for 129 days was that they were imprisoned in a Gaza home — the implication being that they were not held in a tunnel. Marman and Har were taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7. Clara Marman, 62,…

A Muslim Nigerian lady has taken to social media to tender a piece of advice to fellow Muslims. Nafeesah Yaqub urged her fellow ‘sisters’ to refer to their husbands as ‘ours’ and not ‘mine’ as men are not the property of one woman.

At least one traditional ruler, two Baales (community heads) and two mining companies are under investigation in relation to their involvement in illegal mining in parts of Oyo State. Although, the names and identities of those involved in the ongoing investigation could not be confirmed at press time, it was gathered that the recently suspended Onido of Ido, Oba Gbolagade Babalola, remains one of those under investigation. The Director General, Oyo State Mineral Development Agency (OYSMDA), Abiodun Oni, made this known at the weekend after conducting an on-the-spot assessment visit to the controversial illegal mining site at Odo Ogun village in…

A former Nigerian international goalkeeper, Idah Peterside, has called for the sacking of the Super Eagles Coach, Jose Peseiro. Peseiro led the Super Eagles to the final of the African Cup of Nations which ended yesterday. However, the team lost to Ivory Coast to claim second. Two strikes from Franck Kessie and Sebastien Haller were enough to cancel Troost-Ekong’s opener. Prior to the game, the Super Eagles players and officials were confident that Nigeria would be crowned kings of Africa after Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final clash against host Ivory Coast. Peterside who retired from active football in…

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Apo on Monday, fixed February 26 to hear a motion the former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Olu Agunloye, who was accused of complicity in a $6 billion contract fraud, filed to challenge the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to prosecute him. The EFCC alleged that Agunloye, who served as a Minister between 1999 and 2003, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, illegally awarded a contract for the construction of a 3,960 MW Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Station on a Build, Operate, and…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has knocked the Federal Government for providing grains as a palliative for the food insecurity plaguing the country. Recall that President Tinubu had ordered the immediate release of 102,000 metric tonnes of rice, maize, and millet from government reserves and stores of the rice millers to the Nigerian market. Speaking in an interview on Arise News on Sunday, the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said that it is an insult to Nigerians for the government to release grains to address the level of hunger and poverty in the nation. Ajaero said Nigerians do not need grain…