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Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, (NCPC), has announced Turkey as one of its latest pilgrimage destinations in the coming year 2024. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Reverend Yakubu Pam, said this at the Third Annual General Staff Retreat of the Commission with Partners from Turkey, held in Jos, the Plateau State Capital. Despite the numerous challenges encountered by the NCPC three years ago, which began with the COVID-19 pandemic, the commission was able to successfully execute six pilgrimages under the leadership of Reverend Yakubu Pam. This retreat is for strategic planning, towards ensuring that the tempo is sustained, as it announces Turkey…

Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has issued a warrant of the arrest on the Central Bank Governor, Mr Olayemi Cardoso, the Accountant General of the Federation, Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein and 17 others for refusing to appear before it to answer questions on their operations. This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep Fred Agbedi (PDP-Bayelsa) at the committee’s hearing on Tuesday. Moving the motion, Agbedi said that the arrest warrant had become inevitable following the attitude of the invitees. ……He said that the parliament worked with time and the CEOs had been invited…

Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan US officials expect the current phase of Israeli ground invasion of Gaza targeting the southern end of the strip to last several weeks before Israel transitions, possibly by January, to a lower-intensity, hyper-localized strategy that narrowly targets specific Hamas militants and leaders, multiple senior administration officials tell CNN. But as the war enters this new ground phase in the south, the White House is deeply concerned about how Israel’s operations will unfold over the next several weeks, a senior US administration official said. The US has warned Israel firmly in “hard” and “direct” conversations, they said, that the…

Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan Turmeric milk has a lot of health benefits, and it’s particularly good for people over 45 because they’re more susceptible to diseases, so they should drink it as much as they can. 1 Promotes Brain Function And Memory: Drinking turmeric milk on a regular basis can help you improve your brain function by increasing the development of brain cells and allowing your brain to react faster. According to healthline, Turmeric tea also helps to improve memory by protecting the brain from degeneration and disorders that might cause memory loss. 2 Prevents Heart Diseases: The two…

Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan Four police operatives involved in the alleged adoption of a hotel staff in Port Harcourt have been apprehended by the Rivers State Police Command. This newspaper gathered that after kidnapping the hotel staff, the police officers demanded a ransom to release him. The hotel staff simply identified as Darlington was reportedly arrested on his way to work at about 8 pm last Friday when the police officers accosted him near Choba in Obio/Akpor local government area of the State. It was learnt that the policemen searched the man’s phone and body but found nothing incriminating…

Summary of Claims: Social media has been awash with a report making the rounds that the embattled former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele has been forced to refund N4 trillion he allegedly looted to the federal government. In the same report a former CBN Deputy Governor, Tunde Lemo, also allegedly refunded $500 million supposedly looted taxpayers’ money. Also in the report is the claim of the discovery of $275 million in the bank account of a six-year-old son of Sabiu Yusuf, a.k.a Tunde, a Personal Assistant to former President Muhammadu Buhari. The report went on to allege yet another N1.5…

Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ruled in favour of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho. It was gathered that the court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the Government of Benin Republic to pay 20 million CFA to Igboho. According to the court, the sum was compensation for violating Igboho’s fundamental rights and unlawful detention. ADULAWO NEWS reports that the court gave the order in a unanimous judgement delivered by Justices Gberi-Bé Ouattara, Sengu M. Koroma and Ricardo Claúdio Monteiro Goncalves, in the matter,…

Damilola Timilehin, Ibadan The Federal Government of Nigeria has  accent to sale of Falcon 900B aircraft owned by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). NAF on its X handle (formerly Twitter) formally put the aircraft for sale and asked for bidders for the aircraft. NAF said it was acting in compliance with provisions of the public procurement Act 2007, saying that “the NAF hereby invites all interested parties to submit bids for purchase of the aircraft. The bids can be submitted by email or physically. “If submitted by email, the bids are to be password protected and sent to dproc@airforce.mil.ng while the password…

Fintech company, Opay, has been down for over an hour as Nigerians cannot send money through its app on Monday evening. This is even as Nigerians have gone to various social media platforms to express their fears. A social media user, @8jagistplug tweeted: “I no understand weytin Opay Dey do this night make I just sleep wake up first. Abeg make nothing happen to my 1.5 Billion” Another user, @iamvinicius_snr, said: “If opay crashes the amount of small businesses that would crash with it would be crazy.” Also, @cajal_ebuara: “Please oh I made a transfer of 80k from my…

The poor performance of the Super Eagles in their recent competitive matches has swelled the demand for the inclusion of at least two or three home-based players in coach, Jose Peseiro’s starting XI as the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Ivory Coast draws closer. Since Peseiro took over as Super Eagles’ coach, he has shown some level of support for the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL). However, the Portuguese hardly fixes them in his team sheets. Peseiro has tried foreign-based players several times and the results are not encouraging. The Super Eagles have been dominated by foreign-based professionals…