The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC an Islamic civil rights activist group has demanded the arrest of Bosun Emmanuel, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG and David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith church also called Winners Chapel. This, the group said, became important after the Christian clerics allegedly “whip up religious…
Jordan Kills Convicted Jihadists After Pilots Death
Following the gruesome killing of its abducted air force pilot by Islamic State militants, Jordan has executed two convicted jihadists. The convicted Jihadists, Sajida al-Rishawi, a female and al-qaeda operative Ziyad Karboli, both Iraqi citizens, were hanged on Wednesday morning. The executions is coming on the heels of the release of a video believed to…
FG Plans to Approve 9 More Universities
The Federal government has concluded plans to approve nine more universities. This was disclosed by Ibrahim Shekarau, Education Minister on February 2 in Abuja while reviewing the Nigerian Basic Education Sector 2011-2015. “If not for technical reason, another nine would have been approved before now. Soon, we shall sort out all the outstanding issues and…
Elections: Police Reassures On Security
In preparation for the 2015 general elections, Suleiman Abba, Inspector General of Police, hasreassured on the readiness of the Police to guarantee maximum protection of Nigerians, INEC officers and Ad-hoc staff during and after the elections billed for February 14 and 28. Abba, speaking during a briefing with senior officers on Tuesday, February 3, in…
Nigerian Immigration Deported 433 Foreigners In 2014
The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, Seme Command, Lagos, on Monday announced that it deported 433 irregular immigrants between January and December 2014. Seme Command spokesperson, Salmon Yusuf, said that 50 Nigerians were also deported from other countries during the same period. He explained that 144, 288 people arrived the country through the Seme border during…
Electoral Offenders Will Be Punished – IG
Suleiman Abba, the Inspector-General of Police, on Monday cautioned politicians to advise their supporters not to engage in violence ahead of the forthcoming elections, stating that they would not go unpunished. Abba made this disclosure at a meeting with senior police officers at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday. While stressing that the police…
Jonathan Narrowly Escapes Blast in Gombe
A bomb explosion has rocked a car park outside a stadium in Gombe State shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan addressed a campaign rally at the stadium on Monday. Eyewitnesses said the explosion occurred at around 3.10pm, few minutes after the president left the campaign venue. “The president had just passed the parking lot and we…
Billionaire Business Man, Okoya-Thomas Dies At 79
Billionaire business man, accountant and industrialist, Molade Okoya-Thomas is dead. He died on Monday morning at 79. The news of his death was announced by the Nigerian Table Tennis Federation. The business man, who was born in Lagos on June 8, 1935, was recognised as the Asoju Oba of Lagos, Babasuwa of Ijebu-Remo and Odofin…
Ukraine Rebels To Recruit 100,000 Fighters
Pro-Russian separatist leader, Alexander Zakharchenko, has revealed plans to recruit 100,000 men even as fighting with Ukrainian forces intensifies. The separatists plans to push government forces out of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and are hoping to capture the key town of Debaltseve. Zakharchenko told news men that “mobilisation will start in 11…
Ekundayo, Ekiti ex-Information Commissioner, loses wife
Funke Ekundayo, wife of Tayo Ekundayo, Ekiti State immediate past Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, has died. She was aged 57. According to a statement issued by the family, she died in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, January 31 after a brief illness. Ekundayo was until her death a senior Education Officer with the Lagos State…
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