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Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has retired as the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), media reports claim. He announced the decision on Saturday morning. He will be replaced by Pastor Obayemi, a source said. Pastor Adeboye graduated with a B.Sc. in Mathematics at University of Nigeria Nsukka. He subsequently got his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a lecturer in mathematics at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin. After joining the RCCG in 1973, he began working to translate the sermons of its then Pastor and founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi…

Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win the presidential election, a US intelligence report says. The unclassified report says the Russian leader “ordered” a campaign aimed at influencing the election. Moscow has not commented, but Russia has previously denied the claims. After being briefed on the findings, Mr Trump stopped short of accusing Russia of interfering, saying only that the election outcome was not affected. Mr Trump later went on to blame “gross negligence” by the Democratic National Committee for “allowing” the hacking to take place. Following the report’s findings, the US Department of Homeland Security announced…

Telecommunication service provider, MTN Communications Limited must have run into troubled waters as Federal Government of Nigeria has obtained an order from a Federal high court to temporarily forfeit to the Nigerian Government N8 billion in its account number 0012005379 domiciled with ECOBANK suspected to be proceed of unlawful activity. Also affected by the order of the court is another account number 1013607079 containing billions of naira domiciled with Skye Bank whose owner has not filed any paper before the court to contest ownership. A suit number FHC/L/CS/1676/2016 was filed before a Federal high court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria by…

British troops have deployed to Sierra Leone as part of a new Africa mission to stop the migrant flow to Europe at its source. MailOnline reports that some 90 UK soldiers joined local troops in the jungle for the first time ever as the Armed Forces seeks to increase its military footprint in the region. Two thirds of Britain’s global training team effort is now in the continent after hundreds troops deployed to South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria to help bolster security. Whitehall sources said that by helping with stability in Africa, it would lead to ‘fewer migrant push factors’,…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will not make any signings in January and instead try and resolve new contracts for Chile winger Alexis Sanchez, 28, Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil, 28, France striker Olivier Giroud, 30, French midfielder Francis Coquelin, 25, and Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla, 32. (Sun) But Sanchez is being urged to continue his contract stand-off with Arsenal until the summer by Paris St-Germain with the Ligue 1 side hoping to sign the winger for £60m. (Daily Mirror) Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will try and sign Germany defender Holger Badstuber, 27, on a six-month loan deal from his former…

Arsene Wenger will not make any major signings this January – as he needs to resolve the futures of five of his biggest stars, TheSUN has reported. Arsenal still have a number of transfer targets but will wait until next summer to complete those deals if possible. Wenger wants to ensure that Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Olivier Giroud, Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla pledge their futures to the north London club. Sanchez and Ozil both have 18 months left on their current contracts but want improved salaries. There has been some back and forth with Giroud about what he should…

Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo, the 72 year-old human rights lawyer, will be sworn in today as Ghana’s new president. He succeeds John Dramani Mahama who he beat in the 7 December election. President Muhammadu Buhari and at least 10 African heads of state and more than 6,000 people are expected at the ceremony in the capital, Accra, where security will be tight. Akufo-Addo, who had run for the office twice before promised free high school education and more factories. He was a former justice and foreign minister in the NPP government from 2001 to 2007, Mr Akufo-Addo, from the New Patriotic…

Former Nigerian oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke temporarily forfeited $153.3 million to the Nigerian government today. This was sequel to an order by a Federal High Court in Lagos. The seized money, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was stolen from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and stashed in three banks in Nigeria, in US dollars and Naira. Out of the loot, N23.4 billion was kept in Sterling Bank Plc. The sum of N9.08 billion was kept in First Bank Plc and $5m in Access Bank Plc. Justice Muslim Hassan, who gave the order, gave Sterling Bank and any…

The US Congress is exploring ways to pay for a southern border wall, with payment to be sought from Mexico later. President-elect Donald Trump made building a wall, paid for by the US neighbour, a central campaign pledge. The businessman sparked a storm of disapproval in 2015 when he said Mexico was sending criminals and rapists north to the US through a porous border. In a tweet on Friday, he lashed out at the “dishonest media” for saying taxpayers would foot the bill. “Any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by…

Sunderland boss David Moyes says Jermain Defoe is not for sale amid speculation that West Ham will intensify their bid for the veteran striker. The club rejected a £6m bid from West Ham for the 34-year-old on Wednesday and the Hammers were reportedly willing to double their bid. “We have said Jermain is not for sale and he is not for sale. West Ham made a bid and we rejected it,” Moyes said. Defoe is Sunderland’s top scorer with 11 goals in 21 appearances this season. David Moyes also confirmed Defoe would be involved “in some way” when Sunderland host…