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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has said his shame turned to celebration, having faced a lot of tribulations last year. Ooni said this during the Grand-finale of New Year Prayer organized by the Christian Association of Nigeria at Afewonro Park, Enuwa Square, on Saturday, in Ile-Ife. Oba Ogunwusi, who led different Christian worship songs and praises during the service, clarified that it was a good thing to always praise the Lord Jesus Christ and appreciate Him. “When I look back, I observe that my life is full of God’s wonders and miracles despite all challenges faced, but today,…

The Peoples Democratic Party House of Representatives candidate for Birnin Kebbi, Bunza, Kalgo Federal Constituency, Abba Bello Muhammad, is dead. The lawyer passed on after a brief illness on Friday in Abuja. The party chapter’s Gubernatorial Campaign Council, in a statement by Abubakar Usman, on behalf of the Publicity Committee, mourned the passing of its frontline member. 2023: PDP will never return to power – Tinubu The statement said the Council and leaders were deeply shocked and saddened by the loss. It directed that all campaign activities be suspended till further notice. Chairman of the Publicity Committee, Alhaji Sani Gwandu,…

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has approved the suspension of four students of the institution identified in a viral video and found culpable of partaking in an unlawful act of water ritual on a fellow female student. The announcement of the suspension is contained in a release signed on Saturday in Calabar by Mr. Gabriel Egbe, Registrar of the institution. Egbe said that the unlawful act was carried out by the four students during the last matriculation ceremony of the institution on December 2, 2022. Egbe mentioned the affected students to include Stephen Usen,…

A popular singer, Olawale Olofooro, aka Brymo, caused a stir online on Thursday, January 5, 2023, when he stated on Twitter that it would be difficult for an Igbo person to be elected as the president of the country, because of the secessionist agitation by some prominent people in Igbo land. Maintaining his stance in an interview with Saturday Beats, the singer said, “I did not mean an Igbo person is unfit for the presidency. That sounds ‘tribalistic. “I am not supporting Bola Tinubu (presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress) just because I am a Yoruba man from Lagos.…

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has hinted that God has not spoken to him yet on the winner of the next President of the country in the forthcoming 2023 polls. The revered cleric made the claim on Saturday morning, January 7, during this month’s Holy Ghost Service tagged, “Wonderful” which was held at the Redemption City, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State. Adeboye added that members of RCCG and Nigerians at large should ensure their Permanent Voter Cards are handy and ready to be used to exercise their civic rights come February 25 presidential…

Mali’s junta leader has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in July and accused of conspiring against the Malian government, the presidency said in a statement on Friday. The soldiers’ arrest sparked a diplomatic dispute between Mali and neighbouring Ivory Coast, and widespread condemnation from regional leaders against a country already at odds with the international community. They were arrested at the airport in nation’s capital Bamako last July. The authorities said the troops were acting as mercenaries, while Ivory Coast said they were part of a United Nations peace keeping mission in Mali. Three who were women were later released,…

A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said. No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News. “The individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, adding that “this was not an accidental shooting.” Police said that the victim was a teacher in her 30s and her injuries were believed to be life-threatening. “I’m in shock, and I’m disheartened,” said the…

Local media on Friday reported that Kenyan police had discovered the body of a prominent LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. ) rights campaigner stuffed inside a metal box in the west of the country. Police sources said that motorbike taxi riders alerted the police after they saw the box dumped by the roadside from a vehicle with a concealed number plate. Activist Edwin Chiloba’s remains were found on Tuesday near Eldoret Town in Uasin Gishu County, where he ran his fashion business, an independent rights group, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) said. “He was brutally killed and dumped…

The struggles of France’s health system will probably get worse before things improve, President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Friday, as he pledged to improve working conditions and hire more medical assistants for administrative tasks. France, like many other European countries, is facing a shortage of healthcare staff, particularly in rural areas, with many hospitals overstretched, the population aging, a high number of doctors and nurses retiring and the system snarled in red tape. “We’re facing a situation that could well get worse,” Macron said, citing the need to train up a new generation of medical staff in a New Year…

Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of Mexican drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman in the northern state of Sinaloa, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday. Mexican security forces on Thursday captured Guzman, a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Members of the Sinaloa Cartel and their associates went on a rampage, fighting security forces, setting vehicles on fire and blocking roads across the Pacific coastal state. The violence was concentrated in and around Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, home of the powerful drug cartel…