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At least 20 people were suspected to have been killed by unknown gunmen in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State on Monday, January 1, 2018. According to a report by The Punch, the gunmen attacked the community while residents were celebrating during the early hours of the new year. The gunmen are suspected to be working for a former militant leader, Don Nwanee. Even though the state’s police command confirmed the incident, details of the tragedy were not yet available. Details later.

Founder and Senior Pastor of the Omega Fire Ministry, Auchi, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has released 50 shocking prophecies for the year 2018. Apostle Suleman’s 50 prophecies: 1. Economy to get better in Nigeria in 2018 2. Year of serial bombings in Nigeria 3. Imo State Governor to make governorship a family affair 4. Donald Trump’s health needs attention 5. New strategies of killing perceived political enemies in Nigeria will arise 6. Wild-fire outbreak in an American state 7. Man-hunt for Ekiti state Governor by the Federal Government of Nigeria 8. Government of Nigeria to disobey court orders 9. God says,…

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has revealed his prophecy for 2018. He made 11 revelations which were divided into 3 groups – individual prophecies, predictions for Nigeria, and what the world should expect in general. Individual 1. Erstwhile stubborn mountains will move. 2. Many people will wake up to realise that their future is not in the hand of any government and as a result a lot of lost ground will be reclaimed. 3. Saboteurs will be disgraced and displaced. Nigeria 1. Significant goliaths will fall. 2. Before the end…

Two people have died from fireworks injuries amid New Year celebrations in Germany, but the country avoided a repeat of the mass groping in Cologne from 2016, amid heightened security and efforts to protect women from sexual harassment. In the Brandenburg region outside Berlin, the dpa news agency reported Monday that a 35-year-old man died after igniting fireworks, and a 19-year-old suffered fatal head injuries after he set off a homemade device. Police in Cologne reported seven cases of sexual harassment, while Berlin police reported 10 and seven arrests as several hundred thousand people celebrated at the city’s Brandenburg Gate.…

Former President Barack Obama is the most admired man in the United States and has been for the past 10 years, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. For the 22nd time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman. The poll found that 17 percent of respondents declared Obama as the man they most admired, with President Donald Trump in second place with 14 percent. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was named the most admired woman with 9 percent of respondents, just surpassing the 7 percent who chose former first lady Michelle Obama. A quarter of…

Cholesterol is made in your liver and has many important functions. For example, it helps keep the walls of your cells flexible and is needed to make several hormones. Like anything in the body, too much cholesterol or cholesterol in the wrong places creates problems. Like fat, cholesterol does not dissolve in water. Instead, its transport in the body depends on molecules called lipoproteins, which carry cholesterol, fat and fat-soluble vitamins in the blood. Different kinds of lipoproteins have different effects on health. For example, high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) result in cholesterol deposits in blood vessel walls, which…

The founder and General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, (MFM), Dr. Daniel K. Olukoya, has released 35 prophecies for the year 2018. Olukoya tagged 2018 as “My Year of Extra-ordinary turn around” and took his text from Psalms 110:1 and Galatians 6:9. Olukoya urged Christians to be more prayerful this year as there will be “death of rebellious leaders and kings, political confusion, great fall for corrupt people. Here are the prophecies below. 1. Year of terrible attack on marriages 2. Year of wild infirmity attack 3. Spiritual weakness would be a tragedy 4. Fingers would…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to enterprising Nigerians, unemployed graduates, able-bodied and literate men and women with ideas not to wait for employment from government or the Organized Private Sector. Buhari, who made the appeal Monday in his 2018 New Year message, noted that “Great nations are built by enterprising people who turn their hands to anything that circumstances dictate.” He, however, blamed cabal for creating the current fuel scarcity in the country, and pledged to stop the blackmailers from doing so again. According to him, “The consequence was that not many could travel and the few who did had…

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has remitted additional N3.6 billion to the nation’s treasury. The Registrar of the Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said this on Tuesday during a meeting with Executives of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COESU) in his office in Bwari, Abuja. He said the N5.2 billion earlier sent to the treasury was not the total money the Board actually transferred to the government. Prof. Oloyede said “more monies generated from the sale of 2017 admission documents were transferred”, adding that “the Board had so far remitted N7.8 billion to the treasury”. Earlier the COESU National…