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A Nigerian man of God has predicted a major shake-up in the country’s political system from February to April this year. Apostle Emmanuel Nuhu Kure, who made the prediction during the February 2018 National Prayer Altar meeting in Abuja, posited “I want Nigerians to watch out the happenings within these months and see what God is going to do.” Kure, who is the founder of Throneroom Trust Ministries, Kafanchan in Kaduna State, said “By April this year, Israel will celebrate 70 years of independence. It is the month of Adar in Jewish calendar. There will be strange miracles and changing…

Heart-rending tributes from different parts of the world have continued to pour in over the demise of Billy Graham, US televangelist at the age of 99. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that “the GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man.” The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2018 Mike Pence, US Vice President said in a statement that…

Some Nigerians have reacted to the marriage proposal of Rev. Fr. Patrick Henry Edet of Grace Family slated for Saturday,  March 17, this year, with a respondent querying “I hope his wife meets him a virgin.” The decision by the popular Uyo-based cleric and radio preacher, Rev. Fr. Edet,​ who ​resigned as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church​, six months ago, has set social media frenzy​. The respondents in Naijagists reacted differently. One Joyful Amaka  posited “I hope his wife meets him a virgin.”  F.M. Akinyemi observed,  “Forced celibacy in the name of God. It is better to marry…

The visit of Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, to Dapchi turned messy as officials were injured and seven vehicles damaged following pelting of his convoy with stones by residents of the town. Boko Haram insurgents had Monday stormed Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi and disappeared with 46 schoolgirls. Some of the girls who fled into the bushes in the area had returned to the school. The crowd, on sighting the governor in the area Thursday threw stones at his convoy, injuring some of his aides as well as government officials. The anger seemed to have been precipitated by the…

More than 549 deaths and displacement of thousands in 12 states in the last 12 months were recorded, Amnesty International stated, accusing the Federal Government of unlawful killings, torture and detention of persons. Enumerating a litany of mishaps it encapsulated in 15 human rights issues in Nigeria, the London-based Non-Governmental Organisation, in its 2017/2018 annual report also lamented that inter-communal violence linked to lingering clashes between herdsmen and farming communities resulted in It reported that ”Boko Haram carried out at least 65 attacks causing 411 civilian deaths, and abducted at least 73 people. Sixteen women, including 10 policewomen, were abducted…

The Council of States Thursday endorsed $1 billion from the current $200 million to boost agriculture and empower livestock farmers including the Fulani herdsmen. The Council also recommended inter-state security joint operations to flush out bandits, especially those operating from the forests. Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, alongside Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Willy Obiano of Anambra State, stated this while briefing State House correspondents after a six-hour Council of States meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The financial assistance to cattle farmers, they said, was not designed to…

The crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has taken another dimension with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s lead trouble shooter accusing Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the national chairman of erecting barriers to peace in the party. Tinubu in a letter dated February 21, 2018, specifically accused the national chairman of festering the crises through unilateral decisions regarding the crises in the Kogi, Kaduna and Adamawa chapters of the party. Meanwhile, the APC National Working Committee, NWC has constituted a team of national officers to investigate the fresh rumpus in the Kaduna State chapter of the party which led to…

A returnee professor of Econometrics who incurred the wrath of police for allegedly operating an illegal organisation in Nigeria, has been paraded, the Force Headquarters has confirmed. Brimmy Olaghere, a returnee US-based university don was alleged to have duped many unsuspecting jobless Nigerians under the pretext of giving them job in the organisation he established in United African States, USA with head office in Abuja. Parading the suspects in Abuja, Jimoh Moshood, the Force Public Relations Officer, said the force through credible information at its disposal, revealed that the organisation was among several others that “have started acquiring weapons and conducting covert…

The President and Chief Executive, Dangote Group, Mr. Aliko Dangote, has said his companies’ annual revenue for 2017 exceeded $4.1 billion. Dangote also stated that the group planned to invest $4.6 billion in the next three years on sugar, rice and dairy production alone. Speaking during the Dangote Food Distributors Award night in Lagos, Dangote said, “In 2017, our annual revenues exceeded $4.1 billion. Our new projects include the world’s largest single train petroleum refinery, which is being built in Ibeju-Lekki here in Lagos at the cost of $12 billion. ”This, we believe, will address Nigeria’s energy needs and eliminate…

General Ibrahim Babangida, a former Military Head of State, Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Chief Ernest Shonekan, ex-Presidents were conspicuously absent at Thursday’s Council of States meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the time the meeting started few minutes after 11 a.m. before journalists left the venue only Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Yakubu Gowon and Abdulsalami Abubakar, three former Heads of State along side President Muhammadu Buhari were at the venue. The meeting, which is the third under the democratic administration of President Buhari, was also attended for the first time by Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State governor. The Council of States…