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At least, 17 US Christian missionaries and their family members including children, have been kidnapped by gang members in Haiti. Haitian security officials told The New York Times that the missionaries were kidnapped while leaving an orphanage. Local officials said the missionaries were taken from a bus headed to the airport to drop off some members of the group before continuing to another destination in Haiti. The message stated that the mission’s field director is working with the US Embassy, and that the field director’s family and one other unidentified man stayed at the ministry’s base while everyone else visiting the orphanage was abducted. A US State Department…

Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor, Moses Ekpo was bestowed with The Sun Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2020 at the Expo Convention Centre of the prestigious Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos on Saturday, October 16. In the letter of nomination to the Deputy Governor signed by the Managing Director, Mr. Onuoha Ukeh, the Sun Newpapers traced the career trajectory of Mr. Ekpo and described him as “a role model for the youths of contemporary generation”. It noted “You started as a journalist, rose through the ranks to the pinnacle of journalism, went into public service where you distinguished yourself, showing dynamism,…

Confusion trails the factional leaderships of the Akwa Ibom All Progressives Congress (APC) held separate congresses at the weekend in elect new state executive to take over from the interim regime led by Dr. Ita Udosen, as Chairman. This followed the conduct of the exercise by the feuding factions loyal to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio; Group Captain Sam Ewang, Chairman, Akwa Ibom Elders’ Forum and that of Senator John Udoedehe, the National Care-taker Secretary in-charge of the Congress Planning Committee. At the end of the parallel congresses, different list flew throwing the exercise into more…

Nigerian twins from Nasarawa State are currently at loggerheads after the man informed the sister that he wanted to marry another woman. According to media personality, Bello Lukman, who shared the story online, the twins- Amos and Juliana Kunde- lost their parents to gunmen attack sometime back. They started sleeping together and soon the sister became pregnant for her brother. To avoid the prying eyes of those who know them, they moved to another village where many believed they were a married couple.  They later welcomed another child together. Trouble started between them when Amos told Juliana that he wants…

Tuface’s baby mama who finally spoke after the singer’s wife, Annie Idibia’s trolls calling the husband out for sleeping under same roof with her (Pero) when he visited his kids. Pero Adeniyi’s reaction came after she was being addressed as “Tuface’s first wife” by her friends, as they hung out in Abuja. Annie had sparked the row that Tuface also known as 2Baba slept under same roof with Pero during his recent visit to his children in the United States of America. Annie who noted that she has made many sacrifices for Tuface, had claimed that his baby mamas “use…

Queen Elizabeth 11 is ‘ordered to quit drinking to make sure she’s as fit and healthy as possible,’ the royal doctors advised. Her Majesty, who is in good physical health and has been seen using a walking stick during recent engagements in Wales with no specific medical reason given, has allegedly been advised to forgo alcohol except for special occasions due to her busy autumn schedule. According to two sources close to the monarch quoted in a magazine, doctors have also given the advice ahead of the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations next June. ”The Queen has been told to give up her…

Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of Citadel Global Community Church (formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly), said he would, only if ‘God’ and ‘Nigerians’ want him to contest the 2023 presidential election. Bakare said this on Friday, October 15, after a private meeting with the President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In 2011, Bakare, was the running mate of Buhari on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change. Speaking with State House Correspondents after the meeting, he said the visit was to “dispense what was in my heart” to the President. “The Office of the President is only one office, there…

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, October 19 as a public holiday. Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, said the public holiday is to commemorate Eid-ul-Mawlud, which is the birth of Prophet Muhammad. This was contained in a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Shuaib Belgore on Friday, NAN reports. Aregbesola congratulated all Nigerian Muslim faithful, both at home and in the diaspora, on the occasion of Eid-ul-Mawlud. He called on Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of love, patience and perseverance which were the virtues of the Holy Prophet, as doing so would guarantee peace and security…

The senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, Lagos, Tunde Bakare has recanted his words that he would no longer pay visit to President Muhammadu Buhari. Bakare  who was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential general election had in a sermon in his church said it was time for war against Muhammadu Buhari’s regime, saying he would no longer pay visits to the president who he once supported. Bakare, in his church service in July 2021, had revealed that he visited the president to advise him on national issues, but the president often failed to heed his advice. However,…

Akwa Ibom State Police Command has rescued a one-month, three-weeks-old baby, said to have been stolen from his mother by a ‘sick’ stranger. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Odiko Macdon who stated this during the third quarter media briefing held at the Command Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia in Uyo said the suspect, a 40-year-old Margaret Friday Akpan of Ekpene Ukim Uruan, visited the victim’s mother, Mrs. Blessing Jackson Ekwere pretending to be sick and thereafter sent the said Blessing to buy drugs for her. According to the PPRO, the suspect ran away with the baby boy-…