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Prophet Who Ordered Members To Go Home With Their Offerings Celebrates Birthday In Style

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~By Oluwaseun Fabiyi The Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe aka Genesis that I know with a simplicity heart of generosity, Undoubtedly he’s a gift from God to mankind, above all he remains a mercurial preacher with a pursuant of true gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the whole world. Were it possible from this time on, the never-ending heavenly Carol should be sung this season to a minister of God with a difference, and a man of the people whom you are, your essence and the things you do, are…

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Mother arrested for poisoning one-year-old epileptic daughter

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A mother attempting to kill her sick child, using an insecticide has been arrested by police in Lagos. The Police spokesman in the state, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday said that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday. He said the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police that the mother brought her one-year-and-seven-month-old daughter to the hospital for treatment. He added that the mother confessed to a doctor at the hospital that she gave the child an insecticide to…

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Emotions, as govs, Akpabio, Dangote, Peter Obi, Sanusi, others attend the Wigwe’s funeral

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It is an emotionally charged air at the funeral of the late Access Bank boss, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, and son, Chizi, at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Lion of Judah Parish, Isiokpi, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Tears welled up in many faces at the solemn occasion. Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Doreen, son, Chizzy, and former Managing Director of Nigerian Exchange Group, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, died in a helicopter crash in the US on February 9. Their bodies arrived in the country yesterday, for today’s…

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Joshua defeats Ngannou in a second-round KO

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Anthony Joshua has won his fourth straight fight by securing a second-round knockout win over Cameroonian boxer, Francis Ngannou, in the main event of the “Knockout Chaos” card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After securing consecutive victories in 2023 with wins over Jermaine Franklin in April and Robert Helenius with a seventh-round knockout in August, Joshua, in December, cruised to a fifth-round technical knockout win over Otto Wallin, who had been expected to be a formidable opponent, especially with his southpaw stance. Joshua has now secured knockout wins over two fighters…

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48 suspected Internet fraudsters, herbalist arrested in Kogi

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48 suspected Internet fraudsters and a herbalist have been arrested by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining Money under false pretence in Lokoja, Kogi State capital. The Ilorin zonal Command office of EFCC covers Kwara, Kogi and Ekiti states with the zonal headquarters in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. A statement by Dele Oyewale, head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, in Ilorin on Thursday said the suspects were arrested upon credible intelligence on Tuesday, March 5,…

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N1.2bn fraud: Tinubu suspends REA boss, directors

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The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency, Ahmad Salihijo, has been indefinitely suspended from office alongside three executive directors of the agency by President Bola Tinubu. This followed “new findings unearthed during a comprehensive investigation into the financial activities of the Rural Electrification Agency,” the State House revealed in a statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale. The statement is titled, ‘President Tinubu suspends Rural Electrification Agency managing director and team from office.’ Aside from Salihijo, the President also suspended the…

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Bandits abduct 280 pupils from Kaduna schools

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Over 280 pupils and teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA primary school at Kuriga, Kaduna State were abducted by bandits on Thursday, triggering national outrage. The Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Amnesty International, the Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, the Nigeria Union of Teachers, and the House of Representatives condemned the attack and asked the government to rescue the victims immediately The bandits reportedly invaded the Kuriga area of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday, shooting at their victims before taking away at least 280 of the…

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Terrorists kill 50 in Benue, NASS leadership to meet Tinubu over insecurity

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The National Assembly, particularly the Senate, has declared very disturbing, unfortunate, and sad the killing of over 50 people in fresh attacks on some communities in Benue State by suspected terrorists and unabated security challenges across the country. It also urged the service chiefs and heads of other security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, deploy security personnel to address the continuing and ongoing attacks by armed terrorists parading as herdsmen on communities in Kwande, Ukum, Logo, and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas of Benue State to flush them out…

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Mother of three commits suicide after dropping kids in Enugu police station

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A mother of three children has allegedly committed suicide in Enugu State over what some sources attributed to the unbearable economic hardship and rising cost of living in the country. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday, March 2. The woman, whose identity had yet to be ascertained, had gone to the Ogui Police Station in the Enugu North Local Government Area of the state and reportedly dropped her three kids, without leaving a word with anyone. An eyewitness who refused to be mentioned said that the middle-aged…

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767 manufacturers shut down in 2023 – MAN

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The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has said that 767 manufacturers shut down operations while 335 became distressed in 2023. This came against the backdrop of exchange rate volatility, rising inflation and other economic challenges that have worsened the investment climate. MAN stated this in a statement in which it condemned the recently introduced Expatriate Employment Levy by the Federal Government. The association said it was struck with disbelief, seeing that the levy runs contrary to President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and the kernel of his Fiscal Policy and Tax…

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