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Bishop Seun Adeoye of Sufficient Grace and Truth Ministry (SGTM), Rehoboth Arena, Osun State has said unless major stakeholders in the Nigeria project retrace their steps to save the country, the nation’s democracy is presently on the way to total collapse. In a statement on Monday, December 12, 2016, the Bishop said the threat to the nation’s democracy was manifesting through the current economic pains Nigerians are currently passing through, the various reports of manipulations of electoral processes and the lopsided political appointments in favour of some sections of the…

The medical certificates of five Cabin crews we’re suspended this last weekend by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, over drug-related offences. The crew, whose names were yet to be disclosed were said to have tested positive to marijuana during Drug Screening Test, MDST, conducted on participants of the Cabin Crew Training Basic Course – 30 (CCTB – 30 ) at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) Zaria, Kaduna State According to Mr Sam Adurogboye, General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, the Substance, marijuana, is deemed under Part 1.2.1.8. of the…

A Catholic priest, Rev. Father Gabriel Ngbe of Akwangwa Catholic Church, in Nasarawa State, on Sunday canvassed the need for Catholic Church to incorporate some good aspects of African culture in its Doctrine. The Catholic Priest made this known while celebrating Acculturation Mass at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Akwanga. Ngbe insisted that the Catholic doctrine must be amended, especially in the African Catholic Churches in order to accommodate every member of the Church. “The Whiteman that brought Christianity to us mixed the religion with his culture and Africans just accepted…

After jointly reducing output in order to rein in oversupply and prop up the market, oil prices shot up over four per cent to their highest level since 2015 early on Monday after OPEC and other producers over the weekend in Vienna reached first output cut deal since 2001. Brent sweet crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, soared to 57.89 dollars per barrel in overnight trading between Sunday and Monday, its highest level since July 2015. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures also hit a July 2015…

Phil Hallmark Shopping Mall, the biggest Shopping Mall in Benin the Edo State capital was, yesterday razed by fire, even as Governor Godwin Obaseki has said there would be full investigation to unravel the immediate and remote cause(s) of the fire. The governor, who spoke when he paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to the scene, also said investigation would be conducted into the activities of the state fire service. Obaseki described the damage as catastrophic and a major disaster. According to him, ”this incident happening at this time of the…

At least three worshippers at the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Ikotun, Lagos State, have been confirmed dead after a stampede on the church’s premises on Saturday. It was discovered that the victims were part of a crowd that struggled to see the church’s General Overseer, Prophet Temitope Joshua, during a special healing service. It was gathered that while two of the victims were identified as Emeka Okonkwo and Emmanuel Oherin, the third victim had yet to be identified. Their corpses were said to have been deposited in a morgue…

At least 17 people we’re wounded when two girls of about seven or eight years old blew themselves up in a northeastern market on Sunday, killing themselves, witnesses said. The girls were “seven or eight”, a local militia member in Maiduguri, Abdulkarim Jabo, said. Emergency services on-site in the town, the epicentre of the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency, said 17 people sustained injuries. Maiduguri militia-man Jabo said he saw the girls Sunday immediately before the explosion. “They got out of a rickshaw and walked right in front of me without…