The Dunamis International Gospel Centre on Thursday inaugurated the construction of a road project initiated by the church, in Karu/Jikwoyi District in the Federal Capital Territory. Speaking at the inauguration, the District Pastor, Yakubu Usman, said that the 550 metres road project, expected to be completed in the next few months, was the church’s social responsibility to help humanity. “The gospel is unto good works, we are the salt of the earth, a city set upon the hill cannot be hidden. “So, this work is not to prove a point but a social responsibility of the church to alleviate the…
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Many people owe their successes to the magnanimity and accommodating nature of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said. Speaking at the 12th Colloquium, virtually, to mark the 69th birthday of the former governor of Lagos State, the Speaker said God used Tinubu to change the lives of so many people. “Today is Asiwaju’s day, it’s about him and it’s about Nigeria. I make bold to say, many of us, me inclusive, owe our personal successes to God, but I know and recognize that…
31st March 2021 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed–a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17) A teaching document titled “Sexuality and Identity: A Pastoral Statement from the College of Bishops” was released on 19 January 2021 by the Anglican Church in North America. Engagement with the Pastoral Statement in the…
The United States, in a report, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020’’, released on Wednesday by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, has excoriated Nigeria over its human rights records. In the report titled, ‘’’Nigeria 2020 Human Rights Report, Executive Summary,’’ the US accused Nigeria of ‘’significant’’ human rights abuses, which include: unlawful and arbitrary killings by both government and non-state actors; forced disappearances by the government, terrorists and criminal groups; torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government and terrorist groups; harsh and life-threatening…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecasted that Africa’s share of the volume of the world’s merchandise export and import will increase by 8.1 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively in 2021. It also projected a 2.6 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the continent in 2021 and 3.8 per cent for 2022. The predictions were made in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday by the Director-General of the WTO, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, during the virtual “WTO Press Conference on Trade Forecast for 2021 and 2022 and Review for 2020.” Okonjo-Iweala, at another forum also called on Nigeria along with other…
Heads of Advertising Sectoral Groups (HASG), an umbrella body comprising advertising, media, marketing activation and out-of-home media agencies as well as broadcasting company groups on Wednesday called for more consultations on the planned imposition of an N100,000 fine on adverts played on foreign media channels. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had stated that there would henceforth be a fine for advertisements broadcast on foreign-owned channels and production of content abroad by advertisers, insisting that brands that run adverts during foreign matches must compulsorily advertise during Nigerian premiership games. He further stated that brands that produce their…
A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha-Jet has lost contact with radar in northeastern Borno State, while on an interdiction mission in support of ground troops. NAF spokesman, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, in a statement on Thursday, said the Alpha Jet lost radar contact on Wednesday evening at about 5:08 pm. Radar systems are used at airports in detecting and displaying the presence and position of aircraft in the terminal area and the airspace around airports. While Mr Gabkwet did not disclose the number of officers on board the jet, he said search and rescue efforts were ongoing as the whereabouts…
Resident doctors in Nigeria have commenced an indefinite strike despite meeting with a federal government delegation to resolve pending issues. The doctors, under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) said there was no significant achievement following the ultimatum given to the federal government to meet the association’s earlier demands. The doctors strike comes at a time when Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is away in the UK on a medical routine checkup. “We commence strike 8 a.m. today while we are still trying to evaluate the federal government’s offer,” the president of the association, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, told…
The fresh injection of $51m in funding for Operations will further enhance Smile’s position in its respective markets. Smile Telecoms Holdings Ltd., a Pan-African telecommunications group with operations in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, announced Wednesday, that its debt restructuring plan has been approved and agreed with the lenders. The debt restructuring plan sees an injection in fresh money funding from Smile’s majority shareholder, the Al Nahla, and rescheduling on debt repayment until post-March 2022. The company said the fresh injection of $51 million in funding for operations will further enhance Smile’s position in its…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will commence a nationwide continuous voter registration on June 28 across the 774 local government areas of the federation. Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement, at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He said the registration exercise will be carried out continuously for over a year until the third quarter of 2022. The commission had earlier in the year announced that the exercise would commence in the first quarter of 2021. Details later.