The Mothering Sunday is a celebration of the Anglican Church from the early Church. It was originally a day to honour and give thanks to the Virgin Mary, also known as “Mother Mary”, for her agony as recorded in Luke 2:35. The Celebrations required people to visit their mother Church – the main Church or Cathedral in the family area. As Christianity spread through Europe in the 16th Century, the celebration increased and was included in the Church Calendar as Mothering Sunday; an Occasion to thank and appreciate all mothers as well as a family honoured reunion. It also became…
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Luke 1:38 (ESV): And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. If there is a singular benefit that comes with the abstinence (from food and other luxuries) observed as part of the discipline in Lent, it is the sharpening of our spiritual antenna, as carnal cravings are suppressed to perceive more clearly the promptings of the Holy Spirit and to hear the language of Heaven in unmistakable tones. At such times also, our wills are empowered, as the flesh is subdued to…
By Princewill Ireoba • Lauds Ndukuba The Liturgy and Spirituality Committee of the Church of Nigeria held its yearly workshop and seminar for the Writers, Editors and Consultants of the Church of Nigeria Publications at the Ibru Ecumenical Centre, Agbarha-otor between March 8 and 11, 2021. Welcoming participants, the new Chairman of the Liturgy and Spirituality Committee and Bishop of Osun, Rt. Rev. (Dr.) Folunso Babatunde, applauded them for sacrificing their time, resources, as well as making themselves available for God to be used to edify and encourage faith of the Church of God through their writings. Babatunde, who is chairing…
ISIS has made incursions into Africa, especially through the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter of Boko Haram, which has affiliation to it. Libyan National Army had arrested ISIS commander, Mohammed Mailed Mohammed, also known as ‘Abu Omar’ in Ubari, South Libya. This development seen as a major win against the war on terror was stated by Libya Review on Sunday. ISIS has made incursions into Africa, especially through the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a splinter of Boko Haram, which has affiliation to it. According to the DCAF (Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance),…
The Police Command in Ekiti says the discrete investigation and serious manhunt have been launched to track those behind the alleged shooting at a commercial vehicle on Iju road in Ondo State on Saturday. The command disclosed this in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Sunday Abutu, on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Tunde Mobayo, on Sunday in Ado Ekiti. The commercial vehicle and its passengers were said to have been attacked at a location between Ikere Ekiti, headquarters of Ikere Local Government of Ekiti State and Iju, a boundary town in Ondo State.…
Security agencies foiled attempts by bandits to abduct students from the Government Secondary Science School (GSSS) Ikara, Ikara Local Government Area of Kaduna State, only three days after the abduction of 39 students from the Federal School of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna. Samuel Aruwan, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, revealed this to journalists in Kaduna on Sunday. Security forces also repelled a new assault on the Senior Staff Quarters of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in Kaduna, where 11 people were abducted about two weeks ago, according to the commissioner. The bandits stormed GSSS,…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government from borrowing an estimated N895bn of Nigerians’ money. SERAP said the government was targeting unclaimed dividends and balances in dormant accounts, “under the guise of the patently unlawful, unconstitutional and discriminatory legislation known as the Finance Act, 2020″. In suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/31/2021 filed on Friday, SERAP is seeking an order to restrain the defendants from borrowing and collecting Nigerians’ money and moving the same into the ‘Unclaimed Funds Trust Fund’. The organization said…
Gunmen have attacked the Safer Highways base of the Nigerian Police in Nabordo, Toro Local Government Area, killing two persons. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakili, confirmed the incident to Channels Television on Sunday via a telephone interview. He said the attack was carried out on Saturday night on men of the safer highways who patrol Bauchi-Jos road. Following the attack, a policeman identified as Inspector Muktar Ibrahim was shot dead and a civilian also identified as the son of the Ward Head of Nabordo, Uba Sama’ila, who had gone to visit the inspector was also killed in the…
At least eight Fulanis were allegedly killed in the early hours of Sunday, in an attack by a vigilante group at Wasinmi village, in Irewolede local government area of Osun State. Reports reaching DAILY POST indicates that an attack was carried out on the village at about 2am on Sunday. Those reportedly killed were identified as Alhaji Samo Wasinmi, head of the family, Alhaja Belu, Alhaja Waso, Alhaja Adamo, Maryam Ibrahim, Alhaji Yahaya Muhammed, Mumini Ibrahim and Mumini Abdullahi. Unconfirmed reports also said they were matched into a mosque in the village and shot at close range. The house of…
A faction of the youth wing of the Ohanaeze Youth Council,(OYC), has lamented the inability of the parent body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, to unify the Igbo nation. OYC expressed disappointment on the lingering crisis in the apex body and further regretted that no existing government had ever strived to unite the Igbo race. The Igbo socio-cultural youth group, in a press statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, said the unification of Ndigbo had remained paramount in the quest for liberating the race from its age-long restraints. OYC maintained that the Igbo new generation under Ohanaeze Youth Council, (OYC) must…