On Holy Thursday Pope Francis will visit with inmates at Rome’s Casal del Marmo juvenile institution where he will wash the feet of 12 young people during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Pope Francis has chosen a penitentiary institute once again to celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper with the rite of the washing of feet. On Thursday 6 April he will go to the Casal del Marmo juvenile prison on the outskirts of Rome. He will be returning to where he celebrated the first Mass “in Coena Domini” of his pontificate back in 2013. This year’s celebration…
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The crisis rocking the Labour Party deepened on Thursday as seven members of the National Working Committee of the Party, announced the National Vice-Chairman (South), Lamidi Bashir Apapa, as the acting chairman of the party, replacing the suspended chairman, Julius Abure. As of the time of this report, stern-looking police officers have taken over the secretariat of the party. Speaking after an emergency meeting held at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, Apapa said the NWC members acted on the judgement of the Federal Capital Territory High Court which restrained Abure from parading himself as the National Chairman of the LP.…
The Anglican Bishop of Aguata Diocese, Rt Rev Samuel Ezeofor, has urged the people to use the Easter period to emulate the lifestyle of Jesus Christ, and not to be carried away by the euphoria of the Easter period. Bishop Ezeofor gave the charge in his 2023 Easter Message at the Chapel of Grace Bishops Court Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, where he also reminded the Christians that Christ is the main reason for the season. According to him, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the hope of the believer and the bedrock of Christianity, even…
The wife of Nigeria’s first Military Head of State, Major General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead. Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, who served as First Lady between January and July 1966, was 97. She died on Monday at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia in Abia State. Her husband, Aguiyi-Ironsi, was killed in Ibadan, Oyo State, on July 29, 1966, in one of Nigeria’s bloodiest coups. She reportedly never remarried and had eight children who were taken and cared for by nuns in Ibadan during the Nigerian civil war. ‘Exceptional courage’ Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his deepest condolences to the Aguiyi-Ironsi family,…
The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace, and patience which were attributes and practices of Jesus Christ, as exemplified by His ministry on the earth. The minister called on Christians and all Nigerians to use the occasion of this year’s Easter celebration to pray for an end to…
“If anyone wants to come to me you must deny yourself the things of this world, take up the cross and follow me”. The Bishop of Niger Delta West, The Rt. Revd. Emmanuel Oko-Jaja made this assertion in his ministration at the Lenten season program of the Diocese of Abuja the Way of The Cross themed “The new and living way”, held at the Basilica of Grace, Gudu, Abuja. The bishop spoke on the sub-topic ‘Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me’. Which he implored the congregation to deny themselves the things of the world and follow the cross, where…
The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ijesha South, the Rt. Revd. Babatunde Ogunbanwo has said that the plan of God is for his children to have fellowship with him and worship him in truth and in spirit. Stressing that man was created in the image of God to have dominion over everything. Speaking at the recently concluded Abuja diocesan Lenten meditation program, the Way of the Cross, which was held at the Basilica of Grace, Gudu District, Abuja, on the theme ’the new and living way’ and sub-topic ‘Enter by the Blood of Jesus’, the bishop emphasized that JESUS…
The Priesthood of Jesus is said to be greater than any other priest ever mentioned in the history of the world. In the time past, Priests use the blood of animals to perform sacrifices to atone for their sins but in this present day, the blood of Jesus has become the ultimate sacrifice for the atonement of the sins of the world. This was the assertion of the Anglican bishop of the diocese of Zonkwa, the Rt. Revd. Jacob Kwashi, in his ministration, at the Abuja diocesan Lenten meditation, the Way of the cross, which was held at the Basilica…
The Federal Government has berated some Western countries for giving credence to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a terrorist organization. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organizations and policy institutes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister is in Washington to engage with international media organizations and Think tanks on the just concluded 2023 polls “IPOB is a terrorist organisation so declared by the Nigeria Government, yet some western countries harbour them and have been dealing with the illegal…
Prof. Wole Soyinka has said the 2023 general elections and the actions of political actors had broken down his trust completely. The Nobel laureate made the assertion when he appeared on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Roadmap 2023. He described the elections as “not exactly the most edifying exercise that we’ve been through.” Stating that he was out of the country for some months, Soyinka shared his insight on the politics-speak that took hold while he was away. “On arriving, I came in for the World Poetry Day, and immediately, I was bombarded by the most horrendous narratives both pre and after…