A court in Pakistan has ruled against a kidnapped Christian woman’s plea to return to her family. The woman, Adeeba Amjad, was abducted by her former Muslim employer on May 16 from her home, according to the rights group CLAAS-UK. Amjad, a young Christian teacher, was abducted from her home in Pak Colony, Lassi Road, Hub in Baluchistan province, by Muhammad Bashir, her former employer and a local businessman. She was teaching at a local private school in Hub, which is owned by Bashir. Due to pandemic-induced financial difficulties, many teachers, including Adeeba, lost their jobs. Bashir offered alternative employment…
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Israeli residents are being warned to prepare to spend days in bomb shelters as tensions continue to escalate after attacks by Hamas killed more than 900 Israelis and at least 11 Americans. It all began Saturday morning when Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip, fired thousands of rockets into Israel and infiltrated Israel’s border near Gaza. Since then, Israeli officials say more than 900 civilians and military personnel have died, along with more than 2,100 wounded, according to Sky News. More than 500 Palestinians were also killed, according to Palestinian officials. The report from Sky News,…
A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Monday convicted and sentenced a suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who killed a Lagos lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, to death by hanging. Justice Ibironke Harrison sentenced him after finding him guilty of the murder of the pregnant lawyer. The judge held that the convict should be hung by the neck until he dies. Vandi, attached to the Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah, Lagos State, shot Raheem while she was returning from an outing with her family members on December 25, 2022. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos…
Date: 2023-OCT- 10 🎯TOPIC:GOD OF SECOND A CHANCE 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/1wprxmCITQY?si=KtjxY1lv2fDNiP1S ✝️ TEXT: Jonah 2:1-10(NKJV) 2:1. Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. 2:2. And he said: “I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [And] You heard my voice. 2:3. For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me. 2:4. Then I said, ‘I have been…
The leadership of the Labour Party has said that there is no way its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, could be tempted to work with President Bola Tinubu’s government of national unity. The position of the party was stated in two separate interviews with the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora Ifoh and the National Legal Adviser of LP, Kehinde Edun. The party’s position is coming six days after the former Anambra State governor shaded the president on Arise TV’s ‘Morning Show’ following the controversy surrounding his academic records at Chicago State University. Obi stated that any leader who falsifies his…
Amidst the ongoing bloody conflict between the State of Israel and Hamas militant group which has claimed hundreds of lives, the Federal Government has warned Nigerian pilgrims against making illegal and unauthorised trips while in the holy land. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Rev Yakubu Pam, handed down the admonition as the Lagos State authorities suspended the planned airlifting of pilgrims in the state on Monday. Speaking at an orientation programme for the intending pilgrims for the last batch of the Easter pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan, Pam said any pilgrim who engaged in any illegal…
The former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, says he was ashamed to see lawyers on national television arguing the merits or demerits of President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University matter. The senior lawyer expressed displeasure with what he described as the cacophony of discordant voices on Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar surrounding the controversy over the CSU records. Agbakoba warned that armchair lawyers are heating up Nigeria dangerously. The former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, says he was ashamed to see lawyers on national television arguing the merits…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, explained that it is not begging to dialogue with the Federal Government over Biafra’s independence. IPOB explained that Biafra’s referendum was sacrosanct and it is not begging the Federal Government for negotiations. Emma Powerful, spokesman of IPOB, stressed that the United Nations charter gives people the right to chart their own political future when their rights are threatened. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, explained that it is not begging to dialogue with the Federal Government over Biafra’s independence. IPOB explained that Biafra’s referendum was sacrosanct and it is not begging the Federal Government…
The Coalition of Ex-agitators of Niger Delta says it is preparing for a showdown with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited for allegedly excluding Niger Deltans from the recent award of pipeline maintenance contracts. The ex-militant leaders said it was insensitive and provocative for the NNPCL to award pipeline maintenance contracts to only northern companies. The coalition stated this in a statement on Sunday signed by its Coordinator, Gershom Gbobo; spokesperson, Chief David Tonye Banigo; National Secretary, Johnson Akpobari, and National Director, Mobilisation, Goodluck Warikere. “We will never allow such cheating, marginalisation, injustice and insensitivity to occur in this new…
A human rights activist and Lawyer, Chukwudi Ezeobika, has lambasted the Independent National Electoral Commission for not exercising due diligence in conducting a proper investigation into the information and certificates submitted to it by persons aspiring for public offices The activist said the action or inaction of the electoral umpire has brought the country to ridicule before the international community whereby the certificate of her President will be subject to scrutiny, casting doubt on the integrity of the country’s leadership. These were contained in a statement the lawyer signed and made available to newsmen in Lokoja on Monday. Speaking against…