Gunmen on Thursday night kidnapped the priest in charge of St Michael’s Catholic Church Parish in Umuekebi, Osuoweerre autonomous community in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, Rev Fr Kingsley Eze, popularly known as Father Ichie. The priest and another man identified as Uchenna Newman, who drove the priest in a Volvo jeep were kidnapped at Orieama junction around 8 pm on Thursday. The suspects were also said to have robbed shop owners at the junction before leaving the scene. A parishioner, who spoke on condition of anonymity told our correspondent that the church members were terrified…
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The All Progressive Congress and the Social Democratic party have been trading blame over gunmen’s attack on the residence of the state Residence Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Gabriel Longpet in the early hours of Friday. Newsmen reported that the gunmen had stormed the residence of the REC shooting sporadically. Addressing a press conference on Friday, the APC campaign council pointed accusing fingers at the defeated governorship candidate of the Social Democratic party and called for his arrest and prosecution. The Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Campaign Council, Kingsley Fanwo, said that Ajaka and his SDP supporters have shown enough…
Documents outlining Hamas’ battle plan were obtained by Israeli officials more than a year before the October 7 terrorist attack, but were dismissed as being too ‘aspirational,’ reports The New Times. It was however unclear whether, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, or any top political leaders saw the document before the attack. The 40-page document (codenamed “Jericho Wall” by Israeli authorities), reviewed by the New York Times, described the assault design and how it will overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities, and destroy her military bases. Apart from these, the documents showed in detail, according…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday, alleged that Governor Peter Mba was under pressure from “Aso Rock” to blackmail the Supreme Court ahead of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s December 15 judgment. IPOB was referring to Mba’s remark where he described the group as a proscribed organization. Mba made the remark while addressing State House Correspondents after visiting President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. However, IPOB warned that the governor would be making a “costly mistake” if he continued to use the group’s name to “buy favour from Tinubu’s administration.” A statement by Powerful reads partly: “The…
A helicopter owned by the Nigerian Air Force on Friday crashed in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Edward Gabkwet, NAF spokesman, confirmed the development in a statement on Friday. He said the helicopter with the number NAF MI-35P crashed at exactly 7:45 a.m. shortly after it took off for an operation against economic saboteurs in Rivers State. A helicopter owned by the Nigerian Air Force on Friday crashed in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Edward Gabkwet, NAF spokesman, confirmed the development in a statement on Friday. He said the helicopter with the number NAF MI-35P crashed at exactly 7:45 a.m.…
To attain great academic success, the best-graduating student at Ajayi Crowther University for the 2022–2023 academic session, Susanna Akinteye, has disclosed that she read for seven hours daily during her four-year stay at the university. Akinteye, who was awarded a bachelor’s degree by ACU during its convocation ceremony on Wednesday, graduated from the Department of Accounting and Finance with a 4.97 cumulative grade point average. She won 12 awards to become the set’s valedictorian. Speaking with journalists on how she was able to maintain academic focus, Akinteye said, “I read everything within all the semesters. I read seven hours every…
After months of bickering between the executive and legislative arms in Ondo State, the Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, presided over a State Executive Council meeting in Akure, the state capital, on Thursday. The excos’ meeting occurred after months of political wrangling between the deputy governor and Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s loyalists. The crisis was occasioned by the absence of the governor, who has been out of the state for months due to ill health. Last Friday, President Bola Tinubu summoned the warring factions to a meeting in Abuja where it was agreed that the deputy governor should continue to perform his duties as…
Date: 2023-Dec-1 🎯TOPIC: BE STEADFAST 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/XoxjAmbcI24?si=rrd2Ec6JH1dQZtQd ✝️TEXT:Revelation 13:1-10(NKJV) 13:1. Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 13:2. Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like [the feet of] a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 13:3. And [I saw] one…
•Sports Minister summons Portuguese coach Super Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro, told the Nigeria Football Federation Technical Committee not to teach him his job but rather pay him and his team their outstanding allowances. Peseiro allegedly said this while reacting to the NFF Technical Committee Chairman, Shariff Ahlan’s comment in the wake of his future as Eagles coach, stating that the Eagles job is bigger than the Portuguese. Ahlan told Peseiro in a meeting in Lisbon, Portugal in October that the Eagles had been struggling due to his poor technical abilities. “You’re busy to pay me my allowances but not busy…
A truce between Israel and Hamas will continue, both sides said Thursday, moments before the deal was due to expire, though details of any official agreement remained unclear. Minutes before the halt in fighting was due to expire at 0500GMT, Israel’s military said the “operational pause” would be extended, without specifying for how long. “In light of the mediators’ efforts to continue the process of releasing the hostages and subject to the terms of the framework, the operational pause will continue,” it said. Hamas meanwhile said there was an agreement to “extend the truce for a seventh day,” without further…