Pep's clear-out! Ruthless Man City FOUR stars in deadline-day
Joe Hart, Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri and Wilfried Bony have all left the club on loan as Pep
Jobs At Fidelity Bank
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Atiku reacts to appointment of Nigerian politician
Atiku while briefing newsmen. He made this know that he is happy to see Nigerians prosper in Nigeria, and around the world.
Nigerian Newspapers: Top 10 Headlines Today
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Real Madrid sign Hazard
Real Madrid 'to officially announce £86m signing of Hazard from Chelsea after Europa League final' as his dream move nears.
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Wednesday 31 August 2016
Luiz Picture in London ahead of his sensational return to Chelsea in £32m deal from PSG
Luiz Picture in London ahead of his sensational return to Chelsea in £32m deal from PSG
David Luiz has arrived in London ahead of his sensational return to Chelsea. Luiz arrived at St Pancras railway station in London on Wednesday afternoon to finalise his £32million move
Monday 29 August 2016
Nigeria gov't aims to leverage space technology to develop economy
The Nigerian government on Monday said it is committed to the development of space technology, particularly as a way to advance the economy.
Ondo APC Crisis Takes Fetish Dimension
The crisis within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state on the forthcoming primary election of the party in Monday took another dimension as the surroundings of the party secretariat located along Oyemekun road in Akure, Ondo state capital, was laced with fetish objects.
Chibok Girls | Group Flays BBOG Over Call For PMB’s Resignation
The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigners have been lambasted over their call that President Muhammadu Buhari should resign from office if he cannot rescue the Chibok Girls. This call was made by The Global Excellence Foundation.
Police Arrest Suspect for Impersonating Nollywood Star to Defraud Nigerians
Detectives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected fraudster, one Sylvester Alvin Onapobe, for allegedly operating fake Facebook accounts of prominent and influential Nigerians to swindle local and foreign-based businessmen.
Judiciary Not to Blame over State of Anti-corruption War says FCT Chief Judge
As criticism of the judiciary continues to in the face of the anti-corruption war of the Buhari administration, the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Justice Ishaq Bello, has said that the judiciary alone should not be held responsible for the failures, arguing that the administration of justice is a collective effort of all arms of government.
Troops kill 2 armed bandits, recover 1, 271 animals
Troops of 1 Division, Nigerian Army, have killed two armed bandits in Kaduna and Zamfara axis and arrested four suspects in connection with cattle rustling and impersonation. Col.
Buhari exonerates self from Ondo APC Guber crisis, says, ‘I’ve no preferred candidate’
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship primary election of his party in Ondo state, President Muhammadu Buhari has exonerated himself from the crisis of confidence rocking the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC.
Killers of Port Harcourt Human Rights lawyer will be found, prosecuted – Police
The Rivers Police Command said on Monday that the killers of Port Harcourt-based human rights lawyer,Mr Ken Atsuwete, would be brought to justice.
UN rapporteur calls for urgent action to protect hundreds of thousands of displaced people in north-eastern Nigeria
In northeastern Nigeria, people who fled Boko Haram violence, gather at a mobile phone-based cash distribution site set up by WFP and the Government in Maiduguri. Photo: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf.
Don’t vote Ize-Iyamu, he can’t be trusted with money – Oshiomhole warns Edo people
Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, warned people of the state against voting governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
Airline operations disrupted by power outage at Lagos Airport
Flight operations were disrupted at the international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, for two days – Saturday and Sunday – following continued power outage there, Chat 212fm reports.
Stock market: Investors lose N28bn
Equity transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange resumed for the week on Monday on a negative note as the market capitalisation depreciated by N28bn or 0.30 per cent.
Oil exploration: Lagos Assembly seeks protection for host communities
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday called for a stakeholders’ meeting of government officials, oil investors and host communities, following oil discovery and exploration in Badagry area.
Buhari threatens militants with military action if dialogue fails
President Muhammadu Buhari has threatened the Niger Delta militants and said that if they did not stop blowing up oil and gas pipelines in the region and engage in dialogue with the Federal Government then they would be given the Boko Haram treatment, Vanguard reports.
Messi back in Argentina squad, Aguero out
Sergio Aguero and Javier Pastore have pulled out of Argentina’s tie with Uruguay through injury but superstar Lionel Messi has confirmed he will feature for the double World Cup winners, the Argentinian federation announced on Monday.
Nigeria curbing the tide of ethnic hate- Online and Off
The right of citizens to talk, to express opinions, and to keep tabs on governance is an inherent aspect of any democratic culture. But conversation spaces have long expanded from pubs and other physical spheres to include digitally mediated online public spaces.
Friday 26 August 2016
Boko Haram wives, children becoming outcasts
Starving and alone, five-year-old Umar was left for dead in a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. The reason? He is the son of a Boko Haram fighter. It took a Boko Haram widow to rescue Umar. Fatima Salisu had been held captive by the insurgents for 16 months and was forced to marry an Islamist fighter before she escaped to the camp outside the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
Business associate kills, buries colleague in shallow grave in Delta
Residents of Ubulu-Uku in Aniocha South Local Government Area, LGA, of Delta state have been thrown into mourning after the shallow grave of an indigene, Lawrence Okoh, was discovered.
57- year-old man in court for stealing toilet seats
A 57- year- old man, Innocent Okeke, who allegedly broke into a bank premises and stole 11 toilet seats valued at N85, 000, on Friday appeared before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.
Ghost workers perpetrators should be jailed – NLC
The Akwa Ibom chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the prosecution of all perpetrators of ghost workers syndrome in the nation’s public service.
Battling militancy: Niger Delta Avengers and other new groups
When the Niger Delta Avengers rebel group announced this week it had called a ceasefire and was entering talks with the government, many hoped peace would be restored to the country’s oil belt.
WHERE IS THE MONEY ? | Nigeria saves N1.4 trn from Subsidy Payments – Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday in Kano revealed that the Federal Government has saved N1.4 trillion as proceeds on oil subsidy payments.
Cross River to legalize street hawking
The Cross River State government has reiterated its commitment to officially license street hawking in the state.
Housewife arraigned over death of 4-day-old baby in Kano
A housewife, Barira Yusuf, on Friday appeared before a Kano Upper Sharia Court, for allegedly causing the death of a four-day-old baby.
Dam tragedy: Victims not World Bank officials – Ekiti government
Ekiti State Government has cleared the air on the status of the four persons that died during the week at Egbe Dam in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the state, saying the victims were neither World Bank officials nor staff of Ekiti State Government.
#Rio2016 | Senate Probes Nigeria’s Poor Outing
Worried by the ill preparation of the Ministry of Sports prior to the take-off of the recently-concluded Rio Olympics, the Nigeria Senate may probe the roles of the Minister of Sport, Solomon Dalung and the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) over the poor performance of the country’s contingent to the global event.
Chibok girls’ abduction a conspiracy to discredit, evict Jonathan – Fani-Kayode
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, FFK, has observed that the abduction of over 200 girls from a school in Chibok in April 2014 by Boko Haram insurgents, was a wider conspiracy just to discredit erstwhile president, Goodluck Jonathan.
Ondo APC primary postponed again, to hold September 3
The primary election for the governorship candidate of the All progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo state has been postponed till Saturday, September 3rd.
An Open Letter to Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka By Jude Ndukwe
An Open Letter to Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka By Jude Ndukwe
An Open Letter to Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka
By Jude Ndukwe
Dear Fr,
I write you this letter with all sense of humility and deep respect for you and your calling as a priest of the Holy Mother Church. This letter has become absolutely necessary owing to your recent political activities which are causing the Church huge embarrassment. As a Catholic myself, I, as other Catholics, are now forced to bear the shame of your recent activities and asked questions about the transfer policies of the Church which ordinarily should not have caused any public inquisition if you had not caused it to be so.
Fr, it is unfortunate that as a priest of the Catholic Church, you have allowed your emotions to take you beyond your allowed limits in partisan politics before, during and after the last elections.
Pray, what is in a transfer of a priest in the Cathoilc Church? You were transferred from one parish to another, an exercise that is a normal routine in the Church, and instead of you to move quickly and quietly as expected, you caused a whole lot of needless hullaballoo and in an attempt to curry public sympathy, made your transfer look like anything but usual in the Church. The razzmatazz and revelry that graced your movement to your new parish is alien to the Church! You are gradually eroding the very fabric that makes the Catholic Church unique and uncommon among others.
Were you the only priest transferred? Why did other priests not cry to the public about their own transfers? Did you reach an agreement with the Church on the day of your ordination that you should be exempted from transfers? Fr, you need not be reminded that you are a priest of the Catholic Church and not a pastor of any other denomination. It is no longer news that priests of the Catholic Church do not belong to themselves but to the Church wholly, fully and entirely, hence, you took an oath of not only obedience to your Local Ordinary, the Bishop, but your oath also included that of poverty. So, the Bishop exercises his prerogative to transfer any priest serving under him to areas where their services are most needed among other considerations. Just like you were transferred from somewhere else to Christ the King Parish, GRA, Enugu, you have also been transferred to Our Lady parish, Umuchigbo, Njinike also in Enugu.
It would be ignorant of me to think that you actually thought Christ the King Parish, GRA Enugu would be your parish forever. No priest of the Catholic Church would ever think a particular posting of his would last for too long. For example, in Abuja Archdiocese from where I write you this letter, there are brother-priests of yours who have been transferred from the high brow area of Maitama to a parish in a remote village like Yangoji in far away Kwali LGA, just as there have been priests transferred from Igu, also a very remote village in Bwari LGA, to Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help Parish, Gwarinpa, and then to Our lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Garki, and so on and so forth. Are you not aware of brother-priests who have been transferred from the comfort of parishes in Nigeria here to remote places even in war-torn and less developed countries like Chad, Sudan, Mali, Sierra-Leone, Burundi etc,
some of them in areas so remote cars cannot even get there nor is there electricity, yet, they went in obedience and without noise. Fr, how is yours supposed to be different?
You complained about the parish house you are to occupy as being too small and by implication, not comfortable for you. The question is, was it not a brother-priest that just used and left there? Are you saying that other priests can remain to serve God’s people perpetually in a one room self-contained apartment while you enjoy the comfort of a gigantic parish house perpetually?
Fr, John the Baptist served God effectively in the wilderness; all the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ left all the comfort of family and wealth and followed willingly and without complaining, the Son of Man who had no place to lay His head. Fr, from which part of the scripture did you get your reason for complaining?
To describe your transfer as a witch hunt is the most uncharitable comment any priest can make against his bishop especially in public. You are not a Pentecostal pastor or a General Overseer of any church, you are a priest of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. You own no church and you own no parish. The gifts of the Spirit (miracle, healing, prophecy etc) which God has blessed you with are not the emphasis of the Church. The Catholic Church places more emphasis on the fruit of the Holy Spirit which is what ultimately helps a man to make heaven: “…Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name. But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws’”. There is no ordained priest no matter how gifted that has survived a confrontation with the Church. They go quickly into oblivion soon after while the Church waxes stronger. Fr, be very careful!
You lamented about the assets of the Adoration Ministry and where you were going to keep them since your new parish is too small to contain them. I understand your concern especially as I am also aware of the enormity of the assets being an archdiocesan official of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of Nigeria, Abuja, myself. However, just like you admitted, you have “given” the assets to the Catholic Church in Enugu. So, if you have “given” the assets to the Catholic Church, why not just hand them over to your Bishop who knows how most appropriate to take care of them. Why do you still cry over that which you have “given” out? More so, you know that as a Catholic priest, you own nothing! There is no major asset even including a car that you can own without the consent and blessing of your bishop. This is how the Catholic Church is structured. This is how the Catholic Church works. So, those assets never belonged to you ab initio, they have always belonged to the Church. Just take an inventory of them and hand them over to the appropriate authorities. They know what to do with them.
One of the reasons why our priests are not allowed to own anything of their own is so that when the call of service comes and they are asked to go anywhere at the shortest notice, they would not have to look back at what they would be leaving behind so that they do not drag their feet on obeying the call to service. Lot’s wife looked back and turned to a Pillar of salt. Fr, why are you looking back?
As I end this letter, let me remind you that your gifts of the Holy Spirit do not come in isolation. They come with enormous responsibility! Enough of this ridicule you have subjected the Church to. Focus your attention on your apostolic calling and leave politics for politicians. If you are so interested in joining politics and making your mark there, you know the right thing to do. Stop parading about like a colossus that the Church is so badly in need of. No one man or group of men can hold the Catholic Church to ransom. Even if the Lord decides that you answer the eternal call today, Enugu diocese will never fold up!
I pray that God will lead you aright in all your endeavours!
An Open Letter to Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka
By Jude Ndukwe
Dear Fr,
I write you this letter with all sense of humility and deep respect for you and your calling as a priest of the Holy Mother Church. This letter has become absolutely necessary owing to your recent political activities which are causing the Church huge embarrassment. As a Catholic myself, I, as other Catholics, are now forced to bear the shame of your recent activities and asked questions about the transfer policies of the Church which ordinarily should not have caused any public inquisition if you had not caused it to be so.
Fr, it is unfortunate that as a priest of the Catholic Church, you have allowed your emotions to take you beyond your allowed limits in partisan politics before, during and after the last elections.
Pray, what is in a transfer of a priest in the Cathoilc Church? You were transferred from one parish to another, an exercise that is a normal routine in the Church, and instead of you to move quickly and quietly as expected, you caused a whole lot of needless hullaballoo and in an attempt to curry public sympathy, made your transfer look like anything but usual in the Church. The razzmatazz and revelry that graced your movement to your new parish is alien to the Church! You are gradually eroding the very fabric that makes the Catholic Church unique and uncommon among others.
Were you the only priest transferred? Why did other priests not cry to the public about their own transfers? Did you reach an agreement with the Church on the day of your ordination that you should be exempted from transfers? Fr, you need not be reminded that you are a priest of the Catholic Church and not a pastor of any other denomination. It is no longer news that priests of the Catholic Church do not belong to themselves but to the Church wholly, fully and entirely, hence, you took an oath of not only obedience to your Local Ordinary, the Bishop, but your oath also included that of poverty. So, the Bishop exercises his prerogative to transfer any priest serving under him to areas where their services are most needed among other considerations. Just like you were transferred from somewhere else to Christ the King Parish, GRA, Enugu, you have also been transferred to Our Lady parish, Umuchigbo, Njinike also in Enugu.
It would be ignorant of me to think that you actually thought Christ the King Parish, GRA Enugu would be your parish forever. No priest of the Catholic Church would ever think a particular posting of his would last for too long. For example, in Abuja Archdiocese from where I write you this letter, there are brother-priests of yours who have been transferred from the high brow area of Maitama to a parish in a remote village like Yangoji in far away Kwali LGA, just as there have been priests transferred from Igu, also a very remote village in Bwari LGA, to Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help Parish, Gwarinpa, and then to Our lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Garki, and so on and so forth. Are you not aware of brother-priests who have been transferred from the comfort of parishes in Nigeria here to remote places even in war-torn and less developed countries like Chad, Sudan, Mali, Sierra-Leone, Burundi etc,
some of them in areas so remote cars cannot even get there nor is there electricity, yet, they went in obedience and without noise. Fr, how is yours supposed to be different?
You complained about the parish house you are to occupy as being too small and by implication, not comfortable for you. The question is, was it not a brother-priest that just used and left there? Are you saying that other priests can remain to serve God’s people perpetually in a one room self-contained apartment while you enjoy the comfort of a gigantic parish house perpetually?
Fr, John the Baptist served God effectively in the wilderness; all the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ left all the comfort of family and wealth and followed willingly and without complaining, the Son of Man who had no place to lay His head. Fr, from which part of the scripture did you get your reason for complaining?
To describe your transfer as a witch hunt is the most uncharitable comment any priest can make against his bishop especially in public. You are not a Pentecostal pastor or a General Overseer of any church, you are a priest of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. You own no church and you own no parish. The gifts of the Spirit (miracle, healing, prophecy etc) which God has blessed you with are not the emphasis of the Church. The Catholic Church places more emphasis on the fruit of the Holy Spirit which is what ultimately helps a man to make heaven: “…Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name. But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws’”. There is no ordained priest no matter how gifted that has survived a confrontation with the Church. They go quickly into oblivion soon after while the Church waxes stronger. Fr, be very careful!
You lamented about the assets of the Adoration Ministry and where you were going to keep them since your new parish is too small to contain them. I understand your concern especially as I am also aware of the enormity of the assets being an archdiocesan official of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of Nigeria, Abuja, myself. However, just like you admitted, you have “given” the assets to the Catholic Church in Enugu. So, if you have “given” the assets to the Catholic Church, why not just hand them over to your Bishop who knows how most appropriate to take care of them. Why do you still cry over that which you have “given” out? More so, you know that as a Catholic priest, you own nothing! There is no major asset even including a car that you can own without the consent and blessing of your bishop. This is how the Catholic Church is structured. This is how the Catholic Church works. So, those assets never belonged to you ab initio, they have always belonged to the Church. Just take an inventory of them and hand them over to the appropriate authorities. They know what to do with them.
One of the reasons why our priests are not allowed to own anything of their own is so that when the call of service comes and they are asked to go anywhere at the shortest notice, they would not have to look back at what they would be leaving behind so that they do not drag their feet on obeying the call to service. Lot’s wife looked back and turned to a Pillar of salt. Fr, why are you looking back?
As I end this letter, let me remind you that your gifts of the Holy Spirit do not come in isolation. They come with enormous responsibility! Enough of this ridicule you have subjected the Church to. Focus your attention on your apostolic calling and leave politics for politicians. If you are so interested in joining politics and making your mark there, you know the right thing to do. Stop parading about like a colossus that the Church is so badly in need of. No one man or group of men can hold the Catholic Church to ransom. Even if the Lord decides that you answer the eternal call today, Enugu diocese will never fold up!
I pray that God will lead you aright in all your endeavours!
22 dead as bus plunges into river
A packed passenger bus plunged into a river early Friday in central Nepal, killing 22 people, a senior local official said.
Wednesday 24 August 2016
Police recruitment test successful, says Okiro
The Chairman, Police Service Commission, Mr Mike Okiro, on Wednesday said the aptitude test for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force across the country was successful.
Governments not doing enough to protect Christians in the North – CAN
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has decried the recurring and unabated spate of the killings of Christians in the Northern part of the country on account of alleged blasphemy, stressing that such killings have become too many and requires urgent attention.
Man stabs woman to death
A 29-year-old Frenchman shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he stabbed a British woman to death and wounded two people at a backpackers’ hotel in Australia, police said on Wednesday.
Tanker fire destroys shops in Edo
An early morning fire that resulted from a tanker explosion at Upper Mission junction along the Benin-Auchi Expressway razed several shops on Wednesday.
Blasphemy rumour leads to arson, 8 dead
A mob, outraged by reports that Islam's holy prophet had been insulted, burned down a house in northwest Nigeria 22 Aug., killing eight people inside.
Nigerian comes to U.S., launches universe of African comic book superheroes
Roye Okupe didn’t read comic books growing up in Lagos, Nigeria. Comic book shops weren’t around. Instead, Okupe was introduced to superheroes through Saturday morning cartoons such as Transformers and X-Men.
Monday 22 August 2016
The other side of Buhari Nigerians don’t know
For so long, many Nigerians have been attempting to study and decode President Muhammadu Buhari, using different lenses. Some only had a modicum of clue on who he may be, counting on the code of information they obtained from the media when he first romped into global limelight as the Nigerian head of state in a military garb.
40 Abducted Chibok Girls Handed Over To Mala Yamari, Says Sunday Adoba
One Mr Sunday Adoba on Monday said about 40 abducted Chibok schoolgirls were handed over to Mala Yamari by Boko Haram insurgents.
Lagos Govt begins training, accreditation of bus conductors
The Lagos State Drivers’ Institute (LASDRI) on Monday urged bus conductors in the state to be civil in their dealings with commuters and other road users.
Lagos conductor
Lagos conductor
El-Rufai bans sale of high energy bulbs in Kaduna
The Kaduna State Government said on Monday that it would soon ban the sale of high energy consuming bulbs, as part of strategy to boost energy efficiency. The state’s Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Muhammad Abdullahi made this known in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna.
‘No more room for ‘Omo-oniles’ in Lagos’
The Lagos State Government on Monday expressed its resolve to fully enforce the Properties Protection Law recently signed by the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, just as it threatened that it would not hesitate to use the instrumentality of the law to decisively deal with anyone who forcefully dispossess people of their legitimate rights to land.
Debts - FG Deducts N32 Billion From States' Allocation
The Federal Government has deducted a total of N32bn from allocations of states from the Federation Account in the month of April 2016 for different loans they incurred.
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