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21 Feb 2015
AS part of efforts to secure themselves and their property, Lagosians in the early 2000s, resorted to constructing street gates and setting up barricades in their streets to ward off criminals and possibly unwanted guests that have nothing to do in their areas. These barricades, though well intended, soon began to constitute obstructions…
21 Feb 2015
THE Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU), on Thursday, threaten to shut down universities across the country if the Inspector General of Police (IGP) fails to arrest those responsible for the murder of Professor Ahmad Mustapha Falaki of the Ahmadu Bello University’s Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR). Recall that policemen shot at and killed…
21 Feb 2015
Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, recently, held its 4th yearly covenant service at the Uche Ogah Family Auditorium in its main campus at Uturu to pray for the divine restoration of the country, the school and its staff as well as the Nigerian students. With ‘Divine Restoration,’ as theme the event had in attendance, the…
21 Feb 2015
ADO-Odo/Ota Local Government, Ogun State has officially commissioned a Primary Health Centre, constructed in partnership with Binatone Global Appliances Nigeria Limited for the use of Iloye community and its environs. The idea was conceived in 2007 when the community felt the nearest government Health Centre to them is approximately five kilometres away, which is…
21 Feb 2015
ANDREA’S marriage to Andy is facing some serious challenge. This is unusual because for the past five years of their union, it has been literally a kind of heaven on earth. Other couples envy the level of intimacy and understanding that exist between them. Even in public, Andy and his adorable wife Andrea still hold…
21 Feb 2015
I BELIEVE we got to a very crucial point of our discussion in the last essay to begin to prove how the principle of Islam ought not to be a concept in the development of religion but in the development of creative intelligence in the human being when we touched on that significant truth that…
21 Feb 2015
THIS question requires careful consideration. The answer that springs readily to the tongue, or more appropriately, to thought, may not necessarily be the right one. Very often one may hear the phrase ‘a healthy body’. Since the human body is material, this may infer that health inheres within the body. But deeper reasoning would reveal…
21 Feb 2015
ST. John’s Anglican Church, Fegge, Onitsha in Niger Diocese, Anambra State, recently, gathered all the youth organisations in the church from February 12 to14, 2015 to seek the face of the Lord. This event was spiced with serial teachings based on the theme: Raising the Youth from the Dungeon. The Archdeacon and vicar in-charge…
21 Feb 2015
CONCERNED with the state of affairs of things in the country, a prayer session tagged: “Women Prayer Summit,” was recently held in Lagos. It was organised by two women Christian bodies: Blessed Hands Ministry and Choice Women Fellowship International. The prayer session was focused on economy, family, judiciary and security. At the opening…
21 Feb 2015
FOUNDER and General Overseer of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke has called on politicians and Nigerians in general to eschew violence and avoid acts capable of creating tension and crisis in the course and aftermath of the coming elections in the country. He made this appeal recently at the 50th…
21 Feb 2015
FIRST Baptist Church, Ikeja, Lagos dedicated its new ultra modern sanctuary two Sundays ago. The gathering brought together the top echelon of the church made up of the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev. (Dr.) Samson Ayokunle, the Conference Presidents, the Senior Pastor of the church and his wife, Rev. (Dr.) and Mrs. Kayode…
21 Feb 2015
The Lord of Mercy IN 2008, a woman phoned to complain that her youngest daughter had decided to leave their Pentecostal Church to which they had been affiliated to become a Catholic. Her daughter, she said, was even beginning to teach them how to recite the Rosary. Since they could not talk her out of…
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