By Sola Adeyegbe This presentation is a contemplation of the Last Words of the Saviour on the Cross. Opening As recorded in The Bible, the following were the Last Words spoken by Jesus as He endured the gruesome hours at Golgotha: 1. Father forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). 2. […]
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Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, says that PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar’s allegations of “corrupt practices” during the 25 February presidential election have no legal backing. In a preliminary objection to Atiku’s petition, Tinubu, who was the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer in the election, argued that “no incidence of corrupt practice has been made out […]
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Britain’s King Charles III inspects graduating officer cadets march during the 200th Sovereign’s Parade at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, southwest of London on April 14, 2023. (Photo by Dan Kitwood / Pool / AFP) A student who threw eggs at King Charles III during a walkabout last year, and later claimed he was responding […]
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Lack of accountability for crimes against children emboldens impunity, Amnesty International says of the Chibok girls kidnap. By Amnesty International Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are still being held by Boko Haram and a slew of abductions have taken place since, revealing the utter […]
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This screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing full-length hijabs and praying in an undisclosed rural location. Nigeria’s government on May 17, 2017, said another Chibok girl was free, having escaped from Boko Haram Islamists more than three years after […]
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President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Nigerians to shun violence as supplementary elections hold across the country tomorrow. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct the supplementary elections for 94 legislative seats in federal and state parliaments. Supplementary governorship elections will also be conducted in both Adamawa and Kebbi states on the same day. […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) announced on Thursday that Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is currently taking a rest in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Felix Morka, the APC National Publicity Secretary, confirmed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu is doing well and will swing […]
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Commuters are presently stuck on the Longbridge, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway due to the ongoing reconstruction of the road. There had been traffic improvements throughout the week on the road until Friday when the usual long hours of gridlock resurfaced. It was gathered that movement inward Lagos was at a standstill, as […]
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Following the collapse of a seven-story building under construction on First Avenue, in the Banana Island area of Lagos State, the state government has ordered that all development projects in the highbrow area be placed on hold. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, in a statement on Thursday, said the process was […]
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The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, on Thursday, was presented with a letter of appointment as the Chancellor of the Kano State Government-owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso. The state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, presented the letter to the royal […]
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