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UMUAHIA— A disaster was reportedly averted at Umuohu Okpula, Ndume community, Ibeku in Umuahia North Local Government area of Abia State, when a vigilant grandmother prevented a four-day-old baby from being carried away by a hawk. The grandmother, who gave her name as Adeline Emmanuel, explained that she was lying down, when she heard the loud flapping of bird’s wings. According to her, she heard noise of a struggling object as the bird was trying to fly through the window, but fell down on the floor of the one-storey building, prompting her to shout at her daughter, mother of the baby, to shut the window. She said: “I saw the hawk drop down where my four-day-old granddaughter was sleeping and was trying to carry the baby who was probably too heavy for it. “It was then that I started shouting, asking my daughter to close the windows. “My shouting and that of my daughter coupled with others, who were by then aware of what was happening, attracted the community youths.” She said the yo...

About 61 top universities in the United Kingdom will be going on an industrial strike action for two weeks over planned changes to staff pensions. According to BBC, University of Oxford, Cambridge University, Imperial College London, University College London (UCL), University of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and York are among the universities affected. A week ago, members of the University and College Union (UCU) voted in favour of industrial action, with staff expressing fear about the pension changes, which they say could cost an average lecturer £200,000 (N101 million) over the course of their retirement.On Monday, the  UCU confirmed plans   to embark on the industrial action, except demands are met. Four Welsh Universities also confirmed plans  to join the strike . Of the universities present, 61 voted overwhelmingly in favour of action, with 88 percent in favour of strikes and 93 percent in favour of action short of a strike. The strikes are planned t...

Why We Ferried Ezekwesili, BBOG Members To Our Station – Police THE Nigeria Police on Wednesday explained why it ferried the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), Obiageli Ezekwesili, and some of her group members from the Unity Fountain to its headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday. Ezekwesili, a former minister, yesterday through her verified Twitter handle, @obyezeks, alleged that she alongside other members of her group was been arrested and detained by the police. She and her group members were later ferried in a hilux van to the police command at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). But the police in a statement by it spokesman, DSP Anjuguri Manzah said they were only brought to the Abuja command to forestall breakdown of law and order. “The FCT Police Command wishes to clear the air and set the record straight that it did not arrest or detain Prof Oby Ezekwesili and some members of the Bring Back Our Girls group (BBOG) as being speculated on some social media platforms....

Three labour unions in Oyo have directed workers in the state employment to stay from their duty posts for three days, starting from Wednesday. The unions are the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiating Council (JNC). The directive was issued in a statement jointly signed by Kofo Ogundeji, NLC state secretary, Falegbe Mayowa, TUC state secretary and Olabode Akinfenwa, JNC assistant state secretary. They said the action was to call on the state government to address the 13-week-old strike of the state-owned tertiary institutions and 256 sacked workers of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso. It is also in solidarity with complaints presented by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) of 56 months accumulated unpaid pensions and gratuities of retired primary school teachers and a halt in workers’ promotion since 2010. Waheed Olojede, the state NLC chairman, who spoke alongside Emmanuel Ogundiran, chairman, JNC/TUC, s...

A Michigan man who calls himself “Davecat” lives with three sex dolls: his “wife” and two “mistresses.” The 40-year-old who has shunned 'organic women' to marry a synthetic doll and keep another as a mistress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJtmcJM-Rw A nattily attired black male from Michigan who goes by the handle “Davecat” is a proud owner of three sex dolls. Although the United States Supreme Court still does not recognize marriage between human beings and inanimate objects, Dave insists that he is married to the first sex doll he purchased, which he has named “Sidore Kuroneko.” Davecat also houses two other sex dolls that he has dubbed “Muriel” and “Elena,” but these are not his wives—they’re only “intimate friends.” According to Davecat;  He wrote:  "Dolls don’t possess any of the unpleasant qualities that organic, flesh and blood humans have. A synthetic will never lie to you, cheat on you, criticize you, or be otherwise disagreeable."

Nigerian returnee from Libya, Omo Harry, has narrated the bizzare and unfortunate things himself and other Nigerians faced while they were trapped in Libya on their way to Europe . In an interview with Vanguard, Omo who recently returned to Nigeria, narrated how his friend, Denis’s girlfriend, Rita, whom they all embarked on the journey to Europe in April 2016, was raped to death because she could not afford the money needed for her to continue her journey from Libya to Euope. Omo said Rita was handcuffed and boys took turns to rape her. She died when one of the boys tried to penertate her. Her corpse was abandoned for two days before it was removed. Her boyfriend watched the men take their turns to have sex with her. My friend, Denis, said I could travel to Europe if I could raise at least N500,000. He told me that he was also trying to raise same amount for an agent that would facilitate it. I had to sell all my property , including the parcel of land I acquired at Ogudu Bale are...

A Nigerian lady Faith Orji was surprised by her abroad based partner with a marriage proposal. According to reports, the lady was in complete shock because she was told she was coming for a friends dinner party not knowing it was her day. Her boyfriend flew in from an undisclosed country and came in straight from the airport. His lady had no idea that he was in the country.... After all the screaming and reactions of disbelief, the handsome man finally got her to the proposal spot and asked for her hand in marriage... She was very shocked after being ambushed with the marriage proposal in the presence of her family and friends who had already planned with her boyfriend. She finally said yes not after bursting into tears. Congratulations to them.

A former President Olusegun Obasanjo, (Dr) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he must step on toes on friends and well-wishers in order to achieve the desired transformation and change  agenda of his administration. Obasanjo, said hard choices must be made consciously or unconsciously to get Nigeria out of poverty and starvation. He spoke on Saturday in Abuja where he was conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Christian Theology at the 7th convocation ceremony of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). President Buhari, speaking on the occasion ordered that every discrimination against the graduates of NOUN should be stopped, saying the government would continue to accord the graduates of NOUN and those of other Distance Learning institutions in Nigeria due recognition. He said there shall be no discrimination in terms of employment and opportunity for graduates of Open and Distance Learning programmes to pursue higher degrees either in conventional...

I will start from the beginning so that i will be better understood, soo sorry if it is too long I and my husband met in one of our ICAN classes so we hit it off immediately, became friends, dated then got married. It was blissful, we had our kids, to me life was perfect till one day he changed.  He started picking fights on irrelevant things, wouldnt talk to me for days, i thought it was just a phase until one day he didnt come back home, after so much calls to family members, friends collegues at work, we found out he left the country with another woman, this was 4 years ago, we later found out he paid for the house rent for two years and he vowed never to have anything to do with me and my kids anymore. Even after pleadings from family members he still refused so i moved on, believing that one day he would come back to me because i believe his actions was not normal, he asked for divorce, i refused cos my bible is against it (luke 16:18). Since then God has been soo good to me, ...

Opytainment Gist World. A housewife , Bayonle Bamidele , on Tuesday told an Idi - Ogungun Customary Court in Agodi , Ibadan , that she denied and beat up her husband, Adeyemi Bamidele , anytime he demanded sex for fear of contracting HIV. Bayonle said this in court while defending herself in a divorce suit filed by her husband over her refusal to have sex with him . She said her husband was a womaniser who always brought his female friends to their matrimonial home . He said , “ I have warned him to stop promiscuity to avoid contracting HIV, but he didn’ t listen to me . “ So , I denied him sex for fear of contracting HIV due to his carefree sexual attitude , ” she said . Bayonle urged the court to grant the request of her husband, saying she was not ready to give her body to a flirt. The husband , a retiree , had approached the court for dissolution of his eight - year marriage with Bayonle on the ground that she denied him sex. He also alleged that the defendant always beat him and...

World Bank disburses $13.63bn loans, grants to Nigeria The World Bank has disbursed a total of $13.63bn in loans and grants to Nigeria as of March 31; a summary of the country’s debt portfolio provided by the bank has shown. The disbursement is out of a total of $21.44bn that had been approved by the bank’s Board of Directors. The total approval is made up of International Development Association credit of $11.65bn and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s loan of $7.14bn. The IDA is the World Bank Group’s window for concessional lending to less developed countries, while the IBRD is the window for lending at commercial rates. As of October 31, 2017, the total approval for Nigeria stood at $9.55bn; total disbursement stood at $6.98bn; undisbursed loans were $1.56bn; while borrowers’ obligation stood at $2.14bn. The latest loan for the country was the $490m IDA credit approved in the first quarter of this year. With the $13.63bn disbursement, t...

Inside Trump's new car dubbed the 'Beast': £1.2m Cadillac has eight-inch thick doors, can survive a roadside bomb and has an an oxygen system in case of a chemical attack  It is known as Cadillac One and 'The Beast'  or, as  President Trump  now calls it, his personal limousine service. These pictures show the brand new incarnation of the President's official vehicle undergoing final testing before it is delivered to the White House. The sedan is longer than two large SUVs and, for the moment, remains in white and black camouflage designed to make it more difficult to identify new features aboard the vehicle. The final version will be painted black and silver just like the current version, once it is given the final approval. The £1.2 million car is part of a fleet of 12 which cost around £15 million and is arguably the safest vehicle in the world, as befits the President of the United States. The Beast weighs eight tonnes and has eight-i...

Nigerian govt declares Friday public holiday The federal government has declared Friday as public holiday in commemoration of the Muslim Eid-El-Maulud celebration. The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, according to a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement was signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Abubakar Magaji. It said Mr. Dambazau urged all Muslim faithful and Nigerians in general to use the occasion to pray for peace, progress and unity of the nation. He further urged all Nigerians to support the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in its efforts at building a virile nation, and wished Nigerians a happy Eid-El-Maulud celebration. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Eid-El-Maulud is celebrated every year by Muslims on the 12th day of the Islamic month of Rabi-ul-Awwal as the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).  (NAN)

A woman identified as Obiageli Ezeanowiyi is currently being investigated by operatives of the Lagos State Police after she reportedly rammed into her fellow church member, killing her instantly. According to Vanguard Newspaper reports, the accident occurred while Ezeanowiyi was driving and making a phone call at Jakande Estate junction at Oke-Afa, Isolo, close to St. Peters’ Catholic Church, where both of them worshipped. An eyewitness quoted by the Newspaper confirmed that Ezeanowiyi lost control of the car and killed the victim, known as Madam Chichi, who was on her way to church. The source said: “The deceased, who ran a popular ‘joint’ at Isolo, was going for Sunday Adoration Service when the incident happened. “It was while at Jakande Junction, waiting to get a tricycle that will take her to the church that Mrs. Obiageli, who was driving her Nissan Pathfinder SUV, ran into her and killed her instantly.” Vanguard reports that the mother of three hailed from Mbano in...

A Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor, Victor Kanayo, was murdered in Offin, Igbogbo area of Ikorodu in Lagos state today Sunday, November 26th. According to the statement released by the Lagos state police command spokesperson, Chike Oti, the command has made a couple of arrests and suspects are being questioned with a view to discover the author of the heinous crime. Oti added that the state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has dispatched a team of crack detectives to unravel those behind the murder; dig into the past of the victim and see if there is a correlation between his past and his fate. The issue of his past before he became a born again christian is of interest to the police because of a human skull tattoo drawn on his left arm which gives the victim away as one who may have belonged to any of the dreaded cult groups. Meanwhile investigation into case is ongoing, findings will be made public as usual by the Cp Lagos State.

Deeper Life 5 admirable things about this church Deeper Life stands out in a world filled with prosperity churches and end time pastors. In a world filled with prosperity churches and  end time pastors , Deeper Life Bible Church stands out. Here is how. 1.  The church and its members are unique:  These days, a lot of churches have blended into each other because everyone is trying to be like everyone else. In the midst of all of these, the Deeper Life Bible Church stands out in every way. A perfect example is their overseer,  William Folorunso Kumuyi,  who is absolutely different from other preachers. Whilst other church leaders are known for showing off their exotic rides, jets, the Deeper life overseer still has a simple, understated about him. 2.  The members have managed to maintain their style:  Over the years, there have been a lot of churches that started out one way and are now doing things differently. In a bid to attract ...