The funeral of the founding pastor of Fountain of Life Church in Ilupeju, Lagos Taiwo Odukoya will begin on Friday, September 8 with a service of songs and night of tributes. Odukoya died on August 7 in the United States. He was aged 67. Venue for the service of songs and night of tributes will be the church. The church had earlier invited the public to join in “celebrating Pastor Odukoya’s life and legacy.”
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Mandy Park A cerebral lecturer at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Dr PHILIPS NTO has donated one million Naira to the institution for the sustenance of the newly introduced Okpara lecture series. This is as he dedicated the MOUAU ambassador award given to him by the institution to a former outstanding Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji (Ochendo Global) and his parents. Speaking at a reception organised in his honour at Umuahia, Dr Philips Nto, who is the immediate past Provost of Abia State College of Education, Technical,…
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Mandy Park Minister of Works Engr Dave Umuahi has praised Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, for bringing visible developments in the state within a few months in office. Umahi, who was in Abia on Thursday to inspect ongoing Federal projects in the state, said even though he is not an apostle of 100 days celebration, Abia residents and indeed the South East are blessed to have Governor Otti as his handwork is already showing. A statement by Kazie Uko, Chief Press Secretary to Gov Otti quoted Umahi as…
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Mandy Park The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the controversial February 25th election, Peter Obi has instructed his lawyers to immediately challenge the ruling of the five-member Presidential Election Petitions Court led by Justice Simon Haruna Tsamani. Obi disclosed this at a press conference in the commercial town of Onitsha, Anambra state on Thursday in reaction to the PEPC ruling Yesterday, where he copiously acknowledged the Court’s contributions to due process and the seeming attempt to strengthen our democracy. Obi said “As petitioners in this case, we…
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Police in Ekiti said on Thursday that they arrested 10 suspects in connection to the death of a student of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Modupe Atanda. The Command’s spokesman Abutu Sunday stated this in a press release published on X (formerly Twitter). Sunday added that the late 200-level nursing student of the institution was declared missing within the school premises on September 5, 2023. Her body was found in a shallow grave at a distance of about 30 meters behind the nursing lecture hall, he said. The statement read,…
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The police have arrested an associate professor at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Dr Kadiri Akeem accused of rape.The alleged victim (name withheld) had said the lecturer raped her on August 16, 2023 when she visited the lecturer in the office to sort out issues about her results. A non-governmental organisation Inclusive Social Welfare and Empowerment Foundation, where the victim reported the case, got the police involved. Spokesman of the Lagos Police Command Benjamin Hundeyin said in a post on X that the lecturer “is to appear in court in…
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Mandy Park The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has taken a critical analysis of the policies and programmes of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since it assumed office on 29 May 2023, submitting that it’s a mix bag of opportunities if well harnessed and confusion without a clear policy direction. Speaking on existing and emerging issues in the environment sector under the present administration, Executive Director of ERA/FoEN, Chima Williams stated that several initiatives have been introduced by the new government with varying degrees of impact on…
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The management of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has confirmed the missing student Modupe Atanda has been found dead. Ms Atanda, a student in the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Basic Medical Science, went missing after she went out to study at night on Monday, September 4, 2023. Her roommates declared her missing when she did not return. A statement by the university’s registrar Mufutau Ibrahim said, “It will be recalled that earlier today, the Management had made public the disturbing development of the missing of the deceased and assured…
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By Kazie Uko One of the campaign promises of the Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, was the establishment of a ministry or an agency that would serve as a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to drive the process of revamping Aba, the commercial capital of the state. Aba featured so strategically in Dr. Otti’s campaign for the governorship of Abia State to the extent that he was willing to introduce a full-fledged ministry to oversee the realisation of his dream of a renewed Enyimba City, where trading and manufacturing…
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By Mandy Park Olympic -bound Abia female Para-weight lifters have lauded the administration of governor Alex Otti, stressing that it usered a breath of new air in the state. This is coming barely two weeks after Otti warmly received a contingent of Abia players in the nation’s female football team, Super Falcons, to the World Cup in Australia. The group of female Para-Power lifters who are headed to the Olympics next year for the Dubai championship made the observation when they played host to Otti on Tuesday Governor Otti, who…
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