Month: September 2017

Three years after he was crushed by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, Borno state, Ali Ahmadu, a six-year-old boy, is back on his feet again. The insurgents had ransacked Chibok community a few days after abducting 276 girls in April 2014. Their motorcycles overran Ahmadu. For three years, life was tough for the victim until Dickens Sanomi Foundation, a charity group based in Abuja, paid $48,000 (N17.5million) for his medical trip to Dubai. He underwent a spinal cord surgery, which lasted six hours. Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care(…

As the Northern Senatorial District of Cross River State prepares for her first ever cultural festival that unites the zone through a single colourful event, it is important to look at the essentials and importance of such a laudable get-together. Unlike other zones in Cross River State, Northern Cross River State is unique in its special attribute of Cultural Harmony. History teaches us of the oneness that embraced the zone before the unbundling that produced five Local Government Areas. The five local government areas in the Northern Cross River all…

….as Police remains reluctant to pay mortuary bill The Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade-led government has paid N2.2 million for toxicology over late 200 level student of Mass communication Department of Cross River State University of Technology, CRUTECH, Joy Odama, as new evidence to prove the cause of death. This was disclosed yesterday, by the Director General, Due Process and Price Intelligence Bureau, Governor’s Office, Calabar, Cross River State, Alphonsus Eba, who spoke on behalf of the State Government, said the Governor and people of the State were bent…

The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Tor Uja has said that the Church of God was yet to understand pilgrimage well enough. He disclosed this in Lagos during the 70th anniversary of Celestial Church of Christ Worldwide. Rev. Uja stated that Christianity started 2000 years ago while pilgrimage started even before then when the Lord Commanded Abraham to leave his home to a foreign land. He therefore called on the Nigeria Church to take pilgrimage to Israel very serious. According to the NCPC boss,” I…

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja to vacate Wednesday’s court order proscribing it. The Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Abdu Kafarati, in granting an ex-parte motion filed by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), had said the activities of IPOB particularly in the South East or South South henceforth, constituted “an act of terrorism.” The motion was granted in chambers. However, IPOB in a counter…

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris has said the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration will effectively tackle the challenges rocking the country if it approves yearly recruitment of 31,000 policemen for the next five years. The I-G, represented by Deputy-Inspector General of Police (DIG) Foluso Adebanjo, a Supervising Officer in Charge of South West Police Training Institutions made the appeal at the Passing Out Parade of 583 police constables at Police College, Ikeja, Lagos. The IG said the Nigeria Police was presently operating below the United Nations approved ratio…

The wife of the Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo has called on Christian women to always be and see themselves as Ministers of Reconciliation in all their endeavors. Mrs. Osinbajo made the call at the Greater Women Pilgrimage Convocation organized by the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) which took place at the National Women Development Centre in Abuja, recently. In her keynote address, she said that women should be their sister’s keepers, adding that they should be able to give account of themselves while in the…