Year: 2018

NCPC HOLDS PRAYER CONVOCATION IN JERUSALEM

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The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) this on Saturday held a prayer convocation on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The prayer convocation has become an integral part of the Commission’s pilgrimage programme in which every pilgrim is expected to partake in the prayer programme. As early as 9 00 hours in Israel, all the different pilgrims group converged on Mount Zion, at the heart of Jerusalem to pray for God’s intervention on every side. This edition of the prayer convocation was special and unique as it paraded a sizeable number of…

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NCPC Boss, Others In Jerusalem (Photos)

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Executive secretary NCPC, Rev. Tor Uja 1st right, Bishop Jonas Katung, Rev. Dangana explaining some points to the ES and Pastor Samuel Alaha during NCPC prayer convocation in Jerusalem, recently. Left Bishop Ademola Moradeyo, chairman Oyo CPWB, Celestine Toruka, Head Media NCPC, Dr Francis Alu chairman NCPC FMC and Bright Chukwuemeka Confidential Secretary to the ES on Mount Zion , Jerusalem. Left – R: Mr Lekan Olarewaju, PA to the ES NCPC on Protocol, Bishop Ademola Moradeyo, Chairman Oyo CPWB, Mrs Yetunde Gbafe, ES Lagos CPWB, Archbishop Dotun Ogunseye, chairman…

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C’River SUBEB Chairman Bags ALGON’s Grassroots Community Philanthropist Award

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The chairman, Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr Stephen Odey on Saturday was honoured with the prestigious “Grassroots Community Philanthropist Award 2018” by the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON). Dr Odey, who is also the acting managing director of Cross River State Water Board Limited (CRS-WBL) was bestowed with the award in recognition of his commitment to community development as well as his sterling qualities, record breaking performance and unprecedented achievements in SUBEB and CRS-WBL. The investiture took place at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre,…

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Sani Sidi Mohammed, NEMA And Shame of An Era By John Ikuku

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An exemplary conduct is canvassed everywhere from leaders. It confers pride on his personality, parents and community of birth.  He automatically becomes a beacon of light, mentor and   role model to upcoming generation, as a good ambassador of his people.  To act otherwise is to be scorned and ostracized or even avoided like a plaque. A raging sordid drama has played out at the headquarters of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for a while.  Acting on intelligence information, the EFCC is said to have nudged into a breathtaking corruption…

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2019: Why Plateau Earnestly Desire Lalong Again By Gabriel Ikese

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“We stand by Gov. Simon Bako Lalong and we call on Lalong to contest the forthcoming Governorship election”.   This is one popular sound bite that is propagated by the generality of Plateau citizens across the State preparatory to the upcoming 2019 elections. It assumed a bold inscription on banners carried by women and youths in their hundreds from all 17 Local Government Areas in the many solidarity matches to the Government House at Little Rayfield. The social media too is not left out of the frenzy.  It is inundated with…

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Nigeria Air: Appreciating Sirika’s Patriotic Outing By Philip Agbese

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That Nigeria is proclaimed the giant of Africa is trite. It is a slogan which has reigned for decades. But in the last two decades, or more, Nigeria, the pride of Africa has been ludicrously derided and despised with various derogative sobriquets’, as “leaping, sleeping or crawling giant” of Africa. Even among Nigerians, it is openly chuckled in leisure joints in a mood and feeling clearly detached from the love of country. Nigerians have been horror-struck at this unswervingly crumbling nation, which has refused to project itself as the true…

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Boko Haram: Groups Laud Military’s Efforts On War Against Insurgency

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A group of 12 Civil Society in Nigeria under the auspices of the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria has appraised the military’s efforts against terrorism as a journey on course. The group at a world press conference today at Maiduguri after a tour of the north- east said despite frantic efforts by the terrorists to regroup around the borders  to carry out attacks on the troops, the military still remain committed and well  coordinated to sustain its winning spirit and determination to…

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Mass Killings, Political Calculations and the Dearth of Morality in Nigeria By Josephine Collins

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There is a joke trending in the wake of the defections of lawmakers elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The joke is to the effect that not much was heard about the so-called killer herdsmen in the week of defections because those sponsoring the assassins were busy relocating their stuffs from the APC to the PDP. Sadly, beyond the joke, the truth is that there was a lull in the activities of “killer herdsmen” in the week of defection; whether the…

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Herdsmen/farmers Crisis: PDP, Governors Culpable, Report Reveals

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An intellectual think tank in the UK, The Bridge Centre has indicted Nigerian leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the herdsmen farmers’ crisis in some parts of Nigeria. The Bridge Centre claimed that chieftains of the PDP in their desperation to get at the government of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the centre, have been actively supporting killers, who go about massacring populations in communities that did not vote them in the 2015 general elections. The report cited the case of wanted terrorist, Akwazar Terwase (alias…

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Group Hails Removal Of Atolagbe As Commander, Operation Safe Haven

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The Plateau Peace and Good Governance Watch, a civil society group has reacted to the removal of Major General Anthony Atolagbe as the Commander of Operation Safe Haven by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin. Olonisakin had removed Atolagbe and subsequently replaced him with Major General Augustine Chris Chukwudi Agundu as the new Commander, a development many observers attributed to the increased attacks in Plateau State that led to death of scores of Nigerians, left many others other injured with properties destroyed under the leadership of the…

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