Perhaps, the only way to determine the way forward for this country is to stage TWO plays, one about 'Paradise' and the other about 'Hell'. From the experiences of both certainly, we should know good from bad and successfully, define our stand on this planet earth. What do you think?
NPR reports that the New York Police Department has released footage and appealed for information after a newly installed statue of George Floyd in Union Square was defaced by paint on October 3.
The footage shows a man on a skateboard
throwing the paint as he passes.
According to the report, Nearby busts of late Congressman John Lewis and Breonna Taylor, the Louisville, Kentucky, woman shot and killed by police in 2020, did not appear to be defaced.
A broken pipeline has led to an estimated 126,000 gallons of oil leaked into the Ocean waters near Orange County, prompting Southern California officials to rapidly race to contain the damage in one of the largest oil spills in recent memory, reports USA Today.
FROM THE IG DESK OF RENO OMOKRI
When you wake prematurely at night and
can’t go back to sleep, dont stress. God allowed you to wake for a reason.
There may be things coming in your future that need intervention. You are in a
theta state. The environment is quiet. Don’t waste the opportunity. Pray! You
did not just wake up. You woke up for a reason. Apple Inc can remotely wake
your iPhone from California, no matter where you are on Earth. And God can
remotely wake your spirit man from the Ancient Heavens no matter where you are
in the Universe. Pray so you don’t fall prey!
Ahmed Joda
A TRIBUTE BY: Matthew Hassan Kukah
"... With Ahmed Joda gone, the north
is at best now a huge graveyard. Its children are now largely orphans."
The death of Ahmed Joda marks the drop of
the final leaves of the northern autumn. Ordinarily, in spring, the first drops
of the rains and moisture breathe life into the foliage and in turn, a long
process begins to ensure that fresh leaves return to the trees.
However, with the bandits and kidnappers
having taken over the region, Northern Nigeria is faced with a prospect of
self- immolation that is almost impossible to contemplate.
The region’s internal tensions commenced long ago with the death of the Gamji himself on January 15th, 1966. His rarified personage had dwarfed all around him and there were hardly any pretending deputies in sight. Everyone around the Sardauna was merely an altar server; no co-celebrants as such.
Our top editorial this moment comes from the Premium Times with a message in view of the seemingly much awaited Nigeria’s 2023 Elections and a deserving voting pattern. The story reads:
As the Conference Committee of the National
Assembly begins harmonising the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, PREMIUM TIMES
deems it necessary to reiterate the need to pass an electoral law that would
fully accommodate both electronic voting and the electronic transmission of
results. We are firmly convinced that such step would safeguard Nigeria’s
democracy.
The main purpose of the Conference Committee is to reconcile the two versions of the Amendment Bill as respectively passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Meet "The One Bel Air" – a Los Angeles megamansion that is believed to be the largest modern home in the United States, USA Today, reports.
According to Architectural Digest, the record-breaking estate has 105,000 square feet of living space, including 42 bathrooms, 21 bedrooms and a 5,500-square-foot master suite, the report states, adding that the property is also adorned with jaw-dropping features and amenities — including a sky deck, night club, several swimming pools, 10,000 bottle wine cellar, a 50-seat theater, a four-lane bowling alley.
Nigeria's former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar takes his family out on a holiday as he flashes a few photos via his IG with the message "Out and about on holiday with my children and grandchildren at the National Children Park & Zoo"
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We have prayed enough and God
has answered our prayers.
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God answered our prayers by
giving us large followership.
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Mega churches in Nigeria are
not available anywhere in the world.
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No church like Redeem … in the
world.
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No church like Winners … in the
world.
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No church like Mountain of Fire
… in the world.
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No church like Chosen … in the
world.
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No church like Christ Embassy …
in the world.
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No church like Deeper Life … in
the world.
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Redeem alone has over 40,000
parishes.
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Winners alone has over 30,000
parishes.
We
have prayed enough and God has answered! The church should wake up, rise up and
start playing their part in building a better Nigeria. We have the number, we
have the resources, we have everything we need to repair Nigeria from the
grassroots. The time to start is now!
This message was delivered by Pastor Femi
Emmanuel, Presiding Pastor of Livingspring Chapel International while
addressing his congregation as Nigeria marks her 61st Independence
Anniversary.
Calling on Nigerian Christians to partake
in politics from the grassroots, Pastor Femi has equally asked them to change
their prayer modes.
“So, it’s not just ‘deliver Nigeria,
Deliver Nigeria’, he said. “It should be called ‘Wake up your church’.
“Talk to your General Overseers. The church community is an imprisoned community. Our General Overseers have imprisoned us. They must release us, mobilize us, encourage us to go to the grass root. Politics is in the grassroots”, he added.
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Haitian migrants in Necoclí, Colombia, walk toward boats that will take them to the town of Acandí, across the Gulf of Urabá. The boats can't keep up with the number of Haitians looking to travel from Colombia through the jungle to Panama to eventually reach the U.S. Carlos Villalón for NPR |
NECOCLÍ, Colombia — This town's Caribbean beaches used to fill up with tourists but there's no longer room. Instead, thousands of Haitian migrants who can't afford the hotels have pitched tents on just about every patch of sand, National Public Radio (NPR) reports.
According to the report, Nearly 20,000 Haitians, who are on their
way to the United States, are now holed up in Necoclí, forming a human
bottleneck even bigger than the recent migrant logjams on the U.S.-Mexican
border.
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Tents pitched at Necocli's beach in September. About 19,000 migrants are living in the town, some staying in hotels and many other camping out on the beach. Carlos Villalon for NPR |
Bruno Noel got to Necoclí two weeks ago with his wife and 6-month-old son and notes his many compatriots speaking Haitian Creole on the boardwalk. "This is like a smaller version of Haiti," he quips, the report states further adding that Lacking visas, Noel and other Haitians are taking a roundabout, overland route to get to the U.S. Many moved to Brazil, Chile and other South American nations following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. But now that countries in the region have eased pandemic travel restrictions, throngs of Haitians are heading north. Many believe they will have a better chance to get into the U.S. — and to stay there — now that Donald Trump has been replaced in the White House by President Biden.
The UN food agency has launched an urgent appeal for action to reduce the amount of food that is wasted, saying lack of food, hunger and malnutrition affect every country in the world, NAN reports.
According to the report, The Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday that 17 per cent of all food
available to consumers in 2019 ended up being thrown away.
An additional 132 million people face food
and nutrition insecurity today because of the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO said,
ahead of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, on
Wednesday, 29 September.
The problem of food waste is a global one
and not limited to wealthy nations alone, said Nancy Aburto, Deputy Director of
FAO’s Food and Nutrition Division Economic and Social Development Stream,
speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
“Food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition are impacting every country in the world and no country is unaffected; 811 million people suffer hunger, two billion suffer micronutrient deficiencies – that’s vitamin and mineral deficiencies – and millions of children suffer stunting and wasting, deadly forms of under-nutrition.”
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| Nigeria's Musician, Wizkid |
Cool FM 96.9 Abuja reported few days ago that Wizkid’s ‘Made in Lagos‘ album reached number one on the chart.
According to the report, Nigerian superstar singer, Wizkid (Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) is now holding the record of longest stay on Billboard World Albums Chart.
He tallied with Fela Anikulapo Kuti last
week.
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's ‘The Best Of The
Black President‘ album, a compilation released in 1999, spent forty-five weeks
on the Billboard World Albums Chart, making it the longest-running album on the
chart for a Nigerian singer.
However, according to current updates,
Afrobeats sensation Wizkid has broken the record by spending a total of 46
weeks on the Billboard World Albums rankings with his 2020 ‘Made in Lagos’
album.
Wizkid’s ‘Made in Lagos‘ album reached number one on the chart, while Fela’s ‘The Best Of The Black President‘ peaked at number three.
A study of reported cases of Kidnap-for-ransom in the media reveals that the crime has become perhaps the biggest security threat in Nigeria.
Tears dropped down the cheeks of Catherine Ukpekpi as she narrated her family’s ordeal. It was April and her husband, Ben, the leader of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Cross River State, had been kidnapped four weeks earlier. It was the second time in 16 months that he had been kidnapped.
Mrs Ukpekpi said the circumstances of both incidents were identical. Just as in December 2019, he was again abducted at the front of their house in Calabar, and by people she suspected were the same.
“Two days later they opened communication and said we should pay N150 million before they release my husband. I asked them N150,000 or N150 million? They said ‘madam N150 million! We abducted your husband for money. Pay us N150 million, not a kobo less. He is the NLC chairman’”.
