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The St Augustine Capel at Kingston College on North Street in Kingston was the canvas for the thanksgiving service recently for Professor Basil Barrington Watson who was described as legendary and one of Jamaican’s finest ever painters. The many speakers who hailed the life and contribution of.... |
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ASH Wednesday was no ordinary holiday for friends and relatives of Lansil Gregory, 71, and his 74-year-old wife Corita, who had gathered to clean the couple’s rural Manchester home. While lively music of an old-time church song blared from a car parked in the yard, the atmosphere was redolent with.... |
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Valentine’s Day. ASSOCIATED PRESS. On this date in: 1849: President James K. Polk becomes the first U.S. chief executive to be photographed while in office as he posed for Matthew Brady in New York City. 1895: Oscar Wilde’s final play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” opens in London. 1929: The “St. |
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Updated 4 hours ago It was wonderful to see U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle and state Rep. Frank Dermody seeking stop-gap assistance for the locked-out Allegheny Technologies Inc. workers. But where are the other politicians? One would have thought that President Obama, whom the United Steelworkers.... |
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The member representing Akwanga South Constituency in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Comrade Kassim M.Kassim, has become a pacesetter among his colleagues given the volume of his accomplishment and lives he has touched in his constituency in just nine months as a lawmaker. |
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Hundreds of Seventh-Day Adventists of all ages marched along the streets of Arima from various locations to gather at the Larry Gomes Stadium for a Morality and Temperance Rally yesterday afternoon, at which as pastor declared, “Carnival is madness”. “What happens at Carnival, the lewdness and immorality, can not be God’s will. |
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• ‘Love Of God Should Also Come Up Strongly In The Celebration Of Valentine’ February 14 of every year is one day that is celebrated with much fanfare all over the world. The mere mention of the word ‘Valentine’ elicits different responses and feelings from different people, but in the main, it is synonymous with romance and love. |
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Yesterday, several members of the church, mostly youths under the guidance of Pastor Dr. Ravindra Shivnandand, held a suicide walk through the streets of Herstelling. It was the first in a series of events by the spiritual body to raise awareness of suicide and to empower people. |
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Although the first lady never mentioned any names directly in her address, she said she would do so at her next rallies if the plotters continued in their ways, further insinuating that Mnangagwa was ungrateful for having been given the post that he currently occupied by Mugabe, after the brutal 2014 purging of former Vice President Joice Mujuru. |
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A House memo that Republican leadership says was simply intended to clarify the chamber's prayer policy has angered some secularists who say it discriminates against anyone who doesn't believe in God. Republican House Majority Leader Steve Montenegro, a pastor, sent the memo explaining the rules for.... |
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Updated 2 hours ago It was wonderful to see U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle and state Rep. Frank Dermody seeking stop-gap assistance for the locked-out Allegheny Technologies Inc. workers. But where are the other politicians? One would have thought that President Obama, whom the United Steelworkers.... |
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Tina Fey, pictured in 2014 in New York City, drew attention to suffragette Anna Howard Show in her sit-com "30 Rock." Photo: Getty Images.
While perhaps lesser known than Gloria Steinem or Susan B. Anthony, suffragette and feminist Anna Howard Shaw devoted her life to fighting for women's equality. |
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Some people wear their hearts on their sleeve. Florence Hawkins-Criss hangs hers in a gallery — complete with images of the electrodes that once monitored its irregular beat. After heart disease and strokes abruptly cut short her teaching career, Hawkins-Criss turned to her first love — art — to make sense of what was happening to her. |
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By Dayo Johnson, Akure. IT was a job that was to fetch him N300,000. But the table was turned and, instead, a 44-year-old ex-convict, Festus Balogun, ended up in police detention where he is cooling his feet. For months, the suspect had been on the wanted list of Ondo State Police Command as.... |
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Irish IndependentGod FM: a spirited success on airwavesIrish IndependentJust two years ago, in an Irish Independent interview, CEO Rob Clarke revealed that Spirit Radio had a weekly listenership of 165,000 people. Not bad for a specialist station which only debuted in January 2011 - but the genial New Zealander, while ... |
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Updated 39 minutes ago It was wonderful to see U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle and state Rep. Frank Dermody seeking stop-gap assistance for the locked-out Allegheny Technologies Inc. workers. But where are the other politicians? One would have thought that President Obama, whom the United Steelworkers.... |
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Women worldwide purchase about 85 per cent of an estimated 1.2 billion Valentine cards, Mrs Felicia Bello, the Matron, Landmark University Medical Centre, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, revealed. Bello disclosed this at a health counselling initiative, organised for secondary school students in Omu-Aran, Irepodun local government area of the state. |
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I once met a man who missed his wife so much that for more than a year after her death, he couldn't take down the Christmas tree she loved. When a butterfly fluttered into his house one winter day, he imagined it was a visit or sign from her, so he caught the creature and drove it to a supermarket floral department to live happily. |
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JOEY Lewis, monumental dance-band leader, passed away, leaving hardly a ripple on the surface of a festival based on music and dance. His passing occasioned flashbacks, though he and his music preserved a bridge to the present, mostly beyond radar of media attention. |
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Prof. Chukwu Set To Dump PDP For APC THE former minister for Health and chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, is set to join All Progressives Congress (APC), authoritative source said yesterday. His action is coming on the heels of the deepening crises within the.... |
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By Nana Aisha Salaudeen. IIT IS no news that Nigerians are extremists – and in everything too. Whether or not we choose to admit it, we are laced with (un) conscious bias. Yes, I’m saying there’s some form of sexist, racist, and religious/ethnic bias fortified within man y of us ready to prowl out anytime (provided we allow it to). |
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SAN LEANDRO -- A San Leandro man stabbed to death by his son was identified Saturday as a Menlo Park pastor with deep roots in the community, authorities said. Dr. Bishop Teman L. Bostic Sr., 54, was found dead inside his San Leandro apartment early Friday and his 21-year-old son, Isaiah Bostic, was arrested in the killing, police Lt. |
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The General Overseer of The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry, Pastor Lazarus Muoka has urged the government and people of Nigeria to draw closer to God, as he claimed that God is the only being that has solution to the problems confronting the nation. |
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By Christy Anyanwu. TODAY is lover’s day all over the world and it’s time for couples to exchange special gifts and celebrate. Sunday Sun asked some celebrity couples their experiences on their first Valentine’s Day together and it was wonderful to go down memory lane with them. |
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The Founder of Celica Church of Christ (CCC) Ibadan, Right Reverend Emmanuel Adetunji Adeonigbagbe, is a religious leader with a difference. He was vehemently against the policy of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) when it’s President, Pastor Ayo Oritsajefor, aligned with politicians. |
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