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By Azuka Ogujiuba. Blessing Agboli is described as Nigeria’s most style-conscious pastor. She has the same dress sense as Shekha Mozah Bint Nasser Missned of Quatar. As much as she has tried to conceal herself from public glare, every now and then her forceful personality never ceases to impress women of like minds. |
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Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt. Worried by the level of insecurity in its host community, Egi in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, oil giant, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria, has met with stakeholders in Egi to chart a way forward. |
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Some women squat in focal points with ’twins’ in the Lagos metropolis and across major towns and cities in Nigeria, seeking assistance for these children from kind-hearted individuals. JULIET UMEH spoke to traditionalists and others who shed light on the menace. |
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By KATE HALIM and VERA WISDOM-BASSEY. WHENEVER Roselyn disagreed with her husband, it would earn her a beating. For the eight years she lived with him, Roselyn was beaten more than 60 times. Sadly, her now 16-year old son witnessed several sessions of the ugly incident. |
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By Ifeanyi Okolie Residents of Kaduna Metropolis can now sleep with their eyes closed following the recent clamp down on a dreaded gang of kidnappers made up of Fulani Herdsmen who had held the entire State hostage. The suspectsý who were rounded up from their hideouts in Kaduna and Zaria by.... |
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A week later when the new price was announced, he spent around N9,500 to drive to and fro Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, from Lagos (174.6km). Meanwhile, his salary has not increased and so he is unhappy. Although fuel scarcity, coupled with high cost of buying fuel, had persisted in the country since last.... |
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Dear mama: Raise your son. To coddle him is to cripple him. Your black son will always be your “baby.” But as he passes through puberty — from boy to man — he is destined to become America’s most hated. Most feared. Most murdered, even by his own brothers. I know your heart is tender. That a son holds a special place in a mother’s heart. |
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Before we start our ministry meetings, my pastor encourages us to spend some time allowing people to testify. For those unaccustomed to this tradition, it’s a time when people talk about the good things that have happened to them. So when a reader suggested “Testimony Thursday” as a moniker for the.... |
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two Knoxville-area ministers face felony charges for seeking sex with underage girls as part of an undercover sting operation targeting human trafficking and prostitution this week. Jason Kennedy, 46, of Knoxville was charged Thursday with felony human trafficking and patronizing.... |
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On the day he was officially proclaimed as one of 12 senators-elect in the Philippines, world boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao said Thursday he favours restoring the death penalty in his country for drug-related and other serious crimes. "In the eyes of God, it is not unlawful," the 37-year-old.... |
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I give thanks for the candidacy of Donald Trump. A year ago the entrance of Mr. Trump into the presidential race seemed comical given the fact that his chief public exposure was through tabloid appearances and his reality-based television show. At that time, I would have hardly given thanks for his.... |
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— Residents who live in the North End will vote Saturday to fill six seats on the New North Citizens Council board of directors from among eight candidates. "The board is made up of 15 residents, and they are looking to fill six seats," said Jose Claudio, of the New North Citizens Council, a non-profit social services agency governed by the board. |
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two Knoxville-area ministers face felony charges for seeking sex with underage girls as part of an undercover sting operation targeting human trafficking and prostitution this week. Jason Kennedy, 46, of Knoxville was charged Thursday with felony human trafficking and patronizing.... |
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Friday authorities arrested 32 people in a Knoxville human trafficking operation. The TBI said in a release two of the men, including a children’s minister, arrested in “Operation Someone Like Me” responded to ads for what they thought were girls under the age of 18. |
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On Friday, the man accused in the shooting that has stunned residents in the Codman Square neighborhood was arraigned on multiple assault and weapons charges, including assault with intent to murder. Prosecutors say James D. Martin Jr., 22, of Dorchester, shot five bullets in the direction of two.... |
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An inspirational Alzheimer’s awareness champion was stopped from entering a dementia awareness event at a church with her assistance dog. Joy Watson, 57, who was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, has won national recognition for her work. But when she arrived at The Lighthouse in Eccles she was.... |
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Dan writes of being bludgeoned by grief, of being frightened by it's intensity as his friends suffer and die. And yet, again and again, for many years, he continues to open himself with love and companionship to new men, knowing the devastation that lay ahead. |
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Friday authorities arrested 32 people in a Knoxville human trafficking operation. The TBI said in a release two of the men, including a children’s minister, arrested in “Operation Someone Like Me” responded to ads for what they thought were girls under the age of 18. |
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An inspirational Alzheimer’s awareness champion was stopped from entering an event at a church with her assistance dog. Joy Watson, 57, who was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, has won national recognition for her work. But when she arrived at The Lighthouse in Eccles she was barred from going.... |
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LAGOS, Nigeria — LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A second "Chibok girl" rescued by Nigeria's military in a forest battle with Islamic extremists was kidnapped from her home village and is not among 218 students missing from the 2014 mass abduction by Boko Haram that sparked worldwide outrage. |
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Top evangelical and social conservative leaders are planning a private meeting with Donald Trump to see if they will be able to address longstanding concern about his candidacy. Former presidential candidate Ben Carson is working with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Bill.... |
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Chibok parent group says military did not verify Serah Luka’s name with them and she is not on list of missing schoolgirls.
People during a protest calling on the government to rescue the girls kidnapped from the Chibok school. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters.
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Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari (centre) flanked by Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima (right) and Chief of Staff for the Kaduna State Governor Hadiza Bala Usman (right) carries Amina Ali's four-month-old baby on her arrival at the presidency in Abuja, on Thursday. |
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Head of Chibok parent group says military did not verify girl’s name with them and she is not on their list.
People during a protest calling on the government to rescue the girls kidnapped from the Chibok school. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters.
in Dakar. Friday 20 May 2016 20.52 BST Last modified on Friday 20 May 2016 21. |
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) A second "Chibok girl" rescued by Nigeria's military in a forest battle with Islamic extremists was kidnapped from her home village and is not among 218 students missing from the 2014 mass abduction by Boko Haram that sparked worldwide outrage. The girl is one of three daughters of a pastor of the Nigerian branch of the U. |
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