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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr Christian Ohaa, has lauded the activities of the Nigeria School Sports Federation (NSSF), promising to support all its laudable programmes both locally and internationally. Ohaa revealed this during a courtesy visit to him by the leadership.... |
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KINGSTREE, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has South Carolina mostly to herself two days before the first-in-the-South primary, and she's using it to capitalize on her advantage over Bernie Sanders with black voters. The Vermont senator, meanwhile, is spending Thursday.... |
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FLINT —The Woodside Church transformed on a snowy Thursday afternoon from a place of worship to a political gathering spot with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders scheduled to make a campaign stop in the beleaguered city for a community forum. |
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KINGSTREE, S.C. — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has South Carolina mostly to herself two days before the first-in-the-South primary, and she's using it to capitalize on her advantage over Bernie Sanders with black voters. The Vermont senator, meanwhile, is spending Thursday.... |
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The funeral for Denise Matthews -- better known as pop vocalist and Prince protege Vanity -- is set for Saturday in Union City. The funeral was originally "open to the public." But organizers have changed it to a closed ceremony, due to concerns of too many people showing up in hopes of potentially seeing Prince at the service. |
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Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., has organized a private congressional reception honoring Saeed Abedini, the Christian pastor who spent three-and-a-half years imprisoned in Iran before his release last month. The private reception for members of Congress will take place in the Lincoln Room of the U.S. Capitol late Thursday afternoon. |
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ATLANTA Feb. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Principal photography has wrapped on Bounce TV's first-ever original drama series Saints & Sinners , the network announced today. Shot on location in Atlanta Saints & Sinners centers around the pursuit of power, intertwined with greed, deception, corruption and.... |
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WASHINGTON Feb. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- There's a reason why the self-regulatory organization FINRA does not publish data about investors hit with unpaid arbitration awards. A new report from the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) finds that "one out of three cases investors take.... |
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The Ekiti State House of Assembly has urged the Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Chief, Ganiyu Obasoyin, to exercise decorum in his pursuit of the status of his chieftaincy title, so as not to undermine the peace currently reining in the state. This was contained in some of the resolutions of the House arrived at its plenary on Tuesday. |
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Diane Stanley has seven children in her home: her biological son, Cooper, 18; her foster son, David, 22, who is intellectually disabled; and five younger children whom she and her husband adopted in November 2015. Those five include the biological siblings Demetries, 8; Caleb, 4; and Maya, 2; as.... |
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By DONNA BRYSON and MATT VOLZ Associated Press. BAILEY, Colo. (AP) - A man who spent years fighting the foreclosure of his Colorado home and ranted online about police and corporate corruption shot three law enforcement officers trying to serve an eviction notice Wednesday, killing one and wounding the others, authorities said. |
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By JASON KEYSER Associated Press. CHICAGO (AP) - A campaign to increase diversity in the ranks of the Chicago Police Department has resulted in a 13 percentage point jump in minority applicants, the department said in an announcement emphasizing its efforts to restore frayed trust with the black community. |
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The primary aim of forming the government as enshrined in section 14 (2) is to protect the lives and properties of its citizens. Provisions of infrastructures and other social amenities is secondary. Also, the law establishing the Nigerian Army is to protect and defend the Nigerian integrity against.... |
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Six weeks after freeing U.S. citizens in a prisoner swap with the United States , Iran appears to have arrested yet another man whom Washington may take an interest in seeing freed.
Baquer Namazi, 80, is the father of American businessman Siamak Namazi, who was detained in October and was not part of last month's exchange. |
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The incumbent Republican Cherie Berry has no primary opposition in her bid for a fifth term as N.C. labor commissioner. The challengers Mazie Ferguson, a Greensboro minister who has worked on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged, is running against former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker for the Democratic nomination to oppose Berry in November. |
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. Today is Thursday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2016. There are 310 days left in the year. ASSOCIATED PRESS. On this date in: 1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver. 1913: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox. |
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Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday urged Christians to continue to pray for the country and support ongoing efforts of the Federal Government to rebuild the economy. Ambode said this at the opening and dedication of Bishop’s Court, the secretariat of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in Lagos. |
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“SOMETIMES I wonder,” said Doug Long, shivering among the demonstrators in Raleigh, North Carolina, on February 13th, “whether everyone who defines themselves as Christian really believes in the same God.” As a rabbi sharing the interfaith stage blew a shofer , and a protest group called the Raging.... |
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A statement by pastor Matt Lacey of the Church of the Reconciler says an argument broke out Wednesday between two men who were eating breakfast at the church, which is part of the United Methodist denomination.
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Felix Antonio Muñoz, a.ka. “Pastor Alape,” is one of seven members of the military command of the FARC, Colombia’s largest guerrilla force which has been engaged in peace talks with the government since 2012. He assumed this position after the death of military chief “Mono Jojoy” in 2010, the.... |
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Have you ever had a person in your life who saw your inner beauty, your soul radiance? I have. One of the first times this happened, was when I lived in Hong Kong. I was in my early 20s, struggling to find my way as an adult, and 10,000 miles from my family, friends and culture. I admit it, I was lonely and scared. |
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A DISTRAUGHT mother has called on the police to help save her children from a church she claims is brainwashing them, New Era reports. Daily Sun reported that Velonika Kautotwa, a Walvis Bay resident, alleged that her two teenage boys had been indoctrinated to such an extent that they had even changed their names in accordance with the church. |
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Anybody can make it big, it's all about time and chance... Mrs Ramota Kamorudeen, a vegetable seller at Obada market in Iree, Boripe area of Osun State, is the mother of Olajumoke Orisagunna, a bread seller in Lagos who recently shot to fame courtesy of ace singer and photographer, T. Y. Bello. |
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In 1993, a brilliant idea to streamline churchgoing for professionals made its international debut at Italy’s church supplies expo: a confession box to which your sins could be faxed. “A space-age telephone booth,” one reverend raged to the Catholic Herald . |
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A DISTRAUGHT mother has called on the police to help save her children from a church she claims is brainwashing them, New Era reports.
Daily Sun reported that Velonika Kautotwa, a Walvis Bay resident, alleged that her two teenage boys had been indoctrinated to such an extent that they had even changed their names in accordance with the church. |
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