Indonesia executes four Nigerians, others for drug offences

 

Indonesian authorities on Tuesday executed four Nigerians and four others for drug-related offences despite pleas by the United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and the Federal Government.

Military rescues 293 girls, women from Sambisa Forest

 

                                 Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade

The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that the troops of the Nigerian Army rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a raid on Sambisa Forest on Tuesday.
When the news of the rescue was broken on the tweeter handle of the military on Tuesday, many Nigerians had gone online to speculate that the freed ladies included the Chibok schoolgirls.

I never apologised to Bode George – Tinubu

 

                                                         Bola Ahamed Tinubu

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied apologising to the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Chief Bode George.

Jonathan, Sambo, others to get N3.24bn severance pay

 

                                                             Sambo and Jonathan

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, Vice-President Namadi Sambo, non-returning federal lawmakers, ministers and   presidential aides will collect N3.24bn as severance allowances, investigation by The 9janewsworld has shown.

(UPDATED) FG warns Buhari against running parallel government

The Federal Government on Wednesday warned against utterances and actions that are capable of portraying the President-elect,

Univ. of Florida closes fraternity over abuse of wounded vets

The University of Florida closed a fraternity Tuesday amid allegations that its members hurled drunken insults and spat at a group of disabled veterans at a Panama City Beach resort.

How Archbishop Idahosa died – Wife

 

IN March 1998, Archbishop Benson Idahosa, the flambouyant founder of
Church of God Mission International Incorporated died and left his wife,
Margaret Idahosa and four children behind.Here, the wife and the first female Pentecostal Archbishop in Africa recounts the last moments of her husband and how she had coped with bereavement. Excerpts…You once said you thought you were finished when your husband died. How exactly did you mean?I knew late Archbishop Benson Idahosa when I was young and we were friends for eight years before we got married. He was not only my husband, he was my brother, my friend and a confidant. In addition to these, he was my bishop and archbishop.When he died I was in a confused state and honestly I didn’t know where to begin and what the future held for me. I thought to myself after the burial I would just recline to myself.