A Togolese parish priest has abandoned his call to priesthood for the Shrine.
He argued that the Chinese did not leave their own religion when they were colonized.
Therefore Africans are making a mistake by leaving theirs.
He said that the teachings of Christianity are not fit for an African society.
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has insisted that the North would produce Nigeria’s president in 2023.
Mohammed said the claim that power must shift to the Southern part of the country in 2023 is meant for the All Progressives Congress, APC, and not the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
He said the North still has four years left, based on the arrangement of the PDP.
Mohammed disclosed this when a Contact and Consultation Committee he set up for his presidential ambition submitted its report to him on Friday at the Government House in Bauchi.
Mohammed said, “We are aware of the agitations of the southern part of the country because the leader of the country today, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is from the North, will finish his tenure in 2023, so power should rotate to the South.
“But I want to say that I am in PDP, I am not in APC. It is the APC that has this burden (of zoning the presidency to the South).
In my party, the last President was from the South and he was my President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. During this period, my party was at the centre for 16 years, 14 of those years were led by the people from the South, so where is the justice and the justification? Therefore, it is the turn of the North (to produce the President).”
Some political stakeholders have been agitating for the Presidency to shift to the Southern part of the country.
Igbos have been in the forefront, agitating for the Presidency to move to their Southeast in 2023.
They claimed that Igbos have been denied the chance to rule Nigeria for too long, stressing that other regions have produced the president but Igbo’s
Nigeria’s 2023 presidential hopeful, Bola Tinubu, says he is currently in London for his presidential campaign as the country gears towards its general election.
Mr Tinubu who spoke through his media aide, Tunde Rahman, said he was in London to consult with stakeholders on his 2023 presidential ambition.
“HE Asíwájú Tinubu is engaged in meetings and consultations over his presidential interest. Some of these consultations are holding abroad. So if in The UK at present, this is why!” Mr Rahman stated in a tweet.
The presidential hopeful has been heavily criticised for embarking on the trip barely three weeks after he informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his ambition to contest for president.
In an attempt to quell criticisms against his principal, Mr Rahman said the APC chieftain is expected back into the country next week.
Ahead of next year’s presidential election, the former Lagos state governor has continued to engage top Nigerian political elites.
Three teenagers arrested for killing their friend’s girlfriend and b#rning her head for money r!tual
Three teenage boys have been arrested by the police in Abeokuta, Ogun state for allegedly k#lling their friend’s girlfriend and b#rning her head for money r!tual.
The suspects, identified as Wariz Oladeinde, 17, Abdulgafar Lukman, 19, and 20-year-old Mustakeem Balogun, allegedly committed the hideous crime in Oke Aregba community.
DailyPost reports that in the early hours of Saturday, January 29, one Mr. Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard, had observed that some four boys were b#rning something suspected to be the h#man head in a local pot on the road.
It was gathered that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to the scene to get three of the boys arrested as one had fled before police arrived.
A source, who confirmed the incident said the slain girl, identified as Rofiat, was a resident of Idi-Ape; she was a girlfriend to one Soliu, who is now in police net. He was said to have lured the girl to his room, where he held her down and asked one of his friends to sl#ughter her with a knife.
“Soliu was the boyfriend of the girl, he ran away, but was later arrested. They k!lled Rofiat, c#t her head, packed the headless body in a sack and started b#rning the head in a pot. They told the police in the presence of a mammoth crowd that they wanted to use it for money r!tual.”
This was disclosed in the CBN new ‘Guide to Charges by Banks Other Financial and Non-Financial.
The apex bank said the guideline applies to charges by Banks Other Financial and Non-Financial under its licence or regulation.
The document revealed that the CBN has reduced the charges on some transactions including Standing Order Charge (In-Branch); ATM Maninance Fees; Electronic Fund Transfers and Bulk Payments among others.
In the latest guideline, CBN said Standing Order Charge for intra-bank will be free compared to the N300 in the 2017 guideline.
For Interbank Transfers, the CBN cut the charges to a maximum of N50 per transaction compared to the N300 held in 2017.
Bills Payment (Including Bills Payment through other E-channels) is Negotiable subject to a maximum of N500 per beneficiary payable by sender, a review from the N1,200 or 0.75 per cent for a biller or merchant to pay.
Electronic Funds Transfer has also been reviewed downwards to N10 charge for a transaction below N5000; N26 for transaction of N5001 to N50,000 while transactions above N50,000 will be charged N50.
Withdrawals on other banks’ ATMS have been reduced from N65 to N35 after the third withdrawal within the same month.
The CBN also reduced ATM Bill Payment from N100 to N50. Debit card maintenance charges that were N100/Month have been removed in the new guideline.
THE Jigawa Police Command has arrested 14 suspected kidnappers believed to be members of the syndicate that recently killed two police officers and burnt a police patrol vehicle in Taura local government area in the state.
This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Aliyu Sale Tafida, while parading the suspects at the state police command headquarter in Dutse.
A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court Lagos has remanded Alhaji Azeez Adekunle Lawal aka Kunle Poly and two others in the custody of the Nigeria Police Zonal Monitoring Unit, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan-Lagos for 30 days, over last Thursday’s mayhem at Idumota, Lagos Island.
Kunle Poly is the Lagos Island ‘B’ Branch chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).
Those remanded alongside him were Prince Idowu Onikoyi Johnson and Agboola Akeem Kosoko.
Chief Magistrate Linda Balogun gave the order following an application by police counsel Morufu Animashaun.
Animashaun based his application on section 264(1), (2), (3), (4) and (6) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State (ACJL), 2021; sections 4 and 10 of the Police Act, 2020, and sections 6(c), 35(1)(C)(5) and (7)(a) of the 1999 Constitution.
The prosecutor told the court that the order would enable the police conclude investigation of allegations of threat to life and property, violence, cultism, mayhem, conduct likely to cause breach of peace, unlawful possession of firearms, conspiracy and murder against the defendants.
The prosecutor also supported the application with a 14-paragraph affidavit deposed to by Inspector Monday Ohion.
In a bench ruling, the Chief Magistrate held: “I have listened to the submission of the counsel, as well as perused the application for remand and the attached affidavit.
“I find merit in the application and it is accordingly granted. The three defendants are to be remanded in the facility of the Nigeria Police Zonal Monitoring Unit, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan-Lagos, for the next 30 days, to enable the police to conclude investigation”.
Operatives of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS), led by its Commander, Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Chief Superintendent (CSP) arrested Kunle Poly and the Treasurer of the Lagos State Council of the NURTW Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle (aka Sego) last Thursday following the clash between factional union members,
The RRS said the constant clashes in Idumota and its environs intermittently crippled commercial activities in the area.
Temitope Majekodunmi, one of the organisers of the EndSARS protests, has become the Olu of Ikeja designate.
The Osoja royal family of Ikeja unanimously agreed that 33-year-old Mr Majekodunmi will occupy the throne as the Olu of Ikeja eight years after Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi passed away.
In a statement by the Osoja royal family, the family confirmed that Mr Majekodunmi would become the next Olu of Ikeja.
The family announced to the public that those picked to ascend the throne had been asked to step aside due to rivalry between Samsonideen Adeleye, Nurudeen Adeleye and Wasiu Adeleye for the past eight years.
“The family wishes to notify the Ikeja Community and the general public that due to long rivalry between their sons – Prince Nurudeen Adeleye and Prince Wasiu Adeleye – who were earlier nominated by the family for the government to decide the more suitable candidate have been asked to step aside,” said the statement.
“This decision was reached after years of waiting and a series of meetings to resolve the differences between these nominees for one of them to assume the role of Olu of Ikeja.”
It added, “Consequently, the family has unanimously withdrawn Prince Nurudeen Adeleye and Prince Wasiu Adeleye in a formal written communication to the Lagos State Government”
“The family wishes to make public, our unanimous decision on the new Omo Oye as contained in a letter forwarded to the government dated January 24th, 2022.
“The Osoja ruling house unanimously presents a sole candidate for the vacant stool of Olu of Ikeja, Prince Temitope Adebowale Ibikunle (Idowu Aso branch of Osoja).”
The family appealed to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to treat “with the utmost urgency the family’s decision to avoid further delay.”
Activist publisher and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has weighed in on the battle between businessman Ned Nwoko and Jaruma.
Recall that an Abuja court, on Tuesday, remanded Jaruma to prison custody in the alleged defamation case filed by Nwoko, who is husband to actress Regina Daniels.
But Sowore says confining the aphrodisiac merchant to jail before her bail hearing on Friday is uncalled for.
“Free Jaruma: It is disheartening that Nigeria Police Force continues to deploy itself to despicable VIP mercenary activities,” Sowore said this morning.
“This so-called billionaire, Ned Nwoko, has done so much damage to lots of innocent citizens in his community with the aid of the Nigerian police.
“Jaruma is his latest victim. This culture cannot stand.
Eucharia Anunobi, the Nollywood actress, has faulted the practice of people building mansions worth billions of naira in their villages when they rarely stay there.
In Nigeria, it is common among rich people to build mansions in their home towns where they may eventually retire to or not.
But in an Instagram video on Thursday, the film star described such a trend as an act of foolishness.
The actress argued that the money invested in such mansions could be used in building affordable estates for people.
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