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Update:: The founder, Faith Revival Apostolic Church, FRAC, Apostle Paul Adenuga, has described the stealing of female pants to make quick money as very shameful. Adenuga condemned the act at the Christian Press of Nigeria (CPAN) breakfast meeting held in Lagos on Sunday. “You can imagine, some men go to steal women pants because they want to make sudden money and some of these men are caught and displayed on social media, what a shame,” he said. According to Adenuga, one of the factors that has intensified such evil acts is that many churches have deviated from preaching the true message of the gospel. The Apostle posited that many churches preached more about how to make  money and neglected the real gospel message that has moral instructions to help cultivate good virtues in Nigerian youths. He, therefore, urged parents especially mothers, to intensify prayers for their wards not to be involved in the shamefu...

Update:: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured supporters that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would jail more corrupt Nigerians, if re-elected. Osinbajo made the promise on Sunday during his house-to-house campaign in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that traffic was at standstill as thousands of residents, including party faithful, market persons and the Arewa Community, trooped out to receive the vice president during the Sunday visit. Osinbajo, the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, also visited various markets and houses in the area. Osinbajo said grand corruption, which plagued the 16 years administration of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, contributed to the lack of infrastructure for Nigerians. Osinbajo said APC government would focus on power, jobs and resources to financially empower petty traders and business owners. “The difference between us and th...

Update:: Ogunyemi(middle) The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has told vice chancellors and council chairmen of universities to stop "behaving like vultures who roam the sky in search of carcasses to feast on." A statement issued on Sunday by Ade Adejumo, the Ibadan zonal coordinator of the union, called on top university officials to join the union in its struggle for improved tertiary education. The union also denied reports that it had received the sum of N163billion from the government for the three-month-old strike to be called off. On Saturday, Biodun Ogunyemi, the ASUU National President, had also denied the reports that it received such amount of money, noting that the N163billion was from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The statement read: “Once again, the attention of our union has been drawn to another piece of misinformation which gives the impression that ASUU collects money from the government. “For the umpteenth time, le...

Update:: A 37-year-old woman has been left blind in one eye after she was stabbed in the face with a shard of glass  during a fight with her sister. According to a close source, the lady whose identity wasn’t revealed was rushed to Delta State University Teaching Hospital where she was given local anaesthetic before surgeons pulled out the shard which had left her unable to see, then stitched up the cuts on her eyelids. Before she was operated Doctors said she was in an ‘anxious state’ because of the gaping wound in her cheek. Dr. Mabel Okiemute Etetafia of Delta State University reported the woman’s predicament in the journal BMJ Case Reports. According to her, the woman’s right eye was producing excessive amounts of fluid and intensely red, the report said, but her eyeball was mostly intact. However, she suffered ‘irreversible’ damage to her cornea – the front of her eye – leaving it blinded and useless. The section of hair believed to have bee...