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German television evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke, has died. He was aged 79. A post on Saturday on his ministry’s Facebook page, Reinhard Bonnke- Official Page, announced the passing of the Pentecostal minister. “It is with sorrow that the Bonnke Family would like to announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke,” the post read. “He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on December 7, 2019.” “For the past 60 years he has preached the glorious Gospel of Jesus throughout the entire world. We want to thank you on behalf of him and our family, for your kind love and unwavering support, which enabled him to preach the matchless message of salvation to countless people,” the post noted. Reinhard Bonnke was born April 19, 1940 and was principally known for his gospel missions throughout Africa. Bonnke was known for his missionary incursions into Africa since 1967. Mr Bonnke oversaw over 75 million recorded conversions to

It's quite a displeasure seeing Lecturers and their students loosing taste of a real relationship. If the students are not good, check their lectures and guiding counselors. Lecturers and guiding counselors are like parents to their students and not like a lion and a goat to each other respectively. The lecturers and guiding counselor are to bear in mind that they are training the future leaders who will rule, lead and govern the country and hold international positions in different sectors and places round the world. Therefore, they should input their best to ensure that the future is safe by giving good and adequate training to their students. It's quite unpleasant noticing that some lecturers choose to hurt their students directly and indirectly which brings in the negative components that break good relationship. Thus giving a different sense to their responsibility and understanding to their students. In addition, it's a poor attitude to professionalism

In 2017, when Best Somadina, living up to his name, emerged the Mass Communication Best Graduating Student from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), formerly known as Anambra State University, he knew he would get a stream of awards. But the items he got left him bemused: a tuber of yam, a fowl and a certificate. “People expected me to get a gift related to books, but when I got yam and fowl they started laughing, wondering whether I’m a native doctor. If I had got a laptop, or N500,000 to help me for Master’s degree, it would have made more sense,” he said later in an interview with  BBC . Bamisaye Tosin has a similar story. He got N200 for being the  best graduating student (BGS) at the Ekiti State University’s (EKSU) Department of Civil Engineering.. Although, Mr Bamisaye told PREMIUM TIMES he was not discouraged, many class-top graduates like him are no longer impressed with the reward system for academic excellence in Nigeria.

Senator Rochas Okorocha has expressed fear that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may go into extinction by the time President Buhari’s tenure expires in 2023. Okorocha said this while reacting to the crisis rocking the party in Edo state where the state governor, Godwin Obaseki and APC National chairman and Obaseki’s predecessor, Adams Oshiomole, are battling for control of the party in the state. Just yesterday, political thugs attacked the state governor, the Oba of Lagos and some dignitaries that attended a function at Oshiomole’s residence. Speaking to journalists in Kano state yesterday November 2nd, Okorocha said any political party that has the level of internal crisis being experienced in the ruling party is bound to fail. A political party should be a group of people who share common political interest and beliefs; people who pursue a common goal or common objective for the good of the common man. That will be my understanding of a political party, but

The Nigerian Army has dissociated itself from Operation Positive Identification across states in the country which is allegedly being promoted by one Bricks company. The public has been urged to disregard the statement by Bricks Company on Operation Positive Identification. Nigerian Army’s Acting Director of Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa stated that the ongoing operation positive identification is intelligence driven, deliberate and a targeted operation in the northeast region. The statement reads “following the widespread apprehension on the purported Nigerian Army (NA) operation positive identification from 1 November to 23 December 2019, as mischievously peddled on the social media by a hitherto unknown and fictitious organization, the so-called Bricks Company, which alleges that the NA will conduct the operation and went ahead to state how the operation will be conducted by the Army. “Specifically, Bricks alleges that – “residents shall witness large numbers of u

Some persons associated with the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) have gone on rampage closing shops belonging to foreigners in commercial hubs in Kumasi in the Ashanti region. The closure that begun from Alarbar spread to Adhye and Kejetia Wednesday. The Ashanti Regional President of the Nigerian Association of Traders Union told otecNews he has asked his nationals not to retaliate when the errant people beseech their shops. He pointed out that the faces of the GUTA members do not look familiar and wondered why they all refused to show any identity. He told Otecnews “as we speak now, there are some of the guys here at magazine closing shops belonging to foreigners.” He however indicated that the Manhyia Divisional Commander ACP Kwaku Boah had deployed some police personnel who had come to break the padlocks of some of the locked shops. The executive of the Ashanti Region chapter of the Ghana Union of Traders Association who were contacted insisted they will not

A study done by a German scientist, Karen Weatherby, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has revealed that staring at women’s breasts is healthy and also elongates the life span of men. The study, which was carried out over a period of five years, involved 500 men, half of whom were instructed to stare at women’s breasts in a lustful manner for no less than 10 minutes every day. The other half were instructed to abstain from doing such. It concluded that men who stared at breasts, more often, showed lower rates of heart problems, slower resting heart rate and lower blood pressure, all of which enable a healthy living and long life. The study said men should stare at breasts for 10 minutes a day to improve the wellness of their hearts and live longer. “Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female every day is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out,” the study revealed. When the two groups of men were tested, men that sta

As of 10 October 2019,  131 Member States have paid their regular budget assessments in full and Nigeria is not on the list the UN tagged “Honour Roll”. The UN has 193 Member Countries, thus, Africa’s biggest nation is among the 64 yet to pay. Interestingly, a Nigerian, Muhammad-Bande, is the current President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Bande took over from Ms Maria Espinosa – the first woman to hold the office – and will lead the 74th Session of the Assembly in the next one year. On September 23, one week after Bande assumed office, President  Muhammadu Buhari paid a courtesy call on him in New York. However, it is undetermined if the UNGA head reminded the president the country was owing the body he leads. “I sincerely congratulate you. Your election was well received by the whole world. It was a unanimous support, and the global community received you well. That support puts heavy weight on you, and I wish you well,” Buhari told Bande. “Our work and

The umbrella group of youth leaders in the South East geopolitical zone, under the umbrella of the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has said that it is either the presidency for the Zone in 2023 or nothing. The group emphatically demanded that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should cede the presidency to the South East zone in 2023 at the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari. The youth coalition warned that refusal of any big political party to zone the presidency to the South East in 2023 simply means swimming against the tide of the curriculum of democracy in Nigeria. This was contained in a statement issued by the President-General of the group, Chief Goodluck Ibem, and made available to newsmen in Umuahia on Saturday. The Coalition warned that those clamouring for the North to take the presidency after eight years of Buhari’s presidency, are not patriotic, but place their

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Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration will “honestly and transparently resolve the request by labour for a salary increase for other levels of workers not affected in the implementation of the new national minimum wage.” Osinbajo stated this on Thursday at a meeting with the new leadership of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa. The team was led by the new President of the union, Comrade Quadri Olaleye. Labour, Employment & Productivity Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige was also at the meeting. Commending the labour leaders’ engagement with the Federal Government, the VP told the leaders, “your coming today indicates your willingness to work with government. You should consider the President as someone committed to the welfare of workers. One of the first things he did when we came in was to give States a series of bailouts to help repay backlog of salaries in several St

A frontline aspirant in the concluded governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Preye Aganaba, has moved a suit he filed against the party and its candidate, Chief David Lyon, from the state to the Federal High Court, Abuja. A copy of the court proceeding made available to reporters in Abuja showed that the case was due for mentioning at the Federal High Court 4, Abuja, presided over by Justice I.E. Ekwo. Granting a motion ex parte filed by Aganaba, Ekwo ordered substituted service of all the processes in the suit on David Lyon and his running mate, Biobaekuma Degi. The judge ordered that the substituted service should include pasting the originating process or other processes on the wall or any part of the National Headquarters of the APC. Ekwo also describing the mode of service he issued against the APC candidate and his running mate as sufficient. But the court turned down one of the prayers by the plaintiff asking the court to a

The Deanship for Students Affairs in collaboration with the international students affairs and Linkage of Kumasi Technical University Ghana have carried out an excellent roundtable discussion with some executive members of international students of Kumasi Technical University Ghana. The detail analysis of challenges facing international students in the university were discussed, where students from different countries such as: Nigeria, Ivory coast, Benin Republic, DR Congo, Mozambique, etc just to mention but few gave votes of thanks in appreciation to efforts and provisions to making international students in Kumasi Technical University feel at home with advance and modern education. Furthermore, international students were encouraged to always feel free in participation of all activities in the university that are encouraged by Law. In other words, the University representatives promised to do their best to ensure that all challenges facing international students are re

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday departed Abuja for Waterloof Air Force Base, Pretoria, to begin a three-day official visit to South Africa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president left the Presidential Villa at about 1:30 p.m. for Pretoria via the Presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. President Buhari had earlier presided over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) before embarking on the trip. The visit comes against the background of recent xenophobic attacks, the evacuation of hundreds of Nigerians and the exchange of visits by special envoys of Presidents Buhari and Ramaphosa. While in Pretoria, the Nigerian leader will hold bilateral meeting with his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa, to discuss the welfare of Nigerians. The two African leaders will also find common grounds for building harmonious relations among their respective citizens. President Buhari will hol

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted President Muhammadu Buhari, describing his Independence Day broadcast as an insult on the psyche of Nigerians. The party said the broadcast was a mockery of the nation’s integrity as an independent state. According to the PDP, Buhari’s speech was completely unpresidential, lacking in patriotic stance and replete with manifest inconsistencies, contradictions, paradoxes and false performance claims. This was contained in a statement Tuesday signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan. It said “President Buhari, in his recorded address, failed to forcefully address the key issues of freedom, social justice, constitutional order, separation of powers, rule of law, human rights, credible elections, national cohesion, accountability and transparency in government.” The party noted that “President Buhari ignored these very fundamentals of an independent state, because his administration had violated t

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has said the the ongoing travails of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is allegedly due to corruption which has nothing to do with 2023 politics. Frank revealed through a statement on Monday in Abuja that he has reliable information from his sources in the presidency to the effect that Osinbajo’s travail has nothing to do with 2023 but alleged mismanagement of about N90 billion Naira released by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to prosecute the last general elections in favour of the APC. Frank said: “The presidency discovered how Osinbajo allegedly mismanaged N90billion from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). “When confronted by the presidency, he confirmed to General Buhari that he indeed allegedly took N90billion from FIRS but it was used for the 2019 presidential election campaign in strategic states of the South-west. “Gen Buhari a