Akwa Ibom officials close Christ Embassy Church in Uyo for attacking Covid-19 monitoring team

HEALTH officials in Akwa Ibom State have sealed off the Uyo headquarters of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's Christ Embassy Church after its members attacked a Covid-19 monitoring team sent to ensure it was observing social distancing guidelines.

 

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Blind Texan man files for divorce after 32 years of marriage upon discovering that his wife is black

TEXAN blind man John Paul Davis has filed for divorce against his wife of 32 years after just discovering that she was black claiming that she dishonestly and fraudulently made him believe that she was Caucasian.

 

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If Nigeria was serious about diversifying her economy the first thing she would do post-coronavirus would be to set up a scrap metal directorate

Ayo Akinfe

(1) We can complain, criticise and argue until we are blue in the face but the fact remains that Nigeria’s economy will not get any better until we industrialise. Until we start producing steel in significant quantities, all this talk about economic diversification is just hot air

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Evangelical clergyman Bishop Macedo says it is against God's will for women to get educated

UNIVERSAL Church of the Kingdom of God clergyman Bishop Edir Macedo has courted controversy by declaring that daughters should not be allowed to seek higher education because if they do they will be smarter than their husbands.

 

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Evangelical clergyman Bishop Macedo says it is against God's will for women to get educated

UNIVERSAL Church of the Kingdom of God clergyman Bishop Edir Macedo has courted controversy by declaring that daughters should not be allowed to seek higher education because if they do they will be smarter than their husbands.

 

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With the return of football and every team now wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, Nigerian tailoring firms should be the global suppliers of such tops

Ayo Akinfe

(1) First of all, it is a delight to see football return. Nothing cures boredom like the beautiful game with its creativity. Football was actually the only thing the Taliban could not ban in Afghanistan. I do not know of one thing that unites humanity like football

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Proprietess of Aba nursery and primary school arrested for defying coronavirus lockdown

ABIA State government has arrested the proprietess of Aba private nursery and primary school the Blessed Child Study Centre Blessing Chukwu for operating her business in violation of the coronavirus lockdown order.

 

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Rivers high court refrains Victor Giadom from parading himself as APC chairman

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been thrown into further turmoil after a Rivers State high court granted an ex parte order restraining deputy national secretary Victor Giadom from parading himself as party chairman.

 

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I have just been doing some number crunching and realised that if the Nigerian government introduces a pilgrimage tax of $200 per person it will raise about $22m annually which could be used to eliminate the almajiri problem

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As we desperately seek to replace the $30bn or so we used to get from crude oil exports, nothing should be off limits. It cannot be business as usual, so we need to be prepared to think the unthinkable. Our main challenge in this post-coronavirus era is to raise capital for investment in infrastructure, job creation and social services like education and health

[2] Do you know that 80,000 Nigerians go on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina every year?

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Nimasa confident floating dock will combat Lagos port congestion and raise N12bn in revenue

NIGERIAN Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (Nimasa) officials have revealed that they are confident of generating about N12bn ($30.86m) annually from the use of the new floating dock the agency has recently acquired.

 

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