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Bishop Okonkwo Hits At Traditional Rulers over Spate of Kidnapping

The Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Mike Okonkwo, has blamed the unending spate of kidnappings in their domains on the affected traditional rulers. Bishop Okonkwo stated this to journalists, after his sermon at the 7th edition of the Leading Edge Conference and Business Summit organised by TREM (Vision House) in Utako, Abuja, with the theme, ‘From mourning to dancing.’ Okonkwo suggests that any traditional ruler whose domain records cases...

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Archbishop Chukwuma Blames Government for Promoting Violence

The Anglican Communion Archbishop, Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Most Reverend Emmanuel Chukwuma has on Tuesday criticized the Federal Government for introducing the Ruga settlement programme which has been suspended. Chukwuma spoke during a conference at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, organized by Grace Uzoma Okonkwo Foundation in collaboration with the Department of English and Literary Studies, UNN, tagged Criminality and Violence as a Growing Phenomenon in the 21st Century Globalized World. The...

Christianity, Crime

Man Docked for Allegedly Stealing Church Musical Instrument

The police has arraigned one Oluwafemi Adeniran in a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for an alleged theft of musical instruments worth N1 million from a Church. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Akpan Ikem, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on July 21 at about 11:50 a.m. at the Salvation Baptist Church, Age-Mowo, Badagry. Ikem alleged that the defendant stole one Yamaha PSR 540 keyboard, valued at N160,000, one...

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Abducted Aid Worker Calls on CAN for Release

A staff of the Action Against Hunger in Borno State, Grace Taku has called on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to help secure her release and that of five others from the den of their abductors. Taku made the call for help in a new video posted via Facebook on Thursday, appealing to the Christian body and the international community to come for their rescue. She said, “My name is Grace....

Christianity, Crime

Fatoyinbo: CAN Calls for Calm over Rape Allegation

Just as the uproar over the rape allegation against Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo intensifies, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the public to allow the investigating team of its elders to make public its findings. According to the Nation, this was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by CAN’s Acting General Secretary, Joseph Daramola, who said the body resisted the temptation of jumping into...

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Ruga: Southern CAN Calls for Vigilance

The Southern region of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has advised residents in the region to exercise caution despite the suspension of the controversial Ruga settlement for Fulani herdsmen. As ThisDay reports, this note of warning was contained in a press statement issued by Dr. Joseph Ajujungwa, Secretary of CAN, in the 17 Southern States. Warning that the suspension of the programme by President Muhammadu Buhari may not have actually ended,...

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CAN Denies Pastor Fatoyinbo Following Rape Allegations

Resulting from last week’s rape allegations against Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Pastor Abiodun Fatoyinbo by celebrity photographer, Busola Dakolo, who is the wife of popular musician, Timi Dakolo, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has dissociated itself from the embattled pastor and denied his membership of any of the families belonging to CAN. The association which disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday titled “The position of Christian Association...

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Cardinal Onaiyekan Appeals to Presidency to Restore Peace

Nigerian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan has admonished the Federal Government to douse the tension inherent in the country for the restoration of peace and security. As Sahara Reporters disclosed, Cardinal Onaiyekan made the appeal in Abuja on Monday at an Opening/Welcome Dinner of the second edition of the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) 2019/2020 Fellowship Programme on “Interreligious Dialogue and Mediation...

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Judge Sentences Cleric Over Rape of Teenager

A High Court Judge, Justice Hussein Baba -Yusuf on Tuesday passed a seven years jail term to a clergy, Pastor Basil Princewill, for the rape, impersonation, attempt to cause abortion and assisting miscarriage, of a 14 years old girl. Justice Baba –Yusuf passed the verdict in Abuja, stating that the defendant was convicted on count one, which is rape and count three, abetment to cause abortion and not of the four count...

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ICPC Apprehends Impersonators of Anglican Primate

Six members of a cybercrime syndicate have met their waterloo after officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arrested them for allegedly impersonating the Primate of the Nigeria Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh. Disclosing this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the Commission’s Public Relations Officer, Rasheedat Okoduwa revealed that the John Kwasu led syndicate was rounded-up in Kaduna for allegedly using a fake Facebook...

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