Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has declared a monthly payment of N3,000 allowance to pregnant women in the state. The Governor made this known on Monday during the maiden Infant and Maternal Mortality Summit held in Yenagoa, the state capital. He said the monthly allowance was to cover the cost of antenatal care for expectant mothers, which should be paid once a woman living in Bayelsa becomes pregnant until her delivery. Dickson...

Former Head of State, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday patronized the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital and state-owned Diagnostics Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where doctors confirmed him medically sound after undergoing a five-hour medical check-up at both hospitals. The former Nigerian president, who had earlier visited Bayelsa State in February, had promised to begin his annual medical checks at the facilities which he has fulfilled. He added that there was no need for...

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari was elected the new Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The new appointment was disclosed by his Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, at the end of the commission’s meeting in Togo on Tuesday. He will replace Togolese president, Faire Gnassigbe. Ahmed posted this information on his official twitter handle @BashirAhmaad. He wrote, “President Buhari...

The continued lamentation by Nigerians under the yoke of recession seems not to have an end in sight yet going by the recently released report of the annual basic salary of some public service holders in the country. A careful examination of the report by the revenue mobilization and fiscal commission recently revealed that a minister earns an annual salary of #2,026,400 (#168,866:66 per month) while a member of the House of...

Founder and senior pastor of House on the Rock Church, Pastor Paul Adefaeasin, has said that the political class has failed the country.   Adefarasin made the statement at The African Praise Experience (TAPE) 2018 on Friday, while delivering his sermon on“the blessing is on your blind side.”   He charged worshippers on the essence of Love as the reason for Christ’s death, adding that the atmosphere of God’s presence will turn...

A pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Olapade Okunola, has won the governorship ticket election of the Accord Party ahead of the September 22, 2018 gubernatorial election in Osun State. The election’s returning officer, Alhaji Dokun Babarinde, announced the results on Sunday in Osogbo, adding that Okunola polled 141 votes to defeat his closet rival, Mr. Babatunde Loye, who polled 58 votes. Alhaji Babarinde, who is also the South-West Vice...

The General Overseer and founder of Living Faith Church International, Bishop David Oyedepo, has urged Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. This call was made over the unending insecurity and massive killings in the country, especially in the north. The Pastor, who stated this in his sermon on Sunday at the church headquarters at the Canaan Land in Ogun State, gave the admonition in view of the shedding of innocent lives across...

Cross River State chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has held a rally to seek God’s intervention over the killings of Christians and hunger in the country. The marshalling which took place in Calabar over the weekend had members of the PFN from various denominations across the state in attendance. Speaking to newsmen after the rally, chairman of the states’ fellowship Dr. Lawrence Ekwok said the rally was the climax...

Nigerian Pentecostal Evangelist and pastor in charge of Household of God Church International Ministries Christopher Oghenebrorie Okotie has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to adopt him as consensus candidate for the 2019 presidential election. The General Overseer stated this during a service at his church on Sunday that God had asked him to tell the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...