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Redeemed Christian Church of God ordains 7,000

Posted by admin Headlines, NNP News Monday, August 6th, 2012

Written by New Nigerian Politics The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has ordained 7,000 deacons and deaconesses at the on-going 60th convention at the church’s headquarters located at the Redemption Camp, kilometre 46. With a working theme of “Coming Up Higher,” the General Overseer of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, urged members to […]

Policemen fraternise with criminals – Officers, others now to spend 2 years at duty posts

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, August 6th, 2012

WORRIED by the growing insecurity in the country and the inability of the police to curtail the ugly development, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Abubakar, has ordered the immediate transfer of all general duty police personnel of all ranks in all formations and commands, including Police Training institutions, who had spent more than […]

Gun men kill 15 in church in Kogi

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, State News Monday, August 6th, 2012

AT least, 33 out of the 36 states of the federation have men of the Nigerian Army complementing the police, in order to protect the citizens. The statistics was given on Monday by the General Officer Commanding the Second Mechanised Division, Ibadan, Major-General Muhammad Abubakar, in Osun State. Abubakar made the declaration during the launch […]

American preacher, Benny Hinn, visits Toronto

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines, NNP News Monday, August 6th, 2012

Written by New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics has learned that famous American preacher, Evangelist Benny Hinn, will be in Toronto this week ministering at the expansive Prayer Palace Church located at 1111 Arrow Road, Toronto, ON M9M 3B3. Sources confirmed to New Nigerian Politics that the flamboyant preacher will hold three services at the […]

Letter: Let Abati be

Posted by admin Headlines, Letters Monday, August 6th, 2012

I have just finished reading Sabella Abidde’s “Abati should consider resigning his appointment”, published in The PUNCH, Wednesday, August, 1. It was a fine piece though but missed the point by the suggestion for Abati to resign his appointment with President Goodluck Jonathan. Journalism especially as obtained in the private media here in Nigeria is […]

Picture: Nigerian player dies on Romanian pitch

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, August 6th, 2012

A Nigerian player, Henry Chinonso Ihelewere, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a friendly match between Romanian second division teams CS Delta Tulcea and FC Balotesti on Sunday. Delta’s Ihelewere, 21, collapsed with no-one around him only 15 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. The game was played in the town […]

Olympics: Picture: Williams sisters win tennis gold

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 6th, 2012

Serena Williams followed her own Golden Slam by teaming with big sister Venus on Sunday to continue their dominance of Olympic women’s doubles tennis. The American sisters beat Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 under the roof on a rainy afternoon at the All England Club for their third Olympic […]

Suicide bomber’s attack in Damaturu checkpoint kills eight

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, State News, Yobe Monday, August 6th, 2012

A suicide car bomber on Sunday attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said. Suspicion will fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government across the north with the aim of carving out an Islamic state in […]

No Going Back on Our Self-Govt, Says Ogoni Farmers

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, August 6th, 2012

OGONI farmers on Sunday, rose in stout support of their quest for self-rule, saying they are not prepared to beat a retreat. In an online statement to AkanimoReports, they said, ”we expect that the Ogoni Self-Government can end further attempt to subject Ogoni culture to forced assimilation and destruction of our means of livelihood without […]

MOSOP Tackles Amaechi on Ogoni Autonomy

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, August 6th, 2012

KINSMEN of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni environmentalist who was executed by a military dictatorship in Nigeria, have taken on the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, for describing the Ogoni quest for autonomy as a ”treasonable felony”. President of the Ogoni mass organisation, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, […]