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A shocking announcement made by Pope Francis shook d whole world on Tuesday evening. He has opened the door for women who have had abortions – an act considered a grave sin by the Catholic church – to be absolved if they express contrition and seek forgiveness from their priest. “The forgiveness of God cannot be denied to one who has repented,” the pontiff wrote in an extraordinary letter that was released by the Vatican on Tuesday. “I am well aware of the pressure that has led them to this decision. I know that it is an existential and moral ordeal,” he added. The order, which temporarily allows all priests to grant forgiveness to women who have elected to have an abortion and profoundly regret the procedure, is part of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December and runs until 20 November 2016. Within an hour of releasing the letter, the Vatican released another statement in response to a flood of queries, emphasisi...

Pedophiles is becoming too much in Bayelsa State according to a revelation given from a child protection agency to the officials of the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and other stakeholders in cases of child abuses, including the rape and death of a four-year-old girl at the hands of a 40-year-old man in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area (LGA). The shocking revelation was made by the State Coordinator of the Child Protection Network (CPN), Mrs. Mariam Kombo-Ezeh, who also revealed that two other cases of child abuse that occurred in the state included the death of a 7-year-old girl from complications of HIV/AIDS, which she contracted after being raped by a man, and the gangrape of a 13-year-old girl in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. in her presentation, Mrs. Mariam told the gathering of stakeholders on child protection, which was themed “Advocacy Engagement with Policy Makers on Domestication of Child Right Act in B...

Mr Dele Ogundeyi's lifeless body, was on Saturday recovered from a well on the Aperan Way in Omu-Aran, Kwara. The deceased who hailed from Ile-Nla compound in Omu-Aran, went missing around 11 a.m. on Saturday. It was reports that the 65 years old man was a retired Secretary of Offa Local Government Area Liaison Office, before his death. A search party was later arranged by a  relation, whose name is Abdulkareem. Mr Abdulkareem said that the deceased, was later traced by the search party to a site along Aperan Way where his lifeless body was found inside the well around 4 p.m. that same day. Abdulkareem said the well was located in front of an uncompleted building and a farm land belonging to the deceased. However, how the deceased got inside the well is not known by anybody. The lifeless body of the deceased had since been removed from the well by the family members and deposited at the Adeyemo Hospital's Mortuary in that s...

The National Universities Commission has released a list of illegal degree awarding institutions operating in Nigeria. The schools were published in the NUC’s weekly bulletin dated August 24. According to the bulletin, the NUC Executive secretary, Julius Okojie, warned that those who patronise the schools, do so at their own risk. “Certificates obtained from these sources will not be recognized for the purpose of NYSC, employment and further studies,” the NUC said. Full list: 1. University of Accountancy and Management Studies, operating anywhere in Nigeria. 2. Christians of Charity American University of Science and Technology Nkpor, Anambra State or any of its campuses. 3. University of Industry, Yaba, Lagos or any of its other campuses. 4. University of applied Sciences and Management Port Novo, Republic of Benin or any of its other campuses in Nigeria. 5. Blacksmith University, Awka or any of its campuses. 6. Volta University ...

April 14 into 15 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno State, Nigeria. Responsibility of the Kidnapping was being claimed by the Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist and terrorist operating from the Northern part of Nigeria. On October 17 2014, hopes were raised that about 219 girls that are remaining might soon be released after the Nigerian army announced a truce between Boko Haram and government forces but up till now it seems nothing has been done. Two-hundred-and-nineteen schoolgirls from Chibok, are still missing, for over a year, meanwhile Many of those seized are Christians. June this year, Three women who claim they were held in the same camps as some of the Chibok girls said that some of them have been brainwashed and are now carrying out punishments on behalf of the militants. Today, marks the 500th day of the Chibok girls being Kidnapped yet not found. A...

Fourteen persons, including 11 women from the same family, in Dan Gunu village, have perished in a boat mishap in River Sarkin Pawa, Niger State. Another boat, involving three persons, also suffered the same fate in River Guni, both in Munya Local Government Area of the state. An eyewitness told Vanguard that the villagers were returning from farm, Monday evening, when the incident occurred.   The women and two men, it was gathered, had gone to the farm to harvest groundnut. The incident occurred on their return journey. The only survivors were the two men. As villagers at Dan-Gunu village mourned the death of their beloved ones, reports of the River Guni incident, which claimed three lives, filtered in. Some of the dead were identified as Munau, Wara, Fiddausi, Zainab, Najaatu, Ikilima, Fatima, Ladidi, Balaraba and Hafsat. The senator representing Niger East, Senator David Umaru, in a condolence message to the peo...

four commercial buses have been leveled to the ground after a tanker fell and caught fire behind the Awolowo Market, in the Olosha, Mushin area of Lagos. The tanker, which was conveying 33,000 litres of petrol, spilled its contents into the drainage channels in the area, spreading the fire. Report was gathered that the fire, which began at about 12am on Tuesday, was put out by men of the Lagos State Fire Service from the Ilupeju, Isolo and Alausa stations. Although nobody died, but four commercial buses parked by the roadside were destroyed in the large fire. A resident of the area said the bad portion of the road caused the tanker to fall, leading to the fire. He said, “The fuel spilled into the drains and the fire started trailing it. But the firefighters managed to put out the fire. “Everybody in the neighbourhood woke up and called for help. I suspect that the tanker fell as a result of the bad road.” The Director of the se...

THE SLEEPY community of Okija in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State came into limelight in August, 2004, when the media, both print and electronic, became awash with gory stories of goings-on inside Ogwugwu Akpu , one of the shrines in the area. Before then, Ogwugwu Akpu was just like any other shrines in Igbo land which served as checks against impunity and man’s inhumanity to man. For instance, people who were aggrieved over the manner they were treated in business deals, land disputes, among other issues, took solace in Ogwugwu shrine, which they believed, was capable of delivering justice in favour of the down-trodden. The existence of Ogwugwu Akpu and others like Ogwugwu Isiula, Ogwugwu Mmili, among others, never affected the spread of Christianity, as Okija, which had produced over 30 Catholic and Anglican priests with about 10 parishes and three archdeaconries, and hosts the country’s first private faith-based university, the Ma...

A 40-year-old man, Salau Kehinde, has told a Customary Court in Ikorodu, Lagos, that he physically abused his wife, Shakirat, 32, whenever she refuses to have sex with him, but that he had no intention of bathing her in hot water. Shakirat had approached the court seeking for dissolution of their 10-year old marriage, blessed with two children. According to her, “he would beat me whenever I returned from work. He would beat me when I told him I was too tired to have sex, or for any flimsy excuse. I want this court to dissolve ourmarriage and grant me custody of our children.”   Reacting to the wife’s allegation, Kehinde, who resides at 9, Fatai Oloko Street, Haruna, Ikorodu, assented to the claim that he used to beat her whenever she denied him sex and if she came home late from her trading business. “I merely boiled the water so I could threaten her with it. I had no intention of bathing her in the water. – Se...

Former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is refuting reports that her family has opened a multi-million dollar hospital in Abuja.

A big thank you to all who made Upgrade Conference Lagos a huge success and to all who came,some from Portharcourt,Ekiti,Osun etc Am happy that we were able to add value to your lives. 

Clear revelations are beginning to emerge on how the much-criticised N120 billion allocated to the National Assembly is shared among the lawmakers and other legislative bodies operating in the national parliament. The National Assembly’s annual budget was N150 billion, but following public outcry, the Seventh Assembly slashed it to N120 billion for the Eighth Assembly.

The renewed military offensive against Boko Haram, has continued to yield results, as the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) last night, said it intercepted and destroyed two trailers suspected to be conveying logistic support to the fighters.

The news currently going round in Ondo State now is that Tokunbo Modupe,the PR expertise and CEO of TPT Company, is about to register his presence in the contest.

An Alabama woman, Heather Leavell-Keaton has been sentenced to die by lethal injection for  barbarically torturing and killing her common-law-husband’s two small children.

  Tourist ship carrying about 37 people has been reported to have sank off Egyptian coast.  Although investigations are yet to be carried out on the survivors and what lead to the cause of the ship sinking off the coast. Details of these later.

At the weekend, the immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, and his family arrived Kenya’s Maasai Mara Games Reserve to witness spectaculat wildebeest migration.

 IS has demolished several ancient sites in Iraq, and there has been fears that it will destroy Palmyra, one of the archaeological jewels of the Middle East. An archaeologist who looked after ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria for 40 years is reported to have been killed by Islamic State (IS) militants. Khaled al-Asaad had been held for about a month by the group, which seized the Unesco World Heritage site in May. The 81-year-old's family informed Syria's director of antiquities Maamoun Abdul Karim that he had been beheaded. Mr Karim said IS militants tried find out some information from Mr Assad about where some treasures were hidden, gut he refused to divulge and this lead to him being murdered. Mr Asaad was described as "one of the most important pioneers in Syrian archaeology in the 20th Century". The Syrian state news agency, Sana, and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Mr Asaad had been...

The National Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Aba on Tuesday arrested Emmanuel Ogbonna with 135kg of Indian Hemp.

Yesterday after the cause of dispute is being settled within oil communities,the Delta State Governor , Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa signed the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission DESOPADEC amendment bill into law. The Governor urges the members of the Delta state house of assembly to remain vibrant and continue to collaborate with the executive arm towards impacting positively to the lives of Deltans after commending them. Much were said on the earlier miss conception of the purpose of DESOPADEC but everything has now been resolved as Honourable Igbuya  made the members of the public understand that the bill was not harmful but to bring out the good intention behind the creation of the commission. You are here : Home » News » Okowa signs DESOPADEC amendment bill into law Okowa signs DESOPADEC amendment bill into law on August 18, 2015   /   in News 1:52 pm   /   Comments By...