Reverend Mpho Tutu, daughter of South African social rights activist, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu got married to her lesbian partner, Professor Marceline Furth in a private ceremony in the Netherlands on Wednesday December 30th, 2015. Mpho, a mother-of-two, is an ordained Episcopal priest. She was previously married to Joseph Burris, with whom she had her 2 children. (more…)
Youths of Kamanzo Community in Kaduna metropolis have embarked on protest over alleged 10 months of power outage in the area. The protest which erupted on Monday, saw the youths barricade the Ibrahim Yakowa Road, causing gridlock for over two hours. The District Head of Kamanzo Community, Malam Dan-Makama, who confirmed the development, said that he had personally written to KEDCO on the matter, but the effort had yielded no result. However, he appealed to the protesting youths to return to their homes, to prevent the situation from becoming violent. According t
Jungle justice is not an exclusively Nigerian thing. Two brothers were reportedly burnt to death yesterday, January 3 for allegedly stealing a motorcycle in Cameroon. In a shocking frenzy of jungle justice, the angry mob beat them with sticks, rods and other dangerous weapons, before finally burning them to death with fuel, tyres and the suspected stolen motorcycle. It is reported that a security patrol van which was in the area at that time couldn't stop the angry mob from killing the alleged thieves. (more…)
One of the leaders of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Solomon Chukwu, has denied the claims in some quarters that the people of the Niger Delta area abandoned Ndigbo during the Nigerian Civil war. According to Chukwu, Niger Deltans had been strongly behind them before, during and after the war. Speaking with Vanguard, Chukwu said; (more…)
According to an American website, www.ranker.com, that has compiled a detailed list of the most famous prophets in the world, two Nigerian prophets, Prophet TB Joshua and Prophet Joseph Babalola, are on the list.T.B. Joshua, Pastor of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) held the number 15 spot while Joseph Ayo Babalola, the founder of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), held number 36. Ranker’s website reported that they have “built one of the world’s largest opinion databases, collecting more than 250 million user votes”. The website is known to provi
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