An
irate and disappointed middle aged man has demanded that his church
refund his past contributions, including tithes, or else face court
action. The middle aged man claims his church refused to assist him, in a
period during which he faced extreme financial difficulties. The
disappointed man insists that his contributions to the church, which
cover a period of fifteen (15) years, should have afforded him some
reprieve in his time of trouble. However, he claims the one
place where he expected to find help turned a blind eye on his
predicament and his pleas for help fell on deaf ears.
A F e d e r a l High Court sitting in Abuja yes¬terday gave legal backings moves by the Speaker of the House of Repre¬sentatives, Aminu Tambuwal to send the Inspector Gen¬eral of Police, Sulei¬man Abba to prison for disobeying court order. Justice Ahmed Mo¬hammed specifically directed the Speaker to put the
IGP on notice to come and show cause why he should not be committed to
prison. Meanwhile, the court has fixed December 1 to decide the
fate of five persons seeking to join in the suit as co-defendants after
which hearing in the main suit will commence on December 3.
Olugbenga Ashiru, former minister of foreign affairs, has died in a South African hospital after a long battle with illness. The
career diplomat, credited with re-energising Nigeria’s presence in
international diplomacy in the post-Olusegun Obasanjo era, died on
Saturday. Family sources told TheCable that he had been battling with
brain tumour for a while and had be hospitalised for over three months.
According to Rep. Mohammed Tahir Monguno, President Goodluck Jonathan
is to be served with impeachment notice when the House of
Representatives
reconvene on Wednesday. Senators and members of the House of Representatives
had commenced collecting signatures for the removal of the president
after the November 20 security siege on the National Assembly. During
the siege, the speaker of the House Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and other
lawmakers were teargased by the police.
Jude
Okoye and his wife, Ifeoma are now proud parents. The couple welcomed
their first child - a daughter at Northside Hospital Atlanta, Georgia,
at 7:29pm on Saturday November 29. The baby has been named Princess Emma
Adanna Okoye.
The
names of the number one citizen of Lagos state, Governor Babatunde
Fashola and that of his wife, Abimbola and all residents who registered
at the governor’s polling unit were missing on the register of the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and could not collect
their Permanent Voters Card, PVC. The governor, who after
arriving at his Ward G3, polling Unit E002, State Junior Secondary
School, Surulere, where he had registered with his wife, Dame Abimbola
in 2010, did not sight any INEC official at the scene at about 2:00 p.m.
Oritsefemi
has revealed in a new interview that he will be getting married soon.
According to him, he will be getting married to his fiancee of two years
and not any of his childhood girlfriends who have children for him.
According to him, one of his girlfriend’s gave birth to a baby girl for
him 10 years ago, while another also gave birth a year after. My
daughters are 10 and 9-year old, he said. A lot of your fans are confused about your marital status. For the record, are you married officially?
Pope Francis has taken part in a Muslim prayer alongside the Grand Mufti
of Istanbul on the second leg of his three-day visit to Turkey. Francis
stood on Saturday morning with his head bowed and hands clasped in
front of him in a two minutes of silent prayer inside the 17th-century
Sultan Ahmet mosque, aiming to show respect for Islam and encourage
stronger ties between the two faiths.
AFROBEAT
king, Femi Kuti, clocked 46 two weeks back. But in spite of how blessed
he has been, he still regrets that he is not the father of two of his
five children. He revealed this few days to his birthday in an
interview. Out of his alleged five children: Made, Afolabi, Dupe, Tosin
and Ayomide, two of them, Dupe and Tosin (a boy and a girl) have been
discovered not to be his biological children, according to a recent DNA
test.
