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Dr David Oyedepo, the Bishop of the Living Faith Church worldwide, has warned to those criticising the school fees charged by Covenant University to desist to avoid incurring the wrath of God. Oyedepo, in a telecast to a pre-Shiloh 2016 Convention gathering of the church monitored via satellite in Jos on Saturday, said the critics were acting in ignorance and risked incurring the wrath of God. He said one of such critic smitten with a strange plague of chronic mouth odour over the act only received spiritual pardon following his confession and “my intervention before he was restored to dignity”.…

Nigerian Army troops of 121 Battalion, deployed at Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, Borno, for Operation Lafiya Dole, on Saturday rescued one of the kidnapped Chibok girls. A statement issued by the army Spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman, in Abuja, said the girl was discovered while the troops were screening some escapees from Boko Haram terrorists’ hideout in Sambisa forest at about 6 a.m. Usman gave the name of the recued girl as Maryam Ali Maiyanga. “She was discovered to be carrying a 10-month-old son, named Ali. She has been taken to the unit’s medical facility for proper medical check up.…

By Prof Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò A Nigerian doctor, a professor of pediatric surgery, Oluyinka Olutoye, has been in the news lately, the world over. He has been the toast of the world of medical research. He has been interviewed on BBC and has been written about widely. All the accolades are well-deserved. What he did was as close to a miracle as you will see science come to. He was the attending physician in a case in which a foetus early in its development was found to have a rare cancer on its tailbone that was sure to be fatal if…

Manchester United will trigger Atletico Madrid defender Diego Godin’s £30m release clause in January, with manager Jose Mourinho earmarking the 30-year-old to provide his team with leadership. (Sun) Memphis Depay, who cost Manchester United £31m in May 2015, recognises his career at the club may be over. The 22-year-old is open to a loan move to Fenerbahce in January. (Guardian) MLS side LA Galaxy are considering making a move for 35-year-old Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic when his contract runs out at the end of the season. (Daily Mirror) Sunderland manager David Moyes believes that the problems experienced by Jose…

Banging noises and screams from inside a metal shipping container alerted deputies searching for Kala Brown on a 100-acre South Carolina estate. They found her alive “chained like a dog” to the inside of the box, a local sheriff told US media. Ms Brown went missing in late August this year with her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, who is yet to be found. Registered sex offender Todd Kohlhepp, 45, was arrested on Thursday in connection with the incident. According to SLED records, Kohlhepp is a convicted sex offender who was added to the registry after being convicted of kidnapping in Arizona…

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state is close to agreeing a $625 million deal with an Indian consortium to build a light railway and also plans two new power plants, its governor said. Development in Africa’s biggest economy has been held back for decades by a mismanagement, graft and lack of investment in its road, rail and power network. Northern states, many of which have suffered a seven-year insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, have lagged behind the oil-producing south in terms of development, which has helped radicals recruit poor youths. Nasir El-Rufai, governor of one of the largest…

A court in northern Nigeria has freed five Muslim men accused of killing an elderly Christian woman for allegedly blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed. The court in the city of Kano discharged the five men on Thursday on the legal advice of the prosecution. “The legal advice presented to the court, dated June 24, states that there is no case to answer as the suspects are all innocent and orders the court to discharge all the suspects,” the judge said in his ruling. The five men were accused, along with six others who are on the run, of killing 74-year-old Bridget…

Ten Premier League players have been nominated for the Best Fifa Men’s Player 2016 award. The 23-man shortlist include Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez. Also on the list is Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante, who won the title with Leicester City. Kante now plays for Chelsea after a fee believed to be £32m. Also named are Sergio Aguero, Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) and Dimitri Payet (West Ham). The winner will be announced on 9 January. Fans will be given the chance to vote on the award after the world governing…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, November 4, 2016 arraigned one Oluwatoyin Jinadu, a former banker with First City Monument Bank, FCMB, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja on a 20-count charge bordering on theft and forgery to the tune of N52million. As account officer to Dr. D. K. Okoye in the Wuse 2 Branch of the bank, the accused allegedly transferred N52million from Okoye’s account without his knowledge or consent, into accounts in Zenith Bank, GTBank and Union Bank. These transfers were alleged to have been done through forged…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a closed-door meeting with President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Saraki was accompanied to the President’s office by Senator Danjuma Goje. Saraki later told State House correspondents after the meeting that Buhari’s external borrowing request that was rejected by the Senate was a work in progress. ”I came here to pray. I have finished praying and I just had a general felicitation with the President. It did not go beyond that. “We should not look at the loan request as a reflection of the relationship between the…