Former President Jonathan Was Operating Like Somebody Under Some Spell– Bishop Mike Okonkwo

Dr Mike Okonkwo is the presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, TREM, with over 160 branches in Nigeria and across the globe. The top Evangelist who will celebrate his 70th birthday come September 6, in this interview shares his life challenges, his turn around as well as the present anti-corruption crusade in the country. 

32 State Owned Tertiary Institutions Plan Indefinite Strike Over Non Payment of Salaries

 Major crisis looms as 32 tertiary institutions in Nigeria are currently been owed salaries and arrears from four to 23 months respectively .

Both Academic and Non-academic staff are from the state-owned tertiary institutions complained over the non-payment of their salaries.

Some workers told Ashiwaju.org that they might embark on an indefinite strike if their entitlements were not paid within a short time.

About 32,000 students shortlisted By UNILAG To Write post-UTME test

The Deputy Registrar (Information) of the University of Lagos, Mr Olagoke Oke. disclosed that more than 32,000 candidates has been shortlisted to write the 2015 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) into the institution.

The examination is scheduled to hold from Aug. 12 to Aug. 14.

Oke said on Saturday that the figure was close to four times the 9,000 that was initially posted to the institution by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

How I ‘raped’ my friend’s teenage daughter – UNILAG lecturer

For nine days, Shola (Victim) was in pain. The abdominal pain she endured felt as if a knife got stuck in her, she told Saturday PUNCH.

She was scared but she had no choice but to endure the pain since she couldn’t imagine telling her parents the unimaginable trauma she had been subjected to that led to the pains she was going through.

Fashola Allegedly Build Personal Website Worth N78.3million

Report that is recently domination the social media is unconnected with the quest by President Muhammadu Buhari to painstakingly search for people of credible character to occupy the exulted offices of the federal executive council, where the former governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) is not credible to mann any further public office if the alleged  N78.3million personal website  is anything true.

Reactions had it that the erstwhile governor budgeted for the construction of an official website in 2014, later turned his own website, allegedly built with taxpayers money way higher than any website one could imagine.

Dubai Monarch Describe Nigeria As Potential World Super Power

The Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and traditional Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has described Nigeria as the business hub of Africa and a potential world super-power.

Al Maktoum, disclosed this at a recent meeting held with the CEO of a Nigerian construction firm, Sujimoto Group, Sijibomi Ogundele, during the latter’s visit to Dubai.

20 year-old Onitsha house maid hacked to death for refusing sex with boss’s son

A 20-year old house maid, Chioma Onyegili, was hacked to death yesterday by a 31-year-old son of her madam, Okechukwu (surname withheld), for refusing to have sex with him in Onitsha, Anambra state.

The incident occurred at about 9.30 pm Wednesday at 56 Ziks Avenue Fegge, Onitsha, when the suspect now in police custody used a cutlas to kill the maid for refusing to accept his advances.

Daily Sun gathered that the deceased girl was living with the 70-year-old mother of the accused who always demanded that the girl sleep with him, which she always resisted. He thereafter slashed the girl on her neck with a machete.

49 PDP Senators Declare Support For President Buhari

Forty-nine Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upper chamber have declared their support for President Muhammadu Buhari.

This was disclosed by the Senate’s Minority Whip, Senator Godswill Akpabio, at a press conference at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Thursday, August 6, 2015.

The Senators, however, lamented that the Federal Government was only targeting PDP members in its anti-corruption crusade.

Akpabio said the PDP Senate caucus would support President Buhari in his bid to bring about a greater Nigeria, adding that despite its numerical strength in the upper chamber, it has resolved to give only credible opposition necessary for a better Nigeria and for Buhari to succeed as president.

The PDP Senate caucus noted that though it supports the APC-led Federal Government’s crusade against corruption, it was not happy with the impression being given that it is targeted at PDP stalwarts and states.

APC is a marriage of inconvenience ...as APGA inaugurates new state excos

 Popular event centre Alex Ekwueme square Awka will tomorrow 6th August 2015 play host to all APGA faithful nationwide as the party inaugurates its new state executives in Anambra state .

It will be recalled that the party had earlier conducted a statewide congress that produced the executives that will be formally constituted tomorrow .

Speaking with The UNION yesterday at the party secretariat in Awka , the secretary of the party in Anambra state Barr.Tony Ifeanya said that the exercise would be a state affair adding that all the local government area would participate actively .

Police parade 30 criminals, cultits

BY Raymond Ozoji , Awka

Police in Anambra state yesterday paraded 30 people arrested for various crimes ranging from car snatching, kidnapping, murder and cultism.

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra state Mr. Hassan Karma said the arrest of the criminals mostly from in Obosi in Idemili local government council of Anambra state was effected by a combined  operation of police, Army, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) who were “united in seeing that Anambra people sleep with two eyes closed”.