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A Nigerian evangelist, Ben Dzwa, has said that praying naked is unscriptural and is more like witchcraft. According to him, it’s like trying to seduce God to answer you. He wrote on Facebook; “Praying Naked? It’s unscriptural, it’s more of witchcraft. Is like trying to seduce God to answer you, Ish!” ICYMI: How Bill Gates, Mark […]

A man, Isa Mohammed Munlaila, who is not satisfied with President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 presidential ambition has started a trek from Lagos to Abuja. The man carried a small box on his head, with the inscription: “R.I.P APC.” The man speaking with newsmen in Lagos on Thursday said the youths are angry with Buhari. He

A 24-year-old computer engineer, Ayodeji Folarin, was on Thursday docked at an Ikeja High Court for impersonating the popular gospel artiste, Lara George, and defrauding three Americans of $8,500 in the process. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Folarin is facing four charges of obtaining money by false pretences and possession of documents containing

South Gauteng High Court in South Africa has handed three life sentences and an additional hundred and six years imprisonment to two Nigerians for human trafficking. The sentences were given at the weekend in Johannesburg. The pair Frank Amaku (26), and Ilo Promise Somadina (25), were arrested by the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime investigating unit

A woman in Muslim-majority Indonesia was sentenced to 18 months in jail Tuesday for complaining about the volume of a mosque’s call to prayer — the latest conviction under a controversial blasphemy law. Meiliana, 44, an ethnic Chinese Buddhist, was found guilty of insulting Islam for asking her neighbourhood mosque to lower its sound system

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday joined thousands of Muslim faithful to observe the Eid el-Kabir prayer in Daura, Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president arrived the Eid Praying Ground in company of his aides and relatives at about 9.48 a.m. NAN further reports that the president performed the annual

A 60-year-old woman, Teresiah Njoki, on Sunday got married for the first time, to a 78-year-old widower, Ayub Mugo Waitara. Waitara, a grandfather, said he had been lonely for the past 10 years, reports Daily Nation. He revealed how he met his bride, “In 2017 while on a private business in Thika town, I saw

A housemaid has confessed to killing her 70-year-old employer, Mrs Helen Adodo, with a stone while she slept. 14-year-old Anna Amos smashed the elderly woman’s head with a stone in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State on August 7 2018. Amos had initially blamed the woman’s death on two hoodlums, who broke into the

The Lagos state police command have arrested a certain Taiwo Akinola, 29, (pictured above) for trying to kill his mother, Alice Akinola so as to further his cyber fraud business (yahoo) to the bloody or ritual level (yahoo plus). The incident took place at No.2 Raji Ajanaku street, Alaja Road, Ayobo,, inside the flat the

The Imo State Police Command have arrested its officers for allegedly extorting N120,000 from an undercover official of Behind Bars Initiative. Police inspector Tom Edet, who is attached to the Ihiagwa Division in Nekede, Imo, and two of his colleagues, sergeants Bassey and Charity, had arrested a young man who travelled from Delta to the