Son, 27, jailed 2 years for threatening to kill father

Abuja — A Kubwa Upper Area Court, yesterday, sentenced a 27-year-old student, Gideon Sambo, to two years imprisonment for threatening to kill his father.

The Presiding Judge, Malam Munir Lawal, did not give the convict any option of fine. He admonished him to take advantage of the opportunities in the prison to become a reformed person.

Sambo was arraigned before the court for mischief and criminal intimidation.

The Police Prosecutor, Mr Danjuma Abdullahi, had told the court that the case was reported to the Dutse police station by the convict’s father, Mr Yohana Sambo, on April 28.

Redeemed Church lost 46 branches to crises in North – Adeboye

Pastor Enoch Adeboye
  

General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said that the church lost over 46 branches in crises that occurred in various parts of the northern part of the country, especially during the post-elections violence in 2011

Adeboye spoke in Jos on Wednesday while inaugurating the headquarters of Maranatha Covenant Churches International and the consecration of the senior pastor of the church, Bishop Jonas Katung.

Adeboye said christians in the North are under fire especially the clergy and advised them to be closer to God at all times.

The bitter truth about sugar

                                                  The bitter truth about sugar

Sugar is sweet, and that’s an obvious statement! Yet, researchers say its consumption is fraught with health problems.

Sugar is colourless or white when pure, and brown when less refined. It is obtained commercially from sugarcane or sugar beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms.

Sugar comes in granules, cubes, and all the various mixes of glucose, fructose and sucrose, not forgetting the so-called high fructose corn syrup found in many salad dressings, ketchup, coffee creamers, etc.

Of course, there is natural sugar in fruits, but they are also rich in fibre, which slows down the release of the sugar molecules. When consumed, fruits nourish the body — as opposed to the way prolonged and excessive use of processed sugars destroy health.

For surviving stroke, Idowu Animashaun sings Thanksgiving

                                                   Idowu Animashaun

Juju musician-turned evangelist, Idowu Animashaun, is still fulfilling the musical side of his life, writes AKEEM LASISI

Fans of Apola King, Idowu Animashaun, who have been missing his deep, clear voice will be opportune to hear him sing again soon. There is a indication that the musician, who was a popular juju maestro before he became a born-again Christian, is planning to release a new album – a gospel album, though.

Perhaps unknown to many people, Animashaun did not really quit music, despite the fact that he became a full evangelist in 1985, after a memorable romance with juju, the genre he shared with other legends that include King Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey. Apart from preaching the gospel – as the President of the World Hope Ministry in Badeku, Ibadan – he has, in the past few years, produced six gospel albums. These include From Darkness to Light, God is Faithful and Ileri Oluwa. Now he is working on the seventh, which, he says, is very special to him.

Deaths in Nollywood: actors, actresses have rejected Guild’s health scheme – Ibinabo

Actors Guild of Nigeria President, Ibinabo Fabrisima came under fire at the Nigeria Entertainment Conference held recently in Lagos when legendary film maker Amaka Igwe in her opening presentations accused the guild of having no proper health insurance schemes for members.

Mrs Igwe had in her paper titled: The Nollywood Paradigm – reflections from an unapologetic commercial Nollywood film maker accused the Guild of for long not taken the health concerns of members with utmost importance; citing the death of J.T Tom-West who died in an undisclosed hospital after an auto accident in September 2006.

Mrs Igwe said the Guild had no identity documents for members or any form of health insurance arrangements that members can fall back on in cases of extreme exigencies which she said had delayed help for late Tom-West.

Shocking-Three girls who went missing 10yrs ago found ALIVE in basement dungeon: Captor arrested

This is shocking. 3 girls were kidnapped and chained in a dungeon of a house belonging to the man in the middle.They went missing 10 years ago and one gave birth to a child in that house.

Amanda Berry, 26,(left) went missing in 2003 when she was 16
Gina DeJesus, 23,(right) disappeared when she was aged 14 in 2004
Michelle Knight, 32, disappeared in 2000 when she was 20

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One dies, others trapped as Foursquare building collapses

At least one person died, while several others were trapped in Lagos on Tuesday as a four-storey building under construction belonging to Foursquare Gospel Church, collapsed.

The building on Bashiru Street, Berger, collapsed as some artisans were carrying out carpentry work on it.

We learnt that the incident happened around 3.30pm.

The cause of the collapse could not be ascertained, but observers said it might have been caused by the use of substandard materials.

A 15-year-old apprentice, Joshua Ayandokun, who was among the artisans that were working on the building, escaped being trapped in the building.

I have murdered poverty – Saka

                                               Hafiz Oyetoro

Hafiz Oyetoro’s controversial move from Etisalat to MTN as a brand face seems to have changed his fortune for good, writes CHUX OHAI

South Africa-based scholar, Prof. Kole Omotosho, and lecturer at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Hafiz Oyetoro, do not belong to the same generation. The distance between Nigeria and SA also implies that they cannot be meeting each other constantly. Yet, they both have something in common.

They have the enviable record of successfully combining their work as lecturers with advertising. Apart from the fact that Omotosho is a writer, best known for his controversial novel about Nigeria – Just Before Dawn – he has made a name for himself in SA where his face has graced several advert bill boards. The latest is the one in which he is advertising for Fidelity Bank Plc.

Sir Alex Ferguson factfile

                                         *Sir Alex Fergoson
LONDON (AFP) – Factfile on Alex Ferguson, who announced his retirement as Manchester United manager on Wednesday:

Name: Alexander Chapman Ferguson

Age: 71

Date of birth: December 31, 1941

Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland

Playing career

Position: Striker

How women can earn more

Meg, a married woman with two children, presently earns N60,000 as monthly salary. In order for her to earn this amount she left her husband behind and relocated to a cosmopolitan city with her children. Her reason? She wanted to make enough money to supplement her husband’s income to support the children’s education.

A quick analysis of the monthly salary, in relation to the costs of living in the city, means a big chunk of the salary doesn’t belong to her. She will give a portion to transport owners, a part she will give for clothing to enable her dress well to fit into where she works, she will pay market women for food items and other basic needs. Also, she may have to buy lunch for herself while at work and if she is a religious gal, she will pay her dues of offering and ten per cent. At the end of all payments, she will be left with less than N20, 000 as real income.

I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Bank detain female customer 3 days for default in payment of loan

                                         *The Micro Finance Bank (Insert Mrs Rose Abbey)
A Petty trader, Mrs. Rose Abbey got what she didn’t bargain for when she was allegedly detained in a Micro Finance Bank at Ipaja area of Lagos, for failing to pay a weekly N2,000 earlier agreed on towards offsetting the N17,000 loan she borrowed from the bank.

It was alleged that she was abducted and beaten up before she was locked up in a room at the bank located at 170/ 172, Ipaja Road Baruwa on April 25. She was, however, released three days later. Before then, she was allegedly neither allowed to have access to members of her family nor given food. The housewife who hails from Edo state later regained her freedom, after her friend paid the N2,000 to the bank.

Workers insist on 10% equity in PHCN

WORKERS in the nation’s electricity sector, have insisted that they will not forgo the 10 percent equity share in the assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, being privatized by the Federal Government in accordance with the law setting up the National Council on Privatisation, NCP.

This came as they urged Government to come up with a policy statement on metering of customers in the sector because of seeming confusion over provision of meters to customers. Under the umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, and its Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, counterpart said any individual or group who buy any of the assets 100 percent, does so at his or her own risk.

Youths protest Ekiti varsity student murder

ADO-EKITI— Scores of youths, mainly students, yesterday, staged a protest at Ilupeju Ekiti over the killing of 400 level student of Ekiti State University, Mr. Seyi Fasere.

Fasere was killed in controversial circumstances in February 28, in Oye Ekiti by the police after some armed bandits struck at a first generation bank in the town.


*PROTEST: Youths and students protesting the killing of a student of Ekiti State University in Ilupeju-Ekiti, yesterday.

Breaking news: Manchester United, Alex Ferguson retires

LONDON (AFP) – Alex Ferguson is to retire as Manchester United manager at the end of this season, the English Premier League champions announced Wednesday, bringing down the curtain on one of the most successful careers football has known.


Ferguson, 71, has been in charge at Old Trafford for 26 years, guiding United to 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League crowns.

“The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly. It is the right time,” Ferguson said in a statement released by the club.

Bloodbath in Borno as 22 policemen,14 prison officials, others killed

                                 

MAIDUGURI— Boko Haram militants, yesterday, launched series of coordinated attacks on Police, Army and Prison formations in Bama town, Borno State, leaving no fewer thatn 55 persons dead.

JTF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, who conducted newsmen round the affected places in company of the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel AG Laka, confirmed that the dead include 22 policemen, 14 prison officials, 2 soldiers, 13 Boko Haram members, one woman who just got married to a police corporal and three children.

The burnt Bama Police Barracks yesterday