Kumuyi – ONE RELIGION CAN NOT BE IMPOSED ON NIGERIANS

Pastor William Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, has said that imposing one religion on a country will take a long process and as such, nobody can Islalmise  or Christianise Nigeria. Pastor Kumuyi, who is in Calabar, Cross River State, for a crusade, told Vanguard   at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport,  that no religion advocates the killing of others,  so the  reported killings of Christians  in some parts of the country have to be investigated before reaching a conclusion...

Policeman Shot Escaping With Stolen Fuel

An Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos State, Charles Achidika, and two other suspected oil thieves are currently battling for their lives at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. It was learnt that Achidika and his accomplices, who have yet to be identified, were shot on the Badagry waterways around 2am on December 2, during a gun duel with men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Lagos State Command. The officer and other suspects had reportedly attempted...

Children Exchanged For Bags Of Rice

An unidentified middle-aged man, Wednesday, abducted two siblings, who were returning from extra-moral class in Satellite area of Lagos. Thereafter, he exchanged them for two bags of rice in a shop at 63, Marwa Road, near Chemist Bus Stop. The children are aged eight and 13. It was gathered that at the shop, the abductor told the sales girl that he would like to take two bags of rice to the mother of the children, whom he claimed owned a restaurant close-by, to ascertain whether the rice was the brand she needed. Speaking with Vanguard last night,...

50 years old man commits suicide, blames it on Nigeria economy

man commits suicide, blames it on economy It was a gory sight as the body of a 50-year-old man, identified as Chief Ekanem Edet, dangled from a rope tied to the roof of his room at Mbiabong Itam in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Vanguard learned that Ekanem Edet, former Secretary of the Mbiabong Village Council, popularly called Jolly Boy, waited until his wife and two sons went out before taking his life, allegedly leaving a suicide note in which he blamed his action on harsh economic condition. According to a close family...

Man slays wife’s lover on matrimonial bed

A 32-year-old businessman, Ezekiel Igbokwe, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun. Igbokwe was said to have killed Olatundun after he caught him having sex with his wife at their matrimonial home. The suspect allegedly committed the offence at about 12am at Peace Lodge on Itura Street, Awa Ijebu, Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The suspect, who committed the crime on Wednesday, July 27, was arrested by the police the following day. Igbokwe and his 28-year-old...

#English MP – Jo Cox killed in gun, knife attack

A British MP has died after she was shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency, police have said. Jo Cox, 41, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground by her attacker. A 77-year-old man also suffered slight injuries. A 52-year-old man was arrested near Market Street, Birstall. The MP held a weekly advice surgery nearby. Her husband Brendan Cox said she would want people “to unite to fight against the hatred that killed her”. Vote Leave and Remain have both suspended campaigning in the EU referendum in light of the...

#NEWS: Libya repatriates 162 Nigerians

About 162 Nigerians who entered Libya illegally were yesterday brought back to the country. The returnees comprised 132 males, 27 females, two female children and one male child and they came aboard a Chadames Air aircraft marked 5A WAT and they arrived at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport around 2.50pm. Daily Sun learnt that they had voluntarily opted to return back to Nigeria having been stranded for possibly months in Libya without any form of accommodation and access to any job. “They were stranded in the North African...

President Buhari Returns From 10days Trip

Barring any last minute changes in plan, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected back in the country on Thursday (today) from London. Buhari had penultimate Monday commenced a 10-day holiday and proceeded to London on the same day. The Presidency had, in a statement, indicated that the President would during the visit to the United Kingdom, see an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist for a persistent ear infection. The 10-day holiday ended on Wednesday. A source in the Presidency, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The PUNCH on Wednesday that...

#Disney resort: Boy killed by Alligator

A United States family’s desperate search for their toddler son, who was snatched by an alligator off the shore of a lake at a Disney resort, ended Wednesday when divers found the two-year-old’s body in murky water. The nightmare at the Disney World complex is the latest horror to hit the central Florida vacation town of Orlando reeling from Sunday’s massacre at a gay nightclub in which 49 people were killed the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Walt Disney World said it has shut down all of its Florida resort beaches and marinas out...

#EFCC: Ali Modu Sheriff in EFCC custody

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday grilled the embattled Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, from 10am to about 5.30pm. It was learnt that Sheriff was interrogated at the Maiduguri office of the EFCC for his alleged role in the sharing of the $115m (N23bn) which emanated from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. During the build-up to the presidential election, N450m was said to have been sent to Borno State and it was received by a former Minister of Power, Mohammed Wakil. About...