Sen. Kalu Hails Muslim Ummah At Eid-El-Fitr, Urges Peaceful Co-Existence
Former Governor of Abia state and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has called on the Muslim ummah to sustain the teachings of the holy Quran and exemplary life of Prophet Muhammed beyond the holy month of Ramadan. While congratulating the...
Eid-el-Fitr: Monday Is Sallah In Nigeria, Sultan Declares
Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has declared Monday (May 2, 2022) as the first day of Shawwal 1443AH in Nigeria. Abubakar announced this in a statement on S...
Buhari Receives ICC Lead Prosecutor, Says Boko Haram Has Nothing To Do With Religion, Ethnicity
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that the Boko Haram insurgency has neither religious nor ethnic underpinning, and with adequate education, the majority of Nigerians now know the truth. Receiving Karin Ahmad Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the ...
Be Hopeful, Steadfast – CAN Advises Nigerians
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged Nigerians to be hopeful that the country would overcome its present challenges. The president of the association and co-chairman of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC). Dr Samson Olasupo Ay...
Adeboye’s Son Leke, Finally Apologises For Calling RCCG Pastors Goats
Leke Adeboye, the Senior Personal Assistant of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has finally apologised to pastors in the church for referring to them as ‘goats’. It would be recalled that Leke rebuked some RCCG pastors who preached after his father’s sermon last Sunday in parishes across the nation. The cleric’s son...
Bishop Lucius Ugorji Is New Catholic Archbishop Of Owerri
A former Catholic Bishop of Umuahia and Apostolic Administrator of Ahiara Diocese, Most Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Lucius Ugorji, has been appointed the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Diocese. The announcement was made on Sunday by Archbishop Antonio Filipazzi, Apostolic Nuncio (Representative of the Pope in Nigeria) during the ongoing First Plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in Abuja. With...
Anglican Bishop Urges Christians To Drop Their Will, Serve God In His Own Terms
The Bishop of Umuahia Angelican communion, His Grace Rt. Rev Jeffery Obijuru Ibeahuchi has charged Christians to live by God's standard not according to their own choice and will, ABN TV reports. The clergy while speaking on Sunday during the induction/ institution of the Vicar of St Andrew's Church Isiama Afara, Umuahia Abia State, Venerable Gerald Nwabuisi on the topic...
Ex-Anglican Bishop, Peter Adebiyi, Is Dead
Former Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Lagos-West, Peter Adebiyi, is dead. Born in 1943, Adebiyi died in the early hours of Friday. He was the bishop of the diocese between 1999 and 2013 when he retired. His successor, Bishop Olusola Odedeji, announced his death in a message to members of the diocese on Friday morning. He wrote, “Good morning brothers and sisters....
Pastors Ayo Oritsejafor, Joshua Talena, Sinach, Chioma Jesus, Others For 2022 Power Word Ministries’ GOSPEL FESTIVAl In Umuahia
All is now set for the 2022 annual Gospel Festival organised by the Power Word Ministries International Umuahia Abia State scheduled to commence on February 14 to 20 when the grand finale will take place. Those expected at the gospel festival which coincides with the church's anniversary are former President of Christian Association of Nigeria and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria,...
Catholic Priest Who Banned Igbo Songs In His Parish Suspended
The Parish Priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Ewu-Owa Gberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, Rev. Fr. James Anelu, has been “suspended” for banning Igbo songs and choruses in his parish. The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Alfred Martins, in a “disclaimer”, directed the priest to proceed on “an indefinite leave of absence”. Anelu was reported to have banned Igbo songs and choruses in...
