By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Lafia – The Nasarawa State Police Command has ban the use of fireworks during Christmas and new year celebration in the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Maiyaki Muhammed Baba announced the ban in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lafia by the...
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By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has flagged off the third and final dry run of the 2022 edition of the annual Carnival with a pledge to stage the best carnival of all time. This year’s Carnival has “Agro-Industrialization” as the theme. Speaking at...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has declared December 26th and 27th as well as January 2nd, 2023 as public holidays to make the Christmas and New Year celebrations respectively. Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola announced this in a statement signed by the ministry’s permanent secretary Belgore Shuaib...
The Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Solution Centre, Ibadan, Pastor Oluronke Esan, has urged Nigerians, especially Christians, to see the season of Christmas as that of thanksgiving, in spite of all odds. Esan gave the advice on Friday in Ibadan, during the 2022 Christmas Carol...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi on Thursday, ordered the arrest of the caterer who allegedly served poor quality food during the Christmas party for widows and the aged in the state. Umahi, who did not disclose the name of the caterer, said it was terrible for someone to give...
As Christmas draws closer, tailors in parts of Abuja have intensified efforts to beat the agreed deadlines with their customers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) went round the Mpape area and revealed that tailors in various areas were seen sewing clothes through the day and night in order...
ope Francis has urged people to celebrate Christmas more modestly and donate the savings to Ukraine. The head of the Catholic Church said during a general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday that people could cut back on festive spending this year and celebrate with more humble gifts. “Let...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has assured residents and visitors to Anambra of adequate security, before during and after Christmas and New Year. Soludo, who gave the assurance in a statement signed by Mr Christian Aburime, his Press Secretary, also dismissed the rumours of...
In Nigeria, the first day of December ushers in the advent of the festive season which runs through the month progressively till early January when businesses and official duties resume fully again. December, in the world’s most populous black nation, is characterised, with fascinating scenery, by shops, streets, offices...
“…Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit….” (Mathew 1:20) Christmas: A Co-parenting Act with a Mission The Christmas season has been around the corner and for those who are Christians, we...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Suleiman, has called on christians in the state to continue building bonds of brotherhood and mutual trust with people of other faiths in order to bring Nigeria out of the quagmire it is currently in....
Nollywood actor, Charles Okocha ‘Igwe 2Pac’ has celebrated Christmas in a weird way by throwing money at people. The Nollywood star was seen in a video driving through the streets and throwing the money. Sharing the video on Instagram, he wrote: For those who aint on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of tramadol as well as 56,782 bottles of codeine among others in major raids in Lagos. A statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in...
COVID-19 did not look kindly on Nigeria on Christmas Day as it hit 1,305 persons and took 21 lives. Sixteen of the lives lost were recorded in Imo. The 21 deaths recorded on Christmas Day increased Nigeria’s death toll to the virus to 3,014 from the 2,993 level of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – In the spirit of national unity, Governors Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Muhammad Badru Abubakar of Jigawa State on Saturday paid their Cross River State counterpart, Professor Ben Ayade a Christmas visit. Also on the entourage of the governors was former Jigawa Governor, Seminu Turaki....
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has said that Christians have equal rights as their Muslim counterparts which should be respected. Mohammed said this when the state Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Abraham Damina, led the Christian communities on a Christmas homage to him in Bauchi on...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has paid tribute to the late Prince Philip during her first Christmas television broadcast since the death of her husband of 73 years. The 95-year-old monarch has said that although Christmas was “a time of great happiness and good cheer for many,” it “can be hard...
Odion Ighalo, the popular Nigerian footballer, on Saturday gifted iPhones and other gadgets to his three children: Daniel, Bernice, and Samuel. The Super Eagles striker took to his Instagram story to share videos of his children unwrapping their Christmas gifts which were under the tree. His only girl, Bernice, was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum has felicitated with Christians as well as soldiers who are celebrating Christmas while battling insurgents in order to fully restore peace in Borno. A statement issued by his Spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau on Saturday, the governor described “Christians in Borno as...