The Delta Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on security agencies to address the issue of kidnapping in the state.
This is contained in a statement signed by its Chairman Rev. Gideon Oyibo, in Asaba on Saturday.
He described as ungodly and unholy the recent kidnap and murder of the traditional ruler of Ubulu-Uku kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state, Chief Edward Ofulue III.
Oyibo, who expressed his condolence to members of family and people of Ubulu-Uku kingdom, also appealed to security agencies to help track down those involve in the act.
He also called for the release of Josiah Aghaza, of the kidnapped traditional ruler of Olomoro Kingdom in Isoko South Local government Area.
He said the association was praying for the quick release of the monarch, and called for prayers for the peace, security and safety of residents of the state.
Oyibo also called on youths in the state to monitor movement in their respective communities and report suspicious movements to the relevant authorities.
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The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule on Saturday urged residents to adopt attitudes and practices that could promote good environmental sanitation and cleanliness to pave way for good health.
Adebule made the plea during the monthly environmental sanitation inspection at Apapa-Iganmu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the residents dumped refuse and waste indiscriminately on some streets and in the drainage channel on Ijora-Badiya railway.
Many residents were seen seated in front of their houses, chatting away in dirty surroundings without observing the environmental sanitation.
Adebule decried the dirty state of the environment.
“I am not happy with the dirty state of this environment and many residents here are not observing the sanitation even when their surroundings are dirty.
“The more we treat the environment with impunity by throwing domestic waste at unauthorized places, the higher our chances of getting sick.
“The amount of money that will be used in treating communicable environmental diseases, when contracted, could have been utilised in other sectors of one’s economy.
“Government’s resolve to make the state free from infectious diseases will be fruitless when we continue to treat the environment with impunity.
“I am happy you are all aware of the Lassa Fever outbreak and one of the ways to prevent the spread is through personal and environmental hygiene,” she said.
According to her, it is about time people begin to treat issues of environmental sanitation and health with all the seriousness that it deserves.
“We need attitudinal change and we need to own our environment to stay healthy,” she said.
Adebule pledged that the government would continue to organise public educational campaigns and programmes to sensitise people on environmental sanitation and cleanliness.
She said the public would also be sensitised on the benefits of complying with environmental laws.
According to her, it is beneficial to pay maximum attention to the protection of the environment by making it clean, beautiful and safe for life.
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There seems no let in the offensive of Rivers State Government against former Governor of the state, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, even with the assurance of a four-year term well in its kitty.
The government is demanding that Amaech, who is now the Minister or Transport in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, give account of how he utilised the over N3trillion that allegedly accrued to the state during his tenure.
Conveying the government’s position, a day after Amaechi’s successor, Governor Nyesom Wike had his mandate confirmed by the Supreme Court, the state Commissioner for Information, Dr Tam George told reporters in Port Harcourt that the state had been hard-hit by the ex-governor’s “catastrophic legacy.”
Wike and Amaechi
Vowing that the government would surely recover its resources through all available legitimate means, he said: “Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in the history of Rivers State since 1997. Thousands of workers were without their salaries for four months and thousands of teachers were not paid for nearly 12 months. We have so many abandoned projects which huge sums have been paid but projects are yet to be completed. We have the Mono-rail project that gulped over N60bn and it was abandoned. We have the Woji road project awarded at N3bn. There was a variation of the project to the upward of N14bn but it was abandoned. We inherited the project and completed it. There are so many of the abandoned projects. We have the Karibi George 250 bed project where huge sums of money were paid but no single block was laid at the site.”
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It was hers for the picking, getting to this stage and with what was at stake for her, or so many bookmakers who gave it to Serena Williams thought . But they did not take into account the agility, resilience and determination of Angelique Kerber, which eventually counted in who lifts this year’s Australian Open cup.
Sweet victory
And so, Williams, yet again suffered her second seismic shock in as many grand-slam events when Kerber, the unfavoured underdog from Germany, outplayed her in the memorable season’s open final.
Kerber’s win follows on from Roberta Vinci’s ambush of Williams at September’s US Open, which stymied the possibility of a calendar grand slam. It also means that Steffi Graf’s Open-era record of 22 major titles survives until early June, at the very least.
No-one gave Kerber much of a chance going in. She plays a grinding, defensive game in which the key statistic is usually her low number of unforced errors. But against Williams’s unparalleled firepower? Surely she would be overpowered.
Yet we were not reckoning with the anxiety that seemed to grip Williams throughout the match. She started the match confidently enough, claiming the first game in two minutes with her usual barrage of 110mph serves and heavy groundstrokes. But then she began accumulating a legion of unforced errors, as her feet refused to glide up to their ball with their usual alacrity.
Williams was also keen to come forward to the net, a strategy that the coaching team led by Patrick Mouratoglou had presumably developed before the match. But her volleys were woeful as she won just 15 of 32 such points.
Kerber
Meanwhile, Kerber was starting to show how she won her place in the final, having taken out tournament favourite Victoria Azarenka in the quarter-final and Great Briton’s Jo Konta in the semi. She kept the ball alive for longer than Williams expected on almost every point, showing phenomenal court coverage and the single-minded focus of a beagle at a fox-hunt. Her ability to hit passing shots on the run – or at the very least punch the ball back for a low and awkward volley – left Williams’s pre-match strategy in tatters.
It was one such volley, in fact, that ended the match after 2hr 8mins, as Williams floated the ball unaccountably long off her forehand side. Kerber was home, by a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 scoreline, and she fell on her back in the internationally recognised symbol of tennis jubilation.
In contrast to her almost speechless press conference after the Vinci defeat in New York, Williams was surprisingly upbeat about this result, smiling her way through the post-match interview and offering longer answers than she has at any other stage of tournament.
“I was actually really happy for her,” Williams said. “She had an attitude that I think a lot of people can learn from: just to always stay positive and to never give up. I was really inspired by that. So, honestly, she’s a really good girl. If I couldn’t win, I’m happy she did.”
She also expressed her frustration at the common assumption that she should waltz to the trophy in every tournament she plays. “Every time I walk in this room, everyone expects me to win every single match, every single day of my life. As much as I would like to be a robot, I’m not.”
Having taken her grand-slam tally from 18 to 21 in one unbroken sequence, dating from the 2014 US Open of 2014 to last year’s Wimbledon, Williams has now suffered two straight misses in her drive to equal Graf.
Ironically, Kerber cites Graf as her tennis idol and heroine, and feels that her own transformation from Top-10 regular to title contender dates back to a visit to Graf’s home in Las Vegas last spring. “She taught me actually that I’m on a good way, and try to believe in myself,” said Kerber before the final. “I was trying to do it in the last few months.”
Lots of admin to get through from various suits, but eventually we get to hear from the two players.
Williams: “Thank you so much for the support. Well done to Angelique, you truly deserve it.
An overwhelmed Kerber responds: “First of all, I would like to congratulate Serena – you are such an inspiration for so many young players, and you are an unbelievably great person, so congrats for everything you’ve done already.
“When I played in the first round I was match point down, and I’m so honoured to win it. My dream has come true on this night, and my whole life I was working really hard. I’m a grand slam champion – it sounds unbelievable!
“Thank you to all my family, I owe you so much. I know I’m not easy, but I have the best team in the world, and thank you to all the fans as well. Thank you.
“It’s been the best two weeks of my life, and you are the best fans in the world. See you next year, thank you so so much. Thank you.
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“I am going to stay in one small room that has only one small bed, one small table, little toilet and bathroom. So where am I going to keep all the adoration assets? My clothing and books I can keep in the car or somebody’s house but where will I keep these assets that I have given to the Catholic church of Enugu? But I say may God take the glory and whoever that has offended me, I have forgiven. I won’t fight anybody or even dream of battling anybody. If anybody allows the devil to use him, the same that advised you to make a mistake will laugh at you when you cry over the error. The baby is born, there is no going back.”
These were the words of fiery catholic priest and former Director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, as he was escorted out of the Christ the King Parish (CKP), GRA, Enugu to his new parish in Emene, a suburb of Enugu, the Enugu State capital by thousands of wailing followers in an emotion-laden event on Saturday.
Though he did not drop tears himself, but the cleric, believed to have run into troubled waters with the authorities of the Catholic Church recently, for his controversial pronouncements, the latest being his revelation that some people were planning to kill President Muhammadu Buhari, was quickly sent out of his popular Adoration Ministry ground, which hosts millions of faithful on service days.
Mbaka, who waged an epic battle with former Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, who he accused of being responsible for the stampede in one of the worship events in 2001, had booked a place at the national level, when he similarly accused former President, Goodluck Jonathan of plotting to kill him, after he had predicted the ex-President’s fall from office on the eve of 2015.
While at New Year eve prayer session to usher in 2015, the cleric, who had showered praises on the first family during the visit of Jonathan’s wife, not only recanted, but practically took Jonathan to the cleaners, saying he had brought bad luck to Nigeria, and thus, urged Nigerians to see the light in the way of Buhari, who was then a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Apart from revealing the alleged plot against the President, Mbaka, not only hosted Buhari’s wife, Aisha, during her visit to Enugu, but was also a guest of the first family at Aso Rock Villa, in Abuja, a visit, which caused a lot of disquiet and led to public criticisms in certain quarters and calls for adequate punishment from his superiors.
Though the church explained that his eventual transfer was a routine exercise, which affects priests in the diocese in line with its policy to reshuffle them periodically, many believe that it was in line with the discomfiture Mbaka’s conducts had caused the otherwise conservative institution.
In what appeared their reading that their idol was being punished, thousands of Mbaka faithful gathered at the CKP as early as 7.00 am, with hundreds of lorries, buses and cars, lining the streets, in readiness for the trip.
In what some of them described a triumphal exit, many parts of the bubbling city practically stood still, while economic and social activities were at their lowest during the period, owing to human and vehicular traffic. Amid music blaring from different instruments of the various groups that were also on hand to participate in the event, the priest who had built the parish from the scratch, starting from makeshift structures at the temporary site off Okpara Avenue, took a final look at the imposing structure of his efforts since 1996 Mbaka, and began the four-hour journey to start anew.
But not until an emotional address, which moved many to tears, as he poured out his heart, expressing misgiving on the treatment meted out to him, which he said was calculated to make him suffer by certain leader of the church.
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