The wife of Governor of Anambra State, Dr. (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano (Osodieme) has emphasised the need for children not to despair but to be upbeat about life beyond the momentary revulsion of the Covid-19 pandemic. She also called on mothers to show more interest in the education of their children. Mrs. Obiano made the plea
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The former Minister of Aviation, Chief. Osita Chidoka has felicitated with Muslim faithful across the country as they marked this year’s Eid-el-Fitr celebration. Chidoka, on his social media handle, however regretted he would miss the daily breaking of fast in the homes of his Muslim friends following the Covid-19 directives. He enjoined Muslims, and indeed
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A teenage girl, Margaret Ikumu, 19, of Oni community in Oju Local Government Area of Benue, has faked her own death on social media to avoid financial pressure from her mother. A statement signed by DSP Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, made this known on Sunday. Elkana said that Ikumu,
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A Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State has quashed plans by one Alhaji Yusuf Lateef, an Islamic Cleric to marry a 16-year-old teenager who was said to be a secondary school girl as his wife number nine. THE DAILY VENDOR gathered that trouble started when the Islamic cleric pressured the girl’s family into accepting to
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has explained why churches should remain closed despite the lifting if ban in worship places by some state governors as well as the mounting pressure in many quarters for their re-opening. The Federal Government and State Governments have banned religious gathering since the outbreak of COVID 19 in Nigeria
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The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA has said that the Ramadan fast would continue on Saturday. said on Friday. This was disclosed on Friday by NSCIA on its Twitter handle where it said, “There was no positive sighting report of the Shawwal crescent in Nigeria, tomorrow is 30th Ramadan. An official statement from
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The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians, including government officials not to pay him the usual Sallah homages. In the spirit of the Sallah celebration, government officials, political leaders and other Nigerians usually pay homages to the President. But THE DAILY VENDOR reports that in a statement by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant
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The recent invasion of the resident of a middle aged woman by youths in Agulu, Anambra State over alleged fetish practice has landed the Sabbath Churches operating in the state into trouble. The actions of the woman allegedly caught making incantations inside a shrine prohibited to women in the area was said to have provoked
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Following the imperatives of achieving a crash and hitch free 2020 Sallah celebration, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has approved massive deployment of personnel, directed Commanding Officers to collaborate with COVID-19 Task Force teams and security agencies across the country to ensure maximum compliance with established laws and orders and
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That the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic has continued to take toll on virtually every sector of nations of the world, including Nigeria is no longer debatable One sector the impact has largely been felt, particularly in Nigeria, remained the economy, with commercial activities in all the cities across the country gradually crumbling due to the scourge.
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Onitsha Ado COVID 19 response team has kicked off the distribution of stimulus package to over two thousand indigenes and non indigenes of the community as part of the relief measures to challenges caused by corona virus. The distribution which was done at Chuba Ikpeazu Memorial Stadium Onitsha in Onitsha North Council Area of Anambra
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The Archbishop Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger, and Bishop of Awka diocese, Anglican Communion, the Most Rev. Alexander Chibuzo Ibezim has cautioned against chasing sinners away from the church for any reason. He said only God has the prerogative to determine who was his and heaven bound, adding that the church was incomplete without the
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The Police Public Relations Officer in Imo State, Sp Ikeokwu Godson Orlando, has distinguished himself beyond measure, following his rare act of kindness, which shows that the Nigerian Police Force is not made up of wicked people, but has some officers that are kind and godly too. According to Sp Ikeokwu, on the 11th of
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Leaders of Catholic and Anglican churches as well as residents of Obeleagu and Nkisi Aroli streets in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Saturday protested ravaging gully erosion in the area. The clerics, accompanied by the Onitsha Improvement Union, the Justice Development and Peace Caritas (JDPC), called on both Federal and Anambra State governments to declare state
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The Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Uche Ekwunife has condemned the reported killing at Nkpor by officers of the Nigerian Police. In a statement on Wednesday by the Special Adviser on Media, Mr Kingsley Ubani, Ekwunife expressed shock over reports of the killing of unarmed citizens by men of the Nigerian Police who
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