Day: March 24, 2025

Poorly Acted Drama,’ How Nigerian Churches Staged Miracles – Daddy Freeze

Precious Ibekwe

  Nigerian media personality Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, has expressed skepticism about the authenticity of miracles performed in Nigerian Pentecostal churches. These miracles are, according to him, staged and primarily target individuals who are easily deceived. He argued that while the miracles performed by Jesus in the Bible were verifiable, no Nigerian pastor has ever replicated such miracles on a well-known public figure. Speaking on a recent episode of the Outside The Box podcast, Daddy Freeze stated, “I’m sorry, but I don’t believe in any of the…

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‘Sallah Gesture,’ Reps Member Confirms Lawmakers Got $5,000 Each During Rivers Emergency Vote

Aliyu Aliyu

    The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on FCT, Mukhtar Aliyu Betara, has confirmed that he shared $5,000 with members of his committee as a “Sallah gesture” and not as an inducement to support emergency rule in Rivers State. Platforms Africa reports that a Nigerian journalist, Jaafar Jaafar, disclosed this in a post on his X handle. Jaafar said Betara explained this to him after the lawmaker reached out to clarify that the $5,000 given to lawmakers was merely a “Sallah gesture” and not an inducement. Undercover…

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Assassination Allegation: Cold War Between Habeebullah Adam Al-Ilory, Onikijipa Worsens

Aliyu Aliyu

      ‘How Onikijipa secretly put two Ado (gourds) in my pocket, cajoled my PA for permission to touch my head with fetish item,’ ‘if I Sulaimon Farooq, the son of Aminat knows anything about Mudir Markaz’s illness, let the curses in this holy Qur’an be mine,’ Details of how the two popular Nigerian Islamic scholars – Mudeerul Markaz and Mufti – Turned Tafseer To Tantrums Throwing Tents     The cold war between two popular Islamic scholars in Nigeria, Mudeer of Morcaz Agege, Sheikh Habeebullah Adam Al-Ilory and…

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Firm Deepens CSR Investment With Solar Lights, Others In Host Community

Ganiyu Amodu

Multisub Energy Limited, an indigenous Oil and Gas exploration and production company, in partnership with the Olure Host Communities’ Development Trust (OHCDT) has commissioned a school furnishing project in Eghoro Community and the installation of 70 street lights in Safa/Ogbin bloc of communities, in Warri North LGA, Delta State. The Abokunwa Primary School in Eghoro was equipped with 50 students’ desks, teachers’ tables and chairs, magic boards and a 120-meter walkway to improve access to quality education in the area. Speaking at the event Chairman and Managing Director of Multisub,…

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BACK FROM THE DEAD!, By Gbemiga Ogunleye

Gbemiga Ogunleye

    “My mind then went to how the newspapers would report my passage: GBEMIGA OGUNLEYE, EX NIJ PROVOST IS DEAD! GBEMIGA OGUNLEYE EX PUNCH EDITOR IS DEAD!” everything the veteran journalist wrote about how he walked a thin line between the theatre and the morgue    If like me, you have this bad habit of reading every inscription on buses or on walls, you probably would have seen this inscription on hospital walls: WE CARE; GOD HEALS! That was what I remembered that Saturday morning in Kaduna, as I…

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