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Founder and President of the Gospel Apostolic Church, Pa Samuel Sadela, who is described as the oldest pastor in Nigeria, has died at the age of 114. Pa Sadela died yesterday August 26th at the church premises. The church has already opened a condolence register in front of its premises. Pa Samuel was born in 1900 and started his pastoral journey in 1928.... He made news headlines in 2007 when at the age of 107 years, he took a 30 year old wife, 6 years after his second wife passed away. Pa Samuel, an indigene of Ondo state, first got married in 1934, with the marriage lasting for 21 years, but none of the couple’s seven children lived beyond their infancy. A second marriage, said to have been consummated in 1965, was blessed with four children, but only two survived. His second wife died in 2001. While celebrating his 113th birthday last year, Pa Samuel said he wished to live up to 200 years “I feel happy to be this old. Actually, I feel like a young man. I still enjoy my me...

Commercial tricycle operators in Bayelsa State, popularly known as Keke Napep, yesterday protested against the alleged excessive use of force and extortion by policemen on the roads following the hitting of a pregnant woman by a policeman along Azikoro Road, Ekeki in Yenagoa.The policeman, said to be an Inspector, was said to have hit  the pregnant woman while trying to hit a Keke Napep driver with his gunbutt for refusing to part with a N50 bribe.Though some security operatives described the action of the inspector as “careless” and denied the alleged use of the rifle butt, the irate protesters claimed the action of the police led to excessive bleeding by the pregnant women from the mouth.The victim, according to the protesters, was rushed to Glory Land Hospital.Attempts by the protesters to barricade the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) along the Azikoro Road was thwarted by armed policemen who fired tear gas.The incid...

By Daud Olatunj (Vanguard news) Tragedy  struck in Abeokuta when a middle-aged commercial bus driver, Oluwagbeminija Rhodes, allegedly drowned in Ogun River on Sunday while trying to save his drowning son, Gbeminiyi.Vanguard gathered that the tragedy occurred when the late driver, who was the pioneer chairman of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Shuttle Bus Association, reportedly took his bus for washing at the Ogun river bank at Lafenwa end.It was further gathered that the deceased was  accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Gbeminiyi.The boy  was reportedly playing at the river bank but suddenly missed his steps and fell inside the river, this prompted his father to jump in in order to rescue him.An eye witness told our correspondent that  the deceased could not rescue his son but drowned while the son was later rescued by some people living near the river bank.The source said Gbeminiyi was rushed to the hospital where he regained consciousness.His fathe...