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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...

About three weeks ago, Peter Okoye of P-Square took to twitter and threaten to expose a bank over fraudulent transactions. He gave the bank 5 days to return his money or be exposed and sued. Five days has passed and Peter hasn’t said anything about the issue again, but we just found out what went down.We will tell you what happened but will leave out the name of the bank.So in May, Peter Okoye found out that millions of Naira had been withdrawn from one of his personal accounts with a bank leaving him with less than N300k. He met with the management of the bank to find out what happened and they promised to resolve it. Fast forward to August and the money hadn’t been returned and so Peter went on social media to threaten.Immediately he made the threat online, the bank called him begging him not to mention their name, that the money will be refunded soon. They called him for a meeting about two weeks ago and told him to give them 11 working days to refund the money.Well, the eleven wo...

By Sola Ogundipe (vanguard news) Recently, in effort to eliminate Ebola at the source, through use of innovative disinfection technology, two “germ-killing robots”  were deployed from the US to the JFK Hospital and ELWA Hospital both in Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, both hotspots of the Ebola disease outbreak.The robots, technically known as TRU-D SmartUVC, were used to disinfect health care environments where Ebola patients are being treated. Good Health Weekly gathered that TRU-D is the only portable UV disinfection device on the market with Sensor360 technology, which calculates the time needed to react to room variables such as size, geometry, surface reflectivity and the amount and location of equipment in the room and effectively deliver a lethal dose of UV-C light during a single cycle from a single, central location in the room.Ultraviolet light“It works by generating ultraviolet light energy that modifies the DNA structure of viral pathogens, like Ebola, so that they cannot...

Some 480 Nigerian soldiers have fled into Cameroon following fierce fighting with Boko Haram militants, Cameroon’s army has said. Army spokesman, Lt. Col Didier Badjek, said the soldiers had been disarmed and were now being accommodated in schools. Clashes are said to be continuing in the border town of Gamboru Ngala. Boko Haram on Sunday released a video in which it said it had established an Islamic state in the towns and villages it controls in north-eastern Nigeria. The group’s five-year insurgency has intensified in recent months despite the deployment of thousands of extra troops to the worst-affected areas. Last week, a group of soldiers refused to follow orders to go and fight Boko Haram, saying the militants were better equipped. Insurgents also seized one of Nigeria’s two main police training academies, near the town of Gwoza, captured earlier this month. “The Nigerian soldiers are currently in the Cameroonian town of Maroua, about 80km (50 miles) from the...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has arrested a total of 761 street hawkers, prosecuted and convicted 674 of them. Thirty-one out of the convicted traders were sentenced to various prison terms. The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, who said this during the FCT Operations Briefing Meeting in his office in Abuja on Monday, added that the FCT Administration also arrested 172 beggars and destitute as well as 72 minors. He warned that hard times await anyone involved in environmental nuisances in the territory. Mohammed explained that the Administration collected a total of 31,166.93 tons of solid waste which were deposited at the designated disposal sites in July, 2014. According to him, the Abuja Environmental Protection Board inspected 1,976 premises for proper sanitation and in the process, 85 premises were fumigated during the same period. “This feat was achieved despite the heavy raining season that has made disposal dump site a bit difficult,” he stated. Th...