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  • Police arrest father, two others for selling baby for N400,000

    Police arrest father, two others for selling baby for N400,000

    The Police Command in Lagos State said it had arrested a father of a three-month-old baby, doctor, and nurse for allegedly selling the baby for N400,000.

    The command’s spokesman, SP. Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the arrest on his verified Twitter handle on Friday.

    Hundeyin said that the incident happened at Oko-Oba area of Lagos state.

    “A father connived with his doctor and a nurse (names not mentioned) sold his three-month-old baby to a woman for N400.000 without the knowledge of the mother.

    “After days of searching, the Police was informed. All suspects arrested. Baby is safe,” he said.

    The spokesman said that the State Central Investigation Department (SCID), Panti was in charge of the investigation and will charge the suspects to court soon.

  • What my mother told me before she died – Pastor Jerry Eze

    What my mother told me before she died – Pastor Jerry Eze

    Lead Pastor of Streams of Joy International and Convener of New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations (NSPPD), Pastor Jerry Eze has shared a very powerful, touching and inspiring story about his mother.

    Pastor Eze, who runs a YouTube prayer channel praying over prayer requests received from thousands of followers over the globe every morning at 7:00 am, disclosed that his mum was a single parent before she died.

    “While she was on the hospital bed and I was with her. She already knew I have a passion for ministry and then she looked me in the eye and made two powerful statements ‘as you preach, please tell every young girl that they have no reason to be single mothers’,” Pastor Eze recounts.

    Eze went to further to narrate: “Secondly, every child needs a father. If Adam was not necessary, God would have created Eve alone.

    “We understand that there are Fathers who are not really playing their roles as fathers. Fathers who are heartbreakers, fathers who don’t really deserve to be called a father.

    “But it still doesn’t take away the fact that this is the way that God has designed it for our families to thrive.

    “The father of the house might be a stupid man, but he remaining in that house is a major lesson for the children. He might not be the man you want him to be, but his voice, each time he raises it in the house, leaves an impression for your children.

    “My mum’s greatest pain was that her children didn’t turn out well because there’s something a woman can do and there’s what a man can do.

    “She tried to do everything, she was the mother, she was the father, she was the counsellor, she was the provider and so on. She died of heart failure because she tried doing everything herself.

    “It may be fashionable to be a single mother now, but ten years from now, would you still be proud that you took the right step?

    “Your children may not tell you but, there were times when we were mentally abused. We went out there to play with other children, and they just threw a word at us “go and call your father”.

    “Whenever I come back and ask my mother who my father was, she would just breakdown and start crying. I never went on to ask her other questions but I knew how mentally scared I was.

    “Please let us put these things in proper perspective. No matter what men have done to you. Please, there’s always a man somewhere that’ll make you smile”.

    TNG reports Pastor Eze, champion of ‘what God cannot do does not exist,’ marked his 40th birthday on August 22nd.

  • 60-year-old father, son drown in Kano well

    60-year-old father, son drown in Kano well

    A father, 60, Malam Bala and his son, Sunusi Bala, 35, died in a well at Sabon Garin Bauchi, in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State, while draining water from it.

    A statement from the spokesperson of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, said on Wednesday in Kano that the incident occurred on Tuesday morning.

    He said: “We received an emergency call from Wudil fire station at about 11:30 a.m from one Isma’ila Idris that two men had been trapped inside a well.

    ”We immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 11:33 a.m.

    “A father and his son were called to drain a well, they had successfully drained it.

    ”But, the son went back into the well to clear it when he was trapped and suffocated.

    “His father went after him to rescue him, when he also got trapped and suffocated due to the lack of oxygen inside the well”, Abdullahi said.

    He said the victims were however brought out of the well unconscious and later confirmed dead.

    Abdullahi said that their corpses were handed over to Insp Felix Gowok of Wudil model police station.

    He said the cause of the incident was lack of oxygen.

  • Gunmen kidnap 4-year-old boy as father escapes abduction

    Gunmen kidnap 4-year-old boy as father escapes abduction

    Suspected gunmen have kidnapped a four-year-old boy, Oluwadarasimi Omojola, as his father, Boluwaji Omojola, managed to escape on Itaji/Ijelu-Ekiti Road in Oye Local Government area of Ekiti.

    The traditional ruler of the community, Owajumu of Omu-Ekiti, Oba Gabriel Ogundeyi, confirmed the incident through a telephone conversation with newsmen on Saturday.

    Ogundeyi said the incident happened at about 6.00 p.m on Friday.

    The traditional ruler explained that the boy was returning from Ayede-Ekiti with his father, who managed to escape, after sustaining a severe cutlass injuries from the abductors.

    He said that the injured farmer was currently receiving medical attention at an undisclosed facility.

    Ogundeyi said that security operatives and local hunters had since been mobilised to go after the kidnappers to rescue the boy.

    However, DSP. Sunday Abutu, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, has yet to confirm the incident as the time of filing this report.

  • Why I’m yet to become a father at 31 – Burna Boy

    Why I’m yet to become a father at 31 – Burna Boy

    Nigerian music sensation, Burna Boy has revealed why he’s yet to become a father at 31.

    In a recent interview with Billboard, the Grammy Award winner said not having a child at this point of his life makes him feel good and bad at the same time.

    “When you turn 31 and ain’t got no kids, everything is going good and bad at the same time. You reflect and then you get as lit as possible,” he said. The African Giant singer made the 44-track summer playlist of American ex-president, Barack Obama. He made the list alongside Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Aretha Franklin, and Tems.

    Obama posted his annual playlist on his Twitter page on Tuesday. “Every year, I get excited to share my summer playlist because I learn about so many new artists from your replies—it’s an example of how music really can bring us all together,” Obama wrote. “Here’s what I’ve been listening to this summer.”

  • Vernon Winfrey, Oprah’s father, dies at 89

    Vernon Winfrey, Oprah’s father, dies at 89

    Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has died at the age of 89.

    Oprah confirmed in an Instagram post that her father died in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday.

    “Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honor of witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath,” the media mogul wrote. “We could feel peace enter the room at his passing.”

    Details about funeral plans were not immediately released.

    Earlier this week, Oprah surprised her father by throwing him a surprise barbeque in Nashville on the Fourth of July. The event was called “Vernon Winfrey Appreciation Day,” which included a barber chair to honor his long career as a barber and owning his own shop in Nashville for nearly 50 years.

    Vernon served as a member of Nashville’s Metro City Council for 16 years and was a trustee for the Tennessee State University.

    Oprah spent her early childhood at her father’s hometown of Kosciusko, Mississippi, and in Milwaukee with her mother, Vernita Lee, who died in 2018. However, she also lived with her father in Nashville, between the ages of 7 and 9 and during her teens.

    “If I hadn’t been sent to my father (when I was 14), I would have gone in another direction,” Oprah told the Washington Post in 1986. “I could have made a good criminal. I would have used these same instincts differently.” (AP)

  • [Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The reckless love of the father

    [Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The reckless love of the father

    By Oke Chinye

    Read: Luke 15:1-31

    Meditation verse:

    “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not  leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until  he finds it?” (Luke 15:4).

    The ‘one’ is important to God. That unsaved one. That lost one. That forgotten  one. That lonely one. That one who feels different from everyone else. This‘one’  is so important to the Father, that He leaves the ninety-nine to go after him. To  man, it makes no sense. It seems a bad move. What if He loses the ninety-nine  in His bid to go after the ‘one’? But He is the Almighty God, He knows that His  love is wide enough to cover the ninety-nine, while He goes after the lost one.

    The lost one is most at risk because he is alone, forgotten, and forsaken, so the  Father goes after him until He finds him. Gospel singer Cory Ashbury calls this  love of God ‘reckless love’. And he says no, God is not reckless, but His love is  reckless. He loves recklessly without considering the risks. “For God so loved the  world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should  not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16)).

    In Luke 15:1-2, the tax collectors and sinners all gathered around to hear Jesus.  But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes  sinners and eats with them. That’s the reckless love of the father. In Luke 19, as  Jesus was passing through Jericho, He got to a fig tree and looked up to call out

    Zacchaeus the tax collector, who had climbed the tree because he was too short  to see Jesus amongst the crowd. That is the reckless love of the Father. In the  parable of the prodigal son, the lost son wandered far away and squandered his  riches, but when he came back to his senses and decided to go back home, he  was welcomed back with open arms. That is the reckless love of the Father.

    The love of God is always searching for that one person who feels alone,  different, lonely, abandoned, sinful, afraid, or forgotten. No matter what you  have done or where you have been, His reckless love will fish you out. Why not  receive that love today?

     

    IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Dcns Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

    For Prayers and Counseling email rockteachingministry@gmail.com

    or call +2348155525555

    For more enquiries, visit: www.rockteachingministry.org.

  • Tevez announces retirement after losing father

    Former Manchester City and Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez has announced his retirement.

    Tevez has confirmed his retirement after the Argentinian said he could no longer continue playing following the death of his father last year.

    Tevez revealed he had turned down offers from the United States to prolong his trophy-laden yet controversial career as he officially brought his time in football to a close at the age of 38.

    Tevez said he had stopped playing after ‘losing his number one fan’ – his adopted father, Segundo Raimundo, who died following complications from covid-19 in February 2021.

    The Argentinian, who won three Premier League titles, two Scudetti and the Champions League, last played for Boca Juniors before leaving his boyhood club in June last year.

    Segundo Raimundo, who adopted the Argentine after his biological father died before he was born, had been fighting for his life for several weeks before his death and had not been given long to live by doctors.

    “I have retired, it is confirmed,” he said.

    “They offered me many things, including from the United States. But that’s it, I have given everything.

    “Playing the last year was very difficult but I was able to see my old man. I stopped playing because I lost my number one fan.”

  • [Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Expect the best from your father

    [Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Expect the best from your father

    By Oke Chinye

    Read: Mathew 7:7-12

    Meditation verse:

    “If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” (Mathew 7:11).

    You have a loving Father who delights in blessing you with good things. How do I know? Because it is written everywhere you look in the bible: –

    Psalms 84:11 says “for the Lord God is a sun and a shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

    Psalms 23:1 says, “the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”

    Psalms 35:27 says, “let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant”.

    3 John 2 says, “beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers”.

    John 16:24 says, “until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full”.

    Mathew 7:7 says, “ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you”

    What other evidence do you need? “God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said it, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19). So today, ask your Father for the best and expect the best from Him.

     

    IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Dcns Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

    For Prayers and Counseling email rockteachingministry@gmail.com

    or call +2348155525555

    For more enquiries, visit: www.rockteachingministry.org.

  • How my father impregnated me, aborted pregnancy – 20-year-old narrates

    How my father impregnated me, aborted pregnancy – 20-year-old narrates

    A 20-year-old girl (name withheld) on Thursday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how her biological father, Akin Isaac, allegedly impregnated her and aborted the pregnancy.

    The survivor said, while being led in evidence by State Prosecutor, Mr Y. A. Alebiosu, that prior to living with her father, she was staying with her grandmother.

    The survivor said her father defiled her at age 17 during the COVID 19 lockdown in year 2020 at their residence in Alapere, Lagos.

    She narrated that her father had asked her to come and live with him in 2019 so she could go to secondary school and to enable him take proper care of her.

    The witness said her father who had two wives, began touching her body in a suggestive manner.

    “I was scared, so I begged him to leave me but he went to buy a cane, put it on the table and later beat me with it in order to have sex with me.

    “He threatened to kill me if she I tell anyone. I was 17 years old at that time. I was in JSS 3 and I am a kind of person that used to sing but I changed suddenly.

    “I begged him one morning that I do not want my life to spoil but he ignored my plea and had sex with me again. When he did it again, I did not go out,” she said.

    The survivor further told the court that her father stopped her from attending her church.

    “I used to go to C&S church. He stopped me from going to the church but pastor came to beg him to let me attend church.

    “The second Sunday, I went to church but he stopped me again and said I should be attending Redeem church and I told him I do not want to go to there.

    “My father seized my phone, broke the SIM so that I could no longer communicate with my 27-year old half-brother whom I usually confided in.

    “He also used Gotv iron to beat me and some neighbours even said I should come and live with them while others are afraid of him because he is an OPC man,” the survivor said.

    She told the court that after she missed her period and found out she was pregnant, her father tried to abort the pregnancy by giving her drugs and injections but to no avail.

    “I received 15 injections for abortion. He bought a medicine, the drug was not working. A nurse asked me who got me pregnant but I could not tell her it was my father.

    “He later took me to a place where there was no light and the pregnancy was terminated,” she said.

    The witness further told the court that her father also tried to have sex with her again while she was sleeping in July, 2020, after the abortion but she objected, leading to the intervention of the neighbours.

    “That night, he came and started beating me and when neighbours intervened he told them that I am his daughter and he can choose to do whatever he likes with me, even saying that if he wishes he could kill me because I am his daughter,” she said.

    Another prosecution witness, Mrs. Modupe Aladelusi, a social worker with the Ministry of Youth and Social Development, who handles cases related to violence, abuse and neglect of children, told the court that she received a call on June 17, 2020 on the agency’s hotline.

    She said she received a call from a man who said, the girl said she would commit suicide, that she did not have anywhere to go to.

    The social worker said she went to a police station and a police woman accompanied her to the girl’s house.

    She added that the survivor was later taken to the police station where her statement was taken, and while at the station, her father came and he was arrested.

    “When we got to the office, she said her father has once impregnated her and took her somewhere to abort it,” the social work told the court.

    Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo adjourned the case until April 13 for continuation of trial.