'Heavy Cold' Forces Queen Elizabeth II To Miss Christmas Church Service

                          

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 90, missed a traditional Christmas church service on Sunday for the first time in decades due to a heavy cold, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said.

Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning living monarch, and her husband Prince Philip, 95, suffering what the Palace described as heavy colds this week, delayed by a day the journey to their Sandringham country residence in eastern England. They traveled instead by helicopter on Thursday.

Let us talk, Buhari tells N’Delta militants

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday appealed to the militants vandalizing oil installations in the Niger Delta to come to the negotiation table in order to end their arms campaign in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Buhari said this would afford both the government and the militants the opportunity to decide how the nation’s resources could be managed instead of agitators picking up arms against their fatherland.

In 2017 Nigeria will thrive says Jonathan

Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has said the country will thrive in 2017.

He said this in his goodwill message to celebrate Christmas, where he urged all Nigerians to “treasure our common brotherhood”.


“The essential message of Christmas is that Christ came to earth to live and die for the purpose of reconciling us to God,” part of the message read.

Couple married 64yrs hold each other's hands before dying minutes apart

 

A couple married for 64 years spent their final few moments together clutching each other's hands tightly before dying minutes apart in neighbouring hospital beds.

Dolores Winstead, 83, and husband Trent Winstead, 88, from Tennessee died in Nashville's Saint Thomas West Hospital - five weeks short of their 64th wedding anniversary.Only days earlier Dolores had been completely healthy when Trent was admitted over his failing kidneys.

Adeboye commends Fayose’s boldness, prays for him

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has prayed for Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, to succeed in standing up for the masses.

According to a statement issued on Saturday by Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the cleric said the prayer during a visit to the state as part of his nationwide tour for the RCCG’s annual ‘Let’s go a-fishing’ programme.

I did not snub South-East Summit – Buhari

                       

The presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari did not snub organisers of the recent South-East Economic and Security Summit held in Enugu.

In a statement, Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said in Abuja on Friday that the President did not, and he absolutely had no reason to snub anyone.

No night journey for petrol drivers-FRSC

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Sunday reiterated its total ban of petroleum tanker drivers from embarking on night journeys across the country from Monday, Dec.19.
Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, the FRSC Corps Marshal, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that efforts had been put in place to impound any truck found contravening the order.

Buhari to launch N10 billion agric fund for women

President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Wednesday, launch a N10 billion agriculture environmental impact fund to support women farmers to increase access to food production.

These include women, whose farmlands were affected by environment degradation and terrorism.

A statement yesterday in Abuja by Dean, Agric Faculty, University of Abuja Prof. A.A. Adeniyi said the event by the Women Association for National Agriculture Environment Impact Fund (WAEIF), would focus on food increase to reduce impact of recession.

Muslims should abolish Shariah if they don’t like Christian courts — CAN Secretary

The General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Musa Asake, tells BAYO AKINLOYE that Muslims have no right to complain about a proposed bill to establish Christian courts across Nigeria

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs was reported to have described the Bill for Ecclesiastical (Christian) Courts in Nigeria as an invitation to chaos. What do you think?

Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Is Back At The $25 Billion Mark, For The First Time In Five Months.

The reserves, which shows the state of the country’s financial funds in other currencies, had fallen to an 11-year-low of $24.76 billion, earlier in 2016, recording its lowest point since June 2005.

According to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the reserves rose to $25,043,149,161 as at Friday, December 16, 2016.

Nobody asked me to concede defeat, says Jonathan

                            
                         •Jonathan


Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said nobody outside or within the country asked him to concede defeat in the 2015 general elections to President Muhammadu Buhari.

He spoke at the second combined convocation ceremony of Bingham University, Nasarawa State.

The former president and an ex- military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon were honoured with a Doctor of Letters (Honaris Causa) by the university.