Nigerians will re-elect Tinubu in 2027, APC secretary boasts
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The All Progressives Congress has expressed conviction that President Bola Tinubu will be re-elected in 2027 despite the economic hardship and planned alliance between mega opposition parties.
The lingering economic hardship resulting from ongoing reforms such as fuel subsidy removal and floating of the naira has given rise to palpable fear that Nigerians may vote out Tinubu in 2027.
But the Deputy National Organising Secretary of the ruling party, Nze Chidi Duru, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, said the ongoing reforms had to come into play to steady the sinking ship of the economy.
He said, “Our party has always recognised the fact that the current challenging economic environment has not in any way got better.
When Mr President took over, he asked Nigerians not to pity him. It is an office that he craved and worked hard for before offering himself to provide leadership to Nigeria.
At 82, I still flee from sexual temptation, says Adeboye
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The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says he is still wary of sexual immorality despite his ‘anointing’ and years in the ministry.
Adeboye said despite his age, he runs faster than before to avoid any form of sexual temptation, noting that no amount of anointing can fight it.
The cleric also warned ministers of the gospel to be wary of sexual immorality and the erroneous belief that their ‘anointing’ could help them withstand any temptation.
He stated these during a sermon at the just concluded Ministers & Workers Conference of RCCG Americas 1, which consists of North, Central & Caribbean with the theme: “The Glory Ahead”.
Niger gov under attack for ordering security aides to slap cleric
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Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has come under attack for ordering his security aides to slap one of the Islamic clerics at a gathering.
Bago, in a video seen by Sunday PUNCH, ordered his aide to ‘slap’ the cleric.
“Slap him, very well. I said slap him. Go and arrest him. Deal with him well-well”, the governor ordered.
He thereafter uttered a Hausa idiomatic expression which was interpreted as “I have power.”
The cleric, who knelt down, was dragged away from the gathering by one of the security operatives suspected to be an officer of the Department of State Services.
Some of the people at the gathering were laughing and giggling when the governor gave the order.
The offence committed by the cleric was not known, but sources said he wanted to give the closing prayer at the event which the governor opposed.
Amotekun begins probe as herders injure officers for arresting cows
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Some officers of the Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun were injured on Friday following an attack by some group of people suspected to be herdsmen in Akure, the state capital.
It was gathered that the corps arrested some cows which allegedly destroyed farmlands in Osi and Igoba Communities in the North Local Government Area of the state on Friday.
A source said the Amotekun officers were taking the arrested cows numbering about 120 to the state headquarters of the Amotekun Command in Akure,
when the herders accosted them on the Akure-Ado expressway and attacked them.
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