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Angry traders reportedly dumped 37 coffins at the premises of The Synagogue Church of all Nations in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. The coffins were said to have been confiscated by Ugandan policemen from angry traders who were protesting against the SCOAN in Kampala over the blocking of drainage channels in the area and in the process diverting drainage water into their business premises. The coffins were abandoned at the premises of the Church after police officers at the Wandegeya Division Police Station confiscated them. The traders reportedly refused to reclaim them. Over 18 people were arrested during the protests and later…

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja Human rights lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome (SAN), says it will be morally inexplicable for President Muhammadu Buhari to nominate Ibrahim Magu as the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for a third time after being rejected by the Senate twice. Ozekhome said this in a statement titled, ‘The legal and moral issues of the second and final rejection of confirmation of Magu as EFCC chairman’. The senior advocate said, “Re-presenting his (Magu’s) name will raise more questions than answers as to why the insistence on one man. This is unlike the first instance when…

Countries need a fertility rate of just over two children per woman to attain what demographers call ‘replacement fertility’ — the rate at which births fill the gaps left by deaths. There are nations which don’t hit that rate — and their methods to encourage their people to have more productive sex can range from the practical — if not bizarre — to the downright offensive. Here are 10 countries begging people to have sex for the good of their nations… Denmark Fertility rate is around 1.73 children per woman, and there are a number of incentives to get women…

Following the rejection of Mr Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, said the upper chamber had played its constitutional role as an arm of government. He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to send the name of another nominee to fill any vacuum that might be created in the commission Saraki said, “with the screening being carried out in a transparent manner, we see democracy at work. “I believe we have played our part; we have followed the Constitution and due process. “We hope that the executive…

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described the adultery allegation against Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Power Ministry by one Miss Stephanie Otobo as “high-level conspiracy”. The governor said the allegation was meant to destroy the integrity of the pastor and silence his critical and principled voice of truth and dissent in a nation fast becoming a one-party state.” Fayose, in a statement Wednesday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, declared “I stand by Apostle Suleman and other men of God being directly or indirectly persecuted by the All Progressives Congress (APC)…

Air pollution is a growing concern in many metropolitan areas around the world. But while some are working to curb the amount of pollution that gets released into the air going forward, people are already dying due to the current levels. In fact, around 3 million deaths a year are linked to outdoor air pollution. So some scientists are now working on ways to fight the health effects of air pollution on those who regularly breathe it in. A new study might have part of the solution. Researchers in Toronto found that B vitamins could help to offset some of…

A governor in Kenya has been left shaken after bandits shot at his convoy while on a mission to rescue marooned pupils. The bandits on Wednesday shot at Baringo Governor Benjamin Cheboi and Rift Valley Regional Coordinator Wanyama Musiambo’s convoy. The bandits have been reigning havoc in Baringo and it environs especially the Kerio Valley stealing livestock, killing people and burning property, according TUKO Ke reports. The over 200 bandits descended on the village unleashing terror in a night-long attack looting shops and torching homes. The attackers seem to have been bold and have taken control of Makutani village. They…

For allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager, Joe Pelle, 37, was on Wednesday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Pelle, who resides at 11, Prince Bayo St., Igbogbo, Ikorodo, Lagos State, is facing a charge of raping a 16-year-old girl. The prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu, told the court that the accused committed the offence in November 2016 at Ikorodu. Ogu said that the mother of the victim took her to the house of the accused for deliverance. He said, “The accused took the victim to a river, bathed her before taking her to a hotel. “The accused raped the…

A housewife, 30-year-old Rosemary Okeke, who met her husband on Facebook, on Wednesday pleaded with an Agege Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve the about 17-month-old marriage to her “jealous” husband. The woman, who had approached the court seeking the dissolution of the union, said her husband, Cletus, had turned her into a punching bag. Rosemary told the court that she met her husband through the social media platform — ‘Facebook’ while he was in South Africa and dated for few months before they had their traditional marriage. She said before her husband paid her dowry, he was so calm…

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, urged the Senate to approve $500m Euro Bond to fund the 2016 Budget deficit. In a letter to the upper chamber read by President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, at plenary, Osinbajo explained that the request was based on the 2016 appropriation, which provided for new borrowings. He requested the resolution of the National Assembly for the issuance of the $500m Euro Bond in the international capital market for the funding of the 2016 budget deficit. “The senate may wish to refer to item 229 and 244 of the 2016 Federal…