SHOCKING LESBIAN CONFESSIONS AT TB JOSHUA'S CHURCH

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Whether it’s addressing contentious issues on Facebook, prophesying world calamities or witnessing celebrity ‘deliverances’ in his Lagos-based church, the name of controversial Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua can’t seem to leave the news of late.

The events of his church service broadcast live via Emmanuel TV on Sunday 23^rd March 2014 proved to be no different as The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) witnessed the confession of two lesbians who said ‘demons’ were behind their lifestyle.

Maria Terese George from Delta State, Nigeria explained to the congregation that her poverty-stricken background pushed her to seek help from an older lady. However, she had ulterior motives in promising to help the attractive 19 year old.  “She took me to a club where we went drinking,” Maria explained while speaking in the packed church. “She took me to her house and started touching me. Because I was drunk, I responded.”

SUSPENSION SAGA: PRESIDENCY MOVES TO NAIL SANUSI LAMIDO

Summons axed apex bank boss
Okupe, Jerry Gana meet Ag. CBN gov
NNPC adjusts for forensic audit
There are indications that the Presidency is making frantic efforts to silence the ‘loquacious’ suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, through credible materials indicting him of abusing his office, Peoples Daily has learnt at the weekend.
The government, according to our sources, is also exploring possibility of dialogue with Sanusi, whose recent revelations about the ‘missing’ $20 billion and where they are allegedly being kept have done greater damage to the administration’s reputation, nationally and internationally.
Sanusi, it would be recalled, was suspended by President Jonathan on February 20 this year, for alleged financial recklessness, allegations which the axed apex bank governor has since denied.

WE DIDN’T CHARTER PRIVATE JET FOR DIEZANI -NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Monday denied it chartered any jet for the exclusive use of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The corporation however stated that it was empowered by law to own or charter aircraft for its use.
In a statement signed by the acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Dr. Omar Ibrahim, the corporation stated that it had not chartered any aircraft for the exclusive use of the minister or any particular official of the NNPC.
A motion endorsed by the House of Representatives last Thursday indicated that Alison-Madueke allegedly spent N10bn to run a private jet for her personal trips within Nigeria and abroad.
But the NNPC noted that contrary to the information, the minister had not chartered any aircraft for her personal use or the use of her family.

NO SURVIVORS: MISSING PLANE WITH 239 PEOPLE ON BOARD OFFICIALLY DECLARED LOST

Malaysia’s Prime Minister has announced on the basis of new analysis it must be concluded that missing flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
He said Malaysia Airlines had told the families of the 239 people on board.
Earlier a text message sent to families said it had to be assumed “beyond reasonable doubt” that the plane was lost and there were no survivors.
Flight MH370 went missing after taking off on March 8.
The announcement by PM Najib Razak came on the fifth day of an international search effort in the southern Indian Ocean.
Based on new analysis, the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch and Inmarsat, the UK company that provided satellite data, “have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth,” he said.
“This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.”

2015: ODUAH TO COORDINATE PRO-JONATHAN’S GROUPS

ABUJA — STRONG indications emerged weekend that the immediate past Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah may have been saddled with the responsibility of coordinating all the groups presently positioning themselves to campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan=s re-election in 2015.
A source told Vanguard yesterday that as a prelude to bringing her on board following her resignation recently, the presidency was creating a unit called Research and Strategy unit for which she would eventually become the Director- General. The unit will later metamorphose into a body that will spearhead the President’s campaign for re-election bid in 2015.
The new assignment, the source told vanguard would be similar to what she did prior to 2011 Presidential election when she handled a major campaign and enlightenment platform, the Neighbour to Neigbhour project which was very vibrant and made great impact.

OKOROCHA SET TO DUMP APC

• Considers APGA, PPA, PDP
The romance between Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and the mainstream opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), appears to have gone sour as indications have emerged that he may soon dump the party.
New Telegraph authoritatively gathered that Okorocha was contemplating several options, including pitching his tent with the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) or returning to the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) his former party.
He is also said to be considering joining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the event that the first two options fail. It was learnt that Okorocha became disenchanted with APC following the poor acceptance of the party in Imo State and the South-East region.

12 NORTHERN GOVS TAKE BOKO HARAM CONTROVERSY TO WHITE HOUSE

• Nyako Blames Jonathan For Escalating Insurgency
• Ambassador Adefuye Hits Back
WITH top U.S. government officials, including President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, Ms. Susan Rice, who was presiding, the issue of Boko Haram, 2015 elections and corruption among the Nigerian political elite became a hot debate at the White House earlier last week.

A meeting of 12 Northern State governors (and a deputy governor) and the US government on Tuesday in Washington DC took a dramatic turn when some of the governors, especially Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, initiated a frontal attack on President Goodluck Jonathan, forcing the Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ade Adefuye, who was also in attendance, to join the fray, objecting to some of the comments against the President and the Federal Government.

Although Nyako was said to be the most vocal, he was not alone in raising critical views about the president and his policies, as the Borno and Kano State Governors also knocked hard on the Jonathan presidency.

NATIONAL CONFAB, A WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS – BUHARI

A former Head of State, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday described the ongoing national conference as a waste of public funds.
He said the huge amount being spent on the delegates and the entire process should have been put to better use because the National Assembly was in a better position to do what the conference was trying to do.
Buhari said this in a short remark at the opening of the inaugural edition of the PGF Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable, held in Abuja.
The former military ruler said, “What I express about the conference is a personal view, that it is the duty of the National Assembly.

IBADAN HORROR: VICTIM RECOUNTS ORDEAL IN FOREST

One of the victims that were rescued by the police at Soka forest, Ibadan, Oyo State, which is believed to be a ritual killers’ den, said she was kidnapped in September 2013.
The victim, whose name is being withheld for security purpose, is currently recuperating with seven other victims in Adeoyo Hospital, Ibadan.
No fewer than 20 decomposing bodies were discovered in the forest on Saturday, while about 23 others were rescued alive.
They were taken to different hospitals in the city, with eight of them – four men and four women – in Adeoyo Hospital.
The woman, who was still weak from her experience, told PUNCH Metro that she knew she left her home in September and since then could not remember anything until Saturday when she was rescued.
She said, “I remember that I left my home in Okebola and was going to Challenge. I entered a taxi and that is the only thing I can remember until police rescued us yesterday (Saturday).”

INTRIGUES IN NIGERIA POLICE OVER IGP’S SUCCESSOR, PROMOTION

Interests are colliding at the top echelon of the Nigeria Police over who replaces the outgoing Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, who retires in July, Nigerian Tribune has learnt.
Talks of possible extension of his tenure by President Goodluck Jonathan till after the general election next year are reportedly generating ripples, especially among his possible successors and their sympathisers within the system.
Police sources told the Nigerian Tribune that while the possible extension, allegedly spearheaded by the IGP’s sympathisers and loyalists, is being discussed in hushed tones within the system, the alleged raw deals being received by those likely to succeed the top cop are open secret within the system.
A source who is an intermediate officer in the Nigeria Police disclosed that the intrigues going on at the headquarters of the force, would thicken from this week, given the alleged determined resolve of the IGP’s camp on certain controversial transfer and planned promotion.

N10BN FLIGHT EXPENSES: REPS PROBE AVIATION COMPANY •RIPPLES IN JONATHAN’S CAMP OVER PROBE •NLC BACKS NASS PROBE OF PETROLEUM MINISTER

THE probe instituted by the House of Representatives into allegations that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allinson-Madueke spent N10 billion on a chartered plane appeared to have taken another dimension at the weekend with indications emerging that the probe has now extended to the owner of the Challenger 850 jet said to have been placed on permanent charter by the Minister.
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Babatunde Adejare, who moved the motion for the probe on Thursday asked the House to investigate the use of N10 billion allegedly by the Minister of Petroleum as flight charter charges between 2012 and 2014.
A group, the Concerned Aviation Professionals (CAP) had two weeks ago published paid advertisements which alleged that an unnamed minister was frittering away public money in respect of the challenger aircraft.

BE BRAVE, VISIT YOBE, APC TELLS JONATHAN

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan, as the father of the nation and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, not to be afraid to visit any part of the country, especially Yobe State which suffered a massive attack by insurgents last month.
In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohanmed, the party reminded the President that he had not yet visited Yobe State one month after the dastardly killing of many schoolchildren in the state, to commiserate with the government and the bereaved families.
APC noted that since the president’s planned return from his foreign trip on Tuesday coincides with one month of the killings, he take the opportunity of the timing and fly straight to Yobe to sympathise with the victims.

CBN TO SACK BANK CEOS WITH UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNTS

Jobs of some bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and their Chairmen may soon be on the line. A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directive has warned that bank CEOs and chairmen who fail to publish their institutions’ accounts 12 months after the end of the financial year will be removed from office.
The order was contained in the CBN’s Monetary, Credit, Foreign Trade and Exchange Policy Guidelines for Fiscal Years 2014/2015 released at the weekend.
The regulator will continue to hold the Board chairman and CEO of a defaulting bank directly responsible for any breach and impose appropriate sanctions, which may also include barring the CEO or his/her nominee from participation in the Bankers’ Committee and disclosing the reason for such suspension.

CONTROVERSY TRAILS CONFERENCE ALLOWANCE AS N1.4M IS PAID PER DELEGATE

•June 12 may reverberate at national dialogue
• Participants to debate rules, president's speech today
• Nigerians urged to access conference website
By Chuks Okocha and Onyebuchi Ezigbo
Controversy has continued to trail the sitting, accommodation and feeding allowances paid to the delegates to the ongoing National Conference, as some of the delegates claimed that they received N1.4million and not N4 million per delegate as widely reported.
Also, Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Spain and a delegate to the conference, Ambassador Maman Yusuf, has called for the inclusion of the June 12 political impasse as one of the agenda for national reconciliation.
Similarly, northern states governors will Tuesday meet to adopt a conference agenda for the three geo political zones of the North.

LAMIDO: APC CAN'T TAKE NIGERIA TO PROMISED LAND

The Governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a party that has no real attributes of democratic ideology that would propel the nation to the Promised Land.
The governor who stated this at the weekend, while receiving the members of Nigerian Guild of Editors that paid him a courtesy visit, said the APC as a political party had no particular history.
Lamido said Nigerians cannot take the risk of handing power to a group of aggrieved politicians that have left their former political parties simply because they were denied tickets to contest for leadership positions.
Stating that the APC without Buhari would not last for three months, he said most of those making noise in the APC today could not dare do such in 1998 for fear of incarceration.
"We stood against Abacha and formed the PDP, which restored hope and value to the Nigerian citizens.

WHY APC WILL RETAIN SOUTH WEST - TINUBU

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, has said that the performance of the party’s governors in the South West would give them victory in future elections.
Tinubu stated this after visiting some project sites including roads, flyovers and modern shopping malls in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital at the weekend.
“The party has already written its name in gold in the hearts of the people and will only need to protect its votes at the polls,” he said, stressing that the party would win the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states.

75 SENATORS MAY NOT RETURN IN 2015

About 75 senators, constituting over two-thirds of the Senate, may not return to the National Assembly at the end of next year’s general elections, according to a Daily Trust analysis of attrition rate in the legislature.
The trend from 1999 to date shows that in each election, at least 75 senators lost their bids to return to the 109-member Senate.
This was caused by various factors including falling out of favour with state governors, losing support of political parties, courting the fury of the voters and other reasons.
Ahead of the 2015 elections, 25 senators have already indicated interest to run for governor in their respective states, thereby leaving an opening for new people to fill the slots they occupy.