Boko Haram leader, Shekau is critically ill and wants prayers from Nigerians - Borno Pastor

 

Desmond Yunana, a reverend of Anglican Church Nigeria based in Borno state in his Sunday sermon disclosed that Boko Haram factional leader Abubakar Sheaku is critically ill and wants prayer from Nigerians.

 

In the sermon delivered after a captured teenage fighter, Mohammed Adam disclosed that Shekau can no longer walk effectively, Yunana said he received a revelation on the health challenges Shekau is currently facing. 

 

The Cable reported that he added that the Boko Haram leader needs prayers from both Christian and Muslims residents of Maiduguri and is ready to ask for forgiveness.

Man narrates how a policeman tried searching him while flouting Coronavirus rules

 

A Nigerian man has narrated how a policeman allegedly tried searching him while flouting Coronavirus rules. 

 

According to @Josh_IK, he told the police officer to use a face mask and hand sanitizer. He added that after he called to report the incident, he was queried for not reporting it while it was happening. 

 

He tweeted; 

 

A policeman just asked me to alight from my ride, none of the animals had their face mask on and the fool tried to touch my pocket all in the name of searching and I asked him to use a face mask and hand sanitizer before he can get close to me. I no go gree

Free and omw to my destination. These rogues are back, same animals different uniforms.

I called this number to ask why the officers are making contacts with people without face mask and the man asked why I didn't call the number while they were searching me. lol. I get time today.

Pope Francis’ personal doctor dies from COVID-19

 

Fabrizio Soccorsi, the personal doctor of Pope Francis has died from COVID-19 complications.

 

Catholic News Agency reported that the 78-year-old physician was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for a previous health issue on December 26.  While he was dealing with an “oncological pathology,” COVID was the cause of death, the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported.

 

In August 2015, Pope Francis named him his personal physician after not renewing the term of papal doctor Patrizio Polisca, who was also head of the Vatican’s healthcare services.

 

Since the pontificate of St. Pope John Paul II, the two positions had been tied together, but Pope Francis diverged from this custom by choosing Soccorsi, a doctor from outside the Vatican.

 

The Pope recently declared it was within Catholic doctrine, and actually an ethical obligation, to receive vaccination against COVID and said he would be receiving his first dose shortly.

 

“It is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process,” the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a statement approved by Francis in December.

Davido's newly signed artiste and DMW First lady, Liya among those arrested at Lagos club (photos)

 

Davido's signee/DMW's first lady, Liya was pictured among club goers arrested in Lagos for flouting the COVID-19 rules. 

 

Recall that the police in Lagos State early Saturday raided a nightclub and arrested many fun seekers. Clubbing has been suspended in the state as Lagos joins the rest of Nigeria to check the spread of COVID-19.

 

 

Lagos police spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi who confirmed the arrest of the clubgoers said Commissioner of police, Hammed Odumosu personally led his team on the midnight raid. He identified the club raided as Lounge 38, Bode Thomas, Surulere. 

 

 

A quick check revealed that a female artiste who was recently signed to DMW by Davido, was among those arrested. 

 

Here are photos below; 

 

 

 

An overlooked reason for paternity fraud is husbands failing to meet their wives sexual needs - Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri believes that one of the reasons for paternity fraud is men not satisfying their wives sexually. He shared this thought on his Twitter handle.

''An overlooked reason for paternity fraud is husbands failing to meet their wives sexual needs. Even Scripture warns men not to deprive their wives of intercourse, lest satan tempt them (1 Cor 7:5). Women need love. Ignore this at your own peril''he tweeted

 

Trump and Trump related contents also banned on other social media platforms

 

More social media platforms have taken steps to ensure that their pages are Trump-free, days after he was accused of inciting an insurrection at US Capitol. 

 

Recall that Twitter and Facebook/Instagram had earlier banned him from using their platforms after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

 

More companies have taken steps to block/restrict Trump and/or Trump content. Some of these platforms include; Pinterest (for #StoptheSteal items), Shopify (for MAGA and other related merch), Twitch (no more Trump live streams), Snapchat (gone is Trump's account), Reddit (the r/The_Donald thread is dead) and even TikTok (which Trump was trying to ban himself). 

 

At the moment, Parler (a social networking site/app that caters to the extreme right) is the only social media platform Donald Trump might have access to.

 

TMZ reported that Google already nixed it entirely (meaning you can't download it anymore if you're an Android user), but Apple hasn't done so yet. On Friday January 8, they gave Parler a 24-hour deadline to provide stricter guidelines about regulating posts, but it is still available as of now.

 

Wagner College also revokes honorary degree awarded to President Trump

Wagner College, a private school in the New York borough of Staten Island has revoked an honorary degree given to President Donald Trump. 

 

This is coming after Lehigh University, a private school in Pennsylvania also revoked same degree awarded to Trump in 1988. 

 

Individuals including cabinet secretaries and institutions have distanced themselves from Trump since his supporters vandalized the Capitol and disrupted Congress during Wednesday’s certification of the Electoral College count. A committee of the Lehigh’s board of trustees voted to strip the degree on Thursday January 7, followed by the full board on Friday January 8 according to a statement from the school 

 

Wagner’s trustees on the other hand, met in a special session to review the honorary degree granted to Trump in 2004 and voted to rescind it. A statement shared by the school read; 

 

“The Wagner College Board of Trustees met in a special session to review the honorary degree granted to Donald J. Trump in 2004. Today, the board voted to rescind that degree.”

 

 

Trump spoke at the school’s graduation that year, and appeared at the school with First Lady Melania Trump who was his fiancee at that time. The president was at the height of his fame with the first season of “The Apprentice" and was well-received. 

 

Trump has also been awarded degrees from Liberty University, the school whose commencement he spoke at in 2017, and Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, which rescinded the degree in 2015 amid a uproar over Trump’s comments about banning Muslims from entering the U.S.