Churches struck down by foreclosures
Reuters - By the time thousands of parishioners stream into the 3,000-seat Ebenezer AME Church on Easter Sunday, church leaders hope to have something else to celebrate: financial revival. The congregation, one of America’s largest, has been scrambling to raise funds to save the arena-sized sanctuary from potential foreclosure. To that end, it has enlisted national leaders, such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Harvard Law School’s Charles Ogletree, who was President Barack Obama’s law professor.
Stakeholders want professional as Petroleum minister
FOLLOWING the successful screening of ministerial nominees by the National Assembly, Association of Petroleum Industry Professionals, APIP, has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint a knowledgeable industry professionals to lead Petroleum Ministry.
Saraki tasks religious leaders on unity
Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has charged religious leaders to use their sacred position to promote acts that will unite us as a country and de-emphasize those things capable of dividing us.
Anambra flood victims get N30m relief materials
THE Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has taken delivery of relief materials estimated at N30 million for distribution to victims of flood and other disasters in Ihiala, Ekwusigo and Oyi Local Government areas of the state.
Hospital moves to tackle corruption
AN Anti-Corruption and Transparency Monitoring Unit, ACTU, has been inaugurated by the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Enugu, FNHE, in line with the directive of Federal Government to all its parastatals.
NYSC assures on corps members’ safety
DISTURBED by the increasing cases of corps members dying during their national assignment, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig. General Maharzu Tsiga has said that adequate security measures have been put in place to ensure that corps members are protected any where they are serving in the country.
