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Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua Named 2015 Yoruba Man Of The Year

December 13, 2015 Global Author

Controversial Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) has been named as the 2015 ‘Yoruba Man Of The Year’. According to a report in the ‘Nigerian Tribune’, the honour was bestowed on him by the ‘Egbe Omo Oodua Parapo’, a coalition of 35 Pan-Yoruba groups drawn from across the world. . Read More

Ford Begins Assembling Ranger Trucks In Nigeria

November 18, 2015 Global Author

LAGOS, Nigeria, 17 November 2015 - As part of its ambitious expansion in Africa, Ford Motor Company assembled the first Ford Ranger in Nigeria this week. The first Ranger to come off the assembly line was built in an existing facility with Ford's Nigerian partners Coscharis. Ford announced it would produce Ranger trucks in Nigeria in August. "The facility... Read More

EXCLUSIVE! How Sierra Leone Fought Ebola With TB Joshua’s ‘Anointing Water’

November 7, 2015February 17, 2018 Leo Igwe

When Nigerian ‘Prophet’ T.B. Joshua controversially claimed in August 2014 that his ‘Anointing Water’ had the ability to cure the deadly Ebola virus which had ravaged several West African countries, the declaration was met with both doubt and derision. However, a prominent Sierra Leonean politician has sensationally claimed that the contentious arrival of 4,000 bottles of Joshua’s water to her... Read More

Boko Haram massacre: ‘I walked through five villages and each one was empty except for dead bodies’

January 14, 2015 Global Authorafrica, Boko Haram, Genocide, Goodluck, Massacre, Nigeria, war

Nigerians cram into a bus to flee a town in north-east Nigeria following Boko Haram attack on Baga. Photograph: Str/EPA Yusuf Sarkin does not remember much about the massacre that drove him from the town where he was born. The gunfire and the screaming and the frenzy of bodies trying to outrun bullets flying through the sandy streets of Baga… Read More

Boko Haram’s ‘deadliest massacre’ reportedly kills 2,000 in Nigeria

January 14, 2015 Global Authorafrica, Boko Haram, Massacre, Nigeria

Jan. 12, 2015 – A child, at rear, walks through the scene of an explosion in a mobile phone market in Potiskum, Nigeria. Two female suicide bombers targeted the busy marketplace on Sunday, killing 4. Amnesty International called Boko Haram’s recent attacks “the “deadliest massacre” in the history of the violent group, saying as many as 2,000 people have died.… Read More

Why T.B. Joshua was absent at Coroner’s Inquest: SCOAN Building Collapse

November 5, 2014 Global AuthorNigeria, SCoan Building Collapse, TB Joshua

Contrary to expectations, Prophet T.B. Joshua was conspicuously absent as a witness at the sixth sitting of Coroner’s Inquest into the collapsed building at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria. After a two hour delay in proceedings, the General Manager and CEO of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu was the first... Read More

Synagogue Collapsed Building: Contradictions and insufficient Information Mar Coroner’s Inquest

November 5, 2014 Global AuthorNigeria, SCOAN, Synagogue Collapse, TB Joshua

Contradictions and insufficient information from witnesses at the inquest into the collapse of The Synagogue building last month provided strong indications that ascertaining the real cause of the collapse will be a challenging task. At the fifth sitting of the inquest held on Thursday, 30th October, 2014, two major witnesses struggled to convince the court with their submissions on the... Read More

Nigerian student tells of kidnap ordeal after escaping Boko Haram captors

May 11, 2014 Global AuthorBring back our girls, Goodluck Johnathan, Missing girls, Nigeria

More of missing schoolgirls could have escaped but were too frightened because of threats to shoot them, says 19-year-old Women march in protest in Lagos, Nigeria, over the failure to rescue the 273 students from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School who are still held captive. Photograph: EPA One of the teenagers who escaped from Islamist abductors said the kidnapping… Read More

In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock

April 28, 2014 Global AuthorLagos, money, Nigeria, poverty, Wealth

A burgeoning wealthy class is settling into one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities, attracting designers, world-class architects and a growing creative community that seeks to preserve its culture through art and fashion. Courtesy of Janice Robinson The Land Cruisers and Range Rovers began lining up on a steamy Sunday afternoon outside Tafawa Balewa Square long before sunset. The banking tycoon Otunba… Read More

Nigerian President Overhauls Military Leadership

January 16, 2014 Global AuthorAfrica News, Goodluck Jonathan, Major General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Mimimah, Marshal Adesola Nunayon Amosu, Nigeria

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has replaced his chief of defense and the heads of the country's army, navy and air force.A statement Thursday gave no reason for the sweeping overhaul.The move comes as Nigeria struggles with a four-and-a-half-year insurgency by the militant group Boko Haram. A bombing Tuesday in the group's home city of Maiduguri killed at least 43 people. Read More

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