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Pastor Creflo Dollar told his congregation yesterday that allegations made in a police report that he punched and choked his 15-year-old daughter, are nothing but “exaggeration and sensationalism.” “I will say this emphatically: I should have never been arrested,” he said in his first public appearance after police charged him with misdemeanor counts of simple battery. The pastor got an ...

By Saharareporters, New York Armed with placards, several young protesters sang pro-masses and anti-oppression songs, in a march in Lagos for preparatory to the anniversary of the memorable June 12 1993 elections which had been adjudged the freest, fairest and most credible election in the history of Nigeria. Scroll down for photos… Youths marched from Allen Junction in Ikeja to ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, on Monday said Nigeria does not need deployment of foreign troops to crush the activities of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram in the country. Ashiru insisted that Nigeria has not lost control of the security situation in the north. Speaking in Abuja at the opening of a two –day Regional Policy Seminar ...

(Premium Times) – In sheer size and brazenness, details of the bribery deal and the sting operation by the State Security Service (SSS) would rate amongst some of the most startling in Nigeria’s history. Facing an army of television cameramen, and an anxious public on April 24, Farouk Lawan, the flamboyant House of Representatives’ veteran, who led an audacious investigation ...