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President Buhari employs blind man as aide 07:47 23/02/2016 Abuja - President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a visually impaired man as his Special Assistant, Punch has reported. According to a statement released by Buhari's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President has tasked Dr. Samuel Ankeli with the responsibility of dealing with persons living with disability on his behalf. Also read: Group accuses Buhari of planning to make northerner CAN head Shehu added that the newly-elected aide had previously led a team that successfully mobilised more than 24 million disabled people across the country to support the All Progress Congress (APC) during the last election. Ankeli is alleged to have been born in Benue State, working within the Government before quitting his job to take up activist work and promote the well-being of those living with disabilities. Read more at Punch

Man confesses to beheading wife in home 13:18 26/02/2016 Lagos - A UK man has confessed to beheading his wife in their home in Cambridgeshire, UK, last year. According to The Independent, Samantha Ho, 39, a bioscientist was found in her home with her head and body separated. A post-mortem revealed that her cause of death was multiple cuts to the neck. Also Read: Man arrested for beheading 3-year-old for a ritual in Ondo Her husband, Timothy Allen, 40, pleaded not guilty to murder when he was arrested in December 2015. A trial was due to begin this week at Cambridge Crown Court but before the hearing, Allen pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility. Prosecution and sentencing was adjourned until March 17th. Read more at The Independent - News24 Nigeria

Egypt jails eight gay men for three years 10:29 02/11/2014 Cairo - An Egyptian court jailed eight men for three years on Saturday over a video prosecutors claimed was of a gay wedding, which went viral on the Internet. Homosexuality is not specifically banned under Egyptian law, so the men, arrested in September, were charged with "inciting debauchery and offending public morality." The court also sentenced the eight to three years of probation once they have served their terms. The video, filmed aboard a Nile riverboat, shows what prosecutors said was a gay wedding ceremony, with two men in the centre kissing, exchanging rings and cutting a cake with their picture on it. The video went viral on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. One of the defendants, prior to their arrest, told a television talk show that the video was recorded during a birthday party. At the last hearing, on 11 October, a spokesperson for the justice ministry's forensi...

Teenage boy jailed for 7 years for raping 14-year-old in Ghana 12:45 26/02/2016 Accra - A teenage driver from Breman Brakwa, Ghana has been sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labour for raping a 14-year-old girl. According to the Ghana News Agency , Elijah Amoaning, 18, pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement and was sentenced on his plea. The complainant, the victim's mother, Abena Afauh lived in the same neighbourhood with Amoaning. She said that she found out that he was having sexual relations with her daughter three months ago, and warned him that if he did not desist she would report him. When he did not listen, Afuah reported him to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) where an investigation was opened. During this time, Afuah claimed that Amoaning seduced her daughter again, resulting in her phoning the police, who then arrested him. Similarly, on Thursday, the chief of Amanfrom in the Greater Accra region, Nii Kwarshie Gbolor, was arr...

Genesis 5:1 - Genesis 9:17 HE CHILDREN OF  Adam and Eve lived to be very old. Their children also lived for several hundreds of years. And so it was that grandsons became grandfathers before their own grandfathers died. Thus several generations lived and worked together. After a while there were many people living in the world.        We do not know very much about those people of long ago except the fact that many of them were very wicked. Among them was one man, however, who, like Abel, tried to please God. This man's name was Enoch. The Bible tells us that Enoch walked with God. We understand that he loved God better than he loved anything else, and talked to God and listened when God talked to him. Finally Enoch became an old man. At last, when he was three hundred and sixty-five years old, one day God took him away from earth to heaven, and he did not die. Enoch had a son whom he named Methuselah. This man lived for nine hundred and sixty-nine y...

preach by the riverside believed his words, and they began to look for the coming of the King from heaven. From day to day they waited, eager to hear the glad news that the King had arrived. They believed that he would set up a kingdom of Judea, like the kingdom of David had been. And they believed that the Jews would be the favored people in this great kingdom.        One day after Jesus had returned from the lonely wilderness, John the Baptist saw him walking along the road near the river. And John cried out, "Behold the Lamb of God, who bears the sin of the world!"        Two young men from Galilee were with John that day and heard him speak. These young men had been disciples, or learners, of John, for they were interested in the teachings of God. When they heard John's words concerning Jesus, the Lamb of God, they turned at once to follow this wonderful person. Perhaps they wondered why John had called him the "Lamb of G...

The most frequent objection to the doctrine of eternal security is that it supposedly allows people to live any way that they want and still be saved. While this may be "technically" true, it is not true in reality. A person who has truly been redeemed by Jesus Christ will not live a life characterized by continuous, willful sin. We must draw a distinction between how a Christian should live and what a person must do in order to receive salvation. The Bible is clear that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone ( John 3:16 ;  Ephesians 2:8-9 ;  John 14:6 ). The moment a person truly believes in Jesus Christ, he or she is saved and secure in that salvation. Salvation is not gained by faith, but then maintained by works. The apostle Paul addresses this issue in  Galatians 3:3  when he asks, "Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?" If we are saved by faith, our salvati...

All people are accountable to God whether or not they have "heard about Him." The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature ( Romans 1:20 ) and in the hearts of people ( Ecclesiastes 3:11 ). The problem is that the human race is sinful; we all reject this knowledge of God and rebel against Him ( Romans 1:21-23 ). If it were not for God's grace, we would be given over to the sinful desires of our hearts, allowing us to discover how useless and miserable life is apart from Him. He does this for those who continually reject Him ( Romans 1:24-32 ). In reality, it is not that some people have not heard about God. Rather, the problem is that they have rejected what they have heard and what is readily seen in nature. Deuteronomy 4:29  proclaims, "But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul." This verse teaches an important principle"everyone who truly seeks aft...