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The General Overseer of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo has warned the federal and state governments against attempt to compel secondary school students of Christian backgrounds to offer Islamic Studies. Oyedepo gave the warning immediately after an emergency meeting held by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, in Lagos on Thursday. Addressing newsmen at the PFN Headquarters in Isolo, Lagos, Oyedepo said government had no right to force subjects on anybody. He added that by stopping Christian Religion Studies CRS, at the Senior Secondary School level, it automatically meant that it would not be embraced at the tertiary institutions. He said, “You cannot force our students to study Islamic Studies or Arabic Studies.”

Cristiano Ronaldo has posed for the first time with set of twins. The Real Madrid superstar confirmed the birth of the two boys via a surrogate on Wednesday, just hours after Portugal were eliminated from this year’s FIFA Confederations Cup by Chile. Ronaldo will be allowed to miss their third-place play-off against either Germany of Mexico, so he can return home to his young family. “I was in the service of the National Team, as it always happens, body and soul, even though I knew my two sons were born. “Unfortunately, we have not been able to achieve the main sporting objective we wanted, but I am sure we will continue to give the Portuguese joy. “The President of the Portuguese Football Federation and the National Selector had an attitude today that sensitized me and I will not forget. “I am very happy to finally be able to be with my children for the first time,” the 32-year-old wrote on Facebook. Ronaldo already has a seven-year-old son, Cristiano Ron...

Enzo Zidane, the son of Real Madrid manager Zinedine, has signed a three-year deal with Alaves. The 22-year-old midfielder has opted to leave the Santiago Bernabeu, after struggling to make an impact with the La Liga and European champions. Enzo joined Real in 2004, following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, who has played for and managed Los Blancos He was handed a first-team debut in a Copa del Rey clash with Cultural Leonesa in November 2016 and scored in the game. Alaves posted on their official website: “Deportivo Alaves wants to welcome Enzo Zidane and wishes him the best of luck for the new season. Welcome, Enzo!” Reports in Spain suggest that Real have included a buy-back clause in the deal.

KCee has petitioned the Economic Financial and Crimes Commission (EFCC), to look into Ray HushPuppi’s dealings and investigate how he makes his money. This is the latest in the drama ensuing between HushPuppi and rappers, Phyno and Ice Prince. HushPuppi had called Phyno and Ice Prince hypocrites in a Snapchat post on Wednesday, saying they both purchased fake luxury watches. “If you don’t want people to patronize pirated copy of your work, don’t patronize pirated copy of other’s work.#Hypocrites,” he wrote on his social media. KCee has now leapt to the defenseof his colleagues, and wrote: “Dear Hushpuppi, We are musicians not paupers. Who exactly do you think you are to open your mouth and insult a musician that sweats day and night in the studio?“You have no credibility, no known source of income and yet you come on social media to attack hard working Nigerian musicians with traceable wealth. “Let’s face it, I think we’ve had enough of this nonsense and...

Superstar artist, Ice Prince Zamani, on Thursday said artists in the country deserve kudos for making waves and giving Nigerian music more global recognition. Ice Price, whose real name is Panshak Zamani – the brain behind the evergreen hit song “Oleku“ – told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that growth in the Nigerian music industry had encouraged acceptability globally. He made mention of Wizkid’s winning of the highly coveted “Best International Act: Africa” at the 2017 BET Awards. “One can see that Nigerian artistes themselves have made efforts at stepping up their game and making it more acceptable internationally. “So much impact – like Wizkid is currently the Best African Act at the just concluded BET Awards in America, which just gives every other person hope. “It is amazing how fast the Nigerian music industry has evolved these past years. “I’m really grateful to everybody that has worked toward opening the doors; from the likes...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (Youth Wing) has called on the Federal Government to probe the attack in the building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun-Egbe , Lagos and the recent incident on House on the Rock in Abuja. The organisation on Thursday said it had uncovered, through intelligence reports, desperate plans at official quarters to silence Christianity. The national President of YOWICAN, Mr Daniel David Kadzai, raised the alarm during press conference in Abuja saying that classified intelligence available to them confirm a gang-up to ‘submerge, subdue and possibly wipe-out christianity from Nigeria.’ The text of the press conference reads: “This intelligence further indicates that attacks such as the mystifying collapse of a major building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun Egbe, Lagos State on the 12th of September 2014, the aberrant fire of the House on the Rock Church in Abuja on the 25th of June, 2017, the unobtrusive removal of ...

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said yesterday, it had arrested the Director General of the National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, Professor (Mrs) Lucy Jumeyi Ogbadu, for her alleged involvement in criminal conspiracy and diversion of public funds to the tune of N23 million. According to the commission, its operatives arrested Prof Ogbadu since Wednesday, June 28 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following her alleged linkage with the Bayelsa State Director of Bioresources Development Centre, Mr. Josiah Habu who is being investigated by the agency in a case of fraudulent diversion of the sum of N75 million belonging to the body. A statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren and made available to Vanguard last night, said that Prof Ogbadu received the sum of N23 million through a bank account belonging to the wife of Habu, Esther, a development she allegedly admitted in a voluntary statement made to the EFCC. The statement...

Nigerian-born midfielder Tosin Kehinde is in line to feature in the UEFA Champions League in the 2017-2018 campaign. Manchester United will be competing in Europe's flagship club competition in the forthcoming season after winning the Europa League in May. Kehinde can be registered on Manchester United's List B as he officially joined the club on July 1, 2014, according to the official website of the Old Trafford outfit. A player may be registered on List B if he is born on or after 1 January 1996 and has been eligible to play for the club concerned for any uninterrupted period of two years since his 15th birthday by the time he is registered with UEFA. Kehinde made five appearances for Manchester United in the UEFA Youth League in 2015, and scored against Wolfsburg in the group stage of the competition. Blessed with vision, technique and passing ability, the 19-year-old featured 17 times for the Reserve Team of Manchester United in the Premier League 2 last season.

Gmail is free, in part because Google has always scanned the contents of users’ inbox's in order to serve targeted ads. It’s a sleazy business model, but Google certainly isn’t alone: Most other free email services (and, hi, social media platforms) do the same thing. But Google has finally decided to end the practice of scanning emails for advertising, according to a blog post published Friday by Google Cloud senior vice president Diane Greene. The search giant’s stated reason for the change is simple: Google Cloud sells a collection of enterprise office products, called GSuite, and Greene told Bloomberg that paying customers were concerned that Google was mining their data for advertising. Even though Google has only scanned the emails of free Gmail accounts (and not those belonging to paying customers) the change needed to be made in order to promote trust. “Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change,” w...

A shark has been killed after it suffered injuries when it was caught and brought to shore in Magaluf. The 8ft shark is said to have terrified holidaymakers at three beaches along the coast of the resort before it was caught. But it had to be put down because of the nature of its injuries. Video footage showed the shark on the sand at Can Pastilla beacha, surrounded by crowds of holidaymakers either side of an area reserved for lifeguards and animal experts from Palma Aquarium. It was carried off the beach by the experts called in to inspect it, helped by lifeguards and local police. Tourists and locals could be seen following behind, taking pictures on their mobile phones and selfies of themselves by the injured shark, before it was put into a Palma Aquarium emergency rescue vehicle. One of the aquarium employees said it had suffered ‘irreversible damage’. He said: ‘After a close examination by experts, a hook was found inside its mouth which had caused it irreversibl...

Meg Hillier MP has said Jose Mourinho should face a tax investigation in the UK, after Spanish prosecutors filed a fraud claim against the Manchester United manager last week. Mourinho has already denied the allegations of tax evasion, but a judge in Madrid will decide if the case should go to court. The offence could carry a prison sentence of two to six years and a fine of up to £17.4million It is alleged that Mourinho defrauded the Spanish tax authorities of £2.9m during his spell in charge of Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013. Meg Hillier MP, who is the recent chairwoman of the public accounts select committee, believes the former Chelsea boss should also be investigated in the UK to see if there is evidence of any wrongdoing here. “Given the clear progress from the Spanish authorities, it’s vital that HMRC is taking the same level of interest,” Hillier told The Sunday Times.

Rev. Kennedy Asigime, a cleric in the N3 billion House on the Rock Church in Abuja, which was gutted by fire on Sunday said that the Nigerian fire-fighters came with “the same ladder used by Electric Distribution Companies,”and with no water. Rev. Kennedy Asigime, a cleric in the church, told newsmen that there were no casualties as members of the church had gone home at the time of the event. “The most unfortunate thing is the fact that we have a fire service that is not properly equipped to help in such situations. “We have no idea what caused the fire, whether it is an electrical fault or not, nobody knows for now. Fire fighters struggling to quench the fire that gutted the House on the Rock at Airport Road in Abuja Sunday “This whole building cost about N3 billion and a very substantial part of the building has been totally destroyed. “We cannot be sure of what is left standing now, we need to do an integrity test to know if the whole building is going to be knocked down,’’ A...