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Synagogue Church of All Nations founder TB Joshua has been named ‘Yoruba man of the decade’, while Wole Soyinka was named ‘Yoruba man of the year’ and Chief Obafemi Awolowo as ‘Yoruba man of the century.’ by pan-Yoruba media outfit – IrohinOdua, the first Pan- Yoruba news outlet The Editorial Board Chairman of IrohinOdua, Prince Babatunde Adeleke in a statement said the three personalities were selected after ‘a careful consideration of the role each had played in the annals of Yoruba modern history regarding placing the Yoruba on the positive angle of global reckoning.

The Naira on Friday depreciated by N5 to the a dollar as it traded N215 at the Bureau De Change segment of the official market. It also depreciated by N7 at the black market, selling at N217 to the dollar. A dealer, who preferred anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the depreciation might be due to the closure of the Retail Dutch Auction System by the Central Bank of Nigeria. It was closed by CBN on Wednesday. NAN reports that the RDAS is a foreign exchange window at CBN, where the Bureau de Change and commercial banks buy forex. The dealer said the CBN’s decision, which was meant to control speculations, had made other currencies to be scarce. He added that dealers were left to source for forex only at the interbank market unlike in the past when they had three to four segments from where to buy. Besides, the Naira against the pound at the BDCs, exchanged for N332 from the N307 it sold on Monday. It went for N335 at the black market from the N314 i...

One of the policemen shot at the governorship rally of All Progressives Congress, APC, at Okrika, Rivers State, last Tuesday, pleaded with newsmen, yesterday, not to let his mother know he was among the casualties. He said: “I cannot talk to the press; I do not want my mother to see it in the papersthat I was among those shot. She might just die.” Three policemen and a civilian, who gave his name as Fred Ebe, a fisherman, were those at the orthopaedic ward of Braithwaite Memorial Hospital, BMH, when Vanguard visited yesterday. Some members of the medical team of All Progressives Congress, APC, who spoke on condition of anonymity at the hospital, said about 28 casualties were admitted, adding that five were for bullet injuries. The team said about five were policemen, and that one of them died on the day of the attack, adding that the other 23 were visiting the hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, state chairman of APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, has said the party would still hol...

Some residents of Lagos State on Thursday marched to the state’s headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission at Yaba to demand the release of their Permanent Voter Cards. The protesters, who carried placards with inscriptions such as, “INEC deliberately hold our PVCs,” “Non-indigenes of Lagos State refuse to be disenfranchised,” “We want to vote, give us our PVCs,” had first converged on the Yaba Market before marching to INEC’s office. They were received by officials of the commission, led by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Akin Orebiyi .Policemen from some police divisions in the state were also on hand to forestall a breakdown of law and order, as they formed a human shield around the INEC officials. The protesters, in their address, alleged that INEC was being partial in the distribution of the PVCs, adding that some officials of the electoral body had been compromised. The Chairman of Union of Non-indigenes...

An Alfa in the Badagry area of Lagos State,Fatai Afobaje, has been accused of conspiring with some security men in his area to kill his friend, Rafiu Suleiman.Police sources said after the 40-year-old was dead, Afobaje, along with five others, shared his remains among themselves forritual purposes.It was gathered that what remained of the late Kwara State indigene was recovered by men of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday, after an intensive search. The incident happened at Oko Agbonla, Magbon in the Badagry area.PunchMetro gathered that Afobaje and Suleiman had been friends for a long time,and the deceased had given a lot of money to the suspect.Afobaje was said to have conspired with the Chief Security Officer of the area, identified only as Tanko, to kill Suleiman on Friday. Our correspondent learnt that apart from the corpse, the police also recovered a clay pot which contained the fingers of the deceased with a few naira notes.A source said the two men had met in a commercial b...

President Jonathan met with members of the Yoruba Council of Elders at the State House in Marina, Lagos earlier today.

Chairman of the Yoruba Obas Conflict Resolu­tion Committee, Oba Obateru Akinrun­tan, has said Nigerians should not think that for­mer president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and the incumbent, Dr. Good­luck Jonathan, are en­emies. Speaking after a meeting of the committee members in Ibadan yesterday, he disclosed that the duo would resolve their differences. Checks by Daily Sun re­vealed that many Nigerians believed that Obasanjo, who dumped the Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) earlier this week and Jonathan, who is the PDP presidential candidate for this year’s general elections had fallen apart. Akinruntan, the Okoro Agija 1, who is the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in Ondo State, noted that Obasanjo and Jona­than knew how to settle their differences, adding that the committee wanted peaceful conduct of this year’s general elections. “We don’t dabble into poli­tics. They (Obasanjo and Jona­than) have been friends for ages. They would settle them­selves. If you see them fight­ing on p...

A mum who allegedly throttled her 10-year-old son to death because she thought his big ears were ruining his life is facing murder charges in Turkey.Nuray Sacan, 37, had paid for the boy to have cosmetic surgery in Gazi Hospital in the capital Ankara, but when she turned up after the operation she told surgeons she was unhappy with the results. It's claimed she took the youngster to the women's toilet in the hospital in the early hours of the morning and choked him to death with her own scarf.She was caught when she fled the hospital in her car but hit another vehicle. Sacan confessed to the killing while she was being taken back to hospital in an ambulance.The mum told police later: "Both his ears had become even bigger after the surgery.He became very ugly. He would have felt even more ashamed in front of his friends. I did it to save him such embarrassment.I was trying to protect him from a lifetime of pain." She claimed she had paid for the surgery becau...

A total of 158 Women and children abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Katarko village in Yobe have been reunited with their families in Damaturu, Yobe. The victims were released by the sect members after three weeks of captivity. Alhaji Ahmed Goniri, the state Commissioner for Justice and Chairman of the State Committee on Rehabilitation of Victims of Insurgency, said this while addressing newsmen in Damaturu on Thursday. “The victims were screened by security operatives to authenticate their status while government provided them with psychological therapy to ease their trauma,” Goniri said. NAN reports that the victims were released by the insurgents three weeks ago but remained in custody of security agencies to undergo screening to ensure that they were indeed captives. Alhaji Abdurahman Dauda, a displaced person, said his wife and six girls were released by the insurgents. “Two of my boys are still in their custody but, I am of high spirit that they will soo...

Barcelona star Lionel Messi has admitted problems "on and off the pitch" affected his performances in 2014. The 27-year-old still managed to score 41 goals in 46 games in all competitions last term, but failed his own incredibly high standards as Barca ended the season without a trophy. Messi has now acknowledged that injuries and his tax case hurt his form last campaign and he is desperate to show his true self again in 2015. "The truth is that this year I tried to get to my best form as quickly as possible. I knew I was coming off the back of a not very good year, during which I went through a lot of problems on and off the field," the Argentina international told Mundo Leo. "It was a challenge to change the image that I had given out last season and to be the player I had been in previous seasons again. That was my objective and that's how I came out at the start of this season, really up for it." The four-time Ballon d'Or winner then went ...