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Two lesbian pastors, Twanna Gause and her partner Vanessa Brown have shocked many after the couple wedded in the New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church in East Orange, New Jersey. The couple who were excited about their union irrespective of people’s thoughts, led by Bishops Levi Richards and Eugene Gathers, both of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries. The bride, Pastor Twanna Gause, dressed in an off-white wedding gown and veil, stepped out of a limousine to meet her partner, Pastor Vanessa Brown, who stood waiting at the altar in a cream-colored long coat. The wedding reception at il Tulipano in Cedar Grove, N.J., was an elegant affair. However, the bride’s father, Rev. Sam Gause Sr., a Pentecostal minister who lives in Atlanta, was strongly against the gay union. “My father would not come here because he does not believe in same-sex marriage. “He told me the devil tricked me into this, and that if we had been married in biblical times, we would have been st...

The fake soldiers were caught with full military fatigues and weapons like cutlasses and locally-made rifles. The Nigerian Army has discovered a fake military base operating in Okpokwu, Benue state on Tuesday, September 26, 2017. The fake soldiers on the base are believed to have been operating a criminal enterprise where they trained high profile criminals. The base's entrance had a signpost with the inscription "Coastal Defence Force 4th Arms. Signal Ship Base. Okpokwu, Benue State Command". They were caught with full military fatigues and weapons like cutlasses and what appeared to be locally-made rifles. Attempts to speak to Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman were unsuccessful as he didn't respond to several phone calls

Nigeria's ambassador to South Africa, Danjuma Sheni, said Nigeria was happy to have received South African support in the fight against Boko Haram. Sheni made the revelation at a media briefing of the third session of the South Africa-Nigeria Defence Committee meeting in Cape Town on Wednesday, September 26. According to South Africa's influential newspaper, Times Live, Sheni disclosed that South Africa had helped Nigeria with military hardware to cushion the effects of terrorism. Delegates from the two countries' armed forces and commercial military stakeholders are said to be meeting this week to discuss military co-operation. It was agreed that South Africa would help Nigeria to set up its own military industrial complex. Secretary for Defence Sam Gulube, who led the South African delegation, said both countries struggled with their defence budgets and procurement programmes. Meanwhile, rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has said that it is investigating the...

Emmanuel, younger brother of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), has asked the army to produce the corpse of the Biafra agitator if he has been killed. Kanu and his parents have not been seen in public since the military raided their Afarakwu residence in Abia state on September 14. Speaking on behalf of the family on Tuesday, Emmanuel, Kanu’s younger brother, said he strongly believed his brother fell into the hands of troops. “It is either they (soldiers) captured him or killed him when they attacked our house. If they captured him, they should release him to the police, and if they have killed him, they should produce the corpse because he was last seen moments before the raid,” he said. However, the army has denied keeping Kanu in its custody. A responder to the call put through to one of the telephone lines which Operation Python Dance released to the public dismissed the notion of Kanu being held. “Kanu is not in our custod...

Three lawmakers have spoken up against the senate president and his deputy for their statements on the IPOB crises - The group accused the senate president and his deputy of endorsing the 'murderous activities' of the proscribed group Three members of the House of Representatives have accused Senate President Bukola Saraki of supporting the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In a statement signed by Aiyu Madaki, Sani Zorro and Mohammed Soba, all members of the House of Representatives, the trio also accused the deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, of supporting the group's activities, Premium Times reports. NAIJ.com gathered that the lawmakers claimed that: “a clear pattern of overt support to the leader of the terrorist group had since been established under the watch of the senate president, for some time now." The trio also accused the deputy senate president of publicly supporting the activities of the group. They said: “In the past his...

Following the army invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s house, chairman of the South-East Governors’ forum has said Igbo leaders will not abandon the separatist. Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum and governor of Ebonyi State, Mr. David Umahi, has said the the leaders of the South-East will not abandon the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu who has been missing since soldiers invaded his house. In an interview with Sun News, Umahi said Igbo leaders will find a way to reach out to him to avoid the group radicalizing like the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists. “Our situation is different from Boko Haram situation. But if anybody believes that we will abandon those boys, it is not true. We will still be appealing to them to come back to their leaders, let us sit down and discuss. Kanu somehow raised awareness on this restructuring issue. We must give it to him. We are not going to throw him away; we will still find a way; we will be appealing to the...

The latest to do so is the Eze Ndigbo of Oyo state, Dr. Alex Anozie The Eze Ndigbo of Oyo state, Dr. Alex Anozie, has described the proscription of the activities of IPOB as a right step in the right direction. Anozie made his stance known in interview with Daily Trust on Tuesday, September 26. He hailed the southeast governors and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo for taking the decision, describing it as a wise decision to save the region from further crisis. IPOB seems to be going into extinction as many Igbos continue to denounce the group. He noted that the Igbo regretted the civil war fought in the past, adding that the region could not afford to go into another war. His words: “It is a wise decision taken by the leadership of Eze Ndigbo and southeast governors. This will douse the tension in the country. “We don’t want war again in Nigeria. We have fought war before and lost millions of lives and property worth billions. We don’t want such a thing in this country...

By Okoye Chinekwu Paul “If I’m re-arrested, this country will burn, I assure you”. That was Nnamdi Kanu’s statement during an exclusive interview with Okey Sampson of The sun newspaper, published on Sept 2, 2017. I have always had a soft spot for Biafra and what it stands for. Having learnt all about the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) while growing up from a father whose love for Biafra knows no bound. He was and is still very much Biafra centric. And since History as a subject was not in our curriculum, I simply grew with a single story of the events surrounding the events of 1967-1970. I was made to believe that the rest of Nigeria ganged up against my people and nearly sent them into extinction. That was after a massive pogrom was carried out against us. I was taught that we are being marginalized and hated by all, except those of our kind. I can still remember how enraged I usually was when I was told tales of how Nigerian troops invaded Biafra land and t...

Azuka Jebose explains that Nnamdi Kanu would have succeeded in his call to arms struggle for the secession of Biafra, if not for his "thuggery", lack of discipline, careless utterances and unchecked rage. Love Nnamdi Kanu or loathe him. You cannot ignore him. He is young, bold and brave. He took a path young politicians of Nigeria, feared or failed to walk on, in our nation’s political turbulence. He came and disturbed our nation's conscience. He was the proverbial gunpowder waiting to explode. Nnamdi exploded to national prominence with his call for a separate entity from Nigeria, threatening death and destruction to his once nation which in later years, he branded a “zoo”. Nnamdi was once a Nigerian patriot.  But for his “thuggery”, lack of discipline, careless utterances and unchecked rage, Nnamdi Kanu would have succeeded in his call to arms struggle for the secession of Biafra. Young Nigerians from  East, West, North, South, paid attention ...

Al Jazeera 10 hours ago Syria is considering granting its minority Kurdish population further autonomy for the first time, a government official has said. Walid Muallem, Syria's foreign minister, said his country is open to the idea of greater powers for the country's Kurds, who accounted for 15 percent of the country's population prior to the Syrian Civil War. Once the military campaign of President Bashar al-Assad's government against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group operating in Syria is over, discussions can begin, he said. "[Syrian Kurds] want a form of autonomy within the framework of the borders of the state," Muaellem said on Tuesday, according to SANA, the Syrian state news agency. "This is negotiable and can be the subject of dialogue." Kurdish-led authorities held an election on Friday in northern Syria, marking the beginning of a three-stage process to set up new systems of governance in order to strengthen the...

Wall Street Journal: World News 10 hours ago WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Spain “should be united,” wading into a situation that his spokeswoman on Monday called an internal matter. “Spain is a great country and it should be united,” he said during a news conference Tuesday at the White House with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Drop a Comment.

CBC: World News 8 hours ago The days of Twitter limiting messages to 140 characters — a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006 — may be numbered. Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin a test with a random sample of users allowing them to send tweets that are as long as 280 characters, double the existing cap, in most languages around the world. The San Francisco-based company has stood by its short messages as a defining characteristic — like chirps from a bird, which is the company logo — even as users found ways around the limit, such as posting photos of text. In a blog post on Tuesday, Twitter said its emphasis on brevity would never change but that the company wondered whether people could express themselves easily enough on the service, and wondered whether that was hurting its popularity. ...

CNN.com: World 2 hours ago Photos showed Yee, who has been jailed twice in native Singapore for critical views on race and religion, leaving a US immigration facility in downtown Chicago with a friend and his belongings stuffed in a plastic bag. A photo posted on his Facebook page was captioned: "Amos Yee is now a free man." "I'm kind of stunned right now," he told the Chicago Tribune. "It's very surreal." Lee came to the United States in December under the visa waiver program and requested asylum, which was granted in March by Immigration Judge Samuel Cole. Cole described Yee as a "young political dissident," saying "his prosecution, detention and general maltreatment at the hands of Singapore authorities constitute persecution on account of Yee's political opinions." The Department of Homeland Security, which opposed his asylum application, appealed the judge's decision, however the Board of Immigration Appeals sa...

NBC News: World News 2 days ago The U.S. military said it killed 17 ISIS militants with six precision airstrikes in Libya, the first publicly announced American bombing in the country since President Donald Trump took office. The attacks targeted a desert camp around 150 miles southeast of Sirte, a city held by ISIS until December. "The camp was used by ISIS to move fighters in and out of the country, stockpile weapons and equipment, and to plot and conduct attacks," the U.S. military said in a statement. The airstrikes occurred Friday but weren't announced until Sunday. America's last known strike on Libya was Jan. 19, one day before Trump's inauguration. That attack was sanctioned by President Barack Obama. It also targeted ISIS camps southwest of Sirte and killed "several dozen" militants. Libya has fallen into chaos since the U.S.-backed uprising that overthrew Moammar Gadhafi. Three rival governments currently lay claim to power, each of them ...

BBC News: World an hour ago Large numbers of people have taken part in a landmark vote on independence for Iraq's Kurdistan region, amid growing opposition both at home and abroad. Votes are still being counted, with a big "yes" victory expected. Kurds say it will give them a mandate to negotiate secession, but Iraq's PM denounced it as "unconstitutional". Neighbours Turkey and Iran, fearing separatist unrest in their own Kurdish minorities, threatened to close borders and impose sanctions on oil exports. The referendum passed off peacefully across the three provinces that make up the region, and turnout was estimated at about 72%, according to the electoral commission. There were scenes of celebration as the polls closed in the regional capital, Irbil, and in the disputed city of Kirkuk, where a curfew was imposed on Monday night amid fears of unrest. "It's a day of celebration today. That's why I've put on our traditional ...

The Atlantic: International News 2 hours ago When Ri Yong Ho, the foreign minister of North Korea, called U.S. President Donald Trump’s fiery speech at the United Nations a “declaration of war” on Monday morning, the phrase ricocheted across Twitter. Within roughly an hour, Politico, The Independent, The New York Times, Business Insider, and even Gizmodo featured Ri’s words in their headline. Bloomberg Markets tweeted the quote, followed by the terse sentence “stocks dropped,” and a menacing photo of what looked like a precipitous decline in the S&P 500 (but which was really just a roughly 0.4 percent fall). As it turns out, though, North Korean officials refer to actions as a declarations of war roughly as often as Trump claims that CNN is fake news. In July 2016, the United States sanctioned Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, and 10 other officials for human rights abuses. North Korea’s official news agency called the sanctions a ...

The Sydney Morning Herald: World 34 minutes ago The dogs are barking – mad. North Korea emerged from Donald Trump's weekend twitterstorm, with a Monday threat of its own. Pyongyang said it was ready to shoot down US military aircraft, even before they might enter its airspace. It's scary stuff. As these guys hurl insults and abuse at each other the lives of millions and the fate of nations are at stake, and the region and the world can't be sure how serious they are. Is each leader driven by thin-skinned vanity? Does Armageddon beckon? You will now receive updates from Breaking News Alert Breaking News Alert Get the latest news and updates emailed straight to your inbox. Or if we're observing a highly-orchestrated pissing contest by wildcard leaders, while more sober, more serious minds work behind the scenes to defuse the crisis? Consider the latest abuse and insults: Trump, winding up supporters at a Friday evening rally in Alabama: "[Kim Jong-un] shoul...

Al Jazeera 4 days ago The leader of Yemen's Houthi group has marked with a defiant speech the eve of the third anniversary of the day his fighters stormed into the capital Sanaa. Appearing on the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV on Wednesday, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi criticised the Saudi-led coalition opposing his fighters, who control large expanses of territory and took Sanaa on what they consider the "September 21 revolution". Houthi accused the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE of seeking to divide Yemen by working with local groups and the internationally recognised government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to seize control of territory controlled by his fighters. "The Emiratis are the front for the Americans," Houthi said. "And today they are stealing Yemen’s natural gas, despite the suffering of the Yemeni people. "There are a lot of islands today which have been handed over by the foreign agents and traitors of this country to the Emiratis, and they made base...

Naji: Business and Economy 12 days ago The Nigerian Naira on Wednesday, September 6, retained its strengthened rate at the parallel market against Dollar and Pound. Naira slips against Euro at parallel market Traders said that activities at the market was yet to resume fully as most traders were yet to come come back from the Sallah break. Last week the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) raised the total intervention for the week to 547 million dollars as against 195 million dollars offered the previous week. Can N1 ever become $1 again at Forex Market? Watch Nigerians respond to this question:

International Business Times: World News 7 hours ago An American citizen, Danny Porsche, who worked for Safer, an oil company in Sanaa, Yemen, has been abducted by a Houthi group as he was driving on the streets on Monday, according to initial local reports. Yemeni columnist Muhammed Jumeh tweeted stating that the Houthi rebels had kidnapped a person of American nationality named Danny Porsche. It also added that his family has called for his release. According to another local report from SicuroIMS Arabia, Porsche had converted to Islam and was married to an Ethiopian woman, whose name is not immediately known. No other details have been revealed regarding the identity of Porsche or how he was kidnapped. Porsche was driving his children to school when the incident took place, a couple of his colleagues told Reuters. The U.S. Embassy to Yemen was unable to confirm or deny the report. It is unclear as to why he is being held. There have not been any reports of a ransom demand. The...

•U.S. President Donald Trump The United States Government has made it clear that it does not consider the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist organisation, a report this morning in SUNDAY PUNCH said. The paper quoted the spokesman for the American Embassy in Nigeria, Russell Brooks, as telling it on Friday that the U.S. Government does not view IPOB as a terrorist group. Brooks reportedly said in an e-mail response to a question: “The United States Government is strongly committed to Nigeria’s unity.  Important political and economic issues affecting the Nigerian people, such as the allocation of resources, are worthwhile topics for respectful debate in a democracy. “Within the context of unity, we encourage all Nigerians to support a de-escalation of tensions and peaceful resolution of grievances. The Indigenous People of Biafra is not a terrorist organisation under US law.” SUNDAY PUNCH recalled: “Last week, the Federal High Cou...

Esquire: News & Politics an hour ago The people of Puerto Rico are not just trying to recover from the property damage brought by Hurricane Maria, they’re fighting to survive. At least 10 people have been confirmed dead following the first Category 4 hurricane to hit the island in 80 years. The number of fatalities will surely rise as communications are restored on the island that received more than 38 inches of rain by Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Esquire spoke to someone in Puerto Rico hours before the Hurricane hit, but we were unable to reach anyone on the island over the weekend. For the 3.4 million citizens of Puerto Rico, power is out, cell service is nonexistent, hospitals are running out of fuel for backup generators, a major dam is on the brink of collapsing, and the island is not yet receiving the full amount of aid it needs. Puerto Rico can’t handle this alone. The island has a declining econo...

USA Today: World Top Stories 27 minutes ago North Korea's foreign minister said Monday that President Trump has declared war on the reclusive nation and that Pyongyang has the right to shoot down U.S. military aircraft. "Since the United States declared war on our country, we have every right to take counter measures," Ri Yong Ho told the media as he was leaving the United Nations. "Including shooting down U.S. strategic bombers, even when they are not yet inside the airspace border of our country." Pentagon spokesman Col. Robert Manning quickly responded that "If North Korea does not stop their provocative actions, you know, we will make sure that we provide options to the president to deal with North Korea." The comments were the latest in a perilous war of words and shows of force between the two nations. U.S. bombers have flown missions close to North Korea in recent days, some of them the farthest north of the demilitarized zone for U.S. pla...