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Alleluia Ministries pastor, Alph Lukau, who is said to have resurrected a man who was in a coffin at the weekend, has said he regrets the incident as the man was already alive when he arrived at the church. While speaking during a radio interview on Wednesday evening, Lukau said he was busy with a sermon on Sunday when he was interrupted and told that a person in a coffin had been brought to the church. “Before entering the premises of the church, the coffin began to shake, meaning the person was alive. I am really sorry for the misrepresentation of facts, the man was not dead and has never been in the mortuary as we earlier said,” Lukau explained. When asked by the host why the man had been brought to the church in the first place, Lukau said: “I am not sure if I can make a statement that he was brought to me. We are the house of God and I’m just a pastor serving in the house of the Lord. But I am sorry that we didn’t tell people the truth in the first place”, he added. L

No fewer than 8,500 persons Illegally employed into the Delta State Civil Service in 2015 have been uncovered by the state government, including 2,000 others parading falsified credentials. DAILY POST exclusively gathered that they were alleged to have been employed by some aides to the immediate past governor of the state, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, after allegedly collecting between N200,000 to N300,000 from the unsuspecting job seekers, while the female ones were allegedly sexually exploited before they were given the job. But Sunny Areh, former aide to Uduaghan, in swift reaction, described the allegations as untrue, adding that “no aide collected money from anyone or job seekers. There was also no sexual intercourse before giving out jobs to female job seekers. Well since there is review, it’s settled”. But the state Head of Service, (HOS), Mr Reginald Bayoko, in a statement issued and signed, a copy of which was made available to newsmen in Asaba, confirmed that the Okowa-le

Atiku Abubakar The first part of the 2019 general elections held last week as Nigerians trooped out to vote their presidential, senatorial and House of Representatives candidates across the country. The second part of the election, in which Nigerians are expected to vote their governorship and states’ Houses of Assembly candidates, is scheduled for next week. The next electoral contest scheduled for March 9 would bring to an end several months of intrigues, name-calling, propaganda, networking and alliance formation across party lines. Politicians on their part adopted different slogans, slangs and street lingo to connect with the people and canvass support. These electioneering activities have informed as much as they have entertained Nigerians. Many Nigerians would not forget in a hurry some of the powerful imageries that characterised electioneering and party politics in this election. PREMIUM TIMES highlights some of the dominant imageries: 1. “O to ge” The “ O to ge

By Sam Eyoboka & Olayinka Latona GENERAL Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye who turned 77 years old on Saturday dropped a bombshell Sunday, saying that the Sunday morning thanksgiving at the Redemption Camp could have been a memorial service, suggesting he may have escaped death recently. Pastor Adeboye Without giving details, the Ifewara, Osun State-born Applied Mathematician who worked as a mathematics lecturer at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin before heeding the call into the ministry as a full time preacher, announced to an ecstatic crowd of worshippers that but for God he would not have been with them. “But for God, I won’t be alive today! But for God, this would have been a memorial service. Can somebody help shout Halelujah! Don’t try to find out the details, just keep on praising God,” the General Overseer stated, saying that a fellow General Overseer visited him not too long ago and was giving testimonies of G

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it won’t be bothered about who becomes the president of Nigeria from May 29, 2019, but its focus is on Biafra restoration. The group urged politicians, artisans, traders, academics, professionals, businessmen and women in Biafraland and all over the world to support IPOB in its quest for Biafra liberation, otherwise, it’s members, children and generations unborn would be doomed and enslaved in Nigeria. The Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said that INEC, and the army, police, DSS and other security agencies were regular instruments used by the Nigerian government to disenfranchise the citizens in elections. “With or without your votes, soldiers and police in Nigeria uniforms, including INEC will continue to rig elections and publicly disenfranchise Biafrans. A new equation has been successfully introduced which is the use of INEC collation officers to allocate figures to their preferred candidates under

Manchester City are facing a Champions League ban, after German magazine, Der Spiegel leaked a new tranche of emails. The messages provide more detail of how City allegedly circumnavigated UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules. The Premier League champions also look as though they are facing another FA inquiry, after it was alleged that they misled the FA over the third-party ownership of a player, Bruno Zuculini. But the most serious outcome for City would be a Champions League ban, which would affect their ability to recruit players and to balance their books without additional funding from their owner, Sheik Mansour, which is not allowed by UEFA rules. City are already being investigated by UEFA, after leaked emails last November appeared to show how they used direct funding from Abu Dhabi United Group, the investment fund owned by Sheik Mansour to supplement sponsorship deals. UEFA’s rules place a strict limit on the cash an owner can inject directly into a club to prevent

Everything you need to live well The Chinese government has encouraged filmmakers to turn the country into a “strong film power” like the U.S. by 2035 and called for the production of 100 movies a year that each earn more than RMB100 million ($15 million, ₦5.3 billion). The targets were set by the executive deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department and director of the National Film Bureau, Wang Xiaohui, at the first nationwide industry symposium since the former agency took jurisdiction over the latter. As reported by Variety, Government officials, film scholars, representatives of major film companies and industry associations gathered in Beijing on Wednesday for a symposium that set the tone for the future development of China’s industry with the propaganda bureau in the driver’s seat. The names of leaders such as directors Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Ning Hao, Guan Hu, and Huang Jianxin, as well as actors Zhang Ziyi, Wu Jing, and Chen Daoming, were on the list of