Maryam Sanda to die by hanging for killing husband

    Abuja High Court yesterday, sentenced Maryam Sanda to death by hanging for the murder of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. In his judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, held that the prosecution established circumstantial evidence coupled with the testimony of Sanda and statement to the police that she “fatally” stabbed her husband dead in Abuja on November 19, 2017.

Lagos State Government Bans Okada And Tricycle Riders In 15 LGs/LCDAs

    The Lagos State Government has banned okada and tricycle riders in six Local Governments and nine Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, of the state. The councils are:
Apapa LG,
Apapa Iganmu LCDA,
Lagos Mainland LG ,
Yaba LCDA,
Surulere LG,
Itire-Ikate, LCDA,
Coker-Aguda LCDAs,
Ikeja LG, Onigbongbo LCDAs,
 Ojodu LCDAs,
Eti-Osa LG,
Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA,
Iru/Victoria Island LCDAs,
Lagos Island LG
 Lagos Island East LCDA.

Kobe Bryant to be inducted into Hall of Fame in 2020 class

    Kobe Bryant will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, bypassing the normal election process following the helicopter crash that claimed his and his daughter's lives, as well as seven others, in California on Sunday.

  The Athletic's Shams Charania reported the news. When asked to confirm, a spokeswoman for the Hall of Fame provided a statement that did not address whether or not the institution will forego the traditional induction process for Bryant.  However, Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo did make it sound as though Bryant's induction is a foregone conclusion.

Simi Esiri confirmed the end of their five-year-old marriage with Dr Sid

    Simi Esiri, the estranged wife of Nigerian singer, Sidney Esiri also known as Dr Sid, has confirmed the end of their five-year-old marriage that produced two children. Simi took to her Instagram page  and confirmed they are heading for a divorce and moving forward as co-parents.

Security system can’t tackle terrorism and killings- Lawan

 

    Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Monday dismissed the country’s security architecture as ineffective.

   To the senator, it is time to rejig the set up because of the resurgence of insecurity, criminality and killings across the country. “The security system has not been working efficiently and effectively, we have to do something about it,” Lawan told reporters in Abuja on Monday ahead of today’s resumption of senators from their end of year recess.

    He spoke against the backdrop of a myriad of security challenges at the weekend. On Sunday night, gunmen killed 15 people in Plateau State. Also on Sunday night in Kaduna, gunmen suspected to be kidnappers attacked a vehicle carrying travellers after they alighted from a train at Raigasa station.

Topic: Settling Our Doubts [Andrew Wommack Devotional 28 January 2020]

Topic: Settling Our Doubts [Andrew Wommack Devotional 28 January 2020]
John 1:46, “And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.”

Text: John 1:43-51

Nathanael suffered from a skepticism that afflicts many people today.

However, it is to his credit that he came to the Lord and gave Him a chance to prove who He was.

We can only speculate what it was that Jesus saw Nathanael doing under that fig tree (v. 50), but it is very clear that it was something that proved beyond a doubt that Jesus was the Christ.

Jesus didn’t rebuke Nathanael for his doubts, instead he removed them. The Lord has an answer for every doubt that we have. We need to be without guile before the Lord as Nathanael was (v. 47) and come to Him when we are plagued with doubts instead of running from Him or avoiding Him.

Topic: Jesus Is Our Comforter [Billy Graham Devotional 28 January 2020]

Topic: Jesus Is Our Comforter [Billy Graham Devotional 28 January 2020]

. . . our Lord Jesus Christ . . . which hath loved us . . . comfort your hearts . . . — 2 Thessalonians 2:16,17

Christ is the answer to sorrow. When Harry Lauder, the great Scottish comedian, received word that his son had been killed in France, he said, “In a time like this, there are three courses open to man: He may give way to despair and become bitter. He may endeavor to drown his sorrow in drink or in a life of wickedness. Or he may turn to God.” In your sorrow, turn to God. There are thousands of people who have turned to God, but you may be still carrying your burdens.

Topic: Don’t Be Stony Ground [Kenneth Copeland Devotional 28 January 2020]

Topic: Don’t Be Stony Ground [Kenneth Copeland Devotional 28 January 2020]

And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. – Mark 4:16-17

There seems to be an abundance of “stony ground” Christians these days. Initially, they get excited about the Word of God. They’ll hear a message on prosperity, for instance, and they’ll go home saying, “Hallelujah! I’m going to prosper in the Name of Jesus!” But then, somehow, things don’t work out like they thought they should.

Topic: God Will Not Take Back His Word [TREM Devotional 28 January 2019]

Topic: God Will Not Take Back His Word [TREM Devotional 28 January 2019]

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. Isaiah 55:11 KJV.

Beloved, whenever you open your bible, hunt for your inheritance. Sickness is not your inheritance. By his stripes, you are healed. You are the healed that the devil wants to make sick. The symptoms are trying to make you sick, but you are not because you have been healed by His stripes. Symptom is not sickness!

Topic: The Many Woes Of Defiance [DCLM Daily Manna 28 January 2020 Daily Devotional by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi]

Topic: The Many Woes Of Defiance [DCLM Daily Manna 28 January 2020 Daily Devotional by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi]

Text: Isaiah 5:18-30

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

Topic: Crush That Crush I (Open Heaven 28 January 2020)

Topic: Crush That Crush I (Open Heaven 28 January 2020)

Memorise: “But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;” – 1 Kings 11:1

Read: 1 Kings 11:1-11 (KJV)

1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.