Monday, January 15, 2018
Kidnappers abduct ex-commissioner in Bayelsa
Suspected kidnappers have abducted Mrs Marie Ebikake, a former commissioner for Transport in Bayelsa State.
Ebikake, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and close associate of former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, was kidnapped yesterday at her residence in Igbogene area of Yenagoa Local Government Council Area of the state. She resigned as transport commissioner in 2015, but returned recently to the fold of Governor Seriake Dickson’s political group known as Restoration Team, and was named a key member of the state PDP contact and reconciliation committee set up by Dickson.
This Day In History 15 January- Packers face Chiefs in first Super Bowl
On this day in 1967, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever world championship game of American football.
In the mid-1960s, the intense competition for players and fans between the National Football League (NFL) and the upstart American Football League (AFL) led to talks of a possible merger. It was decided that the winners of each league’s championship would meet each year in a single game to determine the “world champion of football.”
Catholic Daily Reading for Monday January 15, 2018
Daily Reading for Monday January 15, 2018
Reading 1, First Samuel 15:16-23
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Gospel, Mark 2:18-22
Reading 1, First Samuel 15:16-23
16 Samuel then said to Saul, 'Stop! Let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.' He said, 'Go on.'
17 Samuel said, 'Small as you may be in your own eyes, are you not the leader of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king of Israel.
18 When Yahweh sent you on a mission he said to you, "Go and put those sinners, the Amalekites, under the curse of destruction and make war on them until they are exterminated."
Reading 1, First Samuel 15:16-23
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Gospel, Mark 2:18-22
Reading 1, First Samuel 15:16-23
16 Samuel then said to Saul, 'Stop! Let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.' He said, 'Go on.'
17 Samuel said, 'Small as you may be in your own eyes, are you not the leader of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king of Israel.
18 When Yahweh sent you on a mission he said to you, "Go and put those sinners, the Amalekites, under the curse of destruction and make war on them until they are exterminated."