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                                                    Yesterday sunday ,Sir and Lady Emmanuel Nwude,dedicated their grand child yesterday at St Mary's catholic church at Isolo.The Parent of the Child Mr and Mrs Martin Nwude danced joyfully to the alter during the second collection to receive blessings from the priest.After the church service,friends and family members who travelled from far and wide to attend the child dedication were treated with good music and food at the church hall.I was present at the even and i really had fun.More photos below.                                                                                                                        

                             Today monday,it was reported that the interior minister of Democratic Republic of  Congo said that their country will allow   1 50 children adopted by foreign parents,mostly Americans to leave the country after spending more than two years in legal limbo.Congo became a favoured International adoption destination in recent years because it has more than 4 million orphaned children,according to the U.N children's agency UNICEF,as well as lax regulation.There interior ministry spokesman Claude Pero Luwara said an inter-ministerial commission had approved the exit visas.In November,the commission signed off on exit visas for aboutt 70 children adopted by European,Canadian and American families.Congo's government has come under intense pressure from those countries government to lift the suspension.In 20 1 3,Congo imposed a moratorium on exit visas to children adopted by foreign parents,citing fears that the children could be abused or trafficked.The gov

                     United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moom has arrived in Burundi to try to facilitate a deal to prevent a political conflict from escalating into a wider ethnic conflict.Burundi has been plagued by violence since April last year after President Pierre Nkurunziza declared his bid for a controversial third term in office,one which he went on to win in the July poll.More than 400 people have been killed in the violence while thousands of others have fled to neighbouring countries.The UN is under growing pressure to show it can halt the violence,two decades after the  1 994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the Hutu majority in neighbouring Rwanda,which has a similar ethnic make-up as Burundi.More photos below.                                                                                               

                 On the 2 1 /02/ 1 6 at 8am,acting on a tip-off,a team of Policemen attached to the Division raided a criminal hide-out at the house of one Maurice Etim Effiong,of Odukpani Qua town of Cross River state.Two suspectss namely,John Nnamdi and Uwem Bassey Asuquo were arrested.One Assault rifle with breech No. 07022748 with fifteen rounds of 5.62mm live ammunition and two magazines,one pump action rifle with breech No. R 2682 1 4,three HP laptops,two I-pads,one hammer,one axe,one hacksaw,one handsaw,one Thermocool refrigerator,sixteen different handsets,a Toyota Sienna vehicle with Reg.No WAS  1 0 1  XA and other items were recovered.Then on the 20th of February,206 at about 4:00am,acting on information that some men of the underworld operating from the Ajegunle Area of Lagos state had finalized plans to attack an unknown destination in Onihale Area of Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State and they were moving in a black coloured Nissan Pathfinder jeep with Reg. No. DJ 03

                       According to The Nation,who reported that ahead of the expiration of the tenure of the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria {CAN},Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in July,a group,Christ Redeemers Union {CRU},claimed the Presidency was interested  in its election for selfish reasons.CRU's National Director Dr. Ebenezer Olusola Abednego told reporters in Abuja that Christians would resist any plan by the presidency to install its choice as CAN president.He said ''There is tension in CAN and the action of the Presidency has polarised the association along North-South dichotomy as northern religious leaders are being lobbied to support the plot.We have it on good authority that any leader being installed by the Presidency in CAN would avoid any virulent criticism of the Buhari government and this has informed it desperation to install a leadership that will not be critical''.But Special Adviser to the President {Media and Communications} /mr. F