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[Video] Tems is Nigeria’s first to perform at FIFA Club World Cup final halftime show

Grammy award-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has made history as the first artist from the country to perform at the FIFA Club World Cup final halftime show.

The performance took place at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where she shared the stage with American rapper Doja Cat and Colombian star J Balvin. The show was curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin and staged above the stands to protect the pitch.

The event had several high-profile guests in attendance, including U.S. President Donald Trump.

Earlier in the year, the two-time Grammy-winning singer became a part-owner of San Diego FC, a Major League Soccer (MLS) club in the United States. The club announced the inclusion of the two-time Grammy Award winner in a statement on Wednesday, February 13.

Tems acquired a stake in the club through her company, The Leading Vibe, in a deal facilitated by Pave Investments, an African private investment firm known for its work with NBA Africa. With this move, she becomes the first African female to be involved in MLS ownership.

San Diego FC highlighted that Tems will serve as a club partner, contributing to its vision of excellence and community engagement.

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Fury as report reveals how Edo govt. allegedly paid N6Billion compensation to lynched Uromi hunters’ families in Kano

  • As Catholic Seminary in Uromi comes under second attack in 10 Months, NSCDC officer killed, five abducted

The governor of Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo, is facing rising outrage sequel to reports that his administration paid N6 billion in compensation to the families of Hausa/Fulani hunters lynched in Uromi in April 2025, even as deadly attacks by suspected herdsmen continue to plague the state.

According to Standard Daily Press, the latest incident occurred on Thursday night at the Catholic Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Ivianokpodi, Agenebode, Etsako East Local Government Area, where gunmen reportedly killed an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and abducted five individuals, including three seminarians.

The Catholic Diocese of Auchi confirmed the attack in a statement released on Saturday.

According to Rev. Fr. Peter Egielewa, the Diocese’s Director of Social Communications, this marks the second time in 10 months that the seminary has been attacked. He said the Diocese strongly condemned the latest violence and expressed grave concern over the repeated targeting of Catholic institutions, their personnel, and facilities.

Public criticism has intensified over what many perceive as misplaced priorities by the state government, with citizens questioning why such a large sum was disbursed as compensation while insecurity remains rampant and unaddressed in several parts of Edo.

Egielewa said the Diocese strongly condemned the attack and voiced deep concern over the continued targeting of the Catholic institution, its staff, and facilities.

“We are deeply saddened and condemn in the strongest terms this act of violence,” Egielewa said.

He condemned the frequent assaults, characterising them as deeply concerning and wholly intolerable.

“This is the second time in 10 months that the school has been attacked. Ten months ago, a priest was kidnapped. And now three seminarians were abducted and a civil defence corps member was killed, while a local vigilante sustained gun injuries,” he stated

“We call on the government to protect the lives of all those who work in catholic institutions and our diocese. We hope the security agencies at the local, state, and federal levels will take up the responsibility for that so our people can be at peace and in safety.”

On October 27, 2024, gunmen stormed the seminary during evening prayers and benediction, abducting the rector, Thomas Oyode.

According to Standard Daily Press, sources within the Kano State Government House confirmed that N6 billion was paid as compensation to the families of the 16 hunters lynched in Uromi.

The report added that Governor Monday Okpebholo’s swift decision to approve the compensation—without offering similar support to families of Edo indigenes killed in ongoing attacks—has sparked outrage and accusations of bias across the state.

Meanwhile, the state government in April denied paying N6 billion as compensation to the families of Uromi victims.

A conflict resolution expert criticised the governor’s approach, describing it as a compromised and unbalanced strategy for addressing the crisis.

“Governor Okpebholo has to wake up and double down on the fight against insecurity before the entire state is consumed,” Mr. Joel Atanegbe said.

In late March 2025, a disturbing incident unfolded in Uromi, a town in Edo State. Sixteen northerners said to be hunters, and travelling from Port Harcourt to Kano for the Sallah celebration, were intercepted by a local vigilante group in the Udune Efandion area of Uromi.

The group, upon discovering Dane guns—traditional hunting weapons—suspected the travellers of being kidnappers. What followed was a horrifying act of mob violence: the hunters were lynched and set ablaze, their truck torched, and the community thrown into shock.

The killings sparked nationwide outrage, drawing condemnation from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, human rights organisations, and political leaders across the country.

The Edo State Police Command swiftly arrested 14 suspects, and investigations were launched to bring all perpetrators to justice.

In response, Governor Okpebholo suspended all illegal vigilante groups operating in the state and relieved the Commander of the Edo State Security Corps, CP Friday Ibadin (Rtd.), of his duties. Determined to show solidarity and remorse, Okpebholo travelled to Torankawa village in Kano State, the hometown of most of the victims. Accompanied by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano, he met with grieving families, community leaders, and religious figures.

During the visit, Governor Okpebholo pledged compensation for the victims’ families and assured them that justice would be swift and thorough.

”We are making arrangements to provide compensation to all the victims affected by this incident,” he said.

In April, the Edo State Government strongly condemned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for alleging that Governor Monday Okpebholo paid N6 billion in compensation to the families of the 16 lynched Uromi hunters.

In an earlier statement, IPOB had accused the governor of disbursing the funds as a means to forestall possible reprisals.

Responding through a press release, the state government dismissed the claims as fictitious, malicious, and deliberately misleading.

Fred Itua, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okpebholo, clarified that no such compensation had been approved or paid by the state government to any group.

He said: “No compensation of N6 billion was approved or paid to any group as claimed. The figures and narrative being peddled are fictitious, malicious, and deliberately misleading”.

‘They chop their own, they chop our own’

By Lasisi Olagunju

She spoke with so much authority on the sleaze and dirt that make our lawmakers so fat like the well-fed pigs in Animal Farm. The headline above is from a trending, obviously leaked, video of a committee clerk at the National Assembly levelling unimaginable allegations against politicians in both chambers.

I have received that video more than ten times from social media users who keep forwarding it with unceasing interest. The clerk in the video is a woman who identified herself as Ifeoma (Ofili). I have also learnt that she is an about-to-retire Level 17 director in the service of the National Assembly.

I asked and was told that she dropped her trending bomb at a staff forum meeting at the National Assembly. She said our legislators talk about oversight of government agencies but “how do you account for the fact that the flight ticket to go and oversight somebody was paid for by that somebody? What are you coming to write?” Madam Ifeoma asked, and added, sensationally: “You go there, they tell you what to write. They give you money, they quarter you, they give you flight, and the (National Assembly) members will come (back) to fight over the money that was given to them.”

U.S. Senator Carl Levin (1934-2021) once said that “you can’t get good government without good oversight.” Political scientist, Woodrow Wilson, in his classic doctoral treatise ‘Congressional Government’ published in 1885, wrote that the legislature should “look diligently into every affair of government and talk much about what it sees. It is meant to be the eyes and the voice, and to embody the wisdom and will of its constituents.”

Our legislators in Nigeria do not think their constituents have wisdom, but they do oversight, they also “look diligently into every affair of government”. The problem is what they look for and why. The more the oversight, the brighter the sight of their purse. Now you should understand why federal roads, particularly my Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road, are difficult to fix. The supervising ministry is in full charge of legislators who should oversight it.

Director Ifeoma also spoke about the threats regularly issued against ministries and agencies of the Federal Government by our lawmakers. “We are talking about punishing MDAs. They would come on TV and say this MDA did this and that… (but) all the atrocities that are being committed in the National Assembly, who punishes them?”

I have read ‘A Legislator Looks at Legislation’ published in October 1937 by T. V. Smith and Garland C. Routt. The authors propose that “lawmakers themselves must be governed by law” and that “rules of etiquette should always be observed.” That was in the last century and in the authors’ far away country. Here, the legislature is the Baba, clearly empowered to sit atop the law. Our angry director was being naive and, even rude, in asking who punishes “atrocities being committed in the National Assembly”. I should tell her that legislators are creators of the law, and so they are naturally above their creation, the law. Just like their senior colleagues in the executive, Nigerian legislators have the right to use and misuse the powers conferred on them by INEC, their elector.

Then I heard the word ‘collapse’ from Madam Ifeoma: “They will budget money for staff training, money for clinic, money for books…they then collapse everything. It is in the National Assembly that I started hearing about ‘collapse’. What is collapse? Collapse is…Allowances that are budgeted for National Assembly staff are collapsed…And then, we don’t have the power to go and hold a press conference because we are sworn to oath of silence.” I like this ‘oath of silence’ coinage; it is more ghastly appropriate than the ‘oath of secrecy’ which we inherited from the British.

I am not done with Madam Ifeoma; or I should say she is not done with our husbands who make laws for us. The woman spoke about her director-colleagues who retired into want and suffering and death because their retirement benefits have been “collapsed” by politicians whose throats are the only routes to Oyo.

“Go and see them (retired directors). They look like scarecrows…they beg for money to fuel their cars… So, apart from what the constitution says (about oversight), who is looking at what they (legislators) are collapsing and chopping? They chop their own; they chop our own and (even) put excesses there.”

Put simply, the question she asked above is: who oversights the oversighter? She ought not to have asked that question because, as we say in Yorubaland, if one’s father has married a new wife and she is older than your mother, you call her mother. The legislators are the boss; you don’t question or query them.

Now, let me quickly say my own and withdraw into my shell: Oversight, appropriation and representation through law making are the three reasons the legislature exists all over the world. This Nigerian democracy is 26 years old. I will laugh very loudly if anyone says our National Assembly has scored above 30 percent in each of those categories. Yet, we keep pumping money into that opaque system. This year alone, almost half a trillion naira is their budget. Do not complain. They need even more than that. Remember in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, only the pigs take milk and apples because it is for the good of all that the pigs’ brainpower and leadership’s health remain topnotch. It is for the farm’s success. If our pigs are not healthy, Mr. Jones will return, and that will be a tragedy for this democracy.

But then, if politicians fail us, their constituents, without consequences because we are collectively stupid, should they fail their staff also? Politicians, if they ever leave, leave government solidly made for life; retired civil servants leave service to be bedridden; they die waiting for their benefits. What a democracy!

An Ilorin musician sings in an album that God is the adjudicator and judge between cat and rat. That is the relationship between those who have kidnapped this democracy and we, the people. As Madam Ifeoma said: They chop their own; they chop our own. They even put jara.

The views expressed by contributors are strictly personal and not of Law & Society Magazine.

Woman gives birth hours after finding out she was pregnant

 A woman has revealed how she went into labour just 17 hours after she found out she was pregnant, after experiencing a rare phenomenon known as ‘cryptic pregnancy’. 

Charlotte Summers, 20, said the uncommon condition means a person does not realise they are expecting until the later stages of pregnancy.

Before delivering her healthy son in June, Ms Summers said she noticed she had gained weight and gone up two sizes in jeans, but she believed it was due to stress.

‘I was still buying size eight clothes,’ she said in a TikTok video.

‘Obviously, I gained a bit of a pudge, I guess. But I am in a two-and-a-half-year relationship, and I just kind of assumed it was a bit of happy relationship weight. 

‘I was also going through a lot of stressful things in my life at the time.’

But when she visited a GP on June 6 with concerns about gluten sensitivity, she was asked to do a pregnancy test.

The GP confirmed she was pregnant just minutes later, but reassured her it felt ‘very early along’.

She believed the pregnancy went unnoticed because the placenta rested at the front of her womb. 

Ms Summers had also continued her regular use of birth control and continued to menstruate throughout the pregnancy. 

She revealed she was sent for an ultrasound and told to come back later to discuss her options.

Her partner’s family helped arrange a same-day ultrasound at their local hospital, where medical staff discovered the baby was due sooner than anyone had thought.

‘They were like, “So you’re measuring 38 weeks and four days”,’ Ms Summers said.

‘At that point, you can pretty much understand, I kind of blacked out. I just grabbed my stuff, rang my partner, and I was like, “Hey, we gotta go”.’

Doctors then told the couple there was no fluid around the baby, and they may have to induce labour. But Ms Summers had already left the hospital.

‘They tried to reach me but they didn’t have my phone number… they ended up ringing my partner’s cousin,’ she said.

That night, Ms Summers and her partner returned to the hospital.

‘I was on my hands and knees throwing up because I was like, “There’s no way this is happening right now”,’ she said.

Shortly after, her water broke and she entered labour for two hours.

“I pushed for seven minutes, and then my son was here. Again, I blacked out. I didn’t really comprehend what was going on,’ Ms Summers said.

Ms Summers said she had just 17 hours and 21 minutes’ notice between discovering she was pregnant and welcoming her healthy son.

‘The body is crazy,’ she said.

Cryptic pregnancy is a rare condition, and the affected person may continue to experience what appears to be regular menstruation, show little or no visible weight gain, and feel no noticeable fetal movement.

A 12-month population study in Berlin found one in every 475 pregnancies involved cryptic pregnancy to 20 weeks, and one in every 2,500 to full term.

Ms Summers said some had doubted her story in the past and accused her of lying.

She showed hospital documents from Queensland Health diagnosing a ‘concealed pregnancy’, and records confirming her ultrasound and delivery.

‘Long story short, I’m happy, healthy, me and my partner love being parents and yeah,’ Ms Summers said.

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Hours after Buhari’s death, Awujale of Ijebuland dies at 91

The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has died at the age of 91.

The monarch passed away on Sunday evening, just hours after the announcement of the death of his longtime friend and former President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Earlier in the day, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari.

President Buhari died today in London at about 4.30 pm, following a prolonged illness.

A statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, revealed that President Tinubu spoke with Mrs Aishat Buhari, the former President’s widow, and offered his deep condolences.

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President Tinubu has also ordered Vice President Kashim Shettima to proceed to the United Kingdom to accompany President Muhammadu Buhari’s body back to Nigeria.

Former President Buhari was twice elected Nigeria’s President in 2015 and 2023.

He also served as military head of state between January 1984 and August 1985.

President Tinubu has ordered flags at half-staff as a mark of respect for the departed leader.

Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests without probable cause in Southern California

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN

A federal judge on Friday found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making stops and arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause and ordered the department to stop detaining individuals based solely on race, spoken language or occupation.

US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ordered that DHS must develop guidance for officers to determine “reasonable suspicion” outside of the apparent race or ethnicity of a person, the language they speak or their accent, “presence at a particular location” such as a bus stop or “the type of work one does.”

Friday’s ruling comes after the ACLU of Southern California brought a case against the Trump administration last week on behalf of five people and immigration advocacy groups, alleging that DHS — which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement — has made unconstitutional arrests and prevented detainees’ access to attorneys.

The ruling is limited to the seven-county jurisdiction of the US Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles and surrounding areas.

Frimpong said in her ruling that the court needed to decide whether the plaintiffs could prove that the Trump administration “is indeed conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers.”

“This Court decides—based on all the evidence presented—that they are,” Frimpong wrote.

Frimpong went on to say that the administration “failed” to provide information about the basis on which they made the arrests. The temporary restraining order also applies to the FBI and the Justice Department, which were also listed as defendants in the lawsuit and have been involved in immigration enforcement.

In Friday’s ruling, Frimpong also ordered DHS to maintain and provide regular documentation of arrests to plaintiffs’ counsel.

In a hearing Thursday before she ruled, Frimpong appeared skeptical of the government’s arguments. The government said in court that DHS agents initiate stops based on intelligence or “trend analysis,” not on race or ethnicity. Frimpong repeatedly pressed the government to provide evidence that arrests were based on actionable intelligence rather than targeting areas where undocumented immigrants are presumed to gather.

“It’s hard for the court to believe you couldn’t find one case with a report of why someone was targeted,” she said Thursday.

In a separate temporary restraining order, Frimpong blocked DHS from denying the detainees’ access to counsel, including visits and calls, in a holding facility referred to as “B-18” in court documents.

Immigration advocacy groups had raised concerns that detainees in B-18 weren’t afforded the opportunity to contact a lawyer. They also claimed that the detainees were held in inhumane conditions, such as not having access to beds, showers or medical facilities.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin condemned the ruling in a statement, saying, “A district judge is undermining the will of the American people.”

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to crack down on immigration.

Last month, the Trump administration called for ICE to expand deportation efforts in Democratic cities and “do all in their power” to achieve mass deportations. Trump also ordered the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles last month in response to protests against his administration’s immigration raids. The administration previously sued the city of Los Angeles over its so-called “sanctuary city” policy.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, celebrated Friday’s ruling in a post on X, saying, “California stands with the law and the Constitution — and I call on the Trump Administration to do the same.” Similarly, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass hailed the ruling as “an important step toward restoring safety, security and defending the rights of all Angelenos.”

Mohammad Tajsar, senior staff attorney for ACLU of Southern California, said in a statement, “No matter the color of their skin, what language they speak, or where they work, everyone is guaranteed constitutional rights to protect them from unlawful stops.”

Source: CNN

Why Nigeria’s election petition system is unconstitutional

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“Sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government, through this Constitution, derives all its powers and authority.” Section 14(2), Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999

In 2007, the contest to rule Nigeria was between two sons of Katsina State. From the Katsina Emirate, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua ran on the ticket of the then ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to succeed outgoing president, Olusegun Obasanjo. His elder brother, Shehu, had served as Obasanjo’s second-in-command during military rule from February 1976 to October 1979. From the Daura Emirate, also in Katsina State, Muhammadu Buhari who also served alongside Obasanjo and Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in that military government, was the leading opposition candidate on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples’ Party (ANPP).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as winner and Muhammadu Buhari lodged a petition to challenge the declaration. After a prolonged period of litigation, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on 12 December 2008 by a narrow majority dismissing Muhammadu Buhari’s petition.

Of the many things pronounced upon by the court, two stood out. One was its refusal to affirm any set of principles to govern the conduct of elections in Nigeria. The other was the formal pronouncement in the leading judgment of Niki Tobi that in elections in the country, “the judges must be the final bus-stop.” A report on election dispute resolution in Nigeria published earlier this year by the Policy and Legislative Advocacy Centre (PLAC) reinforced this, declaring that the electoral process in Nigeria has now been formally relocated “from ballot to the courts.”

The idea of judges as the “final bus-stop” for the determination of electoral legitimacy in the Nigeria sounds like a wanton departure from the clear constitutional design, which confers sovereignty upon the people “from whom government through this constitution derives all its powers and authority.” Judges may be people in the sense of human beings like every other citizen, but as a conclave of decision makers in a court, they are not the people upon whom the constitution confers the mandate to decide who rules the country.

When it comes to contests over elections in Nigeria, the Electoral Act does not provide any room for the people whose mandate is at stake to participate in disputes over the destination of their mandate or what happens to it.  

It is problematic enough that judges have now overthrown popular sovereignty as the basis of the mandate to rule in Nigeria and substituted it with a grandiloquent notion of judicial sovereignty.  The case of Zamfara State the Governorship election in 2019 demonstrates how dangerously self-regarding judicial sovereignty has become in Nigeria.

In that year, Mukhtar Shehu Idris, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), secured a total of 534,541 votes or 67.41% of the votes cast to win the contest for the office of governor of Zamfara State. He clearly won the vote in each and all of the 14 Local Government Areas of the State. In a distant second was Bello Matawalle of the PDP who secured 189,452 votes or 23.89% of the votes cast, less than 25% of the votes cast in the state. Mattawalle also lost in every LGA in the state.

Preceding the vote, however, the contest for the ticket of the APC was the subject of competing and contradictory orders from various courts in the country, both state and federal. Nobody alleged that the result was anything other than the manifest will of the people. But in resolving the complicated pre-election litigation on 24 May 2019, the Supreme Court invalidated the APC primaries, disbarred their candidate from the contest retrospectively and pronounced that “this being so, the votes credited to the [APC candidates] in the 2019 general elections in Zamfara State are wasted votes.”

Not content with throwing the votes more than two-thirds of the voters of the state into the dust-bin, the Supreme Court went further and pronounced as the winner, Bello Matawalle, who had been beaten hopelessly into an insignificant second position. This was election robbery under the ruse of jurisprudence.

There was nothing inexorable about the order made by the Supreme Court in this case. The court could have invalidated the primaries of the APC. Indeed, it could still arguably have excluded the APC from the contest. But faced with the reality of excluding over two-thirds of the voters of the state from having a say in who governs them, the structure, text and spirit of both the constitution and the idea of government founded on the will of the people required the Supreme Court in that case to do only one thing – order a re-run so that the people of Zamfara State could look at the candidate on offer and choose who to rule them. Instead, the court chose to supplant popular sovereignty with judicial sovereignty, infantilise the voters and install as governor for the people of Zamfara State a person whom they looked at and roundly rejected at the polls.

At the beginning of January 2008, Nigeria’s Supreme Court decided in the case that ultimately handed the office of the Governor of Rivers State to Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi that under Nigeria’s constitution, it is the political party alone that contests or wins an election. However, in a little-noticed line in that judgment, Adesola Oguntade, who delivered the judgment of the court, cautioned that the law governing political or election dispute resolution in Nigerian constitution and law was “intended to ensure a smooth transition from one administration to another. It is not a provision to destroy the right of access to the court granted to a citizen under section 36 of the same Constitution.”

The basic requirement of section 36 of the Constitution is a guarantee that a person or group whose “civil rights and obligations” are liable to be determined in a court of law, “shall be entitled to a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court or other tribunal established by law and constituted in such manner as to secure its independence and impartiality.” In a system of government founded on one person one vote, no civil right or obligation competes for primacy on an equal footing with the right of citizens to choose who governs them or how to constitute their government.

 Yet, when the Supreme Court decided in 2019 that the votes of a super-majority of the people of Zamfara State in the governorship election were “wasted”, it did not bother to hear from any of the affected voters or their legal representatives. In Plateau State, where a judicial hit-squad from the Court of Appeal did something similar to the voters in the legislative elections in 2023, again, the people could not be represented. It is difficult to contemplate a clearer violation of section 36 of the Constitution.

In Nigeria, where the decision on whom to confer the mandate to rule has been relocated by fiat of the Supreme Court from the ballot box to the courtroom, citizens are currently denied standing to participate in disputes involving the identity or determination of the person or party on whom they have conferred that mandate. The surprise is that no one has sought to bring this to the attention of the courts as such or challenge the lawfulness or constitutionality of this fundamental design flaw in Nigeria’s election petition system. The main objection to this is that it could be both confounding and inconvenient to ask potentially millions of voters to join in such proceedings. We will address this objection fully next.

A lawyer and a teacher, Odinkalu can be reached at [email protected]

The views expressed by contributors are strictly personal and not of Law & Society Magazine.

NSPPD 14-day midyear fasting and prayer 2025 (Day 13 prayer points)

JOIN US FOR DAY 13 OF 14 (JUDGEMENT DAY: OPERATION EVIL AND NEGATIVITY EXPIRE NOW)🔥🔥🔥

Scriptures for Study & Meditation:
Psalm 94, Daniel 3–4, Revelation 18:1–8, Colossians 2:14–17, 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10

Declare with us:
July to December: I am more than a conqueror! Ahead of all the victories the Lord has already won for me in this second half, I raise a prophetic shout of Hallelujah! As I shout for joy, as my worship rises, as my praises ascend – Stones from Heaven and Fire from Zion descend and destroy every trace of evil and negativity in my destiny! (2 Chronicles 20:21–22, Psalm 118:15)

July to December: El-Roi has called me: Recommended! Approved! Promoted! Preferred! Chosen! Visible! Any Haman, voice, system, or policy that will arise to contend with my answers – By the zeal of El-Roi, perish by fire! (Isaiah 54:17)

Who is cooking death in the pot to bring me pain and affliction? Whirlwind of the Lord, both the pot and the cook – locate and destroy! (2 Kings 4:38–41, Jeremiah 30:23)

I hear a sound in the Spirit: “O (insert your name), satisfied with favour and full of the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.”As I arise to possess my possessions, any monitoring spirit or contending force – Fire! (Deuteronomy 33:23)

July to December: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces. In this same order, I declare over my father’s house: Satanic agents are taken! Household wickedness is confounded! Evil priests and their altars are broken to pieces! Fire! (Jeremiah 50:2)

El-Roi, the One in whom all the families of the earth are named – As You send a rain of congratulations and loud celebrations in my family, let Your wrath fall without mercy on powers that tried to stop us. I decree and declare: Jubilee for us, Vengeance for them! (Ephesians 3:15, Isaiah 60:1–3)

In the order of Isaiah 47:1: “Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon.” I decree to every demonic throne contending with my rising: Come down and sit in the dust! FIRE!

July to December: I cannot be stopped! Powers that sponsor attacks at transitional seasons – O earth, O sun, O moon, O stars, in the order of Revelation 12:16 – arise in holy conspiracy and fight for me!

Demonic forces that infiltrate systems, territorial limitations, evil thrones and altars that sponsor sieges – Have you not heard? “It is right and just for God to trouble my troublers!” Right now – scatter by fire! (2 Thessalonians 1:6 TPT)

Negativity will not hand over to negativity in my family – Not under my watch! I draw a line and declare: This far and no further! Every operation of the spirit of Jezebel/Ataliah – Holy Ghost Fire!

No testimony shall be aborted or carried over into 2026! Oh ye Herod monitoring my star, oh ye dragon contending with my family’s new, oh ye powers of hell fighting our greatness – Angels of warfare, go forth and shut them down by fire, never to rise again!

July to December: I will not bury and I shall not be buried! I arise with fire and delete my name and everyone connected to me from every demonic register of death. Altars crying for blood, the blood of Jesus is against you, evil priests and priestesses that have dug demonic pits, fall inside by fire!

July to December: I am the one the King delights to honor! As I journey to my answers, any Haman that has built gallows in anticipation of my downfall, I declare, NOT MY HEAD! For my sake – go down by fire! (Esther 6:6, Esther 7:10)

July to December: Affliction shall not arise a second time! No more repeated cycles or patterns of failure, negativity, or pain! As a sign that my stubborn pursuers have been overthrown, my testimony shall be: “Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.” (Judges 14:14)

It has turned to my salvation, through prayer and the supply of the Spirit! Evil and negativity have turned! Mountains have become plains!Goliaths have fallen! Jericho walls have crumbled! Demonic thrones have collapsed because What my God cannot do does not exist! (Philippians 1:19, Romans 8:37, Zechariah 4:7, 1 Samuel 17:49)

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Air India Plane Crash: Preliminary report shows fuel was turned off and one pilot blamed the other

Authorities in India have released the preliminary results of their investigation into the the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in June that killed 229 of the 230 passengers aboard and all 12 crew members.

A preliminary report published by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau early on Saturday, July 12 (local time), stated that soon before the June 12 crash, fuel to the aircraft’s engines was cut off. The plane was on its way from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad to London’s Gatwick Airport at the time.

At 8:08 a.m., “the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut off,” the report states.

Black box audio from the cockpit recorded “one of the pilots … asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so.”

“At about 08:09:05 UTC, one of the pilots transmitted ‘MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY,’ ” according to the report.

Emergency officials responded to the wreckage at 8:14 a.m.

“Investigation is continuing and the investigation team will review and examine additional evidence, records and information that is being sought from the stakeholders,” the report concluded.

The back of Air India flight 171 is pictured at the site after it crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad
Air India flight 171 crashed into a college hostel in a residential area.SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty

“Air India stands in solidarity with the families and those affected by the AI171 accident,” the airline said in a statement in reponse to the new report. “We continue to mourn the loss and are fully committed to providing support during this difficult time.”

“Air India is working closely with stakeholders, including regulators. We continue to fully cooperate with the AAIB and other authorities as their investigation progresses. Given the active nature of the investigation, we are unable to comment on specific details and refer all such enquiries to the AAIB,” the company’s statement added.

The passenger jet carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashed minutes after takeoff on Thursday, June 12. The plane hit a college hostel in a residential area when it crash-landed in Ahmedabad, bursting into flames. 

The sole survivor of the crash was identified by doctors as Vishwashkumar Ramesh, according to the Associated Press.

“He was disoriented with multiple injuries all over his body,” Dr. Dhaval Gameti previously told AP about the survivor. “But he seems to be out of danger.”

“I don’t know how I survived. I saw people dying in front of my eyes — the air hostesses and two people,” Ramesh told DD News from his hospital bed at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, adding, “I walked out of the rubble.”

“Even I can’t believe how I came out of it alive. For a moment, I felt like I was going to die too. But when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realized I was alive. I still can’t believe how I survived,” he continued.

Ramesh recalled what happened before the crash: “When the flight took off, within 5 to 10 seconds it felt like it was stuck in the air. Suddenly, the lights started flickering — green and white — then the plane rammed into some establishment that was there,” he reportedly said.

According to The New York Times, the plane was operated by Capt. Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kunder.

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House of Reps Deputy Speaker Kalu presses for 182 additional seats for Women, cites 9% GDP boost and national prosperity

Hon. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, has renewed calls for the urgent passage of the Special Seats Bill.

Speaking at a stakeholder engagement on Friday in Abuja, Kalu stated that increasing women’s representation could raise Nigeria’s GDP by nine per cent.

He explained that the proposed legislation is not merely about inclusion but represents a strategic economic and democratic decision that Nigeria can no longer afford to delay.

“We are losing nine per cent growth by excluding women,” he said.

Kalu urged both lawmakers and citizens to view the bill as a national investment rather than a favour to women.

He called on Nigerians to rally behind the proposed Special Seats Bill, which seeks to reserve additional legislative seats for women at the national and state levels.

Describing it as a historic path to equity, innovation, and national prosperity, Kalu emphasized that Nigeria’s democracy cannot flourish without the full inclusion of women.

“We are not just pushing for fairness. This is a strategic investment in Nigeria’s development,” he added.

According to Kalu, the Special Seats Bill proposes 37 additional seats in the Senate—one per state and one for the FCT—and 37 more in the House of Representatives.

Additionally, the bill seeks to create 108 extra seats across State Houses of Assembly, with three seats allocated per state to accelerate gender parity in Nigeria’s legislature.

“In total, the bill aims to create 182 women-only legislative seats, without affecting existing constituencies or limiting women from contesting on regular platforms,” he said.

“We are not taking anyone’s seat. These are additional seats for women, and they will carry equal status, voting rights, and responsibilities.”

Kalu noted that the bill includes a sunset clause—an inbuilt review mechanism that would assess its impact after four electoral cycles (16 years) to determine whether to continue, adjust, or repeal the law.

He added that greater female representation leads to more gender-sensitive legislation, improved outcomes in education and health, and stronger democratic leadership.

Regarding funding, he said the financial impact would be minimal, estimated at just 0.072 per cent to 0.226 per cent of the national budget.

“But the cost of excluding women is enormous,” Kalu warned.

Ambassador Gautier Mignot, Head of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, described the bill as a Nigerian-led solution to a Nigerian problem.

“This is not a foreign agenda. Countries like Mexico, Rwanda, Kenya, and even Morocco and Egypt have made progress. Nigeria must not lag. Nigeria is meant to lead,” Mignot said.

Rep. Busayo Oluwole-Oke, the longest-serving federal lawmaker from Osun State, commended Kalu’s leadership.

“As one of the oldest in the parliament, I have seen constitutional amendments come and go. But this one is different. Kalu is leading a people-centred approach that includes our mothers, sisters, and daughters,” Oluwole-Oke said.

Rep. Bolaji Olagbaju, Deputy Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and Chairperson of the Nigerian Female State Assembly Members Forum, described the bill as “a turning point.”

“We are 48 strong women across the 36 states; five of us are deputy speakers. We stayed back in Abuja just for this moment. We are ready to push this bill from the grassroots,” Olagbaju said.

She also highlighted Ekiti State’s strong record in female leadership, including a woman serving as deputy governor, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), accountant-general, and 49 female special assistants.

“We want to clap now, but we will clap harder when this bill becomes law,” she said.

Dr. Maryam Keshinro, Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, expressed the Ministry’s full support.

“We will break our imbalances, deepen our democracy, and inspire future generations of women to lead with confidence. Let us see this not just as a bill, but as a turning point in the history of our great nation,” Keshinro said.

She also praised the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for their commitment to gender sensitivity and political will.

Dr. Matthew Ayibakuro, Governance Advisor at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), described the process as one of the most energising democratic initiatives in Nigeria.

He reaffirmed the support of the FCDO, European Union, and other development partners for Nigeria’s democratic progress.

Earlier, Mr. Clement Nwankwo, Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), called the bill a critical reform designed to address deep-rooted governance gaps, particularly the under-representation of women.

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