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Nigeria: Oyedepo, Adeboye search for Oritsejafor’s successor

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria is currently shopping for a candidate to occupy the president’s position. The tenure of the incumbent, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, will expire in February 2013. Oritsejafor had in 2010 indicated his intention to relinquish his position … read more »

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While shepherds watched their flocks by jet: Nigeria’s pastorpreneurs

Private planes are all the rage among Nigeria’s humble men of God, with high-flying pastor Ayo Oritsejafor the latest to claim that his own jet is vital for him to spread his gospel effectively. Not everyone is sure, however, that … read more »

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Nigeria: The rivalry among billionaire pastors to own private jets

By Jideofor Adibe, opinion It is no longer rumour. Hard-talking Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and founder of Word of Life Bible Church, has joined the elite league of Nigerians who own private jets. According … read more »

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Nigeria: Jonathan, Mark, Oritsejafor, Adeboye,Oyedepo, others storm Ibadan for national prayers

President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President, David Mark, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ayo Oritsejafor, Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners’ Chapel are among eminent Nigerians expected … read more »

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Nigeria’s Christian Leader Criticizes US Decision On Islamist Group

The head of Nigeria’s Christians says the U.S. decision last month to declare only three Boko Haram leaders as terrorists does not go far enough. Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, told a U.S. congressional committee Tuesday … read more »

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Fallouts from bombings in Nigerian

by Muhammad Ajah Friday, 03 February 2012 21:25 A lot has happened as reactions from the bombings and killings of innocent citizens since the surfacing of Boko Haram, the most recent being end of year 2011 Madalla blast and Kano … read more »

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Giant on a keg of gunpowder

A wind of disgruntlement is blowing across Nigeria. There are fears that, unless President Goodluck Jonathan steadies the ship of state, divisions within the polity and the rising discontent could be hijacked by political opportunists to cause something more catastrophic. … read more »

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Nigeria: A giant on a keg of gunpowder

A wind of disgruntlement is blowing across Nigeria. There are fears that, unless President Jonathan steadies the ship of state, divisions within the polity and the rising discontent could be hijacked by political opportunists to cause something more catastrophic. Unless … read more »

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Boko Haram: Nigerian Islamist leader defends attacks – Video

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants has defended recent attacks on Christians, saying they are revenge for killings of Muslims. In his first video message, posted on YouTube, Abubakar Shekau referred to attacks on Muslims in recent years … read more »

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Nigeria unrest worse than 1960s civil war – Goodluck Jonathan

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that spiralling violence blamed on the radical Islamist group Boko Haram is “even worse” than the country’s 1960s civil war. “The situation we have in our hands is even worse than the civil war … read more »

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Nigerian violence threatens to ignite wider Muslim-Christian conflict

(CNN) — There are ominous signs in Nigeria that the campaign of violence by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is leading to wider and more explosive sectarian tensions — in a country where Christian-Muslim relations are often tense and … read more »

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