By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Justice Mary Odili on her 70th birthday and retirement from the Supreme Court. In his goodwill message on Tuesday, Jonathan described Odili as a dedicated Justice and shining example in public service. “I congratulate Hon. Justice Mary Odili,...
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Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has been told to resign from office instead of supporting the “watery” charges instituted against suspected killers of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN made the call in a Facebook post on Monday. Adegboruwa said...
Details have emerged regarding the post made by a Facebook user, Naomi Goni, that angered Muslim faithful in Borno State. Naomi is currently in trouble after her Facebook post on the murder of Deborah Samuel, a Christian student who was killed for blasphemy in Sokoto. A lady with Facebook...
A labour leader, Mr Gbenga Komolafe, has urged labour unions to canvass for a new socio-economic system. He called for a system that would put the interest of working people and their allies in the peasantry and informal sector on the front burner. Komolafe made the call at the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, over alleged diversion and laundering of N80 billion. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Public Information at the EFCC made the declaration on Monday in Abuja....
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto Barely four days after the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, (SSCOE) Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, who was accused of blasphemy, the police on Monday said it have arraigned two of the suspects – Bilyaminu Aliyu and...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Janet Ekpenyong has debunked reports of active cases of monkey pox in the state as reported by some online media platforms. Dr. Ekpeyong, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved that its accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres should increase service charge per candidate from N1,400 to N2,000. JAMB made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday in...
Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, has withdrawn from the presidential race in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and has returned to work. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored development at the ministry in Abuja on Monday reports that Sylva withdrew having...
Ms Hasfat Abiola -Costello, Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, says she stands with Gov. Yahaya Bello (GYB) of Kogi in the race for APC presidential ticket and not South West aspirants. Abiola-Costello said her backing Bello was because she had seen in him, qualities of the kind of...
At least 34 lawyers have indicated interest to defend killers of Deborah Samuel in court today. According to PM News, the suspected killers have been identified as Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci. The defense team was led by Prof. Mansur Ibrahim. Deborah Samuel, a 200-Level Home Economics student of...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has been told to arrest the Chief Imam of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Sheikh Abubakar Jibril, for inciting Muslims against the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah. The call was made by the Human Rights Writers Association...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has relaxed the 24 hours curfew declared in Sokoto as a measure to forestall breakdown of law and order following the uproar that greeted the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Samuel last week. Deborah, a student of the...
The National Assembly has countered a suit filed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on the controversial Section 84(12) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022. While the President and minister asked the Supreme Court to interpret the provision...
President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, have filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking an interpretation of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022. In the suit filed on April 29, the President and AGF, who...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has carried out the training of 130 unemployed youths in Cross River State in its effort to reduce the rising unemployment rate in the state Speaking at the Opening Ceremony on Monday, The Director General, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu...
The parents of the late Deborah Samuel of Shagari College of Education Sokoto, Sokoto State have described the death of their daughter as sad and painful, saying they have left her killers to God. Recall that the remains of Deborah were laid to rest in her hometown, Tungan Magajiya...
The Federal Government is working on a funding structure for public universities in the country as part of moves to tackle the incessant strikes by lecturers in these institutions. This is according to the former Minister of State for Education Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba who noted that the government’s funding of...
The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has rallied a global action against Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs), including a call for global framework on IFFs similar to corruption. Owasanoye made this call at a side event of the ongoing hybrid 54th Conference...
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has condemned the killing of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto who was killed on allegations of blasphemy. Chairman of the forum Simon Lalong and Governor of Plateau State in a statement expressed the governors’ concern about the development...