By Dare Babarinsa Next week, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the beloved daughter of Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, would be buried in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Last week, Funke was alive and well. This week, she is in the mortuary. Next week, she is in the grave. She was a victim. We are all victims. Last […]
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Justice Darius Khobo of Kaduna State High Court, on Thursday, adjourned hearing in the application for permission to travel to India for medical attention filed by Ibrahim El-Zazaky and his wife, Zinat, to July 29. The Islamic Movement of Nigeria leader and his wife applied to the court seeking to travel on the grounds of […]
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United States has conferred Religious Freedom Award on Imam Abdullahi Abubakar, who saved over 200 Christians during an attack from suspected herdsmen in Plateau State. The first-ever International Religious Freedom Awards ceremony was hosted by Secretary Pompeo on Wednesday in the United States. The award honours extraordinary advocates of religious freedom from around the world. […]
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British-born Nigerian writer, Tade Thompson, Wednesday won the Arthur C Clarke award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction novels at a ceremony in Foyles bookshop in London. His novel, Rosewater, an alien invasion novel set in a future Africa, was submitted alongside 124 other novels, the highest number ever submitted for the prize, […]
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Ignore calls to return to north, Buhari tells herdsmen Youths demand arrest, trial of Miyetti Allah leaders Beyond merely denouncing the controversial RUGA herdsmen settlement proposed by the Federal Government, communities in the southeast have begun closing land sale gaps that may let in the policy through the backdoor. The sudden restrictions will be seen […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday produced some of the documents which the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday called for at the instance of the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The tribunal of five judges led by Justice Mohammed Garba had on Wednesday ordered INEC to produce the […]
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Edo Governor Obaseki Edo State House of Assembly has rejected moves by the House of Representatives to disrupt activities in its chamber, calling on the Inspector General of Police and heads of the Department of State Services (DSS), and the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to respect a subsisting court order […]
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Petitioners’ Witness 57, Mohammed Yahaya, called by the Peoples Democratic Party and its 2019 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, broke down in tears at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday. Mohammed, who served as the PDP agent for Aboto Ward in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State during the election, shed tears under cross-examination […]
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Oyetola, addressing journalists at the site of illegal mining at Ifewara. With him from left are Secretary to the State Government, Prince Wole Oyebanji; Deputy Governor, Mr. Benedict Alabi; and APC State Chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun Osun State Governor, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola on Wednesday paid an inspection visit to to the sites of illegal mining […]
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Nigeria’s apex law making body, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Justice Tanko Muhammad as the nation’s substantive Chief Justice. As soon as he arrived the chamber, it had gone into a closed session to set the template for the screening. Muhammad, who arrived at the Senate at around 10:10am, was ushered into […]
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