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Kano Emirate: Stop Making A Mockery Of Judiciary – Group Warns Gov Yusuf

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

The Congress for the Defence of Rule of Law (CDRL) has slammed Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State for what it described as a willful disobedience of the judiciary. In a statement signed by its President, Barr. Armstrong Adejoh Francis, the group said the Governor went low to obtain an...

Court orders eviction of Sanusi from Kano palace

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the police to evict Lamido Sanusi from Emir’s Palace in Kofar Kudu, Kano. Ruling on an ex parte motion filed by the Emir of Kano, Aminu Bayero, on Tuesday, the court, presided over by Justice S. A. Amobeda, also ordered the...

PSC denies online press release over list of candidates into Nigeria Police

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

The Police Service Commission has disowned a press statement on social media directing all applicants who have gone through the various stages of recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force to check a website for the final list An online press statement had emerged directing applicants to visit a suspicious website....

IPOB insists on May 30 Biafra Heroes Rememberance Day

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has insisted on commemorating the Biafra Day in the South-East on May 30. The group said the day is set aside to honour those who died during the Civil War between 6 July 1967 and 15 January 1970. The pro-Biafra group said this in...

Minimum Wage Negotiations break down again as Organised Labour walks out on FG

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

Moves to arrive at a national minimum wage may have hit the brick wall again as the organised Labour on Tuesday walked out of the Tripartite Committee meeting. Sources at the meeting said the Labour team was infuriated when the Federal Government shored up its earlier offer from N57,000 to...

Indigenes protest alleged imposition of monarch in Abia community

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

Indigenes of the Umuihueze autonomous community, Akwete Ndoki ancient Kingdom, in Ukwa-East LGA of Abia State have protested an alleged plot to impose Daniel Nwuzor as their new traditional ruler. Nwuzor was last week, announced as the newly elected traditional ruler of the community by the Abia State Commissioner for...

Sylva heads for Appeal Court, says liberation for state close

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State and former Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, has expressed dissatisfaction with Monday’s Bayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal judgment. Sylva in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs, Julius Bokoru, stated that Sylva...

Hanifa Abubakar: Gov Yusuf vows to carry out death sentence on killer teacher

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

Five months after a school teacher, Abdulmalik Tanko was sentenced to death for the killing of a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, in Kano, Governor Abba Yusuf has vowed to ensure the execution of the convict. The governor said the sentence prescribed by the court must be carried out. Yusuf spoke...

Alleged N19m money laundering: Again, EFCC arraigns ex-SMEDAN DG, Masari

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has re-arraigned a former Director General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, Bature Umar Masari, on an amended 22-count charge of alleged money laundering. Masari’s arraignment followed his alleged involvement in N119,507,080 money laundering and gratification. When the matter...

Northern lawyers give Gov Yusuf 48 hours to reverse Sanusi’s reinstatement

NewsDeskNgMay 28, 2024May 28, 20240

A group of lawyers from Northern Nigeria has issued a 48 hours ultimatum to Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, to rescind the reinstatement of Emir Muhammad Sanusi II. The lawyers, who identified themselves as the Northern Lawyers’ Forum, at a briefing on Tuesday in Abuja, said that Sanusi’s reinstatement is...