The Federal Government has on Tuesday in Abuja declared Aug. 12 and 13 as public holidays to mark the 2019 Eid-el-Kabir. The observance of the Eid-el-Kabir prayers will be on Sunday 11 August. Mr Mohammed Manga, Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Interior, in a statement said the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs […]
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An Abuja Federal High Court will, on Thursday, rule in the application filed by the Department of State Service (DSS), seeking an order to detain Mr Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC)’s presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, for 90 days pending the conclusion of its investigation. In an exparte order with number: FHC/ABJ/CS/915/19,
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The Federal Government says it will set up a committee in the coming week to review the revenue sharing formula for Federal, States and Local Governments due to current economic realities. The Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr Elias Mbam disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, shortly after he received
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Busola Dakolo, celebrity photographer, says she was forced by police at gun-point to sign a document countering her rape allegations against Biodun Fatoyinbo, senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) church. Busola, wife of Timi Dakolo, Nigerian singer, had alleged that the pastor had sexual relations with her when she was 16 going
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Members of the #TakeItBack movement say they have been allowed access to Omoyele Sowore, the movement’s convener who has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since Saturay. Ahead of a planned nationwide #RevolutionNow protest, Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 elections, was picked by the secret
A marriage counsellor, Mrs Adeyemi Omoseye, has attributed the high rate of divorce in Nigeria to the imitation of western culture through social media. Omoseye said this in Ilorin on Tuesday while speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. She said couples in Nigeria are used to shaping their lives after the
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Alex Asogwa aka Alex Unusual, BBNaija (S3) 3rd runner-up has been admitted into the New York Film Academy. Newsmen report that the 23 year old star, on Monday, revealed that she was currently studying film making at the prestigious institution. She shared her student identity card on Instagram @alex_unusual with the caption, “Been at it
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The Oyo State governor, Mr. Seyi Makinde, has set up a task force to immediately look into the current environmental situation at the popular Gbagi Market in Ibadan to curb the possibility of an epidemic. It should be recalled that Makinde’s administration has recently shown its displeasure over the unkempt state of the market as
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A housewife, Maryam Aliyu of Bashama road, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, on Tuesday dragged her ex-husband, Sani Ahmed, to a Sharia Court II, sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, over N37,000 debt owed her. Maryam asked the court to also confirm the divorce papers issued her on July 21, 2019. The plaintiff further urged the court to
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The management of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in Buachi has announced the shut down of the varsity in honour of the students who died as a result of a heavy downpour. Four students were killed while many others injured on Monday night after a pedestrian bridge collapsed at the Gubi campus. ICYMI: UniAbuja
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