Aisha Buhari has withdrawn her case against a final year student of the Federal University Dutse (FUD) Aminu Adamu aged 24. Adamu, a student of studying Environmental Management was arrested by the police in Dutse for allegedly posting a defamatory tweet on his Twitter handle against Mrs Buhari. The tweet posted in the Hausa language on June 8, 2022 translated to: “Mama is feeding fat on poor people’s money.” Adamu who has been detained and allegedly tortured for two weeks in Abuja, was arraigned on Tuesday before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, where…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a $1 billion arms sale to Qatar in a transaction unveiled during halftime of the key World Cup 2022 match in Doha between Iran and the United States. The State Department announced it had signed off on Qatar’s purchase of 10 defensive drone systems, 200 interceptors and related equipment just as the second half of the US-Iran game began. Qatar, along with other Gulf Arab states, faces threats from Iranian-backed proxies in the region. The department said in a statement the sale would “support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United…
The federal government has revealed that it released N625.43 billion as 13 percent oil derivation funds to the states in the Niger Delta region. ASHENEWS reports that states in the Niger Delta region include Rivers, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo and Ondo. A statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media & Publicity on Friday said nine oil-producing states received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation as well as subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation Account in the last two years, 2021-2022. According to data from the Federation…
The Naira on Thursday exchanged at 445.83 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, a depreciation of 0.12 per cent, compared with the 445.30 it exchanged on Wednesday. The open indicative rate closed at N444.60 to the dollar on Thursday. An exchange rate of N447 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N445.83. The naira sold for as low as 422 to the dollar within the day’s trading. A total of N99.50 million was traded at the official Investors and Exporters window on Thursday.
The management of the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos, has suspended the ongoing “Students’ Week” due to the shooting incident which occurred on Wednesday in the college. Mr Joe Ejiofor, Deputy Registrar of YABATECH said on Thursday that the step became necessary to restore sanity as the event attracted an influx of miscreants and non-students in the school. Ejiofor, also the Head of Public Relations unit of YABATECH, expressed discontentment over the incident. He said the person who was shot was not a student of YABATECH and that shooter had been apprehended. “Truly there was a problem that resulted…
Twitter Inc on Friday suspended Kanye West’s account again, just two months after the rapper’s account was reinstated, as his tweets violated the social media platform’s rules. Twitter-owner, Elon Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, had welcomed the return of the rapper, now known as Ye, to the platform in October. In his latest tweet earlier on December 1, Musk said “I tried my best in spite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence his Account will be suspended.’’ Twitter late on Thursday also restricted one of Ye’s tweets. His account was suspended within an…
The Imo Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has blamed the thriving activities of touts and passport racketeers in the state on the location of its office complex in Owerri. The state Comptroller of NIS, Mrs Nkechi Ezugwu said this in an interview in Owerri on Thursday. Ezugwu said that the office, which is situated in the midst of about 60 other federal establishments, was exposed to the illegal activities of touts and racketeers. She said that the porous nature of the location made it difficult for the command to effectively check the movement of persons within and outside…
The Executive Director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Ms Natalia Kanem on Thursday said that the HIV virus and other pandemics would continue to ravage the society until inequalities are ended. Kanem said this on the occasion of the World AIDS Day (WAD), in a statement issued to journalists by Kori Habib, UNFPA Media Associate in Abuja. She explained that Pandemics thrive on the fault lines of inequalities. “Ending inequality must therefore be a keystone of our public health response to ending AIDS and COVID-19 and averting future pandemics. “HIV prevention initiatives must encompass ending gender-based violence, balancing unequal power…
Nigeria is planning to host the 2022 West Africa Sitting Volleyball Championship with teams expected to arrive on December 10. The competition, being organised by the West Africa ParaVolley, will be hosted by the Nigeria ParaVolley Federation under the leadership of Kayode Ladele. Ladele, the Paravolley President Nigeria, gave this indication on Thursday in a statement he made available to newsmen in Lagos. According to the statement, the Technical Meeting for participating teams will be held on December 11. Similarly, the Para Beach Volleyball will be launched in Nigeria the next day. Clubs from the Republic of Benin and Ghana…
The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has said about 74 per cent of children in Jigawa State were multi-dimensionally poor. The Chief of UNICEF Kano Field Office (KFO), comprising Kano, Katsina and Jigawa, Mr Rahma Farah, stated this at the launching of the state’s 2022 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in Dutse on Thursday. “Today we have gathered in Jigawa to launch the findings and results of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 6) for the Jigawa state. “This MICS survey was carried out in 2021 and the results are released in August 2022. “MICS is a survey carried out at the household level…