Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped two Judges of the Sharia Court in Zamfara state. The Chief Imam of Umar bin Khaddabi Jummu’at Mosque, Sheikh Umar Kanoma, raised the alarm while delivering Friday sermon. According to him, the two sharia court judges were travelling back to Gusau from Niger Republic where they are furthering their education. “We appeal to the Muslim Umma and the general public for prayers and safe release of the two kidnapped sharia court judges. They were abducted on their way back from Maradi in Niger Republic, where they attended lectures in pursuance of their education.” The Chief Imam…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 188 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country with total number of infections now 56,017. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Friday, adding that one new fatality also raised the death toll to 1,076. The agency said that the total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country had reached the 56,000 beachmarks. It said that till date, 56,017 cases have been confirmed, 43,998, discharged and 1,076 deaths recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It was stated that the 188 cases were reported from 18…
The Niger state government has discovered a fake commissioner of agriculture in the pay roll of the state that has been receiving salaries for two years. The state government has also sacked 80 civil servants for alleged gross misconduct. The Head of Service, Mrs Salamatu Abubakar said the fraud was discovered during the recent verification exercise for all civil servants. According to her, the 80 affected civil servants fraudulently paid themselves salaries above their level, adding that some of the other malpractices that were discovered were: an office messenger collecting the salary of a high court judge and a fake…
Governor Bala Mohammed is Bauchi state has revealed that there is monumental fraud in the salary system, with payroll fraud accounting for more than 35% of the total accounting fraud and employee theft in the state. The governor made the revelation at a media parley with stakeholders, held to discuss the challenges of salary payment in the state and local government councils on Thursday. According to him, “In the year 2015, the salary bill for Bauchi state combined was less than 4.5 billion. As I address you, we are near the N7 billion-mark. We have not employed. Even though some…
Billionaires Bill Gates and Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, have commended Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum for developing political will and giving attention to primary healthcare in spite of security challenges in the state. They commended the governor at live video conference of the mid-year review of Borno’s 2020 immunization and primary healthcare coverage, held at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation office in Abuja on Thursday. Participating at the conference were Zulum, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Ehanire; Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib; the Country Director of World Health…
Brazilian forward Neymar said on Friday he was “super happy” to return to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) training. His comments have come a day after the French Ligue 1 champions lost their delayed season-opener 1-0 to Lens. Neymar announced his return on Twitter having recently missed both training and Thursday’s game where PSG were also missing 2018 FIFA World Cup winner Kylian Mbappe. The French football federation said Mbappe tested positive for the coronavirus between the 2020/2021 UEFA Nations League matches involving France recently. These were against Sweden —- where he scored the winner —- and at home to Croatia —- where…
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp on Friday expressed his disagreement with the Premier League’s decision to return to a system of allowing up to three substitutes in a match instead of five. The German said it was not based on facts, and the well-being of players was not taken into consideration. In May, football’s rule-making body IFAB changed the regulations governing the maximum number of substitutes. This was to help teams battling fixture congestion as they looked to complete the season after a three-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. IFAB left it to individual leagues to decide if they wanted…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige to meet with the organised labour, to avert possible industrial crises due to increment in Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and electricity tariff. The minister made this known when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of a closed door meeting with President Buhari in Abuja on Friday. According to him, the meeting, which has been fixed for Sept. 12, will deliberate on state of the nation’s economy, particularly the dwindling government revenues as it affects the generality of Nigerians He stated that he updated the president…
The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said flood had killed 16 persons, destroyed 3,042 houses and several farmlands in the state. Alhaji Shehu Ningi, the Permanent Secretary of SEMA said on Friday in Bauchi that 11 out of the 20 local government areas of the state were affected by the flood. “The affected local government areas include: Shira, Dambam,Katagum, Jammare, Warji, Itas, Alkaleri,Bauchi ,Zaki Kirfi and Gamawa,” he said. He said that farmlands and crops including: maize, millet, guinea corn and rice were destroyed as a result of the flood. Ningi said that the state government has directed the…
Twelve persons have been confirmed dead in two separate boat mishaps in Shiroro and Borgu local government areas of Niger state. While 10 persons reportedly died in River Shiroro, in Shiroro local government, two other persons died in River New Awuru, in Borgu local government areas of Niger state, Wednesday evening. An witness, Malam Ibrahim Aliyu, told newsmen that the Shiroro incident occurred when 19 persons were returning from their farms, with their harvested rice and tubers of yam. According to him, the farmers ran into stormy waters, which made the boat to capsize, adding that local divers rescued seven…