Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, says he will sign the execution warrant of a 30-year-old man, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, sentenced to death by hanging by an Upper Shari’a Court. Aminu was sentenced to death by the Court after his conviction of blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad, under Section 382 (b) of the Kano State Penal Code Law 2000. Ganduje, who spoke at a special stakeholders forum on Thursday in Kano, said that he would not hesitate to sign the execution order at the expiration of the 30-day grace, if the convict failed to appeal the judgment. “If the 30 days elapsed…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has commenced the sales of foreign exchange to the Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in the country. The CBN made this known in a circular signed by Dr Ozoemena Nnaji, Director Trade and Exchange Department, and addressed to authorised dealers and BDC operators on Thursday. The bank said the step was part of efforts to enhance accessibility to foreign exchange, particularly to travellers following the announcement of the limited resumption of international flights by Minister of Aviation. “The CBN hereby wishes to inform the general public that gradual sales of foreign exchange…
Japanese longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has resigned, citing health reasons. He announced his decision at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday, while apologize to the people of Japan for being unable to fulfill his duties during the coronavirus pandemic. “Even though there is one year to go in my tenure and there are challenges to be met, I have decided to stand down as prime minister,” he said. Abe suffers from colitis, a non-curable inflammatory bowel disease, which was also a factor in his sudden resignation as prime minister in 2007, ending his first term after just over a year…
President Muhammadu Buhari, has again joined other Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, in an emergency virtual extraordinary summit over the ongoing political crisis in Mali. The ECOWAS leaders earlier met via video conferencing on Aug. 20, to deliberate on same matter where they called for immediate release of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali, and a return to Constitutional order in the country. The ousted Malian president, Keita, was released from detention by the military junta on Aug. 27 in line with the request of the ECOWAS leaders. The ongoing summit…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said that sexual predators have turned the blessings in the student-educator fiduciary relationship of authority, dependency and trust to a source of torment He stated this while delivering a keynote address at the Conference on Sexual Violence in Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. Omo-Agege explained that the concern informed his decision to sponsor the Sexual Harassment Bill in the Senate. Citing jurisdictions in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia with laws that specifically penalize sexual harassment in educational institutions of higher learning, he noted that the…
What I hear on a daily basis is that the Nigerian State has died or is dying and people want the remnants shared out so they can try to save their portion. There is a basis for concern on the survival of the Nigerian State because the prevailing insecurity and sense of injustice has never been so dire, or so we think. I always say break up is not an option because we cannot slice up the country without an all-consuming war about how and where to slice. Our only real option is to fix our dear country and live…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Thursday night announced 296 new cases of COVID-19. The Centre through its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov said the total had rose to 53,317. Of the new cases, Plateau, of the 17 states, maintained its lead for third day running with 85 cases, with Enugu and Oyo recording 46 and 31, respectively. Others are Lagos-21, Rivers-20, FCT-15, Kaduna-13, Bauchi-12, Delta-11 and Ekiti-11. Others are Akwa Ibom-7, Ebonyi-6, Kwara-5, Ogun-4, Osun-4, Gombe-3, Niger-2. A total of 40,726 persons have been discharged and 1,011 recorded as deaths.
By Senator Ibrahim Ida If it is painful to lose a friend, it is surely a million times more staggering, bewildering, shattering and confusing to lose a friend, a companion, a non-blood brother, a confidant and someone you have known most of your life. That was what happened to me during the late hours of Monday, August 17, 2020. That was when Malam Wada Abdullahi Maida (OON), a former Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the then Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, a former staff and ultimately Managing Director (MD) of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN); and until…
Chelsea has confirmed that six of their players have tested positive for novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The club’s 2019/20 campaign ended after they were eliminated from the champions league round of 16 stage by FC Bayern Munich and some players spent their holiday in different countries despite the global pandemic. According to goal.com, a number of Chelsea FC players have gone into quarantine following the development and the names of those who have contracted the virus are yet to be revealed. The 2020/21 premier league season is due to start on Saturday, September 12th and Chelsea would begin their campaign away…
The Federal government, has announced the shift on resumption date for international flights. The Director-General, DG, of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu, said on Thursday that the August 29 date has now been postponed to September 9. Making the announcement during the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19, the DG added that the new date is sacrosanct!