A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, awarded a N10 million fine against the detained Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abdul-jabbar Kabara, for filing a fundamental rights enforcement suit considered to be an abuse of court process. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment, directed that the money should be paid to the respondents in the suit; the Upper Sharia Court Kofa Kudu, Kano, and Kano State government. They are the 1st and 2nd respondents respectively. Justice Nwite also awarded the sum of N100, 000 against Kabara and to be paid by his counsel, Shehu Dalhatu, to the state government. The judge…
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Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Matthew Kukah on Monday, said Nigeria did not need a messiah in 2023, but a true leader who would give the whole country, irrespective of tribe, tongue, or faith, a sense of belonging and proper direction. He spoke in Abuja while delivering a keynote address at a forum on political communication and issue-based campaign in the 2023 general election, organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) and the Kukah Centre. According to him, the country’s identity politics had not been properly managed over time, adding that the tension…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has mapped out nationwide mass against the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The National president, Usman Umar Barambu in a statement obtained by ASHENEWS on Tuesday, said the protests have been scheduled to begin from September 19 through to October 11, 2022. Barambu further said that the protests will culminate in Abuja shutdown on a date to be communicated. “I convey to you solidarity greetings from the Leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the Apex/umbrella body of all students both at home and in Diaspora which…
A Federal High Court in Jalingo on Tuesday nullified the governorship primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that produced Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha as the candidate of the party for the 2023 general elections. An aspirant, Chief David Kente, approached the court challenging the conduct of the primaries and prayed the court to order a fresh primary among other prayers. Delivering judgment, Justice Simeon Amobeda, ordered that fresh primaries must be held for the position within 14 days. Amobeda said that the defendant could not convince the court that there was primary elections through which he emerged as the…
In what could be described as supporters harvest, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto state, has again received a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Aliyu Sanda Gudu Rinin Tawaye. Sanda who dumped the PDP along with 700 other supporters of the party, said his decision was informed by his refusal “to allow himself to be used in deceiving the people of the state by the incumbent government of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.” He was received into APC’s fold by APC Chairman in the state, Isah Sadiq Achida and APC governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto at the state…
A French court on Tuesday found three police officers guilty of manslaughter over the death of a black man in Paris in 2015. The court sentenced each to a 15-month suspended jail term. Amadou Koume, 33, died after he was pinned to the ground by officers in a bar and put in a chokehold. Koume was subsequently left on his front, his hands cuffed behind his back, for more than six minutes. In the order for reference consulted by AFP, the examining magistrate notes “the lack of discernment” of the officials who kept him on the ground for more than…
At least 21 people died in India’s eastern state of Bihar in incidents of lightning amid rains over the past 24 hours. An official at the state’s disaster management authority on Tuesday said that those who died were farmers or workers in agriculture fields who were busy sowing crops or engaged in other agriculture-related activities. Accordingly to the official, the deaths were reported around 10 districts in the state. Purnia and Araria both reported four deaths, three died in the Supaul district, two deaths were reported each from Banka, Jamui and Nawada, and one death occurred each in Begusarai, Sheikhpura,…
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday inaugurate Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) for Sustainable Development. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja, said the Nigerian leader would perform the inauguration on the margins of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77) in New York. Adesina said, ”Proposed within the broader Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) is a planning and delivery tool to finance sustainable development at the national level.” According to him, the INFF helps policymakers lay out a strategy to increase investments for sustainable development, manage financial and…
The United Nation’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced the release of $10 million under the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERT) for urgent aid to victims in a Northeast Nigeria food and nutrition crisis. This is contained in a statement by OCHA in Maiduguri on Monday. The UN says no fewer than 1.74 million children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in north east this year. “This CERF allocation is the latest in a concerted effort to address the food and nutrition crisis. In May 2022 CERF allocated $15 million to…
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis between them. Sanusi made the call in an interview in New York on the sidelines of a three-day Transforming Education Summit after he chaired an event tagged ‘Transforming Education through Grassroots Innovation: A Localised Teacher-Led Approach’ on the sidelines of the ongoning UN General Assembly. Sanusi, said ASUU strike could be addressed through dialogue, noting that the union needed to know that the longer it stayed out of school, it was…