The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Tuesday inaugurated 2022 anti-corruption shadow report on progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 in Nigeria. SDG 16 is about peace, justice and strong institutions. The SDGs Shadow Report 2022 was launched on the sidelines of 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Speaking on the Report, the Executive Director of CISLAC, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani said there were improvement in two indicators in 2022 in measuring SDG 16 as compared to three in 2021 and six in 2019. “This improvement, which can be seen in the policy…
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The People of Mariga town in Mariga local government area of Niger state are searching for more than 500 corpses washed away from the cemetery. This was disclosed by the Chief Imam of Mariga Central Mosque, Alhassan Na’ibi while speaking in a telephone interview on Tuesday. He said “we are now searching for over 500 corpses buried in a cemetery in Mariga town who we believe were washed away by flood in Mariga.” Nai’bi said the community was in total confusion as it had to relocate about 100 other corpses from the cemetery to another burial ground to curb the happening. The…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has invited some top government functionaries to a meeting with a view to resolving the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Gbajabiamila made this known after five hours closed door meeting between the leadership of the house and ASUU on Tuesday in Abuja. Those invited are, the Account General of the Federation, the Auditor General of the Federation, the Director General of National Information Development Agency (NITDA) and his counterpart in National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission. He said that the government officials are to appear on Thursday, September…
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State has sentenced a banker, Blessing Bassey to seven years imprisonment for stealing N2.68 million from a bank. The Chief Magistrate , F.M. Kayode-Alamu sentenced Bassey following her change of plea from not guilty to guilty. Bassey, an employee of one of the old generation banks, stole the sum from her employer from April 15 to April 20 at Iddo, Ebute Meta, in contravention of Section 287(9) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. Bassey had pleaded not guilty to a count charge of stealing on arraignment on April 22. The count granted…
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…
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…