The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over his failure to probe the allegations that over N1.48 trillion had been spent on the maintenance of four non functioning refineries. SERAP in the suit number FHC/L/CS/806/2022 filed last week at the Federal High Court Lagos, claimed that the funds purported to have been spent between 2015 and 2020 may have been stolen, mismanaged or diverted into private pockets. According to SERAP in a statement by Kolawole Oluwadare, its assistant director on Sunday, the federal government spent N10.23 billion in June 2020 on three refineries that produced…
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In the wake of tension following alleged case of blasphemy and the killing of a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, the Niger state governor and Chairman North Central Governors Forum (NCGF), Abubakar Sani Bello has appealed to Nigerians for calm. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje on Sunday, also directed the police and other security agencies in the state, to deal decisively with any individual or groups, who attempt to exploit the current situation to foment trouble. Deborah was buried in Tungan Magajiya, Rijau local government area of…
ASHENEWS – May 15, 2022: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 203, 879 tablets of various pharmaceutical opioids and illicit substances in raids across Abia, Kaduna, Yobe and Kogi States. The NDLEA said this in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr Fem Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the agency also foiled fresh bids by drug cartels to export Tramadol, Ecstasy MDMA and Cannabis to Milan, Italy and Dubai, United Arab Emirates through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. He said that five members of a syndicate, in the business of conducting fake…
As discussions around the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, Deborah Samuel Yakubu rage on, renowned Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said that the Holy Prophet Muhammad, was insulted by non Muslims at several points during his lifetime but refused to attack or even kill persons who assassinated his characters. Gumi made the comment during a religious teaching in his Kaduna Juma’at mosque. The Kaduna-based scholar, in a video clip obtained and translated by PRNigeria, said the prophet’s refusal to avenge the insults that non-Muslims were raining on him while he was alive,…
By Samuel Owooso The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), has alerted Nigerians that hackers can now unlock to steal vehicles. This was contained in a statement titled: “Hackers can unlock, steal your vehicles, NCC alerts Nigerians” signed by the director, public affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde on Sunday. According to NCC, the ongoing cyber-vulnerability allows a nearby hacker to unlock vehicles, start their engines wirelessly and make away with cars. The latest NCC advisory is released by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), the Cybersecurity Centre for the telecom sector established by the Commission. “The fact that car remotes are categorized…
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has said that university unions would consider the intervention of the Nigeria Interreligious Council (NIREC) and call off the lingering strike of university workers. The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke made this known through the ASUU’s Twitter handle @ASUU_NGN. According to him, that the unions would consider the appeal and make its decision known. He confirmed that NIREC appealed to the striking unions on Thursday, which he said were not new to ASUU. “It is an appeal and our members would consider it. It is not a request but…
ASHENEWS – MAY 14, 2022: The Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) has condemned the recently reported extra-judicial killing of a female student, Deborah Samuel at Sheu Shagari College of Education Sokoto. According to the Chief Missioner of the society, Imam Abdul Azeez Onike, to understand the anathema of the sad incident of extra-judicial punishment meted out to a lady in Sokoto recently, which resulted in her death, let us look at the following narration which depicts and represents the expected reaction of any follower of our Noble Prophet Muhammad (saws): Anas b. Malik reported: “While we were in the mosque with Allah’s…
ASHENEWS – May 14, 2022: Bishop of Sokoto diocese, Matthew Kukah has debunked news reports on social media that his residence has been set on fire in Sokoto state. On Saturday, some rioters had taken over major roads in Sokoto over the arrest of the suspected killers of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education. Some social media users have shared different posts, including videos and pictures, allegedly from the unrest in the state. The Catholic Broadcast Commission Nigeria, on its Facebook page with over 90,000 followers, made a post earlier in the day that Kukah’s…
ASHENEWS – MAY 14, 2022: Zamfara state governor, Bello Muhammad has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) reconciliation achieved in the state was attributable to God. There had been political hullabaloo between former governor Abdulaziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Marafa and governor Muhammad, which was recently resolved by the national headquarters of the party. Speaking with journalists at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport in Sokoto in a brief interview on Sunday, the governor said, “It was not my making but God’s. “Today, we are one united family working towards the success of the party in 2023. “With this reconciliation,…
ASHENEWS – May 14, 2022: The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu has disclosed that nine presidential aspirants from the All Progressives Congress (APC) were set to step down and support the presidential ambition of the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan. Kalu stated this in Abuja on Saturday that an influential presidential aspirant from the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is also planning to join the APC. Kalu, though did not list their names, was the first to drop his presidential ambition in support of Lawan on the grounds of failure of APC to zone…