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The Kano State Government has banned an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabar Nasir-Kabara, for inciteful preaching. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, who announced the order in a statement on Thursday in Kano, said that the government considered the cleric’s mode of teachings as ”incendiary”. Garba also announced the immediate closure of all schools run by the cleric, pending investigations by security agencies. He said that the measure was part of the resolutions of the…
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A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has sentenced Opeyemi Folarin and Ogunseye Olamilekan for fraudulent impersonation. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office said it secured the conviction of the two accused persons on Wednesday. According to the EFCC’s Head, Media, and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, Folarin who claimed to be a 27-year-old Higher National Diploma student of The Polytechnic Ibadan, and Ogunseye who…
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The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has criticized the President, Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for his lethargy and failure to call Fulani herdsmen terrorizing Nigerians to order. He said Buhari is the President of Nigeria not the President of the Fulani tribe where he hails from. Ortom also noted that Buhari pledged to be the President of everybody and nobody in 2015 and therefore should serve the interest of all Nigerians. The governor, who spoke at…
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The Oworonshoki bound lane of the Third Mainland Bridge will be closed totally to vehicular movement by midnight on Saturday, February 6 till 7 pm on Sunday, February 7 to remove the last expansion joint on the Oworonshoki bound lane. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Transportation on Wednesday, the closure is necessary to enable the contractor to move its equipment to the Oworonshoki bound lane within the given period without any…
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The world’s longest internet shutdown – affecting more than a million people for 19 months in one of Myanmar’s ethnic conflict zones – has come to an end, according to a mobile operator based in the region. The internet in parts of Myanmar’s troubled northern states of Rakhine and Chin was suspended in June 2019 following “emergency” orders issued by the telecoms department under Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government. Following Monday’s military coup, mobile…