Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, has declared Monday as a public holiday to mark the beginning of the new Islamic calendar, lst muharram 1446AH. The state Commissioner for Establishment, Alhaji Auwal Manu-Dogondaji, announced this through a statement issued in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital on Friday, 5 July, 2024. According to him, the 1st of Muharram is on a Sunday, due to the importance of the Islamic newyear, the government decided to shift the public holiday to Monday, 8 July, 2024. Manu-Dogondaji congratulated the Muslim Ummah on the advent of the new Islamic calendar, urging the Muslims to sustain fervent…
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An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Dolamu Babalogbon has ordered that a 30-year-old man, Olaniyi Sunday be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly raping a minor. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is facing a lone charge of alleged rape. The police prosecutor, Inspector Sodiq Adeniyi, told the court on Friday, 5 July, 2024 that the defendant allegedly committed the offence of raping a 12-year-old girl between April and June at Araromi in Omuo-Ekiti. According to Adeniyi, the defendant, a neighbour to the victim, saw her stealing meat in another neighbour’s pot and threatened to…
Licences Of 10 Private Jet Operators The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has given reason why it suspended 10 private jet operators in the country. According to NCAA, the development became necessary over their failure to begin the recertification process. The Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Mr Michael Achimugu, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Friday, 5 July, 2024 in Abuja. The agency said the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations 2023 Part 18.3.4 forbids holders of Permit for Non-Commercial Flights from using their aircraft for carriage of passengers, cargo or mail for hire or rewards (commercial operation…
Coastguards in Mauritania have recovered 89 bodies of migrants from a boat that capsized in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. Nine people – including a five-year-old girl – were rescued, but dozens more are missing. Survivors say the vessel – a traditional fishing boat – set sail last week from the Senegalese-Gambian border area with 170 people on board. It capsized off Mauritania’s south-western coast. Mauritania is a key transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe from West Africa, with thousands of boats departing from the country last year. The most common destination on the perilous route is Spain’s…
By Ibrahim Jagaba The Chairman of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Taskforce), CSP Akerele Adetayo, on Thursday, 4 July, 2024, extended the operations to enforce and ensure statewide compliance with the Lagos State Traffic Law to Lagos Island via Adeniji Adele. The Task Force Chairman personally led officers and men of the agency to purge and free up the popular Adeniji Adele bridge and its adjoining routes of traffic violations caused by unlawful and indiscriminate parking of vehicles by private and commercial motorists. According to Akerele, the operation was part of a broader plan to abate…
The lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara have declared their intention to appeal the recent Court of Appeal judgment regarding the jurisdiction of the Rivers State High Court in suit number PHC/1512/CS/2024, describing the ruling as a miscarriage of justice. Speaker of the pro-Fubara lawmakers, Victor Oko-Jumbo announced this during a plenary session held on Friday, 5 July, 2024 in Port Harcourt, the state capital. According to Oko-Jumbo, their legal team has been instructed to urgently appeal to the Supreme Court to challenge the Court of Appeal’s decision. He clarified that contrary to…
Afrobeats star, Abiola Ahmed Akinbiyi, popularly known as Bella Shmurda, has spoken on why he cannot collaborate with controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly addressed as Portable. According to Shmurda, he and Portable would have good song chemistry but he doubt about collaborating with the ‘Zazoo’ crooner because of his controversial nature. Speaking in a recent interview with Max FM, the ‘Cash App’ exponent said he was not ready for Portable’s “wahala.” “I feel me and Portable will blend on a song but I am not ready for wahala [problem] right now.” Portable of late has been embroiled in controversies since gaining…
British Jamaican rapper, Stefflon Don has finally opened up about reviving her relationship with Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Burna Boy. While speaking on her recent clash with fellow Jamaican star, Jada Kingdom, over Burna Boy in an interview with GRM Daily, Steff told the interviewer that he was “funny” after she wrongly interpreted his question about rekindling her relationship to mean Burna Boy rather than Jada whom the interview was referring to. Recall that Stefflon Don and Jada Kingdom threw shade at each other after the former, who was recently rumoured to have rekindled her love affair with Burna Boy, released…
The Bauchi Police Command has confirmed that it rescued a five-year-old boy reportedly chained by his father and starved for three days in the Gwallagan Mayaka area of the state. Neighbours of the father, Abubakar Nuhu aka Wanzam, were said to have alerted the police after they found the boy chained. The State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil confirmed the development through a statement issued on Friday, 5 July, 2024. According to Wakil, the ward head of Gwallagan Mayaka reported to the police on Wednesday, 3 July that he received information from a good Samaritan about…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extended warm congratulations to Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, on the victory of his party in the United Kingdom general election. As a former leader of the opposition in Nigeria himself, President Tinubu specially noted the determination and courage the incoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom demonstrated throughout his years in the opposition and as the leader of the Labour Party. The President stated that the party’s ability to reform, mobilize, and position itself for victory after 14 years clearly affirms the leadership qualities of Sir Starmer. President Tinubu also…