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Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:35:30 +0000
Hisbah Bans Use Of Mannequins For Display Of Clothes By Tailors, Boutique Owners In Kano
The Kano State Hisbah Board has banned the use of mannequins to display clothes by tailors, supermarkets and boutique owners in the state. Hisbah Commander-in-Chief, Ustaz Harun Muhammad Sani Ibn Sina, disclosed this in a statement on Wednes...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:34:20 +0000
Taking University Entry Exam Yearly In Nigeria Seems Exploitative — Scholar, Kperogi
File Photo A Nigerian academic and media scholar, Farooq Kperogi has urged the Joint Admissions and m Matriculation Board to allow test scores for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to have at least a two-year validity period....

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:13:20 +0000
Kano Hisbah Arrests Man Who Stopped Praying After Officials Forcibly Shaved His Hair For Being 'UnIslamic'
The Kano State Hisbah Board says it has arrested a young man identified as Muhammad Ikbal who stopped praying and going to the mosque after operatives of the Islamic police shaved his hair. Sharing the photos of Mohammed, Hisbah Commander-in...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:02:28 +0000
How Boko Haram, ISWAP Groups Are Recruiting Via Social Media ― Nigeria's Security Adviser
Babagana Monguno The National Security Adviser, Maj Gen Babagana Monguno (retd.), has raised the alarm that terrorist organisations like the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are recruiting and radicalising vulnerable Nigerian...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:48:36 +0000
Igbo–British Lawyers Give Nigerian Government Ultimatum To Return Nnamdi Kanu To UK, Berate Kenya’s Involvement In Arrest
A group of Igbo lawyers resident in the United Kingdom has described as illegal the arrest and detention of Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian government. The legal practitioners under the auspices of the Coalition of Igbo-British Lawyers condemned...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:39:33 +0000
Nigeria’s Problem is Nigerians; Not Ethnicity, Religion – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the problem confronting Nigeria is Nigerians, and not ethnicity or religion as being opined in some quarters. Buhari noted that Nigerians should be blamed for the injustices rather than ethnicity or...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:29:00 +0000
Sexual Assault: American Actor, Bill Cosby To Be Released From Prison After Court Overturns Conviction
Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. Cosby has served more than two years of a three- to...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:48:24 +0000
Appeal Court Upholds 7-year Jail Term For Former Electoral Officer Over N362million Bribe From Ex-Minister, Diezani
The Court of Appeal, Yola Division, Adamawa State has affirmed the conviction of Ibrahim Mohammed Umar, a former electoral officer with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Yola South Local Government Area.  A stateme...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:49:12 +0000
REVEALED: Faces Of Inspector-General Of Police's Seven-Man Committee Members Set Up To Crush IPOB, ESN
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, in April 2021 set up a seven-man committee of top police officers whose responsibility is to dislodge the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its milita...

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:35:20 +0000
Lagos Court Jails Undergraduate For 21 Years Over Robbery, Rape Of Virgin Students
An undergraduate of Lagos State University, Afeez Ogunbowale, has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja. Ogunbowale was sentenced by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo on Tuesday after he was found guil...



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