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A bill seeking to make Sharia law not just a personal matter in the constitution has been rejected in the House of Representatives. The bill seeks to amend sections 24, 262 and 277 of the Constitution by removing “personal” in the application of Sharia law. The sponsor of the bill, Aliyu Missau, said commercial entities […]
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga has said except for the ongoing reform, Nigeria’s economy would have ended up like that of Somalia. Onanuga spoke on Thursday while reacting to the public outcry on economic hardship occasioned by some policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led government. […]
President Bola Tinubu has appointed seven new ministers to his cabinet. The new appointments were announced in a statement issued by the presidency after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday. Bianca Odinaka Odumegu-Ojukwu was appointed as minister of state foreign affairs while Jumoke Oduwole was assigned to the ministry of industry, […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Zamfara State has declined a request for an ex parte order by a faction backed by the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Governor Bala Mohammed, to hold the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. The group approached the court for an order to hold the […]
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned Abdullahi Ganduje, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to exercise caution in his attempt to impress his party’s stalwarts. The Osun PDP also warned Ganduje to pay serious attention to the political history of the Southwest to assist him in […]
Gunmen suspected to be bandits with sophisticated weapons unleashed an attack on workers of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, along the Gusau-Funtua road on Sunday. The workers were heading to Abuja for an official assignment when the bandits attacked them. The coordinator of the commission was abducted along with others and taken […]
Singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has broken the record for the biggest streaming day on Spotify Nigeria. This is as his new single, ‘Piece of My Heart’ featuring American R&B star, Brent Faiyaz, becomes the first song to hit the 1 million stream mark on Spotify Nigeria. The song recorded 1.016 million streams on Spotify […]
President Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after spending two weeks in the United Kingdom (UK) for vacation. The president arrived at the nation’s capital, Abuja, on Saturday evening. Olusegun Dada, special assistant to the president on social media, announced Tinubu’s arrival in a post on his X page. “The eagle has […]
The Kano state Hisbah board says its operatives have arrested Auwal Sankara, the Jigawa commissioner for special duties, over an alleged illicit affair with a married woman in Kano. Abba Sufi, the director general of the Kano Hisbah board, told journalists on Friday that operatives arrested the commissioner at an uncompleted building he owns […]
Orji Kalu, the senator representing Abia north, says President Bola Tinubu knows that Nigerians are experiencing economic hardship. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Thursday, Kalu said Tinubu moves around Abuja, the country’s capital, to feel the people’s pulse. The senator said the current economic hardship in the country is not […]