Category: News
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Suspended Abuja Imam ‘Sacked’ (See Sack Letter)
Suspended Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at Mosque in Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has been sacked by the mosque’s Steering Committee for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over last Monday night’s attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train. The Steering Committee of the mosque on Monday disengaged him from the service in the mosque’s. They ascribed their…
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99% of People on Earth Breathe Poluted Air – WHO
A full 99 percent of people on Earth breathe air containing too many pollutants, the World Health Organization said Monday, blaming poor air quality for millions of deaths each year. Fresh data from the UN health agency showed that every corner of the globe is dealing with air pollution, although the problem is much worse…
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JAMB Increases Mock Fee Over Rising Cost of Diesel
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has increased fee for the 2022 mock Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination, UTME, CBT from N600 to N1,000 due to the rising cost of diesel in the country. The board made this disclosure in its weekly bulletin made available by the Head of Media and Public Relations, JAMB,…
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Winners of the 2022 Grammy Awards (Full List)
Winners of the 2022 Grammy Awards have been announced by the organizers, as Multi-talented Benin superstar, Angelique Kidjo won the Global Music Album category in the just concluded covet award. The win is the Beninese singer’s fifth of her 40-year-career. Kidjo’s ‘Mother Nature’ album, which earned her the Grammy, is her first album of original…
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Bandit Terrorists Shot Dead Son of Zamfara Commissioner For Security, Three Others
Fully armed bandits have reportedly shot dead son of Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs in Zamfara, DIG Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe (rtd). According to Daily Trust, the Commissioner’s son alongside three others were killed when bandits invaded Tsafe town, headquarters of Tsafe local government area of the state, on Sunday night. In recent time, Tsafe…
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Bola Ige Murder: Omisore Replies Wole Soyinka
The Nation All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore yesterday accused people he described as “drowning politicians” of spreading propaganda against him. He lamented that a decade after the Bola Ige murder case, Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka still referred to him as a prime suspect, despite being cleared by the court. Omisore,…
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Just In: Bar Outgoing Call on Sim Cards Not Link With NIN, FG Directs MTN, Airtel, Others
The Federal Government has issued fresh directives to telecommunications operators in the country including MTN, Globacom, Airtel, and 9mobile to bar all outgoing calls of all Subscriber Identification Module cards not yet linked with the National Identification Number effective today, April 4, 2022. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, announced this in a…
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Ex-corps Member Jailed For Stealing N3.1 Million Meant For Fellow NYSC Members in Osun
Justice Adepele Ojo of Osun State High Court 1, Osogbo, has sentenced a former Commandant of Osun State Disciplinary Corps, Mr Sola Oyedeji, to two years in jail with hard labour for stealing N3.1 million subvention meant for the salaries of members of the corps. Oyedeji was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other…
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Police Inspector, Two Worshipers Kidnapped in Ogun Mosque
A police officer, Inspector Kamarudeen Bello, who oubles as the chief Imam of a mosque at Soyoye in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, have been kidnapped by suspected gunmen along side two other Worshipers last week . The abducted officer is attached to one of the divisional police headquarters in Abeokuta, the…
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Suspension of Abuja Imam Not Surprising, UNIABUJA Chief Imam
The Chief Imam of the University of Abuja, Prof. Taofiq Azeez, has enjoined the suspended Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Abuja, Shiekh Nuru Khalid, not to be discouraged by his present ordeal. Recall that the fiery cleric, Sheikh Khalid was suspended after delivering a strongly-worded sermon on insecurity in some part of the…