Mallam Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, has accused the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) of whipping up sentiments and diverting attention from its terrorist activities. Abdullahi Musa, secretary to the academic forum of the movement, had said the federal government planned to stop the sect from practising its religion. In a statement on Sunday, Shehu said […]
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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), better known as shiites has said the federal government cannot stop the group from practising its religion. Abdullahi Musa, secretary to the academic forum of the movement, said this in response to the declaration of IMN as a terrorist organisation by a federal high court in Abuja. The court made […]
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The governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed, has tied the knot with Natasha Mariana, a Lebanese-Nigerian woman, in a stunning wedding ceremony in Lagos. The wedding ceremony held at the Syrian mosque in Ikoyi, on Friday. The lavish event attracted a plethora of political figures and bigwigs within and across the confines of the country’s […]
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More than 5,000 participants and 60 speakers across 3 continents converge at the largest gathering of African entrepreneurs 150 SME owners from across 20 African countries exhibit at the UBA Marketplace At the recently concluded 5th edition of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum, five African Presidents and thousands of young African entrepreneurs converged at […]
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A 41-year-old woman, Mrs. Shakirat Rasheed, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself over her friend’s failure to pay back a loan she stood surety for. The incident occurred on Friday in Adeosun area of Apete, a surbub of Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital. According to sources, the deceased who stood surety for a loan […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has secured a court order to proscribe the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). Justice Nkeonye Maha, the vacation judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, issued the order in a ruling in which she also designated the activities of the Shiite organisation in any part of Nigeria “as acts of […]
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The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has said he is hopeful that the country will be better than it is. Buhari stated this at the end of the Presidential Policy Dialogue meeting which held on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The President noted that the 10 strategic initiatives proposed at the meeting would […]
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The senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, says the Federal Government is making contact with the captors of the aid workers in Borno state. Insurgents suspected to be members of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) had attacked a convoy of aid workers in Damasak, Borno […]
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Some stern insurgents suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect struck at Dalori internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, on Thursday night. An eyewitness told newsmen that the attack took place around 9pm. The witness said suicide bombers first struck before gunmen opened fire from different directions. The […]
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NIGERIA – The Senate on Thursday screened 14 ministerial nominees, bringing to 24 the total number of nominees screened after 10 were screened on Wednesday. Of the 10 screened on Wednesday, six were asked to ‘take a bow’. And of the 14 screened on Thursday, 10 were given the same special treatment of not asking […]
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