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There is fear in Sokoto metropolis as protesters in their hundreds trooped into the streets today to express their dissatisfaction over the detention of some Muslims in connection with Deborah Samuel’s killing. The protesting Muslim youths face-off security personnel at the Sultan’s palace. Major streets such as Ahmadu Bello Way, Kano Road, where banks are located and Emir Yahaya Road, …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will replace the 10 members of his cabinet who have resigned from their positions to contest various elective offices in next year’s general elections. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents shortly after the President held a valedictory meeting with nine of the concerned ministers at …

The Delta State High Court sitting in Kwale division has granted an order restraining the Board of Central Bank of Nigeria and Independent National Electoral Commission from stopping the CBN governor, Godwin Emiefele from seeking an elective post. Emefiele had gone to the court to obtain a Court order to enable him to stay in office while contesting for the …

Presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar, has distanced himself from a tweet condemning the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a Christian 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, who was killed for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. Atiku, who is running for President on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, had taken to Twitter to condemn the mob action, saying, “There …

African, Caribbean and Pacific States should engage more among themselves and collectively review and address issues affecting them especially issues relating to peace, security, climate change and debt relief, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN). Prof. Osinbajo stated this today when he received the Secretary General of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Mr Georges Rebelo …

Edo Peoples Democratic Party’s three-man Local Government Congress Appeal Panel, headed by Mr. Immanuel Penda, on Friday, submitted its report to the state’s chairman of the PDP, Tony Aziegbemi.The report was submitted to the party chairman at the Edo PDP Secretariat in Benin City, in the presence of other top officials of the party in the state.Presenting the panel’s report, …

…Barricade Ife-Ibadan, Nsukka-Opi-Enugu highways …As Buhari begs ASUU to consider students’ plight, call off strike Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, and their counterparts at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, yesterday took to the highways, stopping vehicular movements in protest against the protracted strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. While the OAU …

• FG releases detailed categories of persons expected to resign• Emefiele meets Buhari, says there will be news soon• Political appointees sue APC, INEC over disqualification threats• Afenifere: You’ve done well by asking appointees to resign but apply same decisiveness to insecurity, ASUU Ministers affected by the presidential directive to resign after declaring their interest to contest in 2023 general …

The Sokoto State Police Command said it has arrested two suspects in connection with the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education who was lynched by a mob on Thursday. Ms Samuel was said to be 200 level student of the Department of Early Childhood Education in the college. The victim was accused of blasphemy against Muhammad, a …

Senator Shehu Sani, yesterday, said the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government has failed in the fight against insecurity despite spending N4.2 trillion on defence and security in seven years. Sani in Asaba as a guest speaker at a two-day seminar/workshop on “Good Governance and Democratic Sustainability Vis-a-Vis Electoral Process,” organised by the Asaba Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union …