Month: July 2022

KUJE JAILBREAK: Niger Police recaptures One Inmate in Suleja

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In view of the recent attack at Kuje Custodial Center and escape of some inmates, on 9/07/2022 about 2030hrs, Police operatives attached to ‘A’ Division Suleja while on patrol around General Hospital Suleja down to Bakasi area of Suleja and based on credible intelligence, the police operatives stormed an identified compound and arrested one Kazeem Murtala aged 54yrs. During interrogation, the inmate confessed that he escaped from Kuje Custodial Center during the attack where he was serving jail term after conviction for an offense he committed and he has been…

MURIC asks Oyo Govt to shelve planned screening for Oyo Teachers during Sallah Holiday,says it’ll exempt Muslim Applicants

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An Islamic Human Rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has kicked against the planned screening for Oyo state Teachers.   MURIC described the exercise as a ploy by the Oyo state Governor, Seyi Makinde to weed out newly employed Muslim teachers.   The Oyo State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has allegedly fixed Monday, 11th July, 2022 which is a Salah public holiday, for the screening of newly recruited teachers in the state.     MURIC stated this in a statement released by the Director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola,…

EID-EL-KABIR : Niger First Lady asks Muslims not to relent in prayers for sustainable peace

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Wife of Niger state Governor, Dr Amina Abubakar Bello has called on Muslim faithful not to relent in prayers for the return of sustainable peace in the state and the country as a whole.   The wife of the state Governor stated this while felicitating with Muslim ummah on this year’s Eid El Kabir celebration.   Doctor Amina Bello said the Eid el Adha taught complete faith in Allah, the need for sacrifice in order to gain His blessings and to attain greater heights in life.   She then urged…

Tinubu’s Indifference Or Ignorance of the Guardrails of our nationhood, By Onwuasoanya FCC Jones

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I should be glad to see my opponents make mistakes that will wreck whatever chances they had of defeating me in an election. So, I wouldn’t have made this post, if it were just for politics, but I am thinking of the nation beyond partisan prisms. I want Nigeria to survive, beyond wanting my candidate to win an election, and I am politically enlightened enough to know that no matter how passionate we are in our campaigns for different candidates, we can’t be sure of who will win at the…

Kuje: Did we hand over Nigeria to terrorists in 2015? By Festus Adedayo

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For those who watch the complicated Nigerian security mess from afar, the killing of Japanese ex-Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe in Nara, Japan last Tuesday and the ambushing, same day, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s advance convoy in Dutsinma, about 152 kilometres from his hometown of Daura, Katsina State, both speak to rising global insecurity. A few hours after on that same Tuesday, that joke went burst. Approximately three hours after shelling the president’s advance convoy with an assortment of bullets, killing two people in the process, around 10pm, terrorists stormed the…

2023: PDP AND HEALING GOV WIKE’S SELF-INFLICTED INJURY By Law Mefor

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The issue is the bruised ego of Gov Nyeson Wike who feels so wronged he is said to constitute the reason the return of the PDP to power is hanging in the balance. Some other political parties’ leaders are wooing Wike to join them, turning him into a beautiful bride of a sort. The electoral value and popularity of Wike are not in doubt. Twice, he won the guber election of Rivers, a swing state, by a landslide and in his second term launched his subtle presidential campaign by inviting…

Niger Govt is doing its best to end security challenges- CoS

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The Chief of Staff (CoS) to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Alh. Ibrahim Balarabe has disclosed that the state government was doing all it can to end security challenges bedevilling parts of the state. Balarabe made this known at an event in his honour, organized by youth groups in Minna, through the office of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor on Political Mobilization, Comrade Faruk Musa Muhammad. The CoS said that the size of the state and shortage of manpower has been the major problem hindering efforts towards ending…

Why I picked Shettima as my running mate – Tinubu

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All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate and National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday confirmed Senator Kashim Shettima as his Vice Presidential candidate.   Tinubu personally disclosed his choice to journalists at the Daura residence of President Muhammadu Buhari. The APC flag bearer arrived Daura Sunday afternoon to pay Sallah homage to President Buhari who arrived his home town on Friday.   Senator Shettima is former Governor of Borno State and a close associate of Tinubu who has been a staunch supporter and campaigner for the choice of Tinubu as…

When the subject sees through the king, by Hassan Gimba

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In January 2019, the Daily Trust newspaper had its Maiduguri office shut down by the military over its reportage on the fight against insurgency. This made me think about governments and the failure of leadership, or, aptly, the king whose subjects saw through him. And so on January 14, 2019, on this page, under the title “The Military, Press and War Against Insurgency,” I gave that brief story. There is this fable of a king who, together with his palace courtiers and subjects, was scammed by a con artist who knew…

EID-EL-KABIR: Hon Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu calls for prayers for Nigeria

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Founder BASA foundation, Hon Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu has called on Muslim faithfuls to continue to demonstrate fear of God, promote Unity and show love to others. This she said,was a key ingredient in building a better Nigeria.   Bolanle Sarumi in her Sallah message made available to newsmen noted that, the essence of Eid-El-Kabir was the demonstration of the fear of Allah by Prophet Ibrahim (ASW) and his son, Prophet Ismail (ASW). ‘If all of us can imbibe the fear of Allah, then our society will be better. Our country will…