Aisha Alkali Wakil aka ‘Mama Boko Haram‘ has been ordered to testify orally in her defense rather than through writing by Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri in her ongoing trial for alleged fraud.
Before now the EFCC which is prosecuting the matter has closed its case against Wakil and her co-defendants on February 11, 2021, while the matter was adjourned to March 1, 2021, for the defendants to open their defense.
However, in a surprising twist, rather than open their defense on March 1, 2021, Wakil filed an application seeking the leave of …
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for directing security agents to shoot anyone illegally bearing AK47 rifles.
Africa Daily News, New York reported that Buhari also directed the suppression of bandits who have refused to surrender.
Reacting, Ortom who spoke during a function at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi stated that the Buhari’s order would reduce the level of criminality, banditry and militia herders’ attacks on Benue communities as well as other parts of the country.
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According to the Governor, the order would also …
The Federal Government has said Nigerians will not be mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccination. Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora disclosed this yesterday during a chat on Arise Tv.
‘Nothing will be made mandatory. It’s optional. The choice is yours. Nobody will be forced to take any vaccine,’ he said.
Asked if it might become mandatory later, Mamora said, “If that happens, it would not be a decision of Nigeria.”
According to him, just like Yellow Card certificate, countries might have to start demanding a COVID-19 vaccination certificate before allowing outsiders in.
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The Nigeria Red Cross Society has said some residents of Yewa axis of Ogun State now sleep in Benin Republic to avoid being killed by herdsmen terrorising the area.
The Red Cross said the people relocated to the neighbouring country following attacks by suspected herdsmen.
The Ogun State executive branch secretary of the Red Cross, Oluwole Aboyade, said this on Wednesday.
Aboyade said he and his team visited the troubled areas – Igbooro, Asa, Moro, Ibeku and Agbon-Ojodu, lamenting that the people of Yewa were ‘living in unfavourable condition’.
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U.S. President Joe Biden made has made calls with a number of African leaders snubbing Nigerian president Muhamadu Buhari in a move that has raised eyebrows.
Mr. Biden reached out to Africa Thursday after more than a month in office and a flurry of phone calls to American allies around the world.
He spoke to President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, while Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday.
Mr. Biden had earlier spoken to President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa in November 2020, days after his election.
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Telecommunications network MTN Nigeria has announced that it enrolled 37.2 million National Identification Numbers (NINs) for its subscribers in the ongoing exercise of linking the number with the Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card.
Recall that the federal government had on February 1, 2021, put the total figure of NINs received by all mobile network operators, at 56.18 million, up from the initial 47.8 million NINs received as of January 18.
With the 37.2 million NINs received by MTN alone, the telecoms company has assured the federal government of its commitment to speed up the NIN-SIM linkage exercise, as mandated by …
Popular Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko has been arrested by state forces, this was confirmed by his lawyer on Wednesday.
The politician is being accused of disturbing public order and breach of peace in the capital, Dakar, as he travelled to court for a hearing in a rape case.
Owing to his popularity, his motorcade was followed by hundreds of chanting supporters, who were dispersed by police with teargas.
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British Boxer Anthony Joshua and Tyson Furry are expected to meet this summer – in June or July – to determine the division’s first undisputed ruler since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
The fight will likely be held in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia in pole position having hosted Joshua’s rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019 and being favoured by the Nigerian born Briton.
The alarming COVID-19 figures in Brazil has prompted the state of Sao Paulo to announce new ‘code red’ COVID-19 restrictions, as Wednesday saw the country register a new single-day record number of coronavirus-related deaths for the second straight day.
According to the country’s health ministry on Wednesday, 1,910 additional deaths and 71,704 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours in the South-American country.
It was the second consecutive day that Brazil registered a record high number of deaths.
‘For the first time since the pandemic began, we are seeing a deterioration across the entire country,‘ …
President Emmanuel Macron of France, on Wednesday admitted that French soldiers actually murdered a top Algerian independence figure then covered up his death as part of its colonial-era crimes over 60 years ago.
Macron when meeting four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted ‘in the name of France‘ that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on March 23, 1957, this is according to official sources from Paris on Tuesday.
The previous lie with successive French governments have always sustained was that he had committed suicide while in detention, a lie that his …
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has declared that it is an injustice to clamp down on the activities of the Eastern Security Network while the Fulani who carry AK-47 rifles are allowed to go about with arms committing heinous crimes.
Ortom stated this in an interview with BBC News Pidgin.
According to him, the treatment meted out to the ESN, the Indigenous People of Biafra, and its leader Nnamdi Kanu, should be the same for Fulani people who carry guns.
‘Why should they allow Fulani from a foreign land to come to Nigeria to disturb us?’ Ortom queried.
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The House of Representatives In Nigeria on Wednesday raised serious concerns about the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in some African countries.
To this effect, the House has mandated the Ministry of Health to enhance surveillance at all entry points into the country so as to provide prompt response to any suspected case of Ebola coming from neighbouring countries, especially Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The House also charged the health ministry to do whatever they can to create awareness about the virus.
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The lower chamber …
