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Farrakhan reacts to his ban on Facebook

May 11, 2019 8:29 am

Religious leader Louis Farrakhan is finding the audience for his message increasingly hard to reach, following his ban on Facebook. And he is angry.

“What have I done that you would hate me like that?” Farrakhan asked before an audience of more than 1,000 at Saint Sabina Church in Chicago on Thursday.

The head of the Nation of Islam — barred for years from Britain and blocked from mainstream TV — has been declared an undesirable by Facebook for his long record as an unrepentant merchant of anti-Semitism and homophobia.

Farrakhan’s black advocacy and mantra of self-reliance has lent him

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Ganduje disagrees with Northern elders’ recall of Fulani

BREAKING: Ado Bayero’s son, three others appointed Emirs

May 10, 2019 5:19 pm

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has appointed Aminu Ado Bayero, son of late emir of Kano Ado Bayero as the pioneer emir of the newly established Bichi Emirate.

Bayero held the title of Wamban Kano, a senior member at the Kano Emirate Council presided over by Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano.

In an announcement on radio stations, Ganduje was reported to have appointed three other emirs for Gaya, Rano and Karaye emirates.

Read also: I am not against Sanusi, Ganduje clarifies

The emir of Gaya is Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir Gaya, the emir of Rano is Alhaji Tafida Abubakar Ila …

Timi Frank warns

Timi Frank warns against creation of more emirates in Kano

May 10, 2019 11:12 am

Mr Timi Frank, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that the planned creation of more emirate councils by Kano State Government would destroy traditional institution in the state.

He gave the warning in a statement on Friday in Abuja, noting that the Kano emirate has been in existence since 1805.

He noted that one of the things that make the state thick is the emirate which represents the cultural heritage of the people and should not be destroyed for selfish reasons.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the State House of Assembly has passed

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Ganduje

I am not against Sanusi, Ganduje clarifies

May 10, 2019 10:52 am

Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje said he has nothing against the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II concerning the creation of new Emirates in the state.

“So, it is not vendetta, I am not against him. In fact, he is supposed to be reporting to the local government chairman according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the governor said in Abuja on Friday.

Ganduje Wednesday signed into law a newly passed bill on the appointment and deposition of emirs in the state.

The new law created four additional traditional institutions and emirate councils each with a substantive …

Jeff Bezos set to go to the moon

Jeff Bezos set to go to the moon

May 10, 2019 10:39 am

Jeff Bezos is ready to go to the moon. The Amazon CEO (who also just happens to be the world’s richest man) unveiled Blue Moon, a new spacecraft designed to land on the moon.

It’s made by Blue Origin, Bezos’ secretive rocket company. He took the wraps off a new rocket engine called BE-7, too. He not only wants people to go to the moon, he wants humans to be able to stay there to do work.

Read Also: Jeff Bezos, ex-wife agree $36 billion divorce deal

Bezos says humanity could solve some of its biggest problems, …

‘My wife pushed, slapped my mother’ - carpenter

‘My wife pushed, slapped my mother’ – Carpenter laments

May 10, 2019 10:05 am

A carpenter, Chijoke Okonkwo, on Friday prayed a Customary Court in Nyanya, accused his wife, Ifeoma of ill-treating his mother and prayed the court to dissolve the one-year marriage.

Okonkwo the petitioner, who resides in Jikwoyi pleaded with the judge, Jemilu Jega, saying, “I cannot leave with a woman who lacks home training.

“I took my wife to the village for my mum to teach her good values and how to be a good wife.

“Instead of my wife to learn, she became worse. She snatched my mother’s phone from while making a call, pushed and slapped her,” he said.…

BREAKING Appeal Court faults order used to dismiss Onnoghen

BREAKING Appeal Court faults order used to dismiss Onnoghen

May 10, 2019 9:51 am

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has faulted the ex-parte order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on which President Buhari acted in suspending former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.

A three-man panel of the court, led by Justice Stephen Adah, held that, since Onnoghen was not yet arraigned as at January 23, 2019 when the ex-parte order was made, it was wrong for the prosecution to have secretary went behind him to obtain an order for his removal from office.

Despite its observation, the court declined to set aside the order, noting that the …

US seizes a North Korean cargo ship

May 10, 2019 9:33 am

The United States has seized a North Korean cargo ship that’s suspected of being an integral part of the North’s alleged sanctions violations.

The ship, called the Wise Honest, hauled coal from North Korea that was sold in other countries, including China.

Read Also: North Korea demanded $2 million before releasing US student

The United States and United Nations say illicit coal sales help fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs. The ship’s seizure will only raise already heightened tensions between the two countries.

US efforts to get the North to drop its nuclear program have stalled, and in less than …

Chelsea Manning -us grand jury

Chelsea Manning regains freedom

May 10, 2019 9:19 am

Chelsea Manning is out of jail — for now. The former Army intelligence analyst had been locked up for about two months after refusing to testify to a grand jury about her disclosure of military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks.

Read Also: Court Jails Julian Assange for violating bail conditions

Manning was released Thursday from custody in a detention center in Virginia because the grand jury has disbanded. But she could soon return to jail because she received a separate subpoena while she was detained.

Her attorneys say she won’t testify in response to that subpoena either.

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Prince harry back to work

Prince Harry resumes work after son Archie’s birth

May 9, 2019 10:01 pm

Britain’s Prince Harry returned to work on Thursday, three days after the birth of his son, to mark one year until the 2020 Invictus Games, the international sporting event he founded for military personnel wounded in action.

The games, during which veterans take part in sports including wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, and indoor rowing, will be held in The Hague next year.
Harry, the Duke of Sussex, served in the British military, completing two tours in Afghanistan. The Invictus Games was first held in London in 2014.

Read Also: Royal Baby: Harry, Meghan reveal their baby to the world

Prince …

Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad

Supreme Court Justices, only answerable to God – Acting CJN

May 9, 2019 8:45 pm

The Supreme Court operates independently and is never dictated to by anyone, Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, said yesterday.

He said: “We take our time in taking notes and writing judgments to avoid making mistakes. We subject every case before us to intense debates and arguments during our conferences in order to be as dispassionate and objective as possible.

‘’Let me state clearly that we are not answerable to anybody and can never be intimidated by anybody whatsoever in taking our decisions.

“But for certain, we are only answerable to God Almighty because he is the …

Ogoni Land

Netherlands offers to support Nigeria on Ogoni clean-up

May 8, 2019 9:40 pm

The Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms. Marion Kappeyne, yesterday pledged her country’s readiness to support the Federal Government to clean-up decades-long oil spills in Ogoniland, Rivers State.

Ms. Kappeyne spoke in Ebube while inspecting ongoing remediation of one of the polluted sites in Ebube community, Eleme Local Government Area of the state.

According to her, the clean-up project was one of the Federal Government’s top priorities that needed the support of all.

She said: “I came to see things for myself rather than sitting in Abuja and just reading them in the newspapers. This part of the country (Niger Delta) …

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