The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has declined calls by presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar to join hands in fighting President Bola Tinubu’s certificate saga. Addressing a press conference on Friday in Abuja, the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Nwaeze Onu, said the NNPP will remain neutral in the…
Former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf, has been arraigned on fraud allegations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the five-count charge before Chinyere Nwecheonwu, judge of a federal capital territory (FCT) high court, on Monday. After the arraignment, O.I…
Three persons, including a pastor, have been killed in fresh attacks by bandits on Suwa and Ding’ak communities, Mushere chiefdom of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau state. The attacks were said to have occurred on Friday August 8, around 2pm. Kefas Mallai, Chairman of Community Peace Observers in Bokkos, confirmed the killings in an interview…
A coalition of Christian leaders, human rights advocates, academics and civil society groups under the aegis of Global Coalition for Freedom of Religion in Nigeria (GCFRN), has written an open letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, calling for urgent legislative action to address escalating religious-freedom violations that have now attracted intensified…
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shi’ite, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat, were on Wednesday, discharged and acquitted by a Kaduna State High Court after over five years in detention. The presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada discharged and acquitted them while ruling in a no case submission…
Prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, is said to be currently meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, according to reports by TheCable. The online news platform said Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, confirmed the meeting. “It is not just the two of them present; it is stakeholders meeting holding at…
