archiveAugust 2020

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), in Lagos on Friday described the withdrawal of invitation to Nasir el-Rufai to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference as “parochial, myopic and jejune”. MURIC director,  Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statment, said that the NBA, as a learned group should know better, adding that...

Several human rights advocates, including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, hailed the Nigerian Bar Association for withdrawing its invitation to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who was scheduled to speak at its Annual General Conference next week. The NBA in a tweet on Thursday said it had decided to...

Human right lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State lacks the moral right to speak at the 60th Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, conference. Falana said El-Rufai has a penchant of disobeying court orders right from when he was a Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,...

The British High Commission in Nigeria has reopened its visa Application Centres across the country. The Commission made the announcement in a statement released via its Twitter account on Thursday, adding that there would be free visa replacement which will be open till December 2020 and covers individuals who will...

The Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has said the withdrawal of his invitation to speak at this year’s Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference, is an “unfortunate embrace of injustice”. El-Rufai said this in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Muyiwa Adekeye, on Thursday. The NBA withdrew the invitation, following...

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 476 new cases of the Coronavirus  disease (COVID-19) outbreak in the country. The NCDC confirmed this through its official Twitter handle on Thursday. The agency said that seven deaths were recorded in the country. NCDC said that till date, 50,964 cases...

The Nigeria Police Force has called on all candidates who successfully completed the online recruitment registration exercise, in the ongoing recruitment of constables, to proceed for physical and credential screening scheduled to hold between 24th August, 2020 and 6th September, 2020, across the federation. According to a statement by the...

...urges peaceful coexistence Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has felicitated Muslim faithful in the state on account of the New Year Hijrah 1442 AH, which begins Friday, 21 August, 2020. He wished Muslims in the state, Nigeria and across the world a new year filled with blessings and benevolence...

 Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) maintained positive trend on Thursday for the third consecutive day, as its indices increased further by 0.13 per cent. Specifically, the All-Share Index increased by 33.28 points 0.13 per cent to close at 25,204.60 compared with 25,171.32 achieved on Wednesday. As a result,...

The National Economic Council (NEC) says 16 states have so far received N100 million grant each from the World Bank to ease the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown. Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa virtually briefed State House correspondents after the virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo...