archiveAugust 2020

 The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria,  has urged Kano State Government to execute the court judgement that found a singer guilty for blasphemy. In a statement signed by its Secretary General, Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, Tuesday in Kaduna, the Shari’ah Council said executing the judgement will serve as deterrent to others....

Financial experts on Tuesday expressed concerns on the country’s rising inflation rate currently at 12.82 per cent, and called for stabilisation of the exchange rate. The experts spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. They reacted to July inflation figure released by the National Bureau of Satistics...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed that Nigerian banks have been able to recover about N50.32 million bad loans from debtors within nine-day the country commenced the operations of the Global Standing Instruction (GSI). The CBN Director of Financial Policy and Regulation, Kevin Amugo, who made the revelation...

  An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 55-year-old man, Abdulrouf Akande, who allegedly defiled a 10-year-old girl, be remanded in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, Lagos, pending legal advice. The police charged Akande, who resides at No. 5 Agric Road, Egan Igando, Lagos, with defilement. Chief Magistrate...

Nigeria’s request for a $1.5 billion budget support facility from the World Bank may not be granted approval in August as anticipated due to the concerns over desired reforms. This is according to sources privy to the talks which discussed with Reuters on Monday. A delay in financing from multilateral...

Nigerian music star, Wizkid, has ‘smiled’ his way into the ears of Barack Obama, making the former U.S. president’s 2020 summer playlist. Wizkid, whose real name is Ayodeji Balogun, is at No. 15 with his new single “Smile”, featuring American Grammy winner, H.E.R. Obama shared the selection with his followers...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread in Asia-Pacific region is being spread by young people between ages 20 and 40 who are unaware they are infected because they have no or mild symptoms, WHO warned on Tuesday. Takeshi Kasai, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director based in Manila, said because many...

Former President, Nigerian Union of Journalists(NUJ), Chief George Izobo, has commiserated with the family of late Malam Wada Maida, ex-Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Izobo, who also retired from NAN as an Editor, described Maida’s death as shocking, in a telephone conversation with a NAN Correspondent...

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged the hijack of the 774, 000 jobs under the Federal Government’s Special Works Programme (SPW) by godfathers. PDP alleged that political godfathers in the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government have taken over the allocation of 774,000 jobs to those associated with political...

Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit to challenge the imposition of N5 million fine on Nigeria Info 99.3FM Lagos and the threat by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to punish other broadcast stations in the country over alleged hate speech. Joined...