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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss the N800million suit that was instituted against him by his estranged wife, Ms. Precious Chikwendu. The erstwhile Minister, in a counter-affidavit he filed through his team of lawyers, told the court that his ex-wife who is a former beauty queen, deprived his children breast milk on the account of the need to preserve her shape, “coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breastfeed them”. In a…

Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), South West Zone, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over his utterances, especially for saying that the Federal Government should not declare the bandits as terrorists. PFN said he should be the number one suspect, especially with his romance with the bandits. The Christian body disclosed this yesterday in Lagos after a conference attended by its chapters from the six South West states. Speaking through its leader, Archbishop John Osa-Oni, PFN said Gumi’s utterances were questionable and as such the…

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, controversial Islamic scholar, has warned that foreign jihadists would come into the country should bandits be declared terrorists, saying the development would come at a price. He also called on clergymen to talk to Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, and the Indigenous People of Biafra just as he does to bandits. Gumi, who is known to have access to bandits, had once asked the federal government to grant them blanket amnesty. Commenting on the recent calls to declare bandits as terrorists,…

Dapo Abiodun, Ogun State governor, has urged traditional rulers in the state to be mindful of what they say and the people they honour with chieftaincy titles not to bring the royal institution into disrepute. The governor gave the charge yesterday, at the inauguration of the Akarigbo and paramount ruler of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, as Chairman, Ogun State Council of Obas, held at the Obas’ Complex Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Abiodun said as embodiment of royalty, traditional rulers should not engage in activities that would jeopardise the revered institution. He stressed…

President Muhammadu Buhari has officially launched the Nigeria central bank digital currency (CBDC), the eNaira, on Monday. Buhari launched the eNaira at the State House in Nigeria’s capital Abuja after a previous plan to unveil the digital currency on October 1 was put on hold. “We have become the first country in Africa and one of the first in the world to introduce a digital currency to our citizens,” Buhari said at the official launch. Nigeria is one of the five countries in the world to develop an official digital…

The World Bank has decried the continued spending by the Nigerian government on petrol subsidy, which it said is on track to gobble up N2.9tn this year. Its Country Director for Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri, who spoke on Monday at a panel session during the 27th National Economic Summit, said the country could channel the money being spent on subsidy to primary healthcare, basic education and rural roads. “This year, Nigeria is on track to spend N2.9tn on PMS subsidy, which is more than it spends on health,” he said. Also…