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Nigerian preacher unlawfully arrested in London gets £2,500 compensation

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Nigerian preacher, Mr. Oluwole Ilesanmi, who was stopped from expressing his Christian views and driven four miles away by the police, has been awarded a £2,500 payout for his wrongful arrest. The United Kingdom (UK) police, however, refused to apologise for taking him away from the tube station where he was arrested. The 64-year-old Ilesanmi was accused of Islamophobia while preaching outside Southgate Tube station in London in February. He was approached by two officers after a passer-by called police accusing him of hate speech. Ilesanmi, a former dentist, admits…

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Okorocha demands Ihedioha’s apology over slapping of his daughter

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Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo West constituency, has requested an apology from the governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, the states PDP and the members of the Committee on Recovery of Government Property, for slapping his daughter. Disclosing this in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, the former governor Okorocha averred that since the incident happened on Friday, neither the governor nor the government he heads or even the head of the Committee, has deemed it necessary to apologize to the woman. The statement reads thus:…

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Group task government on Leah Sharibu’s alleged death video

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United Global Resolve For Peace (UGRFP), a non-governmental organisation, has called on the Federal Government to verify the authenticity of a viral video alleging Leah Sharibu’s death. In the film, the six aid workers, abducted by Boko Haram last week, were seen frantically pleading with government to negotiate their release. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the Executive Director of UGRFP, Shalom Olaseni, cautioned the government against taking at a face value all the information passed on in the video of Miss Grace Taku, adding that it may as well…

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IHRC Protests in London against El-Zakzaky’s detention

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Members of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), held a solidarity demonstration against the continued incarceration of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, in London yesterday. The protest, which came ahead of today’s court ruling on El-Zakzaky’s bail application, took place outside the Nigerian High Commission by Trafalgar Square. It also followed Friday’s order by the Federal High Court in Abuja proscribing IMN. Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on July 18, 2019 adjourned ruling on the application filed by the…

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Kidnappers yet to release Siasia’s mother 13 days after kidnap

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76-year-old mother of ex-Super Eagles striker, Samson Siasia, Mrs Beauty Siasia. is yet to be released thirteen days after abduction. The kidnappers have yet to free the septuagenarian and two other women abducted alongside her. Beauty was kidnapped at her Odoni family compound in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by unknown gunmen on the night of July 15, 2019. The kidnappers came around 2am in the dead of the night and fled through River Nun into the creeks after abducting Mrs Siasia. The kidnappers had already contacted…

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Mayor of Polish village offers attractive reward to local family who gives birth to boys

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Mayor of a small polish village, Miejsce Odrzańskie, where no boy has been born in the last 9 Years, is offering to reward the first local family to give birth to a son. The village is in southern Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic. No male child has been born there in the last nine years, and the youngest one that still lives in the village is 12-years-old. No one knows why, but couples in Miejsce Odrzańskie rarely have boys. Most of the 300 or so inhabitants are…

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UBA partners Elumelu foundation to support SMEs

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United Bank for Africa and the Tony Elumelu Foundation, have pledged to keep empowering young entrepreneurs through the provision of finance owing to their importance in job creation and poverty reduction. The commitment to provide more support to entrepreneurs was made on Friday in Abuja at the TEF’s 2019 entrepreneurship forum. Speaking at the event, a trustee of the foundation, Dr Awele Elumelu, said the need to increase the level of support for small businesses was borne out of the conviction that entrepreneurs held the key to unlocking the potential…

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Teacher arrested for defiling student inside biology lab

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Idowu Daniel, a 28-year-old teacher, has been arrested by police in Lagos at a private school in the Abule-Egba area of the state for allegedly having sex with a female pupil in his care. Daniel, who teaches computer science at Anatasia Comprehensive College, reportedly raped the 17-year-old pupil inside the school’s biology laboratory. It was learnt that Daniel had asked the pupil to bring her computer science note to him at the laboratory for marking. On getting there, the teacher reportedly made overtures to her and fondled her breasts. She was…

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Emir of Kano, Sanusi others Honoured by SOAS University of London

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The Emir of Kano, His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II on Friday bag honourary doctorate award in Finance at the 2019 Graduation ceremonies of the SOAS University of London. Emir Sanusi was among other pioneering figures in the fields of law, literature, journalism, and finance honoured at this year’s Graduation Ceremonies of the prestigious university. Other awardees are award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsum, editor, broadcaster and critic, Margaret Busby and human rights lawyer Nursyahbani Katjasungkana.  The Emir was honoured for pioneering the introduction of Islamic banking into the Nigerian banking sector and…

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Fuel subsidy jumps to N207bn days to 2019 elections – NNPC report

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In the wake of the 2019 general elections, Nigeria’s fuel subsidy payments shot up by 1,174 per cent, as the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation, NNPC, disclosed that it paid N206.585 billion as under recovery in January and February 2019, an increase of N190.37 compared to N16.212 billion recorded in the last two months of 2018. Nigeria’s 2019 general election took place, February 23 for the presidential and National Assembly elections and March 9 for the governorship and state assemblies’ elections. Under recovery, also known as fuel subsidy is the cost…

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