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Kaduna state governor, Nasir El Rufai, has been stopped by a Kaduna High Court, presided over by Justice Hajaratu Gwadah on Wednesday from screening and issuing licences to religious preachers in the state. The state High court however asserted that the government has the right to regulate religious activities in the state. The judgement was delivered in suit filed by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), challenging the constitutionality of the bill on the regulation of religious preaching in the state. The Bill which was introduced by governor Nasir El…

Younger brother of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole Seidu Oshiomhole, was on Tuesday, beaten up by suspected thugs. Seidu is also the lawmaker-elect for Etsako West 11 to the Edo State House of Assembly. The attack on Oshiomhole and 14 other lawmakers of the Edo State House of Assembly is the latest in the crisis between the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and the National Chairman of the APC. 15 lawmakers, who were absent at midnight on Monday when the other nine members of the…

Chanchal Lahiri, an magician has drowned while trying to replicate an underwater Houdini-inspired stunt — tying himself up with chains and ropes and being lowered into a river, Indian police said. Rescue workers found the body of late Lahiri on Monday in the Hooghly river, the deputy commissioner of the port division of Kolkata police, Syed Waquar Raza said. The 40-year-old Lahiri, who was known by his stage name “Jadugar Mandrake” (Wizard Mandrake), was lowered by winch into the river in Kolkata on Sunday in a yellow and red costume.…

Michal Szewczuk, a 19-year-old far-right university student, who called Prince Harry a race traitor and created an image of him with a pistol to his head was on Tuesday jailed in Britain for more than four years. Szewczuk posted the image, which also featured a blood-splattered swastika, on microblogging platform Gab in August last year, months after the prince married mixed-race actress Meghan Markle. The post included the phrase “See Ya Later Race Traitor”. Szewczuk, who was jailed for four years and three months, pleaded guilty to two counts of…

Executive Secretary of UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD, Ibrahim Thiaw has said that land degradation and competition over access to land and water have triggered more bloody conflicts in Nigeria than Boko Haram. This came on a day two children and a teenager were killed after suspected herdsmen attacked Unguwan Rimi village in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as UNICEF yesterday condemned the use of children as human bombs and in any combat or non-combat roles in the conflict in the North East. Four persons were also…

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred in the Sea of Japan. The powerful jolt triggered a tsunami warning across the island nation. The quake occurred off the west coast of the largest Japanese island, Honshu. According to preliminary reports, the epicentre was just 5km below the ground. A tsunami advisory has been issued for Yamagata and Niigata Prefectures and the Noto area of Ishikawa Prefecture. The tsunami is expected to reach a height of around 0.2 to 1 meter, according to Japan’s meteorological agency. Share on: WhatsApp

The managing director of Kano Zoological Garden, Mallam Umar Yusif Umar, has denied that the millions of naira stolen from its coffers were swallowed by a gorilla. The managing director of the government-owned zoo said it has no gorilla and that money was stolen by burglars. “ I was called midnight on Sunday 9th, June, by the head of security that armed robbers burgle our office including the revenue office,” Umar said. “About 6.30am, I left my home for the office and immediately I arrived I met my office and…