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Miyetti Allah President Denies Making Statement That Fulani Will Rule Nigeria Forever

Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, President of the Miyetti Allah Association, addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has denied saying that Fulani will rule Nigeria forever and was raising 100,000 militiamen to enforce their will on every community in the country. He said the news report was not true and was aimed at maligning his image.  He therefore called on Nigerians to disregard it.  Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, President of the Miyetti Allah Association, addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. Bodejo disclosed this in a statement on Sunday while reacting to comments credited to him that no other tribe would be allowed to rule Nigeria except Fulani.  He said,  "My attention has been drawn to a news report making rounds in the social media to the effect that as National President of Miyetti Allah I made claims that Nigeria is a Fulbe country and that the Fulb...
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Ogun PDP Calls For Investigation Into $250,000 Bribery Allegation

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has called on the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the alleged bribery allegation against a Federal High Court judge in the state. In a letter signed by Samson Kayode Bamgbose and Adeleke Shittu, Chairman and Secretary of the party respectively, the duo called for a probe. The letter reads, “Our attention has been drawn to a petition written in respect of the suit by the Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, that we bribed Honourable Justice Abubakar Shittu with the sum of $250,000 to do our bidding in the suit pending before the honourable judge.  “As parties in the matter and those alleged to have ‘bought’ judgment, we are obliged to respond to the allegation even when it lacks merit and material fact. “It is clear that the Honourable Justice Shittu became a marked person since they could not compromise him in 2019. Hence, the resort to cheap blackmail, outright fabrications and lies.  “We ...
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Ogun PDP Calls For Investigation Into $250,000 Bribery Allegation

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has called on the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the alleged bribery allegation against a Federal High Court judge in the state. In a letter signed by Samson Kayode Bamgbose and Adeleke Shittu, Chairman and Secretary of the party respectively, the duo called for a probe. The letter reads, “Our attention has been drawn to a petition written in respect of the suit by the Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, that we bribed Honourable Justice Abubakar Shittu with the sum of $250,000 to do our bidding in the suit pending before the honourable judge.  “As parties in the matter and those alleged to have ‘bought’ judgment, we are obliged to respond to the allegation even when it lacks merit and material fact. “It is clear that the Honourable Justice Shittu became a marked person since they could not compromise him in 2019. Hence, the resort to cheap blackmail, outright fabrications and lies.  “We ...
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Sokoto Islamic Cleric Deletes Sermon On Rape After Criticisms

After incurring the wrath of Nigerians on various social media platforms for sharing a story on how a five-year-old girl raped an adult male, an Islamic cleric based in Sokoto State, Dr Mansur Ibrahim Sokoto, has deleted the post from his pages.  Sokoto was accused by many Nigerians of attempting to change the narrative on rape and blame women and girls for the scourge.  Angered by the situation, many Nigerians also called on the police to launch an investigation and arrest the narrator of the story.  Checks by SaharaReporters on the post on Sunday showed that the Islamic cleric had bowed to pressure and pulled down the post.  See Also Scandal Sokoto Cleric Sparks Outrage For Sharing Story On How Five-year-old Girl ‘Raped’ Adult Male 0 Comments 14 Hours Ago Sokoto is a professor at the Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto State.  Islam Scandal Sex News AddThis :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New York Disable a...
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Lagos Assembly Panel Designed To Free Obasa From Corruption Charges —HEDA

Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has been accused of setting up a panel that appears destined to exonerate him from raging allegations of graft.   In a letter addressed to the lawmakers through the Clerk of the House, foremost anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre), said the Speaker, whose second term had been marred in a string of corruption charges, is using the House investigation Committee as a smokescreen to exonerate himself from the allegations.    In a statement, Chairman of HEDA, Mr Olanrewaju Suraju, said, "The panel set up by the Lagos State House of Assembly is made up  cronies of the Speaker. There is no way justice will be delivered to the people of Lagos whose resources Obasa was said to have pillaged."  Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa   The HEDA Chairman said his group, which was invited t...
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BREAKING: Lagos Discharges 31 More COVID-19 Patients

The Lagos State Government has said 31 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from the state isolation centres. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in a statement on Sunday said that the number of patients successfully managed and discharged was 1025. He said, “Good people of Lagos, today, 31 fully recovered ‪#COVID19Lagos‬ patients; 25 males and six females were discharged from the Onikan, Gbagada, Agidingbi, Lekki and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to reunite with the society.  “The patients, six from Onikan, four from Gbagada, two from Agidingbi, six from Lekki and 13 from LUTH isolation centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to ‪#COVID19‬. “With this, the number number of ‪#COVID19‬ confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos has risen to 1025.” PUBLIC HEALTH News AddThis :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New York Disable advertisements :  ...
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Policeman Electrocuted In Abuja While Cutting Tree

A Chief Superintendent of Police, Lasaka Habila, has been electrocuted in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The deceased was said to be cutting branches of a tree opposite the National Intelligence Agency, Garki, in Nigeria's capital when the incident happened.  Idriss Abbas, Director-General, FCT Emergency Management Agency, announced Habila’s death in a statement on Sunday. Abbas advised Abuja residents to always seek approval from the Parks and Recreation Department before cutting any tree. He added that in the rainy season, most trees would bloom and come in contact with electricity cables, which may transmit high currents through leaves and branches. The statement reads, “At the scene of the tragedy was a cutlass seen lying around the tree after the incident said to have been used by the victim to cut down branches from the tree which were seen littered around the scene.  “It is also believed that the victim may have been electrocuted by a high voltage fr...
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Ondo University Lecturer Slumps, Dies Inside Own Apartment

Gilbert Ibitola, a senior lecturer at the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Ondo State, is dead.  Ibitola slumped at the weekend in his apartment before he was rushed to the hospital where he was confirmed dead on arrival.  Several family sources and close associates told SaharaReporters on Sunday that the lecturer was not sick before his death.  Mr Dipo Akomolafe, Chairman of Academic Staff Union of University in the school, confirmed the demise of Ibitola on Sunday.  He said the death of the senior lecturer was shocking to the university community.  He said, “He (Ibitola) has several publications in renowned academic journals to his credit and had not been known to compromise academic standard in his research pursuit in any way or form. “The union will greatly miss his comradeship, his department will miss his academic contributions." News OBITUARY AddThis :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New York...
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Don’t Sack Workers Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, ASCAB Warns Nigerian Government, States, Lists Roadmap To Economic Revival

A labour and civil society group, Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, has urged governments at all levels and the private sector in Nigeria not to sack workers as the country prepares for more consequences of the pandemic on the economy. The group led by prominent human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, said sacking workers at this moment may spur social crisis that may affect the country’s socio-political fabric.  It said COVID-19 imposes a new sense of awakening to re-order priorities.  “Government and the private sector must resist an easy recourse to job cuts and reduction of public spending on social services especially healthcare services,” ASCAB said in a statement signed by its Secretary for Publicity, Adewale Adeoye.  The group also listed steps government should take to ensure the economy and workers' interests were protected. It said, “The suggestions range from short term protection of jobs and a complete overhaul of the Nigerian economy which...
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Nation Building Is Our Collective Duty By Adeola Soetan

Adeola Soetan God does not carry a nation's burden. Citizens do and unburden themselves with their courage and will-power to struggle. Even in God's own country, Americans didn't go to God through their prayer centres for divine intervention when killer Cop Derek publicly executed George Floyd. They are on the streets till now protesting and the civilised world joined them in solidarity to condemn racism and police brutality so that the world can breathe and breathe better. I always smile anytime I hear Nigerians and their religious leaders, out of frustration, fear or despondency, saying that  we should hang our socio-economic and political problems on God's neck to solve for us. A supplication to God/Allah to fight our oppressive, irresponsible leaders in Nigeria who have made breathing very difficult for us while they can breathe well and also have access to inexhaustible reservoir of unpolluted oxygen "in case of incasity".  Adeola Soetan But if ...
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Lagos Assembly Speaker, Obasa, Confirms SaharaReporters Stories, Explains How Funds Were Spent

Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has subtly  admitted to financial misappropriation under his leadership, explaining how funds were spent in the Assembly when he appeared before a panel on Saturday.  Obasa had set up a sham investigative panel to probe him of allegations of mismanaging public funds and awarding contracts to himself.  At the panel hearing on Saturday, Obasa explained that the monies approved by him followed due process.  Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa In his explanations, Obasa said the documents exposing his activities were revealed to SaharaReporters by his enemies as he claimed NI.1m was used to print invitation cards. It was also reported that about N2.4bn was spent within 11 months to procure 80 cars for the 40 members of the Lagos State House of Assembly.  A contract was awarded for 40 cars to be purchased for the lawmakers and less than a year after, anoth...
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Four Persons Killed In Ebonyi Communal Clash

Violence The renewed boundary dispute between the people of Ishinkwo and their neighbouring community, Abaomege, both under Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has claimed four lives. Also, properties worth millions of naira were destroyed when armed youths from Abaomege reportedly stormed Ishinkwo around 8:00am on Saturday, shooting sporadically at villagers. SaharaReporters gathered that both communities have been locked in a land dispute that had claimed hundreds of lives and property worth several millions of naira for several years.  Violence Google Efforts of successive governments at demarcating the disputed land had proved abortive. The attack forced hundreds of residents of the area to flee the community. A resident of Ishinkwo, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said tension was still high around the area with fears of repeated attacks and counter attacks among the people. “Four people were killed, the tension here is still high. Police officers and ar...
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