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Nigeria’s Attorney-General, Malami, Buys Multi-million Naira Mansion For Newly Married Son, Guests Flout Social Distancing Guidelines During Lavish Wedding Ceremony

Minister of justice and Attorney General Abubakar Malami In clear violation of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control directive on social distancing as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak in the country, guests at the wedding ceremony of Abdul Aziz Malami, son of Nigeria's Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), have been seen in a video of the lavish ceremony dancing and communicating close to one another without wearing face masks while spraying wads of United States dollars and naira notes on the newly married couple. Part of the NCDC guidelines forbids social events like weddings where there are more than 20 persons in attendance. The video of the ceremony published by SaharaReporters on Friday clearly showed more than the stipulated number of persons at that ceremony.  Minister of Justice and Attorney General Abubakar Malami Also, the open spraying of wads of cash at the event violates the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rule, which for...
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Nigeria’s Attorney-General, Malami, Buys Multi-million Naira Mansion For Newly Married Son, Guests Flout Social Distancing Guidelines During Lavish Wedding Ceremony

Minister of justice and Attorney General Abubakar Malami In clear violation of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control directive on social distancing as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak in the country, guests at the wedding ceremony of Abdul Aziz Malami, son of Nigeria's Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), have been seen in a video of the lavish ceremony dancing and communicating close to one another without wearing face masks while spraying wads of United States dollars and naira notes on the newly married couple. Part of the NCDC guidelines forbids social events like weddings where there are more than 20 persons in attendance. The video of the ceremony published by SaharaReporters on Friday clearly showed more than the stipulated number of persons at that ceremony.  Minister of Justice and Attorney General Abubakar Malami Also, the open spraying of wads of cash at the event violates the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rule, which for...
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Why Activists Who Protested 2012 Fuel Subsidy Removal Can’t Demonstrate Against Buhari’s Government –Monday Ubani

A former Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Monday Ubani, has said that most of the activists that powered the fuel subsidy removal protest in 2012 were now hobnobbing with the present administration. Ubani said this in an interview with SaharaReporters while commenting on the increase in fuel prices by the Petroleum Product Price regulatory agency. According to him, Nigerians were also more fearful of being detained than they were in 2012, hence the silence that has greeted the increase in price. The PPPRA said on July 1 that the price of petrol for July would be between N140.80 and N143.80.  Ubani while reacting to the development, said, “Many of activists who fought in 2012 are in bed with this present government; they may not be forceful enough to take any position considered inimical to the interest of the elites in power. “Nobody wants to be thrown into detention. This is a government where the DSS feel empowered to say they cannot obey any court in t...
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Bankulli & Juls Baby Join The Recording Academy Member Class

Nigerian musician and songwriter, Bankulli and producer Juls Baby are among the 2,321 invited to be a member class of the Recording Academy. The news was shared by both Nigerians music stars via their social media pages, announcing they've been invited to be a part of the member class. The class of 2020 which is made of global music industry stakeholders such as artistes, songwriters, producers, engineers, instrumentalists and other music professionals was announced on Thursday, 9th of July, 2020. In making the announcement on Instagram, Grammy-nominated Bankulli wrote: "I have been invited to become a part of the new @RecordingAcademy  member class, I’m honored to have an opportunity to celebrate, represent, and give back to the music and its creators.  #WeAreMusic ... #grammyawards" View this post on Instagram I have been invited to become a part of the new @RecordingAcademy member class, I’m honored to have an opportuni...
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BREAKING: Ondo Civil Servants Threaten To Embark On Strike Over State Government’s Refusal To Pay Accumulated Salary Arrears

Civil servants in Ondo State have threatened to embark on a strike action over the refusal of the state government to pay some of their emoluments. The government workers made the threat in a letter written to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu in Akure, the state capital. The letter was signed by the union's Chairman, Olubunmi Fabunmi, and Secretary, Olomiye Kehinde.  The workers under the Joint Public Service Negotiations Council are demanding that the state government pay their outstanding December 2016 and 2017 salary arrears. They are also asking the government to pay their 2018 and 2019 leave bonuses including their salary deductions from February to June 2020. In the letter obtained by SaharaReporters, the workers said they would abandon work starting from next week Wednesday if the state government failed to address their demands. LABOR/WORKERS' RIGHTS Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertise...
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Many Refugees In Africa Using Transactional Sex To Survive –United Nations

File Photo Two United Nations Organisations – the World Food Programme and United Nations High Commission for Refugees – in a joint statement said that many displaced persons across the continent were engaging in transactional sex to feed daily. The two agencies said this in a humanitarian appeal on Thursday. The WFP said it requires more than $600m to meet its commitment to refugee settlements in Congo DR, Ethiopia, Nigeria and other African countries for the next six months where food prices have jumped massively – 15 per cent in Congo DR for instance. The UNHCR on the other hand said it needs $227m to catch up with its own obligations in Africa.  File Photo REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko “In some cases, refugees are resorting to begging, transactional sex or early or forced marriages to be able to afford food,” the report said. “Globally, WFP needs more than $1.2bn to support refugees globally for the next six months, just over half is for operations in Africa. “As part of ...
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Jada Pinkett Smith Confirms Relationship With Musician, August Alsina, While Married To Will Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of actor, Will Smith, has admitted to dating musician, August Alsina, while she was still married to her husband The 48-year-old sat down for a tell-all conversation on her Facebook show, Red Table Talk, and revealed she developed a friendship with August around four years ago. She said around the same time, the married couple were going through a 'difficult time' and they had 'basically' broken up. Jada explained that the couple met August through their son, Jaden, and said the singer, who would have been 23 at the time, was 'really sick' at the time.  “And it all started with him just needing some help, me wanting to help his health, his mental state. “The outpouring for him from our family was initially about his health,” she said. “We found all those different resources to help pull him through and from there you and I were going through a very difficult time.” Will, according to a report by Daily Mail UK, interjected sh...
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FBI Acted Illegally, Kidnapped Hushpuppi From Dubai, Says Lawyer

Gal Pissetzky, legal representative to Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas Olorunwa widely known as Hushpuppi, has claimed that his client was “kidnapped” from Dubai by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hushpuppi is facing multimillion-dollar fraud and money laundering charges in Los Angeles. The Chicago-based lawyer argued that the Dubai Police should have extradited Abbas to Nigeria as a citizen of the country and not to the US, adding that the UAE had no extradition treaty with the US.  He said on Friday, “In my opinion, the FBI and the government here acted illegally when they kidnapped him (Hushpuppi) from Dubai without any legal process to do so. “There was no extradition, there were no legal steps taken, there were no court documents filed, it was simply a call to the FBI. He is not a citizen of the United States, the US had absolutely no authority to take him. “If Dubai wanted to expel him, they should have expelled him back to Nigeria. I’...
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Bola Tinubu, Ibrahim Magu, The Cabal And 2023 – A Rejoinder By Oladimeji Alo

I read this piece with keen interest, as it followed the tradition of some critics who closely watch developments in the Nigerian political scene and are quick to fit emerging events in pigeon holes they had previously created. There appears to me a grand theory or hypothesis that has been constructed and there is a tendency to fit emerging data into that construct, however tough that attempts becomes. In presenting this rejoinder, I must state that I am not qualified to defend Bola Tinubu (BAT) or Ibrahim Magu. I also do not have sufficient knowledge of the operations of cabals to come to their defense. I must state also that I am not a fan of BAT nor his brand of politics. I have only seen him from a distance and in a crowd. I have no personal or professional acquaintance with him or Magu. I really don’t have to have such acquaintances to raise the issues I have chosen to raise in this piece. Running through the piece by Remi, I identified seven key issues, allegations and cla...
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From Crude Oil To COVID Oil By Gbenro Olajuyigbe

Gbenro Olajuyigbe 'Governance is ruled by greed; and corruption has become its tool, our 'leaders', its prophets! -Gbenro Olajuyigbe in 'Why Terror & Grief Grow' Sixty years after independence and over 50 years after it struck oil on her land, Nigeria still wholesomely export crude oil while importing refined petrol from even countries that have no clues to how oil is explored and exploited. With governments with legendary records of aversion to transparency and accountability, she continues to run on this high track of graft powered economic race to perdition. It is however not all sour taste! A professor at the helm of affairs at the National Raw Material Research and Development Agency recently broke the ‘good news’ of our breakthrough in developing a ‘Kilishi’ Making Technology by the research agency that had existed for almost four decades.  This is a grand testimony to the grinding mill of corruption that has taken the nation to the threshing floor...
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