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Leo Igwe While the Muslim Lawyers Association, the Council of Imams, and the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria have called for the execution of the Muslim singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, I urge a stay of action and ask that the death sentence be reconsidered and quashed. Here I argue that Sharif-Aminu did not commit any crime as the Sharia court in Kano had ruled. First of all, as in cases of capital punishment, there is a high risk of executing an innocent person. Sharif-Aminu’s is a typical case. The Kano State Government is about to execute an innocent person. Unfortunately, all Muslim associations that have come out in support of the death sentence, have not considered this possibility — that Sharif-Aminu could be innocent and that the Sharia court could have erred in judgment. Nobody has bothered to ask. What if the Sharia court was wrong? Look, the Sharia court in Kano sentenced Sharif-Aminu to death for insulting the prophet of Islam in his song. Right? Ok. What if it i...

Paul Ojo and his wife. Isaac Ojo The police in Kaduna State have been accused of beating up and forcefully evicting one Paul Ojo, an 85-year-old retired Staff Sergeant of the Nigerian Army and his family from his house in Kaduna. The incident happened on Tuesday at L2 Kasupda Quarters, Kabala Costain, Kaduna.  SaharaReporters gathered that the police invaded the house without any prior notice or court order and asked the occupants to vacate the building. Paul Ojo and his wife. Armed policemen drafted to carry out the operation were said to have descended on Ojo, who insisted that the property was still under litigation and pending before the court.  He also demanded from the gun-wielding officers the court order or warrant that authorised his eviction. The request did not go down well with the police as they pounced on the old man, dragged him on the floor and threw out his properties.  Also, his 75-year-old wife, Veronica, and children were not spared...

The Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative has tackled lawmakers at the National Assembly over the recent outburst that has followed its public hearing. The group posited that the lawmakers were serving their personal interests while pretending to represent the people of Nigeria.  In a statement by Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe, National President; and Francis Udoka Ndimkoha, National Publicity Secretary of the group, they questioned the budgetary allocation to the National Assembly as they demanded an #OPENNASS. The group is also asking President Muhammadu Buhari to order a forensic audit into the accounts of the National Assembly. The statement reads, “It is worrisome that the NASS feels free to investigate MDAs based on frivolous petitions, sometimes, from faceless groups, but will not turn in their members accused, with evidence, for complicity and culpability in the sleaze going on in the MDAs they oversight. “There is no better time to call for “Open NASS” than now. “We ...

Colonel Assimi Goita addresses the press, from the Malian Ministry of Defense in Bamako, Mali, August 19, 2020 Malian army officer, Colonel Assimi Goita, announced himself on Wednesday as the coup leader, who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Goita was one of the five military servicemen, who delivered a speech on national television on Wednesday morning to shed light on the military rebels’ program.  Colonel Assimi Goita addresses the press, from the Malian Ministry of Defense in Bamako, Mali, August 19, 2020 Malik Konate, AFP He served in the special ops unit of the Malian armed forces. “Let me introduce myself, I am Colonel Assimi Goita, Chairman of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People,” he said after meeting top civil servants. See Also International Mali: Return To Barracks Now, UN Security Council Tells Military 0 Comments 3 Hours Ago The Malian military had on Tuesday ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta from power and anno...

Staff and medical workers at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital have been engulfed in fear as hospital management began COVID-19 tests without proper and adequate facility in place. In less than three weeks the hospital began test sampling, over 24 staff have been infected with the virus and one death recorded. Google One of the staff has also infected his wife and two children with the virus. A staff of the hospital, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said the hospital ignored various warning to put in place adequate protection and disinfection equipment before commencing the testing of sample. The staff said, “We told them that it is highly infectious but they insisted that they will go ahead with the sample testing. “Everybody was exposed to the sample. A letter was written to the management complaining of the health risk but they ignored the letters and warning. “We told them to set-up an insolated laboratory to be running the test sample just as it was do...

The United Nations Security Council has issued a stern directive to the Malian military to immediately return to the barracks. The warning came on Wednesday as mutineering soldiers took over the government in Mali as the President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, and Prime Minister, Boubou Cisse, were arrested by the soldiers. The President was subsequently forced to resign. The 15-member council was briefed after soldiers ousted Mali’s President in a coup. See Also Mali Mali: ECOWAS Orders Military Force To Be On Standby 0 Comments 6 Hours Ago A resistance group, M5, also insisted that the constitutional court must be dissolved, while the President must resign before peace can return to the country. The crisis had erupted after the court nullified results of 31 parliamentary seats in the country’s polls, awarding victory to some other contenders, which the resistance group said was at the instigation of Keita. On July 10, riots led to the killing of some protesters by sec...

Barely 24 hours after seven persons were badly injured in an attack at the secretariat of the Social Democratic Party in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, at least three persons have also been attacked by armed thugs.  The fresh attack happened on Wednesday evening as thugs suspected to be working for the All Progressives Congress moved on the streets with matchetes and axes and brutalised anyone seen.  The attack comes barely three days to the local council election in all 18 local government areas of the state.   A source told SaharaRepoters that the thugs were moving from house to house to attack perceived political enemies. He said, “The thugs have started again, they are moving from one location to another to attack us. They have attacked three other persons.  “This time around, it is not even a case of an attack on SDP members or candidate for the election but it is an attack on those they feel could give them problems on the electi...

The Nigerian Government must fulfill its obligation to promote, protect, respect, and fulfil human rights amidst disturbing signs of violence ahead of the Edo State gubernatorial election, Amnesty International has said. AI in a statement on Wednesday said it had received disturbing reports of violence by the political class and the unfortunate use of young people to perpetuate those reprehensible acts. “Government must protect people from violence and ensure the full respect for freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association before, during and after the state’s upcoming gubernatorial election and subsequent elections in other states of the federation. “The potential turmoil being stirred up by various factions ahead of the gubernatorial election in Edo State should send a clear signal to the Nigerian authorities of the imminent violence ahead of the polls and government must take active steps to prevent a bloody poll. “Fueling the instability and impunity in the s...

Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited and a Nigerian oil mogul, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in the United Kingdom, a report by Premium Times said. According to reports, in February, Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court ruled that Bashir be imprisoned for breaching multiple orders of the court in a pending suit instituted by Sahara Energy Resources Ltd. Google Those orders required Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Ltd to comply with requests for the release of 6,400.69 metric tonnes gas oil to Sahara Energy Resource Ltd or its agent from Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Ltd, Jetty 6.436181, Ibafon, Kirikiri Waterfront, of Aero Maritime Street, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria (“the Terminal”). According to the court documents obtained, Mr Bashir breached those orders by failing to allow or procure Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Ltd or its servants or agents to allow the release of the said oil from the Terminal.  The court however, made a...

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that he will be alive in another 19 years to celebrate the Agura of Gbagura, Oba Sabur Bakare, Jamolu II on his 20th coronation anniversary. Oba Bakare received the staff of office from former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on May 21, 2019 as the 9th Agura of Gbagura in Egbaland. Obasanjo, who clocked 83 this year, was part of the dignitaries present at the first anniversary of the monarch held in Abeokuta on Tuesday. The former President said he will be at the 20th anniversary of the monarch. Obasanjo said, “I will be here to celebrate your 20th anniversary with you whether I am invited or not. “By the time I also partake in celebrating your 20th anniversary with you, if God wishes, He can call me to come and meet Him in heaven because I know by that time, I will be above 100 or more.”   See Also Sahara Reporters Former Ekiti Governor, Fayose, Vows To Jail Ex-President Obasanjo If He Becomes Nigeria’s ...

Bayo Oluwasanmi       MEMO To: The Fools Ruling Nigeria From: Bayo Oluwasanmi Subject: Lance Corporal Martins Idakpini And Democracy 101 Tope Akinyode, the attorney of detained Lance Corporal Martins Idakpini, has indicated that he’ll initiate proceedings for contempt against Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, and Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for refusing to release Martins on bail as ordered by the court. Martins was arrested and detained over a viral video in which he complained that soldiers have no weapons to fight Boko Haram terrorists.  We live in a time and in a Nigeria we have never lived before with fools ruling the country. Speaking of fools ruling the country, I mean people who lack intelligence, direction, and sound judgement to manage the affairs of a country.  Because you lack intelligence, direction, and sound judgement, you have profoundly demonstrated that you don’t understand the mean...