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Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has denied announcing an increase in the hate speech fine to N5m despite video evidence. Mohammed had announced the increase in hate speech fine during the unveiling of the Reviewed Broadcasting code in August. Days after the announcement, the minister while featuring on a TVC programme on Friday, August 7, 2020, explained that the fine was increased to deter people willingly violating the provision to destabilise the country. However, Mohammed in a counter-affidavit in response to an originating motion filed to challenge the fine before a Federal High Court in Lagos by human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, denied making the announcement. Effiong is currently challenging the fine by the National Broadcasting Commission on Nigeria Info FM. The radio station was fined for alleged hate speech. Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, had alleged that a Northern governor was one of the...

A 50-year-old Nigerian living in the United States, Kamilu Boyede, has been shot dead at his home in South Ida on Wednesday by some gunmen. The incident occurred around 3:00am on Wednesday, a statement by Captain Wendell Nicholson of the Wichita Police Department, said. Captain Nicholson said neighbours called the police after seeing a door left open at a home in the 600 block of South Ida. “We talked to some neighbours in the area and they indicated that this morning at about 12:30, they saw an unknown male walking in the area. “They were concerned because earlier this morning they heard some shots fired, they didn’t call the police, but this morning when they walked past the residence in the 600 block of South Ida, they saw the door was ajar so they contacted 911,” he said. Recall that another Nigerian, Alexander Nwogu, was shot dead in upper North-West Washington on Monday, October 5. One of his best friends and classmates said Nwogu graduated in May ...

Gunmen, who kidnapped the wife of a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Delta State University, Abraka, have demanded a ransom of N10m to set free their victim. Speaking with SaharaReporters, the victim’s husband, Sunny Ojoboh, revealed that the kidnappers had established contact with him and demanded N10m to free the woman. Lamenting how Nigeria had degenerated to the current state of insecurity, Ojoboh appealed to abductors of his wife to kindly release her unconditionally, adding that those, who kidnapped her were boys from the area. The victim, who is a staff of Erho Secondary School, Abraka, was kidnapped on Monday evening at her shop on old Eku-Abraka Road by gunmen numbering about five. The kidnappers, it was learnt, also made away with her Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle. Delta State Police Command spokesperson, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, who confirmed the incident on Wednesday, had said the police were already on top of the situation to rescue th...

The House of Representatives on Thursday frowned at the management of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for concealing information on its expenditures. The lawmakers also asked the corporation to open up its books on all the expenditure incurred on Joint Venture Cooperation, pipeline maintenance, rehabilitation of refineries. The House committee on Petroleum (Upstream), made this known during the 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget defence of the NNPC at the National Assembly. Chairman of the committee, Musa Sarkin Adar, expressed displeasure at the attitude of the NNPC management for not coming up with the details on the expenditure during the financial year. He said, “Most of your details are not projected at all. On expenditure of the pipeline you never gave us any details, a budget of N57.90bnn, we need to know the details. Your JVC is negative. Rehabilitation of the refinery, you didn’t give status of the refinery as of now.” Though he commended the NNPC mana...

Nigeria’s 21 years of democracy was tested with the conduct of last year’s 2019 general elections. The elections presented an opportunity for Nigeria to consolidate on the gains of the 2015 elections and deepen her democratic transition, but the polls substantially failed to do so. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) introduced reforms to deepen electoral integrity and citizen participation before the elections, yet the elections were fraught with the same shortcomings that marred previous national elections in Nigeria. As in past elections, INEC’s logistical challenges coupled with misconduct on the part of political parties and candidates undermined the elections’ integrity. Not to mention the assault on voting rights by desperate politicians who recruited thugs and security agencies for voter suppression. The judiciary was no bystander. In most cases, it determined the final vote by substituting justice for legal technicalities with its logic of constitutional...

Edwin Madunagu This is a combined personal tribute to two personages: Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings and Comrade Bassey Ekpo Bassey. I have isolated them from a longer list of personages that came to my mind to publicly remember—at this time. The other personages, all comrades, who will also be publicly remembered in no distant future, include Curtis Joseph, Arthur Nwankwo, Olu Adebayo, Bjorn Beckman, Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, Ingrid Essien-Obot, Yima Sen and Balarabe Musa.   I have here isolated Jerry Rawlings and Bassey Ekpo Bassey because of my particularly intense ideological and political relationship with each of them at certain periods in my more activist past. Here I mean relationships of specific compatibility and absolute trust, the type that early Marxist revolutionaries regarded very highly in proposing the composition of groups for sensitive or delicate assignments.  But side by side with what Jerry Rawlings and Bassey Ekpo Bassey have in common in this combined trib...

Armed robbers on Thursday attacked a bank at Ode Irele under Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State, killing one person in the process. According to an eyewitness, the bandits numbering nine stormed the bank at about 4:10pm, carting away an undisclosed amount of money from the bank. The witness said the robbers gained entry into the bank after using explosives to destroy the security door. “The robbers started shooting sporadically to scare people away and to ease their escape after robbing the bank. “While they were shooting, stray bullets hit one person and he died while others were injured,” he said. Tee-Leo Ikoro, spokesperson for the Ondo State Police Command, confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters on Thursday. CRIME Insecurity News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3maM7y1 via EDUPEDIA

Ali Ndume, Majority Leader of the Senate The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has opposed the release of Senator Ali Ndume from Kuje Correctional Centre. Ndume was remanded in prison for standing as a surety for ex-Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has absconded trial. Ali Ndume See Also Politics Federal Court Orders Remand Of Senator Ndume Over Disappearance Of Maina 0 Comments 3 Days Ago   Justice Okon Abang had ordered that Ndume be detained at the Kuje Prison as the facility’s management has also restricted visit due to COVID-19 restrictions. At the hearing of his bail application on Thursday, Ndume’s lawyer, Marcel Oru, moved the bail application, saying Ndume should be freed as being a serving senator in the National Assembly, The Nation reports. Oru said his bail application was intended to have his client released from custody pending the determination of his appeal, which he said, could take a while. He ar...

Oba Adegoke Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon under Ose Local Government Area Ondo State, has been murdered by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, SaharaReporters can report. Oba Adeusi was killed on Thursday evening at a spot around the Elegbeka axis of the town. The monarch was returning to his palace from Akure, the state capital, when he was killed. A security source told our correspondent that Oba Adeusi was earlier kidnapped before he was killed. The source said, “The king had earlier attended the meeting with all Obas in Akure and while on his way he was kidnapped which caused apprehension in the community. “But while we were trying to ensure his rescue, we saw that he had already been killed by the kidnappers. It is very sad.”   CRIME Insecurity Breaking News News AddThis :  Featured Image :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3q4kadk ...

The Kano State Court of Appeal has reserved judgment on the appeal of the death sentence on Yahaya Aminu-Sharif, a musician sentenced to death for a song deemed blasphemous against Prophet Mohammed. The case was heard on Thursday (today) by the appellate court in the state. The musician through his lawyer, Kunle Alapinni, prayed the court to declare the Kano State Penal Law 2000 (Shariah court) is unconstitutional, null and void, having grossly violated and conflicted with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended. He also urged the appellate court to quash the judgment of the Sharia court. The court presided over by Justice Nuraddeen Sagir, however, reserved judgment, adding that the date of the ruling will be communicated to both parties. The court also reserved judgment in the case of 17-year-old Umar Farouq sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. The case was also handled by Alapinni, who sought the quashing of the Sharia court and its judgments...

File Photo: Rivers State Judicial Panel of Inquiry inaugural sitting. Nyordeh Sylvanus, a petitioner at the ongoing public hearing by the Rivers State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, has appeared before the panel to narrate how his three-day-old daughter was allegedly killed by stray bullets from operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Sylvanus, a civil servant with the Universal Basic Education, told the panel that the incident happened at his residence in Rumuohalu, near Port Harcourt on August 14, 2014. File Photo: Rivers State Judicial Panel of Inquiry inaugural sitting. Twitter/YIAGA He said the SARS operatives shot sporadically in the area with one of the bullets penetrating the roof of his house, killing his three-day old daughter. Sylvanus demanded justice for his late daughter as well as the re-roofing of his house allegedly also damaged by stray bullets from SARS operatives. He said, “We woke up in the morning of August 15, 2014 to ...

Akinwumi Adesina There is outrage from Nigerians on Twitter after Akinwumi Adesina, President of the Africa Development Bank, sprung to the defence of former military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, on looting allegations levelled against him. British Member of Parliament, Tom Tugendhat, while proposing sanctions on Nigerian Government officials complicit in violating the rights of #EndSARS protesters, said Gowon looted half of Nigeria’s treasury when he was ousted from office in a coup and fled for the United Kingdom. Akinwumi Adesina The revelation by Tugendhat generated interest among many young Nigerians, who felt the information was deliberately omitted from Nigeria’s history textbooks to potray Gowon as a hero. Gowon oversaw Nigeria’s civil war, which lasted from 1967 to 1970 where more than three million people died. Adesina in Gowon’s defence said he was a man of integrity and impeccable character. Be careful of misinformation! H.E. General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s...