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A 23-year-old lady, Maryam Mohammed, has said she kidnapped her ex-boyfriend who refused to marry her after years of courtship. According to the Kano State Police Command, Maryam, who is popularly known as Hajiya, was arrested by police operatives at Jaba quarters, Ungogo Local Government Area of the state while negotiating a ransom with the family of one of her captives on Tuesday, January 12. LIB She claimed to have been introduced to the crime by her uncle, one Hamza, after she had parted ways with her ex-lover. “I was introduced to kidnapping by my uncle called Hamza from Butsa village, Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State and the first person we kidnapped was my ex-boyfriend who refused to marry me despite my efforts to convince him (to do so) during our years of courtship,” Maryam said. “After he had dumped me, my uncle asked me to bring him so that we could hold him until he paid before we would release him. “When we kidnapped him, his family paid N5m to sec...

President Joe Biden President Joe Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling his pledge to Muslim and immigrant advocacy groups and allowing families to reunite in the U.S. after years apart. The executive order was among many signed on Wednesday, his first day in office, HuffPost reports. President Joe Biden Nearly four years ago, Trump issued an executive order limiting entry for people from seven Muslim-majority nations, a follow-up to his campaign promise of “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” After Trump signed his order, thousands of people went to airports across the country to protest the ban, calling it discriminatory. The original ban was challenged repeatedly in federal court, but the Supreme Court ultimately upheld a tweaked version of the order in 2018. Over the course of Trump’s presidency, the ban was revised and expanded. In February 2020, he added several Afr...

Gani Adams The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, said Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has constitutional rights to give the notice to quit to illegal residents in the state’s forest reserves. Recall that Akeredolu had on Monday ordered herdsmen to leave the state’s forest reserves within seven days. Gani Adams But the Northern Elders Forum directed the Fulani herdsmen to disregard the notice to quit forest reserves in the state. The Presidency, in a statement by the President’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also faulted the governor, saying he should not act outside his constitutional powers. However, reacting in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, Adams said the Presidency had failed to address the country’s security situation. He stated, “Garba Shehu/Presidency do not know the meaning of forest reserves. It’s not accessible except to authorised personnel/loggers. Apart from it being a place for valued c...

The Nigerian government has extended the deadline for linking the National Identity Numbers to SIM registration database, the Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) said on Wednesday. In a statement, ALTON said it had received a formal confirmation from the Nigerian Communications Commission that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the extension of the deadline for subscribers with NIN to link it to their SIM registration data from January 19 to February 9, 2021. “We want to thank the president for giving us more time to deliver on this all-important assignment of creating a credible national identity database for the country. We’re also grateful to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economic, Dr Isa Ibrahim Ali Pantami, for his commitment to enabling digital economy,” the association said in the statement jointly signed by its chairman, Gbenga Adebayo, and publicity secretary, Damian Udeh. It added, “To ensure that we utilize the e...

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a member of a gang planning to organise a nude party in selected places in Ilorin, the state capital. Parading the suspect, Akinsola Babatunde, aka Mr White, in Ilorin on Wednesday, the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Bagega, said credible intelligence on the gang’s activities led to the arrest of the suspect at No. 16 Achimugu Street, Ilorin. Tribune Online The police boss, who said organisers of the party advertised the show on social media for prospective attendees for N20,000 per person, added that they planned to hold it in lounges, clubhouses and service apartments. Bagega stated, “The immoral and illegal action of Mr White and his accomplices contradict the COVID-19 protocols and promote crime and criminality. “Operatives of the State Intelligence Bureau attached to the command carried out a string operation involving tactical undercover and manoeuvre. We played along with them by posing as interested persons. We pai...