News Update

A former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has alleged that judges are being used by politicians to destroy Nigeria’s democratic system. He regretted how governors in the country continue to accord priority to donating vehicles to their cronies while being less concerned to the plights of the people that elected them into office.

 The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) and Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) have demanded punitive actions, including the banning of an upcoming film in Nigeria showing women in niqab brandishing weapons, robbing banks and committing other crimes. The groups raised the concerns in separate statements on Friday.
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. A fresh court order has been issued by the Rivers State High Court preventing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from going ahead with its planned congresses in the state. The court halted the congresses planned by the party to hold in the wards, 23 local government areas and the state on July 27, August 10 and August 31.

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 More trouble has risen in the Labour Party (LP) following the regrouping of the 2014 executive of the party that now wants all stakeholders to implement a consent judgement delivered in 2018. The consent judgement, it was gathered, if implemented, will render the leadership of Julius Abure illegal.

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President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the Sector-wide Coordinating Office-Programme Management Unit, SCO-PMU, domiciled in the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

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 Filling stations in Abuja and neighbouring states of Niger, Nasarawa, and Kogi, were shut on Friday as oil marketers expressed worry over the planned nationwide protest. Retail outlets, including those operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in Kubwa, Salbas Oil, Eterna, and Gegu Oil, among others located on the Kubwa-Zuba expressway, stopped dispensing fuel.

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 The Federal Government on Friday disclosed that 125 Boko Haram terrorists and financiers were convicted in the resumed mass trial held over two days in Kainji, Niger State. The Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi stated this in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Communication & Publicity, office of the AGF, Kamarudeen Ogundele.

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. A fire outbreak in a factory warehouse in Lagos on Friday destroyed some goods estimated to be worth millions of naira. The Lagos State Management Agency announced this in Lagos on Friday. LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu said the incident happened at Josien Factory Warehouse, Abule Osun, Lagos State.
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 An explosion, suspected to be caused by an Improvised Explosive Device, has occurred at the popular Buni Yadi market in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. A resident of Buni, Ali Hassan said that the incident happened at around 12.30pm on Friday, injuring a girl.

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