Flashback: Islamic Movt Releases Some Faces of Victims of Enforced Disappearances
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has again published an e-photo album of the faces of some victims of Enforced Disappearances since that heinous Zaria genocide of December 2015 by the Buhari government. Many of these people are believed to be held in secret underground cells and detention centres across the country, but some might have been part of […]
Don’t ambush Nigerians, drop water bill, NLC tells National Assembly
By Adelani Adepegba, Dennis Naku, John Charles and Patrick Odey The Nigeria Labour Congress has cautioned the National Assembly leadership against resurrecting or passing the Water Resources Bill into law “because of the danger it portends to national unity.” The congress said the National Assembly should not ambush Nigerians by surreptitiously bringing back the bill, […]
Chadwick Boseman, ‘Black Panther’ Star, Dies of Colon Cancer at 43
By Mike Barnes , Aaron Couch The actor died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist said. Chadwick Boseman, the electric young actor who projected so much vitality as the star of such films as Black Panther, Get on Up and 42, died Friday. He was 43. Boseman died at his […]
Smoking Weed & Sipping Hennessy: King Kong “Thinz”
Bashir is the lean fulani type from Bauchi. Fine boy, tall, dark with eyes like a chic. He is very shy and will naturally sit alone or mind his business during discussions, drink outs, parties and all. But he was my closest friend then. We went for a competition (he plays chess and soccer.) Then […]
NBA President, SANs Kick As Northern Lawyers Form Parallel NBA
The newly sworn-in President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata; and some other Senior Advocates of Nigeria have condemned the move by northern lawyers in the country to form a parallel association. Some lawyers of northern extraction had, on Friday, formed the ‘New NBA,’ following the recent controversy that trailed the withdrawal of an […]
Ghana defends $1m traders’ levy, faults Nigeria’s border closure, others
The Ghanaian Minister of Information, Kojo Nkrumah, on Sunday, defended the $1 million trade levy and other regulations imposed on Nigerian traders in Ghana, noting that Nigeria had equally issued executive orders preventing foreigners from getting jobs which Nigerians can do. The minister said it was astonishing that Ghanaian laws could be described as outrageous, […]
NBA President, SANs Kick As Northern Lawyers Form Parallel NBA
Some lawyers of northern extraction had, on Friday, formed the ‘New NBA,’ following the recent controversy that trailed the withdrawal of an invite to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, as a guest speaker at the association’s conference. The breakaway group, in a statement by two lawyers, Nuhu Ibrahim (Convener 1) and Abdulbasit Suleiman (Convener […]
Blasphemy: Ganduje to sign singer’s death sentence
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Thursday endorsed death sentence passed on 22-year-old Yahaya Sharif-Aminu by upper Shari’a court for blaspheming. Sharif-Aminu, a resident of Sharifai quarters in Kano municipal, was sued for “insulting religious creed, contrary to section 382 (b) of Kano State Shari’a Penal Code Law 2000.” According to the litigation, he […]
Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion
Jonathan Ponciano The world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, is wealthier than he’s ever been. Early Wednesday he crossed a milestone previously unseen in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking net worths: With Amazon stock edging up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon, Bezos’ net worth is up by $4.9 billion, making the 56-year-old the world’s first-ever person […]
Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Facebook Accounts Spread ISIS And Hurras al-Din Propaganda
(New York, N.Y.) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located Facebook accounts used to spread ISIS and Hurras al-Din video propaganda that was viewed hundreds of times. Also, a notorious neo-Nazi […]