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Nigeria’s Women Affairs minister, Aisha Alhassan, has dismissed media reports that she has resigned from her position. Alhassan also referred to as Mama Taraba said the leaked letter in circulation in the social media does not in anyway mean resignation. In a statement by Suleiman Dantsoho, SA Media to Alhassan, he urged men and women of Taraba state to ignore the resignation reports. “Senator Aisha Alhassan has not resigned her position as Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development and member of the Federal Executive Council,” the statement said. “Contrary to some insinuations going round especially in the social media,…

A Kaduna High Court on Thursday fixed Oct 4 to rule on the bail application of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zinat. The presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the matter after counsel to the defendants Mr Maxwell Kyon, moved the application for the bail of the first and second defendants. Kyon told reporters the prosecution counsel had served the 3rd and 4th defendants, Yakubu Yahaya and Sanusi Abdulqadir, respectively, standing trial with the Shiites leader. Kyon said the Defense Counsel had filed their bail application to the court and the…

Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, the Vatican has said. The Catechism of the Church, which sums up the teachings, had previously stated that the death penalty could be used in some cases. It now says it is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”. Pope Francis has in the past spoken out against executions. Last October, he had said the Church’s policy on the death penalty was one area where teaching was not static and could change with modern concerns.…

Prince Uche Secondus, the national chairman of the main opposition party Peoples Democratic Party has described Senator Bukola Saraki and other defectors as “heroes of democracy”. Secondus addressed the defectors at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, where he described them as defenders of Nigeria’s democracy. Secondus said that the defectors took the bold steps of switching allegiance from the APC to the PDP not only for themselves, for their families, but also for the interest of the country. “This is a selfless effort but because it has something to do about our nation with about 200 million people. “They took…

A woman in northern India has chopped off her husband’s genitals for allegedly neglecting her and staying with his second wife, police said on Thursday. Yunus Ahmed, 45, has been admitted to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh state’s Muzaffarnagar district and the woman has been arrested, Area Police Chief, Anil Kaparwan said. Ahmed married the second time with the consent of his wife in 2017 since they did not have a son. READ: SERAP gives NYSC 7 days to provide documents on Adeosun Police said the two often had quarrels over his staying at the second wife’s residence. “On Wednesday,…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to Brigadier-General Sule Kazaure, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) asking him to use his good offices and leadership position to “urgently provide information on specific details and documents on the Exemption Certificate granted to the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun.” The organization also asked General Kazaure “to provide information and documents on whether Mrs Adeosun applied for NYSC Exemption Certificate, and if she did, to clarify whether the NYSC actually granted her the Exemption Certificate, the circumstances and the provisions of the NYSC…

A federal high court sitting in Ikoyi, Southwest Nigeria has ordered First Bank of Nigeria Limited to pay a human rights lawyer Olisa Agbakoba SAN who is a customer of the bank the sum of N266, 368,454.85 as general damages against the bank for mismanaging the lawyer’s share portfolio investment account. The verdict of the court was as a result of a suit filed before the court by Barrister Olisa Agbakoba SAN against First Bank claiming Sundry reliefs. In his statement of claim filed before the court by a partner in the law firm of Agbakoba and Associates, Babatunde Ogungbamila…

Nigeria’s main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hurried to Makurdi, Benue state capital, on a solidarity visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue where it described threats to impeach him as illegal. The party said it stood by the governor who defected from ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to PDP last week. The PDP said it was in Benue to support the governor and welcome him back to the PDP family. Earlier in the year, some governors of PDP paid solidarity visits to the governor over what the clashes between farmers and herders. PDP Governor Nysome Wike of…

The ruling All Progressives Congress has told Senate President Bukola Saraki to resign as leader of the senate after he defected to the PDP. The ruling party maintains majority in the senate with 53 senators and after a party caucus with President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday it ordered defecting Saraki to resign. The national chairman of APC, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, called for Saraki’s resignation when he emerged from a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Oshiomhole told State House correspondents in Abuja that the Senate President should as “a matter of honour leave the crown in the house that the crown…

A Sokoto legislator has made a stunning claim of bribery against Governor Aminu Tambuwal, who left the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday. The member of the state House of Assembly, who declined to follow the governor to the PDP, said he was offered N13 million by the governor as an inducement to dump the APC. He said he rejected the money and appeared to insinuate that the 18 other members who followed Tambuwal to the PDP accepted the bribed. The claim has not been verified. The legislator, who belongs to the camp of former Governor…