Day: April 5, 2023

Just In: Kano Court Orders killing Of Noisy Cockerel

Abibat Babalola

court in Kano has given a man till Friday to kill his cockerel following a neighbour’s complaint that the constant crowing deprives him of sleep. Magistrate Halima Wali issued the order against Malam Yusuf on Tuesday, declaring the bird a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Yusuf told the court that he had bought the bird to celebrate Good Friday and asked to given given until the Christian holy day before killing it for a family feast. READ ALSO: How We Rescued Hijab Wearing Students Barred From Covenant Varsity – JAMB How…

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Billionaire Rupert Murdoch, 92, Calls Off Engagement With Ex-fiancèe

Ganiyu Amodu

American businessman, Rupert Murdoch, and dental hygienist, Ann Lesley Smith, have called off their two-week-old engagement. Murdoch, 92, proposed to Smith, 66, in March after a whirlwind romance which both tagged “a gift from God”. In an interview with one of his own publications, the New York Post, the media mogul revealed that he popped the question with an Asscher-cut diamond solitaire ring on St. Patrick’s Day in New York City. READ ALSO: How We Rescued Hijab Wearing Students Barred From Covenant Varsity – JAMB ‘I’ve Learnt Real Lesson’, Portable…

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How We Rescued Hijab Wearing Students Barred From Covenant Varsity – JAMB

Ganiyu Amodu

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has narrated the role it played when some female students were prevented from sitting for Mock UTME examination at Covenant University, Otta, Ogun State. It was gathered that the students were prevented from accessing the university owned by Bishop David Oyedepo, Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, for wearing Hijab. The action had triggered nationwide outrage, with individuals and civil society groups accusing the management of the University of discrimination. READ ALSO: ‘I’ve Learnt Real Lesson’, Portable Speaks After Release From Prison Nigerian…

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‘I’ve Learnt Real Lesson’, Portable Speaks After Release From Prison

Ganiyu Amodu

Controversial hip hop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, says he has learnt his lesson. Portable said this shortly after he was released from Ilaro Prison in Ogun State, on Monday. Platforms Africa reported how a magistrate’s court sitting in Ifo in Ifo Local government area of Ogun state granted Portable bail but remanded him pending perfection of the bail conditions. READ ALSO: Nigerian Govt Declares Friday, Monday Public Holiday For Easter I warned Peter Obi About Obidients’ Excesses – Soyinka  Wabote, Jonathan, Lumumba Win African Heritage Awards The…

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Nigerian Govt Declares Friday, Monday Public Holiday For Easter

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace and patience which were attributes and practices of Jesus Christ, as exemplified by His ministry on the earth. READ ALSO: I warned Peter Obi About Obidients’ Excesses – Soyinka  Wabote, Jonathan,…

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I warned Peter Obi About Obidients’ Excesses – Soyinka 

Abibat Babalola

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he warned the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi on excesses of the his supporters, otherwise known as ‘Obidients.’ Soyinka, stated this in a statement titled, “Media responsibility,’’ on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the elder statesman said his recent interview with Channels Television was misrepresented, with his remarks rendered unrecognisable. The TV station had aired a one and half-hour interview with Soyinka a week ago on Monday. He maintained that his rejection of fascism wasn’t new and that on three occasions, he was…

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Wabote, Jonathan, Lumumba Win African Heritage Awards

Abibat Babalola

It was a night of colourful display of African culture and honour at the inaugural African Heritage Concert and Awards, where the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote was conferred with the Champion of Local Content Development in Africa Award. The event was held on Saturday evening in Kigali, Rwanda and it featured a stellar cast of change makers across Africa who physically picked up their awards, including the immediate past Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who won the African Democracy…

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