nigeria news today 09022018

A 49-year-old city sex worker has decided to retire from the trade. Sarah Mutero pulled the curtain to a trade she thrived in for many years. After calling it quits, Mutero received a parcel of land worth Sh120,000 in Makuyu, Murang’a County. Some well-wishers have also promised to pool funds...

AN arrest warrant has been issued against Innocent Chukwuma, the chairman of Innoson Motors. The warrant was issued by a High Court Sitting in Ikeji, Lagos State. Justice Mojisola Dada ordered his arrest for failing to appear before the court to face his trial. The judge held that he be...

Mallam Yusuf Buratai, the father of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, is dead. He passed away in a hospital in Maiduguri. The Nigerian Army disclosed this In statement by its spokesman, Brig. Gen. SK Usman to newsmen in Maiduguri on Friday. READ MORE HERE

The Rwandan Media Commission (RMC) is set to deliberate on anti-women comments made by a preacher on a local radio station. RMC said it will sit early next week following a complaint filed by a women’s civil society Pro–Femmes Twese Hamwe. Read more via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2EtJZyv Get...

The Oyo State Police Command on Thursday paraded an Islamic cleric (Alfa), a pastor, and two others, who were allegedly caught with suspected human parts in the Ayegun area of Ibadan. The state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said Alfa, Sulaiman Hamed, 35, participated in the Fidau...

The embattled social media fundamentalist and preacher A Nigerian man on Twitter has taken to the platform to state that pre-wedding photos are forbidden (haram) in Islam. To him, engaging in such is capable of ushering the person into hell fire on judgement day based on religious doctrines...

The residents of Ikeja, the Lagos state capital, were on Thursday afternoon, left in total shock after a Police van chasing some suspects ended up inside a gutter. A video clip which emerged online and is currently making the rounds on social media, shows the shocking moment some operatives of...

None of the 36 governors was in attendance at a security summit yesterday as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo explained why Nigeria is ripe for state police. The inability of governors, as state chief security officers, to commandeer police forces has always been on the front burner of complaints...

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, summoned Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, to explain alleged manipulation of Code of Conduct Tribunal case involving Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. Saraki In a move apparently designed to save the legal system in Nigeria, the...

A 38-year old, Chukwu Hilary has vented his anger on a lady, Glory Sunday by engaging her in a brawl, biting and tearing her clothes, and leaving her half clad in the public. It was learnt that her clothes were badly damaged, she was left with only her pant before she ran inside but by then...

Dr. Ayoola Obafoluke Otudeko, Chairman, Honeywell Group, has affirmed his respect for the judiciary, the rule of law and the judicial due process in Nigeria. Otudeko, a Commander of the Federal Republic, stated this on Thursday when he appeared before Justice Muhammed Idris of the Federal High...

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has criticised Governor Nyesom Wike for donating N200m to those displaced as a result of attacks by herdsmen in Benue. The State APC Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Finebone, said it was shocking that Wike donated money to Read more via Punch...

The Edo State Government has banned night grazing and the carrying of guns by herders in the state. It has also set up a seven-member committee in each of the local government areas in the state to check clashes between herders and farmers. Read more via Premium Times Nigeria –...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the solutions being proposed by his government to quell frequent clashes between herdsmen and farmers is not ill-informed nor to colonise any part of the country as being widely suggested. The president was speaking at an audience with Read more via...

A sister in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Mamman, is dead. Mrs. Mamman, 75, died in the early hours of Thursday. The Information Officer of the Daura Local Government Council in Katsina, Salisu Haro, made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Daura. He...

Military authority in Makurdi, Benue State, on Thursday said that it had arrested two suspected Fulani militia who were about to attack Gov. Samuel Ortom’s fish farm and other villages in Guma Local Government Area of the state. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Assistant Director, Army...