Latest News Update
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi The new General Manager, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) Lokoja, Alhaji Yahaya Adam has enjoined the leadership and members of Kogi State Chapter of Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) on the need for its members to project the true Islamic message devoid of things that would cause disaffection among members of…
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi 35-year-old suspected ritualist, Timothy Odeniyi, who was arrested by Amotekun corps for being in possession of human parts has confessed that his boss promised him N30m if he could get the human parts and deliver to buyer in Lagos state. Odeniyi was arrested in Ondo town motor park last week Sunday…
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Former Vice President and People’s Democratic party presidential candidate in the 2019 election on Tuesday,visited General (Rtd) Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida for consultations The meeting between the former military president lasted for about an hour and was held behind closed doors. Though the visit is widely thought to be in connection with…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State is in confusion over who to support for the2023 presidential race between former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. While his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has launched a support group named, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT) Movement’s Working Committee in Ikeja, Gov Abiodun has…
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi A Pressure Group Ward B First (WBF) based in Lokoja Local Goverment Area, Tuesday applauded Aspirants from the area for signifying their intentions to contest Lokoja 1 state constituency Assembly in 2023. Secretary of the group,Comrade Yabagi Abdullahi Umar,stated this in a press release he personally signed a copy of which…
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken on the structural features of the Yoruba language. This is…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of making itself a willing tool towards harassing the people of the South-East out of the 2023 presidential racea willing tool towards harassing the people of the South-East out of the 2023 presidential race. This was contained in a statement…
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Ahead of 2023 presidential election, Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has announced his intention to contest for president. Tambuwal who contest The PDP primary in 2019 former will stand under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The former speaker made the announcement Monday evening after a stakeholders’ meeting in Sokoto. The governor promised…
A 22-years-old Aliyu Abdullahi, of Kasuwar Mata, Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State, is in police custody, for allegedly defrauding an unsuspecting retiree of her gratuity, using her ATM card in the state. The suspect, while confessing to the crime, said he used part of the stolen money to buy himself a car and…
By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Jennifer Douglas Abubakar, the third wife of Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has finally reacted to controversies trailing her efforts to divorce the politician. Rumours had earlier swirled that Jennifer asked Atiku for divorce over his decision to take a new wife. But in a statement to The Trent, an online platform,…
