The death toll in the Gezawa mosque attack has risen to 12, after 11 more victims died while receiving treatment at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano.The Police Public Relations Officer of the Kano Command, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, who confirmed the development to Channels Television, said they died as
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) says it has not extended the closing date for the 2024 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal Registration.A statement signed by a spokesperson for the organisation, Azeez Sani, said the registration, which started on Monday, December 18, 2023, will close on Monday, June 3, 2024.The
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The Kano State Chief Judge, Justice Dije Abdu Aboki, has transferred the corruption case involving the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje; and seven others to a different court.The case, which was previously under the jurisdiction of Kano High Court number 4, presided over by Justice
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The federal government has pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its recent strike threat.Recall that ASUU had issued a two-week ultimatum to the government to reconstitute the governing councils of public universities.Addressing journalists in Abuja, acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki,
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The convicted billionaire kidnapping kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, facing an attempted murder case, has approached the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja for settlement.Evans, along with his co-defendant, Joseph Emeka, who is facing murder and attempted kidnapping charges, has opted for the option of a plea bargain.The state prosecution
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The marriage of 100 female orphans in Niger State has been stopped by an Abuja Federal High Court.The controversial mass marriage sponsored by the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkin-Daji, was scheduled to take place on Friday, May 24.Sarkin-Daji had decided to sponsor the
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Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has disclosed that his principal, President Bola Tinubu, subsidised the 2024 Hajj with N90 billion.He stated this when he represented Tinubu to flag off the inaugural airlift of the 2024 Hajj exercise from Nigeria to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Sir Ahmadu Bello International
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through the Department of Development Control, has served 24-hour demolition notices to operators of illegal market shanties in the Karmo and Dei Dei corridors. The exercise will affect 500 structures that have been marked for demolition.The sector monitor and assistant director in the department, Mr.
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A non-governmental organisation, Christians Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria (CSW-N), has staged a peaceful protest, demanding the release of abducted schoolgirls from Dapchi in Yobe State and Chibok in Borno State who have respectively spent six and 10 years in captivity.The group noted that Leah Sharibu was 14 years old when she
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on May 23 arraign former aviation minister Hadi Sirika and his brother, Ahmad, before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Garki, on a fresh eight-count charge.They were slated to be arraigned before Justice Suleman Belgore, but the arraignment was stalled due
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