“On counts four, five, six, seven and 10, I sentenced him to 10 years of prison term on each of the counts without the option of a fine,” Justice Nathan ruled.
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“It is a security measure for when you are approaching a checkpoint,” he said, “you don’t make phone calls,” said Major-General Usman Mohammed, Nigerian Army’s head of Civil-Military Affairs said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday.
He added that the troops killed a number of Boko Haram terrorists while several others escaped with gunshot wounds during the encounter.
The incident, which occurred after Gada Biyu, before Kweita, a community close to Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), threw neighbouring communities into panic.
“When it came into office in 2015, the government inherited a debt burden of just Ten Billion Dollars ($10billion). Today our country’s debt exposure has spiraled up to about eighty four billion dollars ($84billion). Yet there is hardly anything on the ground to show for this staggering debt profile. This irresponsible profligacy must stop before our Country and its present and future generations become indentured slaves. Already debt servicing is costing us almost half the Budget with nothing left for development.” He said.
In my understanding of the challenges facing young people in the northern part of Nigeria, there is what i call a treacherous triangle. This triangle consist of Illiteracy, poverty and unemployment. These three ugly terms are interrelated.
“The downfall of a man is truly not the end of his life. There’s always another, and better day. This is a lesson we must all learn from you as a country,” Buhari told the comeback world champion.
Its Executive Secretary, Mr Tony Ojukwu made the call in Abuja while reacting to the invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Dec. 6 by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to rearrest Omoyele Sowore who was earlier released by the same department.
Sowore was granted bail, which the DSS grudgingly complied with after some standoff with the court. The next thing, the court adjourned the trial till February 11. The DSS planned to rearrest him immediately to deny him the freedom occasioned by his bail.
Amaechi wrote: Some minutes ago, I was attacked by a few misguided Nigerians while on national assignment at a climate change event in Madrid, Spain. They were quickly repelled by the Spanish police before they could do any harm. I am fine. I was not hurt. Thanks for your support & prayers.
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Already, the country is being weaponized and armed militias are rising fast to fill the void created by absence of law enforcement in remote areas of the country. Instead of working to stabilize the country through the enforcement of rule of law and constitutional order, we are here desecrating it on the altar of political exigency. This will never end well.
The two men were rearrested by operatives of the secret police on Friday hours after they were released on bail on Thursday evening.
“The robbers disguised as clients seeking to exchange currency and then beckoned Hamisu to come. They swiftly grabbed his Ghana-Must-Go bag which was fully-loaded with local and foreign currencies, including dollars, pounds sterling and euros,” said a witness.
The court also ordered that the Slok Nig. Ltd. should be wound up and its assets forfeited to the Federal Government.
The Senior Magistrate, Mrs. T. B. Ogunkanmi, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered that he should be remanded in custody pending receipt of legal advice from the state Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The trial judge, Justice Gideon Kudafa in his ruling on Thursday said the decision was taken to enable their lawyers and doctors to have easy access to them.
Risqua Muhammed said his father fearlessly fought corruption during his tenure in office as the Head of State and lauded President Muhammad Buhari for doing the same. Muhammed said his father served Nigeria with integrity during his 200 days in office.
Mama Boko Haram along with Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura, the Programme Manager of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, an NGO owned by Barr. Aisha Wakil was also joined in the suite.
That Nigerian universities under his watch are not good? That he doesn’t want his children to mix with the children of people who lost their lives in the struggle to see that he become the president, people who drank gutter water and trekked hundreds of kilometers out of joy that he won election?
