Throwback: “I have Fulani blood in me, My great grandfather is a Fulani man”—Fani Kayode
My maternal grandfather was a great and powerful Muslim cleric and scholar by the name of Sheik Nurudeen Sa’ Id. He was from Ilesha. He was also a civil servant and he spent a good deal of his adult life in Lagos. His father, that is my maternal great-grandfather, was a pure Yoruba man from Ilesha. However his mother, that is my maternal great-grandmother, was a pure Fulani woman from Sokoto. My grandfather, Sheik Nurudeen Sa’ I’d, who was half Fulani and half Yoruba, got married to my grandmother, Alhaja Abeke Sa’ id (nee Williams) who was a pure Yoruba
BDCs operators funding Boko Haram, kidnappings — CBN makes shocking revelation
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has declared that Bureau de Changes (BDCs) were funding terrorism and kidnapping in the country. Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, made this disclosure in Abuja on Friday after the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Meeting. He said the CBN will not rescind its decision to ban the sale of foreign exchange to BDCs. Shedding more light on why the apex bank took the the decision, Emefiele noted the CBN has resolved to stop funding BDCs by dipping into the nation’s foreign reserve to fund BDCs all for the sake of stabilising the forex market.
Tension As Hungry Bandits Mount Road Block In Katsina
Residents of some communities in Kankara Local government of Katsina State have raised an alarm over the influx of bandits possibly dislodged from Zamfara State. The fleeing bandits are said to have been moving to the area in droves. A resident of Pawwa village, who was in Katsina on Friday, told Daily Trust that the bandits have already mounted a gate where they conduct stop and search on commuters plying the Kankara-Zango road. “Their main concerns now are food and fuel. They have some Jerry cans where they collect fuel from motorists and whatever food stuff they see, they collect
NSCDC Arrests Men ‘Supplying Fuel To Bandits’ In Sokoto
The Anti-Vandal unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Sokoto has arrested two suspected suppliers of petrol to bandits. The suspects were arrested around 2:30am on Friday at Anasiyya And Sons Filling Station, More area of Sokoto North local government area. Assistant Commandant in charge of the unit, Aminu Maijiegi, who led the operation told Daily Trust that his unit was tipped off on the clandestine activity of the filling station. “We received an intelligence that the filling station was selling petrol in jerry cans in the middle of the night in violation of the executive
Charly Boy to release musical film ‘Odudubariba
Nigerian showbiz maestro and rights activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has concluded plans to release a musical film titled ‘Odudubariba’. A statement released by his manager, Doris Udensi, in Abuja on Friday, said the singer, in leading an advocacy and enlightenment campaign for a better society, decided to go back to music as a way of mobilising citizens for nation-building, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The statement read in part, “His focus is to take a break from his street protest/peaceful demonstrations and put all that energy into conscious music like never before. This musical film drops
Gunmen Kill Miyetti Allah Chairman in Kaduna
The chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Abubakar Abdullahi, has been killed by gunmen. Spokesman of the Kaduna state chapter of the association, Ibrahim Bayero, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview on Friday in Kaduna. He said the assailants invaded Abdullahi’s house in Lere, Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna state in the early hours of Friday. According to him, the bandits, demanded for N20 million from the deceased who told them that he didn’t have that kind of money. Bayero said the gunmen took the
NJC Sets up Panel to Probe 3 Judges over Exparte Orders on PDP leadership crisis, others
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has constituted a Special Investigation Committee to to handle the issue of three judges of courts of coordinate jurisdiction over their granting of exparte orders thereby resulting to conflicting orders of courts. Consequently the affected judges have been directed to appear before the panel and show cause why disciplinary actions should not be taken against them. The issue of conflicting court orders between July and August as it pertains to the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship Election and the leadership crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) got to
FG begins payment of outstanding arrears to N-Power beneficiaries
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development says it has commenced the payment of arrears of stipends for batches A and B of the 2016 and 2018 volunteers of the N-Power programme nationwide. This is contained in a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Alhaji Bashir Alkali, on Friday in Abuja. Alkali said the accounts of these 14,021 volunteers were flagged in March 2020 by the Federal Government payment system, the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System for various reasons. According to him, the reasons include beneficiaries holding multiple bank accounts and receiving other
CBN to Prosecute Aboki FX Owner for Economic Sabotage
The of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Friday vowed to track down the founder of AbokiFx, Oniwinde Adedotun, for foreign exchange sabotage. AbokiFX is an online platform that publishes live foreign exchange rates. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, while addressing journalists at the end of the 2-day MPC meeting in Abuja, accused the online platform of sabotaging the Nigerian economy by publishing speculative black market rates. He said, “We found him as a Nigerian who lives in England, and conducts this nefarious and criminal activity on our economy. “It is an economic sabotage and we will pursue him wherever
Ogun Assembly orders former OPIC MD to refund N40m
The Ogun Assembly has directed former Managing Director of State Property and Investment Corporation (OPIC), Mr Babajide Odusolu, to return N40 million unaccounted for in 2019 into the state purse within six months. This was part of the resolution passed by the assembly during the plenary session presided over by the Speaker, Mr Olakunle Oluomo, in Abeokuta on Friday. This was after adopting the report of the House Committee on Public Account and Anti Corruption led by Musefiu Lamidi. Lamidi, while presenting the report of his committee, noted that the committee had considered the 2015 to 2019 State Auditor-General’s report
