Attempts to appeal the death sentence given to a musician , Yahaya Sharif- Aminu, was stalled again on Tuesday as officials of the Upper Sharia Court in Kano State refused to make available certified true copies of the judgment . Sharif- Aminu, who was sentenced to death on August 10, 2020, for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, […]
Police in the United States have shot dead another black man , who they said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent altercation in Los Angeles, triggering fresh outrage as tensions soar over racism and police brutality. The man , named in local media as 29-year – old Dijon Kizzee , was […]
Former minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Tuesday, wrote to the management of Media Trust Limited – publishers of Daily Trust and other publications, demanding apology and a whopping sum of six billion, naira, (N6bn) for defamation. Femi had last week embarrassed a Cross River State Correspondent of the Daily Trust Newspaper, Eyo Charles, for […]
The spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party in Gombe State has been remanded in custody by a Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defaming character of some members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). 5:18:40 PMHaruna Gimba Yaya, GombeThe spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party in Gombe State has been remanded in custody by a […]
Claiming the mantle of the “law and order” candidate, President Donald Trump is offering himself as the leader best positioned to keep Americans safe, a day after Democratic rival Joe Biden assailed him over the deadly protests that have sprung up on his watch. Trump is diving head-first into the latest eruption in the nation’s […]
THE Senate has taken a swipe at the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, saying that as lawmakers, they were prepared to engage them through proper legislative channel rather than news media. The Senators said that members of the Northern Elders Forum should themselves abreast with the thematic areas as advertised for constitutional reforms cut across some […]
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has faulted the Senate’s move to review and alter some provisions of the 1999 constitution (as amended). According to the Elders, federal lawmakers, since 1999, have spent huge amounts of Nigerian people’s money to fund the constitution review process without any meaningful impact on the lives of the people. So, […]
The Sha’aya’u S-Pawa Foundation, a political group in Zamfara state, says it will give an award to Eyo Charles, the Daily Trust journalist insulted by Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, verbally assaulted Charles at a press conference in Calabar, Cross River capital, when the latter asked him if anyone was bankrolling his […]
An Australian based member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Kalu Okechukwu Frank has expressed dissatisfaction over the killing of members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra by security agencies. The incident, which led to the death of some IPOB […]
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations has condemned the role of the country’s secret Police, the Department of State Services (DSS) in the lingering pension debacle in Imo state. The group was reacting to the recent incident where leaders of Pension Intervention Committee were invited by the DSS and grilled for four hours, threatened and […]
