The Federal Government on Thursday paid the sum of N135m as compensation for the killing of eight persons and the injury caused 11 others during a raid of an uncompleted building in Apo/Gudu district of Abuja by men of the Department of State Service and the Nigerian Army in September 2013.
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared the detention of the former Minister of the FCT, Bala Mohammed, as unlawful and a violation of his right to liberty. The trial judge, Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf, who made the order on Thursday, awarded the sum of N5m as damages for his detention. In his […]
A 26-year-old teacher, Muhammad Suleiman, who allegedly defiled a three-year-old girl, on Thursday appeared before a Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court. Suleiman, who lives at Rimin Gata Quarters, Kano, is facing a count charge, but he pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Insp. Pogu Lale, said that the teacher lured the toddler into an isolated classroom at […]
At least, seven persons were in the early hours of Thursday killed after suspected herdsmen entered a church in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. It was gathered that the herdsmen were said to have stormed Mbamondo clan around 12.20am and attacked some displaced persons who had taken refuge at an African Church in […]
The Andoma of Doma in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Aliyu Ogah, has called for peace among farmers and herdsmen for the socio-economic development of the state and the country. Ogah made the call on Thursday at his palace in Doma during a peace talk with the officials of Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN ), Doma […]
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has explained why it has not been making comments on the ongoing faceoff between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), (Shiites) and the Nigerian government. The group, whose principal duty is to ensure the protection of the rights of every Muslim in Nigeria, said it cannot discharge such […]
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