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 Protests erupt at disbanded Kano emirate Protesters are currently on the streets of Gaya, one of the five emirates affected by the repealed Kano Emirates Council Law. The New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, controlled House of Assembly had repealed the law which ex-Governor Abdullahi Ganduje used to dethrone Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II in 2020. Assenting to the law on Thursday, Governor Abba Yusuf announced the dissolution of the four extra emirates created by Ganduje. The emirates are Rano, Gaya, Karaye and Bichi. The governor also ordered all the monarchs, including Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim Abdulkadir, Emir of Gaya, to hand over to Comrade Abdulsalam Gwarzo, Deputy Governor, who oversees the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affair. It was gathered that the dethroned Emir vacated the palace at midnight on Thursday. There was no sign of any form of violence or resistance in the town as there was the presence of armed security personnel. According to Daily Trust, a resident, A...

 My wife got pregnant for another man while in marriage – Harrysong alleges Singer Harrysong has alleged that his estranged wife, Alexer Peres, was impregnated by another man while still married to him. He claimed that he married into a promiscuous family. The singer revealed that his ex-wife informed him of her pregnancy a year after he had ceased relations with her, making it clear that another man was responsible for the pregnancy. Speaking during a recent Instagram live session, Harrysong said: “My ex-wife’s mother just married her seventh or sixth husband yet she is still cheating in that marriage. That’s the kind of family I married into. “My wife came to inform me that she was pregnant when I stopped sleeping with her for almost a year. She was pregnant with another man inside my marriage. The only thing I did was to ask her to return to her family. I needed time to get to know her because I didn’t know who she really was. I married her because people said she was a loyal, h...

Many people are feared dead after a mosque collapsed in Papa Ajao area of Lagos State on Sunday afternoon, May 26. The Muslim faithfuls were said to be observing their afternoon prayer when the mosque collapsed. According to another source: Collapsed Mosque at Yusuf Street, Papa Ajao, Ladipo Mushin. Many Feared Dead As Mosque Collapses During Prayer In Lagos*  Many people were feared dead on Sunday afternoon when a mosque collapsed in Papa Ajao area of Lagos State. According to The Nation, the mosque collapsed during afternoon prayer. Many dead and injured bodies have been moved from the rubbles with many more feared trapped.  Watch video and more photos below. 

 OTUNBA BESTMAN NZE JUMBO ADVISES PARENTS BASED ON CURRENT NIGERIA ECONOMY The situation of the country isn't so appalling at the moment but however parents need to improvise to make ends meet with families and friends. The pressure of school fees is killing many parents in Nigeria and more often than not is affordable. When I brought back my kids from South Africa, I enrolled them in an expensive private school in Abuja but the stress of school fees was very tough on me as I couldn't meet up with payments. The pride of "my kids attend BRITISH ROYAL OAK SCHOOL" made me keep running kirakita but the effect wasn't nice on me health wise.  I eventually pulled them out after conducting thorough research on public schools in Lagos and Abuja.  I enrolled them in a public school in Abuja and got private teachers coming to take them at home and this reduced my stress very drastically because i understand brilliancy isn't taught in school but in-built. I even opened ba...

 Death Toll in Papua New Guinea Landslide Estimated to Be at Least 670 More than 48 hours after the disaster, its full extent remains unclear, with aid slow to reach survivors and conditions on the ground still dangerous. According to another source: Death Toll in Papua New Guinea Landslide Estimated to Be at Least 670. The landslide hit a rural region of the island nation early Friday, but search-and-rescue efforts have been hampered by difficulty in reaching the disaster site and by the hazard that the shifting ground continues to pose. As of Sunday afternoon, land was still sliding, rocks were falling and the soil was cracking from increased pressure and running groundwater. The landslide struck the village about 3 a.m. Friday, hitting homes when many residents were asleep. Some of the boulders that buried houses and cut off a major highway were larger than shipping containers. We have Nazarene churches in the Enga Province where this happened. This landslide is 2 provinces away...

 Adamawa/Taraba Customs Seizes N12 Million Worth of Smuggled Fuel The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it seized petroleum products worth N12,050,700 in just two weeks.  This was disclosed by the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Garba Bashir, during a press conference held on 23 May 2024 at the Command's headquarters in Yola. In his statement, Comptroller Bashir highlighted the successful interception of two vehicles laden with 13,890 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in 554 jerry cans, along with two Toyota Hiace buses used for the smuggling operation.  He said the seizures were made at the Sahuda and Belel axis, near the Nigeria-Cameroon border, based on credible intelligence received by the Command. "The cumulative Duty Paid Value (DPV) of these seized items stands at Twelve Million, Fifty Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira (N12,050,700.00)," Bashir explained.  Comptroller Bashir reiterated the Command's commitment to n...

 BENUE UNCOVERS CHEATING, GHOST TEACHERS IN EDUCATION SHAKEUP  The Director-General, Benue State Education Quality Assurance Agency, Terna Francis disclosed on Thursday that the State Government has promised to stamp out rots in its education sector, Francis cited several rots that have pervaded the education sector in the state and assured that the present administration of Governor Hyacinth Alia is poised to correct all the anomalies. One of the rots, according to him, is the case of a school principal (name withheld) who substituted the names of 115 students of the Senior Secondary School 3 class with external candidates in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, after collecting examination fees from the candidates. According to the DG, “We received a petition from parents of an SSS 3 student within the Makurdi metropolis where the principal removed the student’s name who has been in the school from SSS 1 from the list of candidates supposed to bene...