Big Brother Naija 2020 Housemate, Nengi has told Ozo to let her do whatever she wants to do without thinking it is about him.According to Nengi, she always has to answer questions from Ozor and she’s beginning to get upset by his constant questioning of her actions in the House.
President Buhari has raised an alarm over the decline in the country's revenue amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who delivered President Buhari's remark at the start of the first-year Ministerial performance review retreat holding in Abuja on Monday September 7, said his administration adopted a N2.3 trillion economic sustainability plan to mitigate the effect of the economic slowdown.
A band of thugs invaded the House of Assembly complex in Ondo on Monday, September 7, 2020, as political tension engulfs the southwestern state ahead of a governorship election slated for October 10. Local reports say the thugs stormed the complex in anticipation of the arrival of lawmakers who are loyal to Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi.
Father Ejike Mbaka has been spotted in a viral video talking about a female BBNaija housemate during his adoration service. According to the cleric, the female housemate who is beautiful might lose the N85m prize in the reality show due to her cantankerous side which pops up at intervals.
On September 6, 2020, Nigerian singer, Peruzzi took to his Instagram page [@peruzzi_vibes] to post a picture of him and his DMW boss, Davido backing the camera on the opposite sides of a pool table. With Davido wearing a Kwame Nkrumah shirt, Peruzzi wrote that, "Couple Days To Our Albums. Zero Pressure." You might remember that Davido announced his third studio album, A Better Time on May 1, 2020. The album is set to feature acts like Nicki Minaj, Tiwa Savage and more.
169 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday November 26, as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
A breakdown of the new cases is as follows; Kaduna-74, FCT-42, Lagos-17, Kano-8, Ogun-6, Oyo-6, Rivers-6, Ekiti-3, Bauchi-3, Katsina-2, Delta-1, Ondo-1.
There are now 66974 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country and 1,169 deaths have been recorded. 62,585 patients who recovered from the disease have also been discharged.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has denied announcing an increment in the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5m.
The minister had however made the announcement in August and also explained that the fine was increased to deter people willingly violating the provision to destabilise the country.
However in a counter-affidavit in response to an originating motion filed by human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong to challenge the imposition of N5m fine on Nigeria Info 99.3FM, Lagos, and the threat by the National Broadcasting Commission to punish other broadcast stations in the country over alleged hate speech, Lai Mohammed denied making the announcement.
An affidavit deposed to by a Litigation Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Sunday Ojobo read;
“Paragraph 19 is denied. The 2nd defendant (Mohammed) did not announce an increment in any fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5,000,000 or any other because there is a governmental body or institution mandated to regulate and enforce the Nigerian Broadcasting Code.”
Lai Mohammed who further stated that the constitution allowed human rights to be suspended for the sake of national interest, added that the NBC Act gave the commission the power to sanction stations that contravene its code.
The Minister also stressed that Effiong was not directly affected by the NBC sanctions and therefore lacked the legal right to challenge the NBC’s Code.
The NBC on its own part insisted that it had the right to sanction errant stations and also maintained that the applicant was not a broadcaster and therefore lacked the right to challenge its actions.
A commercial bank in Ode-Irele, headquarters of Irele Local Government area of Ondo State was on Thursday November 26 attacked by robbers.
The armed men numbering about 30 attacked the bank around 4:00pm, shortly after the visit of the Inspector General of Police to the state command.
It was also learnt that the robbers attacked a police station in the community before proceeding to the bank where they carted away an undisclosed amount of cash.
Ondo police spokesperson, Tee Leo-Ikoro confirmed the attack and also disclosed that the robbers blew the armoury of the police facility open with an explosive device and made away with some rifles.
The command’s spokesman who insisted that no fatality was recorded in the attack, said the robbers destroyed the security doors of the financial facility with an explosive device to gain access.
Ikoro also revealed that a team of men highly skilled personnel of the command has been deployed after the fleeing armed robbers to apprehend them and bring them to justice.
Kano Hisbah has reportedly written a notice to Cool FM, demanding that they stop calling Friday 'Black Friday' ahead of a "Black Friday Sales" expected to be conducted today November 27.
According to the Sharia Police, majority of Kano residents are Muslims and they consider Friday a holy day.
The notice also disclosed that Hisbah corps will be "around for surveillance purposes" with a view of stopping immoral activities at the event as well as maintain peace, harmony and stability in the state.
The Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has described the North as the worst region to live in Nigeria.
The monarch said this at the 4th Quarter Meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) in Abuja on Thursday November 26.
On scrapping of controversial police unit SARS, the Sultan said;
“We must obey all laws, if we are not law abiding. We have heard people calling for the scrapping of SARS, the President has done that and we later said, bring police back. We cannot do without the Police; we cannot do without our security agencies. No matter bad the security agencies are, there are still excellent officers.
“What we need to do is to fish out the bad elements from the security agencies and to reform the agencies and have a better. Abusing the Police, abusing soldiers, abusing security agencies would not augur well for us because, by the time we drag into anarchy, everybody would be on its, and then there would be serious problem in the country.
“We have security problems in the country, bandits now go into people’s houses to kidnap, not on the highway anymore. Of recent in the last couple of days, they are going into institutions, in Zaria; ABU, the Polytechnic and took away people."
The Sokoto monarch also narrated some of the security challenges some residents of the Northern region have been facing.
He said;
“The insecurity in the north is so high that people are even afraid of travelling from Funtua to Zaria, a journey of about 48 or 50 miles. Not to talk of Sokoto to Abuja or to Kano.
“We know what we are going through. We are so insecure in the north that people are losing hope. People keep things in the house so that when the bandits come, they would let them be free.
“Couple of weeks ago, 76 people were killed in Sokoto by bandits in a day, it is not a story because I went there with the governor in Eastern part of Sokoto but you don’t hear these stories because it happened in the North and we don’t have media that is strong enough to bring out these atrocities about the bandits so people think that the North is secure.
“No north is not secure at all. In fact, it is the worst place to be in this country because bandits go about in the villages with their AK47 and nobody talks to them. They stop at the markets and buy things and even collect change with their weapons."
On the rising cost of living, Abubakar said;
“Food prizes are on the increase and we need to do something about it. The cost of onion is too high and beyond the reach of many people. A hungry man is an angry man. The rising cost of foodstuff in the markets is an issue. The amount an onion costs in Nigeria today is an insight into the current economic hardship in the country.
“I think we really need to sit down and look at these issues because a hungry man is an angry man. We do not lack recommendations and solutions to our problems. What we lack is implementation and that sense of purpose to do the right thing, but we don’t like doing the right thing, we always want to cut corners.”
Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has said that the five years of President Buhari has plunged Nigeria into abundant poverty.
The group stated this in a statement released reacting to the recession of the Nigerian economy. The group in the statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, blamed President Buhari for the country's economic situation, saying the country had become ungovernable under his administration.
"As Nigeria enters the worst recession in 33 years and the second in five years of Buhari, we are equally besieged by attendant poverty as well as insecurity worsening across the land with kidnappers, armed robbers and bandits on the prowl and government helpless and unable to govern effectively.
The truth is that the country had virtually become ungovernable and unless we restructure and restore Nigeria to federalism, the country is on the brink of collapse and God should save us from the worst-case scenario."the statement read
The group in the statement called on the Buhari-led government to implement the report of 2014 conference now in order to salvage the country.
They also asked the President to immediately open all the Southern borders in the country that has been closed since August 2019.
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