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Jackson Ude is probably not in Nigeria so he go dey difficult to catch, DSS should rather use one of these useless Obidients as example, they can as well contact me so that I can nominate one Obidients on Nairaland for the lesson.

Alright

Flame333:
Abeg nor vex.. I go correct myself next time.. I just did my research now.. One love

You're definitely not Igbo, those ones go rather di.e than accept the fact.

A female TikTok user, Nwakaego Okoye, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for cyberstalking Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus.

Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos gave the ruling on Wednesday.

The judge convicted Nwakaego after she pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of cyberstalking.

In a consideration that followed the convict’s remorse, Justice Oweibo however gave her an option of paying a fine of N150,000 in lieu of jail time.

According to the charge, Nwakaego and one Chimabia (now at large) conspired to commit the offence between December 2022 and July 2023 in Lagos.

It added that the offence contravened Sections 24(1)(b)(2)(a)(c) and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015.

Okoye, who was arrested for making defamatory statements against actress Eniola Badmus, confessed that she defamed the actress because a friend, Fortune Ibe, promised to pay her N200,000.





Source;
https://punchng.com/tiktok-user-jailed-three-years-for-cyberstalking-eniola-badmus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3-NNv4-7Z-y2EKtzdbGBBKgsfph4O5xNzuFAfPxZihkEuTAbE9nLsnzpI#Echobox=1690992168-1


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DodadaKoKigbe:
Summary: Yoruba Muslims still have some part of their brains intact so they can still use it to think clearly. Meanwhile, Northern Muslims have all their brain subjected to Arabia so they can't think clearly.

Is this the only thing you can deduce from this piece?

Music star Davido’s social media promotion of a new song by Logos Olori (whose real name is Olalekan Emeka Taiwo) titled “Jaye Lo” where men dressed in stereotypical Muslims robes gyrated into a sudden burst of frenzied dancing shortly after performing the Muslim prayers near a mosque has incensed Muslims in Hausaphone northern Nigeria but doesn’t seem to bother Yoruba and other Nigerian Muslims.

The differential reactions to the music video—and to most other issues involving religion— among Nigerian Muslims can be traced to the history and character of the evolution of Islam in the North and in the Southwest.

It is not often known that Yoruba and Hausa Muslims share a common, age-old heritage even though the manifestation of Islam in the lived experiences of the people is fundamentally different, which is magnified by the often acrimonious political differences between the two groups in contemporary Nigeria.

The emergence of Islam in both societies is not only fairly co-extensive, it is also from the same West African source. Islam came to Katsina, Kano (and in much of Hausaland in Nigeria’s northwest) in a sustained, systematic form in the 1300s. It came to Kano when Yaji I was king of Kano— and to Yorubaland in the 1450s during the reign of Oluaso, the defunct Oyo Empire’s longest reigning monarch on record.

Tarikh arbab hadha al-balad al-musamma Kano, the Arabic-language palace diary known to us in English as the Kano Chronicle, which recorded biographical profiles of Kano’s kings from the 10th century until the Usman Dan Fodio Jihad in the early 1800s, is the first known written account to state that Islam was brought to Kano by the Wangara people of Mali during the reign of Yaji I who ruled from 1349 to 1385.

Islam also came to Yorubaland (and surrounding areas such as Borgu and Nupeland) through the same Wangara people of Mali, which explains why Islam is called “Esin imale” in the Yoruba language, which literally means “religion of Mali.” Note that the Wangara are also known by such names as Mande, Mandinka, Malinke, Mandingo, Dyula, Bambara, Soninke, etc.

Although Islam has existed in Yorubaland since at least the 1400s, the first mosque wasn’t built in Oyo-Ile, the ancient capital of the Oyo Empire, until 1550, and in Iwo, a historic Yoruba Muslim town, until the 1600s. While Islam took enough roots in Yorubaland that Sharia courts were established in some towns, traditional modes of Yoruba worship coexisted with Islam for centuries.

Former Bauchi State governor Isa Yuguda pointed out on April 26, 2013, that “the first Sharia court [in what is now Nigeria] was established in Iwo, in Osun State.” Many Yoruba Muslims repeat this claim both to show that Islam in Yorubaland has a historical edge over Islam in the North and to persuade the Nigerian government to allow the implementation of Sharia for Yoruba Muslims who desire it.

But the claim is probably an exaggeration. Sharia courts seem to have existed in Hausaland before they appeared in Iwo, but their appearance in Yorubaland obviously did precede colonialism by at least 100 years. Other Yoruba towns that had sharia courts decades before colonialism are Epe, Ikirun, and Ede (incidentally Davido’s hometown), which are all located in what is now Osun State. (Davido’s grandfather, Alhaji Raji Adeleke, was a respected Muslim leader in Ede who had the title of Baba Adini of Ede, that is, the Chief Protector of Islam in Ede town).

So, Islam in Yorubaland and Islam in Nigeria's extreme north share similar Malian-inflected historical trajectories, and neither is a direct consequence of the other, although there are interesting historical overlaps between them. For instance, several Hausa (and pre-Dan Fodio Jihad Fulani) Muslim scholars traveled to Yorubaland to preach and share Islamic knowledge. This inspired a robust linguistic and cultural interchange between the two groups.

Prior to Usman Dan Fodio’s 1804 jihad, Islamic practices in both Hausaland and Yorubaland were similar in their syncretism. That is, they blended traditional African religions and Islam. In his book Imale: Yoruba Participation in the Muslim Tradition. A Study of Clerical Piety, Patrick Ryan characterized Islamic practices in Yorubaland as “accommodationist” and pointed out that Usman Dan Fodio would have condemned Yoruba Muslims as “mixers”—as he did Hausa Muslims of the time.

So, Usman Dan Fodio’s jihad was the defining point of departure between Islam in Hausaland and Islam in Yorubaland. The jihad didn’t just extirpate the accommodationist, syncretic brand of Islam previously practiced in Hausaland, it also laid the grounds for a new syncretic ethnic identity in Hausaland.

Over the years, Islam has become not just a religion but an intrinsic constituent of an evolving, increasingly expansionist, politically consequential, and largely non-primordial Hausa Muslim identity. This fact has made Hausa the most ecumenical ethnic identity in Nigeria, by which I mean anybody can be “Hausa” provided they are Muslim, speak the Hausa language with native proficiency, dress like the Hausa, disavow allegiance to competing identities, and subscribe to the cultural consensus of the people.

That is why for most “Hausa” Muslims, Islam isn’t just a faith; it’s also an encapsulation of the totality of their identity and being. That explains why they are more emotionally invested in it—and react forcefully when it is, or perceived to be, attacked, undermined, or ridiculed—than Yoruba and other Muslims are.

Communication scholar Bala Abdullahi Muhammad once wrote in his Weekly Trust column that Hausa Muslims carry on as if Islam was revealed in Kano, as if the Qur’an was written in Hausa, and as if Islam is a uniquely primordial Hausa cultural heritage. Even Mali and Senegambia from where Islam came to Hausaland aren’t as roused to extreme passions over Islam as “Hausa” Muslims often are.

Islam in Yorubaland, on the other hand, hasn’t quite evolved from the accommodationist character it previously shared with Islam in pre-jihad Hausaland. And because Islam has been caked into the Hausa ethnic identity and constituted as the most important building block for identity formation in Northern Nigeria so much so that “Hausa” and “Muslim” have become misleadingly synonymous in the Nigerian popular imagination, Yoruba Muslims have been compelled to privilege their ethnic identity to fend off equivalence with, and to establish difference from, “Hausa” Muslims.

In other words, the association of Islam with Hausa—or Hausa-Fulani—has led to its recalibration in even historically Muslim polities in southern Nigeria such as Yorubaland and northern Edo.

As John Paden noted in Ahmadu Bello Sardauna of Sokoto: Values and Leadership in Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello, Northern Nigeria’s first premier and great-great-grandson of Usman Dan Fodio, actively promoted Islam as Northern Nigeria’s official religion before and after independence. Professor Sakah Saidu Mahmud, in his 2004 article in the African Studies Review titled “Islamism in West Africa: Nigeria,” also pointed out that Islam in northern Nigeria emerged as “the source of identity and a medium of competition for resources and political power.”

He added that “The regional leaders were in competition with each other as they worked to consolidate their local powers, and Islamization was a means for promoting regional identity.” (It also caused dissension in the North and intensified the struggles for a separate “Middle Belt” region for Northern Christians). This reality put Yoruba Muslims in Western Nigeria on the spot since the North instrumentalized Islam for identity and for competition with southern Nigeria, including Yorubaland.

Perhaps as a consequence of this, many Yoruba Muslims in pre- and post-independence Nigeria chose to conceal their Muslim names even when they were practicing, believing Muslims, just to distinguish themselves from Northern Muslims who have ethnicized Islam. For example, a prominent pre-independence Ibadan politician by the name of Adelabu Adegoke who was famous for his electrifying oratory changed his family name from Sanusi (which he bore throughout his educational career) to Adegoke.

The fact that the Sultan of Sokoto is recognized in Nigeria as the permanent leader of Nigerian Muslims, whether or not the Sultan is knowledgeable in Islam and against the merit-driven principles of leadership in Islam, hasn’t helped.

It should be noted that these are broad-brush characterizations that overlook many exceptions. There is a minority of Yoruba Muslims, for instance, who have more allegiance to Islam than they do to their ethnic identity. For example, at a gathering of Yoruba Muslims in Akure on June 19, 2021, Sheikh Imran Molaasan, national president of Jama'at Ta'awunil Muslimeen and Iwo native, reportedly said, "If Nigeria breaks up, Yoruba Muslims will suffocate" in an Oduduwa Republic, and even implied that the resentment against the Fulani in Yorubaland masks sneaky anti-Muslim designs by Yoruba leaders who are mostly Christians.

There is also a minority Hausa ethnic nationalists who resent the “dilution” of their ethnicity with other ethnicities in the name of Islam, and there are Fulani nationalists who agonize over the progressive decline of their language, culture, and identity, but these groups are, for the most part, marginal.

Nonetheless, the foregoing background explains why most Yoruba Muslims see Logos Olori’s music video as mere harmless art not worth their time and Hausa Muslims see it as a mockery of “their” culture over which they must fight.

Source ;
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2023/07/davido-why-yoruba-and-hausa-muslims.html?m=1


Nlfpmod
Mydd44

If federal government can remove fuel subsidy on the day of inauguration and float the Naira just days later but can't seem to do as little as increasing minimum wage 2 months later then they have no excuse, the people are hungry, should they wait till forever before the government will do something about this inflation and rising cost?

ganisucks:
His tenancy is about to expire. He will either vacate the premises willfully, or be evicted forcefully.

Go evict am na.

The two Igbos above me just did the exact thing they are built to do, measuring dic.k.. More of interiority complex.


If you want to know how Sadistic and inferior the Igbos are, just go through this thread and see for yourself, they can't even hide their hate. Smh

helinues:
Are any of your relatives, friends part of the victims? If yes, list their names

If your answer is No, then you might have been one of the people who executed the killings

The 103 people that the Lagos state government are going to bury has no Family ba? At least LASG admitted that people died but denied that it wasn't in Lekki toll gate but surely the people that died were End sars protest victims.

LZAA:
Stop switching accounts helinues

Go to Hell, na Helinues no sabi keep una quite if not una go don tire, mention me more than a million times but I will never dignify your sorry ass with a response again, you guys are nothing but a nincompoop.

LZAA:
Stop switching accounts helinues

Ewu, I've been on this forum since 2013, you guys should grow up and stop behaving like my Dog Zoe. It's becoming annoying really.

TearsOfHelinues:
Delapidated brown roof citizen

Ain't you ashame of yourself? Like you have no other job apart from being a Dog following someone up and down?

Innoson Automobile Company has taken the decision to withdraw the N3 million scholarship awarded to Ejikeme Mmesoma over her involvement in Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result manipulation.

The management of Innoson Group made this announcement through a statement signed by Cornel Osigwe, head of corporate communications, on Saturday in Onitsha.


According to him, the company had been involved in the process of investigating allegations surrounding the 2023 UTME examination results of the scholarship recipient, Ms Mmesoma.


It was reported initially that Ms Mmesoma claimed she had exceptionally high score in her UTME result, “a feat that led to her being awarded a scholarship by our company,” said the Innoson statement.


“However, subsequent reports of discrepancies in her UTME score led us to seek clarification from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and to allow her to voice her stance


UTME Score: Innoson withdraws N3 million scholarship awarded to Mmesoma
Mr Osigwe noted that the findings from the rigorous investigation have now confirmed that Ms Mmesoma did manipulate her UTME results.

NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA • JULY 8, 2023
Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma
Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma (Credit: NewsWireNGR)
Innoson Automobile Company has taken the decision to withdraw the N3 million scholarship awarded to Ejikeme Mmesoma over her involvement in Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result manipulation.

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The management of Innoson Group made this announcement through a statement signed by Cornel Osigwe, head of corporate communications, on Saturday in Onitsha.


According to him, the company had been involved in the process of investigating allegations surrounding the 2023 UTME examination results of the scholarship recipient, Ms Mmesoma.


It was reported initially that Ms Mmesoma claimed she had exceptionally high score in her UTME result, “a feat that led to her being awarded a scholarship by our company,” said the Innoson statement.


“However, subsequent reports of discrepancies in her UTME score led us to seek clarification from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and to allow her to voice her stance


“Further to this, a committee set up by Gov. Charles Soludo carried out a thorough independent investigation into this matter,” he said.


Mr Osigwe noted that the findings from the rigorous investigation have now confirmed that Ms Mmesoma did manipulate her UTME results.


“This conclusion is deeply disappointing and stands in direct contravention of the values we hold dear at Innoson Vehicles, particularly those that underscore our scholarship programme.


“In line with these principles and response to the confirmed findings, we have made the difficult decision to withdraw the scholarship awarded to Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme.

“This action is a testament to our unyielding commitment to honesty, integrity, and merit-based recognition,” he said.


He acknowledged that the development was regrettable, and it has undoubtedly caused dismay among those who stood by Ms Mmesoma.


He assured that Innoson Vehicles remained steadfast in its mission to support deserving students, invest in the future of the education sector, and uphold the highest ethical standards.


Source
https://gazettengr.com/utme-score-innoson-withdraws-n3-million-scholarship-awarded-to-mmesoma/

Mydd44
Nlfpmod

The senator defied the president in a high-wire quest to lead the 10th National Assembly. But federal authorities may also have a separate axe to grind.

Senator Abdulaziz Yari has spent two nights languishing in the dungeon of Nigeria’s iron-fisted State Security Service, Peoples Gazette was told by two officials familiar, after multiple telephone calls to his lines from President Bola Tinubu rang through last month.


One senior security officer and a State House aide told The Gazette in separate disclosures on Friday that the SSS arrested Mr Yari on Thursday morning and detained him for “thinking the president is a joke,” as one official put it. Both sources obtained The Gazette’s commitment to keeping them anonymous to bounce potential backlash from Mr Tinubu, who seemed to be shaping up to be a ruthless and vindictive leader after barely five weeks in office.


“He was asked why he ignored the president’s phone calls during the Senate leadership battle,” an official said. “He started arguing that he has every right to contest for the position and decisions about his political career moves should not come from the president.”

“The president was trying to appeal to him to stand down his ambition to make sure any fate similar to how Bukola Saraki became Senate President in 2015 won’t be repeated,” the official said. “We all knew that Saraki’s emergence back then was the first error President Buhari made, and it crippled his first four years in office.”


Sources said Mr Yari received a call from Yusuf Bichi, the director-general, to report at the SSS’ headquarters for an urgent discussion. Upon arrival, Mr Yari was asked to wait for Mr Bichi, who purportedly stepped out. But the senator was delayed throughout the day by a phalanx of armed SSS agents, only to be told at about 10:00 p.m. Thursday that he won’t be going home, The Gazette learnt. The senator’s planned visit with other Senate colleagues to former President Ibrahim Babangida on Friday was consequently aborted.

“His phones were confiscated, and he may be spending days, if not weeks, in custody,” the source added.

A spokesman for the SSS sidestepped questions about the development on Friday.

Mr Yari failed to garner enough votes for the position, but his Senate associates have alleged irregularities and may challenge the outcome in court. This could set him on a collision course with the president, with officials warning of dire consequences for Mr Yari’s political future should he proceed with the lawsuit.

Already, Mr Tinubu has detained Abdulrasheed Bawa without charges after firing him as the head of the federal anti-corruption office EFCC on June 14. Mr Bawa was looking into Mr Tinubu’s web of ill-gotten assets at some point in 2020, The Gazette previously reported. Mr Bawa’s detention has persisted after more than three weeks, even as he has neither been charged nor publicly accused of any wrongdoings.


Also held under a legally-dubious authority without charges is Godwin Emefiele, a Nigerian banker whom Mr Tinubu promptly fired from office as the central bank governor and subsequently ordered detained by the SSS, a national intelligence outfit whose illiberal manoeuvres have endured despite the country’s blistering journey from the tyranny of military juntas in the 1990s to the third decade of uninterrupted constitutional republic.

Officials said Mr Yari’s detention might also drag out if his colleagues at the National Assembly are not fierce enough in demanding his release, one of our sources said. Like Mr Tinubu, the former Zamfara governor is also a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress. But he poked the president’s ire last month when he declared plans to be Senate President at the resumption of the 10th National Assembly. Federal lawmakers, unlike the president and vice-president, have no constitutional immunity from arrest and criminal prosecution.

Mr Yari advanced his push to be Senate President even after party leaders publicly endorsed Godswill Akpabio for the position, largely on the account of Mr Akpabio’s southern Christian identity and second Senate term. Mr Yari, representing Zamfara West Senatorial District, is a Muslin from the North-West. The party sought to balance equity within its ranks by ceding the Senate presidency to a Christian from the South-South, since Mr Tinubu is a Muslim from the South-West and Vice-President Kashim Shettima is a Muslim from the North-East. House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas is a Muslim from Mr Yari’s region.


A spokesman for Mr Akpabio, who emerged the Senate President on June 13 after defeating Mr Yari 63-46, did not immediately return a request seeking comments. A phone number for the presidency did not connect on Saturday morning.

The Gazette heard from a second official that Mr Yari was also asked about transactions he received from the CBN, which officials are treating as suspicious but which the senator reportedly explained were legitimate.

“He told them the money from the CBN was from consultancy he did for the forum of governors and he still has an outstanding balance to collect from the CBN,” a source familiar with Mr Yari’s interrogation said. A spokesman for the CBN could not be reached for comments Friday night.

Mr Yari’s arrest came weeks after he secured a federal court directive forbidding the SSS, EFCC and other law enforcement bodies from arresting the senator on corruption charges. The restraining order was renewed last month, with law enforcement sources telling The Gazette they would continue investigations on the matter meanwhile.

Anti-graft agency Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, filed charges against Mr Yari in 2022 after The Gazette exposed suspicious transactions he initiated in his last hours as Zamfara governor in May 2019. The politician has continued to deny any wrongdoings, accusing his political rivals of hatching schemes to detach national politics and throw him in prison.

Source:

https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-sss-arrests-senator-yari-for-ignoring-bola-tinubus-phone-call-amidst-tussle-for-senate-president/

taylor89:
Because he refused to eat corn

Rubbish

The same Falana that you guys were insulting when he said 25 percent is not required in Abuja to become a president? More of selective amnesia.

Good morning everybody.

Please I need help, I have some funds in my hotbit wallet, since the crash of crypto i just focus on some other things so I was hardly getting update about things going on in the world of cryto, I downloaded hotbit wallet yesterday only to find out that they close operations already, is there a way I can get my funds back or is it gone forever?

3m

helinues:
NLC and TUC have not gone on a strike for a reason. FG already explained how they are going to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal.

We need to generate money before putting out any palliative measure abi should still need to borrow money to do that?

The NLC and TUC has obviously been crippled by the court judgement that ban them from going on strike until a judgement is passed, Governance is not only about revenue, you need to strike a balance.

hungry people will not remember that you're building road or new infrastructure, all the policies of this new Government has made things even more difficult for the poor, at least something should be done to cushion the effect of the hardship, I'm not sure if there's any country in the world where their citizens doesn't enjoy one form of subsidy or palliative just to make life easier for the citizens.

Since president Tinubu inauguration, subsidy was removed, Naira was floated, I'm hearing Education subsidy is gone, you're only taking from the poor, what do you intend to give back? Nothing?

If things continue like this people will start seeing Tinubu policies as anti people and they will revolt, how can you remove Fuel subsidy and float the Naira in just 2 weeks after inauguration which makes all the price of Basic things including food, transport and shelter go up but one month later no single form of palliative even if na to increase minimum wage?

Fg are getting mad I swear

mrvitalis:
You really think people complaining and warning others are poor? Lmaooo

We are just reminding people we told you so

But your mom restaurant sales 400 plate per Day that's massive

Buhari regime as hard as it is favoured a lot of people, you have the right to be mad at any government in power, castigating people for having a positive mindset is a no for me! 4 years is too big to waste, if Tinubu like he should commit all the atrocities, I will find a way to flourish, I have suffered enough abeg, this post is not about politics, it stinks of foolishness and ignorance.