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Abubakar Shekau, the head of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, had killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audiotape. According to recordings received by news agencies from Boko Haram on Sunday, the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in a confrontation against rival jihadist fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), two weeks after reports emerged that he had died. “Shekau preferred to be humiliated in the hereafter to getting humiliated on earth. He killed himself instantly by detonating an explosive,” a voice speaking in the Kanuri language resembling that of ISWAP leader Abu Musab Al-Barnawi…

As Nigerians make inputs for the review of the nation’s constitution, a legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Bar. Assam Assam has stated that the 1999 constitution has collapsed and nothing is left to be reviewed in the said constitution. According to him, the only remedy to what he called the ’American Styled’ constitution is for Nigerians to come together and rewrite a constitution they can be proud of, recalling that the current constitution was hurriedly drafted by the military in 1999 while handing over power to civil administration. He noted further that the 1999 constitution, akin to doctrine…

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has announced that at least 105 medical doctors  in Ondo State resigned in the past year. NMA State Chairman, Dr. Stella Adegbehingbe, and State Secretary, Dr. Olorunfemi Owa blamed this on irregular and percentage payment of salaries by the state government. The group which also disclosed that there’s been no replacement of those who resigned, alleged that only three House Officers are left in the service of the Ondo State Government across the three senatorial zones in the state. The statement read, “We have it on good records that about 105 medical doctors have resigned their…

France has fined Google £190 million after finding the tech giant abused its dominant market position while selling online advertisements. French regulators found Google had pushed publishers to use its platforms for selling adverts while unfairly punishing rival platforms, using a range of tactics which included charging ”opaque and variable commission fees. ” Google has agreed to pay the fine and end some of its self-preferencing practices, the watchdog said. The investigation found that Google gave preferential treatment to its DFP advertising server, which allows publishers of sites and applications to sell their advertising space, and its SSP AdX listing…

A popular clergyman and General Superintendent of Redemption Ministries, Worldwide, Rev. Stephen Akinola, died on Sunday. According to BBC Pidgin, the Port Harcourt-based Pastor died in the early hours of Sunday, June 6, at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja. Akinola’s passage into eternity filtered as Nigerians and the world were mourning Prophet T. B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations who died in the wee hours of Sunday. Rev. Akinola was said to have undergone a kidney transplant sometime, though the cause of his death could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report. He was…

Seventeen youths from Kano State have died in an auto crash along Zaria-Kano Highway. The accident, it was gathered, occurred Saturday evening, June 5, when they were returning from wedding of their friend in Zaria, Kaduna state. The victims who of them were siblings travelled in a Kano Line bus and a RAV 4 car. Sadiq Abdullahi, a friend to one of the deceased, Umar Abba-Sheriff, who confirmed the incident said Sheriff died on the spot along with 11 of the victims while the remaining six passed away in a hospital. Abdullahi said eight of them were from Sani Mainagge area…

The Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has assured to fast track the reconstitution of substantive Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board. Akpabio spoke Saturday after an emergency consultative visit to Oporoza, headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri Southwest of Delta State. It was over the seven-day ultimatum issued by ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) last Sunday. Akpabio stormed the creeks in the company of the NDDC sole administrator, Mr Akwa Effiong, Deputy Governor Deacon Kingsley Otuaro and top military officers. Traditional rulers from Bayelsa, Edo and Ondo states joined the Pere of Gbaramatu kingdom to receive…

The Joint Action Committee of industrial unions in Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) has defied the school management’s resumption of duty order by calling on their members to continue sit-at-home directive until all their pressing demands are settled. The committee comprises Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational, Associated Institutions (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAATI). The workers began the industrial strike one-month-two-weeks ago pressing home payment of their 2020 leave grant and the 2020 backlog of 25 per cent salaries for eight months, among others. This…

The Coroner’s Office in Lagos was said to have conducted post mortem autopsies on 99 bodies between the October 20 and 27 during and after the #EndSARS protest. A consultant anatomic and forensic pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, Saturday, June 5, told the Lagos state judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters. Prof. Obafunwa, who was involved in coroner services through the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Lagos State, told the panel that the 99 bodies were picked up from different locations by officers of the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, LASEHMU,…

Nigerian preacher TB Joshua, one of Nigeria’s controversial prophets and Africa’s most influential evangelists, has died. A statement by his Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), suggested that the Televangelist died Saturday. The statement did not give the cause of his death. “On Saturday 5th June 2021, Prophet TB Joshua spoke during the Emmanuel TV Partners Meeting: “Time for everything – time to come here for prayer and time to return home after the service. “God has taken His servant Prophet TB Joshua home – as it should be by divine will. His last moments on earth were spent in…