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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) on Saturday said it would institute a legal action against the Kaduna State Government for declaring the group illegal. Spokesperson of the movement, Ibraheem Musa told newsmen in Kaduna that the ban announced by the government was illegal. “It’s an infringement on our basic right as citizens of the country. “We are not going to be intimidated into taking any violence or unlawful activity but will take legal action against the Kaduna State Government for the infringement.“ The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the government had on October 7 declared the IMN an unlawful society. Kaduna governor, El-Rufai The government in a statement said that it took the decision to preserve peace and security in the state. “The action is also taken to ensure that all persons and organisations are guided by lawful conduct and with due allegiance to the Nigerian state and its Constitution.”

Global oil prices tumbled on Friday and fell nine percent on the week, hit by a renewed rally in the dollar and a warning by the International Energy Agency, IEA that the oil glut is growing. Data that showed a sharp drop in the number of U.S. rigs drilling for oil failed to inspire market bulls. Benchmark Brent oil settled near a one-month low below $55 a barrel and U.S. crude settled near a 2-1/2 month low under $45. The dollar hit a 12-year high in its march toward parity with the euro, jacking up the cost of oil and other dollar-denominated commodities for holders of other currencies. The 19-commodity Thomson Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index .TRJCRB fell a six-year low. “We aim to break the year’s low in crude next week,” said Tariq Zahir, an oil bear at Tyche Capital Advisors in Laurel Hollow, New York. Brent fell to $45.19 in January, while U.S. crude dropped to $43.48. Oil began the day lower after the IEA, which advises industrialized countries on energy, warned the global g...

The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Barrister David Umaru has noted that the Gender Equality bill at the Upper chamber of the National Assembly does not require debate for it to be passed in view of the critical role played by women in Nigeria. The lawmaker insisted that there is no family, either as a father or husband that can function adequately without a woman, while describing them as the pillar of most families. Speaking at an occasion while donating sewing machines and some undisclosed amount of cash to 450 women that graduated from skill acquisition training in fashion designing and tailoring under the sponsorship of his constituency office, Umaru commended his colleagues for the great support given to the bill that has currently passed its second reading. He maintained, “In every culture and religion, we cannot do without women and this is the reason why, I think there should not be any debate on the bill in the first instance exce...

Heavily pregnant Roseleen is always seen eating one thing or the other. She had noticed that even as her tummy kept increasing, her appetite was also growing and she wondered why. At times, she eats so much that her friends would mock her, asking her why she eats heavily even when it seems there is no space in her tummy to accommodate the food. She would simply laugh it off because she knows she is often deeply hungry. The question, therefore, is what causes the increase of one’s appetite even as one’s tummy gets bigger. Medics have said that the hunger that often starts around week 17 is due to your baby growing and more nourishment, and the tot is sending that message to you loud and clear. So, in this case, don’t ignore your hunger. Those pregnancy hunger pangs may be the special way your body and baby are telling you they need more nourishment. Remember you require 350 more calories per day in the second trimester and about 500 more daily toward the end of pregnancy.  ...

Low turnout of voters, late arrival of materials as well as incidences of ballot boxes snatching greeted the local government and Local Council Development Area (LCDA) held across the three Senatorial districts of Ogun State yesterday. The chairmanship and councillorship poll conducted by the State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) particularly recorded pockets of violence in East and Central Senatorial districts of the state where supporters of some political parties alleged that security personnel deployed for election duties also connived with supporters of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) to snatch ballot boxes. Though voters were generally disenchanted about the conduct of the election, particularly when electoral officers have failed to report at their various duty posts three hours after the expected officially designated period for the commencement of the election, cases of ballot boxes snatching were recorded across Ijebu - Ode, Iperu - Remo as well a...

The Federal Government is set to commence the screening of unemployed graduates across the country as a demonstration of its commitment to effect the payment of N5000 monthly allowances. This was disclosed by Senator Ali Wakili representing Bauchi South while addressing party stalwarts saying the gesture is part of fulfilling the ruling All Progressives Congress campaign promise to end poverty for improved economic development. Wakili added that unemployment rate is a major concern of the administration and attribute same to lack of political will He urge the party stalwarts to carefully select the beneficiaries among various political, youths and women groups from their respectively areas. Other measures to eradicate poverty according to the senator include the introduction of soft loans to Nigerians especially farmers among others. Speaking during the meeting, Hon Aminu Tukur, member representing Lere/Bula constituency he urged party supporters to ensure judicious hitch free exercis...

What is killing Nigerians more than the Boko Haram suicide bomb attacks are the death traps called road infrastructure in the country. No one understands what the Federal Government and its Minister of Works is doing with our roads. Lagos-Ore-Benin; Lagos-Ibadan, and Lokoja-Suleja expressways, to mention just three of them, claim more lives than any deliberate criminal human action currently going on in the country. This does not suggested that the bloodletting of insurgent terrorism of fundamentalist Islam and the violent militancy of other groups, like the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta-MEND, is exculpated or legitimized by the criminal neglect of the nation’s roads by the PDP-led government in the last 14 years of corrupt rule. Everyone will answer to God and mankind, for his acts of omission or commission, on the day of reckoning. As citizens complain about road infrastructure and its sorry state, rail and air transport are even in worse conditions in the last on...

A non-gover nmental organisation, Christians Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria (CRUDAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to as a matter of urgency, put in place policies to cushion the unbearable impact of the ongoing economic recession on Nigerians. The South-West Programme Officer of the organisation, Mr. Fasehun Anthony, who yesterday in Ibadan addressed a press conference on the state of the nation, said the time has come for the Federal Government to put in place a vibrant economic team to chart a way out of the recession. He said the palliative policies which must be of positive effects to Nigerians must be properly monitored to ensure efficiency and accountability. He said, “We call on the government as a matter of urgency to put in place policies that will cushion the unbearableimpact of the ongoing recession. The time has come for the government to put in place a vibrant economy team that will collaborate with the Central Bank of Nigeria and Nati...

The Federal Road Safety Commission has said that despite the cost involved in the installation of speed limiter device in vehicles to control over-speeding, the policy will ensure the safety of lives and property through the reduction of road mishaps by 50 per cent. It would be recalled that the federal government had on October 1st, 2016 embarked on the enforcement of the policy on installation of speed limiter devices in vehicles as panacea to the issue of over-speeding. But the cost implication to install the speed limiting gadgets have become an issue of urgent public concern as some members of the public say the policy is a revenue generation mechanism for the government and not necessarily to serve any purpose as claimed by the federal government . Anambra sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Sunday Michael Ajayi, while addressing journalists yesterday at Awka-South council area during a sensitisation programme on the efficacy of speed limiter and complian...

In an unprecedented sting operation, officers of the Department of State Security, DSS, carried out simultaneous late night raids on the homes of serving senior judges suspected of engaging in corrupt practices in six states on Friday and Saturday and recovered various sums totaling N360 million in the process. The raids, on several homes in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Gombe, Kano, Enugu and Calabar have elicited shock from members of the legal profession was based on detailed investigations and monitoring of the “luxurious lifestyles” of some of the judicial officers, according to the DSS. Our correspondent report that judges whose homes were raided include Sylvester Ngwuta and John Okoro of the Supreme Court as well as Adeniyi Ademola, and Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The residences of a Gombe State judge, Muazu Pindiga, as well as that of his counterpart from Sokoto state, Justice Samia, were also raided during the operation. In Kano, insiders said the home of a hi...

Report has it that the weekend raid of homes of judges across the country has the blessing of the Presidency. Investigations also revealed that some judges in the Supreme Court were aware of the impending raid of the homes of judges across the country at the weekend. According to sources in the Supreme Court, the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria witnessed an unusual number of visitors last Thursday, a situation which forced Justice Mohammed Mahmoud, the CJN to leave the office earlier than usual.  He, however, returned to the office around 7:00pm, a source in the Supreme Court informed Sunday Mirror. Sources close to the Apex Court informed that the outgoing CJN has been working late and on Saturdays to clear his tables and address some petitions against some judicial officers. Justice Mahmoud, it was gathered had at several fora warned judicial officers to be careful in handling cases before them, vowing to flush out corrupt ones among them.

Menopause transition can be inherently difficult for an average woman, but it can also be a time of reflection and inspiration as some women find a new sense of freedom and anticipate personal growth. It is important for women to accept menopause with good attitude, as the attitude with which you embark upon can have a tremendous impact on the experience of it. Menopause also known as the climacteric is the absence of menstrual periods in women. The menopausal transition starts with varying menstrual cycle length and ends with the final menstrual period. It is the time in a woman’s life when the function of the ovaries ceases and can no longer become pregnant. The term “menopause” is a Greek word derived from “menos” or “month” and “pausis” or ‘’cease”. At this period, the ovarian function declines, menstruation cycle stops and the monthly spike of reproductive hormones recedes. The average age of menopause is 51 years but there is no way to predict when an individual woman will hav...

There was pandemonium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital yesterday as alleged attempt by scores of Federal security agencies to arrest a Judge of the Federal High Court serving in the state hit a brick wall. This is as it was gathered that the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, was allegedly manhandled by security operatives when he tried to prevent the latter from carrying out the arrest. It was also learnt that operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS and the Police stormed the residence of the Judge located on Number 35 Forces Avenue in Port Harcourt in the wee hours of Saturday in patrol vans. They (federal agents) reportedly blocked the entrance of the residence of the Federal High Court judge at about 1am yesterday, claiming that they were acting on orders from above. A statement issued in Port Harcourt on Saturday said the siege on the state was led by Mr Tosin Ajayi, Rivers State Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Rivers State Police Comm...

The Former Minister has reacted to this early morning's arrest of some judges by agents of the SSS. Read below Their homes were raided by hundreds of fully armed DSS commandos between 1.00 and 2.00 a.m. this morning. Their streets were surrounded and sealed up. Their gates and front doors were smashed open and they forcefully and violently arrested and detained. Their families and loved ones were traumatized and terrorized. Their staff and members of their household were held captive, threatened and sent scampering for cover under their beds. Yet those that suffered these gross violations of their fundamental human rights, civil liberties and indignities were not wily and desperate politicians or hardened miltary men that were fighting and conspiring against the government or plotting a military coup d'etat. They were not dangerous dissidents or Boko Haram terrorists. They were not battle-hardened Niger Deltan Avengers or seasoned OPC and IPOB fighters. They were not member...

The Leadership of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, has declared a state of emergency on the judiciary following the arrest of some judges by agents of the State Security Service in the early hours of today October 8th. At a press briefing which had in attendance past NBA presidents like Olisa Agbakoba, Wole Olanikpekun and others, the President of the NBA, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN) decried the manner in which the judges and their family members were manhandled and arrested by the security agents who claim the judges were arrested over their involvement in "corrupt practices". He called for the immediate release of the arrested judges and their family members. “I want to emphasise again that we are not under military rule and we cannot accept this unholy event and Gestapo-style operation. We, therefore, call on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately caution all the state security agencies and to respect the rule of law and to respect due process. Any i...

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has, Wednesday, ordered the immediate lifting of the ban on rice importation from import restriction list and the re-introduction of import duty payment at land borders. The Public Relations Officer of customs, Mr Wale Adeniyi, said this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. He said the restriction was only applied at land border stations before now, adding that the customs boss had lifted restriction on rice at border stations. Adeniyi said that all rice imports through land borders by rice traders would attract the prevailing import duty of 10 per cent with 60 per cent levy. He also said rice millers (preferential levy) with valid quota allocation would also attract duty rate of 10 per cent with 20 per cent levy on rice importation. “Over the years importation has been restricted to the seaports because border authorities have found it difficult to effectively monitor and control importation of rice. “When the decision t...