Ganduje appointed Bayero, other emirs for political gains – NNPP
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The ruling party in Kano State, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), yesterday accused the immediate past governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, of appointing Aminu Bayero and the other four dethroned first class emirs for his political gains.
Bayero was recently dethroned as emir by Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, who sought to reinstate Bayero’s predecessor and former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, in controversial circumstances.
But NNPP Chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, apparently justifying Governor Yusuf’s action, said an earlier decision by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Alhaji Umar Ganduje, to depose Emir Sanusi and appoint five new emirs including Bayero while he held sway as the state governor was done in pursuit of political gains, with the 2023 general election as the main target.
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Tinubu hails Fashola’s public service at 61
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President Bola Tinubu has congratulated former Lagos Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on his 61st birthday, hailing him as one of Nigeria’s most gifted minds.
Fashola, a renowned lawyer, administrator, and public policy expert, has had a distinguished career in private practice and public service, serving as Chief of Staff to President Tinubu during his tenure as Lagos State Governor and later as Governor of the state himself.
He also served as Minister of Power, Works, and Housing from 2015 to 2019 and Minister of Works and Housing from 2019 to 2023.
UN discovers ISIS bombs in Iraq mosque
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The United Nations said they discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul’s iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by the Islamic State group, during restoration work in the northern Iraqi city.
Five “large-scale explosive devices, designed to trigger a massive destruction of the site,” were found in the southern wall of the prayer hall on Tuesday by the UNESCO team working at the site, a representative for the agency told AFP late Friday.
Mosul’s Al-Nuri mosque and the adjacent leaning minaret nicknamed Al-Hadba or the “hunchback”, which dates from the 12th century, were destroyed during the battle to retake the city from IS.
Iraq’s army accused IS, which occupied the city for three years, of planting explosives at the site and blowing it up.
UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, has been working to restore the site and other architectural heritage in the city, much of it reduced to rubble in the battle to retake the city in 2017.
“The Iraqi armed forces immediately secured the area and the situation is now fully under control,” UNESCO added.
One bomb was removed, but four others “remain connected to each other” and are expected to be cleared in the coming days, it said.
Illicit drugs enabling crime, criminality in Nigeria, says Marwa
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The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd), has said the abuse of illicit drugs abuse was enabling crimes and criminality across the country.
Marwa said this in his presentation during a National Youth Conference organised by the Vanguard Against Drug Abuse detox centre on Friday in Abuja.
The theme of the conference is tagged “The Youths, Drugs, Mental Health and Nigeria’s Future.”
Marwa said that when youths indulged in drug abuse, the tendency for them to develop anti-social behaviour was high.
The NDLEA boss said this had in part, fueled the insecurity problem the country has on its hands today.
He said, “I am one of the believers in the theory of crime that views the abuse and trafficking of illicit substances as enablers of crime and criminality.
“And in Nigeria of today, we have empirical and circumstantial evidence to back this theory.