Sharia Court in Kano Sentences Imam to Death...See Shocking Reason

A Sharia court in Kano state has sentenced an Islamic Cleric to death for going against certain fundamental Islamic rules.

 

A Kano-based Sharia court has sentenced an Imam, Abdul Niasse, to death for blaspheming Islam's holiest figure, Prophet Muhammad.

 

According to the prosecutor Lamido Abba Soron-Dinki who spoke with AFP, Niasse was sentenced at a secret trial to "avoid a repeat of the mob action" seen at a previous hearing of the court.

Niasse caused public outrage in May when he allegedly made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad to followers as they marked the birthday of the former leader of the Muslim Tijaniyya Sufi order, Ibrahim Niasse.

He was arrested in Abuja in August where he was in hiding and was brought back to Kano for his trial.

 

Soron-Dinki added that: "He has up to a month to appeal the sentence and it is most likely he is going for an appeal." 

Amaechi Spent N82m To Host Prof Soyinka To A Single Dinner - River State Government

The Rivers State government has made new allegations against the immediate past governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi.

Professor Wole Soyinka at dinner with Ritimi Amaechi

 

Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr. Austin- Tam George, has expressed shock that former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi expended N82million to host Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka to a 3 hour dinner at a period he refused to pay salaries.

Addressing Government House, Port Harcourt correspondents on Tuesday, Dr Tam George said that the figures were contained in the hand over note prepared by the former Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Information and Communication under the Amaechi administration.

 

He said: "A government that did not pay salaries, closed the courts , but the administration had the courage to expend N82million to fund a dinner for Prof Wole Soyinka. These are facts on ground. The Amaechi administration expended the money under the heading of borrowed funds.

 

“ There is a massive propaganda machine out there misinforming the people about the policy direction of Governor Wike’s administration. They have to respect the will of the people. Instead, they go about spreading falsehood against the people of the state ".
He charged the news men to emphasize the developmental achievements of Governor Wike with facts because Rivers State is currently dealing with a “ disastrous legacy of abandoned projects” by the Rotimi Amaechi’s administration.

Dr. George who noted that the Wike administration is currently facing a combination of “ 85% information war” and “ political fundamentalism” also said the APC seeking to establish a “ political caliphate” in Rivers State, by installing Dr. Dakuku whose is a fake political candidate of the APC.

The Commissioner also described those who said Wike’ s government is serving only Ikwerre interests as talking “ anthropological nonsense” because he is running an all- inclusive of government of indigenes from the 23 LGAs of Rivers State.

See the Face of Fuel Thief Caught in Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Photo).

An oil thief went close to being brutally lynched by an angry mob in the South-South part of Nigeria following a failed robbery operation.

The suspect, Kenneth Eze

 

A suspected fuel thief on Monday escaped being lynched by an angry mob in Port Harcourt after he threatened to kill a teenager who caught him in the act, according to the Punch.

The suspect, who identified himself as Kenneth Eze, had warned the teenager not to raise the alarm or risk being killed. It was gathered that Eze had stolen the fuel from the Udi taxi park where a black marketer usually sold premium motor spirit (petrol) to commercial drivers.

The 17-year-old boy, who saw him from afar, had walked up to the fuel thief and asked him to take the loot back to the owner.

Rather than listen to the boy’s advice, Eze threatened that he was a member of a deadly cult group that would come after the teenager should anything happen to him (the suspect).

Not frightened by the suspect’s subtle and silent intimidation, the boy raised the alarm and a crowd gathered. The boy pointed at the 50 litres of petrol and accused Eze of stealing the item from the nearby taxi park.

“The man (Eze) thought he could intimidate me by saying he was a member of a deadly cult group. I noticed he was not armed and I decided to raise the alarm,” the boy, who would not mention his name, told Southern City News.

The mob pounced on Eze, even as he pleaded for mercy, promising to turn a new leaf. Not moved by his plea, the mob attempted to set fire to the suspect but he fled from Udi Street in Mile One, Diobu, where he was caught to Ikwerre Road.

Earlier, the suspect had told Southern City News he actually attempted to steal the fuel, but added that it was his first time to be involved in such an act.

“I am a driver and I have never stolen before. I wanted to take the keg of fuel away, but had to hide by the side of a car there when I saw the police coming. It was temptation and this is my first time of involving in this. If I lie, may I never see tomorrow,” the suspect swore.

The owner of the stolen fuel later took away his property and thanked the boy for being smart enough to stop the thief.

Nollywood Star Genevieve Nnaji is building her own Estate..... See photos

Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji, has sent the social media abuzz with a photo which suggests that she might have invested in yet another massive property in federal capital.

Genevieve's latest magazine spread for ThisDay style (Photo: TY Bello)

 

Veteran Nollywood sweetheart who is undoubtedly a very private person, has taken to her Instagram page to reveal a photo of her probably inspecting an ongoing construction of a housing estate located in Abuja, and it has left toungues wagging on social media.

 

 

The screen goddess captioned the above photo;"#Sticksandstoneshomes". It's either that she is investing in yet another massive property as she own houses in Lagos and Abuja or she owns an apartment there, anyways a big congratulations to her!

How YBNL Singer, Adekunle Gold Predicted His Rise to Fame 3 Years Ago....

This grass to grace story of Olamide's YBNL singer, Adekule Gold will surely teach you never to give up on your dreams.

Adekunle Gold at the MTV Base white Xmass party

 

A Twitter post shared by YBNL singer, Adekunle Gold back in 2013, has revealed how he predicted his rise to fame as he is now not just a landlord in Lekki, but also a multiple award winning singer. 

 

It can be recalled that on 1st January, the graphic artste-turned singer won a Headies award for best Alternative single for his hit song, "Sade."

 

 

The above tweet tells the grass to grace story of how we should never give up on our dreams.

 

Nigeria: NNPC- Four refineries now produces 6.79 million litres of petrol per day.

Abuja — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday said four of its refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri are now producing over 6.76 million litres of petrol per day.

It explained in a statement from its Group General Manager, Public Affairs, Ohi Alegbe, that the production ratios from the plants indicated that the Port Harcourt refinery which was re-streamed a week earlier was now producing about 4.09 million litres of petrol; the Kaduna Refinery which also recently came back on stream was producing about 1.29 million litres and Warri which it said came up last Sunday was posting a yield of about 1.38 million litres to make up the total daily production of 6.76 million litres.

The four refineries were built to collectively refine 445,000 barrels of crude oil daily but had consistently come short of that for years. Alegbe, however, said daily production from the refineries is projected to increase to over 10 million litres per day by the end of January. He noted that the volumes of petrol produced from the refineries which are currently operating at an appreciable percentage of their nameplate capacities will help stabilise the fuel supply and distribution situation in the country.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources who doubles as the Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had in December 2015, stated that he was more concerned about getting the refineries back to an appreciable production level. Kachikwu expressed optimism that the refineries would gradually come up to produce up to 10 million litres of petrol per day, thus cutting the country's petrol importation by that volume.

"My concentration right now is to make sure that the refineries are working, the more they work, the higher the chances that I will be closer to the sort of pricing we are comfortable with than when they are not working, that is why you see me putting a lot of energies in going around the refineries.

"Kaduna is doing about 1.5 million litres, hopefully, it will be getting into two million very quickly once the FCC is working; Port Harcourt, when it comes back with a combination of VDU and the FCC, we will probably be looking at about five million litres. Ideally, we want to get to about 10 million capacity out of the about 40 million that we say is the national consumption per day, that is the trend," he said then.

The minister also added: "If all things were equal, I think the maximum cap for Kaduna will be in the two to three million range; Port Harcourt will probably be five and six million and Warri if it comes up, will be another three or four million, so, Warri, is projected to come back between early and mid January and I will say that by the end of January, if all things were working and we do not have any other complications arising from these aging plants, we will expect to see 10 million litres."

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday disclosed that an inter-ministerial committee would soon be established to speed up the re-organisation and reformation of the NNPC.

A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said Buhari spoke yesterday at a meeting with the Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Jin-Yong Cai, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Adesina in a statement said the reformation of the NNPC had become inevitable in view of the corruption and abuse of its present structure in the recent past.

He said the president also cited Nigeria's current need to maximise income from every source of revenue as further imperative for reforming the NNPC.

$2.1bn Arms Deal: Olisa Metuh Spends First Night in EFCC Cell

up by the operatives of the anti-graft agency and it is likely he will still spend more time there.

PDP Spokesperson, Chief Olisa Metuh

 

Peoples Democratic Party spokesperson, Chief Olisa Metuh has spent his first night in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's cell after he was picked up by the operatives of the agency yesterday in Abuja to answer questions on how the sum of N1.4 billion left the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser into a company, Destra,  linked to him.

 

Metuh had earlier in a hurried news conference, hinted that the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, had given him a job to do and that he successfully completed the said job, but failed to disclose what the job was, how much he was paid for and when.

 

The revelation by Metuh, according to EFCC officials, prompted the agency to beam its searchlight on cash payments from the ONSA, leading to the discovery that he was one of the major beneficiaries of slush funds, now a subject of investigation and prosecution by the Federal Government.

 

Vanguard revealed that out of the $2.1 billion arms funds, N400 million was transferred from ONSA to the company on November 24, 2014 which previously had a balance of N6, 676,576.06 only before the major transfer from the ONSA.

 

A top source in the EFCC said that Metuh was also receiving a monthly pay of N4 million from ONSA.

 

A top EFCC source said Metuh was likely to spend the night with them given the weight of financial transactions in ONSA traced to him and his company.

 

The source said: “We arrested Chief Metuh this morning (yesterday) and as we speak he is still being questioned and it is not likely that he will be released today.

 

“We want to finish the interrogation of Metuh at once, so that we can decide whether to charge him to court or let him to go,” the source said.

 

Metuh, has, however slammed his arrest by the EFCC, claiming that he was being persecuted.

 

“I have not done anything unlawful. Whatever I have done in pursuance of my office, I can defend it anywhere, any time,”he said.