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Woman seeks divorce over alleged lack of sex, care in Kaduna

Woman seeks divorce over alleged lack of sex, care in Kaduna

A housewife, Maryam Muhammad, on Wednesday, prayed a Shari’a Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna to dissolve her 20-year-old marriage to her husband, Abdulhamid Yakubu. The complainant, a resident of Kontagora road in Kaduna metropolis, told the court that her husband had abandoned her sexually for almost 11 years. “He doesn’t take care of me, even when I was sick; I’m tired I want divorce,” she told the court. In his defence, Yakubu said he was also tired of the union and was no longer interested again. The Judge, Murtala Nasir, adjourned the matter till March 10 for the parties…
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2021 Hajj: COVID-19 vaccination, compulsory for all intending pilgrims – Saudi govt

2021 Hajj: COVID-19 vaccination, compulsory for all intending pilgrims – Saudi govt

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has mandated pilgrims to be vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of 2021 Hajj, Okaz newspaper reported. The Kingdom via its Health Minister, Tawfiq al-Rabiah, made the disclosure in a circular issued on Monday. “The COVID-19 vaccine is mandatory for those willing to come to the Hajj and will be one of the main conditions (for receiving a permit to come),” the minister stated. Hajj is a pilgrimage programme that welcomes millions of Muslims across the globe who usually visit Kaaba, “House of God” in the sacred city of Mecca, in Saudi Kingdom. The programme also serves…
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JUST IN: Fulani Food Dealers Agree To Lift Ban On Supply To South

JUST IN: Fulani Food Dealers Agree To Lift Ban On Supply To South

The leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has agreed to end the blockade of supplies to the south. They reached the agreement at an ongoing meeting with some governors in Abuja on Wednesday. Abdullahi Tom, a youth leader of the cattle dealers in Lagos, told Daily Trust Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is among the leaders who appealed to them to end the industrial action. Details later…          
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BURSTED!!! Pastor charged for allegedly raping 14-yr-old member, sells church building and relocates to establish another church

BURSTED!!! Pastor charged for allegedly raping 14-yr-old member, sells church building and relocates to establish another church

A pastor, Chris McDouglas Omosokpea of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing a charge for the rape of his member’s teen daughter has allegedly sold his church building and fled to an unknown place to establish another church. Omosokpea, who was arrested in June 2020 by officers of the Makinde Police Station where the family of the victim reported the matter, was granted bail on health grounds before the Lagos High Court. It was gathered that the pastor had allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl for the past four years before he was arrested and charged before…
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SAD!!! Kano Tomato, Onion Farmers, Marketers Lose Big As Blockade Persists

SAD!!! Kano Tomato, Onion Farmers, Marketers Lose Big As Blockade Persists

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has since Thursday blocked shipment of cattle and farm produce to the Southern part of the country over demands for compensation for its members affected by violence in that part of the country, Daily Trust reports. The decision might have driven up prices of the items in the South but it has also brought prices crashing in Kano as farmers and marketers suffer huge losses, as Daily Trust reports. It is an irony that as tomato and onion scarcity prevails in the South, the vegetables are flooding markets in…
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BREAKING: Fire Guts Lagos Airport

BREAKING: Fire Guts Lagos Airport

The incident occurred at the departure hall of the Kenyan airways Apart of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos was on Wednesday gutted by fire. SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred at the departure hall of the Kenyan airways. The cause of the fire has yet to be ascertained as at press time. “Part of the Lagos airport was earlier gutted by fire. The Kenyan airways office at departure, that was where the fire happened. “The airport staff around quenched the fire alongside some fire fighters from FAAN (Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria),” a source told SaharaReporters.
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FOOD BLOCKADE: ‘We’d rather lose our goods to the gutters than transporting them to Igbos and Yorubas’ – Northern traders

FOOD BLOCKADE: ‘We’d rather lose our goods to the gutters than transporting them to Igbos and Yorubas’ – Northern traders

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) says it prefers that farm produce goes to waste rather than tolerate continued attacks on its members in the South, TheCable reports. Awwalu Aliyu, an official of the union in Kano on Tuesday said the decision not to supply food to the South was not to starve southerners but to protest against attacks on their people. Aliyu who restated the group's claim that northerners were killed and lost properties, especially during the #EndSARS protests and the recent Shasha market crisis in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, added that it…
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ECONOMIC CRISIS!!! Food Blockage: Prices Of Food Items Rise In Abuja, Ogun Lagos, Others; South East Youths To Reject Food From Northerners

ECONOMIC CRISIS!!! Food Blockage: Prices Of Food Items Rise In Abuja, Ogun Lagos, Others; South East Youths To Reject Food From Northerners

FOLLOWING the rise in the cost of foodstuffs across the country, the Nigerian Tribune, on Monday, took a survey of prices in different markets in the country and found that insecurity, extortion, climate change, among others are reasons for the skyrocketing prices of food commodities. From southern states to those in the North, the experience is the same, as prices of food items soar. In Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, prices of cow meat rise, with Alhaji Sule Esa Mohammed, state secretary of Cattle Breeders Association and also secretary to Amalgamated Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria, linking it to the…
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BURSTED!!! Bandits gave kidnapped Jangebe Schoolgirls their phone numbers, promised to visit their Parents for marriage

BURSTED!!! Bandits gave kidnapped Jangebe Schoolgirls their phone numbers, promised to visit their Parents for marriage

A student among the kidnapped schoolgirls that were recently released has revealed something new. It has been revealed that some of the bandits who kidnapped female students from a government school in Jangebe shared their phone numbers with the girls with promises of marriage. Several girls who spoke with Daily Trust said their abductors professed love to them and promised to contact them over the phone to find out if they had accepted the marriage proposals. One student, Hassatu Umar Anka, said their abductors advised the girls to abandon school so they could get married. “When we were about to…
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REVEALED!!! 386 Soldiers Left Nigeria Army In 1 Year

REVEALED!!! 386 Soldiers Left Nigeria Army In 1 Year

The House of Representatives Committee on Army says its investigation revealed that 386 soldiers voluntarily disengaged from the army due to medical and other reasons in the second quarters of 2020, Daily Trust reports. The chairman of the committee, Abdulrazaq Namdaz, who presented a report to the house yesterday, said records by the army indicated that 356 soldiers left the army after losing interest, 24 left to take up traditional titles; while six were discharged on medical grounds. He said the records also indicated that 6,752 soldiers were discharged from the service in the last five years; while 25,655 soldiers…
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