(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of justice and Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, have come under criticism concerning his statement on open grazing.
It will be recalled that southern governors banned open grazing due to the security concerns surrounding it as reports of Fulani herdsmen killing residents continue to dominate media space.
Reacting, Abubakar Malami when he appeared on Politics Today, a programme on Channels TV, stated that banning open grazing was ‘unconstitutional’ and the decision is dangerous for the country.
He said: “It is a dangerous provision for any governor in Nigeria to think he can bring any compromise on the freedom and liberty of individuals to move around.
Mallam Gimba Yau Kumo
President Muhammadu Buhari’s son-in-law, Mallam Gimba Yau Kumo, has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over an alleged N26.5 billion ($65 million fraud.)
Kumo is married to Fatima, one of the daughters of the president from his first marriage. They got married in 2016 when Buhari had become president.
Kumo who is from Gombe State was declared wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and another man Bola Ogunsola.
The declaration was made known in a statement on Thursday, by Azuka Ogugua, spokesperson of the anti-graft commission who asked anyone who had information on the whereabouts of the trio to report to the ICPC headquarters or the nearest police station.
The social media space in Nigeria has continued to have the ‘Pantami Must Go’ discussion as one of its key trends in recent times.
This is so as more evidences emerge in justification of the alleged link of Nigeria’s Communications minister, Dr. Isa Pantami to terrorism.
The latest calls were triggered by a publication on Nairaland.com, which recently surfaced online detailing the minutes of a meeting allegedly chaired by Pantami in 2010, and organized to control the spread of Christianity in the North.
The publication was titled “Minutes of a Joint Meeting of the JNI of Four States Consisting of Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna and Niger State Held in Bauchi Central Mosque on the 13th July 2010, Chaired by Mallam Ali Ibrahim Pantami”, which attempted to regulate and checkmate the activities of Christians in Northern Nigeria.
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This appeal emanated from the decision of the Niger State Sharia Court of Appeal, Minna, contained in its ruling delivered on the 4th April, 2016 Coram: Hon Khadi Abubakar Sadiq Hassan and Hon. Khadi Suleiman Abubakar Kutigi and Khadi Saidu Hassan, whereby the Court below after finding that the Appellant has not presented before it, enough material upon which it is called upon to act, went further to also directed the parties to go back to the Upper Sharia Court Lemu in the interest of justice, for the matter to be completed. The Respondents in this Appeal filed an appeal at the Sharia Court of Appeal against the decision of the Sharia Court Edozhigi.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the strange disease in Kano State is caused by food poisoning through a flavoured drink.
The Director-General of the Agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily.
Adeyeye described the incident as “very serious,” adding that investigations are still in progress.
“The Kano incident is a case of food poisoning with flavored drinks that has a chemical called Dansami. It is very serious because food poisoning resulted in diarrhoea, vomiting, and hospitalisation.
“Our zonal director, Pharmacist Gimba, is on top of this and our pharmacovigilance officers are also investigating what actually happened.