The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has declared that the management of Dangote Refinery has the right to discipline any worker found culpable in acts of sabotage against the facility. In a press statement issued on Saturday, November 29, 2025, and signed by its Founder and Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, the Islamic human rights organisation…
… Seals Up Defaulting Shops Following the continued indiscriminate dumping of refuse in and along the Agege Motor Road corridor in Oshodi Market, the Executive Chairman of Oshodi-Isolo Local Government, Otunba Kehinde Oloyede-Almaroof, has ordered a total clean-up of the area. He also directed the Environmental Department of the council to ensure strict enforcement. To…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of a National Tax Policy Implementation Committee (NTPIC) to ensure coordinated, nationwide implementation of the administration’s sweeping tax reforms. The committee, chaired by renowned financial expert, Mr Joseph Tegbe, is tasked with translating the President’s new Tax Acts into practical, harmonised actions across the federal, state, and…
Following a directive by President Bola Tinubu, 11,566 policemen attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs) have been recalled. The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Kayode Egbetokun, gave the information in Abuja on Thursday at a conference with Strategic Police Managers consisting of officers from the rank of Commissioners and above. The police boss said the…
The 24 students abducted by bandits from the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS) Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, have regained freedom. The girls a cording to a top government official who broke the news, regained freedom through a non-kinetic approach adopted by the Federal Government. The source said the…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has presented the state’s 2026 Appropriation bill of N4.2trillion before members of the State Assembly. The budget tagged budget of ‘shared prosperity’ which was presented on Tuesday before the lawmakers has increased figure well above that of the year 2025 budget which was N3.7trillion. Details later …
… As 70 foreigners from Niger, Chad, Sudan arrested Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Monday disclosed that a robust security arrangement would be put in place to secure the state in view of the recent spike in the spate of banditry, terrorism and other heinous crimes in parts of the country. As such,…
In an effort to tame rising insecurity in the bud, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the withdrawal of police officers currently assigned to guard Very Important Persons (VIPs) across the country. The president directed that such officers be immediately be redeployed to perform core policing functions in communities nationwide. The directive was issued during…
By Amidu Arije The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called for an end to the continued persecution of Muslims in South West Nigeria. The Islamic rights organisation bared its mind on Thursday at a world press conference held in Lagos to address what it called persecution, lopsidedness, and imbalanced treatment of Muslims in the southwestern…
Following rising abduction of students in some parts of the country by bandits and other criminal elements, the Federal Government on Friday ordered the temporary closure of 41 unity schools. The decision was announced in a circular issued by the Director of Senior Secondary Education at the Federal Ministry of Education, Binta Abdulkadir. “Sequel to…
