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KANO EMIRATE CRISIS: GUNFIRE REPORTED AROUND ADO BAYERO’S MINI PALACE Gunfire was on Monday night reported around the mini palace where the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, is staying in Nasarawa GRA of the state capital. The palace is located about 300 metres to the Kano Government House where movement of vehicles is restricted to one portion of …

COURT STOPS ADO BAYERO, OTHERS FROM PARADING AS EMIRS A High Court in Kano State on Monday granted an order restraining the newly sacked Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero and four others from parading themselves as monarchs in the state. The order, which was granted after an ex parte motion was heard by the court, mandated all the dethroned …

LP CRISIS: OBI’S VISIT TO PARTY HQRS WORSENS ABURE’S WOES Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in last year’s general elections, Peter Obi, last week paid a surprise visit to the headquarters of the party in Abuja on Tuesday. However, the visit earlier perceived to be an endorsement of the national chairman, Julius Abure, outlived its glamour quite shortly, …

SOYINKA AS OKONKWO IN ‘THINGS FALL APART’ BY VAL. OBIENYEM Prof. Wole Soyinka is a distinguished Nigerian whose contributions to literature and politics are globally recognized. However, despite his achievements, he sometimes fails to heed that each profession, especially in his writings, has the moral obligation to be understood or keep quiet. I read Soyinka’s comments about Mr. Peter Obi …

THREE YEARS IN UK MORGUE: GOVERNOR ORDERS REMAINS OF EX-SENATE PRESIDENT  REPATRIATED TO NIGERIA Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has directed that the remains of a former Senate President, Dr Joseph Wayas, should be repatriated from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. Wayas died three years ago in a UK hospital after a lingering old age related ailment and …

ENUGU RANGERS SIT PRETTY ON TOP OF PREMIER LEAGUE, DEFEAT BAYELSA UNITED 3-0 Enugu Rangers may have broken loose from the pack following their comprehensive 3-0 victory over Bayelsa United on Sunday. As if to aid Rangers’ hold of the top position, their closest rivals, Remo Stars who were initially just a point behind fell like papers blown by the …

JUSTICE LIMAN AND HIS MANY CONTROVERSIES  The injunction issued by a judge of the Federal High Court in Kano, Justice Abdullahi Mohammed Liman, restraining the Kano State Government from reinstating Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Emir of Kano is only one of the many controversies he has faced. In this piece, John Chuks Azu, head of Daily Trust legal desk, …

AGF DRAGS 36 STATE GOVERNORS TO SUPREME COURT OVER LOCAL GOVT FUNDS The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has asked the Supreme Court to stop the remitting of local government funds to states. In the action instituted on behalf of the federal government, Fagbemi also wants the Supreme Court to stop the 36 …

I’VE ACCEPTED MY FATE, DETHRONED KANO EMIR Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim Abdulkadir, former Emir of Gaya, one of the first class Emirs who was recently dethroned by Kano State Governor says he has accepted his removal as an act of God. The former Emir was affected by the repeal of the law which had balkanised the Kano Emirate. Former Governor Abdullahi …

CRITICISMS OVER ALLEGED FG INTERFERENCE IN KANO EMIRATE CRISIS Nigerians at the weekend tackled the Federal Government over its interference in the Kano emir­ship tussle. They criticised the Federal Government for sending sol­diers, operatives of the Depart­ment of State Services (DSS) and the police to help restore the deposed Aminu Ado Bayero, the 15th emir of Kano, who was de­posed …