The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs on Tuesday, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare Nigeria’s support for Palestine in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The Islamic group, under the leadership of its President-General and the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar also condemned the United States for backing Israel in the ongoing war.
This is coming as President Joe Biden arrives Israel today Wednesday October 18th, following a massive blast that rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter on Tuesday, leaving at least 500 hundred people dead.
Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military said the hospital was hit by a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants. Senator representing Adamawa North, Elisha Abbo who was sacked by a court of appeal in Abuja on Monday, apologized for accusing senate President, Godswill Akpabio, of being behind his sacking. Abbo tendered the apology on our nightly news program, News night, stating that the press release he tendered yesterday was premature and based on the information available at the time.
In the wake of Abbo’s sacking and his press conference on Monday, accusing Akpabio of being behind his sacking, users on social media began trending the video where he assaulted a woman at a sex toy shop in Abuja and his confrontation with NIgeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who was then a senator during the first hearing with the senate ad hoc committee set up to probe him over the incident.
In Lagos, the Muslim community while observing Friday prayers in the Egbeda area of the state shut down an entire section of a road, thereby causing undue traffic. A commercial tricyclist was captured on camera being attacked and brutalized in the Ago Okota Area of lagos state, after he voiced frustrations at the difficulties accessing the road blocked by a group of Muslim Worshippers.
A commuter, In a video now making the rounds on social media, called on the lagos state government to come to the rescue of commuters who ply the Lekki Epe express road, which is currently undergoing repairs by Craneburg Construction Company.
The commuter says the traffic caused by the construction which has shut down two lanes, leaves many people stranded including school children who end up missing hours of school daily.
A video showing a man wielding an AK-47 riffle, while shooting sporadically in the air, in broad day light in celebration of the reopening of Ladipo market after it was sealed by the Lagos state government on September 27th over environmental offences has made rounds on social media .
Arise Exchange and Senior Buisness Anchor Boason Omofaye on Tuesday, won the 2023 African Energy Media Award, In Cape Town South Africa, during the African Energy Week.
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