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Every man has two special days, the day of good which signifies the day we were born and the day of evil which signifies the day we will die. Hence, no one can remove or add a second to the time he was born and the day he will die Ustaz Mhikail Shittu, an Islamic Teacher in Marcaz Shababul Islam, Lagos in his own view said: Many people especially the non Muslims have a wrong notion about how we bury corpses in Islam. They believe we hasten to bury our corpses in Islam without following due process as laid down by Allah, which is totally untrue. There are procedures to follow in Islam before funeral is announced and carried out. In a case where a person dies suddenly, maybe as a result of heart attack (almaut fijihat) in Islam, the first thing we do in Islam is to get a doctor to confirm if the person is dead. If the doctor confirms that the person is dead, then we must close the person’s eyes and render prayers thus: “O’ Allah, forgive [name of the person] and elevate hi...

Grammy Award British singer Adele's new album ``25’’ has sold a record 2.3 million copies in the U.S. in the first three days of its release. The monster sales for the first three days mean Adele will break the first week sales record currently held by boy band NSync's 2000 album ``No Strings Attached,’’ which opened with 2.4 million copies. Adele's independent U.K. label , XL Recordings, last week decided to withhold ``25’’ from online streaming platforms such as Apple Inc's Apple Music service, privately owned Spotify and Google Play. The strong three-day sales indicate the lack of streaming availability did not hurt the album, which was released on Friday. And it is the first since her 2011 release ``21’’, which won six Grammys and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. ``25’’ racked up more than 900,000 sales in Apple's U.S. iTunes store on its first day, Billboard said. The much-anticipated album has been driven by the success of its lea...

Nigerians took to twitter to react to the allegation a lady with @Sugarbelly twitter handle. She accused the late Audu Abubakar of being a monster and a rapist. Below are the reactions from Nigerians on the accusation

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the retired Director of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Azizi as the Director General of the commission According to the statement from the NIMC General Manager, Corporate Communications in Abuja, Abdul-Hamid Umar, his appointment which takes immediate effect was as a result of the expiration of the tenure of Mr. Chris Onyemenam as the DG/CEO of NIMC. In the statement, Umar stated: “President Buhari has approved the appointment of Engr. Aliyu Aziz Abubakar, as the new Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). “Engr. Aziz was a pioneer staff of NIMC and the Director, Information Technology/National Identity Database Department of NIMC before he retired in 2014. With more than thirty years’ of post qualification experience in Engineering & Information Technology, spanning both the private and public sectors, Engr. Aziz holds a B.Eng in C...

The Nigeria Army has arrested two of its member for acts suspected to be meant to sabotage the military’s fight against terrorism. In a statement by Army spokesman Col. Sani Usman titled: “Alert On Impending Smear Campaign By Some Disgruntled Elements,” said preliminary indications established that the Nigerian Army and Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai as prime targets of the smear campaign. The statement said: “The Nigerian Army has received report of some elements both within the Nigerian Army and outside, especially through the use of the social media circle to ridicule the Nigerian Army and the person of the Chief of Army Staff for reasons best known to them. “They intend to execute this plan as from next month, December 2015, using all means possible; lies, fabricating baseless stories, falsehood, publishing and broadcasting them through some designated print and electronic media, most especially the Social Media. “The Nigerian Army has identified some...

A fatal accident was averted by the Lagos Bridge guild yesterday as a trailer with container was sighted to nearly fall from the bridge around Constain-Iponri axis of Lagos. Passer-by was filled with fear as they could not believe how the trailer could hold its grip on the bridge. It took the help of the  Lagos State Traffic Management Agency men to control the heavy traffic from the road.

The untimely death of APC governorship aspirant in Kogi state Prince Abubakar Audu, who is also leading in yesterday governorship election in Kogi state have thrown up issues of what next the election umpire INEC will do. The Nigeria constitution only made mention of death of elected candidate that is yet to be sworn in. The 2010 Electoral acts in section 36, states that SECTION 36 - Death of a candidate - (1) If after the time for the delivery of nomination paper and before the commencement of the poll, a nominated candidate dies, the Chief National Electoral Commissioner or the Resident Electoral Commissioner shall, being satisfied of the fact of the death, countermand the poll in which the deceased candidate was to participate and the Commission shall appoint some other convenient date for the election within 14 days. (2) The list of voters to be used at a postponed election shall be the official voters register, which was to be used if the election had not been postponed. Th...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s governorship election, Abubakar Audu, has died, his friend and close associate has confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES. “Audu is gone,” the distraught associate, who requested not to be named, told our reporter on the telephone. Though too shattered to provide details of the politician’s passing, he confirmed he was in the candidate’s company when he passed on. The source said the former governor suddenly took ill and was being rushed to Abuja preparatory to being flown abroad when he passed on. The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared the Saturday governorship election inconclusive, but Mr. Audu was in a pole position to be declared winner eventually. A PREMIUM TIMES reporter who visited the APC candidate’s Lokoja residence said, “I am currently at Audu’s Lokoja residence. Supporter are thronging the residence, anxious to confirm the news of the politician’s death. “There is no close relati...

Three days after Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon proclamation that divided Nigeria into 12 states on the 27th of May, 1967, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu (of blessed memory) declared the Republic of Biafra; an independent state from the eastern region of Nigeria with their economy and currency. This was initially confronted with war by the Nigeria Government, but was later settled on a round table after two-and-half years on battlefield and claimed over 2 million lives. In Gowon ‘No Victor, No Vanquished’ speech, amnesty was offered to the rebels followed by the 3Rs (Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation) program. Reconciliation was needed then to bring back the nation’s unity and lost glory after the death of thousands of Nigeria soldiers through disintegration brought by wrong decision; reconstruction was meant to repair the extensive damages incurred on the nascent nation economy and infrastructures; and rehabilitation to restore the nations anthills into one...

Barely 24hrs after the ill-fated incidence in the city of Paris by the vicious terrorist group, ISIS, that throw the Francophone lords into moment of mourning, Facebook – the number one social media platform – launched a campaign on the incident that claimed over 120 souls. It allows users of the social platform to mourn with the French citizens by changing their Profile with reflection of France National flag. Many Nigerians expressed disapproval of Mark Zuckerberg media, claiming that over 18,000 casualties have been recorded in Nigeria over the last 6 years of insurgency which Facebook have been indifferent about but predispose to promote a campaign for France over 120 lives claimed. Articles and comments were broadcast to condemn those who supported the campaign and Facebook. Some of my friends even frowned at me for joining the ‘racist’ social media campaign citing that the platform had never raised a campaign against any Nigeria attacks in the past, why am I so ...

With sober heart and deep reflection have I sympathize with the horrific attack that claimed over one hundred innocent souls in Paris, the capital of France. It is a pity that the bedeviled terrorist succeeded in their nefarious and malevolent act hiding under the auspice of the decent religion of peace, Islam, purposely to gain the world purview. In same stand with Fani-Kayode in his ‘carnage in Paris and the great paradox’ article publish today that the American and the European associates took wrong strategy in tackling the issue at the initial; however, the world should stand in unison to wrestle this bastardly terror that is increasingly defacing the human race. Solidarity should be shown locally and internationally to condemn the evil act of the jihadist fanatics with all available paraphernalia. This is no time to play politics with issues that concerns human lives, politics should be wade aside and everyone should come on the round table to brainstorm on strategies an...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally announced the long-awaited portfolios of ministers, who were sworn in on Wednesday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Buhari named himself Minister of Petroleum, while Ibe Kachikwu (Delta State) was named Minister of State (Petroleum). See full list of their Portfolios: 1. Chris Ngige – (Anambra) Minister of Labour & Employment 2. Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Minister of Solid Minerals 3. Rotimi Amaechi – (Rivers) Minister of Transportation 4. Babatunde Fashola -(Lagos) Minister of Power, Works and Housing 5. Abdulrahman Dambazau- (Kano) Minister of Interior 6. Aisha Alhassan – (Taraba) Minister of Women Affairs 7. Ogbonaya Onu- (Ebonyi) Minister of Science and Technology 8. Kemi Adeosun – (Ogun) Minister of Finance 9. Abubakar Malami – (Kebbi) 10. Sen Hadi Sirika – (Katsina) Minister of State Aviation 11. Barr. Adebayo Shittu – (Oyo) 12. Suleiman Adam – (Jigawa) 13. Solomon Dalong – (Plateau) Minister for Youth and Sports 14. Ibe Kachik...

The speculation spreading around assigned some portfolios to the confirmed ministers of the federal republic.. Below are the lists Agric and Natural Resources Audu Ogbeh (Benue) Agric and Natgural Resources Geoffrey Onyema (Enugu) Attorney General, James Ocholi (Kogi) Aviation Sen Hadi Sirika (Katsina) Defence Abdulrahman Dambazau(Kano) Defence (State) Dan Ali (Zamfara) Education . Isaac Adewole (Osun) FCT (State) Solomon Dalong (Plateau) Federal Capital Territory Abubakar Bawa Bwari (Niger) Finance Okechukwu Enelamah (Abia) Finance (State) Kemi Adeosun (Ogun) Foreign Affairs . Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Foreign Affairs (State) Adamu Adamu (Bauchi) Health Osagie Ehanire (Edo) Information, Communication Technology Lai Mohammed (Kwara) Interior Cladius Omoleye Daramola (Ondo) Labour Prof Anthony Onwuka (Imo) Mines and Steel Development Abubakar Malami (Kebbi) National Planning Amina Mohammed (Gombe) Niger Delta Affairs Rotimi Amaechi Niger Delta Affairs (State) Pasto...