Kano approves N1.4bn to pay 60,871 students’ exams
…To enact law against blasphemy
Kano State government has approved the release of N1.4 billion for the sponsorship of 60,871 indigent students for various secondary school leaving examinations.
The students, according to a statement by the commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, were those that obtained six credits
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Sabo in Lagos yesterday granted an application for extension of remand of Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, till May 22.
Kuti is standing trial for allegedly assaulting a police officer on May 13 on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos State.
The police charged him with slapping an inspector after driving dangerously on the bridge and deliberately blocking a moving police vehicle.
Seun was arraigned on Tuesday during which Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatubosun ordered his remand for 48 hours.
She, however, held that the defendant should be admitted to bail in the sum of N1million with two sureties in like sum, at the end of the 48-hour remand.
But moving the application for extension yesterday, the police prosecutor, Mr Simon Lough (SAN), said that the extension was to allow further investigation into the case.
However, the police have said they discovered suspicious items while searching the residence of Seun.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, and above in subjects including English and Mathematics in regular secondary schools in qualifying examinations and senior Islamic and Tahfeez secondary schools.
The payment would be for registrations for the National Examinations Council (NECO), National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), National Board for Arabic and Islamic
Studies (NBAIS) and the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
Garba, who said the approval was part of the resolutions at the end of the State Executive Council meeting, also revealed that the council ratified the executive approval given for the release of Naira equivalent to $100,000 to a state dedicated account as counterpart fund for the implementation of the World Bank supported Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transform Services (IMPACT) project aimed at improving poor health indices in the state through high impact interventions.
The commissioner also stated that the council had approved the enactment of a law to address the unguarded blasphemous sermons on the noble Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as well as attacks on personalities.
He said the law would harmonise the mode of preaching through sermons that included open preaching in open places, hate speech or defamation of character through radio, television, newspaper or any other conventional platform and social media, attack on the leadership of the opposite sect and incitement of followers.