Alhaji Ahmadu Kurfi was the district head of Kurfi in Katsina State. Kurfi who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, had this interview with Daily Trust which was first published on March 20, 2022. We are republishing this interview to honour him. Before Kurfi assumed the role of district head, he was a very senior civil servant at the federal level for many years. He was the deputy permanent ...

Judge Juan Merchan on Friday granted President-elect Donald Trump’s request to file a motion to dismiss the criminal charges against him in New York. Merchan also removed the sentencing date for the United States President-elect from the schedule. The trial is related to Trump’s hush money charges brought against him by the New York State. The judge said Trump lawyers have until December 2 to ...

A Nigerian, Damilare Samuel, has instituted a N50 million rights enforcement suit against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. Damilare popularly called Na God, in the suit by his lawyer, Bayo Onifade, is contending that he has been in NDLEA’s custody since September 25, 2024, without any formal charge against him. He is, therefore, asking the court for “A declaration that his ...

There had never been such a big police presence in and around this sleepy rural village in Central America, but ex-police dog Zena had shaken things up massively when she would not stop barking at a seemingly random tree. Only when her owner managed to break it open did he realize what Zena had detected inside it. He immediately called the police, and they came with every available officer. ...

GistReel A Nigerian lady has shared her disturbing experience on social media, recounting how a male friend who attempted to rape her, despite police efforts to arrest him, assaulted her again at a club after she confronted him. In a detailed statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), she revealed that in September, the man tried to rape her, and since then, she has been working with the police to ...

An Arise TV presenter and former presidential aide, Ruben Abati has sparked mixed reactions after claiming Igbos in Nigeria’s southeast region don’t sell land to outsiders. Abati, a co-host of Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’ on Thursday shared the story of how Theophilus Benson, minister of information in the first post-independence government, narrated how Igbos do not sell ...