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Kwara House of Assembly Bans Alcohol Consumption In Ilorin

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- The House of Assembly in Kwara state has increased the number of places in Ilorin where alcoholic drinks are prohibited - The bill was approved and signed on Wednesday, February 21 - The law stated that offenders will be liable to either pay a fine of N100,000 or to serve a jail term of six months The Kwara state House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law that expands areas where the manufacturing, sales and consumption of alcohol are prohibited in the capital, Ilorin. The directive came after the consideration of the report on the bill by the House on Wednesday, February 21. Premium Times reported that under the law, no person will be allowed to produce, sell, store or openly consume alcohol within specified locations within the capital. The bill spells out that offenders will be liable of paying a fine of not less than N100,000 or serving a jail term of six months. In his speech after the passage of the bill into law, the speaker, Ali Ahmad, directed the clerk of the House, Ahme...

Nigeria Cards to Be Barred From International Transactions By March 2018

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Nigeria is set to be expelled from the Egmont group by next month. This is on the agenda of the Egmont Working Group and Heads of FIU Meeting and this decision might be reached according to our sources between the  2nd and 7th of March, 2018  in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  The Egmont group, which is a global network of 152 Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) had earlier suspended Nigeria in July 2017 following the consensus by the members of the group following the 24th plenary of the group in Macao, SAR.   If expelled, Nigeria will suffer a blacklist in the global finance sector and Nigerian Banks will be unable to issue Mastercard and Visa credit/debit cards while card transactions with

Prisoners make riots over ban of Porn in Prison

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Porn and prison don't quite go hand in hand. At least that's how the Connecticut Department of Correction feels, as they announced a ban on pornography beginning next summer. The department

NBC bans D'banj's song, Oliver Twist + Oliver Twist Lyrics

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D’banj’s new song - Oliver Twist which has gone viral since it hit the media and internet portals has been banned by the NBC. The song had gained enormous publicity largely as a result of the Oliver Twist competition organised by D’banj and Don Jazzy. People were asked to send in videos of themselves dancing to the Oliver Twist song via mail.  Don Jazzy said, “The winning video would be chosen based on entertainment value and creativity,” adding that there will be five winners with cash prizes of $2, 500, $2, 000, $1, 500, $1, 000, and $500 respectively. The Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation banned the song because it contains what the NBC has termed to be lewd lyrics, in the lyrics of the song, Dbanj supposedly eulogises Omotola Jaleide’s buttocks part of the song goes, “I like Omotola, (because) her y*ansh is bigger.” The NBC was reported to have thus issued a circular to all radio and television stations to stop playing the song. However, our findings reveal th...