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A former social media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Reno Omokri, has mocked the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, over his ordeal. Omokri alleged that Sanusi as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2014 stated that $20bn was missing from the nation’s coffers. He said the scandal contributed to the […]

The bill seeking to regulate the social media has been widely opposed at the senate public hearing on its consideration. At the hearing which was held in Abuja on Monday, 80 percent of the speakers opposed the protection from internet falsehood and manipulation bill, asking the lawmakers to drop it. Only three of the 25 […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday declared a two-week warning strike against non-payment of salaries of lecturers not enrolled in the Federal Government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System. National President of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi, who read the declaration after the ASUU National Executive Council meeting held in Enugu, said the warning […]

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has called on Nigerian women to pay more attention to the well-being of their children.  In a statement issued on Sunday to commemorate the 2020 International Women’s Day, Aisha noted that women play crucial roles in making the world a better place. According to her, the day is not […]

There was tragedy in one of the Nigeria Professional Football League games on Sunday as a Nasarawa United player, Chieme Martins, slumped and died. According to witnesses, Martins slumped after a collision with a Katsina United player, on Sunday afternoon, and efforts to revive him by the medics and subsequent rush to the hospital were […]

The Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has described the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari as the worst in the history of Nigeria. Oyedepo said this on Sunday while delivering a sermon during the second service of the church at the Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun […]

The Senate will today (Monday) conduct  the much expected public hearing on the anti-social media bill sponsored by Senator Musa Sani from Niger State. The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, on Tuesday,  November 20 last year for further legislative input. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, told the […]

Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman, Nigerians in Disapora Commission (NIDCOM), on Saturday urged women in different endeavours to embrace the virtue of hard-work, saying they would achieve a lot with diligence. She gave the advice in a video message to the 2020 Triumphant Ladies Conference 2020 in Lagos, themed: “Focus” in commemoration on the International Women’s […]

Pope Francis has cancelled his main public appearances to avoid crowds gathering to see him and will stream them on the internet from inside the Vatican because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. The Vatican said the pope would not address crowds from a window overlooking St Peter’s Square and would not hold his general […]

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress took a new twist on Saturday as the governors opposed to the embattled National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, began the search for his replacement. It was learnt that consultations had been going on in  the states,  with meetings scheduled to take place next week on how […]

The Senate is currently working on an amendment to the 1999 Constitution with a view to conferring indigenship of a state on any resident that has consistently lived in that state for at least 10 years. The proposed law is titled, “A bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the […]

Amid a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging older people and people with severe chronic medical conditions to “stay at home as much as possible.” This advice is on a CDC website that was posted Thursday, according to a CDC spokeswoman. Early data suggests older people are […]

The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has played down the possibility of President Muhammadu Buhari not being satisfied with his leadership. Mr Oshiomhole told journalists Thursday he had no way of knowing the president’s perception of him, as he could not “read him.” The APC leader said this as the party faces […]

The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), has no mandate to arrest those who use SIM cards for criminal activities, the NCC,’s Director of Zonal Operations, Amina Shehu has said. Speaking in an interview with journalists at the ongoing Kaduna International Trade Fair, the director said NCC as a regulator was doing so much with regard to […]

A Birmingham crown court in the United Kingdom on Friday sentenced Michael Oluronbi, a Nigerian pastor, to 34 years in prison. Oluronbi was convicted of raping some children for a period of 20 years. He was said to have committed the act during religious bathing rituals he claimed would wash their sins away and cleanse […]

Fifty years after his administration ended a brutal civil war with the Igbo, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), confessed, yesterday, that the Igbo nation had been marginalised in Nigeria’s polity. Gowon, who spoke at a public event organised by Igbo Leadership Development Foundation, called for the adoption of appropriate measures to ameliorate […]

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said that the Federal Government will soon stop the salaries of its workers not captured on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System. She said this in Kano State at the 2020 management retreat organised by the Office of the Accountant General of the […]