archiveJune 2021

  At least 20 persons were reported killed on Saturday night as gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen invaded and attacked Igangan, a town in Ibarapa North Local Government area of Oyo State. The bandits, numbering over 50, were said to have invaded the town on more than 20 motorcycles,...

  The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu on Saturday said that 76,855 students sat for the 2021 National Common Entrance Examinations (NCEE)  across the country. Adamu, represented by the  Permanent Secretary, Mr Sonny Echono, said this while monitoring the NCEE in some centres in Abuja. The Minister said that...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, as he turns 80 June 6, 2021. In a congratulatory message issued by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Saturday, the president felicitated with the family of the renowned preacher,...

Justice Minister Abubakar Malami, SAN, has directed for the immediate prosecution of offenders of the Federal Government’s ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria. The order is contained in a statement issued by Dr Umar Gwandu, Malami’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations on Saturday in Abuja. Malami directed the...

Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has appealed to the Federal Government to reverse its suspension on Twitter for the greater good of Nigerians. Makinde made the appeal in a statement on Saturday in Ibadan. The governor noted that Twitter had become a source of livelihood for many, irrespective of...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has come down heavily on the Federal Government for suspending the operation of Twitter in Nigeria. The body also threatened to challenge the decision in court. In a series of tweet on Friday, the President of NBA, Olumide Akpata, noted that Nigeria is operating a...

The Head of the Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mualledi Farouq Dogondaji on Friday, June 4, 2021 charged members of the Chinese community in Kano to be law abiding in carrying out their businesses. Dogondaji gave the charge when he received the Chairman of...

 President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that Nigeria cannot afford to neglect its women population if the country must record meaningful growth and development. According to him, the issue of gender diversity hasn’t been sufficiently addressed through policies of government and legislation to ensure equal opportunities for women....

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned the “illegal and unconstitutional suspension of Twitter’s Operations in Nigeria,” and called on “the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately rescind the suspension within 48 hours or face legal action.” The Federal Government on Friday announced that it has suspended, indefinitely,...

Professor Wole Soyinka has said that if President Muhammadu Buhari has a problem with the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, then he should sort it out privately. Reacting on Friday to the ban placed on Twitter by the Federal Government, the Nobel Laureate said the move is a “petulant...