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Buhari names Mohammed, Fashola, Malami, others to interface with Twitter over suspension
The Federal Government has named a high-powered team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and...
$500,000 Bribe: Court Sentences Farouk Lawan To Seven Years In Jail After 10-Year Trial
The former Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Petroleum Subsidy, Farouk Lawan, has been sentenced to seven years in jail...
Breaking: Twitter: Buhari, Lai Mohammed, others get ECOWAS Court restraining order, slammed for inference with human rights
“FG, its agents restrained from imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media...
Mobil to pay out N81.9bn to settle Ibeno oil spill claims in 14 days
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has ordered Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to pay N81.9 billion as cumulative damages to the oil communities...
UK Court to 64-year-old Nigerian serial rapist: You are guilty as charged
Guilt-racked 64 year-old Nigerian and serial rapist, Adeyinka Oluwaseyi Ajose, is to spend 18 years behind the bars, a United Kingdom court...
Buhari’s anti-restructuring comment distasteful, “unpresidential’’, says PANDEF
“Nigeria is in distress but the federal government has maintained the ostrich policy; refusing to accept the obvious, rather choosing to, un-presidentially,...
Twitter suspension directive to electronic media: SERAP slams, drags FG, Lai Mohammed to court
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order...
Osinbajo to corporate companies: Show drive for improved services, confidence-building in customers
Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has urged corporate organisations operating in the country to show commitment to improving services and building confidence...
Press Council Act amendment: Real threat to media freedom in Nigeria – Stakeholders
Facing the crucible of Nigeria’s federal lawmakers, critical stakeholders in the media industry have spurned the proposed amendment of the Nigerian Press Council Act....
Three die in gas tanker explosion in Lagos
At least, three people were roasted in Thursday night’s gas tanker explosion in front of OPIC Plaza on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja...
‘Babies were ripped from wombs’: Boko Haram survivor testifies before U.S Commission
A Muslim woman from NorthEast Nigeria who claimed to have witnessed persecution firsthand criticized the Nigerian government’s response to the rampant violence impacting...
World Leaders Pay Tribute To Kenneth Kaunda
World leaders joined a chorus of condolences from around the world following the death of former Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda on Thursday at...
FCT N1trn land swap initiative with investors to resume — FEC
Land-swapping initiative with private investors who will in turn provide necessary infrastructure is to be reinstated by the Federal Goverment in the Federal...
Buhari’s vision has translated to boosting NLNG production capacity, growth in oil and gas sector – NNPC GMD, Kyari
“The approval has created the condition for Train 7 and further incentisize additional trains to attain the 12 Train vision’’ President Muhammadu...
Poor mum sells two daughters for N300,000
Dirt-poor 35-year-old mother, Blessing Ebuneku Agoro, has been apprehended by the Ogun State police for allegedly selling off her two biological underage...
Nigerians should be fair to this administration, says President Buhari
In a self-assessment, President Muhammadu Buhari has Nigerians to be fair to his administration, saying it is not doing badly in terms of...
