By Gabriel Ewepu Against the backdrop of challenges facing national assets across the country, Association of Facilities Management Practitioners of Nigeria, AFMPN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to declare state of emergency on public infrastructure. The call was made by AFMPN president, Collins Osayamwen, in an interview with Vanguard, while speaking on the new […]

…as he gets grilled by lawmakers over microblogging platform ban By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the suspended Twitter bankrolled the famous #EndSARS protests in Nigeria last year. The minister made the revelation at the ongoing probe of Twitter ban by a joint House of Representatives […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari’s representative in the House of Representatives, Hon. Fatihu Mohammed has asked Nigerians to do away with social media and return to the old way of life.  The member representing Daura/Sandamu/Baure federal constituency of Katsina State made the remarks while defending the ban of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the […]

By Ikechukwu Odu The traditional ruler of Obimo Community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, HRH, Igwe Spencer Ugwuoke, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to make traditional rulers’ institution the 4th tier of government to guarantee adequate security of communities. The monarch who said that the traditional rulers were not backed by […]

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs and other […]

A Zuba Upper Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Kabiru  Aliyu, to 24 months imprisonment for stealing and stabbing a commercial motorcyclist with a knife. Aliyu, who resides at Angwa Hausawa Jiwa, Abuja, had  pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of causing grievous hurt and theft. He begged the court for […]

Ogun State government has assured the residents of Ijebu Ode that it would work to resolve the erosion problems in the town, with the view of controlling the perennial flooding in Ijebu Ode and its environs

The Economic Community of West African State, ECOWAS, Court of Justice has ruled against the Federal Government of Nigeria on the suspension of Twitter, saying the app is a fundamental right. The ECOWAS Court also ruled that the Federal Government cannot arrest or prosecute anybody for using Twitter. Socio – Economic Rights And Accountability Project, […]

A 65-year-old man, Emmanuel Joseph has claimed that he was directed by a spirit to rape an Octogenarian woman, in Ondo town, Ondo state.

THE Federal Government, Monday met with the seven banks handling payment of N20,000 stipends for 774,000 participants of the Extended Special Public Works (ESPW) programme.