There indications that the federal government has directed all telecom operators in the country to deactivate twitter on their networks by 12 midnight.

A cross-section of Kano residents has commended the Federal government for suspending access to Twitter, a microblogging and social media network.

The Nigerian bar association has threatened a lawsuit against the federal government of Nigeria over the decision to suspend the operation of a microblogging giant in Nigeria, Twitter.

By Muyiwa Adetiba Lehman Brothers was one of the biggest banks in the world. It had its fingers in many financial pies all over the world. It was a respected player with a rich tradition behind it. All of this was until it filed for bankruptcy a little over a decade ago. The news of […]

By Ifeanyi Okolie Three dismissed soldiers who took part in training 4000 members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra, POB, have revealed how they were lured with money and promises. Vanguard gathered that the dismissed soldiers who were arrested by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response […]

Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, the Deputy National President of National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN), says there is need for the government to improve security in schools across the country. Ogunbanjo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday attributed the incidents of  kidnapping  in some schools to poor […]

A coalition of ex-agitators in Akwa Ibom State under the auspices of the “Unyekisong Akwa Ibom” has threatened to embark on a mass protest across the country if a substantive board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is not constituted within 14 days

The National Obstetric Fistula Centre (NOFIC), in Ebonyi has said that early girl child marriage and exposure to sexual intercourse before age 16, is a predisposing factor to cervical cancer. The Medical Director of NOFIC, Prof. Johnson Obuna, made the remark on Friday, during the flag-off of a Free Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment for […]

The Director-General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, says there are no genetically modified fish and animals yet in the Nigerian market. He made this assertion on Friday in Abuja during stakeholders meeting for the review of draft guidelines on Genetically Modified (GM) Fish, animals, food/feed, and grain import. Ebegba noted that most […]

The wife of Ondo State governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, on Friday, assured youth corps members posted to the state of an enabling atmosphere to engender small and medium scale entrepreneurs to flourish