The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. This was announced on Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi. Glamtush had earlier reported that Twitter deleted a …

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity on Thursday said what Nigeria currently needs is a leader with iron fist to whip into line those who are misbehaving in any part of the country. In his weekly article titled ‘ I Suddenly Remembered Why I …

Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of Anambra state, says the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) are not behind the violent attacks in the south-east. There have been several attacks on police stations, prisons and the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the …

How N56 million was budgeted to construct classrooms in non-existent Akwa Ibom school A project for the construction of a classroom block in Akwa Ibom has ‘gulped’ N56 million in three years. However, the project is nowhere to be found, a Premium Times investigation shows. For three consecutive years, Michael …

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has advocated that 18 years should be the minimum age for marriage in the country. The Christian body disclosed this at the ongoing public hearing organized by the House of Representatives Special Committee On The Review Of The Constitution in Akure, Ondo State capital. …

  Ondo State Governor and Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, has said it is important for the country to legalise the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes. He also said he was in Thailand to study the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal use. Illegal cultivation of cannabis …

Telecommunications operators in the country are again planning to disconnect commercial banks from the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), New Telegraph has learnt. This is even as the banks’ debt for the service is said to have risen to over N47 billion as of end of May. Sources within …

Gunmen kill hostage police woman, another in Imo Gunmen operating in military camouflage has killed a female police officer and another resident who is yet to be identified at Orji flyover, Owerri Imo State on Thursday. The hoodlums were said to have emerged from Amakohia axis,shooting sporadically to scare passersby. …

A revered Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, has advised the Federal Government to support splinter groups among bandits as a way to end mass abductions of school pupils. Gumi, who spoke to Newsextra24 on the telephone on Wednesday on the abduction of 200 Islamiyya schoolchildren in the Rafi Local Government …

  Police Release Oil Worker Wrongly Arrested And Paraded As An Unknown Gunman (Photos) A 40-year-old oil worker identified as Casmir Ibegbulem, has been released by the police after wrongly arrested and paraded as one of the unknown gunmen attacking security formations in Imo state, Newsextra24 reports. Casmir Ibegbulem who …