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Angry youths and constituents of Katsina North Central District humiliated the lawmaker representing them at the Senate, Ahmad Babba Kaita on Saturday. Kaita, who graced the wedding ceremony of his friend’s daughter, Fatima at Mashi was booed and chased out of the Katsina Royal Palace, the venue of the event. …

As the federal government discussed the indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, power supply was suspended — not for one or two minutes, but for ten minutes! It may be an extreme case of technical fault or compliance with the ‘suspension’ galore, but while the jury is still out on …

At least 180 Bureau De Change (BDC) operators nabbed by security operatives for alleged link to terrorism financing paid N900 million in penalties before they returned to their businesses, Daily Trust reports. This comes as BDC operators and other traders rounded up by security agents in March, on suspicion of …

    SECURITY: SANWO-OLU GETS LIST OF ABANDONED BUILDINGS, SET TO TAKE ACTION •Lagos Procures Machine to Detect COVID-19 Variants – Governor Criminals will find no space in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said. The Governor, on Monday, said a long list of abandoned buildings across Local Government Areas …

Former House of Assembly Member representing Boki11, Chief Barr. Mark Obi resigns his appointment as Special Adviser to Gov. Ben Ayade, he insists on remaining in the People’s Democratic Party This is a man of Integrity. Mr Obi had represented Boki 2 State Constituency in the Cross River House of …

  The Nigerian Government met with Envoys of the United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Canada and the European union in Abuja on Monday to discuss the controversial suspension of Twitter’s activities in the country. It can be recalled that the Federal government suspended Twitter last week after the social media …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the patently unlawful and unconstitutional directive by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to all broadcast stations in the country to suspend the patronage of Twitter with immediate effect.” The NBC had reportedly stated that the decision followed the suspension of Twitter operations …

Buhari, Osinbajo still on Twitter yet NBC orders stations to deactivate accounts -Omokri An ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has knocked the National Broadcasting Commission for ordering broadcast stations to deactivate their Twitter accounts when the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the Vice President, Yemi …

  In furtherance of the renewed campaign to upgrade public infrastructure, the Lagos State Government has commenced the retrofitting of streetlights from High-Pressure Sodium Bulb (HPS) to Light Emitting Diode (LED) across the State. This was revealed in an official statement signed by the General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board …

On Saturday morning between 11 am and 12 pm, as Nigerians woke up to the reality of a Twitter ban, and downloading Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to access Twitter, the Nigerian government, through the office of the Presidency, reached out to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to discuss plans to …