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Bashir Magashi, minister of defence, says the need to follow due process is responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists. There have been calls for the federal government to declare bandits as terrorists, […]

It’s a dose of uncertainties for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with the mainstream developing cold feet as the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt continued to push forward its verdict on whether […]

Despite the glitz with which President Muhammadu Buhari launched Nigeria’s digital currency, eNaira, last Monday, indications have emerged that Nigerians have not embraced the use of the currency because they were yet to be properly […]

The venerable writer and Africa’s first winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described the country as being in a mess and gradually disintegrating ‘before our very eyes.’ The renowned playwright spoke, […]

The African Union said Wednesday it had suspended Sudan until civilian rule in the country is restored, saying it rejected the military takeover as an “unconstitutional” seizure of power. The continent-wide bloc said it “strongly […]

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, insisted that the country must return to the 1963 Constitution to be on the right path. It emphasised that restructuring must take place before the 2023 general elections. In […]

Telecommunication subscribers are clamouring for a two-month extension of the October 31 deadline for National Identity Number-Subscriber Identity Module data verification. The President of National Association of Telecoms Subscribers, Adeolu Ogunbanjo, highlighted the need to […]

After speculations about his health and whereabouts since his re-arrest in June, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, finally appeared in court for his re-arraignment yesterday, eliciting […]

The Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering (NATE) says it is working on completing the process of total removal of dichotomy between polytechnic and university graduates. NATE National President, Ahmad Yabagi, stated this at the […]

A gas turbine generator unit and accessories ordered by the Rivers state government have been abandoned in The Netherlands since 2012. The scandal emerged at the meeting of the state executive council, where it was […]

Nigerian youths held memorial protests in Lagos and Abuja on Wednesday, one year after security forces violently suppressed mass protests against police brutality and bad governance. Under heavy police watch, dozens of protesters rallied in […]

Nigeria disc jockey, Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, has stated that the #EndSARS protest of 2020 changed her life for worse and for better. The activist took to her verified Instagram page on […]

The Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has asked the Federal Government to declare bandits in the North-West geo-political zone of the country as “insurgents” or “terrorists”. The declaration, the governor said, would able the […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu did not stop any first-year #EndSARS memorial event from taking place, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso has said. Omotoso said the governor encouraged free speech and the right of citizens […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned Nigerians not to link their National Identification Numbers (NINs) to another person’s Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s spokesperson, in a statement on Monday, said the […]