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Since banning Twitter on June 4, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has scaled up its long-standing ambition to seize control of the media space, traditional and social. Twitter, after deleting a controversial post of the president, has become inaccessible to Nigerian users, except through the use of Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications to bypass the restriction imposed by the government. Amid palpable fears among Nigerians …

The Nigerian government kidnapped Nnamdi Kanu from a foreign country in order to bring him to trial in Nigeria, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has said. Mr Soyinka, who condemned the Nigerian government’s action, however, criticised Mr Kanu’s ‘hate rhetoric’ while he was in hiding outside the country. “For me, was it right to have kidnapped [him]? You can say intercepted …

Concerned indigenes of Ikabigbo Community in Etsako West local government of Edo state have appealed to the Inspector General of Police, Baba Alkali Usman, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of their son, Sergeant Zekeri Bilal Dauda, who served at the Edo state Police command Headquarters, Benin City. Sergeant Zekeri attached to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) went on official …

By Okhide Em’ya David Unknown gunmen have reportedly killed a mobile policeman attached to a chieftain of the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Micheal Johnny, in Effurun area of the state. The hoodlums also murdered a Personal Driver to the Politician who hails from Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of the …

The Southern Governors Forum has unanimously agreed that the next president of Nigeria must come from the southern part of the country. They made the resolutions at a meeting in Lagos State on Monday. Ondo State Governor Arakunrin Akeredolu, who read the communique on behalf of his colleagues, said the decision became important for fairness and equity. The forum also …

Southern governors, on Monday, resolved that security agencies must notify them as the chief security officers of their states before they carry out any operation within their domain. Southern Governors This was contained in a communiqué issued today at the end of the governors’ meeting in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State. It was signed by the Governor of Ondo State and …

By Okhide Em’ya David Nine Passengers of commercial bus, who were early Sunday abducted along the Benin-Auchi Road around Igieduma/Ehor section of the Expressway, have been rescued by operatives of the Edo Police Command. The victims were rescued through the efforts of Policemen from Ehor Division of the Edo Police Command hours the incident took place. The kidnap victims, comprising …

Hard knocks, weekend, greeted comments by Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, that the Federal Government could not decisively tackle Boko Haram insurgents, bandits and kidnappers the way it handled Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because they are different from the case of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader. Following the arrest of Kanu in Kenya and re-arraignment in Nigeria, some …

Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, should serve as a warning and message to separatists challenging the country’s authority. He also said that the way bandits and Boko Haram terrorists’ operate was  different from that of the proscribed IPOB led by Kanu. Speaking to BBC Pidgin, El-Rufai stated that …

Members of the Kwara State House of Assembly, have dismissed claims by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he financially supported their electioneering campaigns. They also distanced themselves from his statement that Ward congresses will not hold in the state until a fresh membership registration and revalidation exercise was carried out. The lawmakers insisted that the congress …