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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter, and the escalating repression of human rights, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.” …

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has declared that he cannot guarantee security in the state if left alone. After meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Uzodimma told newsmen that stakeholders, including traditional, religious and political leaders, must engage more with the people to restore normalcy in the beleaguered state. According to him, former …

…as Abaribe, Elumelu lambast APC govt The two minority caucuses of the Senate and the House of Representatives in the National Assembly have asked Nigerians nationwide to ignore the ban on Twitter operations and the concomitant of threats of arrest by the federal government and continue tweeting. In a statement jointly signed by the leaders of the two Caucuses, Senator …

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has dissolved the State Executive Council with immediate effect on Wednesday. Mohammed in a statement by his media aide, Mukhtar Gidado,said that the Governor “has approved with immediate effect the dissolution of members of the State Executive Council and other political appointees that include, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), the Chief of Staff …

Amidst the controversy trailing the recent tweet made by President Muhammadu Buhari on insecurity in Nigeria, human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), yesterday, accused the president of heating the polity more. He spoke at a security summit, themed: ‘21st Century Policing, Intelligence and Crisis Management’, organised by civil group, Police Eminent Persons Forum, PEPF, at Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, in …

• Malami logs into the suspended site to deactivate the account• Gbajabiamila orders probe into the propriety of the ban• Senate silent as PDP Reps stage walkout, insist on reversal• CSOs defy FG order, say it will continue Twitter use• SERAP takes Buhari to ECOWAS court over suspension• APC urges talented Nigerians to develop homegrown alternatives Despite widespread anger over the …

With less than two years to the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday said it had concluded the task to create additional polling units Consequently, the commission said a comprehensive list of the new polling units would be published next week. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said these when he received a new fire …

The National Youth Service Corps section of the Federal Secretariat, Asaba, Delta State, was on Tuesday engulfed in flames and one of the firefighters, who came to extinguish the inferno, was left in a critical condition as he was said to have fallen from the second floor. PUNCH Metro gathered that the fire, which razed down the NYSC section of the …

The United States of America has again urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to rethink and rescind the Twitter ban in Nigeria. This message was conveyed by a top American official and senior diplomat, who is the current administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power. Power, in a tweet on her verified handle on Wednesday, …

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), downloaded Virtual Private Network in order to visit Twitter to deactivate it, The PUNCH can confirm. This is despite Malami’s threats to Nigerians that using Twitter could land them in jail. The AGF had posted a photo of his deactivated Twitter account. However, a critical look at the photo by just clicking …