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Following the kidnap of 140 pupils of Bethel Baptist College, Kaduna, the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari has lost grip of leadership. CAN President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle in a statement issued in Abuja while reacting to the incident expressed shock and condemned the act. Ayokunle advised Buhari to seek foreign assistance …

Chairman of North-East Governors’ Forum, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, and his colleagues in the North-East have arrived Jalingo for a two-day meeting. Zulum was received by the Deputy Governor of Taraba State, Haruna Manu, at Danbaba Suntai airport. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State and his entourage also arrived Jalingo about 1:39p.m. Governor Inuwa Yahaya and Bala Mohammed of …

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) on Monday said it has launched an online application to capture the information of retirees to ensure accuracy and timeliness of documentation. PenCom’s commissioner (technical), Anyim Nyerere, said this at the opening ceremony of a workshop for pension desk officers of Ministries, Agencies and Departments. The commission said the process will include self-assisted and the pension fund …

Nigeria has the third most developed Internet ecosystem in Africa, a new report has shown. The report by Internet society, a global nonprofit organisation promoting the development and use of the Internet, said Nigeria ranks just below South Africa and Kenya. “These countries have the most interconnected networks and have succeeded in exchanging 70-80% of their traffic locally,” Internet society …

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 …