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The special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu the leader of IPOB, Aloy Ejimakor, has called for his release. Ejimakor urged the international community and influential Nigerians to persuade the Nigerian Government to comply with the order of Appeal Court to release Kanu. He also referred to the number of times Nigerian Government failed to heed […]
The International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has reacted to the order by the Zamfara State Government to shut down some public and private media houses in the state. DAILY POST reports that the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, had, on Saturday, ordered the immediate shutdown of some media organisations in the state over […]
The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says if he reveals what the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu has done in the party, his children will disown him. Wike spoke on Friday in a media chat in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state. The governor has been in […]
The attorney-general of the federation, AGF Abubakar Malami have reacted to the verdict of the Appellate court ordering the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Malami says the federal government will explore “all available options” to determine the terrorism charge it preferred against Nnamdi Kanu. In […]
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has resolved to call off its eight months old strike, thus paving way for the reopening of the country’s public universities across the nation. The decision to suspend the prolonged industrial action came after an all-night meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU in Abuja. […]
The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai says the federal government should privatise the oil and gas sector before it brings the country to its knees. In July 2022 the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited transformed from a corporation to a limited liability company. On October 5, met with scepticism and criticism, the […]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said insecurity may hamper elections in the North-West and South-East states Yakubu said the insecurity in the country was concerning, noting that the security challenge which was hitherto restricted to the North-East region has now spread to other parts of the […]
A 67-year-old man, Ibrahim Ado, has been locked up in a room in Kaduna State for over 20 years. The old man was discovered by environmental health officers of the Kaduna North Local Government Area who were in the house on official duty. DSP Mohammed Jalige, the state police command spokesman, said the […]
The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Wednesday fixed October 21, 2022, for judgment in an appeal filed by the Delta State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 governorship election, Mr David Edevbie. By the appeal, Edevbie is asking the Supreme Court to re-affirm his candidacy. Edevbie, in a 23-ground […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities is still awaiting the decision of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the no-work-no-pay rule invoked by the Federal Government since its strike began eight months ago, The PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that the President’s decision on the matter is key to a […]
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