Month: June 2021

The diplomatic missions of Canada, the European Union (Delegation to Nigeria), the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have conveyed their disappointment over Nigeria’s…

Nigeria will lose N2.18 billion per day for blocking the operations of Twitter, a micro-blogging and social networking platform, in the country, an estimation by NetBlocks has shown. NetBlocks, a…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an Urgent Appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to…

Telcos have said that those still making use of Twitter in Nigeria are not using their networks to access the microblogging site. Twitter was suspended in Nigeria by the Federal…

Special security forces on Sunday morning killed one “unknown gunman” and captured about seven of them who tried to attack Imo police headquarters. Our correspondent gathered in Owerri, that the…

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Chief pathologist, Dr John Obafunwa, on Saturday told the Lagos State Judicial Panel probing police brutality that it received three corpses said to be…

*Says under Section 4, NASS can give Nigeria peoples constitution Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, has faulted the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the…

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that rising violence in Zamfara State is now causing a humanitarian crisis. It, therefore, wants an urgent response to help the victims…

*Mr T.B. Joshua, founder of SCOAN, died few days to his 58th birthday. The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) has issued the statement below to confirm the passage of…

The Presidency on Saturday said its decision to ban Twitter wasn’t a “knee-jerk reaction” to the social media network’s deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweets. According to a statement signed…