The Federal government has suspended the operations of Twitter, the microblogging and social networking service, in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed, minister of information, announced the suspension in a statement issued on Friday. The suspension of the social networking service was also shared on the Twitter handle of the federal ministry of ...

  Society gazette reports that the President’s aide on media and publicity, Femi Adesina has landed in fresh crisis with Nigerians after calling President Muhammadu Buhari a kind bully over his statement on terrorism in the south east. President Buhari had said he will go hard on those causing mayhem ...

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC), Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested 44 suspected internet fraudsters in Lagos. The suspects were arrested during different operations conducted in some parts of Lagos State between June 1, 2021 and June 3, 2021 by the operatives of the agency. The ...

  Suspected cult members, on Thursday morning allegedly killed a barber and macheted one of his customers at Oke-Ijetu area of Osogbo in Osun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the late barber, simply identified as Shogo, was attacked in his shop at about 10.00 a.m by six ...

  The Police Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed Usman Baba as Inspector General of Police. Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, confirmed the development at the end of the one and half hours meeting, said he was unanimously confirmed. President Buhari had on April 6, ...

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) has pledged to collaborate with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) to find practical solutions to insecurity confronting the country. The Commander, Nigerian Army Armoured Corps (NAAC), Major General Mohammed Magaji, yesterday commissioned landmark projects in Obienu barracks to immortalise the name ...

  The famous Nigerian crime buster and his team has been deployed to Imo state amidst rising tension over the activities of ‘unknown gunmen’. The deputy commissioner of police Mr Abba Kyari and his team of police officers were spotted in Imo state as they readied themselves for security operations. ...

  Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has insisted that he left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC because of his personal relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari. Ayade said this after he met President Buhari behind closed doors on Thursday at the Presidential Villa ...

  COVID-19 killed 18 Nigerians on Thursday and the daily cases also increased five-fold from the previous day record. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this Thursday night in its daily update. Total caseload is now 166,682, with the 122 new cases recorded, in contrast with the 25 ...

  The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), yesterday, threw it’s weight behind calls for rotational presidency across all six geo-political zones of the country. CAN also said it has presented a request for the establishment of ecclesiastical or spiritual courts to adjudicate on matters that relate to Christians. These views ...