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  A High court of Abia State sitting in Umuahia on Friday concluded hearing in the Fundamental Rights suit filed on behalf of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by his special counsel, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the suit was ...

  Supporters of Yoruba Nation separatist, Sunday Adeyemo ‘Igboho’ are currently protesting at the office of the Consulate general of Benin Republic in Victoria Island, Lagos, to demand his release. The protesters carried placards with various inscriptions, while calling on the federal government to ensure the release of Igboho from ...

  In what appears to be coordinated attacks on monarchs in Imo State, the traditional ruler of Atta Ancient Kingdom in Njaba local government area of, Edwin Ezike, has been killed by yet-to-be identified assailants. Ezike’s murder was confirmed to THE WHISTLER by the Imo State police spokesperson, Michael Abattam, ...

  The Federal Government has directed the use of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as the only recommended booster shot. The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) spokesman, Yanda Muhammad, made this known in an interview on Friday. Muhammad stated that the government had approved the Pfizer vaccine as a ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders in mourning India’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife, and 11 others killed in a helicopter crash. President Buhari, in a message to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Thursday, described the deaths as irreparable losses to ...

  The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Bisi Akande, seemed to attack President Muhamnadu Buhari who attended his book launch in Lagos on Thursday by saying he deserved no sympathy because he wanted to be President of Nigeria. Akande, who took the hard-line stance against ...

  The Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume, was seen controlling traffic in Abuja on Wednesday. A video that has now gone viral captured the lawmaker taking up the job of a traffic warden for a few minutes before heading to the National Assembly for plenary. ...

  Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday cancelled the Lagos peace walk planned for this month. POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that Sanwo-Olu, in an address on November 30, 2021, had invited some EndSARS frontline protesters in the state to a peace walk for “the healing of Lagos”. Specifically, the governor ...

  Popular Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, and businessman, Obi Cubana, has topped Google’s 2021 list of the most trending people in Nigeria. Google on Wednesday released the list showing the most searched terms, moments, people, topics, events, places that capture the world’s attention in the year 2021. Savage was a ...

  The Presidency has denied President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the immediate sack of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) management. Reports had emerged that Buhari had through the minister of state for power ordered the sack of the AEDC management over the recent strike embarked upon by electricity workers. But ...