Federal Government of Nigeria, on the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari has lifted the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12am tonight, 13th January 2022. In a memo signed by Kashifu Inuwa, Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA, the lifting of the ban is as a result of a a memo […]
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The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, is leading by example for being the first agency of government in Nigeria to implement a major aspect of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation, NDPR provision by launching the NDPR compliant visitor’s book today in Abuja. The launching of the booklet was performed by the Director General of the Agency, Kashifu Inuwa shortly […]
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Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has directed his appointees nursing political ambition ahead of the 2023 elections to resign in order not to be distracted. Speaking during the State Executive Council meeting at Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday, Governor Diri explained that such ambition was legitimate but it should not be at the expense of effective service delivery of […]
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Intellectual icon and first African to graduate from the prestigious Harvard University in the United States, Ambassador Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, will be given a state burial by his home state of Bayelsa. Prof. Ekpebu, who also attended another Ivy League institution in the United States, Princeton University, hailed from Okoloba Community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area. Ekpebu, who was Nigeria’s […]
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Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya (Dan Majen Gombe) has described the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan as a courageous, visionary and progressive leader with uncommon penchant for the unity and stability of Nigeria. In a press release on Wednesday 12th January, 2022 signed by the Director-General (Press Affairs) Gombe Government House, Ismaila Uba Misilli, he said that […]
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the early hours of today, Wednesday 12th January arrested a skit maker, Sunday Joshua, popularly known on social media as De-General, following the raid of a notorious drug joint at Orchid Estate, Lekki area of Lagos state. In a press release on Wednesday 12th January 2022 signed by the NDLEA […]
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By Adewole Kehinde, “Kenny, have you read that Nigeria Labour Congress has directed its members, affiliate unions, and civil society partners to prepare for the planned January 27 and February 1 nationwide protests against the proposed removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government?” That was a message I got from one of the CSOs mobilized by the NLC. My […]
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Last Sunday, the Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Wike in a state-wide broadcast, declared wanted those the governor said were ‘kingpins of bunkering and illegal crude oil refining activities in their communities’. The governor also said that ‘those behind illegal bunkering activities in Okrika communities, Port Harcourt Township, Rivers South-East and Rivers South-West Senatorial Districts and their names would be […]
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A High Court sitting in Kubwa, Abuja has quashed allegations of financial crimes against Dr. Yusuf Hamisu Abubakar (Mirago), a former Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). The Presiding Judge, Hon Justice Bello Kawu in his ruling also ordered security agencies to desist from interrogating or prosecuting Abubakar, also a former commissioner in Kaduna State. A group […]
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami and his counterpart in the Ministry of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, will commission a Digital Nigeria Centre (DNC) project in Osun State on January 14, 2022, in order to give concrete expression to the underlining principles and fundamental philosophy of the emergent digital culture in Nigeria, particularly Item No. […]
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