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.. Says Saraki Led Senate is threat to Democracy Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has condemned the Social Media Bill being proposed by the Nigerian Senate. The bill which is titled “Bill for an Act to Prohibit Frivolous Petitions and Other Matters Connected Therewith,” seeks to gag online media by imposing a two year […]

Five officials of the Department of State Services (DSS), some allegedly attached to Senate President Bukola Saraki as well as five Army officers have been arrested for stealing N310 million.The army officers and the five DSS officials, namely Abdulrasheed Ahmadu Maigari, Solomon Inusa, Peter Okoye, Patrick Ishaya and George Mwatapwa Ibbi, on November 20, 2015, robbed […]

Mr. Yahaya Bello,the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Kogi State gubernatorial election has been declared the winner of the election. Announcing the results of the supplementary election,  the Returning Officer, Professor Emmanuel Kucha, affirmed that after the supplementary election of December 5, the APC’s candidate polled additional 6,885 while the PDP […]

The Nigerian military authorities said on Saturday that they have arrested the chief cameraman of the Boko Haram terrorist sect. The cameraman, Abdullahi Abubakar Sadiq, who is one of the 100 most wanted members of the sect, was arrested by the military officers of 28 Task Force Brigade at Uba town, Askira/Uba Local Government Area […]

Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, son of High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the proprietor of DAAR Group (African Independent Television, Raypower and Faaji FM), has explained his father’s role in the scandalous $2.1 billion arms deal for which the senior Dokpesi and some top Nigerians are currently being probed. According to the son who is the current chairman […]

U.S citizen and constitutional/international lawyer Bruce Fein has penned an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari regarding what he considers as the President’s selective prosecution of corruption charges against former officials in the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Fein points out that the current administration’s anti-corruption move was not even-handed in the pursuit of justice, advising Buhari […]

A Nigerian right group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Thursday sent an urgent appeal to Mr. David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, requesting him to pressure the National Assembly to withdraw the now controversial social media bill.  SERAP urged Kaye […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured that the current fuel scarcity in the country will be over in a matter of days, following the approval of the subsidy payment by the National Assembly. The Minister gave the assurance during a visit to the headquarters of the Daily Trust newspaper in […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured Nigerians of better times ahead, saying they will soon get the change they voted for. Mohammed gave the assurance at a meeting with representatives of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Abuja on Tuesday. He promised that the government will not give excuses. “The painstaking […]

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the inconclusive governorship election in the state, on Tuesday said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had played the highest form of political mischief for accepting the substitution of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its late governorship candidate in […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arrested former Chairman of Daar Communications, owner of the African Independent Television (AIT), Ray Power and Faaji FM, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. Dokpesi was arrested in Abuja over the $2.1 billion Nigerian arms scandal and accompanied to the office of the EFCC by his son Raymond Dokpesi […]

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