Lai: Any social media platform used to bring down Nigeria will be suspended

Says Twitter Gave IPOB Platform To Promote Violence The federal government says it will not hesitate to suspend any social media platform, which allows activities that have a negative impact…

FG disobeys own law, flouts workers pension remittance

Seven years after the Federal Government amended the Pension Reform Act, which stipulated that employers should remit 18 per cent of workers’ monthly emoluments into their RSAs, the government is…

The Dot Nation: You’re ethnic bigot, elder for nothing — Igbokwe berates Abaribe

The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Drainage and Water Resources, Joe Igbokwe has berated the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe over his customised shirt “The…

Ebonyi Governor declares Wednesday holiday to mourn over death of two commissioners

Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, has declared Wednesday, June 23, holiday in honour of his dead former commissioners. The former commissioners are Mr Fidelis Nweze and Mr Uche Okah. The…

Uzoddimma: Landlords To Be Held Responsible For Criminal Tenants

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, yesterday, said house owners would be held responsible for any act of criminality committed by their tenants. Uzodimma stated this when he received in…

Moghalu charges Ndigbo to look beyond Buhari, explains why secession will fail

Anambra guber aspirant bemoans leadership disconnect from citizens A former presidential candidate, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu has charged Ndigbo to look beyond the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and plan towards repositioning…

Buhari sets up committee to lift 100m Nigerians out of poverty

President Muhammadu Buhari has launched a steering committee on national poverty reduction with growth strategy (NPRGS). In its latest report, World Bank noted that the high inflation rate in Nigeria…

Woman Found Dead In Kwara Hotel

The Kwara State Police Command on Tuesday discovered the corpse of an unidentified woman at a hotel in Ilorin, the state capital. The deceased was said to have lodged at…

Buratai Appointed Nigeria’s Ambassador To Benin Republic

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai (rtd), has been deployed to Benin Republic. General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin (rtd), former Defence Chief, is the head of mission to…

EndSARS: Lagos says most injuries from Lekki tollgate were from ‘machete cuts, stampede’

The Lagos state government says most of the injuries sustained by protesters at the Lekki tollgate were from machete cuts and stampede. Hakeem Muri-Okunola, head of service, stated this on…

Seven dead, several injured in Ekiti road crash

No fewer than seven persons died on Tuesday in an accident involving a luxurious bus and a Toyota Hiace Bus along Iluomoba – Aisegba Road in the Gbonyin Council Area…

Ebonyi Commissioner dies

Ebonyi Commissioner for Infrastructure Development Engr. Fidelis Nweze is dead. He died in a hospital in Abuja due to injuries he sustained in an auto crash earlier in the week.…

IPOB to S’east Govs: you’re too small to decide for Ndigbo

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has flayed the South East Governors and other political leaders in the region over the disowning and condemnation statement credited to them against the group…

Uzodinma’s power-drunk security aides brutalise PUNCHman over widows’ protest

GOVERNMENT House policemen on Monday manhandled and arrested the Imo State correspondent of The Punch, Chidiebube Okeoma, for covering widows, who were protesting unpaid six months’ salary arrears. According to…

Lai: Twitter’s operation in Nigeria is illegal

The federal government says Twitter is not registered to do business in Nigeria, hence its operation is illegal. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, spoke on Tuesday when he…