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The Federal Government is considering the possibility of granting a posthumous pardon for the late activist and playwright, Kenule Saro-Wiwa, and eight others.   Buhari said this on Friday as he received a delegation of leaders of  Ogoniland at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.   According to him, his administration is determined to engender true […]

The Federal Government on Friday declared it had established a link between   Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called  Sunday Igboho, and a Boko Haram sponsor, Surajo Muhammad.   Muhammad was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Aram Emirates on charges of financing terrorism.   The government also said that Nnamdi Kanu, the […]

  The management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation has announced the suspension of services on its Abuja-Kaduna route, following an attack on its train on the route.   Responding to the development, NRC said in a statement late Thursday that the explosion that occurred on the rail track affected the fuel tank of the locomotive […]

The Nigerian Guild of Editors on Thursday warned that the country was close to the tipping point over the rising level of insecurity in the country, and warned the nation cannot continue on its current trajectory.   Mustapha Isah, NGE president, declared this in Abuja at the start of the 17th All Nigeria Editors Conference, […]

The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra on Thursday arrived at the Federal High Court in Abuja amidst tight security.   He was brought to the Court on a black Sports Utility Vehicle at about 8 am in Nigeria ahead of the commencement of his trial.   IPOB had threatened to embark on a month-long […]

At his much-awaited trial on Thursday, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, pleaded not guilty to the seven-count amended charge bought against him by the Federal Government.   The IPOB leader maintained his innocence of all seven allegations when he was arranged before Justice Binta Nyako  of the Federal High […]

The United States Justice Department on Tuesday, charged Nigerian billionaire, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false and misleading statements to federal investigators during an investigation into illegal contributions he made to the re-election campaign of Nebraska Republican Congressman, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. […]

The Lagos State Police Command has explained that its men fired teargas at the Lekki Tollgate on Wednesday to disperse miscreants who had infiltrated the #EndSARSMemorial protests.   “We did not fire teargas to disperse protesters, but miscreants,” Hakeem Odumosu, the Commissioner of Police in the state, said from the Lekki Tollgate Plaza on Wednesday. […]

It is one year after the #EndSARS protests that rocked Nigeria and ended with what became known as the Lekki Tollgate Massacre, as young Nigerians poured out into the streets to protest what they termed police brutality.   The protests turned bloody as men in military dress stormed the Lekki Tollgate on the night of […]

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the EndSARS protests and shootings, the Federal government has declared that there is yet no evidence to show that any protester died at the Lekki Tollgate.   This declaration was made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a press conference on the […]

  The Nigerian government has amended its charges against Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.   The filing of the amended 7-count comes ahead of the resumption of Kanu’s trial in Abuja on Thursday, October 21.   Filed by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister […]

A former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said he is ready to honour an invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission once he receives a letter to that effect over the Pandora Papers.   This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by Obi’s spokesman,  Valentine Obienyem.   The statement was […]