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The opposition People’s Democratic Party has declared that the Presidency’s statement conveying its support for the Minister of  Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, indicated its  sympathy for acts of terrorism that the country has witnessed in the past few years. PDP noted that Nigerians were devastated that the Presidency could express its defence for […]

  Kidnappers have killed three of the abducted students of the Greenfield University, Kasarami in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who they abducted on Tuesday.   Kaduna Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the development, said their remains were found on Friday in Kwanan Bature village, a […]

Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome has said that despite the claims by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, the man has not changed from his extreme religious dispositions.   As such, the lawyer said Pantami is unfit to oversee the strategic digital and telecommunications agencies of […]

The killing of President Idriss Deby of Chad has the potential of escalating security challenges for Nigeria and other neighbouring countries, the Nigerian government admitted on Thursday. To forestall that, the government has decided to beef up security at the country’s borders to stop the flowing in of refugees, Minister of Defence, Maj. -Gen. Bashir […]

A former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari that the world would pass on Nigerian an unfavourable verdict if he failed to handle properly the accusations against the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. “The @NigeriaGov @NGRPresident @MBuhari may not realize that the world is following the ugly […]

Gunmen who kidnapped about 23 students of privately owned Greenfield University Students in Kaduna have demanded the sum of N800m ransom for their release. The gunmen stormed the school on Tuesday night and took away the students and a matron, while a porter was killed in the operation. Located in Kasarami, in the Chikun Local […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday handed a harsh word to those championing secession in different parts of the country, telling them that they can neither intimidate nor bully President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the champions of these movements were nothing more than mercantile agents whose […]

Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno has died on the battlefield after three decades in power, the army announced on state television on Tuesday. The shock announcement came only the day after he was proclaimed the winner of a presidential election that had given him a sixth term in office, AFP reported. The army said Deby […]

Unidentified gunmen on Monday targeted Police facilities in southeast Nigeria, razing two down in Abia and Enugu States. In Abia hoodlums in the early hours of Monday set ablaze the Uzuakoli police Division in the Bende council area of the state.  The hoodlums overpowered policemen guarding the station and freed detainees at the station, sources […]

 A civil society organization, Concerned Nigerians, has written to the United States embassy in Nigeria and asked the Joe Biden administration to investigate the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, over allegations that he has links with terror groups. The g Concerned Nigerians group is also asking that the American government places the […]

The opposition People’s Democratic Party has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Nigeria’s finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, over her role in the alleged printing of N60 billion by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, had disclosed earlier this week that the government printed and distributed the states the sum of N60b […]

Parents of the kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State have expressed their exasperation over the demand of N500m ransom by the kidnappers for the remaining children to be released. The gunmen stormed the Forestry School on March 11, 2021, and abducted 29 students, both male and female. After several […]