President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The approval was announced in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who would chair the team. The statement was ... Read More »
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja has convicted former member of House of Representatives from Kano State, Farouk Lawan for receiving $500,000 bribe from a businessman, Femi Otedola. Justice Angella Otaluka convicted Lawan on the three-count charge on which he was tried by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). The ... Read More »
As the probe of the whereabouts of $43, 449, 947, 000 seized from Osborne Towers in Ikoyi deepens, there were indications on Sunday that the cash was deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). It was also learnt that the cash might have been transferred to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) account of the Federal Government. But it was ... Read More »
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has threatened to go on strike again over the ‘blatant’ refusal of the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris to pay the salaries and remittance of check-off dues of over 1000 staff for 13 months. The ASUU chairman, University of Jos, Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, who raised the alarm in a press ... Read More »
Thirty-six-year-old Rahmon Azeez was full of life on Wednesday and nothing suggested that death loomed.Our correspondent learnt that he just got a visa to travel to the United States of America to see his wife and twins, who he had never carried physically since they were born abroad. He arranged for his wife to travel to the US where ... Read More »
It’s obviously celebration time for your soar-away celebrity and general interest magazine: NEWSTHUMB. We are proud to formally inform you our esteemed readers, subscribers and advertisers that the magazine will be 10 years old on the newsstands come Sunday, September 26, 2021; and we plan to celebrate it big time in a dual way. In commemoration of this dual event, ... Read More »
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has attributed the unpleasant circumstances surrounding exits of his predecessors to ‘corruption fighting back’. Bawa stated this on Thursday while speaking during the weekly Ministerial Briefing organized by the Presidential Media Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Asked if he was not concerned how his predecessors were removed ... Read More »
The police on Wednesday paraded 36 suspects, including a female, in connection with various crimes in different locations in the country. The suspects were arrested for allegedly committing crimes ranging from armed robbery, homicide and kidnapping to rape, car theft and unlawful possession of arms among others. Among those paraded was Christopher Akpan, 54, the alleged killer of a ... Read More »
The Federal Government says Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, are vicariously liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSARS protest. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Tuesday when he featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Mohammed alleged that ... Read More »
In a swift reaction to the report going around that the APC leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ is critically ill and has been flown abroad, the founder BAT Movement Otunba Abiodun Ajiboye has debunked the rumour in a statement duly signed by him and made available to the press this evening. According to him, “looking through the story , you ... Read More »
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