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Daily Post Nigeria Published The nomination of the controversial Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie as an electoral commissioner has been generating buzz from day one. Civil Society Organizations and opposition parties, particularly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have condemned the appointment of a known partisan person as commissioner for the electoral umpire. Section 14 (b) of the third schedule of the 1999 Constitution provided that members of the Indepen...

A government social media ban has handed secessionists a propaganda win and fired up other opponents of the President, Backfire doesnt quite cover the effects of the governments national ban on the Twitter micro-blogging site announced on 5 June, the day after the platform deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari. Secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu, no slouch when it comes to threatening violence on social media, was celebrating another propaganda victory as the ban was greeted with hostili...

Nigerians criticise Buhari after Twitter deletes controversial tweet Mr Buhari in a tweet on Tuesday threatened to deal decisively with those “bent on destroying Nigeria through insurrection". 2 min read Many Nigerians flooded the social media space on Wednesday to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari following Twitter’s removal of his controversial tweet many believed was targeted at Igbo-dominated South-eastern region of the country. The reactions to Twitter’s verdict ha...

Advertisement The group’s position was contained in a statement signed by Salihu Lukman, director-general of the Progressive Governors’ Forum; Ismail Ahmed and Tolu Ogunlesi, presidential aides; as well as Lanre Issa-Onilu, former spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The group, however, noted that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is working to fix the country’s problems. “Our country, Nigeria, like every country in the world, is faced with difficult problems...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Akpan is the suspected killer of Iniobong, a job seeker in Akwa Ibom State. He was interrogated by several journalists today and admitted he murdered the deceased by hitting her with a stabilizer. However, Ogunlesi was angry with some of the questions the suspect was asked. He tweeted: “A Nigerian ‘journalist’ asking a man accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a woman he was meeting for the first time (by luring her to an isolated location) — “Were ...

Kaduna Varsity Student Killed By Bandits Buried Amid Tears, Wailing Sodiq’s body, along with those of Dorathy Yohanna and Precious Nwakacha were on Friday found in Kwanan Bature village by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 25, 2021 Sadiq Sanga Yusuf, one of the three students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna killed by suspected bandits has been buried amid wailing and tears by family members and friends. SaharaReporters gathered that Sadiq was the son of Malam Yusuf Mu’azu, a Director of Ka...

The invasion of the university is the third time bandits attacked a school in Kaduna in 2021.

A Nigerian man, whose sister-in-law, Dorathy Yohanna, was among the three Greenfield University students killed by bandits, has written a letter to the

2 min read Nigeria’s transport ministry has turned down requests to make public details of its recent concession of the Kaduna-Abuja rail ticketing, amid concerns over the valuation of the deal. The government announced in January that a private company will manage the electronic ticketing of the Abuja-Kaduna line for 10 years. The company, SecureID Solutions, which developed the platform, paid N900 million and would run the platform for a decade to recoup its cost, authoritie...

❚ You already voted!   Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu has denied commenting on the choice of Ghana as Twitter’s headquarters for its Africa operations, Igbere TV reports. Several media outlets (not Qed.ng) quoted Mr Shehu as knocking Twitter for its decision made public by the tech company’s CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday.   But Shehu said in a tweet on Tuesday that he did not make any comment on the matter. “I did not comment on the Twitter choice of Ghana as their Africa bas...