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Despite widespread anger over the ban on Twitter use in the country, indications emerged, yesterday, that the Federal Government is not ready to shift grounds...

By Olawale Ajimotokan The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Muhammad Musa Bello, has stated that the FCT Administration would require N2.6 billion to replace 25,462 assets that were vandalised in the territory. He disclosed this yesterday at the Town Hall meeting on the protection of public infrastructure organised in Abuja by the Ministry of Information and Culture. Bello made the revelation just as the Minister of Transportion, Rotimi Amaechi, said the National Assembly should consider the call by the public to enact a law making the vandalisation of railway track punishable by deat...

“It is shameful that in its desperate bid and determination to destroy the largest democracy in Africa,” they said

x According to the most recent estimates, from 2016, of both deaths per age group and overall population size, 2.8% of children under five died in that year. The United Nations estimated that in 2019 the mortality rate for Nigerian children under five was 117.2 per 1,000 live births, with mortality rates for boys higher than for girls. Public health experts reiterated that the under-five mortality rate in Nigeria was still unacceptably high, because of a weak health system and poverty, among other factors. x To mark Worl...

• Gunmen invade police station in Abia, Akwa Ibom, kill five officers • Police begin the search for stolen AK-47 rifles in Rivers • Ammunition-laden truck involved in a lone accident in Anambra After what appears a lull in Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) activism in the country, a coalition of 127 CSOs under the Joint Action Civil Society Coalition/Nigeria Mourns Secretariat, yesterday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, stop the escalating insecurity in the country. They further raised the alarm that the first quarter of 2021 has witnessed all-time...