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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 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), must be “non-partisan and be a person of high integrity...

A government social media ban has handed secessionists a propaganda win and fired up other opponents of the President, 'Backfire' doesn't quite cover the effects of the government's 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 hostility and ridicule.

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 had shot Mr Buhari to the position of the second most trending Nigerian topics on the microblogging si...

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. These are not problems created by our party and its leadership,” it said. Advertisement “If an...

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 you in love with the girl?” “Sickening. Who are these people???!”