Estimated Reading Time: 3Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja “to stop the Federal Government and the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed from using their patently unlawful directive to all television and radio stations not to use Twitter[Read More…]
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Buhari wants pressure mounted on the military leadership in Mali
Estimated Reading Time: 3President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday called on West African leaders to exert pressure on the military leadership in Mali to ensure that the transition process in the country is not aborted. He made the call in his statement delivered at the 59th Ordinary session of the Authority[Read More…]
Media NGOs say proposed amendment to Press Council Act, threats to Media Freedom
Estimated Reading Time: 3FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday June 18, 2021 A consortium of four media development and media freedom organizations have opposed the proposed amendment of the Nigerian Press Council Act by the National Assembly saying the measures contained in the amendment Bill seek to make the Government the arbiter[Read More…]
Buhari jets to Ghana Saturday for ECOWAS Summit
Estimated Reading Time: 2President Muhammadu Buhari will take part in the 59th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana on Saturday, June 19, 2021. A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement issued Friday, said President Buhari will leave Abuja Saturday to[Read More…]
Zambia’s Kaunda demise, end of an era of African leaders who fought colonialism – Obasanjo says
Estimated Reading Time: 2Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo says the death of Zambia’s founding father and long-term leader, Kenneth Kaunda, has ended a long list of African leaders who fought colonialism and took over the reins of power at independence. Obasanjo in a statement he issued on Thursday evening, said[Read More…]
UmuAka in Imo State of Nigeria Named Finalist in Bloomberg Philanthropies 2021 Global Mayors Challenge
Estimated Reading Time: 3UmuAka, Nigeria, 16 June , 2021 – UmuAka is one of 50 Champion Cities selected today as finalists in the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, a global innovation competition that identifies and accelerates the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These 50[Read More…]
Buhari says the late Zambian leader, Kenneth Kaunda was loved by his people
Estimated Reading Time: 1President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday paid glowing tributes to the late Zambian leader and one of Africa’s liberation fighters, Kenneth Kaunda. Zambia’s first president who ruled for 27 years was confirmed dead following a battle with pneumonia. He was aged 27. In a statement issued by Garba[Read More…]
Sanwo-Olu, Nasir el-rufai, Others inaugurated to address cases of Police brutality in Nigeria
Estimated Reading Time: 4 As judicial panels set up by State Governors to resolve issues of police brutality and related concerns across the country round up their assignments, the National Economic Council (NEC) is set to convene a special session to review reports of the panels that have now started[Read More…]
IMF says Nigeria’s economy is recovering after COVID-19 pandemic
Estimated Reading Time: 3The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the Nigerian economy has started gradual recovery from the negative effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic A statement issued by Ms. Rahman on Thursday after an IMF team led by Ms. Jesmin Rahman held virtual meetings with the federal government from[Read More…]
Newspaper Proprietors Association protests exclusion from public hearing on Nigerian Press Council bill
Estimated Reading Time: 2The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), has expressed displeasure over its exclusion from today Thursday’s public hearing on the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) Amendment Bill at the National Assembly. Describing the development as shocking, NPAN contended that as a stakeholder in the media industry, it was[Read More…]
