Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has blamed the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, for the losses the country incurred during last year’s EndSARS protest. Mohammed said this when he appeared on a Radio Nigeria call-in programme in Abuja today June 14. “If you ask people to donate money via bitcoins for EndSARS …
Twitter might have underestimated the influence of Nigeria’s ban on its operations as India has now told the company it has one last chance to comply with the county’s IT rules, or face ‘unintended consequences’ according to a copy of an official letter seen by Reuters. Last week, Twitter got into trouble with the Nigerian …
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American news publication, ForeignPolicy.com has assessed Nigeria’s situation under President Muhammadu Buhari and declared the country “a failed state”. In an opinion piece co-authored by John Cambell, a former American ambassador to Nigeria the influential magazine writes:“Nigeria has long teetered on the precipice of failure. But now, unable to keep its citizens safe… Nigeria has …
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Another week, another set of devastating headlines for Nigeria. It would be upsetting enough to read some of these stories in the same year. But just look at what we’ve had to read about in the last seven days. The kidnapping of “at least” two hundred students in Tegina – taking the number of children …
Prof. Wole Soyinka – the Nobel Laureate has again called for the decentralization and restructuring of Nigeria as a long-term solution to some of the country’s challenges, The Punch Newspaper reports. Soyinka made the call while speaking at the 2021 Obafemi Awolowo Lecture titled, ‘Whither Nigeria?’ organized by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation. He said: “There …
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is a complex man and his presidency, even more complex. to understand the man we have constructed his family, military career, and political journey into 28 unbelievable facts every Nigerian should know about their president. Age Let’s start with Muhammadu Buhari’s age, he is 75 years old, he was born on …
Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 43 farmers in the Zamarmari area of Jere local government area of Borno state. The farmers were killed at Kwashabe village, about 20 kilometers north of Maiduguri, Borno capital. The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Kwashabe, Nasiru Usman, one …
The Nigeria Youth Investment Fund is a N75 billion government initiative designed to boost the Nigerian economy through leverage and access to finance for young people between the ages of 18 and 35. The fund hopes to serve as a catalyst to unleash the potential of the youth and enable many of them to build …
The Survival Fund is a scheme created by the federal government of Nigeria to provide support to over half a million medium and small-scale enterprises MSMEs in meeting their payroll objectives. The scheme became important in light of the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic – thus, providing support to vulnerable MSMEs in …
Nigeria’s federal government is currently in court fighting a lawsuit filed by Malcolm Omirhobo, a Lagos based lawyer, seeking the removal of Arabic scripts from the country’s Naira banknotes because they “represent Islam”. This has generated a lot of controversies and is being debated in religious and political contexts. Here are five reasons why …
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