The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced it has suspended Twitter’s operations in the country indefinitely, two days after the platform deleted President Buhari’s tweet. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of ‘undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence’. PRESS RELEASEFG Suspends @Twitter Operations in Nigeria pic.twitter.com/7z5BQ0Mi3U— Fed Min of Info & Cu (@FMICNigeria) June 4, 2021 On Wednesday,…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ruled that it is illegal for the National Assembly Service Commission to fix allowances of lawmakers. In what is being described as a landmark judgment, Justice Chuka Obiozor said only the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission can fix salaries for public officers. BREAKING: The Federal High Court in Lagos in a landmark judgment today ordered the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission to fix the salaries…
Mo Salah is the highest paid African athlete according to Forbes Egyptian soccerstar Mohammed Salah is the only African athlete on Forbes top 50 sports stars of 2021. In a year ravaged by pandemic, the magazine reported that Salah made $37 million between May last year and same month this year. In all, the world’s 50 highest-paid athletes turned in a record-setting year, they made nearly $2.8 billion in 12 months. Despite the fact that…
Aregbesola decried the rate at which young people are renouncing their citizenship of Nigeria. The Nigerian Government has commenced the process to fast-track the operationalisation of the presidential deliverables to strengthen internal security. Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has set up a Task Force for the assignment, Daily Post reports. Rauf Aregbesola Aregbesola in a statement decried the rate at which young people are renouncing their citizenship of Nigeria in other to look for greener…
NYSC corps members The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Brig.Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, has hinted that corps members are part of the national defence policy of Nigeria and can be mobilised for war if need be. Ibrahim said this on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme on Wednesday while reacting to moves to scrap the scheme which has been compulsory for all Nigerians who graduate from tertiary institution before the age of 30. The…