Gabon president, Brice Oligui Nguema Gabon has announced the suspension of social media platforms, citing the “spread of false information”, “cyberbullying” and the “unauthorised disclosure of personal data.” Gabon’s media regulator on Tuesday announced the suspension of social media platforms “until further notice”, blaming content posted online for stoking conflict and division in society. The…
Data has shown that the number of Deposit Money Bank branches across the country fell from 5,373 in 2023 to 5,144 in 2024, even as electronic payments, particularly through PoS channels, surged sharply. The statistics cover branches and cash centres of commercial, merchant and non-interest banks across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory….
Three weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro local government area of Niger state, a notorious supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in the area, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani (alias Gamboli) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at his hideout. Spokesman of anti-narcotics…
Bayelsa State Deputy Governor Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo has died at the age of 60. Ewhrudjakpo was said to have died after he collapsed in his office in Yenagoa. He was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in the state capital on Thursday, December 11, 2025. The late deputy governor reportedly slumped in his office about…
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has reacted to claims suggesting that he plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP. The governor, through a statement released by his media aide, Mukhtar Gidado on Wednesday, made it clear that the reports were completely untrue and crafted only to mislead…
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new dimension on Tuesday as a faction loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nysom Wike, expelled Oyo state Governor, Seyi Makinde, Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed, newly elected chairman, Kabiru Turaki, Chief Bode George and others. The factional National Executive Committee (NEC)…
Gov. Kefas The Special Adviser to the Taraba State Governor on Political Matters and Special Duties, Josiah Kente, has said that calls for Governor Agbu Kefas to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) would enhance development and progress in the state. Kente, in a statement issued in Jalingo, the state capital, said Governor Kefas’s possible…
BY TONY ERHA It was in October, a semi-summer-month and twilight of the year that ushers in the chilling and extreme winter. A nonagenarian woman gave me a friendly smile that revealed cheeky dimples. As I bowed respectfully to her ripened age, she offered a leathery hand for a handshake, which I received warmly, returning…
The Imo State Police Command has summoned the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, over allegations bordering on criminal invasion, forgery, and wilful destruction of property. In a letter dated October 16, 2025, and jointly signed by ASP John Ebute, ASP Eze Jet, and…
Former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, recently pardoned by President Bola Tinubu over a $3m bribe extortion case has opened up about his ordeal behind bars — and the painful realisation that key voices in the Kwankwasiyya movement abandoned him when he needed them the most. Lawan was among 175 individuals granted presidential clemency…
