says Nigerians can’t be muzzled NUJ vows to resist hate speech bill, other obnoxious laws Former Military President, Gen Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (rtd) has cautioned those trying to gag the press through the hate speech bill to desist declaring that“Nigerians cannot be muzzled.” He stated this in Minna, Niger State on Wednesday while receiving the […]
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By Banji Ayoola “I want to commend and congratulate the Governing Council and Management of the Polytechnic for sharing and executing the vision of Government. With what I have seen today, I confirm that the pioneer leadership of this promising institution has laid a very solid academic, physical and infrastructural foundation for this Polytechnic. I […]
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By Banji Ayoola It is abominable and immoral to go out with our departed friend’s wife or husband; to cast furtive glances at her or him; to even think of seducing her or him; to let our dirty thoughts hover around her or him; to harass or molest, or defile her or him with seductive, […]
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Peoples Democratic Party candidate for Kogi West senatorial election, Dino Melaye, has called for the postponement of the supplementary election scheduled for November 30. Melaye made the call while addressing newsmen at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja on Wednesday, where he had gone to submit another petition on the election. […]
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President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, has constituted Governorship and House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal to handle petitions from the November 16 Kogi governorship election. This was disclosed in a statement signed by secretary of the tribunal, Mr. Umar Abubakar; and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lokoja. […]
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• Why forensic audit is crucial, by Akpabio• Lawmakers may pass appropriation bill next week The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) became messier yesterday as the Senate resolved to await the inauguration of the board members before working on the commission’s 2019 and 2020 budgets proposal as submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari. […]
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A coalition of 47 organisations has urged African countries contemplating fake news and hate speech laws including Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon and The Gambia to drop policies and legislations that could affect their citizen’s freedom of opinion and expression. “We hereby call on the respective policy-making institutions and agencies in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Nigeria, and other […]
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By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Police Commissioner, CP, Mr Undie Adie has directed all Divisional Police Officers, DPOs, in the state to ensure that no incident of violence or insecurity is recorded in their respective areas of jurisdiction during the forthcoming Yuletide celebrations. The DPOs are to ensure adequate motorised visibility patrol statewide to ward […]
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Authorities of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, have expelled six students who who brutalised a female colleague, Boluwatife Adekunle, outside the campus of the institution few weeks ago. They were reported to have beaten Boluwatife black and blue following an allegation that she gossiped about one of them at a hostel outside […]
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• Orders police to arrest, prosecute PDP women leader’s killers• Reps probe violence as official admits crisis was beyond INEC The Senate has condemned the violence that rocked the November 16, 2019 governorship elections in Kogi And Bayelsa states. Without recourse to party leanings, the upper legislative chamber, called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed […]
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