NCC approves MTN, Airtel for 3.5G spectrum auction for deployment of 5G networks

The Nigerian Communications Commission has announced that three telecoms companies have qualified as approved bidders of the forthcoming 3.5 gigahertz spectrum auction for the deployment of Fifth-generation networks in the country. They include MTN Nigeria Plc., Mafab Communications Limited, and Airtel Networks Limited. In a statement signed by the Director Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde […]

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Fayemi asks 2022 governorship aspirants in government to resign

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has asked governorship aspirants who are still in the state’s civil service to resign their positions by December 18. The aspirant are those wishing to contest the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress where the party’s candidate will be picked for the 2022 governorship election. The directive is contained […]

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Why we found #EndSARS panel’s report unreliable – Lagos AG

Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) • Adegboruwa kicks, says white paper full of inaccuracies, cover ups • HURIWA, George, others blast Sanwo-Olu over white paper The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), yesterday, explained that many contradictions in the report of the state’s judicial panel on police brutality made the findings of […]

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Court adjourns Nnamdi Kanu’s trial to Jan 18, 2022

File photo The ongoing trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been adjourned to 18th January 2022. The presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja at Thursday’s resumed hearing, adjourned the trial to next year following the abridgment of time granted by […]

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Nigeria’s ex-Senate president Joseph Wayas dies in London

Second Republic Senate President Joseph Wayas, died on Thursday in a London hospital after a protracted illness at 80. Born in Basang, Obudu, Cross River State on May 21, 1941, he had his secondary school education at Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha before he went to the United Kingdom where he studied at the Higher […]

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FG enforces COVID-19 jabs, workers plead for time

Civil servants who were yet to be vaccinated locked out as December 1 enforcement order starts at the office of the Head of Service of the Federation in Abuja… yesterday. Photo: Philip Ojisua • ASCSN wants April date for unvaccinated workers’ lockout • NCDC confirms three cases of Omicron in Nigeria • Don’t panic, vaccines […]

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Court orders DSS to allow Nnamdi Kanu maximum comfort, medical attention

A file photo of Nnamdi Kanu in court during his trial The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to allow the leader of the proscribed IPOB group, Nnamdi Kanu to have maximum possible comfort while in their custody. The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako who gave the […]

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Nnamdi Kanu absent as court hears his application to quash charge

Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was on Thursday, absent, as the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, commenced hearing on an application he filed to quash the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. Kanu, in the application he filed through his team of lawyers led […]

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Exert pressure on Buhari to sign amended Electoral Act, Wike charges media

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has charged the media to exert pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the amended Electoral Act. The Governor said the public needed enlightenment on why there should be the electronic transmission of election results to save the nation’s democracy. Wike, according to a statement by his Special Assistant, Media, […]

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