Ayara Oluwaseun

• Platform pleased to return to Nigeria as telcos open network gateways• SERAP seeks compensation for affected Nigerians With the lifting of the seven months ban on micro blogging platform, Twitter, yesterday, by the Federal Government, many government agencies, parastatals, corporate Nigeria and users returned to the platform amid intensified calls for accountability and civic […]

APC leaders endorse Ondo commissioner’s bid for Reps A former Ekiti State Commissioner for Public Utilities, Bamidele Faparusi, has advised Governor Kayode Fayemi to rein in some of his aides.This followed reports that some loyalists of the governor were allegedly coercing some appointees to back a particular aspirant in the January 27 All Progressives Congress

It is a widely known fact that every mature human person desires in his heart and mind to make the world a better place than he met it – at least for himself, his family and his immediate environment. This is in the order of nature and of God (no matter what anybody construes God

The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has disagreed with the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, the Ijaw National Congress and some civil rights groups over the ownership of crude oil in the Niger Delta. The ACF spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe, in an interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday supported the position of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said stories about sexual harassment, extortion and plagiarism emanating from the campuses of universities and other higher institutions are totally unacceptable. The President also charged university-based unions to work together to ensure that the challenges were rectified. Buhari was quoted to have said these in the latest

Osun State House of Assembly on Sunday said it has commenced a probe into the audit query issued by the Office of the State Auditor General to the Bursar of Osun State College of Education, Ila, Olanrewaju Oyedeji. The query signed by the State Auditor General, Folorunsho Adesina, had advised the state government to declare

“If everything is for sale, including the courts and the police, trust evaporates, credit vanishes and business withers.” Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, p 257 (2016) It is no longer news that Nigeria’s courts have normalized corruption and abuse of power. They have also put the corruption of courts and

After senators’ grandstanding last year to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the 2010 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021, both chambers have indicated they are now ready to rework the bill, a member of the House iof Representatives, Ossai Nicholas Ossai, has said. Senate President Ahmad Lawan, had last year, told Nigerians that they wiould

According to him, the troops also recovered an AK-47 rifle, a truck, two motorcycles, four empty magazines and rounds of ammunition among others. NORTHERN governors have expressed appreciation over the Federal Government’s approval to deploy the newly acquired Super Tucano fighter jets against bandits in parts of the country. Chairman of the Northern States Governors’

Crisis is brewing at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, as the university’s staff unions have complained against the activities of Special Intervention Team (SIT) that was recently set up by the state government to perform the full functions of the Governing Council of the university. In separate statements released to newsmen yesterday in Benin