The Director General (DG) of Voice Of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has said that Femi Fani-kayode, the former Aviation Minister and member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, joined the ruling party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some of his comments especially on hate speech and ethnic profiling are not the views of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, or the party. The DG who...

Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says plans are underway to activate sit-at-home in Lagos state. Disclosing this in a tweet on Tuesday, the controversial IPOB activist said the sit-at-home was in reaction to the recent attacks on Igbos of the South East region in Lagos. His tweet reads, “I have just watched another Igbo Biafran market in Lagos being burnt down in Balogun, Lagos today, and I am...

Habeeb Okikiola, the Nigerian singer known as Portable, trended on social media yesterday over his encounter with some police officers who stormed his ‘office’ to arrest him. The incident, captured live on Portable’s Instagram page, saw him challenging the authority of the policemen as they invaded his bar in Ogun state and attempted to take him away. The singer rebuffed the efforts of the police to arrest him, claiming that he works for the ruling...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, has expressed concern over cyberspace threats and attacks, saying cyberattacks have increased by over 300 percent in Africa. Pantami, while declaring open a two-day workshop organized by his ministry in partnership with World Bank for cybersecurity stakeholders at the Digital Economy Complex, Mbora, Abuja, said the workshop is to fine-tune and update the skills of stakeholders to enable them to tackle cybersecurity challenges effectively, stated...

Following the recently conducted selection process, President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of six new federal permanent secretaries in the federal civil service. Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation made this known on Wednesday in Abuja. According to Yemi-Esan, the appointed permanent secretaries and their states of origin, are as follows: Mahmud   Adamu Kambari (Borno), Esuabana Nko Asanye A. (Cross River), Lamuwa Adamu Ibrahim (Gombe), Yakubu Adam Kofar-Mata (Kano), Oloruntola...

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has groaned its members are no longer given accomodation in all the communities in Ayamelum local government area of Anambra State. The Association called on the State Governor, Charles Soludo, to urgently intervene in the situation for the sake of peace and oneness. The leader of the association in the South-East zone, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, who disclosed this while speaking to Journalists shortly after attending governor...