Day: October 1, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, said he had directed a conditional lifting of the ban placed on the operations of the micro blogging site, Twitter, in Nigeria in June. Buhari disclosed this in his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians to mark the nation’s 61st independence. He described the social media as a very useful platform but regretted that some users have misused the platform to organise, coordinate, and execute criminal activities, propagate fake news, and promote ethnic and religious sentiments. The President said, “Social media is a very useful platform that…

Dapo Abiodun, Ogun State Governor, yesterday signed the anti-open grazing bill into law. Abiodun, who assented to the bill during a security council meeting in the State Secretariat at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, urged the security agencies to swing immediately into action and enforce the law. The signing of the anti-open grazing law by the governor followed the decision of the Southern Governors’ Forum in August, setting the September deadline to pass the law across the states. The Ogun State House of Assembly had on July 8, 2021, passed the bill. The…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said a serving member of the National Assembly is among those financing the secessionist movements in the country. Buhari made the claim in his nationwide broadcast to mark Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary. Africa’s largest economy is facing renewed calls for self-determination in the southeast and southwest regions. Agitators blamed the Buhari administration for the escalating tension and insecurity in the country. Nnamdi Kanu’s Indigenous People of Biafra has upped its push for independence of the Southeast from Nigeria with an attendant uptick in violence in…