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Aisha Buhari deactivates Twitter account following FG ban
Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Friday night, deactivated her Twitter account hours after the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration announced the suspension of the micro-blogging site. “I will be deactivating my Twitter account for now. Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria,” she tweeted at 11:59pm on Friday. Minutes later, the account, which had over one million followers as of June 4, was no longer available on the social media platform.
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Catholic Church bans Mbaka from partaking in political matters
The Catholic church has banned Ejike Mbaka, Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), from commenting on partisan politics. According to the Cable, Callistus Onaga, Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, in a letter to the priest also converted the adoration ministry to a chaplaincy. Following the development, Mbaka will no longer solely oversee the activities of the ministry as its spiritual director, as making it a chaplaincy brings it under the control of the Enugu Diocese and gives the bishop the power to appoint a chaplain to oversee its operations. The bishop further stated that he can appoint any…
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NBA threatens lawsuit against FG over Twitter suspension
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has threatened to sue the Federal government following the decision to suspend Twitter’s operations in Nigeria. In a statement released on Friday evening, June 4, Olumide Apata, NBA president, said the federal government lacked constitutional authority to back its decision. Apata described the government’s action as a “disguised attempt to regulate social media, restrict freedom of speech and shrink civic space”. The statement reads ”The Nigerian Bar Association Assoc has noted with great concern the extraordinary decision of the Federal Government of Nigeria to suspend the operations of Twitter in Nigeria and, by necessary implication,…
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Like Twitter, Facebook deletes Buhari’s controversial message, says it violates Facebook’s community standard against violence
Facebook has joined Twitter in banning President Buhari’s controversial civil war statement. Yesterday, June 4, the Federal Government announced that Twitter has been suspended in Nigeria. This comes days after Twitter deleted the president’s controversial statement and the video where he made the statement. The banned statement made by Buhari reads: “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.” Now, Facebook has followed…
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Nigeria needs a Leader with iron fist like Buhari, Femi Adesina writes
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said Nigeria needs a leader with an iron fist like the current president. He said such a leader will “whip into line” anyone who misbehaves in the country. In his weekly article titled “I suddenly remembered why I fell in love with the President”, Adesina said Buhari’s viral statement alluding to the Nigerian civil war, while warning that trouble makers in the country “will receive the shock of their lives”, shouldn’t be interpreted as a genocidal statement. He said the message the President was trying to pass across was that even though every region has…
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Nigeria needs a leader with iron fist like Buhari – Femi Adesina
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said Nigeria needs a leader with an iron fist like President Buhari. Adesina in his weekly article titled “I suddenly remembered why I fell in love with the President” noted that such a leader will “whip into line” anyone who misbehaves in the country. He said Buhari’s viral statement alluding to the Nigerian civil war, while warning that trouble makers in the country “will receive the shock of their lives”, shouldn’t be interpreted as a genocidal statement. Adesina wrote in his article published today, June 4:…
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Nobody should belong to IPOB, we will deal with them – IGP Alkali Baba warns
The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has said that nobody is expected to be a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, because it has been proscribed and is proned to destruction. Speaking in Abuja after he was confirmed by the police council on Friday, he said that the government was working towards addressing the issue of kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry and cultism in the north-central, north-west and south-west. “There are peculiarities, like I said before, in the south-east and south-south, issue of the secessionist agenda championed by IPOB. I also talked about terrorism and religious bigotry in the…
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FG suspends Twitter Operation in Nigeria
The federal government has suspended the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the indefinite suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. He noted the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence. The minister said the federal government has also directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria.
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Breaking: Police Council confirms Baba as IGP
The Police Council on Friday confirmed the appointment of Alkali Usman Baba as the substantive Inspector General of Police. The Police Council meeting was presided by President Muhammadu Buhari at the First Lady’s Conference Room, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, said the appointment of Baba as IGP was unanimously confirmed. This follows Alkali’s appointment by the President on the 6th of April. The minister said Buhari directed the IGP to ensure insecurity in the country is brought to the barest minimum.
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We have reduced kidnapping and banditry with NIN – Isa Pantami
The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has claimed that there has been a reduction in banditry and kidnapping since his office introduced the policy compelling Nigerians to obtain a National Identification Number. Pantami made the claim in Abuja on Thursday, June 3, while rendering an account of his stewardship since assuming office, in 2019. He however noted that the more policies are established to make the system effective, the more criminals come up with strategies to compromise those policies. “When I was assigned to supervise the sector on 24, August 2019, unregistered, and partial registered sims…
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Stop renouncing your citizenship, FG appeals to youths
The Federal Government has decried the rate at which Nigerians youths renounce their citizenship in pursuit of greener pasture. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, said the trend was worrisome and counterproductive. Aregbesola speaking during the Ministerial Alignment Meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Deliverables for Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government, assured that the Federal government would put mechanism in place that would keep young Nigerians busy in productive activities. He urged them to stop renouncing their citizenship. A statement by Mr Towoju Raphael on behalf of the Director of Press in the Ministry, Mrs Lere- Adams,…
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To stop abductions, sponsor factional bandits, Gumi tells FG
Islamic cleric, Sheik Gumi has advised the Federal Government to support Bandit splinter groups in order to stop abduction. Gumi in an interview with ThePunch gave an instance with the killing of Boko Haram Leader, Shekau who he said was defeated by a splinter group. He further noted that the only way to defeat these criminals elements is by using the bad ones to fight the worse ones and the good ones to fight the bad ones. He said there are many who have submitted themselves to form their splinter groups adding hat all they need is the support from…
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