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Opinion Article President Muhammadu Buhari Last week saw the Carnival-like celebration of the international anti-corruption and human rights day in Nigeria. The significance behind marking international days should be for us to recounts the level of success we have achieved or retardation we have faced in achieving the objectives that set those days aside from others. While the finger points squarely at the politicians for being the primary perpetrators of corruption, the Nigerian masses are crying loud for their fundamental human rights being short-lived by the government and her mecinaries. Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker House of Representatives The 9th National Assembly of Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila seem to be fast and furious when it comes to initiating and passing bills. The regulation of the Social Media bill which is intended by  the sponsor to curb the peddling of fake news and hate speech have not only cau...

Breaking News Abuja Omoyele Sowore, former Presidential aspiration The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday 5 December, 2019, gave the Department of State Service, DSS  24 hours ultimatum to release the Publisher of Online News Media, Sahara Reporters, and former Presidential aspirant in the 2019 General elections Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare being held in detention. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu gave the order at the scheduled commencement of the defendants' trial on charges of treasonable felony against them by the Federal government. The judge noted after she signed the warrants for the release of the defendants from custody, and same was served on the defendants, and the DSS had no justifiable reason to continue to hold them in custody . The prosecuting counsel, Hassan Liman (SAN), had insisted that the DSS had not obeyed the court order for their release because the DSS had no power to constitute itself into a parallel court. The judge adjourn...

News Imediate past Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State  Following the recent letter from the former governor of Zamfara state Abubakar Yari demanding for his pension benefits from the current administration, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has asked him to immediately refund to the coffers of the Zamfara State Government  what it called the illegal pension and welfare benefits he had collected since leaving office. The President of the NLC, comrade Ayuba Wabba made the call in a statement, a copy of which was made available to newsmen. It can be recalled that the former governor, had claimed in a letter dated 17th October 2019 to Zamfara State government that his up keep allowances of “ten million (10,000,000) Naira monthly had been stopped. The NLC leader berated Yari, noting that “Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar who is now occupying the office of the “former Governor of Zamfara State” seems to have forgotten how he scuttled the ...

News The National Youth Service Corps has arrested a 200-level student who allegedly obtained a fake degree certificate and was undergoing the orientation exercise at the Zamfara State camp. It  was gathered that the NYSC last Friday apprehended the student, identified only as Rose, who was a 200-level Journalism undergraduate at a university in Benin Republic. The NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, confirmed the arrest of the student to newsmen. He said the Benin Republic university wrote to the scheme when its officials discovered her on the social media, posting her photographs in the NYSC uniform in the Zamfara State camp. She was undergoing the Batch C Stream 1 orientation course before she was arrested. The DG noted that the student had been brought to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and handed over to officials of the Department of State Services DSS for further investigations. Brig. Gen Ibrahim warned that the NYSC would clamp down on f...