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Sep
08
2025
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By Felix Duru Mbah
‘Anti-Tinubu’ Post: DSS-Sowore Faceoff May End In Court, Agency Gives Activist 7 Days To Delete Tweet

‘Anti-Tinubu’ Post: DSS-Sowore Faceoff May End In Court, Agency Gives Activist 7 Days To Delete Tweet

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The issue between muckraking newspaper publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore, and the Department of State Services (DSS) may land both parties in court in Nigeria. Recall that Sowore, the 2023 presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), took strong exception to a statement made by President Bola Tinubu during his visit to Brazil where the president said corruption in Nigeria had ended under his regime. Apparently believing the statement to be false, Sowore reacted by posting a statement on social media platform X in which he made his feelings known in a tweet. The tweet read: "This criminal @officialABAT actually…
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Sep
08
2025
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Abuja Residents Rain Harsh Words On Wike As Doctors Embark On Third Strike This Year

Abuja Residents Rain Harsh Words On Wike As Doctors Embark On Third Strike This Year

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By Felix Durumbah, Abuja For the third time in nine months, resident doctors employed by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have proceeded on strike. Their umbrella Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) today declared that public hospitals run by FCTA are being shut, unless the Administration,headed by FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, accedes to their demands for better welfare and provision of basic working assets,among others. ARD FCT, president, Dr. George Ebong, disclosed news of the strike while addressing journalists in Abuja, the nation's capital. This year alone, the FCTA has witnessed two previous strikes in that sensitive sector. In January,…
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Sep
08
2025
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How Kaduna Catholic Parish Conceived Idea That Helped Alia Emerge Gov -Group

How Kaduna Catholic Parish Conceived Idea That Helped Alia Emerge Gov -Group

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*Kicks Off Work Towards 2027 By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna A political support group for Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, the Benue Divine Mandate, has visited Saint Peter's Catholic Church, Kaduna, donating the sum of N500,000 to the parish in the process. The body made similar donations to some groups in the church, including the choir. The occasion in church, on Sunday, September 7, was an elaborate thanksgiving celebration by the church's Divine Mandate group under the parish priest, Rev. Fr. Joshua Achie. The parish is renowned among Benue Catholics in Kaduna as the incubation centre where the idea to make…
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Sep
08
2025
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Rewriting Abia State’s Narrative Through Exceptional Governance: The Alex Otti Spectacle.

Rewriting Abia State’s Narrative Through Exceptional Governance: The Alex Otti Spectacle.

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Taking Governance Beyond Partisanship To Performance And Service Delivery I. Rewriting Abia State’s Narrative Through Exceptional Governance: The Alex Otti Spectacle. Since his inauguration on May 29, 2023, as Governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti has made remarkable strides across Infrastructure, Healthcare, Education, Security and Economic Reform. With a technocratic background and a vision for sustainable transformation, his tenure is already being described as “unprecedented” by Traditional Rulers, Political Operators, Civil Society Advocates, Stakeholders and Critics alike. A Vision Rooted in Reform and Delivery. Governance under Dr. Otti is characterised by professionalism, data‑driven decision‐making and transparency. Former Banker turned Governor, he has…
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Sep
08
2025
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CVR: APC National Deputy Women Leader Rallies Taraba Residents

CVR: APC National Deputy Women Leader Rallies Taraba Residents

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By Okerafor Athanasius, Jalingo National Deputy Women Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Hajiya Zainab Abubakar Ibrahim has tasked the people of Taraba State on the need to participate actively in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s ongoing  Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise. Hajia Ibrahim spoke during a one-day sensitization and mobilization program on exercise, at conference hall of C2C Events Centre, Jalingo, the State capital. Disclosing that the exercise has national significance, Ibrahim, who is also the Chairperson, Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Gombe State, said the power of democracy rests not only in the hands of political parties but…
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Sep
08
2025
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Mbah Strengthens Forest Guards, Raises Their Minimum Wage To N80,000

Mbah Strengthens Forest Guards, Raises Their Minimum Wage To N80,000

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By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State governor, Dr Peter Mbah, has approved a comprehensive restructuring of the State Forest Guard as part of his administration’s drive to strengthen security in the state. The reform includes an upward review of salaries of the operatives to a minimum of N80,000 in line with the state's new minimum wage. The governor also ordered a clampdown on illegal logging, directing that anyone caught felling immature trees or engaging in deforestation across the state’s forests, be arrested and prosecuted under existing laws. The measures were announced by the State Commander of the Forest Guard, Dr.…
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Sep
07
2025
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Terrorists Kill 8, Injure 20, Kidnap Many In S/Kaduna LG -Ex-MBF Chair

Terrorists Kill 8, Injure 20, Kidnap Many In S/Kaduna LG -Ex-MBF Chair

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By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Relative calm in southern part of Kaduna State was punctured today (Sunday, September 7) as gunmen, suspected to be terrorists, struck in Kachia Local Government Area (LGA), killing eight persons, injuring 20 and kidnapping several others. The incident reportedly occurred in the morning in Wake village of the LGA. These were contained in a statement today by the former Chairman, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Kaduna State branch, Comrade Isaac Tanko. According to him, "8 were killed, 20 injured while several persons were kidnapped." Lamenting the apparent increasing return of bloodletting in Southern Kaduna, he stated: "It's…
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Sep
07
2025
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Minimum Wage: N70,000 Too Small Now, We Demand More –NLC

Minimum Wage: N70,000 Too Small Now, We Demand More –NLC

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Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Federal Government (FG) workers have demanded an urgent review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current N70,000 is no longer sustainable. They made the demand following the bold steps taken by several states across the country to increase the minimum wage of their workers above the N70,000 benchmark, in response to the prevailing economic realities. The labour unions and workers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews contended that in the face of galloping inflation, rising costs of food, transportation, housing, and other essential services, the N70,000 minimum…
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Sep
07
2025
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I Will Not Delete ‘Anti-Tinubu’ Tweet -Sowore Vows, As Lawyer Blasts DSS

I Will Not Delete ‘Anti-Tinubu’ Tweet -Sowore Vows, As Lawyer Blasts DSS

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*Secret Police Lacks Constitutional Right To Censor Nigerians Or Procure Same Via Platforms -Lawyer *Tomekun Urges X To Disregard DSS' Letter, Not Aid, Abet State Repression By our reporter Tope Tomekun, lawyer to activist and 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, today disclosed that US-based social media platform, X.com, has notified his client (Sowore) of the request by Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS) that the firm should deactivate the activist's tweet against President Bola Tinubu. Sowore himself has vowed never to delete the alleged offensive post. On his social media platform, he wrote: "This morning, X (formerly Twitter) officially contacted…
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Sep
07
2025
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Tinubu’s Brazil Talk: Sowore Responds Strongly To DSS’ Warning To X

Tinubu’s Brazil Talk: Sowore Responds Strongly To DSS’ Warning To X

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Presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore, today responded to a letter by Department of State Services (DSS) to US-based X.com demanding that the firm pull down within 24 hours a tweet by Sowore which allegedly disparaged President Bola Tinubu. The tweet had labelled Tinubu in a language which DSS protested against, over the President's pronouncement during his Brazil visit that his administration had eliminated corruption in Nigeria --a statement Sowore stated was false. In a strongly-worded statement posted on his Facebook page, Sowore described the DSS move as “a national disgrace, an assault on institutions,…
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