CNN Report On #EndSARS Is One- Sided, Military Fired Blank Bullets Into The Air- Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said the CNN investigative report on the Lekki shootings of October 20 was one-sided and not balanced. Mohammed on Thursday in a press briefing in Abuja described the report as one-dimensional and lacking in balance. Read full text below Good morning gentlemen, and welcome to this press […]
Kaduna State and its agriculture APPEALS
By Mainasara Aminu Gov El-Rufai It is clear that Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai is working literally like a big bull-dozer to revitalize Kaduna State in many respects. Some aspects – such as unprecedented urban renewal works and comprehensive rehabilitation of schools and hospitals – stand out because they are happening in public glare. A […]
How Abdulmutallab nearly cost Obama second term
Former American President Barack Obama in his memoir, A Promised Land, the first volume of his memoirs revealed how opposition figures tried to use the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab against his re-election bid in 2012. Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian popularly referred to as “underwear bomber”, in reference to his attempt to bomb an American airline […]
Buhari, National Security Council meet
President Muhammadu Buhari is at the moment presiding over the National Security Council (NSC) meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The quarterly meeting has some ministers, security chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies in attendance. The meeting was attended by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; Chief […]
#EndSARS: Police take over Afrika Shrine
The police have restricted movement in and out of the Afrika Shrine. It was learnt that the restriction of movement was meant to prevent a meeting of #EndSARS from taking place there. Seun Kuti had sent out flyers announcing that a meeting on lessons learnt from #EndSARS protests is to hold there. However, the police […]
Femi Adesina And The Parable of The Tolerant Father
By Achike Chude Re: Femi Adesina’s ‘We Have Not Many Fathers’ And so, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman says that we were lucky that the other side of the president that is frightening, fearful, and vicious was not manifested, otherwise ears would have tingled and tongues wagged about the calamities that would have befallen us lesser […]
#EndSARS: Youth Representatives End Boycott, Rejoin Lagos Panel
The two youth representatives of the Lagos judicial panel of inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS , Temitope Majekodunmi and Olorunrinu Oduala have resumed sitting with the rest of the panel on Saturday. Majekodunmi and Oduala had boycotted the panel last week to protest against the freezing of bank account of #EndSARS promoters by […]
Chimamanda wins ‘Winner of Winners’ Women Prize
By Olayinka Oyegbile Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction known as ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. The novel was chosen by the reading public among all the books that have won the prize in the past as part of the Prize’s 25th […]
Premium Times as Nigeria’s Conscience
Olorunyomi (left), Mojeed, Falola and Ibekwe. By Toyin Falola Dapo Olorunyomi Ọkùnrin wà Ọkùnrin wò Ọkùnrin wà wà wò wò Musikulu Mojeed Akọni ńlá Ọkùnrin ogun Nicholas Ibekwe Chukwu ńlá bí Ìrókò I woke up that very morning still brooding on the tragedy that occurred […]
2face, Sam Adeyemi, Kanu, Falz, Davido, Others Sued For Promoting #EndSARS Protest
Kenechukwu Okeke, a human rights activists, has filed criminal proceedings before a magistrate court in Abuja against Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia popularly known as 2baba, Folarin Falana, Afrobeat singer, better known as Falz , Nigerian footballer, Kanu Nwankwo and others for promoting the #EndSARS protests Last October, thousands of youths under the #EndSARS movement, took […]
