Instagram’s Threads app, a text-based social media platform touted to become Twitter’s latest rival, has been launched and now available to users in more than 100 countries. Threads will function similarly to Twitter, with text-based posts that can be liked, commented on, and shared, according to examples of screenshots on the App Store listing. A…
Gabriel Jesus said he decided to leave Manchester City when head coach, Pep Guardiola, made him cry after leaving him out of the starting lineup in a Champions League game. The Brazilian international worked under Guardiola for five years at the Etihad Stadium before joining Arsenal last summer, a move he said made him feel…
Federal High Court in Abuja has granted suspended DCP Abba Kyari N50 million bail in a charge in which he and two of his siblings were accused of failing to declare assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. NDLEA had filed the 24-count charge against Kyari and his brothers — Mohammed Baba Kyari…
Niger Delta activist, Asari Dokubo has questioned the age of the candidate of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, Mmesoma Ejikeme. Dokubo wonders why Mmesoma wrote JAMB at age 19 when his children completed their secondary school education at 15 and 16 years respectively. Dokubo noted that Mmesoma’s age might have been altered before she…
The Osun State House of Assembly has revealed that it will make public the names of the nominees for the cabinet of Governor Ademola Adeleke. The Director of Information and Public Relations of the Assembly, Laide Lawal, made the declaration in a statement issued on Thursday. Lawal said the list would be unveiled to the…
The Independent NationBREAKING: INEC Files Six-count Charge Against Suspended Adamawa RECal Electoral Commission (INEC) has filed a six-count charge against the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa state, Hudu Yunusa-Ari. The charges were filed at the high court in Yola, the state capital on Thursday, July 6. INEC disclosed that its action came after…
The attention of the Osun state government has been drawn to a press conference by a pressure group within the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) and fake news about plans to sack workers. We affirm that there is neither a plan to sack workers nor any re-introduction of half salary. This was old fake news…
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, says the Nigerian Army under his watch is making efforts to make every region in the country safe and secure. Lagbaja said it was his desire that Nigeria will experience peace in which the citizens can do business even during odd hours. The army chief said this…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed four Executive Orders aimed at curbing arbitrary taxation policies in the country. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the announcement was made by Dele Alake, the Special Adviser to the President, during an interactive session with State House Correspondents. One of the Orders, the Finance Act (Effective Date Variation) Order, defers…
Nigeria has been exempted from the list of 12 African countries that are set to receive the 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine. The Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organisation, and the United Nations Children’s Fund disclosed this in a joint press statement on Wednesdays 66. “Malaria remains one of Africa’s…
