Can you imagine a pre-dawn raid on the homes of every senior figure in the Guardian? The editor-in-chief being arrested, the CEO, four columnists, three solicitors, a reporter and a cartoonist? That is precisely what happened to my newspaper last October. I was the editor-in-chief of Turkey’s
A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a N1billlion fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu had sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over his detention by the former in […]
A 17-year-old Boko Haram suspect (name withheld) said he was forced to kill 13 people in Chikingudu forest in Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State when he was held captive for three years by the insurgents. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspect was arrested by operatives of the Borno State Command […]
A firm, Suburban Fiber Company Limited, popularly known as Legend has deployed a municipal Wi-Fi network in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to join over 100 cities across the world. Wi-Fi hotspots connected through a type of wired or wireless backhaul system using a cluster of Wireless Access Points (APs). A statement signed Tuesday in […]
The Senate on Tuesday put on hold the screening of the 27 Commissioners proposed for the Independent National Electoral Commission by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate took the action on Tuesday. It demanded the removal of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, as condition for the screening. It said […]
The Speaker House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday, gave a Friday deadline to committees yet to submit the report of 2017 budget to the Committee on Appropriation to do so. Dogara gave the deadline at plenary and said that there was the urgent need for the House to conclude work on the 2017 […]








