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  First Lady Aisha Buhari has deactivated her Twitter account amid outrage over the arrest of Aminu Adamu. The final year student of Environmental Management and Toxicology at the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, was taken from the campus on November 8. The 23-year-old is being detained without trial for his Twitter post on the President’s wife. “Su mama anchi kudin talkawa ankoshi” (The mother has got fatter by eating masses’ money), he tweeted in June. The undergraduate made the comment four months into the eight-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Nigerians continue to drag Aisha, the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS)  over Aminu’s fate . Their anger grew after the revelation that her Aide-De-Camp, Usman Shugaba, allegedly coordinated the youth’s arrest and torture. Daily Nigerian reported that Aisha allegedly supervised the beating of Aminu and Zainab Kassim (her former social media aide). According to Jar'afar, Aminu wa...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) North-west chapter, on Tuesday issued a two-day ultimatum to the wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, to ‘release’ a student, Aminu Adamu a final year student of Federal University, Dutse, in Jigawa State, who was arrested for allegedly ‘trolling’ her on Twitter. Aminu on June 9, tweeted a photo of Mrs Buhari with caption in Hausa which translates to: ''Mama is feeding fat with poor people's money'' The National Treasury of NANS representing Zone A, Bashir Limanchi, in a press conference in Jigawa said ''the student was arrested by the police on the university’s main campus in Dutse, the state capital, on 8 November at around 12 a.m. The student body condemned the arrest and detention of Aminu Adamu, who is a final year student of Environmental Management and Toxicology who is to starts his final examination on December 6, 2022''. According to the association: “We demand the immediate and ...

Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has on Monday 28 November, alerted Nigerians about a fresh crisis which will surpass all previous ones in Nigerian universities. It therefore called on stakeholders and well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the federal government to pay members across the country their withheld eight months salaries. The chairman of ASUU, University of Ilorin branch, Prof Moyosore Ajao, raised the alarm at a special congress of the local branch held at the university’s main auditorium. Moyosore’s speech was read by the secretary of the union, Dr AbdulGaniyu Olatunji. The lecturers had staged a solidarity rally within the university’s campus before retiring to the auditorium where they addressed newsmen on: ” Casualisation of Intellectual Workers In Nigeria: Prelude To Our Response”. Ajao said, “Gentlemen of the press, let me assure you that our union is resolved to continue to call the attention of the government to its responsibilities despite the obn...

The Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants stowed away on a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria. The large ship had departed from Lagos, Nigeria on November 17, according to ship-tracking website Marine Traffic, and the men were rescued on Monday. They were seen on the Alithini II oil tanker at the Las Palmas port, the men appeared to have symptoms of dehydration and hypothermia and were transferred to hospitals on the island for medical attention, Spain’s Salvamento Marítimo said. Throughout the journey, at least three migrants and refugees had been hanging onto the narrow metallic rudder, with their feet dangling just a few feet above the Atlantic Ocean. Alithini II, which is owned by Gardenia Shiptrade SA, is managed by Athens-based Astra Ship Management, according to public shipping database Equasis. A photograph showing the trio was distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday. T hey are seen perched on the rudder of the oil tanker. The coast guard sa...

Six artefacts looted by British troops 125 years ago from Benin City, in Nigeria, are being repatriated to their place of origin, increasing pressure on the  British  Museum   to follow suit. Recall that in August, the Horniman Museum and Gardens in Southeast London said it would transfer a collection 72 items to Nigerian Government.  According to them, the decision comes after Nigeria's National Commission for Museum  and monuments formally asked for artifacts to be returned earlier this year and following a consultation with community members, artist and school children in Nigeria and the UK, the Museum said. "The evidence is very clear that these objects were acquired through force, and external consultation supported our view that it is both moral and appropriate to return their ownership to Nigeria,'' Eve Salomon, chair of the museum's board of trustees, said in a statement. "The Horniman is pleased to be able to take this step, and we look forward to wor...

When you have  the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate, you can equally save a life.  Kindness and compassion are the answer to everything. Kindness is caring about others and doing things to help make their lives better. It allows us to connect with other people and build meaningful relationships. From the picture above, this act has   boosted feelings of confidence, being in control, happiness and optimism of this baby. If this two-year-old baby was neglected just like the market women that supposed to have compassion for her, this pretty girl would have not been on Twitter today. A good Samaritan, Ben Kingsley Nwashala, who rescued this 2-year-old girl abandoned by the roadside, has shared a heartwarming photo of him and the child. Recall that Ben picked the 2-year-old girl by the roadside at Agbani area of Enugu State on Wednesday night June 15,2022. According to Mr Nwashala, the child was reportedly delivered by a mentally unstable woman wh...

The Nigeria Army on Saturday, 26th November , 2022, conducted free medical service at Afaraukwu community in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. Afaraukwu is the country home of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the services rendered included consultation, laboratory Investigation, eye care, distribution of eyeglasses, and treated mosquito nets. Others were check up on diabetes, blood sugar, and blood pressure, voluntary HIV testing and counselling, provision of free drugs, and malaria prevention awareness, and treatment, among others. The free medical service according to the Commander, 14 Brigade Nigeria Army, Ohafia, Brig. Gen. Adegoke Adetuyi, is part of the Civil -Military Cooperation (CIMIC) programme of the on-going operation Exercise GOLDEN DAWN II. Addressing the newsmen at Afaraukwu Technical School, venue of the service, Brigadier Adetuyi said “the free medical outreach is aimed...

  The operatives of Bauchi State Police command  have arrested a 12-year-old boy for allegedly kidnapping a three-year-old girl. This is contained in a statement issued on Saturday by Police Public Relation Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmad Wakil. He stated that the 12-year-old kidnapped the three-year-old in Magama Gumau community in Toro Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the suspect lured the victim into an isolated area and placed a telephone call to her father demanding N150,000 as ransom for the captive’s release. “A discreet investigation revealed that the suspect lured the victim to an isolated place near a football field at Kara Area of Magama Gumau and called the victim’s father on phone and made the demand. “On hearing the demand, the victim’s father hung up and refused to take subsequent calls. “After a while, the victim’s father called the suspect and identified him through his familiar voice. “He called his name, but the suspect kept mute...

Hon. Ifeanyi Eze (aka Bamanga Tukur), the youth mobilizer and frontline politician People's Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State North Senatorial Zone of Enugu State, has narrated his ordeal in the hands of kidnappers. According to him,“the day was October 20th, 2022; it will remain indelible in mind forever. I kissed my wife and children goodbye in Nsukka, Enugu state to attend a burial ceremony in far away Abia State.    I was in company of others that attended the burial ceremony unknown to us that we were close to death.   We were four occupants in a vehicle from Abia State heading to Nsukka when our abductors who were dressed in military uniforms, numbering about nine,   opened fire on our vehicle and ordered us to halt after raining bullets on the vehicle.   The driver screeched to abrupt halt and before we knew what was happening, they marched us to the bush where we were engaged in a circuitous journey that covered four states in the sout...

OPERATIVES of the Delta State Police Command, have apprehended five fake officials of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC in Asaba, following series of complaints from members of the public. According to the Public Relation Officer, PPRO of the Command DPS Bright Edafe,  “Following series of complaints received from members of the public, especially from the youths, alleging that EFCC operatives usually break into their houses at night, forcefully arrest them, take them away and extort huge sum of money from them, which partly gave rise to the “END EFCC” protest in Ughelli that led to the burning of over thirteen trucks and destruction of properties, the Command did not relent, as intelligence gathered revealed that they may not be EFCC operatives as it is being alleged. “On 16/11/2022, the Command received another complaint from a victim (name withheld) whose house was stormed at night by the syndicate, they gained entrance into the compound by scaling the fence, bro...

The Ind igenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has on Friday 25th of November  disclosed  that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s prophecy of oil discovery in the  northern part of  Nigeria has been actualized. IPOB said the Nigerian government should sanction the actualization of Biafra  with the discovery of oil in the North. On Tuesday, the 22nd of November 2022, Buhari flagged off the commercial  production of crude oil and gas from the $3bn Kolmani Integrated Development  Project. Located along the fields of Gombe and Bauchi, the Kolmani project, with Oil  Prospecting Licence 809 and 810, lies in the Gongola Basin of the Upper Benue  Trough, straddling the two northern states. The field, according to its promoters, will produce about 50,000 barrels  of crude  oil per day and holds over one billion barrels of crude oil reserves,  shooting  up Nigeria’s oil reserves to over 38 billion barrels. Reacting to the development, IPOB spokesma...