A leading civil society organization, Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has reminded the federal government that Twitter and other social media platforms belong to the Information Communications sector which contributed

Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmad Lawan has directed the committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to screen Lauretta Onochie, a staunch member of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and an

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club have appointed former Benfica boss Bruno Lage as their new manager. Lage was previously assistant to Carlos Carvalhal at Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea before joining Benfica, where

Reports suggest the supposed big six English clubs that secretly agreed to play in a European Super League (ESL) will pay just over £20 million to draw a line under their ensuing row

A former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Bamako on Tuesday with a delegation and — once again, as the mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Multiple websites went offline briefly across the globe Tuesday after an apparent outage at the cloud service company Fastly, and there were reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched

Gunmen have killed at least 132 people in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, the government said, as the United Nations chief condemned “the heinous attack” and called on countries to step

Roger Federer says he may pull out of the French Open if there is too much risk to his knee, and to his Wimbledon prospects, from playing on. The Swiss

Senegal could begin producing COVID-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgian biotech group Univercells aimed at boosting Africa’s drug-manufacturing ambitions, a source involved in funding the project told

The US will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said Sunday, after

Popular Nigerian Christian preacher Temitope Balogun Joshua has died, his church said in a statement on Sunday morning. TB Joshua died on Saturday, June 5, a few days to his

Some diplomatic missions in the country have condemned the Nigerian government’s ban of Twitter, insisting that free expression and access to information are the pillars of democracy. A statement jointly

The Nigerian Presidency has defended its suspension of Twitter operations in the country and says it is not a knee-jerk reaction to the microblogging platform’s preposterous deletion of President Muhammadu

Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says Twitter’s suspension will serve as a positive trigger to unleash the creative potentials of young Nigerians in the global digital space. The party

The United States Government has reacted to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s indefinite suspension of Twitter operations in the country describing it as a poor message to investors and undermines citizens fundamental

American microblogging and social networking service, Twitter says it’s working to restore access for all Nigerians who rely on social media site to communicate and connect with the world. The

The Nigerian government has ordered the prosecution of citizens who bypass the country’s firewall and continue the use of Twitter despite the ban in the country. The West African country’s

Editors in Nigeria have called on the federal government to immediately reconsider the suspension of operations of Twitter as the move projects the Nigerian government as a dictatorship. The editors under

In a move that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help them cope with the aftermath of COVID-19, the Group of Seven large advanced economies agreed to back

Governor of Nigeria’s southwestern Oyo State, Seyi Makinde says the federal government’s decision to ban Twitter operations in the country will affect investor’s confidence and called on the Nigerian leader to