Chairman of THISDAY/Arise Media Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, has advocated for the enactment of laws that will ensure that Google, Facebook and other social media platforms pay for intellectual property and news items produced by the Nigerian media. In a Keynote Address at the Lateef Jakande 2nd Annual Memorial Lecture on Tuesday at Radisson Blu…
The Kaduna state police command has asked all groups in the state, planning to participate in the nationwide protest against hunger and economic hardship, to provide necessary details of the protest from where it will start, when where and it will end. In a statement on Sunday, Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the command, said providing…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo Jolly Nyame, a former governor of Taraba state, has asked his kinsmen to shun the planned nationwide protest against hunger and economic hardship. Nyame made the call on Sunday in Jalingo while addressing Yorro community from Taraba and Adamawa states. The former governor warned that the outcome of the protest…
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Christopher Musa, has attributed the unending security challenges in the northern part of the country to complex border management. He stated this in a lecture titled “Assessing the present security situation in Northern Nigeria”, presented on Friday evening at the Institute for Development Research and Training, Ahmadu Bello University…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have asked the federal government to apologise to Nigerians for its ineptitude and failure to address the security and economic challenges facing the country. In a statement on Saturday in Kaduna, the religious body said, “Rather than trying…
President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union (SOKAPU), Samuel Tabara, has said that the union will not participate in the planned nationwide protest against hunger and economic hardship. In a statement in Kaduna, Tabara disassociated SOKAPU from the planned protest and condemned the motive behind it. He said, “a well intentioned protest cannot originate from people…
