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As part of the measures to address security challenges in Zamfara State, the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) has directed telecommunication operators to shutdown their services across the state immediately. NCC said that the shutdown would be reviewed after two weeks after which it would be considered whether to continue or …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has called for the sensitization Africa Union Member-States on the role of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights. Speaking during a meeting today with judges of the Court led by the President, Lady Justice Imani Daud Aboud, at the Arusha office of the …

The Nigerian Communications Commission,(NCC) has refuted reports making the rounds suggesting that the Twitter access suspension has been lifted. Director, Public Affairs of the NCC, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, said that there had been no communications from the Ministry of Information to lift the ban. The NCC had sent a memo …

The Department of State Services, DSS, has been accused of preventing Nnamdi Kanu from having access to his lawyers. Kanu’s lead counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said the DSS prevented him and IPOB’s Attorney in the United States, Bruce Fein, from having access to the detained IPOB leader on Thursday, September 2. In a …

A book on landmark speeches of the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communication Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta is set to be unveiled on Saturday, TheStory has learnt. In a statement signed by the Director of Public Affair, the historic event is scheduled to hold …

The former Chairman, Governing Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Otunba Olabiyi Durojaiye is dead. He died at the age of 88. The Story gathered that the Fourth Republic senator on the platform of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 1999, died on Monday as a result of COVID-19 complications. …

Mohammed Fawehinmi, son of the late erudite lawyer and activist  late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, is deadThe younger Fawehinmi, we gathered died today, Wednesday, 11 August 2021.“He complained of difficulty in breathing this morning and was taken to the hospital and that was all,” a source said.The first child of late …

Nollywood Actress Rachel Oniga Has Passed on at Age 64. The actress who shot some scenes in a movie on Mowe, Ogun state earlier this week passed on late Friday. She was a grandmother who was divorced from her husband 19 years ago The cause of her death is still …

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has recommended the immediate suspension of DCP Abba Kyari, the Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), from the Service of the Nigeria Police Force, pending the outcome of an ongoing internal investigation touching on him. Mr Kyari was indicted by …

The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has ordered an internal review of the allegations leveled against one of the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, DCP Abba Kyari in the fraud case against Instagram celebrity, Ramoni Abbas aka Hushpuppi. In one of the court documents released by the FBI, it was alleged …