Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday warned security agents against the killing of Nigerians as protests against brutality and extortion by police, particularly the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), rage in many parts of the country. The ex-president, who made the call on his Facebook page, said no life must be lost as youths continued to call for reform of …
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of his Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, and three others as commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday read the letter from Buhari on the floor of the Senate. Others are Prof Mohammed Sani Katsina), Prof Kunle Ajayi (Ekiti), …
THE Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, has said that the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) is a tool for fostering developmental regulation and ensuring digital economy. Pantami said this at the Public Presentation of the NDPR Performance Report, 2019- 2020, by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in Abuja, late last week. The NDPR, …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 164 new COVID-19 infections in FCT and 14 States across the country. NCDC announced this in a tweet via its official Twitter handle on Monday night. The health agency said that the 164 new infections brought the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infections to 60,430. NCDC tweeted, “164 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-64 …
