The Nigeria Police Force is set to re-charge human rights activist Omoyele Sowore before Justice M.S. Liman at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. The new charges, under the suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CR/23/2025, include cyberbullying, endangering police officers, and other allegations. Sources confirmed to SaharaReporters that the police authorities have abandoned…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged the Senate to approve the National Social Investment Programme Agency Establishment Amendment Bill 2024. The bill, forwarded on Tuesday, seeks to overhaul the social welfare framework by designating the National Investment Register as the primary tool for identifying beneficiaries. In his correspondence to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House…
The 2024 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) Report says Nigeria’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has declined from 5.3 children per woman in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024, marking a major demographic shift over the past five years. The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Salako, disclosed this on Friday in…
The Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP) has called for the expulsion of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, accusing him of undermining the party. In a statement on Sunday, the group criticised Wike for endorsing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid and attacking the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC). “Wike has crossed…
The wife of former Chief of Defence Staff and former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, Aminat, has passed away. Ibrahim served as Chief of Naval Staff from 2010 to 2012 and as Chief of Defence Staff from 2012 to 2014. His wife passed away in Abuja on Tuesday night after a brief illness….
The Governor of Ondo State and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 16 governorship election, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has approved a minimum wage of N73,000 for civil servants in the state. The federal government and the organised labour had in September signed an agreement on the new minimum wage of N70,000…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the federal capital territory (FCT) high court has remanded Yahaya Bello, former governor of Kogi, in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Bello was arraigned on a 16-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering on Wednesday. Justice Maryanne Anenih, who issued the order on Wednesday, said Bello…
Simon Ekpa, an associate of the detained self acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, will soon be brought back to Nigeria for trial, a Federal High Court was told in Abuja yesterday. An official of the Department of State Services (DSS), who was testifying at the resumption of proceedings…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has written to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, demanding the urgent deactivation of Omoyele Sowore’s verified account. The agency said one of Sowore’s recent posts on President Bola Tinubu is capable of inciting violence and threatening national security. The DSS noted that Sowore, publisher of…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a woman in Kaduna State, identified as Zaliha Shuaibu of Malari Village in Soba Local Government Area, has been taken into custody by the state police command in connection with the death of her co-wife’s three-month-old son. According to the Kaduna State Police Command’s spokesperson, DSP Mansir Hassan, the incident occurred…