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By Yakubu Musa Nothing, perhaps, illustrates the tragedy of the current world's most enduring struggle, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, than last Friday’s UN resolution for a ceasefire. Curiously, the United States of America voted against it while her...
By Sanusi Abdullahi Kiru In the ever-evolving landscape of Nigeria's telecommunications industry, there are individuals who leave an indelible mark, reshaping the sector for the betterment of the nation. Among these luminaries, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta stands...

Breaking: Saudi Arabia lifts flight suspension for Nigeria

By Ismail Auwal Nigerian intending pilgrims can now heave a sigh of relief as Saudi Arabian authorities have lifted the flight suspension slammed on Nigeria...

Why Twitter ban was unnecessary

By Ahmed Musa Hussain The Twitter ban was completely needless and ineffective. It was a knee-jerk reaction against the deletion of President Buhari's tweet by...

Travel ban: UK removes Nigeria, 10 countries from red list

By Sahelian Times The UK government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK's travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola,...

UK to lift travel ban as Nigeria considers retaliation

  By Sahelian Times The United Kingdom is about to scrap the travel ban imposed on countries after the detection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19,   Nigeria...

Omicron: Nigeria condemns UK travel restrictions

By Ismail Auwal Nigerian Government has said it is not considering the imposition of travel restrictions despite the growing threat of Omicron, a recently discovered...

Travel ban: Africa should not be punished for Omicron COVID-19 variant- Akinwumi Adesina

By Sahelian Times The President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says Africa is not the source of COVID-19 which was first discovered...

FG to lift Twitter ban in few days – Festus Keyamo

By Ismail Auwal Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said that Nigeria will lift ban on Twitter "in a few...

FG lifts ban on Emirates airline

By Ismail Auwal The Federal Government has lifted the conditional ban on Emirates Airline flying into Nigeria. Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, made the announcement...

Trump to launch new social network, “Truth”

By Salim Yunusa Donald Trump, the former US president, is set to launch a social media platform named ‘Truth’ — a few months after he...

Just in : President Buhari directs conditional lifting of Twitter ban

By Ismail Auwal President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the conditional lifting of the ban placed on microblogging platform, Twitter, in Nigeria since June. This is coming...

Bitcoin, other coins crash as China bans cryptocurrencies

By Salim Yunusa   China's most powerful regulators on Friday intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrencies with a blanket ban on all crypto transactions and mining, hitting...

FG to lift Twitter ban as firm agrees to establish office in Nigeria

By Salim Yunusa   The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has expressed confidence that everything will be sorted out with the microblogging site,...

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