Tag Archives: local news from Nigeria

There is this trending propaganda by some groups trying to twist history by asserting that Northern Emirs killed Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. They even created a #FakeNews headline on a Newswatch front cover purporting to say that. ...

Gmail has become the latest instrument of tech giant Google to censor African Stream. On 1 October, the multinational US corporation locked us out of its Workspace application, causing us to lose access to two years of email messages and ...

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube recently suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania Khalek (@raniakhalek) spoke to Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin (@davidhundeyin). However, at the time ...

The Nigeria Police Force set to implement E- Policing, the police force says they will launched the digital Central Motor Registry Information System (e-CMR), with e-CMR “no more stopping to check papers – our officers are equipped with cutting-edge tech ...

Lost time is never found again, and so does any innocent person apparently murdered cold-bloodedly. This seems to be the case of a young, vibrant and highly educated Adebayo Ola-Smith, a Glo manager, who died on the 31st of August, ...

Earlier, the US and UK issued warnings about the risks of staying in Nigeria amid anti-government protests, urging their citizens to refrain from traveling to the country for the time being. 💬 “We have seen from events as they unfolded ...

A 36-year-old farmer, Sunday Ayenis, from Uba Oka in Akoko Southwest Local Government Area, was killed just days after herders compensated him for damaging his crops. Villagers alleged that the herders were responsible for the killing, saying that Ayenis was found ...

Àwọn Olùgbé Ìpínlè Èkó pè fún Apero, bí Ìjọba Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkó ṣe ṣètò àwọn Nọmba ẹrọ ibanisọrọ mẹta t’awọn aráàlú lè pe sí tí wọn yóò tún bá àwọn oṣiṣẹ Ọba sọrọ.Àwọn Nọmba ẹrọ ibanisọrọ métèèta jẹ tí Ilé -Ise ...

Any military coup in Nigeria will lead to organized armed resistance in the South West A pan-Yoruba self-determination coalition, Apapo Oodua Koya (AOKOYA), has warned against any military incursion into Nigeria’s politics as such a move be welcomed with armed ...

Please fact-check me: 80 BRT buses were destroyed during the #EndSARS protests, along with the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Center, which was the most advanced police forensic laboratory in Black Africa. Protesters burnt it to the ground. The total ...