Governor Bello Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has summoned an emergency security meeting following the recent abduction of students of the Federal University Gusau.The emergency security council meeting was necessitated by the kidnapping of students of the university who were abducted in their off-campus residence in Sabo Gida village in Bungudu Local Government Area.In a statement issued by the spokesperson to the Governor, Sulaiman Bala Idris, the Emergency Security...

The Senate has summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over the continuous depreciation of the naira.The naira is currently trading between N690 and N700 per dollar on the parallel market, a situation that has caused Nigerians to raise the alarm.The summoning of Emefiele followed a motion by Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi (APC, Ekiti North).Contributing to the debate, Sani Musa, senator representing Niger East, said the naira would a...

President Buhari has lifted the suspension he gave concerning Twitter operations in Nigeria after 222 days. The president gave the order after reviewing a memo to that effect from the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.The was made known in a statement released by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE.“The Feder...