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A former minister and convener of the BringBackOurGirls group, Oby Ezekwesili, has been arrested and is being detained by the police in Abuja. Her arrest is believed to be connected to the activities of the group. In a series of posts on her Twitter handle, @obyezeks, the former Minister of Education, said she was arrested […]

Information available to ViewPointNigeria indicates that commotion is currently going on at School of Health Technology Zawan where villagers were said to have gotten into a massive tiff with students, leading to the destruction of sections of the institution. At the time of filing this report, security agents had been deployed to the school to […]

Senator Jonah Jang has been granted bail after a controversial 1 week sojourn at the Jos prisons, where he was remanded after the deadlocked trial of last week. Approving bail today, the presiding judge, Justice Daniel Longji granted bail with two sureties with the sum of N100 million Naira. One of the sureties is said […]

Former Minister of Internal Affairs, Sen. John Shagaya, on Sunday died in a road accident along Langtang-Pankshin road in Plateau, Mr Dan Dandur, former Chairman, Langtang North Local Government, has confirmed. “Shagaya died in a road crash today; we are right now with the corpse at the Air Force Military Hospital, Jos,” Dandur told the […]

There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari might have extended the tenure of the service chiefs. The affected persons are the Chief of Defence Staff , General Gabriel Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff , Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff , and the Chief of the Air Staff , Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar. Our […]