Popular microblogging platform, Twitter has welcomed Nigeria’s decision to lift the restrictions placed on its operations in the country. “We are pleased that Twitter has been restored for everyone in Nigeria. Our mission in Nigeria and around the world is to serve the public conversation. “We are deeply committed to Nigeria, where Twitter is used […]
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Passengers who had boarded a commercial bus heading to Lagos from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, were on Tuesday abducted by unknown gunmen in Isiala Mbano, Imo State. It was gathered that the bus was intercepted by yet to be identified gunmen at Odo Rubber road in Obiohuru in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operations. This was announced by Kashifu Inuwa, Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in a statement on Wednesday. According to Inuwa, the suspension was lifted from 12am, 13th January 2022. Kokomansion recalls that the Federal Government […]
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Officers of the federal operations unit Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), have intercepted and impounded contraband goods smuggled into the country from neighbouring Benin Republic worth N7.813 billion in 2021. The contraband, namely, smuggled foreign parboiled rice, cartridges, unregistered pharmaceuticals, Indian-hemp, fairly used vehicles, used tyres, used compressors, second-hand clothing, among others, […]
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Detained leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has requested for representatives of the United Kingdom, United States and the United Nations (UN) to observe court proceedings during his next trial. Kanu’s appeal was contained in a letter written to the two countries and the UN, by Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor on […]
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Goalkeeper Ali Abou Achrine was Sudan’s hero as he saved a late penalty to keep his team in a 0-0 draw with Guinea Bissau in Garoua on Tuesday. It was a scoreline that capped an unhappy start to the TotalEnergies 2021 Africa Cup of Nations finals for both countries, who are the underdogs in Group […]
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Air Peace Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Allen Onyema, has promised to give the Nigerian Super Eagles a whooping sum of fifty million naira, if they win the ongoing African Cup of Nations, which kicked off on January 9, 2022. Onyema, who made the pledge in Garoua, Cameroon, while speaking to the Super Eagles […]
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Mr Kola Balogun, Chairman, Momas Electricity Meter Manufacturing Company (MEMMCOL), has called on the Federal Government to grant licences to selected indigenous companies to sell prepaid meters directly to consumers. Balogun, who made the call in an interview with men of the press in Lagos, said the move would help to bridge the huge metering […]
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Outlawed separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged southeast governors to arrest and decisively deal with criminals enforcing its suspended sit-at-home in the region. In a statement the group issued by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful distanced itself from the shooting incident that happened in Enugu on Monday, January […]
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Former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has reacted to the death of Chief Ernest Shonekan, the former head of the Interim National Government who succeeded General Ibrahim Babangida. Kokomansion had reported that Shonekan died on Tuesday in Lagos at the age of 85. The deceased was the interim head of the Nigerian government between August 26 […]
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