Ben Ezeamalu

For ensuring the welfare of pensioners in their states, the Nigerian Union of Pensioners presented 6 governors with excellence awards at the end of April 2017.Before the ceremony, union spokesman Bunmi Ogunkolade reportedly issued a statement that “only 6 of the 36 governors and the Federal Capita...

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari claimed in a speech that Nigerian journalists are no longer being harassed or detained under his government. At the opening of the Congress of the Federation of African Journalists on 29 April, Nigeria’s Minister of Informat...

President Buhari claimed that militant Islamist group Boko Haram had fallen back and currently hold no territory in Nigeria

Nigeria’s House of Representatives resolved last Wednesday to investigate claims earlier in the month by Nigeria's inspector-general of police, Solomon Arase, that 90,000 police officers have been “lost” to the Boko Haram insurgency since 2011."Based on the figure I have in my disposal, we hav...