Adamu Adamu, the education minister, walked out of an impromptu meeting with students under the auspices of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) over the ongoing strike.
Adamu Adamu, the education minister, walked out of an impromptu meeting with students under the auspices of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) over the ongoing strike.
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Buhari’s spokesman Garba Shehu Thursday said the government was contented with Pantami’s apologies over his past support for Taliban and Al-Qaeda and described the calls for him to resign as a “manufactured dispute”.
Al-Qaeda carried out multiple attacks on Western countries including the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.
“The Minister has, rightly, apologised for what he said in the early 2000s,” Shehu said in a statement.
“The views were absolutely unacceptable then and would be equally unacceptable today, were he to repeat them. But he will not repeat them – for he has publicly and permanently condemned his earlier utterances as wrong.”
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, has sparked reactions on social media as he gives reason why the pigeons refused to fly during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony.
African Examiner reports that the pigeons did not fly after President Buhari released them from the cage. It is customary for pigeons to be released during important events as a mark of peace.
However, when President Buhari released the pigeons, they refused to fly and many Nigerians reacted to this development as many saying that the pigeons not flying signified a “bad omen”.
Nigeria’s social media space on Wednesday captured conversations and issues that made the news both locally and internationally.
America’s #InaugurationDay and related phrases like “White House” and “Donald Trump” received minimal engagements from Twitter Nigeria but made it to the top of the trends table globally as the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, officially took over from Trump.
The following topics were the most discussed in Nigeria:
#LekkiMassacre, #EndSARS
It has been exactly three months since the the killing of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, and for the umpteenth time, Nigerians called out the government to provide answers to unanswered questions on the unfortunate outcomes of the October 2020 protests against Police brutality.