Another social media giant, Facebook, has deleted a post against the South East region of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari via his official page. This comes a few days after Twitter deleted the same tweet from the president’s handle for violating its terms and conditions. However, on Friday, Facebook said the.The Advocate
The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. This was announced on Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi. However, checks by our correspondent showed that Twitter is.The Advocate
By Achadu Gabriel
THE age long questions about who really are the middle Belt of Nigeria and or Nigerians or middle Belt of the northern Nigeria or middle belters of Nigerians has finally been answered in fullest. The physiologist or psychologist behind the true and historically definition was put together by Belt’s intellectuals especially Dr. Mailafia Obadiah led teams of researchers, as presented below:
In various platforms people have been asking us, What is the Middle Belt? What are its geographical boundaries and who and who make up this community? Let me set the records straight today.
As a territory, the Middle Belt is everything outside the core Sharia North, from Southern Borno to Southern Adamawa, Southern Kebbi, Southern Gombe, Southern Bauchi, Southern Kaduna and Southern Niger, to Plateau, Nasarawa, FCT, Kogi, Benue, Taraba, and Kwara. We make up a motley of clans that are ethnographically of Niger-Congo, Bantu, Chadic and Nilo-Ethiopic extraction. We are t
President Muhammadu Buhari
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ahmed Abubakar Audi as the new commandant-general, CG, of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, who made the announcement Thursday, February 18, added that the appointment followed the retirement of Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, former CG, in January.
Also, Aregbesola said the president has appointed Haliru Nababa as the new controller general, CG, of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS.
Mohammed Manga, director of Press, ministry of Interior made this known in a statement, saying that Audi, emerged the top best candidate out of those that went through the transparent selection process initiated by the ministry.