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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the N5 million fine on Channels Television. In the suit, they are asking the court to “declare arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional the N5m fine imposed on Channels Television over a recent interview with the Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.” Joined in the suit as Defendants are the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture. The NBC had recently fined Channels Television N5 million over an interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed.…

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto tasked Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to focus on security of life first,  as the world celebrates Easter Sunday. According to Bishop Kukah, Nigeria’s most pressing need is not infrastructure, but rather, ensuring the safety and well-being of Nigerians. “These are important, but first, keep us alive because only the living can enjoy infrastructure,” he stated, adding that Tinubu’s most urgent mission should be to create a large tent of opportunity and hope for all Nigerians. Bishop Kukah called for the expansion of the frontiers of collective freedom,…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new date for commencement of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. The board stated this in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja on Sunday. Benjamin said the UTME which was earlier fixed to commence on April 29, is now rescheduled to April 25, 2023. He also said the board would hold its rescheduled mock-UTME on April 18, 2023. ”JAMB had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on Thursday,  March 30, in 725 centres across the country. ”However, the exercise ran into…

Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Mr. Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of Labour Party have congratulated Israel Adesanya for reclaiming his UFC middleweight belt title in the Ultimate Fighting Championship 287. On Sunday 9th of April, Adesanya reclaimed the UFC middleweight title from Brazilian Alex Pereira in the main event of UFC 287 at the FTX Arena in Miami, Florida. Pereira unleashed body hooks and a knee to the ribs, with Adesanya threw a right hook that froze Pereira, with no buzzer to save Pereira reclaim the title he lost to the Brazilian last year. In a post via Twitter, Tinubu applauded the…

Straightnews Greets Readers, followers, sponsors at Easter The night sky graces the famous ‘‘Pink Moon.’’ The spring rain waters the parched ground with upshot of budding plants and trees. And the full moon overshadows the lonely tomb as Angelic being proclaims: Jesus is risen! The solemn moment is a manifestation of the blessed hope and conquest brought to mankind by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Swayed by this auspicious moment, Straightnews newspapers (online and hard copy) joins Christians over the world to celebrate the altruistic love and exemplary sacrifice by Jesus to free man from oppressions. In the…

All progressives Congress media chiefs have thrown tantrums on the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie’s open letter to United States President Joe Biden not to accept the election results that produced Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, as the ‘winner.’ Festus Keyamo, spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council, described Chimamanda Adichie’s letter as a reflection of colonial mentality. The award-winning novelist in the open letter published in The Atlantic said Tinubu’s victory was illegitimate as the process of the February 25 presidential election was not marred by technical faults as claimed by the INEC but a deliberate manipulation…

Following his appointment as Special Envoy for US Diplomacy (SED), former US President Barack Obama will resettle in Kenya for at least a year. The deployment was nominated by President Joe Biden, Obama’s Vice President between 2009 and 2016, and was confirmed by the US Senate. Obama expressed his gratitude, paying tribute to the land of his father and forefathers. He plans to set up an office outside Nairobi to better understand devolution and coordinate among counties before seeking an enhanced diplomatic partnership between Kenya and the US. While his stay was initially speculated to be in Siaya, Kajiado, Lamu,…

The Atlantic, a U.S.-based newspaper, Thursday published an open letter to President Joe Biden from the globally- acclaimed Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie. In the letter, Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy, Adichie confronts the question of why Americans keep congratulating the winner of Nigeria’s election in February. Chimamanda Adichie’s full letter below: Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little…

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, agreed to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited over the alleged diversion and conversion of N20 billion by its officials to payment of consultants. Despite the NNPCL denying the allegation earlier on Monday, the House has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the amount. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state oil corporation was established on April 1, 1977. NNPC Ltd was incorporated in September 2021 further to the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 (the PIA) which provides for the incorporation by the Minister of Petroleum Resources of a limited liability company…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called for redistribution of N132 billion to ensure 90 per cent goes to the tertiary institutions. This came as Federal Government recently approved N320.3 billion 2023 intervention for public tertiary institutions in the country. ASUU had in October 2022, called off an eight-month strike after a series of negotiations with the Federal Government. Part of the lecturers’ demands is the release of revitalization funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). In an interview with…