Tag: Nigerian Attorney General Abubakar Malami

Use Twitter, Go to Jail, Nigeria tells Violators of Ban

Aliyu Aliyu

  Country’s Justice Minister Orders prosecution of Twitter ban violators as country’s bickering with microblogging degenerate   Nigeria has threatened prosecution, which could lead to jail terms, for any of hundreds of thousands of Twitter users in the country who violates the suspension it slammed on the microblogging site. Apparently to show the Government’s seriousness, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), Platforms Africa reports, ordered the prosecution of offenders of the Nigerian Government ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria.   READ ALSO: Outrage as…

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Contractor demands $400m as Mambilla Power deals tear Nigeria, Firm Apart

Precious Ibekwe

Here are the detailed reasons power contractor, Sunrise Power & Transmission Co., dragged President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration before the ICC in Paris + why this posed a fresh threat to Nigeria’s China loan A Nigerian company that lost out on a contract to build a multibillion-dollar hydropower plant has filed a $400 million arbitration claim against the nation’s government, further hampering its plans to access Chinese financing for the project. Sunrise Power & Transmission Co., a report by Bloomberg shows, accuses the government of reneging on a settlement accord agreed…

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