Day: October 17, 2020

Nigerian Army loses Website to hacker, targets cyberattackers as Crocodile Smile begins

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Nigerian Army High Command has lost its official website to international hackers, Anonymous. The Army talked tough over this saying it would start its annual Exercise CROCODILE SMILE on Tuesday, October 20. The operation, which is traditionally conducted in the last quarter of the year will target, among others, the cyberattackers. According to Army spokesperson, Col. Sagir Musa, this year’s Exercise CROCODILE SMILE V1 is scheduled to commence from the 20th of October to the 31st of December 2020. He says, “The Exercise is deliberately intended to be…

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EKEDC MD/CEO Adeoye Fadeyibi Bags IOD’s Fellowship Award

Damilola Olonade

  The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Adeoye Fadeyibi has been conferred with a Fellowship award by the Nigerian Institute of Directors. (IOD). Fadeyibi, a statement sent to Platforms Africa read, received the award alongside 30 other distinguished personalities during the Institute’s 2020 Fellows Investiture on Thursday, October 15, 2020. Chairman of the Fellows and Awards Committee, Thomas C. Awagu, while giving the introductory remark at the event, noted that the theme of this year’s Investiture which is “Innovation in Crisis Environment; the Role of…

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Fresh Evidence shows Blood Type May Change COVID-19 Risk, Severity

Aoko Benjamin

  We Just Got More Evidence Your Blood Type May Change COVID-19 Risk And Severity Research is coalescing around the idea that people with Type O blood may have a slight advantage during this pandemic. Two studies published this week suggest that people with Type O have a lower risk of getting the coronavirus, as well as a reduced likelihood of getting severely sick if they do get infected. One of the new studies specifically found that COVID-19 patients with Type O or B blood spent less time in an intensive-care unit than their counterparts…

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How notorious Otedola Bridge Petrol Tanker Explosion Started – NNPC

Damola Oyede

  Corporation commiserates with Victims, Lagos Govt over Saturday morning petrol tanker explosion on the notorious Otedola bridge The Saturday morning petrol tanker explosion on the notorious Otedola bridge in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, occurred when a container truck loaded with fabric experienced a brake failure, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) declared on Saturday. Quoting a report on the accident, the Corporation noted that the container truck loaded with fabric “collided with a 33,000ltrs fuel tanker loaded with Premium motor spirit (PMS), belonging to a downstream operator, the impact…

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Anxiety as 181 pupils, staff of Lagos School contract COVID-19 

Gbenga Adeoti

    Lagos State Government says that 181 students and staff of a private boarding school in Lekki area of the state have tested positive to COVID-19 infection. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Abayomi said that the cases were detected during COVID-19 surveillance and case investigation in the school, adding that there were 441 students and staff in the school. “I am pleased to announce that all the infected students are predominantly asymptomatic, while some have very mild…

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#EndSARS: CBN, INEC, EFCC Websites Hacked

Damola Oyede

  The #EndSARS protests in Nigeria have taken a new turn as the websites of key agencies of government in the Africa’s biggest economy have been hacked. The key agencies are the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Independent National Electoral Commission (EFCC), and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). International Hackers, Anonymous, which breached and took over the sites, declared that its action was In Support Of #EndSARS Protesters. Anonymous made the announcement in three different online messages on Friday, October 16, 2020. “CBN Website Hacked By International…

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NO, NO! #EndSARS protesters bar Sowore from addressing them

Aliyu Aliyu

”Come dey go. Come dey go. We don’t want you here. Sowore we don’t want you here,” the protesters declared. The #EndSARS protesters on Thursday, prevented an activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from addressing them. Sowore, the 2019 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), a video shared bt by protesters on Twitter showed, had arrived when the protesters were echoing their demands at the entrance of Nigeria’s National Assembly but was barred from addresing them. Instead, he was asked by the protesters to leave the…

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Pfizer mulls Emergency Use of Covid-19 Vaccine by Late November

Gbenga Adeoti

  Pfizer Inc. laid out a timetable for reaching key milestones in the development of its Covid-19 vaccine that could mean the shots start becoming available in the U.S. before year’s end. Chief Executive Albert Bourla said Friday the company could start to see from a large study whether the vaccine works by the end of this month and would have data on its safety by the third week of November. If the preliminary results indicate the vaccine can work safely, Pfizer could ask U.S. health regulators to permit use…

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