Day: June 15, 2022

Delete Porn Posts in 24 Hrs, Nigeria Tells Twitter, Facebook, Others

Ganiyu Amodu

The Nigerian Government has issued directive to social media interactive platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and TikTok to remove, disable or block access to any non-consensual content, which parades partial or full nudity, sexual acts, deep fake or revenge porn within 24 hours. The order was comprised in the recently released Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries (online platforms). According to the document, these online platforms have to “act expeditiously to remove, disable, or block access to non-consensual content that exposes a person’s private areas,…

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Nigerian footballer found dead inside car in Italy

Ganiyu Amodu

Former Nigerian striker Akeem Omolade has passed away in Italy. The 39-year-old, who spent his entire career in Italy, was found dead inside a car in Palermo. Omolade, who was born in Kaduna State, the former political capital of Northern Nigeria, arrived in Italy at the age of 17, joining Treviso, with whom he made his professional debut in Serie B. He subsequently joined Torino, with whom he made his Serie A debut. Following his departure from Torino, he went on to play in the lower leagues of Italian football.…

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Nigerian Doctor Loses License in Canada Over Fraud

Abibat Babalola

Dr. Ayokunle Fagbemigun billed OHIP for supposedly drug screening patients as young as nine. He claimed he gave eight pregnancy tests in one year to another patient who wasn’t even sexually active. For billing for 42,000 tests he never performed, the family doctor has been stripped of his licence to practise medicine and ordered to pay back $35,000 to the Ontario government, the maximum fine that the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal can impose – but a piddly amount compared to the estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars he…

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Lonadek Boss, Ibilola Amao, Now Nigerian Academy of Engineering Fellow

Ganiyu Amodu

Prestigious Engineering Academy announces Investiture of Engr. Prof. Azikiwe Peter Onwualu as President, induction of 10 prominent engineers as fellows + Full names   The Nigerian Academy of Engineering has announced the induction of the Chief Executive Officer of Lonadek Oil and Gas, Dr. Adenike Ibilola Amao, and nine other prominent engineers in Nigeria as fellows of the prestigious academy. Platforms Africa reports that President of the Academy, Engr. Alex O. Ogedegbe, who announced this through an invitation document, listed names of other inductees to include; Engr. Prof Akindele Folarin…

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JUST IN: Renowned Nigerian Scholar, Professor Femi Soyinka, Is Dead

Gbenga Adeoti

Late Professor Soyinka was the younger brother to Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka Renowned Nigerian academic, researcher and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Femi Soyinka, has passed away. A statement signed on behalf of the family by his son Ayodele Soyinka disclosed that Prof. Soyinka, aged 85 died in the early hours of yesterday, Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State. He was the younger brother of Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka. READ ALSO: THE…

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‘How Female Journalist Raheemat Momodu Slumped During Meeting, Died’

Abibat Babalola

She was not sick. She was in the middle of a meeting when the worst happened, colleague, Editor recount pity-evoking last moment of National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) ex-Chair, Raheemat Momodu who died about 48 hours after the death of another Nigerian journalist and columnist, Michael Awe aka Michael West. A popular Nigerian female journalist, Raheemat Momodu is dead. Momodu’s friend and colleague, Joke Kujenya, who broke the news via her Facebook wall, gave an account of how the former National President of National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ)…

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Nigeria Outlaws Offshore Insurance For Foreign, Local Oil Firms

ADEOLA YUSUF

NCDMB inks deals with NAICOM, addresses Loopholes in implementations of NOGIC Act particularly sections 49 and 50, which deals with insurance of oil and gas activities   The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) have signed insurance services guideline which will oblige the oil and gas industry to patronize the local insurance sector, thereby retain spend in the economy. Platforms Africa reports that the guidelines will also address loopholes that have been identified while implementing the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas…

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