Day: July 28, 2022

Nigeria Threatens Sanctions On BBC, Daily Trust Over Terrorism Documentary

Ganiyu Amodu

The two media organistions are found culpable of glorifying terrorists – information minister The Nigerian government says it will penalise the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Daily Trust over their documentaries on terrorism and banditry in Nigeria.  Lai Mohammad, minister of information and culture, said this in Abuja on Thursday. “Let me assure you, they will not get away with this naked glorification of terrorism and banditry in Nigeria,” Mohammad said. “When otherwise reputable platforms like BBC give their platform to terrorists, showing their faces as if they’re Nollywood stars……

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School Proprietor Sentenced To Death For Kidnapping, Killing Pupil

Abibat Babalola

A private school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko, who killed five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar, has been sentenced to death on Thursday by a Kano State High Court. Justice Usman Na’abba also sentenced the school teacher to five years imprisonment for the kidnap and death by hanging for killing of the school girl. Prior to her death, Hanifa was a pupil of Noble Kids Academy and Comprehensive College, a school located in Kwanar ‘Yan Gana in Tudun Murtala Quarters in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the State. READ ALSO: Father of Hanifah Abu, 5-yr-old…

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France Closes ‘Cookies’ Case Against Facebook

Ganiyu Amodu

French privacy regulators on Thursday closed a case against Facebook after determining the US tech giant had changed the way it collected user data to comply with the law. Facebook was slapped with a 60-million-euro ($61-million) fine last December when the French regulator CNIL ruled it was failing to allow users to easily opt out of cookies, tiny data files that track online browsing. CNIL told the firm’s parent company Meta to fix the issue within three months or face further punishment. READ ALSO: JUST IN: Popular Journalist Dies In…

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Nigerian Genius Kid Defeats US, Germany, Others in Maths competitions

Abibat Babalola

A senior secondary school one (SSS1) student, Uwakmfon Unwana Jacob is the latest Nigerian kid that has put smiles on faces of Nigerians as his photos of medals bagged in Mathematics competitions around the world surfaced on social media on Thursday. His school, Graceland Secondary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers States, posted his photos on its Facebook page, which have caught the attention of Nigerians pouring encomiums and congratulatory messages on him. The school tagged the post: ‘The chronicles of global Mathematics champion.” READ ALSO: Meet Frederick Asasa, Top Mathematician Appointed…

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JUST IN: Popular Journalist Dies In Sleep Days After Losing Wife

Dawud Rabiu

Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) former executive member, Abdulhamid Babatunde Agaka, breathed his last on Wednesday’s night at his residence in Kaduna.   A veteran journalist and member of the Nigeria’s Guild of Editors (NGE), Mallam Abdulhamid Babatunde Agaka, is dead. Agaka , who has earlier, according to reports, lost his wife about 30 days earlier, died in his sleep on Wednesday’s night at his residence in Kaduna. READ ALSO ‘How Female Journalist Raheemat Momodu Slumped During Meeting, Died’ NTA Senior Journalist, Tunde Saiki, dies inside Lagos Office + PHOTO…

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N109bn ‘Fraud’: Court Frees Ex-AGF, Idris Ahmed, From Detention

Ganiyu Amodu

Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting at Maitama has granted bail to former Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris and two others. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi, adopted all the terms and conditions of the administrative bail the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, earlier gave the ex-AGF and his two co-Defendants. “In line with the due process and supremacy of the law, the Defendants are still entitled to bail, irrespective of the enormity of the allegations against them. “The…

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Nigeria’s Top Petroleum Engr., Dr. Saka Matemilola, Is New Olowu of Owu

Damilola Olonade

Meet former chairman, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and associate Professor at African University of science and technology newly announced as the 14th monarch for ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Judge of the World Court, Bola Ajibola, and former governor Ibikunle Amosun’s ancestral home   The Ogun State Government has announced a top petroleum engineer and an associate Professor at African University of Science and Technology, Dr. Saka Matemilola, as the new Olowu of Owu in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of the state. Platforms Africa reports that Dr. Metemilola, a former…

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184 NNPC, Shell Cradle-To-Career Beneficiaries Move To Varsity

Abibat Babalola

How scores of secondary school student-beneficiaries moved to SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years   About 184 beneficiaries of NNPC/Shell Cradle-to-Career scholarship for secondary school students have been migrated to the SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years. Platforms Africa reports that Shell’s Head of Corporate Relations for Nigeria, Igo Weli, said that the beneficiaries are all from the company’s areas of operations in the Niger Delta. “These beneficiaries are among the 708 youths from the Niger Delta who have benefited from the…

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How Buhari Reacted After Hearing Terrorists’ Plan to Kidnap Him -El-Rufai

Aliyu Aliyu

Kaduna state governor says President totally Unaware of terrorists Abduction Threat for days until he told him   Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria, has said he was the one who told President Muhammadu Buhari of the terrorists threat to abduct him as he detailed the president’s reaction to the threat. In a video released at weekend, the terrorists who abducted some train passengers in March, threatened to abduct Buhari and El-Rufai. Speaking on a Radio Programme monitored by our Correspondent on Wednesday night, the governor also said…

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