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Nigeria approves N4.87bn to track citizens’ WhatsApp, Thuraya – Report

Gbenga Adeoti

  Military tracking equioment; Thuraya Interception Solution to gulp N2.94 billion while WhatsApp Interception Solution will consume N1.93 billion).   The Nigerian National Assembly has approved the supplementary budget  for, among others, the equipment for tracking of Whatsapp and Thuraya in the country. Platforms Africa reports that the Nigerian Government has earlier banned Twitter, though talks are on-going on the possibility od lifting the ban. The president Muhhamadu Buhari’s government, in the just approved supplementary budget by the Senate, allocated N4 billion to tracking WHATSAPP and Thuraya, despite the upsurge…

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Eyeball to eyeball: How AbdulRazaq, Saraki worshipped at same Eid ground

Aliyu Aliyu

How supporters of the two heavyweights in Kwara politics took politics to Eid   Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State; former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki; and Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe on Tuesday joined thousands of other Muslims who worshipped at the Eid praying ground in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The three prominent citizens observed the two raka’ats prayer to commemorate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir. AbdulRazaq and Oloriegbe, who are in the same camp in the factionalised Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, are known political enemies of…

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