Tag: Togo

We Must Ensure The Continuity Of Pan-Africanism After Lome, By Prof. Robert Dussey

Prof. Robert Dussey

Lomé, the capital city of Togo, will be hosting the 9th Pan-African Congress in the coming months. This highly significant event for the African world and Afro-descendants, which is part of the implementation of the 2021-2031 Agenda of the African Union’s Decade of African Roots and the African Diaspora, is the fourth of its kind on the continent after the Dar-es-Salam (1974), Kampala (1994) and Johannesburg (2014) Congresses. This continental appropriation of the Pan-African Congress as an institution that periodically brings together the African community, after the first five editions…

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Nigeria Embargoes Accreditation of Degree, Certificate From Benin Republic, Togo

Ganiyu Amodu

The Federal Government has suspended the accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo. This move followed a report detailing how a degree was acquired from a university in Benin Republic in under two months. “This report lends credence to suspicions that some Nigerians deploy nefarious means and unconscionable methods to get a Degree with the end objective of getting graduate job opportunities for which they are not qualified,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Education Augustina Obilor-Duru said in a Tuesday statement. “The Federal Ministry of…

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Niger, Togo, Benin Fail To Remit $16.11m Electricity Bills To Nigeria

Abibat Babalola

The money is for electricity consumed in the first quarter of 2023       Niger,Togo, Benin Republic failed to remit $16.11 million for electricity consumed in the first quarter of 2023,the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC),has said. The agency said in its first quarter report that international customers had a remittance performance of 0 per cent to the Market Operator (MO) in Q1 2023. The international customers include Société Béninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE) of Benin Republic (Paras-SBEE and Transcorp-SBEE), Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo (CEET) (Odukpani-CEET) and NIGELEC- electric…

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Fraudsters Hack Into Firms’ Accounts in Nigeria, Others, Steal $11M

Ganiyu Amodu

    A gang of hackers, OPERA1ER, stole at least $11m from companies in Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, 11 other African countries, and Argentina. This is according to a new report from Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, entitled, “OPERA1ER: Playing God without permission,” in collaboration with the researchers from Orange CERT Coordination Center. The firm disclosed that digital forensic artifacts analysed by it and Orange followed more than 30 successful intrusions of the gang between 2018 and 2022. READ ALSO: Fraud alert: Cyber Fraudsters Clone Lagos Gov Sanwo-Olu’s Accounts Hushpuppi Jailed, Bags…

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