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  Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanb The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has cautioned against the use of social media to create falsehood just as he advised agitators of Nigeria’s breakup to channel their energy into demanding quality governance and devolution of power. Oba Akanbi while addressing journalists in his palace earlier on Monday also called on Nigerians in the Diaspora to exercise caution in contributing to the discussions so as not to fuel division in the country. While noting that a divided Nigeria could mean failure for the black race because Nigeria is the powerhouse and hope of the black race, the monarch explained that no individual can break the country at this critical time as such agitation is inimical and capable of eroding the African continent. According to him, “Nigeria is an indivisible, unbreakable, inseparable and impenetrable nation and the hope of the black race. Nigeria remains the unified force of the black race and its weakn...

  A Kano-born young lady, Saadat Aliyu has developed an android application ‘Helpio App’ for reporting cases of sexual abuse. Saadat Aliyu, the Founder of ‘Helpio App’ ‘Helpio App’ was launched on August 6, 2020, on Playstore. Ms Aliyu who is the founder of Shamrock Innovations, Women and Youth-Centric Tech Innovation Hub in Kano, said that any person can visit Playstore on an android phone and install the app. “You can go to the Play store, search for it and install it. After Installation, you can sign up using email and password either in Hausa or English language,” she told Channels Television on Monday. “So far the Initiative for Support of Victims of Sexual abuse, Orphans and Less privileged (ISSOL) and Equity Destitute, Child Right and Welfare initiative (EDCRAWI) have signed up in the platform.” She recalled that she started learning IT skills from her brother when she was in junior secondary school and subsequently became a self-taught developer. The young lady said her nex...

  A Marijuana Farm National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday says it discovered a large scale farming of marijuana in Gwarzo, 110km south Kano. Malam Isa Likita Muhammad, NDLEA Commander in Kano told a local Radio station in an interview monitored in Kano on Monday morning that the  feat  was coming barely a week he assumed office in the ancient city. Mr. Muhammad disclosed that within a week of my resumption a large farm of marijuana was discovered in Gwarzo local government with more than 350 plants. ‘He revealed that ’We just uncover a large farm of marijuana in Gwarzo and the owner has been arrested and would soon be prosecuted. “ The new local NDLEA boss said “we have been informed of another farm in a different location, we are about to conclude. All of them would face the  full weight  of the law whenever we are through with the investigation. When asked on the issue of compromise by some staff of the agency, the NDLEA Commander said the agen...

Shatta Wale  Ghanaian artiste, Shatta Wale on Sunday took another shot at the Nigerian duo of Grammy award winners, Burna Boy and Wizkid. The two singers won recognitions for their works at the 63rd Grammy Awards held in the United States on March 14. While the duo have continued to receive plaudits from various celebrities across the globe, the Ghanaian artiste has however argued that their Grammy success was minimal. He also slammed Ghanaians who said they prefer Nigerian artistes to their own entertainers during a live session on his Facebook page. Wale said: “Enough is enough of Ghanaians insulting Ghana artistes. If you feel we don’t sing well, go and stay in Nigeria so they can sing for you. At least that will buy you a dream house. “I have five mansions, my Grammy is my properties.” Join the conversation

  The recent emergence of the Foremost Awoist and Lawyer, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, as the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has been lauded as a positive development for the Yoruba race. Former Minority Whip of the House of Representatives and Special Adviser on Strategy and Political Matters to the Oyo State Governor, Mr. Seyi Makinde, Hon. Babatunde Oduyoye, declared this yesterday in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Ibadan. Oduyoye, who once served as National Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere, maintained that the choice of Adebanjo as Afenifere Leader is a step in the right direction for the Yoruba nation. He added that the Yoruba people needed Adebanjo’s wealth of experience, versatility and unassailable courage. Oduyoye noted that the challenges facing the South-West states and the Yoruba nation as a whole in terms of leadership, insecurity, slowed pace of economic development, among others could only be surmounted with the ...

 The leader of Afenifere, a social-political organization, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has described Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as a two-faced politician. Speaking in an interview The Punch, the Afenifere leader berated the vice-president for failing to advocate restructuring under President Muhammadu Buhari. He said Osinbajo’s father was a vocal advocate of restructuring Nigeria, and Osinbajo too was a staunch advocate of restructuring until he became VP. The leader of Afenifere, a social-political organization, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has described Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as a two-faced politician. Speaking in an interview The Punch, the Afenifere leader berated the vice-president for failing to advocate restructuring under President Muhammadu Buhari. He said Osinbajo’s father was a vocal advocate of restructuring Nigeria, and Osinbajo too was a staunch advocate of restructuring until he became VP. Adebanjo said, “The vice-president and Tinubu are in the same boat. They are a product of res...

  The image of the currency, known as “FADAKA, Some Nigerians of Yoruba extraction have taken to social media to celebrate the images of the proposed Yoruba Nation currency notes shared online. SaharaReporters had earlier reported how a group agitating the independence of the Yoruba nation on Twitter introduced the currency notes for the proposed Yoruba nation, Oduduwa Republic The group posted the image of the proposed currency notes on its Twitter handle, @OdudwaRepublic, on Sunday. The tweet read: “Oduduwa National Currency shall be called 'FADAKA' Meaning Silver .. or short as just 'FAD' Here is a 20 Fadaka Sample Banknote. Elated reactions of Yoruba indigenes on Twitter have trailed this development as many pledged support for the move towards attaining independence for the Yoruba nation. Twitter user, @Ola_Williams__ wrote, “The South West is far better than other regions when Nigeria was practising what the founding fathers signed for (which was federalism). We w...

This file photo taken on October 5, 2020, shows logos of US social networks Facebook, Instagram and mobile messaging service WhatsApp on the screens of a smartphone and a tablet in Toulouse, southwestern France. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP Social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger all went down in a brief outage at around 1730 GMT on Friday, according to the tech monitoring website Downdetector. However, shortly after 1800 GMT, several WhatsApp users said on social media that they were able to again send messages on the platform. Instagram also came back after about an hour. All three sites belong to US social giant Facebook, which attributed the outage to unspecified “technical issues” and apologized to users. The Facebook-owned apps, which have some three billion users worldwide, report occasional outages, including one last July, which often spark an array of comments on other social platforms.

I n this photo illustration, a Twitter logo is displayed on a mobile phone with President Trump’s Twitter page shown in the background on May 27, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) Twitter on Friday began a survey of global users about platform rules for world leaders while consulting human rights and academic specialists on its next policy steps. The announcement comes after Twitter joined other social networks banning then-president Donald Trump for his comments seen as inciting the violent attack on the US Capitol in January. The ban was criticized by Trump supporters while others had argued Twitter should have taken action earlier despite its policy of allowing leeway for world leaders and newsworthy posts. “Politicians and government officials are constantly evolving how they use our service, and we want our policies to remain relevant to the ever-changing nature of political discourse on Twitter and protect the health of the public conv...

FILES) This file photo taken on February 26, 2019, shows people visiting the Nokia stand at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia said on March 16, 2021, it would slash up to 10,000 jobs over the next two years as part of a 600-million-euro ($715-million) cost-cutting programme. Josep LAGO / AFP Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia said Tuesday it will slash up to 11 per cent of its workforce within two years as it launches a “huge” cost-cutting drive and focuses on a few key areas in the face of tough competition over super-fast 5G networks. Announcing a 600-million-euro ($715-million) cost-cutting programme, Nokia said it expects to become “an 80,000–85,000 employee organisation, over an 18–24-month period, instead of the approximately 90,000 employees Nokia has today.” Much of the savings are to be re-invested into research and development (R&D), the firm said, especially in Nokia’s mobile networks and cloud operations, after new ...

Facebook-owned Instagram unveiled technology Tuesday aimed at preventing underage children from creating accounts and blocking adults from contacting young users they don’t know. This picture taken on September 28, 2020, shows the logo of the social network Instagram on a smartphone and a tablet screen. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) It was the latest move responding to concerns about inappropriate contact between adults and children on the platform, which like most services sets an age minimum of 13. Instagram will begin using artificial intelligence to determine a user’s age at signup in an effort to find underage users. “While many people are honest about their age, we know that young people can lie about their date of birth. We want to do more to stop this from happening, but verifying people’s age online is complex and something many in our industry are grappling with,” a blog post said. “To address this challenge, we’re developing new artificial intelligence and machine lear...

The police in Delta said it has arrested an alleged notorious cultist suspected to be a member of the Aiye Confraternity implicated in the murder of Abowa Osawe. The suspect, Andrew a.k.a Pounds was arrested following the confessions of four other gang members in police custody. Delta Police boss, Dr Mohammed Ali in a signed statement, Thursday, said the arrest was in collaboration with men of the local vigilance group in Sapele. According to the statement, the victim, Osawe Abowa, was attacked and shot along Shell Road, Sapele by a group of four men suspected of the cult group. It said upon receiving information on the incident, policemen mobilised men to the scene and commenced an investigation following which through the combined efforts of the police and vigilance group in the area led to the arrest of the four suspects. Those arrested, according to the statement, in connection with the murder are; Timothy Clark (27 years), Patrick Mbuk, (29 years), Gift Omofeye (26 years), Ogburan...

 The rate of unemployment in Nigeria is the highest-ever as the country reeled from two recessions in the last five years. Bloomberg has ranked Nigeria as second highest on the global list of the unemployment rate with an increase in the jobless rate as of the fourth quarter of 2020. According to a report released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Africa’s most populous nation, with over 200 million population, had 27.1 percent employment rate as of Q2 2020 and had a surge to 33.3 percent in Q4. According to NBS, the underemployment rate saw a decrease from 28.6 per cent to 22.8 per cent, while a combination of both the unemployment and underemployment rate for the Q4 stood at 56.1 per cent. The statistics released by NBS indicated that Imo State had the highest rate of unemployment in the country with 56.6 percent, followed by Adamawa with 54.89 percent. “Combining both unemployment and underemployment, the state that recorded the highest rate was Imo with 82.5% followed...

 Airtel Africa Plc has signed agreement with The Rise Fund under which The Rise Fund will invest $200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV), a wholly owned subsidiary of Airtel Africa Plc. AMC BV is currently the holding company for several of Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations; and is now intended to own and operate the mobile money businesses across all of Airtel Africa’s 14 operating countries. Airtel Africa also said today that it’s considering listing the mobile money business as a separate business within the next four years. Airtel Africa Plc is listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Nigeria is the major market for the leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, which has presence in 14 countries across Africa. The Rise Fund is the global impact investing platform of leading alternative investment firm, TPG. The transaction values Airtel Africa’s mobile money business at $2.65 billion on a cash and debt free basis. The Rise Fund wi...

GOtv Nigeria has announced a reward promo that will see its GOtv Max customers win over N10million in cash and prizes. Tagged ‘Awoof Overload’, the promo is part of the company’s effort to cushion economic pressures and reward customers with exciting and functional prizes. GOtv Awoof Overload promotion runs till 31st of March 2021 and is open to new and existing customers who pay for a minimum of one month’s subscription on GOtv Max worth N3,600. These customers will be eligible to participate in a weekly draw for a chance to win N100,000 for school fees, N50,000 cash prize, N10,000 shopping vouchers, N5,000 fuel vouchers and free airtime to call on all networks. Chief Customer Officer, MultiChoice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho said the offer is a continuation of the numerous efforts by GOtv Nigeria to soothe the financial pains being experienced by its customers and reward them for staying connected despite the inclement economic climate. As the economic crisis, worsened by COVID-19, contin...

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has ranked Nigeria 16th among the countries most affected by internet crime in the world in 2020. FBI in its 2020  Internet Crime Report (IC3)  said Nigeria received 443 complaints relating to internet crime within the year. The crime report stated that the FBI in 2000 has received a total of 5,679,259 complaints and an average of 440,000 complaints per year. The IC3 since its establishment in 2000 has received a total of 5,679,259 complaints and an average of 440, 000 complaints per year. It has recorded a total of 2,211,396 in the last 5years. Excluding the United States, at the top of the list of the most affected country, is the United Kingdom followed by Canada, India, Greece and Australia. South Africa is the only other African country among the top 20, ranking sixth with 1,754 complaints. The report noted that one of the most prevalent schemes seen during the pandemic has been government impersonators. “Criminals are r...

  Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, SSANIP, Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), chapter, has given the Rector, Mr. Obafemi Omokungbe, an engineer, two weeks to redress the situation, where teaching staff have taken over some positions meant for non-teaching staff as required by law. The workers, who held a congress on campus last Thursday, listed the positions for which their members have been denied to include the Director, CITM, the Director, Works and Services, the Director, Physical Planning Unit, the Director, Consult and the Head of Fire Services. In a communique at the end of their meeting which was signed by the Chairman, Mr. Kayode Adekunle Samuel and the Secretary, Mr. Odundayo Kolawole, they said a number of Federal Polytechnics had complied with the subsisting rules and regulations on filling such positions. The workers listed Federal Polytechnics that complied with the extant rules in filling such positions...

The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Princess Catherine Oludunni Odu, has been appointed as Secretary to the Ondo State Government (SSG). Odu is the first woman to be appointed as the SSG since the state was created. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Richard Olatunde, said Princess Odu had served in several capacities. The statement said Odu was the Federal Commissioner, Public Complaints Commission and Commissioner for Women Affairs and Education. It said the appointment was in recognition of her integrity and outstanding record of performance in previous assignments. Other appointments approved by Governor Akeredolu, according to the statement, are the appointment of the former Head of Service, Mr. Dare Aragbaiye, as the Special Adviser on Union Matters and Special Duties; Mrs. Olubunmi Adedipe Ademosu, Special Adviser, Public and Intergovernmental Relations; Babatunde Gabriel Kolawole, Special Adviser, Rural and Communi...

The Lagos State police command has attributed the violent clashes that occurred in Ketu area of the state on Wednesday to rival fight among cult groups (Eye, Aiye, and Buccaneer confraternities) over revenue collection The command’s spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi who disclosed this in a statement, however said normalcy has been restored in the affected area. Mr. Adejobi said 15 suspects were arrested with two locally-made pistols, live cartridges, and charms. “Preliminary investigation revealed that the crisis was connected to the revenue generation at the Ketu fruits market. “Efforts are in top gear to apprehend other fleeing members of the gangs that orchestrated crisis in the area,” the police said. The statement noted that the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had ordered that the suspects be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Panti, Yaba, for “discreet investigation.” The statement explained that the commissioner reiterated the command’s commi...

  A married man has revealed that he has his wife’s approval to cheat on her. He said this while reacting to actor Pete Edochie’s advice that married women with cheating husbands should supply their husbands with condoms. “Solomon had 1000 wives and 700 concubines. If a man decides to take many more wives, what are you going to do? Nothing. If you think your husband is going out to have an affair, put a packet of condoms in his bag. When he sees it, he’ll know you have his interest at heart,” Pete Edochie said in a controversial video. This statement led to a debate and one Twitter user, while reacting, said his wife told him he can have affairs with other women, as long as he doesn’t get anyone pregnant. When asked if he’ll be OK with his wife doing same, he responded that his wife is a housewife and has no friends.