July 13, 2019

Facebook hit with $5b fine over privacy violations

July 13, 2019 3:18 am

The US Federal Trade Commission has voted to approve a fine of about five billion dollars for Facebook over privacy violations, according to a report.

It comes after an FTC investigation into allegations that the social media platform inappropriately shared the information of 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, is now closed.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the vote was 3-2 along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition to the fine.

In most cases the Justice Department’s civil …

Nigeria losing over $3 billion to piracy – NCC DG

July 13, 2019 2:37 am

Speaking to newsmen on the sideline at the commission’s Governing Board meeting, Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) Director General, Mr. John Asein, said that effect of piracy is not only in monetary terms but also the colossal damage it does to practitioners.

Asein noted that the over $3b is just an estimation as its actual value is almost immeasurable.

He added: “Unfortunately, like most aspects of our national life, we don’t have exact figures, but you can only imagine when you have the size of Nigerian creative industry, you know that more than half of what should have come in goes …

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‘Don’t pay for bail’ – Nigerian Police boss

July 13, 2019 1:53 am

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of the Zone 2 Command, AIG Lawal Shehu, has warned people to desist from paying money to obtain bail.

He insisted that “bail is free and any police officer caught taking bribe will be dealt with”.

Describing corruption as a disease, AIG Shehu said “demanding or obtaining money is corruption and a serious offence that will not go unpunished”.

On Eid ul-Adha, a Muslim festival coming up soon, he said his command had done everything necessary to see that miscreants …

Undocumented migrants demand right to remain in Paris

July 13, 2019 1:40 am

Hundreds of undocumented migrants calling themselves “black vests” stormed the Pantheon monument in central Paris on Friday demanding the right to remain in France.

Police on the scene told Reuters an estimated 200 to 300 protesters, mostly from West Africa, managed to get into the Left Bank mausoleum where national heroes including Voltaire and Victor Hugo are buried.

“We will remain here until the last one of us has been given documents,” a leaflet given out by an organizer read.

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No time limit to report rape cases, says Nigerian Police

July 13, 2019 1:10 am

The Nigerian Police yesterday said there is no time limit for reporting cases of rape and other sexual assaults to the security and other appropriate agencies in the country. They insisted that irrespective of how long it takes a rape victim to report the case, the Police and the state owe him or her a responsibility to diligently investigate the complaint and bring offenders to book.

Speaking in an exclusive interview yesterday with The Guardian in Abuja, Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba (a Deputy Commissioner of Police), however, added that although it doesn’t matter how long it takes before …

Afenifere Leader’s daughter’s killing: Yoruba youths react

July 13, 2019 12:45 am

Following the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere Chairman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by persons suspected to be herdsmen in Ondo State, yesterday, a youth group, Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA), while expressing shock over the incident, has given Miyetti Allah a three-day ultimatum to fish out the perpetrators of the nefarious act.

Confirming the murder of the daughter of the factional leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, its spokesman, Mr. Yinka Odumakin in a statement said 58-year-old Mrs. Olakunrin was killed by persons suspected to be herdsmen while heading to Ore Junction from Akure, Ondo State, where she …

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Farmers, attacked by herders, demand ₦284bn compensation

July 13, 2019 12:08 am

As farmers across the country continue to count their losses arising from the destruction of their crops and farmlands by herders, cultivators in eight of the hardest-hit states claim that about N284 billion worth of products were destroyed.

They want the federal government to pay them compensation to cover the losses.

But Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says both sides (farmers and herders) have suffered losses, adding that the federal executive council approved N27.4 billion as intervention funds for states affected by conflicts, insecurity and flooding.

Farmers’ associations in Anambra, Benue, Delta, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau and Taraba states told The …