September 12, 2019

Facebook cancels event in South Africa

Facebook cancels event in South Africa

Technology giants, Facebook have cancelled their upcoming event in Cape Town, South Africa scheduled for October 3rd, 2019 due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.It is unclear, however, if the cancellation is related to the attacks on foreign businesses that has rocked South Africa in recent weeks.

“Due to a number of unforeseen circumstances, we have had to cancel the Facebook ID8 event in Cape Town on October 3rd, 2019. We hope to bring the event to the region later in the year,” Facebook said.

The social media company which connects over 139 million in Africa organised the event for developers and

Once you can read, write, understand, you can stand for election -Yakassai

‘Once you can read, write, you can stand for election’

Second Republic politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has said that he was not surprised by the verdict of the presidential election petition tribunal which affirmed President Muhammad Buhari as the winner of the presidential elections conducted by the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) earlier in the year.

Alhaji Tanko, in his reaction to the verdict, during a telephone conversation with our correspondent in Kano on Wednesday night declared:  “I’m not surprised. It (verdict) did not come to me as a surprise in any way.”

Alhaji Tanko explained that his mindset about election petition tribunals at the presidential level is that they …

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 45

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 45

By MarkAnthony Nze

(All Rights Reserved)

126. EXT. PARK.DAY.

The TWO BUS DRIVERS are at corner of the PARK discussing.

 

BUS DRIVER II

So, bros, what’s happening now? Have you been able to come up with something?

 

BUS DRIVER I

Brother, relax! Stay cool for Christ, soon, I mean very soon the affairs of this park will change for good.

 

BUS DRIVER II

My brother, I’m really getting fed up each day, these two men are frustrating us, we have to do something very fast.

 

BUS DRIVER I

Well, the bible is always right, it says when the wicked is …

Wike accuses PDP’s BoT committee of corruption

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may be heading for crisis as the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, wednesday berated the committee set up by the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main opposition party to investigate the emergence of Hon. Ndudi Elumelu as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives against the wish of the party, describing the committee as the most corrupt in the history of PDP.

Speaking in Port Harcourt wednesday, Wike also hailed a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Austin Opara, for withdrawing from the committee.

The governor said that …

Nigerian Governors reject calls to scrap security votes

Nigerian Governors reject calls to scrap security votes

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Wednesday kicked against calls for the removal of security votes, insisting that doing so would be inimical to development.

NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said in Abuja that the abolition of security votes as being advocated by many in the country would breed chaos in the polity instead of curbing corruption as is being widely believed.

He said there was no development without security.

The position of the governors came just as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, advocated parameters …