November 2020

Twitter Apologises For Tagging India’s Region As China

Twitter Apologises For Tagging India’s Region As China

November 20, 2020 5:38 am

Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologized to an Indian parliamentary panel for ceding the northern Himalayan region to China on Twitter’s geo-tagging Reuters says.

Twitter geo-tagging is currently showing a northern Himalayan as part of China but the company has apologised with a promise to make corrections by month-end, the panel’s chief said on Wednesday. Twitter’s chief privacy officer, Damien Kieran, sent an apology letter to the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill after the company geo-tagged India’s northern territory of Ladakh as being in neighbouring China, the panel’s head Meenakashi Lekhi said.

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We Are Not Aware Of The Sale Of Government Assets - Senate

We Are Not Aware Of The Sale Of Government Assets – Senate

November 19, 2020 4:47 am

The Senate has disclosed that they are not aware of any plan to sell any national asset. The Chairman of the committee, Theodore Orji, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday, complaining that the relationship between the panel and the BPE has not been cozy. The lawmaker said the BPE boss ‘has refused to carry members of the panel along’.

On 2021 budget funding, the Senate committee on privatisation said the chamber is not aware of any planned agreement by the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to sell or concession some national properties to help fund the 2021 budget. President Muhammadu …

NANS To Shut Down Private Universities If Strike Continues

NANS Condemns FGN’s Plan To Borrow $750m From World Bank

November 19, 2020 4:21 am

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the Federal Government for planning to borrow the sum of $750m from the World Bank according to a statement released by the organisation. The association also expressed displeasure with the continued strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Friday announced that the Federal Government is in the process of accessing a $750m World Bank loan for states. She said the facility would boost the local economy in the various states. She also said that the Federal Government is …

Twitter Hires Top Hacker Peiter Zatko To Head Security

Twitter Hires Top Hacker Peiter Zatko To Head Security

November 19, 2020 4:14 am

Social media giant Twitter, amidst increased threat of regulation and serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world’s top-most among hackers Peiter Zatko, widely known by his hacker handle Mudge, to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.

In July, a group of young hackers was said to have tricked employees and won access to internal tools, which enable them to change account settings and then tweet from the accounts of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk.

Read Also: Twitter Shuts Iran-Based Network Fanning Flames Of US Protests

Zatko, widely known …

Israel Strikes Iranian Base In Syria, Killing 3

Israel Strikes Iranian Base In Syria, Killing 3

November 19, 2020 4:08 am

Israel said it launched air strikes against a number of Syrian army and Iranian Quds Force targets in Syria on Wednesday after explosive devices were planted in the Israeli-held Golan Heights Reuters has reported. Three military personnel were killed and one was wounded in ‘Israeli aggression’, the Syrian state news agency said.

According to Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, eight targets in areas stretching from the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights to the Damascus periphery were attacked. They included an Iranian headquarters at Damascus international airport, a ‘secret military site’ that served as a ‘hosting facility for …

FG, NBC Blasted As CNN Reveals Investigation Of Lekki Shooting

FG, NBC Blasted As CNN Reveals Investigation Of Lekki Shooting

November 18, 2020 12:31 pm

Nigerians on social media on Wednesday dragged the Federal government and Nigeria Broadcasting Commission after CNN released its findings from an independent investigation carried out on the October 20 shooting incident at the Lekki tollgate.

Footage released by CNN showed that soldiers shot at the End SARS protesters who had gathered at the tollgate to press home their demands to end SARS as well as police brutality.

CNN also tracked the bullets shells seen at the scene of the massacre which showed that they were purchased by the Federal government from Serbia in 2005.

The global cable network in its …

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‘Blood Will Flow, Nigeria May Disintegrate’ – Primate Ayodele

November 18, 2020 12:13 pm

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has called on Nigerians to pray against bloodshed, unrest and confusion.

He made this known in a statement forwarded to Africa Daily News, New York on Tuesday.

According to him, the unrest will be severe and it will affect everyone in the country including political leaders in the country.

He stated that if President Buhari doesn’t sack his service chiefs, there will be another protest that will call the attention of the international communities.

The cleric further revealed that it might cause Nigeria’s disintegration and will expose the government of …

David Umahi

You’re On Your Own – Ebonyi Senators, Reps Reply Umahi

November 18, 2020 10:59 am

Ebonyi State National Assembly members, elected in the political party; the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), have said they will not be defecting to the APC against.

The Chairman of South-East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State; David Umahi,  announced on Tuesday that he was joining the All Progressive Congress (APC). He based his decision on the  ‘marginalization’ of Igbos by the PDP.

He said the party PDP by now, should have stated, categorically, whether it would zone its 2023 presidential ticket to the South-East or not.

The Chairman added that there will be a mass exodus of leaders …

Supreme Court Rules In Suit Against Diri As Bayelsa Gov

Supreme Court Rules In Suit Against Diri As Bayelsa Gov

November 18, 2020 8:00 am

Douye Diri has been affirmed as the duly elected Governor of Bayelsa State, by a seven-man panel of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The apex court, in a unanimous judgement by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, dismissed the six appeals filed against Diri and his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.

Justice Ngwuta, in his judgement, predicated the dismissal of the appeals on the withdrawal of the six appeals by lawyers of the appellants.

Read Also: Gov Diri Swears In 5 New Commissioners, 25 Special Advisers

The appeals dismissed were filed by the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP), Accord Party (AP) …

Insecurity: Government Doing Its Best – Buhari

ASUU Strike: FG Alone Can’t Finance UNIs In Nigeria – Buhari

November 18, 2020 7:58 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the Federal Government alone can’t finance universities in Nigeria.

Buhari said the private sector must be involved in financing universities in the country because the burden is too much for the government alone.

Speaking at the 2020 convocation and 72nd foundation day celebration of the University of Ibadan on Tuesday, the President said universities should make themselves attractive to the private sector.

Read Also: FG May Drop IPPIS For ASUU, Others As Opposition Grows

The President was represented at the occasion by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof Abubakar Rasheed.

He charged …

#EndSARS: Government Continues The Clampdown Of Promoters

#EndSARS: Government Continues The Clampdown Of Promoters

November 17, 2020 9:44 am

Even as many notable Nigerians and organisation calls on government to stop the persecution of #EndSARS protesters, report has said that Policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Lagos on Monday filed an application at the Yaba Magistrate Court demanding for court order to detain one of the #EndSARS protesters, Eromosele Adene, for an extra 30 days.

Eromosele was said to have been taken to the state police command headquarters after being arrested from his Ikeja home about 10 days ago. He was detained at the SCID in Panti and was subsequently flown to Abuja to Abuja …

#EndSARS: Army Finally Admits Shooting At Protesters

#EndSARS: Army Finally Admits Shooting At Protesters

November 17, 2020 9:42 am

Nigeria’s army has finally admitted that its troop did fire shots into the air to disperse a large crowd at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos where several peaceful protesters were killed late in October. This is coming after many weeks of several levels of denial by the army, FG and Lagos state government. The October 20 incident at the plaza has drawn both local and international outrage and also culminated into the destruction of properties and loss of life by both protesters and security officers. Government has blamed the aftermath on hoodlums.

According to Amnesty International, at least 10 …

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