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Echeruo: the Nigerian, Apple bought his ICT firm for $1b

Echeruo: the Nigerian, Apple bought his ICT firm for $1b

August 26, 2019 2:07 am

United States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that though the term of the deal has not been disclosed officially, but HopStop has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was acquired by Google for $1 billion.

Founded in 2005, HopStop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers over 300 cities and that helps people get directions or find nearby subway stations and bus stops.

Echeruo, formerly an analyst at investment banks and hedge funds, who founded HopStop, is now chairman …

Keeping indigenous Nigerian sounds, cultures alive

Keeping indigenous Nigerian sounds, cultures alive

August 17, 2019 6:40 am

The Ikeja City Mall, Lagos, was recently transformed into a cultural arena, as fun loving Nigerians stormed the venue for the grand finale of the Ariya Repete, a music reality show designed to promote indigenous Nigerian sounds, particularly in the southwest.

After three months and 11 events across eight cities, the music spectacle finally came to a sensational conclusion in Lagos, with top rated artistes such as King Sunny Ade, Olamide, Taye Currency and Pasuma on the bill. For the finalists, it was an opportunity to battle for the N20million grand prize and share the big stage with established …

Nigerian Senate to spend ₦5.5b on official cars for members

Nigerian Senate to spend ₦5.5b on official cars for members

August 15, 2019 12:57 am
The leadership of the National Assembly has begun moves to procure operational vehicles for the lawmakers that make up its dual legislative chambers.It was learned yesterday that meetings in that regard started among presiding officers in the Senate even before the apex legislative body embarked on its eight-week recess, which ends on September 24, 2019.

A National Assembly official confirmed the meetings on condition of anonymity, saying the cost of the cars would be deducted from lawmakers’ allowances.

He hinted that the preferred brand being considered for senators is Toyota Land Cruiser Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV).

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Sowore must be released immediately - Court

The injustice on Sowore by the failed Nigerian state

August 8, 2019 2:15 am

By MarkAnthony Nze

The recent incarceration of Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news web portal, who incidentally, was the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) party in the last election where he lost to the impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani masquerading as President Muhammadu Buhari, by the Nigerian government is absolutely nothing but a brazen act of injustice.

The #RevolutionNow protest which was slated for August 5, and still took place on the stated day though poorly, due to the absence of Sowore, is being criticised by quite a number of the citizenry for the temerity, …

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British PM appoints Nigerian as children’s minister

July 30, 2019 6:05 am

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has appointed Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch, aged 39, as Children and Families Minister, as part of his government reshuffle. Badenoch is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden.

She was born in Wimbledon, London to Nigerian parents. Her childhood was spent in Lagos and the United States. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16. She has been the MP for Saffron Walden since 2017 after replacing Nadhim Zawahi.

She once told MPs in Parliament about her own experiences of poverty and how she used to do …

U.S imposes visa restrictions on Nigerian politicians

U.S imposes visa restrictions on Nigerian politicians

July 24, 2019 6:11 am

The United States Government Tuesday said it has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerian politicians, which it said undermined Nigerian democracy.

It, however, did not name who the politicians were, their parties and specific offences.

“The Secretary of State is imposing visa restrictions on Nigerians believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Nigeria,” the US State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on Tuesday.

“These individuals have operated with impunity at the expense of the Nigerian people and undermined democratic principles and human rights.”

Nigeria’s last general elections were one of the bloodiest Africa …

Italy police deal blow to ‘violent’ Nigerian mafia

Italy police deal blow to ‘violent’ Nigerian mafia

July 18, 2019 10:08 am

Italian police said Thursday they had arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob, including the leaders of a clan which forged alliances with other mafias and violently punished any who rebelled.

In an operation dubbed “Burning Flame”, coordinated by police in Bologna and Turin, over 300 officers carried out arrests and searches in nine cities across northern Italy, from Bergamo to Modena, Parma and Ravenna.

A two-year probe — aided significantly by a man on the inside who fed details to investigators — “has allowed us to destroy much of what, within the Nigerian community, is known as the …

Nigerian gay priest in Church of England and fight to marry

Nigerian gay priest in Church of England and fight to marry

July 14, 2019 12:40 am

A 53-year-old Nigerian priest in the church of England is fighting to marry his partner, also a Nigerian.

As a priest, the Church allows Jide Macaulay to be gay. But an outright marriage to his partner is not permitted. He can live with him in a celibate relationship but cannot get married in the church. He risks losing his job in the Church if he does.

“To me, that is a great disservice and discrimination against same-gender-loving individuals,” Macaulay, also a lawyer, said in a BBC documentary – Too Gay for God?

His partner lives in their birth country where …

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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”.

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

No time limit to report rape cases, says Nigerian Police

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 …

Nigerian senior government official charged with forgery

Nigerian senior government official charged with forgery

July 7, 2019 12:14 am

The federal government has charged a Director of Protocol in the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Maikudi Haruna, with forgery and international passport racketeering.

Haruna appeared before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a three-count charge brought against him by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS).

He was charged with “conspiracy,” “making false statement for the purpose of procuring Nigeria passport,” and engaging in “forgery.”

The prosecution, led by the Head of Prosecution, NIS, Collins Obilor, alleged that Haruna forged the official identity card of his ministry and signature of the Minister on a letter he issued to a …

Nigerian-Americans rated most successful group in U.S.

Nigerian-Americans rated most successful group in U.S.

July 5, 2019 12:19 pm

Nigerian-Americans are the most successful ethnic group in the United States, Candace Owens, a celebrity social commentator says.

Owens is an American conservative commentator and political activist. She is known for her pro-Trump activism and her criticism of Black Lives Matter and of the Democratic Party.

Owens tweeted @realcandanceo, “Nigerian-Americans are the most successful ethnic group in the U.S!

“If you want to know how it’s possible that blacks who come from under-developed Africa, keep outperforming blacks from overprivileged America— it’s bc they weren’t exposed to the Democrat parasite of victimhood!”

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Owens’ …

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