Author: NPO Admin II
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace. It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate. The type of cancer has not been revealed, but according to a palace statement the King began “regular treatments” on Monday. Buckingham Palace says the King “remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible”. He will postpone his public engagements and it is expected other senior royals will help to stand in for him during his treatment. No further details…
*As EFCC Arrests For Money Laundering By Halimah Olamide Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the General Overseer of Faith On The Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Oloche Ebonyi, for defrauding church members and other Nigerians. EFCC said Ebonyi, using fake grants defrauded his victims to the tune of N1,319,040,274.31( One Billion Three Hundred and Nineteen Million, Forty Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy-Four Naira, Thirty-One Kobo). He was said to have used the name of a globally known grants body, Ford Foundation. The Foundation has said it has nothing to do with the church owner. “Ebonyi…
By Emmanuel Asika It seems like it’s the end of work as we know it, given the significant transformation and changes in recent years. The growing need for hybrid working environments has led businesses to explore new ways of securely linking systems and staff. Meanwhile, many institutions are wrestling with a shortage of IT personnel brought about by the widespread phenomenon of the ‘Great Resignation,’ which is rapidly growing around the worldI. The latter is even worse in Nigeria, where a great number of IT professionals are resigning daily and heading to countries like Canada, the United Kingdom and…
By Kamil Opeyemi Jimi Solanke, actor in some of the most legendary drama productions in Nigeria has died. Solanke, a member of the arts family of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Solanke reportedly died in the hours of Monday after a brief illness. It was gathered that he was being conveyed to the Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, when he gave up. Born on July 4, 1942, in Ipara Remo, Solanke was a member of the Orisun Theatre Group, founded by the renowned Wole Soyinka, in 1961. He had featured prominently in drama productions such as as “Death and the King’s Horseman,” “Kurunmi,” “Kongi’s…
By Halimah Olamide Students of University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo State, have emerged winner of the maiden hackathon organised by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC). The results of the hackathon were announced at the anniversary dinner and awards night of the NDPC in Abuja. The hackathon, which took place on Friday, was part of the activities to mark the National Data Privacy Week celebrated between Jan. 28 and Feb. 4. The hackathon is targeted at students with an aimed to finding indigenous solutions that can help in the implementation of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA). It was signed…
-Lady Alleges Police Insisted Victim Must Make Reports Herself By Kamil Opeyemi The Nigeria Police Force have been accused of failing to act until a lady was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend. NPO Reported earlier that the police attention was called by neighbours to the lifeless bodies of Adebayo Adeseko and Sarah Adesanya in their apartment in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos at the weekend. The scene, according to police account, showed that the lady was subjected to violence before she reportedly gave up. Knowing that she had died, the boyfriend had reportedly stabbed himself to death with his…
…Says Even Entities That Made No Application Got Allocations By Halimah Olamide Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, on Monday made startling revelations over the foreign exchange complications and scandals that he met in office. Cardoso said while those who genuinely needed and applied for foreign exchange languished in wants, fake entities that did not apply got allocated. He said he met in office, a staggering $7Billion in unpaid commitments adding the government had to invite a reputable firm, Deloitte to carry out a forensic examinations of the pending applications. Of the $7bn pending, he said $2.4 Billion had issues. Among the…
SEOUL, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), opens new tab Chairman Jay Y. Lee was found not guilty of accounting fraud and stock manipulation by a Seoul court on Monday in a case about a 2015 merger that prosecutors said was designed to cement his control of the tech giant. The ruling, which was a surprise to at least some analysts who had expected a suspended sentence, could help give Lee a freer rein in steering the country’s biggest conglomerate. “For entrepreneurs and business leaders, their job is to drive innovation and create jobs, but Samsung hasn’t been able to do…
LAGOS, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Shell Plc has made a final investment decision to build a gas supply facility in Nigeria to feed a fertiliser plant owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, the company said in a statement. The new facility will supply 100 million standard cubic feet of gas per day from the Iseni field to the Dangote Fertiliser and Petrochemical plant for 10 years, according to the deal agreed by Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab and its joint venture partners TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab, Eni (ENI.MI), opens new tab and the state oil firm NNPC Ltd. The $2.5 billion plant, Africa’s…
DAKAR, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Riot police fired tear gas outside Senegal’s National Assembly on Monday as crowds tried to gather to protest the postponement of the Feb. 25 presidential election, a move that caused anger and unrest over the weekend. Lawmakers are set to debate a bill in parliament that would reschedule the election for Aug. 25 and extend President Macky Sall’s mandate until his successor is installed. Senegal has never postponed a presidential election, and Sall’s announcement on Saturday pitched the West African nation into uncharted constitutional waters that threaten to further tarnish its reputation has a bastion…