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By Joe Tidy,Cyber Correspondent China has attacked a bill going through US Congress that could ultimately see TikTok banned in the States, calling it unjust. It is the latest move in a years-long row over safety fears about the app which is owned by a Chinese company. Officials, politicians and security staff in many Western countries have been banned from installing it on work phones. So what are the three biggest cyber concerns about TikTok, and how does the company respond to them? 1. TikTok collects an ‘excessive’ amount of data TikTok says the app’s data collection is “in line…
By Phil McCausland,BBC News, New York Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said. As deputy military commander, Mr Issa would be Hamas’s most senior leader to die since the war began on 7 October. The Palestinian group, which controls Gaza, has not officially commented on reports of his death. Israeli media sources have reported that Mr Issa was killed in a strike on a tunnel complex under the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza last week. The deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing – the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was considered…
By Will Grant,BBC News, Cap-Haitien, Haiti “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street – the victims of the latest gang rampage. As well as the early morning killing spree, the home of a judge was also attacked – a clear message to the country’s elites vying for power. All this in what is supposedly the safe part of…
A suspected motorcycle thief was set ablaze by a mob at Magamar Gumau market, Toro Local government area of Bauchi state on Monday. Spokesperson of Bauchi State Police Command, SP Ahmed Wakil he said that investigation had commenced with a view to arrest the perpetrators. He warned that the command would not tolerate any act of jungle justice whereby people take the law into their hands. “Anyone caught in such act will not be spared,” he added. According to him, by the time operatives attached to Toro Division arrived the market, the suspect had been surrounded, beaten and set ablaze…
By Kamil Opeyemi A former Minister of Power and Steel under the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, Olu Agunloye, has been fined N500m over his suit claiming fundamental human rights against his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in a judgment, awarded a fine of N500, 000 against Agunloye for filing a suit that failed to prove the alleged breach of his rights by the EFCC. Justice Egwuatu stated that it was within the Agunloye’s right to file a suit. The judge however said the instant case was an attempt…
By Halimah Olamide Notable Nigerian politicians, legal minds and others have called for Nigeria to have a new constitution. They affirmed this is the only way to propel Nigeria to progress. Noting many of the country’s challenges, the speakers said a new constitution is required to propel the country’s development and address its present challenges The speakers include an Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Ex-Osun governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, a former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Chief Bode George, a legal luminary, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN). They spoke on Monday at the “National Dialogue on…
Agency Report Two children have been burnt to death in Bauchi following a fire incident in their residence, the Police said in a statement on Monday. The statement issued by Spokesperson of Bauchi State Police Command, SP Ahmed Wakil the fire incident that claimed the lives of the siblings, occurred on Sunday in Madina area of Bauchi. “Upon receiving the distress call, a team of policemen attached to ‘C’ Divisional Police Headquarters rushed to the scene alongside the Federal Fire Service team. “After the incident, two girls, Zainab Bashir Mohammed, 8, and Ummu Salma Bashir Mohammed, 5, were trapped in…
By Halimah Olamide The newly appointed Chairman of the National Commission on Almajiri and Out-of-School Children, Major General Lawal Jafar Isa (rtd) was one of the beneficiaries of controversial billions of Naira illegally shared by the office of the National Security Adviser under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, Col. Sambo Dasuki. NPO Reports that Isa was arrested in 2016 by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the allegation that he collected a sum of N170million from the office of the National Security Adviser. Isa was however let off the hook of the EFCC after it was…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Presidency on Monday named a retired army general Lawal Jafar Isa the new chairman of the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education. Also named was a former Commissioner for Basic Education in Nasarawa state, Dr. Mohammed Idris Sani as the Chief Executive Officer of the commission. A statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the president on Media said General Ja’afar Isa is a respected leader and previously served as the Military Administrator of Kaduna State from 1993 to 1996. ‘Dr. Muhammad Sani holds master’s and doctorate degrees in Islamic Studies. He was…
By Halimah Olamide The former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has visited the suspended member of Senate, Abdul Ahmed Ningi in his residence. NPO Reports that Ningi, who was the chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum was suspended by his colleagues last week over allegations that he brought the senate to disrepute. Ningi had alleged padding of the 2024 budget saying that what the Senate passed and approved by President Bola Tinubu is not what is being operated by the presidency. After failing to convince his colleagues of the veracity of his…