The Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos have brought two students- Timothy Fashina Oluwabukola and Anthony Imonina Odemerho – before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly hacking MTN Nigeria Communication’s computers and stealing airtime and data worth N1.9 billion. Oluwabukola and Odemerho, students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Abeokuta, Ogun State, and […]
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos has condemned in strong terms the reported attacks on journalists and other media professionals on Thursday August 1 while covering the first day of a nation-wide protest by groups demanding end to hardship inducing economic policies. Information gathered by IPC’s journalists’ safety alert situation room revealed that a […]
By Steve Uzoechi The recent demise of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has once again cast a dark shadow over the Igbo leadership. His passing, marked by a period of intense harassment, intimidation, and threats he endured, echoes a disturbing pattern that has claimed the lives of his predecessors. Over the […]
A bomb exploded in a teahouse in a village in northeast Nigeria, killing 19 people and wounding two dozen more in the second major attack in a few weeks, security sources said on Thursday. The blast in Kawuri village in Borno State on Wednesday evening was one of the deadliest in recent years in […]
The #endbadgovernance protest in Bauchi State has been disrupted as police fired tear gas at protesters. The protesters, who had assembled in front of the Emir of Bauchi’s palace, demanded a meeting with the Emir but were stopped by a police barricade. As the protesters insisted on meeting with the Emir, the police used […]
Police officers have used teargas on a group of protesters around the federal secretariat in Abuja — Nigeria’s capital city. Young Nigerians commenced a nationwide protest against economic hardship and soaring inflation today. The protests have been dubbed ’10 Days of rage’ with the hashtag #EndBadGovernance. There is heavy police presence across the nation […]
MTN Nigeria’s network services experienced a slowdown on Thursday morning, coinciding with the commencement of nationwide protests against bad governance. The disruption affected a substantial number of MTN’s subscribers, who expressed frustration and speculated about the cause of the slowdown on X (formerly Twitter). MTN has not yet commented on the issue. However, the […]
