A 77-year-old retired lecturer from Edinburgh, Nikki MacLeod, has come forward to share her ordeal of falling victim to an elaborate online romance scam involving AI-generated deepfake videos. The scam, which cost her £17,000, highlights the growing sophistication of cybercriminals leveraging artificial intelligence to manipulate unsuspecting victims. Speaking during BBC Scotland’s Scam Safe Week, Nikki […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Imo state has passed a vote of confidence on the new National Secretary of the party, Ude Okoye over his landslide victory at the Appeal Court and also reaffirmed their support to the pdp imo State Leader/ideato rep Ikenga imo ugochinyere while praising the Justices of the Appeal […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered MTN Nigeria Communications Limited to pay N15 million damages over the unlawful deduction of a subscriber’s airtime through unsolicited services. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, described as fraudulent, the regular deduction of airtime of customers by the […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a factory and eight shops in Nasarawa State for packaging, selling, and distributing counterfeit rice. Acting on an intelligence report, the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Taskforce uncovered an operation on Thursday on Thursday involving fake rice products worth an estimate. The factory, […]
A staggering 179 million Nigerians, representing 87% of the population, are living in unhygienic and unclean environments, according to the recently released STONE 2024 report. The report was unveiled during the ‘STONE 2024 Unplugged’ event organized by Clean-Up Nigeria in Abuja. In a statement received by Vanguard on Friday, Prince Ene Baba Owoh, Jr., National […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has granted temporary permission to Bureau de Change operators, to purchase up to $25,000 in foreign exchange weekly from the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, which was launched earlier this month. The arrangement will be in effect from December 19, 2024, to January 30, 2025. A circular dated December 19, 2024, […]
OIL marketers lifting the Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol from Dangote Petroleum Refinery, have slashed the price of the product by 11.8 per cent to N939.50 per litre, from N1,060 per litre. As of yesterday, the oil marketers were still selling petrol at N1,060 per litre, based on Vanguard’s checks in Lagos […]
Over 40 million people across West and Central Africa are struggling to feed themselves during the 2024 post-harvest season. A statement released by the United Nations World Food Programme on Friday said the number is set to rise to 52.7 million by mid-2025, including 3.4 million people facing emergency levels of hunger (IPC/CH Phase 4). […]
The Nigerian Army Council has approved the promotion of 108 senior officers to the Major-General and Brigadier-General ranks. According to a statement on Friday by the Director of Army Public Relations, Maj-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, the list includes 35 Brigadier Generals elevated to Major-Generals and 73 Colonels promoted to Brigadier-Generals. Among the newly promoted Major-Generals are […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has directed all publicly listed companies to publish their financial statements on their official websites effective January 2025, emphasising the importance of transparency and timely disclosure. In a circular issued on Thursday, the SEC warned that non-compliance with the directive would attract sanctions. According to the Commission, the directive aims […]
