HUMAN rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, insisted that the police and other security agencies lack the power to arrest, detain and prosecute Nigerians over cyberstalking. Falana, who called for the discontinuance of all pending cases filed on Section 24 of the Cybercrime Act 2015, added that the Economic Community of West African
A federal high court in Lagos has struck out a case against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over its directive requiring banks to collect and verify social media handles as part of their know-your-customer (KYC) requirement. In June 2023, the apex bank issued the directive, saying the aim is to prevent financial crime,
France deployed troops to New Caledonia’s ports and international airport, banned TikTok and imposed a state of emergency Thursday after three nights of clashes that have left four dead and hundreds wounded. Pro-independence, largely Indigenous protests against a French plan to impose new voting rules on its Pacific archipelago have spiralled into the deadliest
Suspected gunmen reportedly killed four persons in Mbachon and Mbagbe communities in Turan, Yaav Council Ward, Kwande local government area in Benue state on Friday, May 10. Kwande is located in Benue North East Senatorial Zone and the two affected communities are also to the Taraba state border with Benue. The incident happened at
The Adamawa State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public and private schools in the state following the outbreak of measles. The directive, which was given on Monday, is aimed at mitigating the spread of the disease and enabling the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA) to vaccinate the vulnerable age
The co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Binance, Changpeng Zhao, has been sentenced to four months in prison in the United States for flouting money laundering laws. A US court in Seattle jailed Zhao after he pleaded guilty to violating the US money laundering laws at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. With the
In the last six months of 2023, the Federal Government of Nigeria received an additional N3.8 trillion in what appeared to be a fresh Ways and Means borrowing, according to a provisional data published in the latest statistics bulletin for the fourth quarter of the year recently released by the Central Bank of Nigeria
The management of the University of Nigeria(UNN) Nsukka has suspended Mr. Mfonobong David Udoudom, a lecturer in the General Studies division, caught in a video allegedly harassing a female student. Uduodom’s victim is alleged to be someone’s wife. It was gathered the lecturer had vowed that the female student would never pass his course
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The former governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has dismissed reports that he is receiving pension from the state government. Ikpeazu made the denial in a statement issued on Wednesday by his spokesperson, Onyebuchi Ememanka. The statement follows the decision of the Abia State House of Assembly to repeal the 2001 Law, under