Twitter says 130 accounts were targeted in a major cyber-attack of celebrity accounts two days ago. However, Twitter says only a “small subset” of those 130 accounts had control seized by the attacker. The security breach saw accounts including those of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Bill Gates tweet a Bitcoin scam to millions of followers. Twitter said it was still trying to work out if private data – which could include direct messages – was stolen. “We’re working with impacted account-owners and will continue to do so over the next several days,” the company said, through its…
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Consumer Price Index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased to 12.56 per cent year-on-year in June 2020 The NBS made this known in its CPI and Inflation Report for June released on Friday. It stated that the report showed that June inflation was 0.16 per cent points higher than the rate recorded in May which was 12.40 per cent. It, however, disclosed that the increases were recorded in all Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP) divisions that yielded the headline index. The bureau explained that on a month-on-month basis, the headline index increased…
Embattled former acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh, is testifying before the House of Representatives Committee on NDDC at the ongoing investigative hearing on the alleged illegal expenditure and mismanagement by the commission. The investigation of the NDDC had got messier on Thursday as the police invaded the Port Harcourt residence of Nunieh. The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who prevented the police from taking Nunieh away, had asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to probe the invasion of the former NDDC boss. It was alleged that the invasion was to prevent Nunieh…
Dr Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala on Thursday expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly for nominating and supporting her candidacy for Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) position. “I want to also thank the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, the Chief of Staff to the President Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu and the Nigerian ambassadors to Switzerland, WTO as well as the Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, “ she said. Iweala who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Geneva, also thanked ECOWAS for endorsing her candidacy as the race for…
Ahead of the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state, one of the aspirants, Jimi Odimayo, has slammed the chairman of the primary election committee, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state. The Nation reports that Odimayo spoke on Thursday, July 16, through his campaign organisation. Also, another aspirant who asked not to be named, reportedly said that many of them (the aspirants) were not happy with the choice of Governor Bello as the chairman of the committee. He said the leadership of the Unity Forum, a group in the party, would meet before Sunday, July 19,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Science and Technology to take full inventory of all indigenous inventions and innovations for possible Federal Government’s financial assistance in the bid to reposition the Nigerian economy. The president, who is also the chairman of the Presidential Standing Committee on Inventions and Innovation, further directed the committee to identify credible research products with potentials to impact all gamut of national life. The Minister of State for Science and Technology, Mohammed Abdullahi disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday when he received a young Nigerian Inventor, Usman Dalhatu, a Chemical Engineering student of Ahmadu…
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has told Nigerian doctors planning to emigrate to the United Kingdom to take note of the fact that they will not be paid hazard allowance if they do so. Ehanire said this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 on Thursday. The minister was responding to a question regarding the failed attempt of 58 doctors to travel to the UK last week. Checks by our correspondent showed that until June, medical doctors in Nigeria earned N5,000 or $12.95 as monthly hazard allowances The 58 doctors, who had received provisional employment…
THE Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has directed investigation into the alleged breach of airport protocol by some dignitaries. He said anyone found guilty risks imprisonment for not less than two months. Sirika said some dignitaries have been alleged to have flouted airport protocols. The dignitaries are: the former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, the governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had condemned the conduct of Yari and Fintiri in series of tweet posted on Wednesday and Thursday, on its official twitter handle, @FAAN_Official. It was alleged that Fintiri refused to have…
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday moved to end the recriminations over alleged corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and vowed to get to the root of the matter. The president ordered an effective and coordinated probe by security and investigating agencies along with the National Assembly on allegations and counter allegations of corruption rocking the NDDC. The House of Representatives Committee on NDDC also yesterday resolved to issue a warrant for the arrest of the acting Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the commission, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, after he and his team walked out on the…
This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday, July 16,2020. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday, July 16 reported that there are 595 new cases of coronavirus in Nigeria. The NCDC via its official Twitter account revealed that the new cases are as follows: Lagos-156 Ondo-95 Rivers-53 Abia-43 Oyo-38 Enugu-29 Edo-24 FCT-23 Kaduna-20 Akwa Ibom-17 Anambra-17 Osun-17 Ogun-14 Kano-13 Imo-11 Delta-6 Ekiti-5 Gombe-4 Plateau-4 Cross River-2 Adamawa-1 Bauchi-1 Jigawa-1 Yobe-1 This means there are now 34,854 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. While 14,292 have been discharged, 769 people have died…