The Federal Government has ordered online interactive platforms, such as Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok to ensure that they remove, disable or block access to any non-consensual content, which displays partial or full nudity, sexual acts, deep fake or revenge porn within 24 hours. This order was included in the recently released Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries (online platforms). According to the document, these online platforms have to “act expeditiously to remove, disable, or block access to non-consensual content that exposes a person’s private areas, full or partial nudity, sexual act, or revenge…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has dragged the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, before the National Industrial Court in Benin following suspension of union activities across state-owned higher institutions. The suspended unions are ASUU, Non-Academic Staff of Universities (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Non-Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and all allied Unions Other defendants in the suit are Edo State Government and Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice. The suit filed by Kingsley Obamogie on behalf of claimants, Dr. Cyril Onogbosele (Chairmen) and Dr. William Odion (Assistant Secretary) of ASUU,…
Senate chief whip Orji Uzor Kalu has warned APC and its presidential candidate Bola Tinubu that a Muslim-Christian ticket will make it difficult for Mr Tinubu to be president in 2023. Mr Kalu worried that Mr Tinubu “is a minority Muslim” from the South. “Do you want me to speak the truth? If I am Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose wife is a senior pastor at a Pentecostal church, I will go for a Muslim-Muslim ticket,” the former Abia governor pointed out. He added, “After all, if we win, the wife is already a pastor. This is my own opinion,…
Professor Femi Soyinka, the renowned researcher and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has died at 85. Soyinka was the younger brother of Nobel laureate and professor of comparative literature, Wole Soyinka. According to a statement by his family, Soyinka died in the early hours of Tuesday at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State. The statement reads: “The Soyinka Family of Ake/Isara, Ogun State, has announced the passing of their father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle Professor Femi Soyinka, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, 14…
ADO-EKITI—PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2023 election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, described Ekiti election as the litmus test for next year’s presidential election, urging the people of the state not to let the party down. He said the party cannot afford to lose the state, the more reason all the warring parties within the APC must bury their hatchets and come together to ensure victory for the party’s candidate in the Saturday’s election. Tinubu was in Ekiti in company of 14 APC governors for the grand finale political rally, for the governorship candidate…
It is up to APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and not the party’s governors to decide who will be the vice-presidential candidate, says Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo. “The decision also to choose a running mate does not reside with any of us, the governors. It is the presidential candidate that will look at the local characteristics and every factor – political and apolitical – that will make him win his election and take the decision,” said Mr Uzodimma. “So it’s not a decision that we will sit here and take for the candidate.” He stated this when he addressed…
The Nigerian Army has announced the dates for the recruitment screening exercise for applicants of the 83 Regular Intake 2022 for Non-Tradesmen and Women. In a public announcement contained in a series of tweets posted to its verified Twitter page late Tuesday, @HQNigerianArmy, the Nigerian Army says, “The state recruitment screening exercise is scheduled to commence from 28 June – 11 July 2022 in all the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory Abuja.” It also directs applicants to visit its recruitment portal at https://recruitment.army.mil.ng. “The Nigerian Army wishes to inform the general public & all applicants that applied for 83…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said that he has never failed in an election before. Tinubu said this at APC the rally held on Tuesday in Ekiti ahead of the governorship election in the state to drum up support for the party’s candidate in the election, Biodun Oyebanji. The governorship election in the state is slated for Saturday, June 18, 2022. Tinubu said, “I’ve never failed an election before.” Tinubu, who also spoke in the Yoruba language said, “To ba t’eka, o le te owo” meaning, “if you don’t vote, you can’t…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced two drug traffickers, Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwane, who were linked to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, to six years imprisonment. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by trial Justice Emeka Nite, convicted Umeibe and Ezenwanne on counts 5, 6 and 7 of the drug trafficking charge the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, preferred against them. It will be recalled that the duo, who were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu while attempting to smuggle cocaine…
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has begun a one-month strike, effective Tuesday 14th of June. The Union made the decision after a meeting at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, Delta State, on Friday, June 10, where it assessed the level of federal governments response to its requests, following the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum issued to government on the lingering issues of the industrial concerns. The strike action was disclosed to newsmen in a communique signed by COEASU President, Dr. Smart Olugbeko and General Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Bazza…