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Twitter Inc, on Wednesday, was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company. Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter’s employee benefits programmes as its “head of total rewards” before she was laid off in January, filed the proposed class action in San Francisco Federal Court. McMillian claims that under a severance plan created by Twitter in 2019, most workers were promised two months of their base pay plus one week of pay for each full year of service…

The Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, has given Department of the State Security Service (DSS) a one-week ultimatum to either charge the detained Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele to court or set him free. Justice Hamza Muazu gave the order while delivering a ruling in a fundamental human rights suit instituted against the DSS and others by Emefiele. According to Muazu, Emefiele has not shown that his arrest and investigation are unlawful, but noted that it is within his right to get a fair hearing. Also read; DSS Arrests former CBN Governor Emefiele The Judge further…

The Senate,  during its plenary on Thursday, July 13, confirmed the nomination of service chiefs recently appointed by President Bola Tinubu. Senate’s confirmation was sequel to the consideration and approval of a motion brought by Senate Majority leader, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) on confirmation of the shortlisted service chiefs. Before their confirmation, the Senate suspended its order 1b and rule 1b, to make provision for the admission of strangers into its chambers. Those admitted into the chambers included the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Abdullahi Gumel, the nominated service chiefs and other strangers. Service…

A retired civil servant, Chief Solomon Eke, is to collect N8,767,707 million gratuity from Rivers State Government, a court has ordered. Justice Faustina Kola-Olalere of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, NICN, Port Harcourt ordered the government to pay the retiree but now paralytic. The court also okayed N2,000,000 as General Damages, and N500,000 cost of action totalling N11,267,000 to be paid to the plaintiff within 30 days. Also read: Anambra Pensioners Turn Backs On Gov Obiano’s Christmas Rice Justice Kola-Olalere ruled that Chief Eke has proved his gratuity entitlement to the satisfaction of the court and in compliance with…

The Imo Police Command has apprehended a 29-year-old man for allegedly killing his friend, harvesting and selling his vital organs to ritualists at N1.5 million. The suspect, Emeka Egbuaba, an indigene of Ihitte–Owerre community in Orlu Local Government Area of the state was paraded alongside other suspects in the state Police command. The State Police-Public command spokesman, Henry Okoye (ASP) who briefed journalists on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, on Wednesday said the case involved brutal murder and harvesting of the vital body organs of a man by his close friend. Also read; Suspects killing First-class…

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) off its east coast on Wednesday, prompting U.S, and leaders of South Korea and Japan who met on the sidelines of a NATO summit. The missile flew for 74 minutes to an altitude of 6,000 km (3,728 miles) and range of 1,000 km, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said, in what would be the longest ever flight time for a North Korean missile. Experts say that the latest test could be part of the North’s efforts to save face and retake the initiative after a failed launch of its first-ever spy satellite in…

The Bayelsa State Police Command has apprehended three suspects for killing a man who allegedly stole bread from a bakery. Ebimotimi Freeborn, 32, was accused of always visiting the bakery at night to steal Madiga, a locally baked bread, but fell out of luck when the suspecting workers in the bakery set an ambush caught him in the act, Straightnews learnt. A first-class graduate of the University of Ibadan, Ebimotimi was killed in the early hours of Sunday at Honeyhill, Tombia in Bayelsa State for allegedly stealing bread. Ebimotimi from Korokorosei community of Southern Ijaw Local Government area bagged Business…

The Threads app launched by Instagram as a rival to Twitter has signed more than 100 million users in five days, data tracking websites said on Monday, smashing the record of AI tool ChatGPT for fastest-growing consumer app. While ChatGPT took two months to hit the 100 million user mark and video-sharing app TikTok took nine months, Instagram itself took two and a half years to reach that mark after its 2010 launch. Threads went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries late on Wednesday, though it is not available in Europe because parent company Meta is…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Akwa Ibom command, says the 15 suspects arrested in possession of illegally refined petroleum products would be charged to court. Mr Eluyemi Eluwade, State Commandant of the corps, who stated this while briefing journalists in Uyo on Tuesday, said the corps also impounded seven trucks loaded with 315,000 litres of the products. Eluwade said acting on credible intelligence, men of the Anti-Vandal Squad of the command arrested the suspects along Calabar–Itu Federal Highway on July 7. Also read:  NSCDC Nabs 8 suspects, seizes 7 trucks with adulterated AGO in Akwa Ibom According to him, our rejigged…

Anambra State Government has offered scholarship to Miss Nkechinyere Umeh for emerging the best performing candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Christian Aburime, Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s Press Secretary on Tuesday. The 16-year-old Umeh who scored 360 out of 400 is a student of Deeper Life High School, Mowe in Ogun State. Also read: 2023 UTME: High performance of DLHS students credited to Leadership Soludo congratulated the remarkable student on making the state proud with her exceptional performance. “The governor has announced a well-deserved scholarship for her to study any…