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Despite Twitter ban in Nigeria, Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai who surfaced on the microblogging platform on Wednesday, November 10 has come under fire by some Nigerians. This is as the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed Wednesday explained to journalists in Abuja why Twitter suspension in the country is yet to be lifted, noting that it has only fulfilled 10 out of 12 conditions given by the Federal Government. The Governor whose last tweet was on June 6, a day after the Nigerian government suspended the activities of Twitter, caught the attention of Nigerians when he replied…

Google lost an appeal against a €2.42-billion ($2.8 billion) antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for Europe’s competition chief in the first of three court rulings central to the EU push to regulate big tech. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals. The shopping case was the first of three decisions that saw Google rack up 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines in the last decade. The company could face defeats in…

The Joe Biden administration announced Wednesday to invest an additional $785 million to stymie the spread of the coronavirus in hardest-hit communities.   The financial stimulus will impinge on those who are at the highest risk of death and disease — people of color, people with disabilities, and people living in rural or low-income areas.   This infusion of money builds on billions of dollars invested in equity-focused programs, such as expanding access to vaccines at community health centers and supporting health workers that have helped decrease disparities in death rates and closed racial and ethnic gaps in vaccination rates among adults.…

A 24-year-old girl packed seven distinctions to emerge the overall best graduating medical student in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Dr. Uzoaku Odinakachukwu Amadi was Wednesday announced at the 18th Induction Physician’s Oath taking ceremony (Sponsio Academia) of the University. Amadi with registration number 13/CS/MB/701 also bagged best in Anatomy, Physiology, Clinical Biochemistry, Laboratory Medicine and Paediatrics. Others are Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Community Medicine, and Family Medicine. Born in 1997 from Imo State, she attended Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Owerri, and emerged the best graduating student from nursery to secondary schools’ level. The Ikeduru-born…

Despite criticisms from the public, the Senate Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Federal Government. The loans are $16,230,077,718, €1,020,000,000 and a grant component of $125,000,000.00 under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan” for the Federal Government. The World Bank, African Development Bank, and the French Development Agency (AFD) are among the funding agencies. Buhari had said the loans would stimulate the economy and create jobs. Senate’s approval was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. The report was presented by the Chairman of the Committee,…

For a second time, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, the general overseer of the Fountain of Life Church in Lagos, has lost two wives within an interval of 16 years. He took to social media to mourn his wife, Nomthi, who died Tuesday, November 9 after a two-year battle with cancer. Odukoya lost Bimbo, a televangelist and motivational speaker, who boarded Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145, on December 10, 2005 and the airliner crashed during landing at Port Harcourt International Airport but Bimbo died from injuries on December 11, 2005. In 2010, Pastor Odukoya married Rosemary Nomthi, a South African. In a post…

Owing to a walk-out by lawyers of the detained leader of  Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, his trial has been adjourned to January 19. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja adjourned when Kanu’s team of lawyers, staged a walk-out over refusal of operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, to allow some of them to gain access into the courtroom. Kanu, who was brought into the courtroom around 9:52 a.m, had shortly after his case was called up, bemoaned the refusal of security agents to allow some members of his legal team, especially…

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Professor Charles Soludo has coasted to victory in the Anambra governorship elections. Soludo won 19 of the 21 local government areas of Anambra State. “That Charles Chukwuma Soludo of APGA, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Professor Florence Obi, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Chief Returning Officer for the poll, announced the outcome Wednesday morning. Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (Mr Valentine Ozigbo) and Young Progressives Party (Senator Ifeanyi Ubah) each won a local government area. But the candidate of the All…

The Nigerian Senate has passed the harmonised version of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The bill was passed on Tuesday November 9, following the resumption of plenary by members of the National Assembly after a three-week recess and the harmonization of the bill by the Senate and the House of Representatives. Before the bill was passed, the senate had set-up a seven-man conference committee to meet with members of the House of Representatives Conference Committee to harmonise the differences in the Senate and House versions of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The constitution of the conference committee by both…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Akwa Ibom State Council, is grieved over the untimely demise of its former state Chairman, Comrade Unyime David Usoro. Usoro who served as the State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress from 2007 to 2015 passed onto eternity after a protracted illness on Wednesday, November 3. Comrade Sunny James, the state Chairperson of NLC, announced the death at Workers Solidarity Centre, Secretariat, Atan Offot, Uyo on Tuesday, November 9, described him as ”A Field Marshall of the Workers’ Liberation Movement.’’ Comrade James said ”Our Comrade literally gave his life to the Labour Movement, having spent all…