TikTok, the short video social media platform owned by Bytedance, said that it has deleted 1.7 million recordings from Nigerian users during the fourth quarter of 2023. Explaining reasons for the action via its Community Guidelines Enforcement report, the platform said Nigeria was among the top 50 countries where videos violating its policies ...
Findings by have revealed that indigenous ship owners were not part of the numbers of vessels that have lined up at the Dangote Refinery to load diesel and aviation fuel. Recall that while speaking with newsmen last week, the Executive Director of the Dangote Group, Devakumar Edwin, was quoted to have said “We have substantial […]
•Adebayo Adelabu National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) has called on the Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, to resign his position as a result of the electricity situation in the country. The national student body, also called on other ministers who they claimed are not active to step down from office, reports Nigerian Tribune....
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the detention of a Nigerian accused of being a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Emmanuel Osase, for 60 days. The trial judge, Inyang Ekwo, gave the order following a motion ex-parte filed by the Department of State Servicesmarked FHC/ABJ/CS/409/2024, reports The PUNCH. At […]
•Lekki deep seaport Despite the hype about the phenomenal offerings of the $1.5 billion Lekki deep seaport and other terminals in Nigeria, no Nigerian port made the top 100 ports in the recent global ranking by Lloyd’s List Intelligence. Asides the Lekki deep seaport, Nigeria has numerous sea terminals like; Apapa port, Tin Can Island [&hellip...
When William Wilberforce and other abolitionists achieved their aim of ending slavery, little did they know that this act of man’s inhumanity to man would continue in other forms, long after they had departed this world. Similarly, in the early 60s, Herbert Marshall McLuhan, a globally-acclaimed scholar of media studies posited that the world ...
Nigeria-born activist Richard Taylor, who lost his son Damilola to murder in UK at only 10 years, is dead. He died yesterday following a protracted illness, his family announced. He was aged 75. Following the circumstances of Damilola’s death in November 2000, the father set up the Damilola Taylor Trust to campaign against knife crime [&hellip...
Nigerian creators can now monetise their content starting from June 2024, according to Meta. Meta, the parent company of social media platforms Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, said this yesterday. Meta’s President of Global Affairs Sir Nick Clegg spoke about this when he led a delegation of Meta Platforms Incorporated to visit President Bol...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Binance Holdings Limited to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with comprehensive information on all persons from Nigeria trading on its platform. The court handed down the order in an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC demanding information about Nigerians trading on Binance, reports ...
•Chief Emeka Anyaoku Elder Statesman and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has said the current 1999 constitution lacks legitimacy expected in a pluralistic country like Nigeria. He said the constitution is not suitable to address the myriad of challenges confronting Nigeria and called for the adoption of the r...

