A new bill passed by the South African parliament is seeking to regulate how users share nudes and other intimate contents on the Facebook-owned instant messaging app, WhatsApp. The bill which was mooted in 2017 and has undergone a lot of changes, criminalizes revenge porn and cracks down on some cyber crimes associated with the instant messaging…
A father took to Twitter to share his daughter’s list of demands and it has gone viral as Twitter users marvel at how high her standards are. In her list, Tirenioluwa Idowu asked for a house in Lekki, beside her school, pets, swing and trampoline in specific colours, food bowls in specific colours too, beds in same colours. She…
Former Argentina manager, Alejandro Sabella has tragically died at the age of 66. His death comes less than two weeks after the passing of Diego Maradona, who played with Sabella for the Argentine national side in the 1980s. According to The Sun, Sabella was ‘rushed to a specialist hospital’ at the end of last month after suffering…
The All Progressives Congress’ former National Vice Chairman (South-South), Hilliard Eta has been expelled from the party. The decision was taken on Tuesday December 8, after a meeting convened by the National Executive Council of the party, and attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate president Ahmad Lawan, and the speaker of the House of Representatives,…
Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC) Nasir Kwarra on Tuesday December 8, announced that the country’s population figure is now officially 206 million. The NPC Chairman who spoke to newsmen in Abuja on the commencement of the next Enumeration Area Demarcation, noted that Nigeria had not been able to hold a census in the last 14 years. Kwarra said…
The Ooni of Ife has formally welcomed his newborn son and the child’s mother to the palace. A welcome ceremony was held in the Palace, with the Queen presenting the newborn Prince to the Ooni who then sat on his throne with his heir in his arms. Sharing photos from the ceremony to Instagram, the monarch wrote:…
The Federal Government has denied claims made by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, that it has failed to honor the promises made for it to call off its eight-months-old strike.Ogunyemi in a media chat stated that the union is yet to call off the protracted strike as the…
President Buhari has sacked the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Dr Nasiru Mohammed Ladan Argungu. Dr Argungu was relieved of his appointment in a memo released last week Friday, December 4, 2020. According to the memo, the sack took effect from Monday, December 7. A statement released by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media…
Bashir Ahmad, the personal assistant to President Buhari on New Media, says a lot has changed in Borno state under the Buhari-led administration. Bashir stated this on his Twitter handle this afternoon while reacting to the comment by the state governor, Babagana Zulum, who said the security situation in the state has since improved under…
Romania’s prime minister Ludovic Orban on Monday December 7, resigned following a narrow election defeat to the left-leaning populists. Romania’s opposition Social Democrats took a surprise lead over the governing National Liberals after a parliamentary election but appear less likely to emerge on top in what promises to be prolonged post-election wrangling to form a new coalition…