Meta to pay Texas $1.4bn for biometric data breach
Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, has agreed to pay $1.4bn to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas over the illegal use of facial-recognition technology to collect…
NNPCL projects two million barrels of oil daily production
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has announced its goal to increase crude oil production to 2 million barrels per day by the end of the year. The country’s daily…
Abia gov unveils council on ease of doing business
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has inaugurated the state council on the Ease of Doing Business. Otti inaugurated the council on Monday which has the Deputy Governor Ikechukwu Emetu as…
Police nab three rice thieves in Nasarawa
The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly stealing 96 bags of 50 kilograms of rice from a businessman in the Nassarawa Eggon Local Government Area of…
Groups ‘call off’ planned nationwide protest in North Central
Some groups on Tuesday announced that they have called off the planned national protest in the North Central states of Nigeria. The Take It Back movement (North Central), Middle Belt…
Hunger protest: Shun violence, Otti tells Abia youths
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has appealed to traditional rulers, leaders of religious organisations, and other community leaders to advise their people against resorting to violence, even as youths across…
TADI urges Nigerians to shelve protest, dialogue with government
Ahead of the August 1 planned nationwide hunger protest, a civil society organisation, Transparency Advocacy for Development Initiative, TADI, has called on Nigerians to give peace a chance by engaging…
August 1: We can’t snub our elders – Katsina youth coalition shuns protest
The Nigeria First Project Initiative has called on Nigerian youths to give the government of President Bola Tinubu a little more time to tackle pressing economic challenges. The group also…
‘External forces behind purported suspension of Agballah, others’ – Enugu APC stakeholders
Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State have declared the reported suspension of the party’s chairman in the State, Barr Ugochukwu Agballah as a nullity. They made…
Gov Ododo urges Nigerian youths to shun protest
Kogi State Governor Ahmed Ododo has appealed to youths in the country to shun the proposed protest scheduled for August 1st to 10th, 2024. Ododo made the appeal on Tuesday…