Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has been attacked by supporters of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The supporters alleged that Obi was allegedly mocked by the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in his Easter message via his verified twitter handle. An Easter message by the governor, which was posted on his Facebook timeline, had wished Anambra people a happy Easter celebration but added that a headless mob killed Christ because of their emotions, which collided with the truth embodied by Christ. Recalled that Soludo had in a piece written in November 2022…
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A Kuwaiti media outlet has unveiled a virtual news presenter generated using artificial intelligence, with plans for it to read online bulletins. “Fedha” appeared on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website on Saturday as an image of a woman, her light-coloured hair uncovered, wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt. “I’m Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with artificial intelligence at Kuwait News. What kind of news do you prefer? Let’s hear your opinions,” she said in classical Arabic. The site is affiliated with the Kuwait Times, founded in 1961 as the Gulf region’s first…
The Senate wing of the National Assembly witnessed a bit of drama on Wednesday when two lawyers, Oladotun Hassan and Myson Nejo, who wrote a petition against the Executive Director of Nexim Bank, Stella Okotete, accused Senator Ayo Akinyelure of taking sides during a committee sitting. The duo had written a petition to the National Assembly through Akinyelure, Chairman Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to look into the issue of the ED of Nexim Bank. The petition filed by Hassan and Nejo called for a reversal of Okotete’s appointment stating that she was not qualified to hold…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC, makers of Peak Milk, over what it called an offensive Easter advert. In a statement on Monday, General Secretary of CAN, Barrister Joseph Daramola, asked the company to retract the advert, tender an apology to Christians or face legal action and boycott of their products. In the controversial advert, the company used the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a metaphor to promote their product. “We find this advert to be insensitive, offensive, and totally unacceptable. Good Friday is a solemn day for Christians all over the world,…
By Valentine Obienyem The last election in Nigeria was the worst in its electoral history. Have you asked yourself why it was only APC and Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu that failed to condemn non-transmission of results from the polling booths to the central server even before the results were announced? The election has created deep divisions among Nigerians, who belong to diverse ethnic and religious groups because Tinubu charged his supporters to secure victory for him by any means possible. Alas, we have seen how his followers used the ethnic and religious card, Ayo masquerade festival, guns, cudgels, threats,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been urged by Imo Youths for a New Nigeria to consider correcting its mistakes with the Kogi and Bayelsa gubernatorial elections. INEC had come under severe criticism over its conduct of the elections which many had described as flawed by a number of operational failures and other irregularities. The convener of the group, Chidiebube Okeoma, at a news conference in Owerri on Saturday, claimed the electoral commission had failed to meet up with the expectations of millions of Nigerians. Okeoma, therefore, urged INEC to take advantage of the forthcoming supplementary elections to correct…
General Requirements for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Recruitment 2020/2023 All Applicants must be a citizen of Nigeria Strong team spirit and excellent analytical skills Must not be married at the time of application interested applicants must be of good behavior and composure Not less than 1.63 metres for females and 1.68 metres for male in height. Interested candidates must have good communication skills must possess a minimum of five credits in no more than two sittings in West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE), National Examination Council (NECO), and General Certificate of Education (GCE). Credit in English is compulsory…
•APC considering S-East for Senate president; N-West, N-Central for speakership As the race for the leadership of the incoming 10th National Assembly, in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, gathers momentum, strong indication has emerged that Senator Godswill Akpabio may have dropped his ambition to run for Senate President. In the alternative, he is said to be pursuing a ministerial appointment in the cabinet of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It will be recalled that Akpabio, a former Minority Leader of the Senate and immediate past minister of Niger Delta Affairs in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari,…
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the course of the week, condemned the use of terrorism as a tool in inter communal conflicts, urging that the attackers of innocent citizens in Benue must be found and dealt with swiftly under the law. The Nigerian leader gave the order while condemning the recent bout of killings in Benue, in which tens of people were killed in Umogidi community, Entekpa-Adoka in Otukpo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The President urged that all efforts be made to end the “extreme violence”. Also Read: Gunmen raid Benue community, kill Policeman, 45 others He also…
No fewer than 15 occupants of a Toyota bus were killed and burnt beyond recognition on Saturday when the bus had a head-on collision with a Mercedes truck on the Port Harcourt-Enugu Highway. Spokesperson of the FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, an assistant corps marshal, confirmed the accident in a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja. Mr Kazeem stated that the accident took place at the Enugu end of the highway at about 8.20 p.m. “The victims have been given mass burial. All obstructions have been cleared. Enugu State Fire Service already extinguished the fire on the bus. “The fatal…
The arraignment of former a president of the United States, Donald Trump, has stirred interests across the globe including Nigeria which has a fledgling democracy. Trump was on Tuesday arraigned in a Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on allegations of covering up hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Before the charges were filed before the court, a 23-member grand jury heard evidence of the former president’s role in the hush money scheme, including testimonies from Daniels and Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, leading to his indictment. Trump, a front-runner…
Loan apps on Play Store will lose their ability to access their users’ contacts or photos from May 31, 2023. This came as the Federal Government said it would enforce the latest policy by Google, saying the action was consistent with the Nigerian authorities’ move to curtail the invasion of customers’ privacy by loan app firms. The Federal Government had in recent time taken major decisions aimed at tackling the violation of customers’ privacy by loan apps. Notably, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission had recently registered 170 loan apps out of the 200 operating in the country. Google,…