African continent accounts for 10% global cybercrime incidents – IDC, NUS
While governments are increasingly partnering with local associations and vendors to combat the scourge of piracy and the associated risk of cybercrime, a joint new study by IDC and the National University of Singapore (NUS), has revealed that African continent account for ten percent of global cybercrime incidents.
NIS death: ‘My daughter was preparing for her wedding’
Two of the five corpses that were brought in on Saturday to the Braithwait Memorial hospital from the venue of the screening exercise conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, at the Liberation stadium, Port Harcourt haver been identified by relatives.
National confab and delusion of Northern elders
THE leaders of the North, or those who say that they are leaders of the vast North, that supposedly includes the Igala, Tiv, Idoma, Nupe, Gbagyi, etc, gathered recently in Kano and indulged in what can best be described as an exercise in deception all in a desperate attempt to get power to return to a region which has been balkanised because of the natural tendency of some people to think that power belongs to them.
“We need safer skies” Sosoliso survivor, Kechi Okwuchi pleads in emotional video
This is not a recent video, but it’s essence is immortal. Kechi Okwuchi was one of the 61 student of Loyola Jesuit College that boarded the ill-fated Sosoliso flight 1145 that crashed on December 10, 2005, she survived along side Miss Bunmi Amusan now Mrs Adams but her life has not been the same.
Senate begins Emefiele’s screening as CBN gov
THE Senate will Thursday, commence the screening of Mr. Godwin Emefiele for appointment as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN
Fire guts Christ Embassy
Property worth millions of naira were, yesterday, destroyed when fire consumed the main auditorium of Christ Embassy Church, located on Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos.
19 Redeemed Church members, 36 others die in auto crashes
A multiple crash on the Potiskum-Maiduguri highway, involving three vehicles, Monday, killed 35 people, including 19 church members on their way back from Lagos, where they attended a religious meeting.
Confab: Group faults Ike Nwachukwu’s nomination to lead Ndigbo
ONITSHA — Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, has faulted the nomination of Senator Ike Nwachukwu as leader of Ndigbo delegates at the on-going national conference.
Reps move to probe NIS aptitude test mishap
ABUJA — The House of Representatives, yesterday, resolved to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of 21 job applicants during last Saturday aptitude test for recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS.
Pastor uses machete on wife for missing church programme
An Ogun State Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Owode Egba, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area, yesterday, remanded a Pastor, Samuel Daniel in prison for using a machete on his wife.
ASSAULT: My story, by Ekiti commissioner
Ekiti State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Kayode Olaosebikan, yesterday, denied ever assaulting a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member at Otun Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State, weekend.
