Sim-swap fraud now in vogue
By Owolola Adebola We are in a period when a smartphone functions as a digital wallet, identity card, and security key all at once. One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook has returned with a vengeance. SIM-swap fraud is at it. It is also known as SIM swapping, SIM hijacking, or phone-number takeover. […]
Another futile attempt to distract Magu’s anti-corruption crusade
By Timothy Badmus Afolabi TO say that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft crusade is bearing fruits and closing all apertures of corruption and sending shivers into the spine of corrupt elements across the country is an under-statement. It is, therefore, not surprising when these corrupt elements fight back and vow to destroy the captain of the […]
N-Power and Sadiya Farouk’s detractors
By Emma Agu In my early days as editor, one day, as I agonised openly over what I had considered was a misreading of my intentions leading, at times, to hostility towards me, my colleague Tony Nzotta, asked me to come over to the newsroom. Nzotta had a penchant for the dramatic. Once we got […]
The COVID-19 distraction
By Adewale Kupoluyi IN the last one month, it has been tales of agony, pain and regrets for many people who lost their relatives and loved ones not to the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic but rather, what the novel virus has triggered off in terms of mismanagement and poor response to public health across the country. […]
10-kilometre walk in rememberance of Bruce Mayrock (1949 – 1969)
By Chike Anyaonu I got to know about this name, Bruce Mayrock, some four years ago through Barrister CHUDI Ofodile’s book titled The Politics of Biafra: and The Future Of Nigeria and published by Safari Books Limited, Ibadan in 2016. Ever since then, I have been trying to dig deeper and deeper into the archives to […]
George Floyd protests: Are US citizens not afraid of covid-19 anymore?
Many protests have been launched in US, following the alleged killing of George Floyd, a black African-American man by a police officer in Minneapolis.
