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. […]
Kolanut to Nigeria’s constitution advisory committee
African Independent Television, AIT, made life-broadcasts of the zonal sittings of Nigeria’s Constitution Advisory Committee. I did not know they did that until callers drew my attention to it. I had just made, on behalf of the Obowu Development Association, a presentation to the Committee sitting at Umuahia. It was on Obowu people’s thoughts on the agenda and modalities for the conference.
A tale of two operations
ON a hot, sweaty May 1958 afternoon, two adults and one adolescent stood in front of a room on the balcony at Tedder Hall in UniversityCollege, Ibadan. Posted on the door was the bold notice in capital letters: “OPERATION LONDON, 33 DAYS”. Silence and bewilderment; then solemnity.
ASUU and FG’s ultimatum
The media calls it breaking news. The news is that the Federal Government has given the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, one week ultimatum to call off the ongoing strike. The acting Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, stated this while briefing journalists in Abuja.
FG’s sack threat to ASUU: A throwback to the dark era of military rule
The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, considers the threat by the Federal Government to sack striking academic staff of public universities unless they resume duties on or before December 4 as the height of Dr Goodluck Jonathan presidency’s creeping dictatorship.
Who will save Anambra from itself
The issue of AnambraState is a classical case study of a paradox. A state with so much potentials in both human and material resources struggling to find a headway. A state that has produced great leaders for Nigeria -Azikiwes, Okigbos, Ekwensis, Ekwuemes, Anyaokus, Ojukwus and many others, finding it difficult to get leadership to pilot its affairs.
