Month: August 2017

Experts to tackle effect of cybercrime on businesses – coordinator

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Mr. Tayo Adewusi, Coordinator, Africa Digital Forum and Awards (ADA), on Sunday in Lagos said that cyber security had become a crucial factor to business growth. According to Adewusi, cyber security has become an important element to the modern connected world and as such, there is need to tackle its effect on businesses. He said that this year’s Nigeria ICT Impact CEO Forum (NIICF), Africa Digital Awards (ADA), was a platform where chief executive officers and industry regulators would tackle the issue. “Reports have it that the advent of internet…

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Mauritania abolishes ‘useless, too costly’ Senate

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Mauritania has joined Senegal in abolishing the Senate, its upper legislative chambers. It was one of the decisions made by voters in a referendum conducted at the weekend. The voters also decided to alter their national flag, the electoral commission announced on Sunday, in a clear victory for President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz the day after the vote. While turnout was 53.73 percent, 85 percent of voters on Saturday declared “Yes” to changes put to a referendum when they were defeated in the Senate in March, despite fierce criticism from…

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Igbo delegates, northern youths meet in Kano for peace talks

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Coalition of Northern Youth Groups have met in Kano State with members of the Igbo Delegate Assembly in the North to discuss unity. The meeting was held to proffer solutions to the problems of hate speeches and disunity in the country. Committees have been set up for the advanced peace talks between the two parties. The two groups met after paying courtesy visits to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on different occasions lately. The aim of the visits was to inform the Governor of their position on the state of…

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Four-goal Dutch win women’s Euro for first time

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A brace from Vivianne Miedema led hosts Netherlands to a 4-2 win over Denmark and their first women’s Euro title in Enschede on Sunday. Miedema pulled the hosts level at 1-1 on ten minutes and added her second goal two minutes from the end to round off the scoring, with Lieke Martens and skipper Sherida Spitse also scoring for the champions. Denmark took the lead as Nadia Nadim scored from the penalty spot on six minutes after Kika van Es had brought down Sanne Troelsgaard in the box. Miedema then…

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Meet Japan’s Wakamiya world’s oldest app maker

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App makers are usually expected to be tech nerds or whiz kids  in their teenage years or in the twenties. But  82-year-old Masako Wakamiya from Japan has bucked the trend. According to the AFP, the woman who  used an abacus for maths, when she started working, is  today  one of the world’s oldest iPhone app developers, a trailblazer in making smartphones accessible for the elderly. Frustrated by the lack of interest from the tech industry in engaging older people, she taught herself to code and set about doing it herself. The…

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190,000 sign petition to stop first lady office in France

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More than 190,000 people have expressed their opposition toward French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to create an official First Lady status for his wife, Brigitte Macron, as of Monday morning. The online petition was published on the change.org platform and created by Thierry Paul Valette, the founder of the “national equality” movement. The organisation’s aim is to combat corruption and discrimination. More than 190,000 people have expressed their opposition toward French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to create an official First Lady status for his wife, Brigitte Macron, as of Monday…

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Gov. Wike sacks Special Advisers

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Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Monday relieved all his Special Advisers of their appointments except one. A statement by Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Governor on Electronic Media, said only the Special Adviser on Religious Affairs, Bishop Winston Iwo was retained. No explanation has been given by the governor why he sacked the Special Advisers. The governor had earlier sacked the state’s Executive Council on June 24. The governor, who has less than two years into his first tenure, is yet to re-appoint new commissioners. After sacking…

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The false narratives of ethnic agitations and how to stop them

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Let me say how honoured I am first to share this platform today with General Yakubu Gowon who is rightly described as a living symbol of Nigerian unity. But I believe that his greatness lies in his policy of ‘no victor no vanquished’ when he began the process of healing a nation, bruised, damaged and embittered by a 3-year civil war. There is no question at all that great leadership comes from some sort of self-sacrifice, great leadership comes from some sort of compassion. I want to thank General Yakubu…

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NNPC, Shell, Chevron agree to boost FG revenue, oil reserves

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Two sets of alternative financing agreements on Joint Venture (JV) projects to boost reserves and production in line with government’s aspiration were executed in London on Monday between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and two of its JV partners: NNPC/Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) JV and NNPC/Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) JV. The two projects are expected to generate incremental revenues of about $16billion within the assets’ life cycle including a flurry of exploratory activities that would generate employment opportunities in the industry, boost gas supply to power and rejuvenate…

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About Nigeria’s confidence in the military

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It is time for every Nigerian to consciously resolve to stand up to support the Nigerian military in the counter-insurgency war. The time has come to collectively save Nigeria. It is a collective responsibility. What has kept sustaining splashes of terror attacks in the Northeast is the retrogressive feeling by some people that the job of fighting Boko Haram is exclusively for the military. But it means much more than such simplistic inclinations. Quite unfortunately, the hearts of patriotic Nigerians bled when perusing the comments on the July Boko Haram…

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