Nigerian reggae icon Ras Kimono, has died, sources close to the musician said, according to multiple reports on Sunday. The online news platform, QED said Kimono was said to have taken ill on Saturday on his way to the US. Friends rushed him to a hospital in Ikeja from where he was transferred to Lagoon Hospital in Ikoyi. He died on Sunday morning.
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The Chief Executive of Kurecion Foundation, Mr Abikure Tega, has called for the use of block chain technology to address fraud in the country´s taxation system. He made the call on Sunday in Abuja at a training session organised by the foundation for some members of the public on the technology and how they could tap into its facilities. Tega explained that block chain has the capacity to handle trust which makes it a top choice and the easiest and most efficient infrastructure among users of currencies across the world.…
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Italy’s new populist government will refuse to let a humanitarian boat carrying more than 600 refugees and migrants dock at any of its ports and has asked the tiny Mediterranean country of Malta to open its doors to the vessel, according to media reports. Malta said it had nothing to do with the rescue operation, opening the prospect of a diplomatic standoff between the two European Union allies. “From now also Italy begins to say NO to the traffic of human beings, NO to the business of illegal immigration,” Matteo…
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A daughter of the late MKO Abiola, Tundun Abiola, on Sunday said it was not by election that former President Olusegun Obasanjo got into office. She believes that the former president was appointed by the then military regime to compensate the people of the South-West region for the death of her father – the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election. “Obasanjo was appointed the president, he was not elected president. We did not have any election in 1999, we had a coronation,” Tundun stated during an interview…
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Many who lost out in the politics of the 1990s would want Nigerians to believe that Gen. Sani Abacha was the greatest evil to have befallen the country. They are wrong. It took an Abacha to expose the average Nigerian politician as a fraud, a gangster, a selfish moron, and worse. The generation of Nigerian leaders before us – the generation that fought a civil war – are perhaps the worst human beings ever created. They lie. They steal. They attempt to rewrite history at every given opportunity. I write…
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Chinese government hackers breached a US naval contractor and made off with more than 600 gigabytes of data, American officials speaking to two US media outlets said. The breaches occured in January and February and affected a contractor working on submarines and underwater weapons, the Washington Post first reported on Friday. The Post said that those behind the breach are alleged to have obtained secret plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile. The newspaper reported that while the data was housed on the contrator’s unclassified network, when aggregated, officials said the…
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