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TikTok has officially announced that it is shutting down in the United States on January 19th after no shortage of back and forth. TikTok is one of the biggest apps on the entire planet. It largely changed the way many consume media over the last decade or so and succeeded Vine, another app for short form videos. TikTok grew extremely popular for its incredibly addictive algorithm that provided videos that targeted users based on their interests. While most social media platform apps do this, TikTok’s algorithm is certainly one of the best at keeping users engaged for extended periods of…
Peter Obi and Governor Otti’s Caretaker Committee Reject Appeal Court Ruling Reinstating Julius Abure as Leader The Labour Party’s leadership crisis escalated on Saturday following the Court of Appeal’s decision to validate Julius Abure’s position as the party’s national chairman. This ruling, delivered less than 24 hours earlier, upheld the legitimacy of the party’s March 2024 national convention in Nnewi, Anambra State. Despite the court’s decision, a 29-member caretaker committee, established by Abia State Governor Alex Otti and the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi, has challenged Abure’s leadership. In a statement issued in Abuja, the committee, led by…
US President-elect Donald Trump has launched his own cryptocurrency, appropriately called $TRUMP, sparking feverish buying that sent its market capitalization soaring on Saturday to several billion dollars. In a message posted on his Truth Social platform and X, Trump unveiled the so-called meme coin, which is designed to capitalize on the popularity of a certain personality, movement or viral internet trend. Meme coins have no economic or transactional value, and are often seen as a means of speculative trading. “This Trump Meme celebrates a leader who doesn’t back down, no matter the odds,” says the coin’s official site, which makes…
Tragedy struck in the Amai community, Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State, as a 70-year-old man, Mr Aghanti, and his 50-year-old daughter, Mrs Atagoshi, were reportedly beheaded over a land dispute. The gruesome incident occurred after the suspect allegedly lured the victims into the bush under the pretext of discussing the land issue. Their headless bodies were later discovered in the bush. State reporters gathered that the woman, a secondary school teacher, had earlier purchased a piece of land in the community, which some individuals subsequently claimed. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Taraba State University, has suspended its strike, which began on December 5, 2024. This is contained in a statement released in Jalingo, the state capital, on Saturday and signed by the Chairperson of the union in the university, Dr. Garba Joshua. The union leader said the strike was due to the Taraba State Government’s partial implementation of agreements with the union, including funding of the university, payment of Earned Academic Allowances, staff pension and gratuity, backlog of salaries, the constitution of a governing council, and minimum wage adjustments. Joshua, who thanked the state governor,…
The Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has described the just concluded local government election in Ondo State as a victory for all and the advancement of democracy. The council poll was held across the eighteen local government areas of the state on Saturday. While congratulating the winners of the election, the Minister commended other contestants for their courage and display of sportsmanship. The Minister further described the election as a proof to the growing maturity of Nigeria’s democratic institutions, as well as the unwavering dedication of Ondo State citizens to grassroots governance. “As I reflect on this achievement, I am reminded…
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has revealed how his absolute faith in God earned him the sobriquet ‘Miracle Governor.’ Speaking during the KOLGA (Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area) Annual Day of Thanksgiving held in Sampou, his community, on Friday, the governor disclosed how in 2020, a senior citizen of Nigeria invited him to Abuja and advised him to perform certain rituals if he wanted to be governor but that he turned down the offer. He had challenged the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 2019 governorship poll as winner and the matter was then pending…
Katsina town was agog on Friday as dignitaries from different parts of the country trooped to the Bani Coomassie Juma’at Mosque to attend the wedding fatiha of four daughters of a renowned politician, business mogul and philanthropist, Senator Yakubu Lado Danmarke. The brides, Rukayya, Maryam, Fatima and Dr. Zainab Yakubu Lado, were given in marriage by a business mogul, Alhaji Dahiru Bara’u Mangal on behalf of Senator Lado. Rukayya Yakubu Lado was married to Abubakar Zaharaddeen, who was represented by a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, while Fatima Yakubu Lado was married to Khalid Kabir…
Bosun Tijani, the Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, has disclosed that the anticipated hike in telecom service prices may push the floor costs of calls, SMS, and data up by between 30 and 60 percent. This is less than the 100 percent that telecommunication firms have asked for. The minister disclosed this recently while appearing on a Channels TV program, where he insisted that the 100 percent increment requested by the telecom operators is impossible. The minister noted that the increase will be between 30 percent and 60 percent. “It shouldn’t be more than anywhere between 30 percent…
According to the report, a large portion of the funds was dedicated to supplying essential food staples such as rice, beans, maize, and other commodities. The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government reportedly spent a total of N9.74billion for the procurement and distribution of food items as part of its efforts to mitigate the nationwide food crisis in 2024. This was revealed by BudgIT on its platform, GovSpend, a civic-tech organisation advocating for transparency and accountability. According to the report, a large portion of the funds was dedicated to supplying essential food staples such as rice, beans, maize, and other commodities.…