The impending move to suspend accounts found deliberately provoking users by deceitfulness in online engagement farming made by Musk in an announcement via a tweet on his X handle on Friday was deemed timely and a welcomed decision by notable online publishers led by our humble team. Engagement farming is said to refer to practices done in order to get more interaction metrics on social media without adding any specific value. Recall that in March, Musk said he may remove visible engagement metrics such as likes and reposts from posts on the X platform. In July 2023, he also set…
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Nigerian Army troops have successfully repelled an attack by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militia arm, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), in Okija, Ihiala LGA, Anambra. In a post on its X Handle on Friday, the army said the dissidents, armed with AK-47 rifles and riding in two Lexus vehicles and motorbikes, launched a surprise attack on the town, opening fire at troops engaged in internal security operations. It said the troops swiftly and decisively responded and countered the attack, killing unconfirmed numbers of the attackers, while others fled the scene with gunshot wounds, as traces…
Valentine Buraimoh, chairman of Amuwo Odofin LGA, has cautioned students against imbibing foreign cultures that could harm them and society. Mr Buraimoh gave the advice during an art competition organised for secondary schools in Amuwo on Thursday in Lagos. Culture Art Academy organised the event with Amuwo Odofin LGA and the National Council of Arts and Culture. The council chairman said education was the best legacy any family or government could give children, adding that culture is a way of life guiding individuals in the right direction. “However, in educating students, they have been exposed to norms and values from…
A former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and some eminent Nigerians have paid glowing tributes to the late Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh. Ojuogboh, a former member of the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007, died on February 8, 2024. He died while watching the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Bafana Bafana of South Africa. The eminent personalities poured out their tributes at the “National Evening of Tributes” in honour of the late Ojuogboh. Sheriff, the Chairman of the Organising Committee, said: “I’m still shocked that Ojuogboh is no more.…
Former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, said on Sunday that a governor implementing Sharia law stole state funds and used the money to build a hotel in Lagos as a result of greed. While he did not mention the name of the governor, Sanusi said his state remained a “most serious example of backwardness.”. Sanusi, who spoke as a guest lecturer during a virtual Ramadan lecture titled “Some dimensions of the concept of ibadah”, said greed, selfishness, and envy are “much greater sins” than unlawful sex, homosexuality, and gambling. The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
The holidaying for some of the current Ministers and other appointees is over. Hadiza Bala Usman and her team will be launching the newly upgraded Citizens’ Delivery Tracker App today. This means every citizen can now at their comfort GENUINELY monitor and report the performances of Ministries, Departments and Agencies using the App President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recognizes the fact that the citizens are integral stakeholders in monitoring and evaluating his government’s performance, hence the need to make us fully involved This initiative will promote transparency and accountability in an unprecedented way The app will be available for download on…
It was the morning of December 26, 1983 at the shooting of ‘Blues for a Prodigal’, a film by Wole Soyinka. The dry, mild harmattan morning was filled with dust and haze. The location was the Rotunda, a small bar, tidily tucked in at the back corner of the vast Oduduwa Hall complex of the University of Ife (as it was known then). The unique architectural feature of the Rotunda was its round and almost squat-like design with a door and several large, similarly round windows which were almost the size (but not the regular rectangular shape) of french windows.…
Not a day goes by without Lawan Zanna remembering his daughter Aisha in prayers. She was among the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped 10 years ago when Islamic extremists broke into their school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village. “It makes me so angry to talk about it,” said Zanna, 55, whose daughter is among the nearly 100 girls still missing after the 2014 kidnappings that stunned the world and sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign. The Chibok kidnapping was the first major school abduction in the West African nation. Since then, at least 1,400 students have been kidnapped, especially in the…
