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A bill to regulate the use of Social Media as well as curb fake news on the internet has passed second reading at the Senate in Nigeria. The bill, ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill, 2019,’ sponsored by Mohammed Musa was introduced in the Senate two weeks ago. This comes a few years after […]

The son of Germany’s ex-president Richard von Weizsäcker was stabbed to death while giving a lecture in Berlin on Tuesday night, local police have confirmed. Fritz von Weizsäcker, a 59-year-old medical doctor, was delivering a lecture at the Schlosspark-Klinik hospital in the west Berlin district of Charlottenburg, a Berlin police spokesman told CNN. At about […]

Super Eagles forward, Ahmed Musa, has shown his charitable side after he was unveiled as brand ambassador of Skyline University in Kano on Wednesday. The Al Nassr star, who returned to action after being sidelined by an injury for a month, starred in the Eagles’ AFCON 2021 campaign against Lesotho and Benin Republic respectively, helping the […]

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum on Wednesday rejected the proposed death penalty for hate speech in the bill at the National Assembly. The governors also expressed their readiness to conclude negotiations with labour unions on the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage before the December 31 deadline. The governors spoke at the end of their seventh […]

Babcock University has confirmed that a young man and a lady having sex in a video that has since gone viral were indeed its students. The school, however, said both of them have since been expelled even as it maintained that the act did not take place on its premises. Babcock University said in a […]

The Church of England consecrated its first black female bishop on Tuesday in a ceremony at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Jamaican born Rose Hudson Wilkin, 58, the new Bishop of Dover, recently left her post as chaplain to the speaker of the British Parliament’s elected main house, the Commons, after nine years. “Rose has not […]

With four radiation machines for the treatment of cancer, Nigeria is still short of the 180 machines recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), experts have said. Dr Bello Abubakar Mohammed, a Clinical and Radiation Oncologist at the National Hospital and President of the African Organisation for Reachout and Treatment of Cancer stated this on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over the death of a close aide, Alhaji Umar Pariya. President Buhari, while reacting to the sad event, in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said: “I received the news of the death of your close […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has  said  he won’t  act like  a coward for fear of death. According to him,   he  will continue to  raise the  alarm when things are not right in the country. Obasanjo said these at the two-day interactive session of  the Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat held at the Youth Development Centre, Olusegun […]

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan may be suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over his alleged romance with the All Progressives Congress (APC) which contributed to the defeat of his party in last Saturday’s governorship election in his home state of Bayelsa…. Read some of his sins below:   – Daily Trust  

A group of family and friends were gathered in a backyard Sunday to watch a football game when a gunman walked up and began shooting, killing four young men and wounding six others, police in Fresno, California, said. About 35 to 40 people were at the house, including several children, when the suspect — who […]

Worried by the spate of criticisms that has greeted the Hate Speech Bill which passed first reading last week,  the Senate has distanced itself from the proposed legislation The  acting spokesperson for the red chamber,  Senator Godiya Akwashiki, told journalists in Abuja on Monday that contrary to widespread impression, the bill was not the idea […]

The Lagos State Government on Sunday closed down eight worship centres across the state for contravening environmental pollution regulations. Dr Dolapo Fasawe, General Manager, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency who led the exercise, said that the facilities were closed down to save the people from health crisis that might arise from the activities of the […]