More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for…
Kwara state government has reversed the directive, reducing working days from five days to three days for civil servants in the state over the removal of fuel subsidy removal by the federal government. Recall that the state government had, on June 5, 2023, through a letter from the state’s Head of Service, Mrs Susan Oluwole,…
Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, has said that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) technology used in the 2023 elections recorded a 98 per cent success rate. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Tuesday while addressing the Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) of all the states of the federation at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. BVAS…
A total of 272 pilgrims from Kwara who performed this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia returned to Nigeria on Wednesday. The pilgrims departed Jeddah International Airport at about 8:30pm on Tuesday and arrived Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos midnight Tuesday and subsequently airlifted from Lagos to Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Wednesday by Air…
The FBI has rescued more than 200 people including 84 children in a major national human trafficking operation. As part of this year’s Operation Cross Country mission, the FBI teamed up with federal agencies, state and local police and social services agencies in the US to identify and save people who had been trafficked, predominantly…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is set to add another app called Threads to its portfolio. The app, which has a dashboard with a similar look to that of the popular online social media and social networking service Twitter, is set for release on Thursday, July 6, 2023. The application, currently…
Prophet Michael Ojo, popularly known as Baba Olowere, one of Christ Apostolic Church’s (CAC) most respected ministers of God, is dead. The renown Evangelist and founder of Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Agbara, Asi Bodija, died on Wednesday at his Asi residence, Ibadan. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE 🕊️🕊️ More Details later…
Osun State Governor’s Wife, Her Excellency Chief Mrs Titilola Adeleke on Wednesday received a certificate and award as Net Ambassador of the State. The certificate was presented to her during the flag-off ceremony of the Insecticide Treated Net Campaigns organized by the State Ministry of Health in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health, Development…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued a fresh two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government over the implementation of a 200% increment in the salary structure of its members, amongst other demands. The resident doctors reached the resolution on Wednesday at a virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council Meeting (E-NEC) to appraise the level…
A visually impaired man, Francis Ugachukwu has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl, (name withheld). The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court remanded the defendant, pending hearing and filing of his bail application. Soladoye adjourned the…
