The chief executives of Facebook <FB.O, Twitter and Alphabet-owned Google have agreed to voluntarily testify at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct. 28 about a key law protecting internet companies. Facebook and Twitter confirmed on Friday that their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, will appear, while a source said that Google’s Sundar Pichai will appear. That came a day after the committee unanimously voted to approve a plan to subpoena the three CEOs to appear before the panel. Twitter’s Dorsey tweeted on Friday that the hearing “must be constructive & focused on what matters most…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, Mr Seye Oladejo says he is optimistic that Nigeria will overcome its present challenges to become a stronger nation. Oladejo, who is the state APC Publicity Secretary said this in an interview in Lagos on Sunday that the enormous problems facing Nigeria would give way for a better country if all citizens play their roles in nation-building. He said he did not believe that Nigeria would break or disintegrate ,noting that agitations in the country were indications that many things needed to be addressed for progress. Oladejo said that the…
The National Animal Production Research Institute, (NAPRI) Zaria in collaboration with partners is working towards establishing ranches in Toro, Bauchi state and Ebonyi to preserve the local donkey breed and enhance livestock farming. The Executive Director of the Institute, Prof. Abdullahi Mohammed, said on Sunday in Zaria that the institute signed a memorandum of understanding with Earthwheel Logistics Limited and other partners sometime in February to to breed over twi million donkeys in Nigeria in the next five to 10 years. He said that the value chain is expected to generate about two billion dollars annually for the country. Mohammed added…
The police command in Kano State has arrested a 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, over alleged stabbing her two children to death at Diso Quarters in Gwale local government area of the state. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, spokesman for the command said this in a statement in Kano on Sunday. He said that on October 3, the police received information that the suspect allegedly stabbed her two children to death with a cutlass. Haruna said that the victims were identified as Yusuf Ibrahim, 6, and Zuhra Ibrahim, 3. “On receiving the information, we quickly sent our men to the scene and found…
The Police Command in Anambra State has rescued a day-old baby wrapped in a cloth and abandoned inside a drainage in Abuja Estate in Awka. The spokesman for the command, SP Haruna Mohammed, said this in a statement in Awka. Mohammed said efforts made to trace the mother of the baby proved abortive. “On Oct. 3, at about 8:25a.m., a good samaritan resident in Abuja Estate behind NSCDC office Awka, reported at B Division Police Station, Awka at about 7:30am. “That a day-old baby was wrapped in a cloth and abandoned inside a gutter at same area by unknown person.…
Gunmen have killed a cleric, Mr Kayode Ogunleye and dumped his body in a forest on the Aramoko-Ijero-Ekiti highway in Ekiti. The lifeless body of the pastor, who was also a staff of the Ekiti West local government area in Ekiti, was found on his farm near the forest. Sources revealed that Ogunleye, working for All Christian Fellowship Church, was murdered while working on his farm. He was said to have been shot dead while trying to harvest banana at his plantation. One of the sources, who pleaded anonymity, described Ogunleye’s killing as barbaric, calling on security agencies to fish…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 160 fresh Coronavirus infections in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on its official twitter handle on Saturday. According to the NCDC, the country has conducted about 532,765 tests since the first confirmed case relating to the coronavirus pandemic was announced. The agency noted that the number of deaths had increased by one and that 125 patients were discharged after they were successfully treated in the past 24 hours. It said that the new infections were reported in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This brings the total number…
By Engr. Garba Balarabe With the global trend on digitalization and the paradigm shift from analog to digital technology, the need to pay more attention and embrace digital identification of citizens and corporate organizations for the full realization of ease-of-doing -business can never be over emphasized. Global economies and indeed Nigeria’s economic reforms agenda were all geared toward digitalization for optimum e-governance and finances as ways and means of ease of doing business. At present, our total National Identification Number (NIN) enrollment in Sokoto state stood at less than 20 percent of the entire population. This pauses a very serious…
By Elizabeth Carr, Bauchi The Secretariat of the Bauchi State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, is to be renovated by the state government. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mukhar Gidado who led a team of engineers from the state Ministry of Works to assess the secretariat on Saturday, said the team would make recommendations to the state government for architectural design. The Governor had promised the newly elected executive council members of the Union, when they paid courtesy visit on him, that he would give the union a befitting secretariat. NUJ Chairman, Comrade Umar…
U.S. President Donald Trump, who is ill with the novel coronavirus and being treated at a military hospital, is seeing his condition improve, his physician said on Saturday. The president no longer has a fever and is not currently on oxygen to help him breathe, said Sean Conley, the physician to the president, addressing reporters outside the hospital. “The president is doing very well,” said Conley, adding that the medical team is “extremely happy with progress the president has made.” The president contracted coronavirus and was moved to the Walter Reed medical centre, a military facility outside Washington, on Friday, in what…