Nowadays there is another opportunity to monitor the child’s whereabouts – to track the location of them using special software Parents have always managed to set geographical boundaries – where their children could go and where they could not – back in time. Nowadays there is another opportunity to monitor the child’s whereabouts – to track the location of them using special software. Yet, according to Kaspersky’s (https://africa.Kaspersky.com) special survey for parents, not many parents in Nigeria realise this. According to the “Responsible Digital Parenting” survey*, 79% of Nigerian parents do not track the location of their child. The reasons…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The President of the Senate, Mr Ahmad Lawal on Monday, led a powerful delegation to condole with Senator Aliyu Wamakko, Senator Representing Sokoto Central over the death of his daughter, Hajiya Sa’adiya Aliyu Wamakko, who passed away Thursday night. On his entourage were Yobe governor and Chairman, All Progressive Congress, APC, Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Committee, Mai Mala Buni and Chairman, Progressives Governors’ Forum, Senator Abubakar Bagudu. Others were Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, Hon. Usman Balkore, former member National Assembly, NASS, and a businessman Alhaji Auwal Lawal Gombe. The Senate President prayed Allah to grant the deceased…
Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a new charge of money laundering as part of the investigations into the largest corruption scandal in Latin America. The former president, known as Lula, is accused of accepting 4 million reais (759,000 dollars) worth of bribes disguised as donations, according to a Monday statement from prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Curitiba. Prosecutors say four transfers were made to the “Instituto Lula” from construction giant Odebrecht between 2013 and 2014. Lula’s defence rejected the charge as an attempt to criminalize four legitimate donations. This is the fourth charge Lula has faced…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has narrated how he nearly died in ambush by the Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East, if not for his deputy, Lt. General Lamidi Adeosun, who saved his life. Buratai was speaking in Kuta, Osun state while commissioning a bridge, constructed by the Nigeria Army Engineering Construct Regiment, Ede and named after him. The Chief of Army Staff said he he met with Adeosun, an indigene of Asamu in Osun when he was newly appointed. “When I had the first ambush, he was with me in the vehicle, by my side.…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says that the death toll for the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria had jumped to 1,083. Announcing this on its official twitter handle, @NCDCgov Monday night, the Centre also said that 132 new infections were confirmed. The public health agency stated that the new cases now bring the number of confirmed infections in the country to 56,388. It noted that 185 people had been treated and had recovered from the virus, bringing the nation’s number of recovery to 44,337. According to the agency, Lagos State had the highest number of recorded cases on Monday with…
The Borno Government has confirmed the death of the Emir of Biu, Mai-Umar Mustafa-Aliyu, who passed on in the early hours of Tuesday. The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Alhaji Babakura Abba-Jato, confirmed the death in a statement in Maiduguri. Abba-Jatau said “Inna Lillahi wa innah ilayhi rajiun, his royal highness the emir of Biu, Mai Umar Mustafa Aliyu has answered the call of Allah Subuhanahu wa Taa La. “The late Emir was appointed in June 1989. He died this morning at the age of 80. He will be laid to rest in Biu at 2pm today according…
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerians involved in the run up to the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. Disclosing this in a statement on Monday, the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, Morgan Ortagus said the move also targets individuals it accused of working to undermine the November 2019 governorship polls in Kogi and Bayelsa. Ortagus said those affected were working to “undermine the Nigerian democratic process or for organising election-related violence”. “The Department of State emphasises that the actions announced today are specific to certain individuals and not directed at the Nigerian…
The President of the Senate, Mr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan on Monday, led a high-powered delegation to condole Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, on the death of his daughter, Sadiya. Lawan said that they were in Sokoto to condole Senator Wamakko on the loss of Sadiya and prayed the Almighty Allah to grant her Aljannat Firdaus. He described Wamakko as a leader not only in Sokoto or the North alone, but to the entire country, especially in the All Progressives Congress, APC. “Senator Wamakko is a trusted and reliable leader of the APC. He is a core nationalist and a patriot. “Wamakko…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has said that the state government will construct three dams in the areas worst hit by the flood. This, he said is as a result of the perennial flood that has ravaged parts of the state. Ashenewsonline reports that many parts of Sokoto state have been hard hit by frequent flood that has submerged communities and farmlands. Worried by the development, Tambuwal while symphatizing with the people of Silame, Kebbe and Tambuwal local government areas of the state, over the flood disaster that affected the areas, assured that the construction of the dams in the areas…
The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two lecturers of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa named: Abdulahi Opashola and Adebisi Ademola and 28 others over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. A statement by the spokeperson of the Commission, Mr Dele Oyewole made available to Ashenewsonline on Monday gave the names of the other suspects as: Kingsley Essien; Tobiloba Adenuga; Tope Ayodele; Rasheed Mujib; Oladipo Opeyemi; Saadu Muktar; Oladejo Hammed; Hammed Tope; Ameachi Umenyi, Salauden Adam and Afolabi Gafar. Others are: Oladimeji Timi; Remilekun Adeolu; Audu John;…