China’s software industry has reported a 10.3 per cent increase in business revenues in the first seven months of 2022, according to official data. A data from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed on Monday that the revenues amounted to 5.46 trillion yuan (about $796.66 billion) from January to July 2022. The report said that companies in the sector raked in 569.8 billion yuan in combined profits during the period, up 6.6 per cent year on year. According to the report, during the period, China’s software exports amounted to $29.8 billion, up 4.3 per cent year on…
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After heated discussions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the early hours of Monday, extended its ongoing strike. The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the headquarters of the Union in the University of Abuja. ASUU had declared the commencement of a strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, at the University of Lagos. Reacting in an interview with newsmen, the spokesperson for the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong said the government had taken all possible steps to end the strike. “As regards the next steps, the government has already inaugurated a committee to…
Some Nigerians have expressed concern over the continued grant of amnesty by the Federal Government to some bandits and terrorists, saying the policy rather worsens the country’s insecurity. The people, in a survey in the South South region, are of the opinion that pardoning bandits/terrorists questions the nation’s sincerity in fighting the heinous crimes. They said that bandits were involved in kidnapping, maiming and killing of innocent citizens and should be prosecuted and punished after arrest, and not pardoned. They said pardoning the perpetrators would continue to encourage the committing of the evils and lead to increase in deaths of…
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has said that no fewer than 100 households were affected by flood in Makurdi, the state capital, following recent rainfalls. Dr Emmanuel Shior, the Executive Secretary of the Agency disclosed this in an interview on Monday in Makurdi. He said that the agency had over time, advised people residing on floodplains to relocate in order to avert disaster. Flood had become a yearly routine in Makurdi in the last decade, destroying property worth millions and loss of lives in some cases. The affects areas were among the worst hit in the 2017 flood…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, refused to grant the extradition application filed by the Federal Government for permission to extradite the suspended DCP Abba Kyari to the United States (US). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, described the extradition request as “an abuse of court process,” on the grounds that Kyari was already standing a criminal trial before another court. The federal government, through the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), had filed the extradition suit, praying the court to grant the plea for Kyari to face a criminal charge leveled against him by the U.S.…
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday visited Abdulsalami Abubakar, also a former military head of state, who recently came back from medical trip to London. The former president who had a 30 minutes closed-door meeting, told newsmen thereafter that he was at the Uphill to see Abubakar who had been indisposed. “I have come to see my brother who was a bit indisposed and when he was abroad I had wanted to visit him, and the day I arrived in London to visit him was the day he left,” he said. On the 2023 general elections, Obasanjo said he had…
Nigeria and Cameroon have approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hugue for clarification over its judgment delivered 20 years ago on the two countries’ dispute on the ownership of Bakassi Peninsula. In October 10, 2002, the ICJ had upheld Cameroon’s claim to the area under dispute, with some issues in the judgement still under contention. The two countries, during the 24th session of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission (CNMC) held in Abuja between 25th and 26th August 2022, agreed to approach the ICJ to clarify portion of the judgment relating to the boundary on localities of Rhoumski, Pillar…
The death has occurred of the Emir of Funakaye, Mu’azu Muhammad Kwairanga in Funakaye local government area of Gombe state. Aged 43 and survived by one wife and five children, the late Emir died on Saturday midnight shortly after retiring to bed, Funakaye Emirate Council reveals. He is expected to be buried after Zuhr prayer by 2pm. The Royal News correspondent reports that sympathisers had gathered at the Emir’s palace to pay last respect to the monarch. The deceased’s last public appearance was on Saturday in Gombe, where he witnessed the distribution of food items to vulnerable groups by the…
Privacy and security is in our DNA, which is why we built end-to-end encryption into our app. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, status updates and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands. Personal messaging WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption is used when you chat with another person using WhatsApp Messenger. End-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you’re communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp. This is because with end-to-end encryption, your messages are secured with a lock, and only the recipient and you…
The Ebonyi Police Command has confirmed a Thursday night attack on Galaxy Hotel in Isu community of Onicha local government area, killing its owner, Ogbonnaya Nwadibia and two others. The command’s spokesperson, SP Chris Anyanwu made the confirmation in an interview with newsmen in Abakiliki on Sunday. He said that although the command was aware of the incident, it was yet to get full details of it. A resident of the area, Mr Igwe Nwokorie said that the gunmen came on a motorbike. “They came with arms and entered into the hotel, and then we started hearing gunshots from there.…