A Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has claimed that freezing #EndSARS protesters’ bank accounts by the court saved the Nigerian economy from collapsing and prevented dollars from exchanging above N500. Speaking during a special court session held to mark the commencement of its 2020/2021 legal year, the chief judge said, “Three months before the protest, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) kept bringing applications, almost in their hundreds, based on…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved a five-year nutrition action plan that will help to reduce hunger and malnutrition across the country. Spokesman to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, December 15. The plan was approved by the National Council on Nutrition, which is chaired by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Titled the “National Multi-Sectoral Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition (NMPFAN) 2021-2025”, the plan will guide…
Acting on a tip from Japanese cyber researchers, the African Union’s technology staffers discovered that a group of suspected Chinese hackers had rigged a cluster of servers in the basement of an administrative annex to quietly siphon surveillance videos from across the AU’s sprawling campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The security breach was carried out by a Chinese hacking group nicknamed “Bronze President,” according to a five-page internal memo reviewed by Reuters. It said…
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $4bn in the past four months to hundreds of charities and aid organizations, including food banks fighting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Scott, who has a personal net worth of more than $60bn most of which came from her $38bn divorce settlement last year, pledged to give away much of her wealth. On Tuesday the 50-year-old said she had decided to…
Controversial former Senator, Dino Melaye, has urged Nigerians not to accept the use of any Covid-19 vaccine from Western countries. He said this in a short message posted on Twitter, on Wednesday. In the video, he claimed, “for a hundred years, we couldn’t find a vaccine for cancer. for over forty years we are yet to find any vaccine for HIV AIDS. for over another hundred years research has been going on to find a…