Judge Orders Texas To Suspend New Law Banning Most Abortions
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state. The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood […]
Widow Of Late Haitian President Seeks Justice For Her Slain Husband
The widow of late Haitian president Jovenel Moise testified to a magistrate on Wednesday about her husband’s killing in July, an attack in which she was gravely wounded. Martine Moise, the former first lady of Haiti, arrived with a big entourage of police and heavily armed foreign bodyguards at the prosecutor’s office in the capital […]
Minimum Wage Lowered To Nothing Due To Inflation – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed concern about the impact of inflation on the national minimum salary of N30,000. The NLC President, Aliyu Wabba, stated that inflation has lowered the wage, which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in 2019. Wabba spoke at the 2021 Decent Work Round-Table discussion, which focused […]
Gunmen Abduct A BUK Female Student In Kano, Demand A Ransom Of N100 million.
A 300-level female student of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) has been kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. Sakina Bello is believed to have been kidnapped on Tuesday in Kano’s Janbulo and Rijiyar Zaki neighborhoods. On Wednesday, the hoodlums called the victim’s relatives and wanted a ransom of N100 million, according to Metro. DSP Abdullahi […]
Senate Passes Amended MTEF, Cutting The Amount Of 2022 Budget By N60 billion
The Senate passed a modified version of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) Wednesday, reducing the size of the 2022 budget by N60 billion. Any budget is framed using the MTEF and FSP as parameters. The bill was passed on the same day that President Muhammadu Buhari wrote to the […]
Bawa Charges Nigerian Students To Shun Cybercrime
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa has called on Nigerian students to take ownership of the fight against corruption and channel their potentials positively for the good of the country. Bawa gave this admonition on Tuesday at the Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja, during the official flag-off campaign against social vices on campuses organised […]
Mark Zuckerberg Hits Back At Facebook Whistleblower Claims
Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at the testimony of the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, saying her claims the company puts profit over people’s safety are “just not true”. In a blogpost, the Facebook founder and chief executive addressed one of the most damaging statements in Haugen’s opening speech to US senators on Tuesday, that Facebook puts “astronomical profits […]
‘Facebook Harms Children, Weakens Democracy’: Ex-Manager Criticises Tech Company, Urges More Oversight
While accusing the giant social network of pursuing profits over safety, a former Facebook data scientist told Congress Tuesday she believes stricter government oversight could alleviate the dangers the company poses, from harming children to inciting political violence to fueling misinformation. Frances Haugen, testifying to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, presented a wide-ranging […]
Nigeria Senate Confirms EFCC Board Nominee Whose Resume Indicated He Started School Before Birth
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed Yahaya Muhammad (Yobe) and four other nominees as board members and Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This was despite complaint that Muhammad’s resume indicated that he started school before he was born. Others confirmed by the Red Chamber included George Abang Ekungu (Cross River) as […]
Biden- We’ll Abide By The Taiwan Agreement
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the Taiwan agreement, as tensions have ratcheted up between Taipei and Beijing. “I’ve spoken with Xi about Taiwan. We agree … we’ll abide by the Taiwan agreement,” he said. “We made […]
