Tayo Olanipekun As the Cambridge Analytical scandal continues to plague Facebook, with President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly one of the victims of data theft before the 2015 elections, founder of the social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company has “a responsibility to protect” and will guard users’ data. In a statement on his personal Facebook page on Wednesday night, …

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The Presidency has confirmed the release of 76 out of the 110 abducted students in the early hours of Wednesday It said the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to all security agencies to do everything possible to secure the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls, abducted February 19, yielded the result. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, signed by  Segun Adeyemi, the Special …

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The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, today returned 105 out of the 110 girls kidnapped from a high school compound in Dapchi a few weeks ago, Saharareporters has said. Quoting sources,the online newspaper said that the militant group came with the girls in nine vehicles same way they took them away. According to the report, there was confusion in the …

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The young man whose photograph appears above, Master John Oche, has been declared missing. He is 16 years old and from Ado Local Government in Benue State. He speaks English and Yoruba. He is 1.61 metres tall and dark in complexion. He is a student of Hally Jay Secondary School, Meiran, Lagos State. Advertisement He was last seen on Monday …

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Folake Sokoya Lagos State command, on intelligence report, stormed Collabor Hotel at No.3, Ige Street, Iyana Ipaja and uncovered a prostitution ring of underage girls who were brought to Lagos from various states of the country for prostitution. A 15-year-old girl, Asuquo Glory,  that was the first to be apprehended,confessed that she was brought to Lagos some weeks ago and …

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Folake Sokoya Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on drug and substance abuse in the country. Speaking during a courtesy call by the National President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharmacist Ahmed Yakassi, on him at Government House, Ilorin, he said the country is faced with a …

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Tayo Olanipekun Nigerian security forces ignored at least five calls made by members of the community to alert the military of the Presence of Boko Haram around Dapchi before 110 school girls were abducted by the militant group, Amnesty International has said. Around 2pm on February 19, the first call was made to the army command in Geidam, 54km from …

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A 16-member delegation of senior women technology executives and professionals from Silicon Valley, California are visiting Nigeria as part of the TechWomen program. The visit will run from March 18 to 23 and the  delegation has members drawn from organizations as diverse as Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix, Mozilla, Autodesk, WomenCollegeTech, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Juniper Networks,according to a statement …

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Lagos State government has directed residents within and around the community where the Olusosun dump site is situated to relocate. This became necessary in view of the health, safety and environmental hazards that the smokes from the dump site located in the Ojota area of Lagos could cause,according to Director-General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Hon. Hakeem Dickson. It would be …

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