Under Fire From EU Regulators and Advertisers, Google Discusses Fighting Terrorism Online
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) issued the following statement today in response to Google’s announcement of its plans to fight terrorism online:
Sokoto pays N422m on students’ tuition
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Tuition fees of students of Sokoto state origin studying in national and international institutions totalling N422,165,219.50 has been released by the state government.
“Show of Force”: Police Assure Kano Residents of Secure Sallah Celebration…..Warns Criminals to Keep Off Kano
The Kano State command of the Nigeria Police has warned miscreants intending to carry out illegal acts during Sallah to change their thinking and stay away from Kano as the force will not relent in in bringing them to justice.
Suspected suicide bomber shot at Brussels railway station
Media captionPolice arrive after explosion in Brussels central train station Belgian soldiers have shot a man suspected of being a would-be suicide bomber at Brussels Central Station, officials say. He was shot after reportedly setting off a small explosion and no-one else is believed to have been injured.
Why nobody knows how many Nigerians there are
No census has yet arrived at an accurate figure by R.S. NIGERIA is Africa’s most populous country, a designation it wears with pride. It had more than 182m citizens in 2015, according to the World Bank, and is poised to have the world’s third-largest population, behind India and China, by 2050. But that figure and […]
Zero Hunger: Five states endorse peer mechanism
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Five state governments, includingBenue, Borno, Ebonyi, Ogun and Sokoto state have endorsed a peer advisory mechanism to enable them to monitor the implementation of their state-grown agricultural plans in order to end hunger by 2030.
Okoh Urges Muslims to Imbibe Lessons Of Ramadan
The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex A. Okoh, has implored the Muslim community in the Bureau to understand fasting as going beyond mere deprivation of pleasures but also as a spiritual exercise to draw adherents nearer to God.
Under Pressure From EU Regulators, Facebook Explains How It Will Tackle Extremist Content
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) issued the following statement today in response to Facebook’s announcement of its plans for combating terrorism online:
Unkown gunmen kidnap businessman in Sokoto – NSCDC Commandant
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto A group of unknown gunmen were said to have kidnapped a 27-year old businessman, Alhaji Abubakar Kakirko, in Kakirko village,Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), in the state, Mr Babangida Abdullahi has said.
Integrity Group, Enugu Parley Unknown to Atiku, By Media Office
The Atiku Media Office wishes to state that the news report in a section of the media at the weekend in which stalwarts of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, shunned a purported presidential campaign parley of former Vice President and APC chieftain, Atiku Abubakar is blatantly false.