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Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:31

Are you receiving unsolicited messages from a bank, service provider, others? This court judgement against Zenith Bank shows the way to go

A high court in Ogun state has ordered Zenith Bank Plc to pay N500,000 as damages for sending spam messages to one Omotola Fathiat Quadri. Quadri had, in the suit marked HCT/605/2021, sued Zenith bank for infringing on her fundamental rights to privacy as guaranteed under section 37 of the constitution. She claimed the respondents between February 16 to May 26, 2021, sent over 300 unsolicited messages to her email address despite not owning an account with the bank. Quadri also claimed that despite writing to the bank through her solicitors and a petition to both the Central Bank of…

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:28

Insecurity: Embassies, UN, UNICEF, others bar staff members from travelling to Nigeria’s Northwest

Foreign missions in Nigeria and other international bodies have heightened security alerts for travels in the seven states making up the Northwest geopolitical zone following last month’s attack on a passenger train arriving Kaduna from Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Multiple diplomatic sources and staff of international organisations in Abuja told our correspondent that though there had been travel advisories to states like Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna, the alert level was upped across most embassies and other organisations over heightened fear of insecurity. Foreign missions such as those of the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and a host of other countries…

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:26

Joseph Makoju, ex-CEO of Dangote Cement, is dead

Joseph Makoju, a former group managing director and chief executive officer of Dangote Cement, is dead. A family source confirmed that he died at about 12pm on Monday at his Abuja residence. The cause of Makoju’s death was, however, not divulged. Burial arrangements are said to be currently ongoing. Born on July 13, 1948, in Okene, Kogi state, Makoju was a Harford award winner of Government College, Kaduna and also a J. F. Kennedy essays award winner of Federal Government College, Warri. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he graduated with a first-class honour in…

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:25

What to know after Day 47 of Russia-Ukraine war

Nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion and the United Nations has verified the deaths of 142 youngsters although the number is almost certainly much higher, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday. Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s emergency programs director who just returned from Ukraine, said having 4.8 million of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children displaced in such a short time is something he hadn’t seen happen so quickly in 31 years of humanitarian work. Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, claimed Russia has taken more than 121,000 children out of Ukraine and reportedly…

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:24

Don’t join NATO, Russia warns Finland, Sweden

Russia has warned Finland and Sweden against joining Nato, arguing the move would not bring stability to Europe. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that "the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation". It comes as US defence officials said Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has been a "massive strategic blunder" which is likely to bring Nato enlargement. US officials expect the Nordic neighbours to bid for membership of the alliance, potentially as early as June. Washington is believed to support the move which would see the Western alliance grow to 32 members. US State Department officials said last week that…

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:23

Palestinians attack biblical figure Joseph's tomb in West Bank

The tomb where the biblical figure Joseph is said to be buried has been vandalised by Palestinians amid spiralling tensions with Israel. The site in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, was attacked in what Israel's prime minister called a "frenzy of destruction". There has been a spate of Israeli and Palestinian deaths in recent days, including deadly attacks which have caused shock across Israel. Israel has promised a strong response. The tomb was vandalised on Saturday night as Israeli forces carried out raids in the West Bank in the wake of a gun attack on a bar in Tel…

Monday, 11 April 2022 06:32

What to know after Day 46 of Russia-Ukraine war

Ukraine’s president warned his nation Sunday night that the coming week would be as crucial as any in the war. “Russian troops will move to even larger operations in the east of our state,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address. He accused Russia of trying to evade responsibility for war crimes. “When people lack the courage to admit their mistakes, apologize, adapt to reality and learn, they turn into monsters. And when the world ignores it, the monsters decide that it is the world that has to adapt to them. Ukraine will stop all this,” Zelenskyy said. “The day…

Monday, 11 April 2022 06:31

Russia threatens legal action if forced into sovereign debt default

Russia will take legal action if the West tries to force it to default on its sovereign debt, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper on Monday, sharpening Moscow's tone in its financial wrestle with the West. "Of course we will sue, because we have taken all the necessary steps to ensure that investors receive their payments," Siluanov told the newspaper in an interview. "We will present in court our bills confirming our efforts to pay both in foreign currency and in roubles. It will not be an easy process. We will have to very actively prove our…

Monday, 11 April 2022 06:30

Head of Russia's Orthodox Church calls on people to rally around authorities

Head of Russia’s Orthodox Church called on people on Sunday to rally around the authorities as Moscow pursues its military intervention in Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill has previously made statements defending Moscow’s actions in Ukraine and views the war as a bulwark against a Western liberal culture that he considers decadent. “Let the Lord help us unite during this difficult time for our Fatherland, including around the authorities,” the Interfax news agency quoted Kirill, 75, as saying at a sermon in Moscow. “May the authorities to be filled with responsibility for their people, humility and the readiness to serve them even…

Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:43

FG provides reason for latest national grid collapse

Federal government says the recent nationwide blackout was caused by the vandalisation of a transmission power in the Southsouth region. The national grid had collapsed on Friday night — the third incident in less than four weeks. Earlier, the ministry of power said a detailed investigation into the causes of the recurring grid collapse was ongoing. In another statement on Saturday, Isa Sanusi, media spokesperson of the ministry of power, said the latest incident had been traced to the Odukpani-Ikot Ekpene 330kV double circuit transmission line. “Further to our earlier press release, we wish to apprise the general public that…

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Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:40

What to know after Day 45 of Russia-Ukraine war

Shelling by Russian forces of Ukraine’s key port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov has collapsed several humanitarian corridors, making it more difficult for people to leave. It was not clear Saturday how many people remained trapped in the city, which had a prewar population of 430,000. Ukrainian officials have put the number at about 100,000, but earlier this week, British defense officials said 160,000 people remained trapped in the city. Ukrainian troops have refused to surrender the city, though much of it has been razed. Resident Sergey Petrov said Saturday that recently two shells struck around him in…

Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:38

Ukraine war pushes Germany to strengthen its bunker infrastructure

Germany has started working on strengthening its basement shelters as well as building up crisis stocks in case of war, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Saturday, citing the country’s interior minister. After decades of attrition of Germany’s armed forces, Russia’s war in Ukraine has led to a major policy shift with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledging to increase defence spending and injecting 100 billion euros ($109 billion) into the army. The government is also looking into upgrading its public shelter systems and will increase spending on civil protection, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the newspaper. “There are currently…

Saturday, 09 April 2022 06:05

People have been eating grass to survive in Nigeria’s Northeast - UN

Matthias Schmale, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria, says up to $351 million is needed to provide humanitarian support for people in northeastern Nigeria. Schmale said this on Friday at an advocacy event held in Abuja on food security and nutrition in north-east Nigeria. He said 8.4 million Nigerians need humanitarian support, adding that the gap between people in need and people supported with food keeps widening due to reduced funding. “Across northeast Nigeria today, 8.4 million people need humanitarian assistance. Alarmingly, almost half of these crisis-affected people — 4.1 million — are expected to face the severe pain of…

Saturday, 09 April 2022 06:03

Buhari signs bill increasing teachers’ retirement age, 5 others

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, a bill that “establishes and provides legal framework for the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, as a degree-awarding institution to provide academic and professional training.” This was disclosed by presidential aide Garba Shehu in two statements on Friday. Mr Shehu said the bill was one of six signed into law by the president on Friday. Another bill increases the retirement age of teachers in public schools from 60 to 65. In the first statement, Shehu said: “President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to two Bills recently passed by the National Assembly as detailed…

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