Google laid out plans to stop bundling preinstalled apps with its Android platform and instead charge manufacturers a fee to license its apps, as part of a bid to avoid additional fines from European Union (EU) regulators. Google: employees protest China censor friendly search engine codenamed Dragonfly The European CommissionContinue Reading
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- FOR more than twenty- five minutes Wednesday, the Senate plenary was held amidst rowdiness over sitting arrangement. Senate Chamber Trouble started when the former Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom North West called for recognition to speak, but the SenateContinue Reading
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said his policy document targeting at creating an enabling environment for the youths and women to return to the path of wealth creation and gainful employment would soon be unveiled. Abubakar on Wednesday on his personal twitter handle @atiku said thatContinue Reading
The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has disclosed that over 30 per cent of farmland in the Niger Delta region has been lost to this year’s ravaging flood. Uduaghan, a senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Delta South Senatorial District in the 2019Continue Reading
…Accuses Buhari of persecution The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has strongly condemned the continued detention of immediate past Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), warning that no harm must happen to theContinue Reading
The International Committee of the Red Cross has made a fresh appeal to Boko Haram to release the two remaining hostages being held by them: Alice Loksha, who was working for UNICEF and Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi schoolgirl kidnapped February 19. ICRC Regional Director for Africa, Patricia Danzi made theContinue Reading
By Dirisu Yakubu ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Lagos state in the 2019 general elections, Jimi Agbaje has denied any rift in his relationships with Chief Bode George, saying the latter remains the leader of the party in the state. Agbaje who stated this inContinue Reading
By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—AN international organization, Power for All, which is campaigning for the provision of electricity in many African countries, has said that no fewer than 93 million Nigerians lacked access to electricity. File: DISCO official disconnecting lines on electric pole Speaking during a workshop on ways of scalingContinue Reading
THE just-concluded nomination of candidates for electoral positions, especially in the two major political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) – have once again shown that the political class has no genuine intention to fight corruption. The processes were in most cases fraudulentlyContinue Reading
By Levinus NwabughioguABUJA—National Security Trust Fund Bill, yesterday, passed second reading at the House of Representatives. The bill seeks to basically provide security agencies with military and security hardware, infrastructure and technologies to aid in ensuring national security. Sponsor of the bill, Rimamnde Shawulu (PDP Taraba) at plenary, said theContinue Reading
