Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, summoned Twitter officials to testify behind closed doors on Thursday […]
The federal, states and local government areas shared a cumulated N637.704 billion in September this year. The Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) who made the disclosure Thursday the money came from Value Added Tax (VAT), Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) and Company Income Tax (CIT) and dwarfs the N467.852 billion shared by the three tiers of […]
Nigeria’s influential online newspaper, News Express on Thursday unveiled its new logo at an event to mark its fifth anniversary with a well-attended Lecture. The lecture which was held at Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, attracted an array of distinguished personalities from all spheres of endeavour and heavy media presence. The Guest Lecturer, Governor […]
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said the Federal Government would not allow massive importation of maize by Olam Group next year. Although the Minister stated that maize was not on the nation’s import ban prohibition list, he charged the company to work out how to grow the produce locally through […]
All roads lead to Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, today (Thursday, September 28, 2017) for the News Express 5th Anniversary Lecture holding from 12pm prompt. The event will be headlined by the Guest Lecturer, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State, who would speak on “National Unity and the Demand for Restructuring — A […]
Snap Inc has said that it raked up 10 million users for its Discover news and video feature in France a year after launching there. The figure, which has not previously been reported, is equivalent to about 15 percent of the country’s population. Internationally, the Snapchat app has 173 million daily active users, the company […]
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who helped usher in the 1960s sexual revolution with his groundbreaking men’s magazine and built a business empire around his libertine lifestyle, died on Wednesday at the age of 91. Playboy Enterprises said in a statement that, Hefner, once called the “prophet of pop hedonism” by Time magazine, peacefully passed away […]
Worried by the influx of illegal arms from Turkey into Nigeria, both countries have agreed to cooperate to stop the export of harmful items. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) and Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Hakan Cakil, made the agreement on Tuesday in Abuja. A statement by the Service Public Relations officer, […]
The days of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) limiting messages to 140 characters, a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006, may be numbered. Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin a test with a random sample of users allowing them to send tweets that are as long as 280 characters, double the […]
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said over 200 foreign exhibitors from more than 15 countries and an average of 500,000 visitors are expected to attend the 2017, Lagos International Trade fair (LITF). According to Mr Sola Oyetayo, Vice President and chairman, Trade Promotion board of LCCI, the 10 days event with the […]