Year: 2024

Lagos Police Demand N2m After ‘Kidnapping’ 3 at a Restaurant

GiftedHands_OFR, a user on X (formerly Twitter), has recounted how officers of the Special Tactical Team from the Ijegun Police Station unjustly arrested two of his friends and a dispatch rider at a restaurant located at the Iyana-School bus stop on Saturday. In a post on Sunday, the X user said that one of the […]

WhatsApp is now blocking billions of users from taking screenshots of profile pictures

WhatsApp is blocking billions of its users from taking screenshots of profile pictures. Engineers at parent company Meta have seemingly flipped a switch and started to roll out the feature globally, despite no official announcement. The block leverages the same privacy-focused functionality used by banking software and streaming services like Netflix to prevent screenshots. WhatsApp […]

After FIJ’s Story, Namecheap Suspends Private Website Selling Nigerians’ NIN, Other Data

Xpressverify, an identity verification website that makes money from selling out the personal information of Nigerians, has been suspended by its domain registrar, FIJ can report. This development follows a report by FIJ detailing how Xpressverify had unrestricted access to the National Identification Database and personal details of Nigerians despite being a privately owned website. Namecheap Incorporated, […]

High cost of iron rods: Engineers now build with bamboo

Why Bamboo—That Nigeria’s economy is in bad shape, is no longer news. Food and other necessities are hard to come by. However, no matter what turn the economy takes, Nigerians, by their unique nature, will always find survival alternatives. That is why although it sounds unthinkable to see, anywhere in the world, where bamboos are used in […]

Lekki demolitions: Govt not out to hurt citizens – Commissioner

Lagos State Government has explained that the recent removal of shanties on the coastal road, along Mayegun and Jakande area of Lekki, was not to hurt its citizens, but done for over-riding public interest. Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, made this affirmation on Sunday, when he led state officials on […]

Police confirm death of motorist protesting damage on his car

The Police in Lagos State have confirmed the death of a motorist, Seun Sahola, 33 while protesting damage to his car by another motorist, who allegedly hit his car on the Jakande-Lekki-Epe Expressway. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said […]

Police rescue 50 stranded foreigners in Lagos building

At least 50 persons, some of them children from neighbouring African countries, were, yesterday, rescued from a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos. News filtered around Epe and the entire Lagos State that the rescued persons, foreigners, were kidnapped and kept in the kidnappers’ den, pending when ransom would be […]

Lagosians excited as govt begins 57 food markets today

Following the announcement by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu that the “Ounje Eko” food markets will begin sales of food items at discounted prices in the five divisions of the state on Sunday, March 17, Lagosians may flood the various locations to buy food items at friend prices. Sanwo-Olu had stated that the food […]

Gunmen ‘abduct’ editor in Lagos

FirstNews, an online news platform, says Segun Olatunji, its editor, was on Thursday abducted from his home in Lagos. Olatunji, a former Kaduna bureau chief of The PUNCH, was reportedly picked from his house in Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos state by gunmen. In a statement issued on Saturday, the management of the […]

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