Meta reacts through X as Facebook, Instagram crash

Billions of Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta’s Instagram and Facebook users were yesterday thrown into the dark as the social media platforms experienced total outage. Users across the globe reported widespread problems, including being logged out, encountering error messages, and being unable to refresh their feeds. This led to total panic across the world as users expressed […]

LASTMA arrests 19 hoodlums, impounds 123 vehicles

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has disclosed that the agency arrested 19 suspected hoodlums for extorting unsuspecting members of the public in the state. The Public Relations Officer, LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, disclosed in a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on Tuesday, stating that a preliminary investigation had shown that the hoodlums had been caught using […]

767 manufacturers shut down in 2023 – MAN

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has said that 767 manufacturers shut down operations while 335 became distressed in 2023. This came against the backdrop of exchange rate volatility, rising inflation and other economic challenges that have worsened the investment climate. MAN stated this in a statement in which it condemned the recently introduced Expatriate Employment […]

Carpenter bags life jail for sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl

The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a 79-year-old carpenter, Olagbade Jeremiah, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt. Jeremiah was arraigned on a […]

FCCPC Tasks DisCos On Quick Responses To Customers’ Complaints

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has advised power distribution companies (DisCos) to design a quick response mechanism to address customers’ complaints within their networks. The FCCPC acting executive chairman, Adamu Abdullah, gave the advice recently in Lagos at the end of a four-day one-stop-shop for addressing billing, metering, transformer, connection, disconnection, customer […]

Hardship: FG to begin nationwide distribution of grains

The Federal Government said it will begin the distribution of grains nationwide to curb hardship in the country. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Senator Abubakar Kyari disclosed this in a statement via his official X handle on Monday. Dear Fellow Nigerians, In these trying times, I extend my sincere compassion to those affected by […]

Discos reject 1,769MW of electricity amid widespread blackout

Despite the widespread blackout and the worsening state of electricity supply in Nigeria, the latest figures on the daily load summary of power distribution companies indicate that the firms failed to distribute about 1,769.91 megawatts of electricity between February 1 and 14, 2024. Data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, obtained in Abuja on Monday, […]

SIM-NIN: NCC defends blocking of phone lines, lawyer slams N10bn suit

A Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, on Monday filed a N10bn suit before the Federal High Court in Lagos against the Nigerian Communications Commission, its Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Communication Commission, Dr Aminu Maida, for alleged inconvenience, discomfort, injury and loss of business opportunities by Nigerians due to the blocking of their lines […]

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