Tag: nigeria

Nigerian Activists, 49 Other Countries Kick Off ‘Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels’

Climate Activists in Nigeria and 49 other countries worldwide are mobilising in more than 150 events, calling on their governments to urgently implement a fast, fair and funded phase-out of fossil fuels to prevent further climate catastrophe. Nigeria and Kenya lead the pack in Africa with each country hosting more than 10 actions. More than […]

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Meta deletes 63,000 ‘Yahoo Boys’ Instagram accounts

Tech giant Meta said on Wednesday it had removed about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that tried to defraud mostly men in the United States through financial sexual extortion scams. “They targeted primarily adult men in the U.S. and used fake accounts to mask their identities,” Meta said in a statement. It explained that the […]

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Girl Arrested with Olowofela is Kidnap Victim

More facts have emerged that Pa Olowofela, the octogenarian arrested by Kwara State Joint Security Team, is leader of a kidnapping gang that killed the Kwara monarch in Koro, Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole. The monarch was killed on resisting orders from the abductors while his wife and other two indigenes were whisked away. The niigeriancurrent.com broke […]

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