Thoughts on the rampant dependence on social media as an adjudicator of justice It usually starts with a buzz, most often on Twitter. Someone shares a message alleging that a person or organisation has wronged, hurt, or taken advantage of…
How you can remain young at heart and cool with tech – Gbubemi Atimomo
Thoughts on how people relate with and adapt to technology devices My mum’s first Android phone was a birthday present from my brother many years ago. This was at a time when many people had started using WhatsApp as BlackBerry…
Lagos releases 24-hour distress lines
The Lagos State government has released distress lines through which residents can reach out for help whenever they have challenges. The lines are 767,112 or 08176582476, and residents can either call or send messages or voice notes via WhatsApp if…
He was a “super boss” so I made him pay for sleeping with my wife!
I married my wife 7 years ago; and for 7 years, my wife and I lived happily even though we had no children. My work involved lots of travel. I install and fix inverters for companies, businesses, homes across Nigeria…
*Tinubu returns to Nigeria after 3-month UK medical trip (Punch)*Anxiety as ritual killings, Yahoo-plus, rape cases spread (DailyTrust)
Tinubu returns to Nigeria after 3-month UK medical trip (Punch) The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, returned to Nigeria on Friday after about a three-month medical trip to the United Kingdom, where he underwent…
Mark Zuckerberg apologises for six-hour Facebook outage
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the “disruption” caused after its social media services went down for almost six hours – impacting more than 3.5bn users worldwide. The billionaire said sorry after an internal technical issue took Facebook, Messenger,…
Soyinka denies social media post on Yoruba nation
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, denounced a fake WhatsApp post on the Yoruba state agitation, which was attributed to him. Soyinka, in a statement titled: ‘They are back’, urged the public to ignore the post and utterances of…
*Roommate of man accused of dating Lagos teenager stabbed to death (Punch)*Banks ready to fund Lagos rail projects –Egube (Sun)
Roommate of man accused of dating Lagos teenager stabbed to death (Punch) One Toheeb and his friends are currently on the run after allegedly stabbing one Akin Okebukola to death in the Alakuko area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered…
*How SARS operatives broke my spine, trader tells panel (Nation)*#EndSARS: TV station confirms death of reporter ‘arrested by Lagos task force’ (Punch)
How SARS operatives broke my spine, trader tells panel (Nation) A trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, on Tuesday narrated how his spine was broken in 2018 when operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) threw him down from a two-storey complex…
*Lagos breaks Guinness world record with largest cupcakes mosaic (Nation)*Lawmakers wade into 1004 estate crisis (Guardian)
Lagos breaks Guinness world record with largest cupcakes mosaic (Nation) Lagos has put Nigeria on Guinness book of world record by celebrating the 60th Independence anniversary with 60,000 cupcakes to produce the largest anniversary logo in the world, made with…
