Author: Salako Temitope

Microsoft through its subsidiary firms, Activision Blizzard and Xbox is about to layoff almost 2,000 employees. This represents about eight per cent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division and will mostly happen at Activision Blizzard. This was disclosed on Thursday that the latest cuts in the technology sector have extended massive layoffs over the past years into 2024. The exit would also involve Blizzard’s president, Mike Ybarra “I want to thank everyone who is impacted today for their meaningful contributions to their teams, to Blizzard, and players’ lives. It’s an incredibly hard day and my energy and support will be…

Three suspects have been arrested over alleged theft of 48 goats in Babura and Kiyawa Local Government Areas of the State. Jigawa State Polce Command confirmed the arrest as the Commissioner of police Mr Ahmadu Abdullahi, informed journalists in Dutse on Thursday that the suspects were arrested in different operations between Monday and Tuesday. Hassan Ibrahim of Abari village in Niger Republic had on Jan. 22, at about 9 am was said to have reached the Babura police station and reported the theft of his goats worth N1.3 million. The States’ command upon reception of the report swung into action…

Rev. Gideon Haanongon and his personal aides who were reported to have been abducted by unknown gunmen have regained their freedom after about two weeks in captivity. The Chairman, Rev. Haanongon, his Personal Assistant, Driver and Police security were attacked and abducted Saturday January 13, 2024, by unknown armed men at Anyagba, Tongov, along the Katsina-Ala- Zaki Biam road in Katsina-Ala LGA.  The Nigerian Army, of the 72 Special Forces Battalion under the 401 Special Forces Brigade, Makurdi, acted on a distress call and carried out a rescue mission and in the process destroyed three camps of the kidnappers after…

Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf, Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory has called for nomination of suitably qualified persons to be appointed as judges of the High Court of the FCT. This was detailed in a letter dated January 18, 2024, signed by the Chief Judge, with reference number FCT/JD/CJ.2/Vol.II/62, addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola; the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice; Justices of the Supreme Court, President, Court of Appeal; Justices of the Court of Appeal, among others. The FCT CJ, who is also the Chairman, Judicial Service Committee of the…

The nomination list of the Annual Brits Award was released on Wednesday, 24th of January 2024 as Nigeria’s Burna Boy, Asake and Rema lands in the nomination list. ‘Best International Artiste’ category has Asake popularly known as Ololade Mr Money, and Grammy winning artiste, Burna Boy, as nominees while Mavin superstar Rema got the nod in the ‘Best International Song category’ with his song ‘Calm Down’. See the full list of nominations for the 2024 Brit Awards below: Mastercard Album of the Year Artiste of the Year Song of the Year Group of the Year Best New Artiste International Artiste…

At the inauguration of the National Campaign on Out-of-School Children 2024 for four geopolitical zones in Nigeria which held on Wednesday in Yola, the Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, said that the Federal Government has redoubled efforts to ensure out-of-school children are returned and retained in school. Represented by the Deputy Director of Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education, the minister said a significant number of children in the country were still deprived of their fundamental rights to education. “The socio-cultural and economic issues complicated by the world-ravaging COVID-19 pandemic have escalated the number of children who are…

The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, has disclosed in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja that the widespread tension of bomb explosion to have rocked the city is false. She confirmed that although, an explosion occurred near a refuse dump outside Bureau of Public Enterprise in Maitama, but it is not bomb related, she said after a response team of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit was deployed to access the situation. She noted that preliminary findings shows that an overheated metal refuse container activated under intense heat, exploded, and mildly injured two of the refuse…

On Wednesday, the press secretary to the governor, Mr. Christian Aburime in a statement said the governor had reinstated the suspended Neni monarch and forgave two others of their infractions for conferring unauthorized chieftaincy titles on some people, including the Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah It should be recalled the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe had recently written an open letter to the state government where he accused the governor of not according to the desired respect to traditional rulers of the state of which he also condemned the suspension of Igwe Damian Ezeani of…

Former Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano has been reportedly granted bail. This is following the 9-count charges bordering money laundry and corruption levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja granted the former governor bail as he ordered the defendant (Willie Obiano) to remain within the jurisdiction of the court and also ordered that his travel documents be deposited with the court registrar immediately. The court registrar has been ordered by the judge to inform the Nigerian Immigrations Service about the judgment. This is following the Anti-graft…

The Japa syndrome isn’t going down soon as over 32,000 Nigerians are set to potentially emigrate from the country. This was made known yesterday as the summary of passport applications for the year 2024 was reported by the Comptroller-General of Immigration Service, Caroline Adepoju, who visited Ikoyi and Alausa passport offices, to confirm firsthand the working offices as regards the introduction of the automated passport application process. She made note that about 1,438 applications were queried for various reasons. This was while she was speaking with journalists, she then confirmed that 32,462 applications, 11,505 were awaiting approval, while 3,406 who…