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  • Girl lures man to Osun, robs him of N1.5m

    Girl lures man to Osun, robs him of N1.5m

    The Police Command in Osun has arrested a 17-year-old girl who allegedly lured her victim from Lagos to Osun, through the social media.

    The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, made this known on Tuesday in Osogbo.

    Opalola said the victim was lured to Ikire in Irewole Local Government Area by the teenager, on June 28.

    According to her, the girl arranged with other suspects and allegedly robbed the man of his phone, which they used to transfer N1.5 million from his bank account.

    “On June 28, at about 1.30 p.m, a complainant reported at Ikire Police Division that he met one girl (name withheld) on social media and they started chatting.

    “He added that he was later invited to come to Osun from Lagos State by the girl.

    “He stated further that, when he came to Ikire, the girl lured him to her boyfriend’s house where he met some unscrupulous elements who attacked him and collected his phone, which they used to transfer the sum of N1.5 million from his account.” she said.

    The police spokesperson added that immediately the case was reported, police detectives swung into action and arrested the suspect and one Ariyo Ayobami at their hideout.

    She said preliminary investigation also led to the arrest of another accomplice, while efforts were on to arrest other suspects.

    Opalola also said officers of the command on July 10 arrested two suspects in Ilorin, Kwara, in possession of a car stolen at gunpoint from a complainant’s residence in Osun.

    She said that the victim on May 11, reported that he was attacked by three men, armed with guns and other dangerous weapons at his residence.

    The hoodlums dispossessed him of his valuables and two Toyota Camry cars valued over N12.46 million.

    Opalola said intelligence gathering thereafter led detectives of the command to Ilorin where one Abdulwasiu Jato and Kolawole Iwalaye were arrested in possession of one of the stolen cars.

    She said that another suspected stolen car, a Toyota Corolla 2012 model, was found in their possession.

    Opalola said six other armed robbery suspects terrorising motorists at Aba-Ede Junction on Osu-Ile-Ife highway, were also arrested on July 9, by the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Squad.

    The command spokesperson said all the suspects would be charged to court after completion of investigation.

  • Nollywood actor, Yomi Fabiyi chastises Jaye Kuti over outburst on begging older colleagues

    Nollywood actor, Yomi Fabiyi chastises Jaye Kuti over outburst on begging older colleagues

    Nigerian actor, Yomi Fabiyi has reacted to a viral video by her colleague in the industry, Jaye Kuti asking older colleagues in the industry to stop seeking financial help on social media.

    Jaiye Kuti in a viral video chastised her colleagues for seeking financial help on social media on Sunday.

    Her words ”older colleagues should take responsibility for their present predicament following the careless financial choices they might have made when they were still active in the industry. She attributed their plight to their failure to prepare for their future”.

    She added: “All the actors coming to beg online should stop giving us bad names. This job doesn’t have a pension, so you need to prepare for the future. I’m already preparing for my future.”

    ,In his reaction, Fabiyi explained in a post on Instagram that the majority of the veterans seeking support had been exploited in the past, and the recent trend should not bother anyone.

    He wrote: “If anybody needs help and indeed comes public with his or her brand, name, and face only, I don’t see why it should bother anyone. If you cannot find the means to recover all these veterans’ losses via piracy and exploitation by capitalists, then let them breathe. We, the new millennium actors, are a little luckier, but not better. We must learn to respect people’s decisions, choices, and actions. All man for himself. Comparison is proof of nothing.

    “No matter how uncomfortable and displeased you are with someone else’s decisions or actions, if it is not against the law and falls within the person’s rights, it is an outright act of arrogance, a crime, and grandeur of delusion to attempt to rubbish such person. Caveat! I hate pretense, arrogance, and fake lives.”

  • Video: Davido ignores social media rants, performs at 2023 Afro Nation Festival in Portugal

    Video: Davido ignores social media rants, performs at 2023 Afro Nation Festival in Portugal

    Popular  Nigerian Afrobeat artiste, David Adeleke, professionally known on stage as  Davido, today performed at the 2023 Afro Nation Festival in Portugal amid Anita Brown’s pregnancy allegations.

    The Nigerian serenaded the audience with some of his hit songs at the grand finale of the festival, which started on June 28 and ended on Friday 30 in Portugal.

    He performed alongside another Nigerian artiste, Fireboy, Vegedream and 50 Cent.

    Burna Boy, Ayra Starr and Asake had earlier performed at the festival on Wednesday.

    Davido was on Monday accused of having impregnated two foreign-based women, Anita Brown and Ivanna Bay, despite being married to his long-time girlfriend, Chioma Rowland.

    Social media has been awashed with US based Anita Brown accusing the artiste of impregnating her and not wanting to claim responsibility.

    Morese, another lady named Bay based in France also accused the artiste of having an affair with her.

    Although, the singer is yet to comment on the allegations, the scandal is currently dominating discussions on social media, one of his aides, Israel had risen to his defense.

    Watch his full performance at the festival below:

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  • Data Protection Commission: CBN’s directive on customers’ social media handles against the law

    Data Protection Commission: CBN’s directive on customers’ social media handles against the law

    The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) says it engaging the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on its new directives to commercial banks to collect their customers’ social media handles.

    The National Commissioner of NDPC, Dr. Vincent Olatunji, said this in a statement issued by Mr. Itunu Dosekun, Head of Media, on Thursday in Abuja.

    Recalled that the CBN on June 26, directed banks to obtain the social media handles of customers as part of enhanced Customer Due Diligence (CDD) regulations.

    Olatunji said that before the establishment of the Nigerian Data Protection Act (NDPA), on June 12, indiscriminate collection of citizens’ data by Data Controller Organisations was not taken seriously.

    He explained that there were prerequisite steps any Data Controller must take prior to the collection of data from data subjects.

    He also said that any organisation that defaulted was going against the law and causing a data breach, as well as would attract fine.

    “There are provisions in the law to go against any data controller be it private or government office, NGOs, hotels, because we are pro-citizens.

    “The whole idea of this law is to protect the rights, the interests of Nigerians who are data subjects.

    “We are already engaging with the CBN to let them know that what they have done is against the law because there are basic principles you must meet when you want to collect citizens’ data.

    “There is data minimisation, meaning you don’t collect data beyond the purpose for which it was intended, purpose limitation, what purpose is it for,’’ he explained.

    According to him, asking for social media handles is not necessary.

    He, however, said that if the collection of the social media handles happened under public interest, which could include to monitor some transactions, there should be proper awareness to the customers.

    Olatunji added that they would be inquiring on why the CDD regulation came up and how best to resolve that in line with global best practices.

    On the issue of government tapping into some citizens’ mobile communications, perhaps for national security, among other reasons, Olatunji said that there were guidelines to follow.

    He said the commission would be engaging with a lot of government institutions, data controllers, to sensitise them on the requirements of the NDPA and data collection prerequisites.

  • I don’t post material things on social media – Ruth Kadiri

    I don’t post material things on social media – Ruth Kadiri

    Nollywood Actress Ruth Kadiri has said she does not post material things on social media pages.

    She disclosed this after dismissing a viral picture of a new house circulate shared on Facebook claiming to be hers.

    The mother of two stressed that the mansion in the viral picture was from a movie location and doesn’t belong to her.

    Unlike some of her colleagues in the movie industry who flaunt their new acquisitions, like cars or houses, on social media, Ruth takes an exception to that.

    The screen goddess has learnt to keep her life private.

    She wrote: “This is a fake Facebook page. I do not own that house. It’s a film location. I do not post material things on social media. Pls report that page My Facebook page is verified”.

  • China bans prominent journalist who raised concerns about economy

    China bans prominent journalist who raised concerns about economy

    A prominent Chinese financial journalist who has compared the country’s economic problems to the Great Depression has been banned from social media.

    The Weibo account of Wu Xiaobo, an influential business journalist and author with more than 4.7 million followers, “is currently in a banned state due to violation of relevant laws and regulations”, according to a banner displayed on his page on Tuesday.

    Content moderators on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform said on Monday they had blocked three verified users for “spreading smears against the development of the securities market” and “hyping up the unemployment rate”.

    Weibo did not give the full usernames of the blocked accounts, but said one of them had a three-character name starting with “Wu” and ending with “Bo”.

    China’s post-Covid economic recovery has faltered, with lacklustre data in recent weeks signalling that the rebound is running out of steam.

    Wu’s Weibo page appeared on Tuesday to have been scrubbed of all content posted since April 2022.

    Wu did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.

    His regular column on the website of the Chinese financial magazine Caixin has long detailed the country’s economic issues, including a declining birthrate and skyrocketing youth unemployment.

    “The huge army of the unemployed is likely to become a fuse that ignites the powder keg,” he wrote in a May column that compared the situation with the Great Depression of the 1930s.

    In another recent column, he asked whether monetary easing would be able to “solve current economic problems”.

    Those columns, however, had not been scrubbed from the internet as of Tuesday.

    China’s domestic media is state-controlled, and widespread censorship of social media is often used to suppress negative stories or critical coverage.

    Regulators have previously urged investors to avoid reading foreign news reports about China, while analysts and economists have been suspended from social media for airing pessimistic views.

  • Identification process: CBN directs banks to obtain customers social media handles

    Identification process: CBN directs banks to obtain customers social media handles

    To further deepen the identification process in the banking system, the Central Bank of Nigeria has directed Financial Institutions to obtain the social media handle, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, residential addresses of customers.

    The apex bank revealed this in its newly released ‘Central Bank of Nigeria (Customer Due Diligence) Regulations, 2023’ document.

    According to CBN, the new regulation was created to provide additional customer due diligence measures for financial institutions under its regulatory purview.

    “To provide additional customer due diligence measures for financial institutions under the regulatory purview of the Central Bank of Nigeria to further their compliance with relevant provisions of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act (MLPPA), 2022, Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act (TPPA), 2022, Central Bank of Nigeria (Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Countering Proliferation Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Financial Institutions) Regulations, 2022 (CBN AML, CFT and CPF Regulations) and international best practices.

    “And enable the CBN to enforce compliance with customer due diligence measures in line with the CBN AML, CFT and CPF Regulations.

    “For Individuals legal name and any other names used (such as maiden name), permanent address (full physical address), residential address (where the customer can be located), telephone number, e-mail address, and social media handle; date and place of birth, Bank Verification Number, Tax Identification Number, nationality, occupation, public position held, and name of employer.”

    It stressed that an individual must have any of an unexpired passport, national identification card, residence permit, social security records, or driver’s license.

    “Type of account and nature of the banking relationship, and signature, and politically exposed person status.”

     

  • PDP warned against using social media to terrorize Supreme Court

    PDP warned against using social media to terrorize Supreme Court

    A justice of the Supreme Court, Inyang Okoro has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  used social media to bully and terrorize the apex court justices.

    He stated this while delivering judgment in PDP’s appeal seeking to void the election of President-elect Bola Tinubu on the grounds that his running mate, Kashim Shettima, was guilty of double nomination.

    The five-member panel threw out the appeal and held that the appellant had no locus standi to institute the suit.

    Okoro held that the appellant tried to mislead the Supreme Court, by claiming that the lower court found that there was indeed a double nomination and slammed PDP’s attempt to use social media as “appalling and unprofessional”.

    Okoro said: “Using the social media to terrorize and bully the justices of the supreme court by the appellant is appalling and unprofessional.

    “The appeal is without merit and is dismissed. I abide by the award of cost in the lead judgement.”

  • Keyamo makes case for regulation of social media

    Keyamo makes case for regulation of social media

    The minister of state for Labour and Employment, Barrister Festus Keyamo, SAN, has noted that social media regulations must be applied to curb the spread of fake news.

    Keyamo made this known through his special adviser, Niyi Fatogun during  a media workshop tagged Balancing Ethics and Patriotism: the obligations of journalists to their country’, organised by the Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa.

    Keyamo posited that social media is a welcome development but laws must be put in place to regulate and sanitize the system.

    He said to kill fake news, which according to him, can destroy the fabric of the country, fake social media accounts must first be killed.

    The minister also said that laws must be put in place that illegalize fake news.

    “Social media has come to stay. Gone are those days when we used to beg editors or be at their mercy to get your views out there,” when an editor decides which story to put there and which story to ignore.

    “Today everyone puts their thoughts out uncensored which is a very good thing.

    “It is good for mankind. However, we also know that it comes with its own problems.

    “We must make sure we don’t kill the good because of the bad. So the best [we can do] is to support the good and mitigate against the bad and ugly.

    “Before it was very possible to hold people accountable for fake news. Media houses had professionals who were very responsible…today we have the social media and the gate keepers have become more or less sidelined, so what do we do to mitigate against the bad and ugly?

    “You kill fake news by killing fake social media accounts. Secondly, we must make laws that illegalise fake news that are capable of destroying the fabric of the nation.

    “Fake news is capable of destroying the fabrics of the nation. Those forwarding such news must also be held liable….such should not be tolerated,” he said.

    Addressing journalists, convener of the workshop, John Mayak, who is the Country Director, Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa, said that the best and easiest way to tackle fake news is self regulation.

    He said that there should be both government and self regulation to fight fake news, calling for laws to be established to regulate how people use social media, just like it is in China and other developed countries.

    “Let us regulate ourselves. Self regulation is the best. It’s a democratic system and we don’t expect the government to shut down the media or regulate media content.

    “But for us as journalists, we can regulate ourselves. For me, it’s the best. Social media doesn’t have regulation. You sit down in the mountain or dungeon and post anything and there’s a crisis everywhere.

    “I can’t promise you that fake news is going to die. All the conferences in the world and in Nigeria will not kill fake news. But we can self-regulate.

    “We should thank God that Nigeria hasn’t collapsed. In the issue of fake news nobody is above the law.

    “That’s what we call government regulation and self regulation. I expect social media to be regulated. Look at China, there is a level of sanity in China. Not all social media apps are used in China. Even in the UK and some other countries, I mean cyber laws should be enforced.”

  • We are not responsible for monitoring social media contents – NCC

    We are not responsible for monitoring social media contents – NCC

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it is not the regulator of the contents of the social media networks that many stakeholders have complained about.

    The submission came during a recent visit of the National Civil Society Council of Nigeria (NCSCN), led by its Executive Secretary, Blessing Akinsolotu, who sought the intervention of the Commission on the worrisome and misleading content of social media platforms.

    “We know that NCC, as the regulator of the telecoms industry, has greater role to play in helping to curb the spread of fake news and incendiary contents that Internet users put on social media platforms. Therefore, we want NCC to partner with us in this regard,” he stated.

    Akinlosotu said the situation demands immediate intervention of key stakeholders to ensure that the content of the social media and the Internet are credible and enhance national social cohesion.

    Director, Public Affairs of the Commission, Mr. Reuben Muoka, who received the group on behalf of the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, informed the organization that Commission’s mandate does not extend to controlling the content of such media platforms.

    According to Muoka, the major role of the telecom regulator is to facilitate the deployment of telecom infrastructure that provides different types of telecommunications services, including improving broadband that enhances robust Internet experience, and ensuring fair competition as well as the protecting of telecom consumers.

    Muoka said the mandate includes making services available, accessible and affordable for Nigerians who may leverage such access to engage in digital social mediation for the benefit of the individual, businesses, and the nation’s socioeconomic growth.

    In the performance of its functions, Muoka said the Commission promotes collaboration and partnerships with different stakeholders such as NCSCN, in creating awareness and promoting access to different categories of consumers in the country. He said the Commission looks forward to furthering collaboration with NCSCN in its efforts to align with the aspirations of users of telecommunications services across the country.

    The NCSCN, a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, commended the Commission for its people-oriented and consumer-centric regulatory activities.

    The Council also seeks collaboration with NCC to spread messages of the Commission’s consumer enlightenment programmes to Nigerians in the grassroots through its over 100-member Civil Society Organisation (CSOs).

    Akinlosotu also invited the Commission to partner with the NCSCN in hosting a conference aimed at tackling the seemingly intractable diffusion of fake news, particularly on social media networks.