A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday fixed October 27, 2025, for the arraignment of politician and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore for alleged false claim against the person of President Bola Tinubu by tagging him “a criminal.” The Department of State Services (DSS) had on behalf of...
The stage is set for the arraignment on Tuesday of politician and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore; X Incorp (formerly Twitter) and Meta (Facebook) Incorp before a Federal High Court in Abuja over Sowore’s alleged false claim against the person of President Bola Tinubu by tagging him “a criminal.” The...
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has launched two significant lawsuits at the Federal High Court in Abuja, targeting the Department of State Services (DSS), Meta (Facebook), and X Corp. The legal actions, filed to protect fundamental rights, aim to counter what Sowore’s legal...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS), has sent a petition to X (formerly known as Twitter), asking that the X account owned by popular publisher, politician and activist, Omoyele Sowore, be banned or deactivated. The petition in which the demand for the immediate ban/deactivation...
The emergence of digital customer service has transformed how companies interact with their customers. Equipped with new tools and platforms, businesses can offer streamlined, efficient support catering to the digital-savvy consumer. Understanding the nuances of this service model is critical for any company looking to thrive in the digital...
A new report has identified Twitter (X) as the leading platform for online harm in Nigeria, with 34 per cent of users reporting negative experiences such as cyberbullying, misinformation, and harassment. Advocacy Lead at Gatefield, Ms Shirley Ewang, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Abuja. The State of...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday said it was suing tech billionaire Elon Musk, alleging he failed to disclose in a timely manner his ownership of more than 5 per cent of Twitter stakes ahead of taking over the company in 2022. The SEC alleges that...
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgment, has ordered Alhaji Lai Mohammed, former Minister of Information and Culture and the ministry of information to disclose the details of the agreement between the Federal Government and X, formerly Twitter, to assess whether the agreement...
Elon Musk’s online platform X has removed another remnant from its Twitter past nearly 10 months after the tech mogul changed the social media service’s name. The controversial multi-billionaire has removed twitter.com from profiles on the site, From now on, users who type in twitter.com will be directed...
In a shocking turn of events at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, on Sunday, Nigerian music sensations, including Davido and Burna Boy, faced a disappointing defeat as they lost in all their nominated categories. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the other...
A legal practitioner, Mr Maxwell Opara, has filed an alleged defamatory suit seeking N10 billion in damages against Twitter and the Department of State Services (DSS). In the writ of summons marked: FCT/HC/CV/7186/23 and filed at the FCT High Court by Malachy Nwaekpe, Opara listed Twitter Nigeria Limited and...
Some Nigerians on Saturday blamed the inconsistencies with Twitter App for the emergence of Threads, a text-based App by Meta, saying it is a healthy competition. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, on Wednesday announced the initial version of Threads, an...
Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro accused...
Elon Musk has chosen top ad executive Linda Yaccarino to take the day-to-day reins of Twitter as he fights to reverse the tide at the struggling platform he bought for $44 billion last year. Yaccarino is a highly respected advertising executive who stepped down from NBCUniversal “effectively immediately” on...
Twitter boss, Elon Musk, has lost his title as the world’s richest person following a steep drop in the value of his stake in Tesla and a $44 billion bet on Twitter. In the Forbes list published on Tuesday, ‘The Real-Time Billionaires List’, Elon Musk’s estimated net worth is...
Users in Turkey were again able to access Twitter after reported restrictions within the country following devastating earthquakes earlier in the week. Twitter was accessible without remote access services, or VPNs, on Thursday morning. The organisation Netblocks, which monitors internet restrictions, had reported the block earlier on Wednesday citing...
The Federal Government has refuted the allegation by a former Twitter staff that the micro blogging site did not negotiate with the Government in the wake of its suspension. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday in Abuja who discredited the claim also released to...
A student critic Aminu Adamu has apologised to the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari over an alleged defamatory post made on social media. The final-year student in the Department of Environmental Management and Taxocology, at the Federal University Dutse, Jigawa, also said he will deactivate all his...
Twitter will permanently suspend users who impersonate authentic accounts on the social media platform, new owner Elon Musk has revealed. “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk tweeted. “Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we...
One year after it opened an office in Ghana, its first in Africa, Twitter has laid off almost the entire workforce in the West African country in a massive global layoff which has hit workers at the microblogging site since Elon Musk bought the company a week ago. The...