Author: Biyi Lawrence
IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- WhatsApp is introducing three privacy tweaks into the messaging app to “provide even more layers of protection”, the company announced on Tuesday. WhatsApp said with the new feature, only admins would be notified when a member leaves a group. According to the company, the two other features will allow users to choose who can see them when they are online and block screenshots of view-once messages. WhatsApp will allow users to leave group chats without alerting members within such groups. In a blog, it said, “We love our group chats but some are not forever.…
Donald Trump has said his Florida home was raided by the FBI, in a dramatic escalation of the legal investigations into the former US president. In a lengthy statement on Monday evening, Mr Trump said a “large group” of FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and had broken open a safe. The search is reportedly linked to an investigation into his handling of classified and sensitive material. The FBI and the Department of Justice have not yet commented. An unnamed law enforcement official told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that the Secret Service was notified shortly before…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Army have arrested the terrorists behind the attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, who made the disclosure during a parley with media executives at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, said the criminals were arrested in collaboration with other security agencies. Terrorists attacked the Catholic Church during a Sunday Mass and opened fire on the worshippers, resulting in the death of over 30 persons. Details soon…
IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 10 cases of Lassa fever in Ondo, Edo, and Bauchi States. The NCDC, via its official website, stated that Ondo accounted for 30 per cent, Edo 26 per cent and Bauchi 14 per cent of the recorded cases between July 25 and July 31. The centre said that the three states account for 70 per cent of the burden of infections in the country. It added that this brings the total number of confirmed cases in 2022 to 867, with 164 deaths. The NCDC said that…
IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Air Peace has suspended its flights to South Africa over the increase in cost of aviation fuel and scarcity as well as delay in the issuance of visa to intending passengers The suspension, which takes effects from August 22, is for a period of 60 days, the Airline said in a notice. Daily Trust reports that domestic airlines had been forced to adjust their schedules over the recurring scarcity of Jet fuel as well as the skyrocketing price of the product. Air Peace in the notice expressed optimism that the issues which warranted the suspension…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has expressed serious worries about worsening insecurity in Nigeria, urging him to stop dealing with them with kid gloves. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, on Monday, the group wondered if President Muhammadu Buhari, was aware of the situation. The group said the level of insecurity in the country is unprecedented. He called on President Buhari to demonstrate that he was serious about ending the spate of killings and abductions across the country. Afenifere said, “Because of the kid-glove manner with which government is dealing…
The Biden administration announced another $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine on Monday, pledging what will be the biggest yet delivery of rockets, ammunition and other arms straight from Department of Defense stocks for Ukrainian forces. The U.S. pledge of a massive new shipment of arms comes as analysts warned that Russia was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the southern port cities to stave off a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The aid includes additional rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, as well as thousands of artillery rounds, mortar systems, Javelins and other ammunition and…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Speaking on Monday at the WAEC office, Yaba, the Head of Nigeria Office, WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, said, “The results are being uploaded on the results website. Candidates who sat the examination and who have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Council can access their results on the Council’s results website within the next twelve hours. “Copies of the Result Listing will be sent to schools shortly. I need not restate the fact that the results…