Author: Tosin Ajayi

Twitter has actively begun testing an edit button, after months of publicly discussing such a tweak. The trial of “Edit Tweet” will begin with internal employees, then be expanded out to the platform’s “Twitter Blue” subscription population, the company said.  “Edit Tweet is a feature that lets people make changes to their Tweet after it’s been published,” the company said on its blog. “Think of it as a short period of time to do things like fix typos, add missed tags, and more.” Under the revision being studied, users could edit a tweet “a few times” in the 30 minutes…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, for being an ingratitude, saying it cannot take him anywhere. “These children you said we are, brought you from nothing,” the governor said on Thursday at the opening of the Omerelu Internal Roads in the state’s Ikwerre Local Government Area. Recall Iyorchia Ayu, described party members calling for his resignation as children who knew nothing about the party. Ayu said he had not committed any offence to warrant a call for his resignation as the party chairman, adding that those…

Lufthansa, Germany’s flagship carrier, says it will cancel almost all passenger and cargo flights over plans by pilots to commence a day-long strike tomorrow. The move will affect many travellers returning at the end of the summer vacation. In a statement on Thursday, the airline said it would be cancelling flights from its two biggest hubs, Frankfurt and Munich. “We hope to get back to negotiations as soon as possible,” a Lufthansa spokesperson said “However, we cannot bear the cost increases associated with VC’s demands either.”  The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union said late on Wednesday that pay talks had failed…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Segun Oni, the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, has taken the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Dr Adeniran Tela, to the Tribunal for allegedly defying the Tribunal’s earlier order. The Election Petitions Tribunal had ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to give Segun Oni complete access to election materials used in the conduct of the just concluded election. However, following the violation of the order given by the Election Petitions Tribunal, Oni said he filed the suit against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for allegedly denying him access to…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo over allegations of offences bordering on financial crimes. EFCC arrested the Speaker on Thursday morning at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State following a tip-off. It was learnt that the Speaker was being grilled in the custody of the agency. Efforts to confirm Oluomo’s arrest proved abortive as the spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwajaren, refused to pick up his calls and didn’t return a text message sent to him.

Ukraine, on Thursday, accused Russia of shelling the pre-agreed route for a team of international inspectors who were headed to the country’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to ensure its safety . Meanwhile, the country’s state nuclear agency, Energoatom, reported that Russian shelling of the plant itself triggered its safety systems, forcing the shutdown of one of its power units. It said one of the plant’s own power supply lines was also damaged. It comes just a week after shelling left the Russian-controlled plant disconnected from Ukraine’s national power grid for the first time in its 40-year history. Russian officials in turn accused Ukraine of being responsible…

Bournemouth drew 0-0 with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League on Wednesday as their caretaker manager Gary O’Neil made a solid start to his tenure days after his side conceded nine times at Liverpool. O’Neil was in the dugout for the first time at any level after the sacking of Scott Parker following the mauling at Anfield, and his side produced a much stronger defensive display against Wolves who have scored two goals in five league games and were booed by their fans at the end of the game. Bournemouth have four points from five matches and are in 16th…

Gabriel Jesus’s predatory instincts and a left-foot finish from Gabriel Martinelli earned Arsenal a 2-1 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday as the Gunners kept up their 100 per cent start to the Premier League season. The Brazilian pair scored either side of the break to give Arsenal a deserved triumph as they dominated the match, advancing to a maximum 15 points from five matches. Jesus opened the scoring in the 31st minute and Martinelli grabbed the 77th-minute winner, three minutes after Villa had equalised through substitute Douglas Luiz who scored directly from a corner. Villa’s fourth defeat in five…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE Of NAIJA)- The Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has disclosed he has no desire to resign as party chairman despite calls from some quarters for him to resign his position. Ayu stressed that such calls are coming from political amateurs who lack basic understanding of PDP principles. The former senator asserted that he was elected by Nigerians and members of the opposition party to that exalted position based on the party’s guidelines. in his response during the interview with BBC Hausa, Ayu stressed that he will not resign because some people are not comfortable…

Former President Donald Trump has enlisted Chris Kise, a former Florida solicitor general, to serve on his legal team as the Department of Justice investigates why sensitive government documents were stored at the Mar-a-Lago estate. Mr. Kise is joining Trump’s legal team as the investigation heats up. The former president has struggled to get experienced lawyers onto his team and a recent legal filing seeking a “special master” to review documents seized from Mr. Trump was panned as faulty. Mr. Kise, who developed a reputation as a skilled litigator and political operator for Mr. DeSantis, will join attorneys Jim Trusty,…