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EFCC Boss Raises Alarm: Majority of Nigerian Students Linked to Cybercrime

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Olanipekun Olukoyede, has voiced concern over the widespread involvement of young Nigerians in cybercrime, describing...

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“Squid Game” star, to cover Vogue magazine’s front page (photos)

South Korean model-turned “Squid Game” actress, Hoyeon Jung, has made history as the first Korean to land a solo Vogue cover. Hoyeon Jung who is the most-followed Korean actress on Instagram, starred on the Netflix hit as North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok, and is the cover star of the magazine’s February issue. The 27-year-old,  became a global sensation just weeks after the series was released in September as she went from 400,000 to 15 million Instagram followers according to Vogue's cover story. As of Friday, January 7, that number had ballooned to 23.7 million for the “Korea’s Next Top Model” runner-up. “Even if eight people loved me and only two people hated me, I always cried, at home...

Court orders police to pay Kanu’s supporter N50M

Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered for the unconditional release of Mazi Solomon Onyegbule, one of the supporters of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The court also awarded N50 million as “compensatory and exemplary damages.” The lawyer to Kanu and IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said this in a statement he issued on Tuesday evening, accompanied by the Certified True Copy of the judgment. He said, “While delivering judgment in suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/137/2022, we had filed on behalf of Solomon Onyegbule, the court directed the Inspector-General of Police to unconditionally release Mazi Onyegbule from their custody forthwith. “The Court further awarded the sum of N50 million only in favour of...

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