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TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew will appear before the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee in March, as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Chew will testify before the committee on March 23, which will be his first appearance before a congressional committee, said Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Republican chair of the panel, in a statement on Monday. The news comes as the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of TikTok in the United States over national security concerns. “ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for the…

A civil society group, South-East Coalition for Sustainable Development (SECSD) has commended the Nigerian military over its non-kinetic approach towards peace and stability in the region. This is contained in a statement by the President of SECSD, Onu Ikenna, and Secretary, Uchechi Mgbidi, on Monday in Abuja. The group said the military had embarked on school rehabilitation projects, improvement of laboratories in schools, provision of potable water, and other non-kinetic measures in the region. They said it was a promise kept by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, to ensure Nigerians had peace, adding that the initiative should…

The Federal Government says whatever action (Visa deprivation) is taken against anyone who undermines the nation’s democracy, watered by the blood of many patriots, is right and justified. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in Abuja at the 20th edition of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Administration Scorecard Series (2015-2023). Mohammed was responding to the decision by the United States of America to slam a visa ban on some Nigerians believed to be responsible for, or complicit in undermining democracy in Nigeria. The decision was announced in a statement recently issued…

The mouthpiece of Northern Nigeria, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), and the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria have called for compensation to be paid to families of 50 pastoralists and butchers allegedly killed in drone strikes in Doma, Nasarawa State. In separate statements and media briefings yesterday, both organizations also urged the Federal Government to investigate the circumstances leading to the killing of the herders and butchers. In a statement by its Secretary General Murtala Aliyu, the ACF said: “The circumstances surrounding the killing of pastoralists who went to Makurdi, the Benue State capital, to retrieve 1,250 impounded cattle…

The Department of State Services on Monday said its officers have arrested an undisclosed number of persons involved in the sale of the new naira notes. The DSS, in a statement on Monday by its spokesman, Peter Afunanya, accused some commercial bank officials of aiding the crime. The statement was titled, ‘DSS intercepted syndicates selling new currency notes, bank official implicated’. It read, “The Department of State Services hereby informs the public that it has intercepted some members of organized syndicates involved in the sale of the newly redesigned naira notes. In the course of its operations, in this regard…

A woman in a viral video trying to extort money from the unsuspecting public before giving them their permanent voter’s cards(PVC) has come under attack. The trending video posted @ChidiOdinkalu shows where the woman, suspected to be an agent of a staff member of the Independent National Electoral Commission, was charging registered voters N1, 000 to collect their PVCs. The woman was seen with a bag containing many PVCs and making demands, saying it was the cost of bringing the cards to their supposed ward by a certain official, suspected to be an INEC staff. However, the people she was…

Big Brother Titans (BBTitans) housemate Khosi has appealed to Yemi to love her more. Khosi in her latest conversation with Yemi said she was jealous and not happy that he professed love to Nana by saying he loved her. In his response, Yemi claimed he did not tell Nana he loved her, saying he only called Nana’s attention to what Miracle was doing with her last night. Miracle and Khosi had kissed deep during a truth or dare game. The kiss sparked a lot of reactions on social media. BBTitans: Yemi kisses Blue Aiva after intimacy with Khosi Arisco wrote:…

Big Brother Titan housemates, Sandra and Theo have been evicted from the reality TV show. The pair’s eviction was announced by the show anchor, Ebuka Obi Uchendu. The duo was evicted during the live show on Sunday. BBTitans: Shock as two unexpected housemates caught under the sheets They are the first housemates to be evicted from the show. Santheo’s eviction leaves Biggies’ house with 22 housemates. More evictions seem to be on the way.

The Corps Marshal of, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Dauda Biu, has expressed concern over recurring container crashes on the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos. Consequently, he called for barricades to stop articulated vehicles from using the bridge. Biu said this in a statement issued by the Federal Road Safety Corps Public Education Officer, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, on Sunday in Abuja. He was reacting to the fatal crashes that occurred at Ojuelegba Bridge in Lagos in which nine people died and another that claimed 11 lives at Soka bridge on Lagos-Benin Highway. He said that the construction of the…

Tunisia announced that a mere 11% of the electorate had voted on Sunday in parliamentary runoffs in which critics of President Kais Saied pointed to empty polling stations as evidence of public disdain for his agenda and seizure of powers. The head of the electoral commission, over which Saied assumed ultimate authority last year, gave a provisional turnout of 11.3% for Sunday’s runoff votes. During December’s first round, the official turnout was only slightly lower, at 11.2% Economic decline in Tunisia, where some basic goods have disappeared from shelves and the government has cut subsidies as it seeks a foreign…