Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organizations and others. Twitter said it would implement a new login verification system, “a form of two-factor authentication” which is “a second check to make sure it’s really you” when a [...]
Switzerland, currently in the process of restituting assets to several former autocratic countries, is working on a new law aimed at simplifying the process of freezing and unblocking such funds, the government said Wednesday. The law under construction would regulate “the administrative confiscation and restitution of dictator assets,” the government said in a statement. Bern [...]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered Air Nigeria owned by Jimoh Ibrahim to pay N5 million to Mr Hakeem Ogunniran as damages for cancelling his flight from Nigeria to South Africa. Justice Okon Abang gave the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed by the plaintiff against the airline over loss of [...]
Hand luggage of cabin crew in Nigeria are hardly checked at airports because airline staff are expected to be upright, sources said on Wednesday, a day after an Arik Air hostess was arrested in London for drug trafficking. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said Temitayo Olubunmi Daramola was arrested at Heathrow Airport in [...]
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said on Tuesday that one of the two Arik Air female cabin crew members arrested in London Tuesday concealed six kilogrammes of cocaine worth about N180 million. Arik Air staff Temitayo Olubunmi Daramola was found in possession of 6kg of cocaine while Delita Abibimgbi was found with 60 [...]
Two members of staff of Nigerian largest airline, Arik Air, have been arrested at Heathrow airport in London for drug trafficking, Nigeria’s anti-drug agency boss, Ahmadu Giade confirmed on Tuesday. Spokesperson of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the agency has opened an investigation as it constitutes a national embarrassment. “We [...]
The Namibian government and a Brazilian energy firm on Tuesday announced the first discovery of oil off the coast of Namibia, although not in commercial volumes. Reporting findings from an exploratory well in the Walvis Basin off the southwest African country’s central coast, Rio de Janeiro-based HRT said there were promising signs. The company discovered [...]
