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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton appeared as a speaker at a class at Stanford University earlier this week, where he spoke about the decision to sell the company to Facebook, and urged students to delete their Facebook accounts.

Gunmen suspected to be fulani herdsmen on Saturday attacked Nandu-Gbok village in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna state, killing 10 people.

Three million new users have signed up to Telegram over the past 24 hours, during a period in which Facebook (and Facebook Messenger), Instagram, and WhatsApp were all experiencing significant outages worldwide.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has given reasons he stopped the use of WhatsApp application, attributing the stoppage to abuse by some users.

The troops of operation sharar Daji in Zamfara state have recovered 27 Ak 47, 168 round of 7.62 mm special ammunitions from bandits that are terrorizing villages around the state.

Nigerian authorities should lift the ban on Jay FM radio station in the city of Jos in Plateau state and stop trying to intimidate its staff, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has approved and ordered with immediate effect the reversal of the name of Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit to its founding name: Complaint Response Unit.

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Maj.-Gen. Jamil Sarham, has paraded Governor Nyesom Wike’s Commissioner for Urban Development and Physical Planning, Dr. Reason Onya; and the representative of Ahoada West constituency in Rivers House of Assembly, Nwanaka Okpokiri, for rigging last Saturday’s elections in the state.

Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has denied reports that Saraki congratulated APC senator-elect, Dr Ibrahim Oloriegbe.

A scathing British parliamentary report on Monday branded Facebook “digital gangsters” who failed to fight the spread of fake news and violated data privacy.

Ahead of the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, the Independent National Electoral Commission in Imo has released WhatsApp accounts and phone lines for complaints.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Thursday launched its election analysis centre.

Educators and other stakeholders have called for sustained citizens enlightenment by relevant authorities to curb the spreading of hate contents on social media platforms.

President of the Senate and Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on Nigerians who have collected their Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) across the nation to ensure that they come out to vote in massive numbers on February 16, 2019.

Emiliano Sala’s father has spoken of his anguish and disbelief after wreckage of the plane carrying the missing Cardiff City footballer son was discovered in the English Channel.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the FCT, says the commission is still maintaining the existing culture of using National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members as elections’ ad hoc staff.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has ridiculed his opponents' use of social media to organise recent protests against his rule.

Wife of Ekiti State Governor Erelu Bisi Fayemi has urged Nigerian women to discourage their husbands and children from engaging in electoral violence during the forthcoming general elections.