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The Chinese-owned short-video platform, TikTok, has escalated its legal battle with Nigerian regulators by challenging a $5 million fine for alleged privacy breaches; and sources at ByteDance, the Nigerian operator of TikTok, told From aso.rocks that it is appealing the fine in Nigeria’s Federal High Court, describing it as “unjustifiable,” and threatening to withdraw from […]

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For years, Facebook sold itself as “for the people.”A digital town square.A place to build community, livelihoods, and identity. But an increasing number of high-profile users, insiders, creators, and public intellectuals have walked away — or dramatically reduced their presence — after concluding that Facebook (now Meta) operates as a cold, automated power structure with […]

Facebook’s Descent Into the Age of Lies: Fake News, Fake Videos, Algorithmic Deception, and the Dangerous Myth That It Was Ever “Free” There was a time when Facebook claimed to “connect the world.” Today, it increasingly confuses it, destabilizes it, and floods it with lies — at industrial scale. What users now encounter on Facebook […]

20 Popular Figures Who Walked Away From Facebook — Calling It Tyrannical, Inhuman, and Dangerous to Creators Facebook claims to be “for the people.”But millions now understand a darker truth: the people exist for Facebook — until they don’t. Across the world, users are waking up to find their accounts erased without warning, explanation, or […]

You Wake Up One Day After 15 Years on Facebook—and Facebook Has Deleted Your Account You wake up like any other morning. You check your phone. Notifications. Messages. Memories. Fifteen years of routine muscle memory guide your thumb to the blue “f”. But it doesn’t open. Instead, there’s a cold, bureaucratic message waiting for you—one […]

Wike’s politics of gbas-gbos — the brand of raw confrontation that blurs party lines, intimidates institutions, and thrives on public spectacle — appeared, until recently, immune to political boundaries. For years, Nyesom Wike operated in a space where allegiance to party mattered less than allegiance to power. He fought PDP leaders while funding APC victories. He governed […]

By Douglas Baye-Osagie As the Super Eagles step under the Marrakech lights, they face one of their fiercest rivals in African football. History has often pitted both sides on the path to Nations Cup triumph. Every time they have cancelled each other out, one has gone on to emerge as champions. Nigeria’s first Nations Cup triumph came […]

The recently opened coastal highway also opened up a few more things than the road itself. It opened the eyes of many Nigerians to what is possible. A friend and professional colleague, who in the almost fifty years that we have known each other, has consistently been a sworn enemy of all that is bad in governance […]

By Idowu Bankole Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, called for unity of purpose for the growth and progress of Rivers State. Wike made the call during his ongoing “thank you” visit to Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers. He said that unity had brought progress and development for Andoni people, […]

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran, faced with major protests, was in “big trouble” and again warned he could order military strikes. “Iran’s in big trouble. It looks to me that the people are taking over certain cities that nobody thought were really possible just a few weeks ago,” Trump said. Asked on […]

By Peter Egwuatu KPMG, the global advisory services firm, has identified errors, omissions, gaps and inconsistencies in the new Nigeria Tax Act, NTA. The company has called for urgent reviews to ensure the attainment of the tax reform objectives. KPMG in its latest newsletter titled, “Nigeria’s New Tax Laws: Inherent Errors, Inconsistencies, Gaps and Omissions”, […]