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HILLARY ESSIEN

Hillary Essien is a reporter with Peoples Gazette focusing on special reports and critical national news. She is a lawyer with 2 years of writing and reporting. Prior to working with The Gazette, Hillary served as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organisation focused on food security for children of low income households.She is on Twitter @Hillary_essien
June 8, 2021

FLASH: French man lands hot slap on President Macron

Two people were arrested in connection with the incident.

Emmanuel Macron
June 8, 2021

Twitter Ban: Bashir Ahmad, Tolu Ogunlesi, other senior BMC operatives go underground

Following Twitter’s ban in Nigeria, Bashir Ahmad, Ajuri Ngelale, Tolu Ogunlesi, Philip Obin, Abubakar Sidiq Usman have gone underground.

Bashir Ahmad, Tolu Ogunlesi, Ajuri Ngelale, Iyabo Awokoya, Abubakar Sidiq Usman, and Philip Obin
June 7, 2021

Free access to Twitter is sacrosanct: Foreign Envoys

The foreign envoys restarted the opposition to Twitter ban, urging the Buhari regime to address its concerns on dangerous use of the platforms through the courts

Mary Beth Leonard
June 7, 2021

U.S. approves drug for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.

June 6, 2021

Anonymous threatens Elon Musk for crashing crypto markets

Anonymous maintained that Mr Musk’s “tweets this week show a clear disregard for the average working person.”

Cryptocurrencies used to illustrate the story
June 5, 2021

We’ll help Nigerians bypass Buhari regime’s ban: Twitter

The action has faced criticism and widely described as illegal and undemocratic.

Buhari, Jack and Lai
June 5, 2021

Twitter Ban: Nigerians have right to communicate but we are handicapped, Telcos say

ALTON maintains that it aligns itself with the position of the UN which holds that the rights of people offline must also be protected online.

June 5, 2021

EXPLAINER: How government clampdown on internet works and how it can be bypassed

The VPN server sends data to the website a user wants to visit and hides their traffic from your network provider. This allows them to visit sites that could have been previously restricted.

June 4, 2021

FG directs NBC to licence WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook in Nigeria

On Thursday, Mr Mohammed expressed doubts about Twitter’s mission in the country and accused the social media firm of double standards.

Buhari, Jack and Lai
June 4, 2021

Banks now charge N6.98 USSD fee

Commercial banks and mobile network providers have started charging customers a flat rate of N6.98 per transaction every time they use the USSD.

Buhari and money transfer screenshot