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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
October 6, 2021

AGF Malami threatens state of emergency ahead of Anambra elections

The warning came as insecurity heightened across the state, raising fears about the upcoming gubernatorial elections in November.

Malami and Kanu
October 6, 2021

Two scientists win 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize chose Benjamin List (Germany) and David W.C.MacMillan (Scotland) for their work in “the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

October 6, 2021

ATM like chequebook, banks must pay damages for dispense errors: Appeal Court

Consequently, the Court of Appeal awarded Mr Jwan N500,000 as general damages against Ecobank for failure to pay its customer N10,000 through the bank’s ATM.

October 6, 2021

Bitcoin pushes above $51,000 as Shiba Inu surge continues

Cryptocurrency Bitcoin has risen to around $51,000 as the Bank of America supports cryptocurrency transactions as a new asset class.

Bitcoin
October 5, 2021

Top Malawian businessman sentenced nine years for bribery

The businessman was recorded offering bribes to a judge to influence the outcome of an election case.

Thomson Mpinganjira
October 5, 2021

2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for discoveries in human senses

This year’s medicine prize is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian.

October 5, 2021

Nobel Prize 2021: Three scientists clinch awards in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 is worth $1.15 million to be shared by the recipients.

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi
October 5, 2021

IMF boss Georgieva to face panel over manipulated Doing Business report

“The executive board will also meet on the matter soon with the managing director as part of this process.”

Kristalina Georgieva
October 5, 2021

Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram back after global outage, blame technical issue

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are back up after the global outage that kept users offline for almost six hours on Monday, blaming “internal technical issue.”

October 4, 2021

Hackers put up private information of 1.5 billion Facebook users for sale

This breach of privacy comes amid the global downtime being experienced by all Facebook-owned social media apps.

Facebook