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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 4, 2021

VAT: South-South governors head to Supreme Court with Rivers

All the South-South governors, except Ben Ayade of Cross River, are supporting Rivers in the suit.

October 4, 2021

Cellular networks AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon experiencing downtime

This began when WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook began experiencing downtime worldwide.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile
October 4, 2021

Swedish cartoonist with $100,000 Al Qaeda bounty dies in car crash

The artist had lived under police protection since his 2007 sketch of Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body attracted death threats.

Lars Vilks
October 4, 2021

WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook suffer worldwide outage

The three apps, all owned by Facebook, completely stopped working shortly before 5:00 p.m.

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram
October 4, 2021

PandoraPapers; Jordan’s King exposed over hidden luxury homes

“King Abdullah II has secretly owned 14 luxury homes in the United Kingdom and the United States, purchased between 2003 and 2017 through front companies.”

October 4, 2021

PandoraPapers: Pakistani Prime Minister’s cabinet members busted with multimillion-dollar offshore assets

The files reveal how, in 2007, Pakistani Gen. Shafaat Ullah Shah’s wife obtained a $1.2 million apartment in London through a private offshore transaction.

Imran Khan
October 4, 2021

PandoraPapers: Documents show President Kenyatta, family held $30 million offshore

A leak of roughly 12 million documents said the Kenyan leader was among 35 current and former heads of state linked to shell companies in tax havens.

October 3, 2021

Britain would no longer allow uncontrolled immigration, Boris Johnson says

Mr Johnson said his government will cut previous practices of opening Britain’ doors to all manners of immigrants via “uncontrolled immigration.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
October 3, 2021

Many killed as hoodlums burn down SSS, police headquarters in Nnewi

The incident occurred at about 1:00 p.m. when hoodlums stormed the offices, overpowered personnel and torched “everywhere,” a witness said.

Police office burnt down.
October 3, 2021

SPECIAL: Living with polycystic ovarian syndrome

There is no cure yet for PCOS but the condition can be managed effectively via diets such as foods with high vegetable and fruit content rather than carbohydrates.