Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

TikTok removed 2.4 million videos from Nigerian users in the fourth quarter of 2024 for violating its content policies. The company, operated by ByteDance, listed Nigeria among the top 50 countries where policy-violating content originated during this period. According to TikTok’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, a total of 153 million videos were taken down globally in Q4 2024. The report revealed that the United States recorded the highest number of removals, with 8.5 million videos deleted. The company stated that the top 50 markets accounted for approximately 90% of all content removals during the quarter. The violations spanned multiple…

Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. His daughter Mercedes told The New York Times the cause was pneumonia. He was 65. He had been battling throat cancer for several years. Kilmer’s reps did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment. The baby-faced blonde actor had a solid run as a leading man with a volatile reputation in the ’80s and ’90s, starring in “Top Gun,” “Real Genius,” “Willow,” “Heat,” and “The Saint.” He returned…

The Toronto Police Service has reported that Omotayo, a 32-year-old Nigerian man residing in Canada, has been missing since March 25, 2025. He was last seen in the Trafalgar Road and Dundas Street East area of Oakville. In a statement released on March 28, authorities urged the public to come forward with any information that could assist in locating Omotayo, as his whereabouts have remained unknown since his disappearance. “Omotayo is described as 6’0”, 160-170 lbs, with a thin build and short black hair. “Omotayo was last seen wearing a tan ‘Essentials’ hoodie, black Nike trackpants, tan Yeezy slides, and…

Gold has surged to a record high, with spot prices trading at approximately $3,132 per ounce as of 1:00 PM WAT. Data from commodity tracking platform GoldPrice.com indicates that the precious metal closed at $3,118 per ounce on March 31. Since the start of the year, gold has gained 19.8%, having opened 2025 at $2,625 per ounce. The rally is largely driven by heightened uncertainty in the global financial markets, prompting investors to seek safe-haven assets as a hedge against economic volatility. Meanwhile, the equities market has struggled, with the S&P 500 posting its worst first-quarter performance since 2022, declining…

Two New York City police officers have been suspended after being charged with burglary and forcibly touching a sex worker while responding to a complaint about an illegal brothel, prosecutors said Monday. Officers Justin McMillan and Justin Colon intentionally turned off their body cameras as they broke into a residential building, stole money and forcibly touched a woman while on duty last July, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. The patrol officers, who were still on probationary status after entering the police academy in 2023, had been responding to a report of prostitution inside the building. Prosecutors say the…

Vladimir Putin has ordered 160,000 men to be drafted into the Russian army by mid-summer despite claiming to be working towards peace with Ukraine. The record-high conscription drive suggests Russia is planning to boost its ranks after months of sustained losses in trying to expel the last of Kyiv’s troops from Kursk and in its slow grind forward into Ukraine’s east. Russian men aged 18-30 are eligible to be drafted for mandatory military service through bi-annual call-ups in spring and autumn. Each time Russia has grown its army, its defence ministry has denied any link to the Ukraine conflict and…

A New York judge dismissed one of the many sexual assault lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday after a Jane Doe chose not to reveal her identity by pursuing the case. In the suit, originally filed by attorney Tony Buzbee in Oct. 2024, Doe claimed that Combs attempted to sexually assault her at a New York City party in 1995 and violently struck her when she refused his advances. In January, Buzbee filed a motion for Doe to proceed anonymously, which the court denied, stating that the “very gravity of the charges” combined with “no evidence of specific and…

Suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, cried out to Nigerians to hold the trio of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Governor Ahmed Ododo of Kogi State and his predecessor, Yahaya Bello, responsible if anything untoward happens to her and her supporters. The embattled lawmaker raised the alarm in a post via her official Facebook, writing thus: “My dear people of Kogi Central, I look forward to our peaceful Sallah celebrations today. “However, should we be met with or infiltrated by violence, Nigerians should hold Gov Òdodo, Yahaya Bello & SP Godswill Akpabio wholly responsible.” The Kogi Central’s Senator’s warning…

In a mark of compassion, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has condoled with a former Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom over the death of his younger brother, Bernard Tyozenda Ortom. The minister, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka on Tuesday, described the death of the younger Ortom as painful, and prayed for the repose of his soul. He urged former Governor Ortom and the entire Ortom Adorogo family of Guma Local Government Area, Benue State to remain strong and take solace in God, the giver and taker of…

Further demonstrating its zero tolerance for crime and criminals, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it has secured the extradition of 14 fugitives from 10 countries, including a 41-year-old ‘Nigerian fraudster,’ alleged murderers, drug traffickers, cyber criminals, and an MS-13 gang leader. The bulletin stated that the fugitives, wanted for crimes across multiple US states, were extradited in March following extensive coordination between the DOJ and law enforcement agencies worldwide. “The dedicated, persistent work of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs with foreign partners resulted in the extradition of fugitives wanted in the United States for…