Social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down amid a widespread Meta outage. Website Downdetector, which monitors where there are issues with websites and apps, showed large spikes for Facebook and other Meta apps with people saying they had been affected by the outage. According to Downdetector, Facebook outages were first reported…
In a bid to contribute towards the development of education in Osun state, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ademola Adeleke On Community Engagement Hon. Sulaimon Musa Olalekan visited schools in Irepodun local government. The SSA visited LA Primary School Ilobu and AUD Primary School Erin Osun on a working visit. Hon. Sulaimon disclosed the…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Ibrahim Shuaibu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna State for fraud. According to a Monday statement on EFCC X.com handle Shuaibu is facing prosecution on a seven-count charge, including…
The Enugu State Electricityv Regulatory Commission (EERC), has issued a new tariff to MainPower Electricity Distribution Limited, the utility that succeeded Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, (EEDC), for electricity distribution in the state, reviewing electricity cost for Band A from N209/ kWh (per kiloWatt) to N160 kWh, effective from August 1, 2025. This was contained in…
The Publisher of Egalitarian Voice Media, Ambassador Segun Akinlabi, has extended warm felicitations to his colleague in the media industry and Publisher of 9janews247, Mr. Olusegun C.A. Taiwo, popularly known as OCAT, on the occasion of his birthday today, September 2, 2025. In his goodwill message, Ambassador Akinlabi described OCAT as “a God-fearing, passionate, and…
The Federal Government is set to arraign Idris Omeiza; Al-Qasim Idris; Jamiu Abdulmalik; Abdulhaleem Idris, and Momoh Abubakar who are alleged to be responsible for the June 5, 2022 bombing of Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The suspects are to be arraigned before Justice Obiorah Egwatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja….
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has declared that he is not like other politicians who make promises they do not intend to keep, insisting that his vow to serve only one term if elected president remains “sacrosanct”. In a statement issued on Sunday, Obi said Nigerians…
Members of the National Youth Service Corps have expressed their disapproval of the Federal Government’s persistent failure to implement the payment of the N77,000 allowance. The Federal Government had approved an increase in the corps members’ monthly allowance from N33,000 to N77,000, effective July 2024. In the same year, the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig….
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday swore in former Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa (retd), as the new Minister of Defence. The brief ceremony at the Presidential Villa saw Musa take the oath of office, just 24 hours after the Senate screened and confirmed his nomination. Tinubu had forwarded Musa’s name to the…
Out of 38 directors shortlisted for the position of permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service, 19 have failed the qualifying examination. Recall that in October the Federal Government, through the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), initiated the process of selecting new permanent secretaries to fill vacancies in eight…