Senators from the South-south region have warned people opposed to the tax reform bills to desist from introducing regional, ethnic or tribal sentiments when criticising the bills. They also called for extensive interaction and consultations with stakeholders before the bills are finally considered by the National Assembly. The senators, under the aegis of the South-South … Read more
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has kicked off the 7th phase of the constituency and executive projects tracking exercise involving 1,500 schemes valued at N610 billion. The spokesperson of the ICPC, Demola Bakare, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. According to Mr Bakare, the exercise is an … Read more
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have shot dead a divisional police officer (DPO) in Delta State, south-south Nigeria. The police spokesperson in Delta, Bright Edafe, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria incident happened on Monday in Agbarho Community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. The DPO, identified simply as … Read more
An earthquake early detection system has been activated in British Columbia to provide the public with a few seconds of warning ahead of a potentially harmful tremor. Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said when a strong earthquake is detected, alerts will be transmitted automatically to British Columbians via cellphones, radio and televisions. The alerts will be sent “seconds to tens … Read more
CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the global outage on July 19 that crashed more than eight million computers. In a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night in the Austin, Texas, federal court, shareholders said they learned that … Read more
CrowdStrike is facing a lawsuit from shareholders who claim the company misled them about the reliability of its software, leading to a significant global outage on July 19 that affected more than eight million computers. The proposed class action was filed late Tuesday in the Austin, Texas federal court, according to Reuters. The lawsuit alleges … Read more
I only saw one Blue Screen of Death on Sunday, July 21, across 15 hours of travel via two of the country’s biggest airports, just two days after a botched software update crippled millions of corporate computers running the Windows operating system. “Maybe things are OK,” I remember thinking as my family took the first … Read more
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. CrowdStrike also outlined measures it will take to prevent the problem … Read more
U.S. airline regulators have opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines, which is still struggling to restore operations on Tuesday, more than four full days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and disrupted global air travel. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the Delta investigation on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday “to ensure … Read more
Delta Air Lines is struggling to restore normal operations after last week’s crippling global cyber outage, cancelling over 5,000 flights since Friday. Delta on Sunday cancelled 1,250 flights beyond the 3,500 it had already scrapped after a software update by global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike triggered system problems for Microsoft customers, including many airlines, on Friday. Delta … Read more
