EFCC stops Okorocha from attending a presidential screening of the APC

In a video published by Channels TV, it has been confirmed that the former governor of Imo state, and 2023 presidential hopeful, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Earlier on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, operatives of the EFCC had besieged Okorocha’s house at Maitama, Abuja, to arrest him.

Okorocha, who addressed pressmen in his Maitama district of Abuja residence, said the EFCC has denied him from participating in the All Progressives Congress Presidential screening.

“Frankly speaking, the situation I find myself in is a situation of what I call hostage. Policemen and EFCC operatives are currently in my compound and they want to possibly whisk me away, my gate is blocked,” he said.

The senator representing Imo west, however, declined, insisting that he’s going to now no longer publish himself to the anti-graft organization without a warrant. In a statement on Tuesday, Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC’s spokesperson, stated they have been on the residence for you to convey the previous governor to face trial earlier than a federal excessive courtroom docket in Abuja, after numerous declined invitations.

At the residence, matters took a specific flip after supporters of Imo West senator thronged the premises, singing and chanting Okorocha’s praises. The security operatives then fired into the air after the supporters refused to depart after they have been requested to.

The operatives additionally chased all of us away, such as reporters and the body of workers of the senator. The operatives later broke into the presidential aspirant’s domestic and whisked him into their custody.

The Headies has released the much-awaited nominees’ list for the 2022 Headies award and by all indications, it promises to be the toughest yet.

Things to consider from the list

The Headies Understands the Need to Evolve

The recent slump in the respect accorded to the Headies by the music community suggested a case of diminishing return. The Headies appeared to have hit a Cul-de-sac and desperately needed to rebrand.

This year’s Headies showed that the Headies understands this need and they listened to constructive criticism. The 2022 Headies award has been expanded to over 35 categories for more representation and inclusion

The Superlative Importance Of The Next Rated Category

Since, its inception, the Next Rated Category has been the most exciting part of the Headies Awards and the Headies understand the importance of retaining the sanctity of the category.

The 2022 Headies nominees’ list sees a reversal of the previous rule that makes artists with albums ineligible for the category.

This decision must have been inspired by the need to ensure that those deserving, as well as the acts capable of reigniting the interest synonymous with the category, are included.

International Success Can’t Be Ignored Domestically

Burna Boy’s ‘African Giant’ became decreased to a restricted classes on the 2020 Headies award. However, this year, matters are exclusive with the inner achievement of ‘Essence’ and ‘Made In Lagos.’

The unmarried and the album made the nomination listing for all of the main classes. This suggests that such degree of worldwide massive worldwide achievement cannot be neglect domestically.

The Identity Crisis With The Alternative Categories Continues

The absence of categories for indigenous sounds such as high life and fuji means that songs that don’t fit into the mainstream categories are shoehorned into the Alternative category.

The 2022 Headies nomination list has failed to correct this and it can be expected that the Alternative categories will leave Alte fans visibly dissatisfied.

Seeing a is a song that’s practically a club banger and street anthem getting shortlisted for Best Alternative Song will surely generate questions as to the definition of Alternative music. Brace up everyone because it’s going to be a lengthy debate.

The Headies Woos African Audience

The Headies is primarily a Nigerian music award and while there’s an African category, the primary interest in the award is restricted to Nigeria.

The 2022 Headies award has expanded with categories for different regions.

This is clearly an attempt to attract more followers within the continent and increase Headies’ international recognition and acceptance. International Success Can’t Be Ignored Domestically Burna Boy’s ‘African Giant’ became decreased to a restricted class on the 2020 Headies award.

However, this year, matters are exclusive with the inner achievement of ‘Essence’ and ‘Made In Lagos.’

The unmarried and the album made the nomination listing for all of the main classes. This suggests that such a degree of worldwide massive worldwide achievement cannot be neglected domestically.

Gender-Based Category Still Retained

The Headies’ gender-specific nominations have sparked debate as to its relevance in a world where gender equality is at the fore of every conversation.

The Headies has, however, retained the gender-based nominations in the 2022 nominations lists.

The conversations surrounding the relevance of gender-specific categories are propelled by arguments of equity and equality and it for now, the Headies are tilting towards the former.’

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Guest rooms offer amenities such as a refrigerator and air conditioning, and guests can go online with free wifi provided by the hotel.

We have on-site parking in lots near or within proximity of your access point to your room.

The property also features a pool and complimentary breakfast to make your visit even more pleasant. Guests arriving by vehicle have access to free parking.

When you’re feeling hungry, be sure to check out 10 Barrel Brewpub, The Row, and Bistro 28 A Neighborhood Kitchen, which are some pubs that are popular with locals and out-of-towners alike.

Enjoy your stay in Bend.

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US warns over the risk of hiring North Korea IT workers

By Annabelle Liang
Business reporter

Many of them pretend to be from other parts of Asia, according to three US government agencies.

They are allegedly helping to fund North Korea’s weapons programs, violating international sanctions.

The country has conducted several missile tests in recent months.

In March, North Korea tested a banned intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time since 2017.

“The DPRK [North Korea] dispatches thousands of highly skilled IT workers around the world to generate revenue that contributes to its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, in violation of US and UN sanctions,” the US State Department, US Treasury Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a joint statement on Monday.

The statement said the workers are located in North Korea and other countries, primarily China and Russia. A smaller number are said to be based in Africa and Southeast Asia.

“These IT workers take advantage of existing demands for specific IT skills, such as software and mobile application development, to obtain freelance employment contracts from clients worldwide, including in North America, Europe, and East Asia,” it said.

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“Although DPRK IT workers normally engage in IT work distinct from malicious cyber activity, they have used the privileged access gained as contractors to enable the DPRK’s malicious cyber intrusions,” the statement added.

It also said companies that hire North Korean workers could face legal penalties for violating sanctions.

Last month, the US linked North Korea-backed hackers to a massive cryptocurrency heist worth $615m (£498.4m) from players of the popular online game Axie Infinity.

Also in April, a former US researcher at a cryptocurrency group was sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring to help North Korea evade US sanctions.

Virgil Griffith formerly worked for the Ethereum Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on the technology behind the cryptocurrency ether.

He had pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the US International Emergency Economic Powers Act by traveling to North Korea’s capital Pyongyang to give a presentation on blockchain technology.

The Ethereum Foundation said that it had not approved or supported his travel to North Korea at the time of Griffith’s arrest.

Elon Musk has raised $7.1 billion for his Twitter acquisition from buyers that consist of Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, in keeping with a securities submission Thursday.

Musk, Chief Executive of Tesla and SpaceX, investors18 investors who agreed to cash investments which include Ellison ($1 billion), Sequoia Capital ($800 million), and Vy Capital ($700 million).

The Saudi prince, the head of the Kingdom Holding Company conglomerate, agreed to make a contribution of approximately 35 million Twitter stocks worth $1.nine billion for you to hold a stake withinside the organization post-acquisition, the submitting said.

Alwaleed had formerly balked at Musk’s $54.20 per share offer as too low, but praised Musk on Twitter on Thursday, saying “I look forward to rolling our ~$1.9bn in the ‘new’ @Twitter and join you on this exciting journey.”

The investments will reduce a $12.5 billion margin loan organized through Morgan Stanley and other banks to $6.25 billion, the filing said.

The new financing means less of Musk’s Tesla shares will be used as collateral under the margin loan.

Musk “may receive additional financing commitments to fund additional portions of the total Merger Consideration,” the filing said, adding that the Tesla chief is in talks with former Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey and others who may contribute shares to maintain an equity stake.

The Twitter takeover is expected to close later in 2022.

CNBC reported that upon completion of the deal, Musk is expected to serve as temporary CEO of Twitter for a few months, the network said, citing unnamed sources.

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The assault started out approximately an hour earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine, on 24 February. It triggered outages for numerous thousand Ukrainian customers

– and affected windfarms and net customers in Central Europe. Officials have lengthy believed Russia became guilty however lacked the proof to mention so

publicly. Viasat affords high-pace satellite tv for pc broadband to business and navy customers. The organisation has formerly said “tens of heaps of terminals”

had been broken past repair, withinside the cyber-assault, aleven though its middle community infrastructure and the satellite tv for pc itself remained unscathed.

‘Almost certain’

Now, a joint statement with the aid of using the EU, UK, US and different allies confirms long-held suspicions the number one goal turned into the Ukrainian

military. And the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre stated it turned into “nearly certain” Russia turned into at the back of the attack.

Significant and destructive operation shows Russia’s abilities

Russian navy intelligence – the GRU – were concerned withinside the thirteen January defacements of Ukrainian authorities web sites and assaults the use of a

form of detrimental malware referred to as Whispergate withinside the identical month, it added. Whispergate changed into deployed withinside the months

earlier than the conflict, towards corporations in Ukraine, in an attempt to “to ruin pc structures and render them inoperable”, consistent with America

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The UK has already sanctioned the GRU, after a nerve-agent assault in Salisbury, Wilts, left one individual useless

and numerous others significantly ill. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss stated in a declaration accompanying the announcement:

“This is apparent and surprising proof of a planned and malicious assault with the aid of using Russia towards Ukraine which had substantial effects on everyday human beings and corporations in Ukraine and throughout Europe.”

Salemgists learnt that the deceased is a cousin to Wusakile Member of Parliament, Pavyuma Kalobo.

It was gathered from sources that Chile 1 was shot dead in the early hours of today, April 30 after a misunderstanding with his wife.

A source said the couple had a marital misunderstanding early this morning which lead to the wife pulling the trigger.

Copperbelt Province Police Commanding officer Sharon Zulu has confirmed the shooting of Chile 1.

Police have since arrested his wife Annie Monta, 30. Sharon Zulu said:

“The shooting occurred at around 01:00 hours when the deceased came home and later picked up a quarrel with his wife and in the process he was shot at on his left side of his back and sustained a bullet wound on the right side of his chest where the bullet came out from,” said Zulu.

She disclosed that a 9 mm pistor was used and that an empty catilage was recovered at the scene.

“A Pistol 9mm taurus by make silver in colour, serial number THR 43651 was used . The victim sustained a bullet wound on his left side of the back where he was shot at and on the right side of his chest where the bullet came out”.

“He was rushed to Progress private hospital and later to Kitwe Teaching Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The body of the deceased has since been deposited to Kitwe Teaching Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem .The firearm with one empty cartilage was recovered from the scene, arrest made.

In an ongoing Twitter Spaces session with Daily Trust, the Senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th assembly rated the government lowly.

Never at a time as a country has Nigeria been in so much debt. We keep borrowing from everywhere,” he said.

He said whatever Buhari thought he had achieved would mean nothing if Nigerians are not secure.

Sani also accused Buhari of keeping incompetent in office, wondering why he cannot reshuffle his cabinet.

As a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014, Buhari led thousands of party supporters in a protest rally in Abuja.

The protesters had accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government of playing politics with Boko Haram.

They also accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP of gross incompetence and unprecedented display of impunity.

The protest tagged ‘Salvation Rally’, was aimed at drawing global attention to what the opposition party described as a deliberate hijack of the Nigeria police and other security agencies by the ruling PDP.

quick LinksAfrican Content CreatorsContent CreatorsDishaFlutterwaveSelar.CoMenuMenuCategoriesCategoriesNewsletterNewsletterCalendarEventsNewslettersNext Wave: Are African content creators about to

get more support? 🎉By Sultan Quadri15th November 2021Source: iStock/SeventyFourRecently, Flutterwave saved the web-building platform, Disha,

by acquiring it. Disha allows creators to easily build one-page websites on which they could curate their content and receive payment for their work—all without

learning to code or the other technicalities involved in building a website. Despite bootstrapping the business and growing their base to 20,000 users globally,

Disha’s revenues were low; the platform made slightly above $1,000 in monthly recurring revenue. The global creator economy is worth over $100 billion and
Africans are shut out of most of it. African creators—independent writers, artists,

social media influencers, videographers, gamers, and podcasters—struggle to earn a living from their content because of payment problems and the low earning power

of their audience.Before the creation of homegrown Disha, Selar.co, and e-commerce platforms, Flutterwave stores and Paystack Storefront, African creators

found it difficult to find the appropriate tools to share and monetize their content. In this edition of Next Wave, we explore the opportunities available to

African creators to finally tap into the global creator economy. Boluwatife Sanwo – TechCabal InsightsA huge chance for expansion American payment processing

company Stripe revealed in a blog that it has boarded a total of 668,000 creators who have collectively generated over $9 billion in revenue in the last decade.

Nigeria’s ​Flutterwave wants to position itself as an ally to the creator class the same way Stripe has done. Creator Blockchain platforms like OpenSea, Raible and

Gateway allowed Nigerian artist, Jacon Oshinachi, to sell three NFT arts worth $70,000 in just 10 days. There will be surely more big hits for Africans on that platform too.

Boluwatife Sanwo – TechCabal InsightsTo get into the booming short-video content industry, video-streaming platform, YouTube made iterations and created YouTube shorts.

To be able to compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels, YouTube is trying to entice creators. One such move was targeted at Kenyan creators. Between 2021 and

2022, YouTube will pay Kenyan content creators about Ksh10.98 billion ($99 million) to create 15-second videos. Content creators can earn up to Ksh1.1 million per month for every video they upload.

In the nearest future, ear1 would help African professionals and public figures earn money by just offering access to a conversation. Similar to Cameo, ear1 just

received a $520,000 pre-seed funding to incentivise access for all sorts of creators.PARTNER MESSAGEWelcome millions of new customers from across the

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take chances?In a tweet announcing Disha’s acquisition, Flutterwave’s co-founder and CEO, Olugbenga Agboola, said it wants to support creators like Peace Itami and

Salem King. One major both content creators have in common is that they leverage platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Disha, and Selar.co to connect with their fans

and build communities. Even though community platforms are not big (yet) in Nigeria, there is a huge opportunity here. According to Stripe, community

platforms like Luma have seen a 150% increase in revenue, year-over-year, in 2021. This year alone, Growth Strategist at Selar.co, Milton Tutu, told TechCabal in a

call that Selar.co has paid $1,500,000 to creators. He went further to explain that Selar.co has paid more money to creators in the last three months than the entire

of last year—₦100 million.Selar.co has also experienced a boom in its numbers: from less than 100 merchants last year to over 17,000 merchants who sell more

than one product on the platform, and over 80,000 users who buy digital products. Tutu said although Selar.co got over 7,000 merchants in the past three

months, organically, the company has the ambition to grow faster by educating more creators and creating a marketplace for creators and expanding the number

of countries in which creators can receive money in the coming weeks.As platforms that ally with content creators experience tremendous growth, African

creators will continue to enjoy the support it is getting because of its huge potential for expansion.PARTNER MESSAGEAre you a whiz? Apply for the

Adamantine Energy LNG Fuel Stove Hackathon, and create the most innovative solution for a portable and safe LNG stove. The winner will receive a monetary award of

1,000,000 naira as well as the opportunity to design the product. Register for free have a great week thank you for reading the Next Wave. Please share today’s

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Newsletter to receive all the technology and business stories you need each weekday at 7 AM (WAT). Follow TechCabal on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and

LinkedIn to stay engaged in our real-time conversations on tech and innovation in Africa. Sultan Quadri, Staff Writer, TechCabal.