Facebook is working to enable external reviews on its content moderation systems, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a comment piece on the Financial Times on Monday. The tech giant has been criticised for being too slow to remove hate speech and terrorist propaganda from its platform, but has also been accused of suppressing right-wing […]
An investigation at Confederation of African Football (CAF) has uncovered massive financial irregularities pointing to possible loss of millions of dollars. In May last year, CAF agreed to an independent review of its operations, administrative and governance structure after accusations of financial impropriety emerged. Tne CAF president Ahmad is also under ethics inquiry by FIFA […]
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has commended the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) for detecting pay roll fraud by nine civil servants suspected to be involved in siphoning public funds by inserting fake workers in the payroll of Federal Ministries. The nine suspects were on Wednesday, arraigned before an Abuja High Court […]
Between late 2002 and early 2004, there was a strong advocacy by NITDA, under the late Prof Olalere Ajayi, for the creation of an Information Technology (IT) cadre in the Federal Civil Service. The push eventually received the assent of the Federal Executive Council. The implementation began with six pilot Ministries, among which was the […]