Be aware that the scammers are also operating on Nairaland, but the moderators are dealing with them. They have created threads on Nairaland with the same fake stories, but I have reported them to the mods.
Don't fall for their fake stories, report all such threads to the moderators.
How Facebook pages lure users to ‘financial breakthrough’ with image of Aisha Buhari, others
The use of popular Nigerian images to lure users of Facebook to get financial offers is becoming a trend on the popular social media platform.
The posts on the pages are mostly promoted with pictures of well-known Nigerians in most cases. Thus, operators of the pages are used to lure users of the social media to a trading platform, as a way of “getting rich”.
Among the pictures of Nigerians used is former Nigeria First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on a Facebook page, Dann Films.
The caption of its promoted post on Facebook reads, “We say goodbye to Aisha Buhari, the saddest day for Nigeria”, with an image of Aisha.
Checks indicated that the page was created on September 17, 2018. Further findings showed that it is managed by multiple admins with a sole number administered to the page. The number, through the use of Truecaller, showed the name as “Danny Ting Kts”.
To deceive Facebook users, the page used the name of a Nigerian newspaper, Vanguard, and cloned its website front page, with the heading, “Aisha Buhari did not know that the microphone was on, and we are saying goodbye to him forever.”
However, findings showed that Vanguard did not publish such information.
When the post was clicked, it directed to a website with a different headline claiming, “Central Bank of Nigeria sues Aisha Buhari over statements she made on live television”, with Aisha’s picture, using the front of The PUNCH Newspaper as the source.
The post added, “Live on air, Aisha Buhari regretted revealing the truth. But it was already too late,” but the national newspaper has no such report on its website.
Part of the published misleading information read, “Scandal erupted during a live broadcast, when Aisha Buhari accidentally revealed her secret on the program. Many viewers paid attention to Aisha Buhari’s “accidental” words and started sending messages on the air. However, the show was interrupted by a call from the Bank of Nigeria who demanded that the program be stopped immediately.”
It claimed to have persuaded the director of the Channels Television program to give a copy of the recording of the program.
“If you’ve had a chance to read this article, keep in mind that it may soon be deleted, as has happened with broadcasting. So if you’ve had a chance to read this article, you should instead check out the link provided to us by Aisha Buhari herself,” it further read.
The deleted conversation, it claimed, was between Aisha and one Adline Okere as the interviewer.
In 2022, Channels Television had an exclusive interview with Aisha, where she explained why she apologised to Nigerians over the perceived failure of her husband’s administration to fulfil campaign promises and meet the expectations of Nigerians.
Adline Okere moderated the interview but did not relate to the trading platform or opportunities.
However, the conversation centres on marketing the trading platform with Aisha claiming to have said, “Do you think I don’t work hard enough?” Or that I am not like most Nigerians? Believe me, if I lived on one salary, I’d never have become a millionaire. When someone tells me I’m just lucky, I laugh in their face, because today, there’s everything on the Internet to get rich without leaving your couch.”
Okere responded, “So you’re saying that anyone can make money like you? I don’t believe it…”
However, a major misleading information is that the website addressed Aisha as “him” rather than her.
“You could see just how angry Aisha Buhari was about this sentence (of Adline). She started arguing with the host and accidentally blabbed about the loophole that made him rich”, the post read.
Promoting the platform named, Spectrax, 250 dollars is said to be made into millions in 12 to 15 weeks.
It claimed, “this platform is the perfect solution for those who want to get rich quick. It’s built on self-learning artificial intelligence, which exchanges crypto-currencies for you. That is, you don’t need to understand how bitcoin or any other digital currency works – the program determines the best time to buy or sell assets and trades independently. The advantage is that you don’t have to do anything – just make a minimum deposit, wait for the call from the platform operator to sign up and the program will start earning money itself. I don’t just recommend it – I insist that every Nigerian should utilize this platform. And, then, you’ll forget once and for all about the need to work.”
A check on the link directs users to Spectrax, where they sign up before “getting rich”
Findings also indicated that this same technique has been used with images of Channels Television presenter, Seun Okinbaloye; and Journalist Kadaria Ahmed, on different Facebook pages.
Speaking with a technology expert, Akinwale Balogun, told our correspondent that the pages gradually taking over social media are not only misleading but harmful to the platform and its users.
He urged Facebook to take measures to eradicate such posts from its platform.
“The actions of those pages are not only misleading but harmful to users and Facebook itself. Those pages have now seen the social media platform as where they could easily access without any disturbance to execute their businesses.
“I believe there are many reputable channels making (good) use of Facebook. However, it is high time Facebook took measures and address the situation before the pages turn it to what it is not,” he said.
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Farewell to a True Legend - Suliat Olajumoke Abideen
Today, we say goodbye to not only a brilliant player but a remarkable leader and icon of Edo Queens FC, Suliat Abideen. With every game, Suliat showed unmatched commitment, grit, and passion. Her exceptional skill, sharp instincts, and undeniable presence on the field brought immense pride and numerous laurels to our club, including the unforgettable winning goal in the final of the WAFU Zone B tournament. Her contributions have shaped our team and inspired every one of us.
Suliat, thank you for your leadership, your heart, and your dedication to Edo Queens. You will forever be a part of our legacy, and we know you’ll achieve greatness as you take on this new chapter with ABB Fomget FC. We wish you nothing but success, fulfillment, and continued victories ahead.
Forever a Queen.
Farewell to a True Legend - Suliat Olajumoke Abideen
Today, we say goodbye to not only a brilliant player but a remarkable leader and icon of Edo Queens FC, Suliat Abideen. With every game, Suliat showed unmatched commitment, grit, and passion. Her exceptional skill, sharp… pic.twitter.com/f8EnhCmaW2
Pictures Of The Completed Ijebu Ode-Epe-Sagamu-Benin Expressway Interchange.
Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun - MFR @dabiodunMFR
We've successfully completed the Ijebu Ode-Epe-Sagamu-Benin Expressway Interchange.
For ease of movement and connection of travellers to their destinations, this project will complement the newly commissioned 14Km Ijebu-Ode-Mojoda-Epe toll road.
Pictures Of Projects Commissioned By President Buhari In Ogun State.
This morning, we received His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR as he commissioned one of our legacy projects, the 14-kilometre Ijebu-Ode-Mojoda-Epe Road in Ogun State.
Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority LAMATA @Lamataonline
Green Line on Track
Following the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in China for the construction of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Green Line, the Lagos State Government made a significant move today for the commencement of its development.
The government conducted a site visit to advance the realization of the Green Line rail project.
A delegation comprising representatives from the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Lagos State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Federal Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI), China Harbour Point, Nexant Consulting, and Advanced Engineering Consultants (AEC) participated in the inspection.
The primary objective of the site visit was to familiarize the construction company with the project's right of way.
This information will be crucial for completing their comprehensive feasibility study and subsequently determining the most optimal approach for constructing the Green Line.
The Green Line rail project, spanning a total of 67 kilometers, is envisioned in two phases.
The initial phase will cover 33 kilometers, terminating at Omu Creek in Sangotedo.
The site visit was hosted by LAMATA and included key personnel such as Engr. Olasukanmi Okusaga, Director of Rail Transport at LAMATA, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Works & Infrastructure, Engr. Lateef Somide, CEO of AEC, a consulting firm, Dr. Abiola Agunbiade, and Paula Faniran, Head of Strategic Projects at MOFI.
This significant step marks a crucial milestone in the realization of the Green Line rail project, which promises to transform Lagos' transportation landscape and provide a more efficient and sustainable commuting option for its residents.
Dangote‘s first sea cargo of petrol arrives Lagos as key refinery ramps up
Our Reporter October 26, 2024
Nigeria’s Dangote refinery, larger than any other in Africa or Europe, has shipped its first seaborne petrol cargo as a vital fuel-producing unit continues to ramp up.
The Sabaek sailed with about 500,000 barrels of petrol from Dangote to the nearby commercial hub of Lagos in recent days, according to a port report and ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, the refinery’s residue fluid catalytic cracker, a crucial unit in the production of the fuel, is continuing to ramp up output, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named discussing private information. Spokespeople for Dangote didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Once fully operational, the 650,000-barrel-a-day plant will transform the regional gasoline market, potentially reducing the need for imports of the fuel from Europe to West Africa. It has already shaken up crude oil flows by trimming an overhang of Nigerian supply.
This first shipment via sea comes about one month after the new refinery began using trucks to transport petrol.
A refinery’s RFCC unit helps upgrade petroleum products into more valuable fuels like gasoline.
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has so far received four cargoes of crude oil from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited under the naira-for-crude sale agreement.
It was gathered that the four cargoes of crude were delivered to the refinery within the past three weeks when the government began the sale of crude to local refineries in the local currency.
Officials said that the refinery was still waiting to receive more crude oil cargoes from NNPCL, the organisation managing the country’s hydrocarbon resources. They also confirmed that the $20bn Lekki-based plant was now set to begin the direct sale of refined Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, to domestic dealers.
A source close to the Technical Subcommittee on Domestic Sale of Crude Oil in Local Currency, who did not want to be mentioned because he was not permitted to speak with the press, confirmed to The PUNCH that “more cargoes (of crude) would be delivered to the Dangote refinery in the coming weeks.”
The official disclosed that the programme started with the Dangote refinery as the only petrol-producing facility in Nigeria at the moment.
This is why I refuse to waste my time by arguing with some people. Time will always prove that what I say is true and that time has come.
1) I said that goods will be moved from the Lekki Free Zone to other parts of Nigeria, indeed to other parts of Lagos via the waterways. Governor Fashola had said so when the zone was under construction.
Well, Dangote has started moving product from the Lekki Free Zone to Apapa by sea.
2) I said that the Lagos-Calabar rail line would pass through Lekki Free Zone and that goods would be moved by rail.
Well, construction work has begun on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and the rail line will run alongside the highway.
3) I said that human traffic would be moved to and from the Free Zone by the Lagos Green Line.
Well, preliminary work has begun on the Green Line.
4) I said that goods that are moved by road will be moved through the Epe-Ijebu-Ode Road.
Well, Governor Dapo Abiodun has reconstructed the Ogun end of the road (Governor Ambode had previously reconstructed the Lagos end of the road).
5) I have not heard much about the Araromi (Ondo) - Lekki Road, probably because Governor Akeredolu died, but I'm sure that it will be constructed.
6) And goods will also be barged across the Lagos Lagoon as I said.
This isn't about making meaningless noise on the internet, it's about facts and things have happened just as I said that they would.
Fox News edited Trump’s rambling answers and false claims in barbershop interview, full video shows
By Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, CNN Thu October 24, 2024
New York CNN — The Fox News Channel’s recent segment about Donald Trump’s “surprise” visit to a barbershop in the Bronx resembled a campaign ad for the former president’s reelection.
Trump was seen taking questions and making small talk with Black and Hispanic barbershop customers and workers, some of whom were wearing “Make Barbers Great Again” shirts. The visit was part of “Fox & Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones’ ongoing barbershop interview series.
But the version of the visit shown on television was, to borrow a hairstyle metaphor, a crop cut. Fox edited out many of Trump’s rambling comments and false claims. Participants had to repeatedly follow up when Trump meandered away from the original point of their questions.
CNN reviewed a more complete video of the barbershop visit that was uploaded to Instagram on the day of Trump’s appearance in the Bronx and compared it to the segments that were shown on “Fox & Friends” on Monday.
Fox’s edits omitted numerous Trump tangents and exaggerations – a striking decision given Trump’s recent attacks on CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” for editing an interview with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, earlier this month.
Trump’s complaints about “60 Minutes” center on an edit of Harris’ comment about the relationship between Israel and the United States. He has charged that CBS manipulated the Harris interview to “make her look better” and demanded that CBS release the unedited transcript of the interview, which CBS has declined to do.
Ironically, however, Fox edited several of Trump’s recent appearances on the network, including his visit to the barbershop. And some of the edits certainly make him look better.
The televised broadcast omitted Trump’s comments about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. He told the barbershop customers that “they just dumped 50,000 people — 32,000 migrants from another country — in Springfield, Ohio. They don’t know what to do.” The actual number of migrants in Springfield is far lower, according to the city’s own data. The broadcast also left out Trump’s gross exaggerations about crime in Aurora, Colorado.
One of the most telling parts of the dialogue began when an audience member asked Trump about finding a way to eliminate federal taxes in the future. On Fox, Trump was shown immediately answering affirmatively: “There is a way.”
But that response from Trump actually came more than seven minutes later, after Trump (and Jones) brought up other topics, including inheritances, the Keystone Pipeline, Ronald Reagan, Russia, and transgender sports players. Trump had to be nudged back on track several times by the unnamed audience member, who kept circling back, apologetically, and said “I wasn’t able to finish my question.” After he repeated his tax inquiry yet again, Trump said “there is a way.”
But on Fox, it was stitched together as one seamless back-and-forth.
Fox also cut some of the former president’s insults, as when he mocked the Wall Street Journal, a sister property of Fox. “Don’t listen” to the “Wall Street jerks or Wall Street Journal, cause they don’t get it,” Trump told the barbershop audience.
In another unplayed portion of the visit, Trump praised Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban and called him a “very respected guy.” That exchange underscored Trump’s tendency to favor autocratic leaders, but Fox decided not to share it with viewers.
A Fox News spokeswoman said every one of Jones’ barbershop segments are pretaped and edited. The Bronx edition ran for nearly an hour and was cut for time and clarity, the network said.
Trump’s recent appearance on the Fox News program “MediaBuzz” was also pretaped and edited. One obvious edit occurred when Trump began to repeat his false claims about the 2020 election – a sensitive subject for Fox since the network is still dealing with defamation lawsuits relating to its coverage in 2020.
“They came down to protest a rigged election,” Trump said, referring to January 6. Then there was a sudden cut, suggesting that some of Trump’s distortions were removed.
Kamala Harris was interviewed on 60 Minutes, CBS News' most popular programme.
Donald Trump claims that the interview was edited to make Kamala Harris look good. He says that she gave a rambling answer to a question, but CBS cut out the answer and put her answer to another question in its place. He says that this is illegal election interference and manipulation.
CBS said that they edited the interview because of time. They wanted to create more time to accomodate her answer to a question.
Kamala Harris supporters say that Fox News also edited one of Trump's interviews in order to make him look good. They say that Fox removed a rambling answer from the interview.
Donald Trump also criticised the fact that the show is called 60 Minutes, but the Kamala Harris interview only lasted 20 minutes.
Trump sues CBS News over 60 Minutes interview with Harris; network says suit is "completely without merit"
Former President Donald Trump has sued CBS News, alleging the network's "deceitful" editing of a recent 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris misled the public and unfairly disadvantaged him.
In a statement released Thursday, CBS News called the former president's claims "completely without merit" and said the network intended to vigorously defend against the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, which comes just days before the two candidates face off in the 2024 presidential election, centers on two clips of an October interview 60 Minutes conducted with Harris. One of the clips was edited to include a longer section of her response to a question about the conflict in the Middle East. Trump's lawsuit contends this editing decision was meant to intentionally assist his opponent and mislead the public, something CBS News has disputed.
"To paper over Kamala's 'word salad' weakness, CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from the exercise of judgment in reporting to deceitful, deceptive manipulation of news," the lawsuit claims. The suit says the former president seeks a jury trial and at least $10 billion in damages.
"Former President Trump's repeated claims against 60 Minutes are false," the network statement says. "The Interview was not doctored."
Trump's legal complaint was filed Thursday in federal court in the Northern District of Texas Amarillo division, a remote venue where the lone judge is a 2019 Trump appointee. Republican-led states and special interest groups have directed at least 14 politically sensitive cases to that court since January 2021, according to progressive watchdog group Accountable.US.
The lawsuit does not claim Trump was defamed by the network, said Geoffrey R. Stone, a First Amendment scholar and law professor at the University of Chicago, who reviewed the complaint. Instead, the suit attempts a novel use of a Texas statute that is meant to prevent advertisers from misleading the public about a product being sold — the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection Act.
Stone called it a "misapplication" of the law.
"That statute is about sales — a salesperson can be held liable for stating that a product has certain positive effects when he knows it doesn't," Stone said. "But CBS is not engaged in advertising here."
Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman, a constitutional law expert, said he was mystified by the Trump claims and called the case an "outrageous violation of First Amendment principles."
"This is a complaint so ill grounded that it comes close to being sanctionable as frivolous," Feldman said.
The former president has for weeks been voicing his displeasure about the interview on the campaign trail.
"Millions of Americans, including residents of Texas and this District, were confused and misled by the two doctored Interview versions," the suit alleges.
In an earlier statement released by 60 Minutes, the network explained the two clips were edited differently because one segment, which appeared on "Face the Nation," afforded more time to accommodate a longer section of Harris's answer.
"Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response," the Oct. 20 statement from 60 Minutes said. "When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment."
Trump had been invited to sit for his own interview on 60 Minutes but declined.
The former president has previously filed several lawsuits against media organizations, including a March defamation case against ABC News over a question asked by anchor George Stephanopoulos during an interview.
He has lost prior defamation lawsuits against CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Crime › Re: Scammers Lure Nigerians With Fake Stories About Kadaria Ahmed, Aisha Buhari, Etc by naptu2(op): 7:56am On Nov 02, 2024
