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Update:: Another tsunami could strike Indonesia, experts have warned, two days after more than 200 people were killed by a wave triggered by a volcanic eruption. The tsunami “appears to have been caused by an underwater collapse” of part of the Anak (or “child of”) Krakatau volcano, said David Rothery of The Open University in Britain. Anak Krakatau is a new island that emerged around 1928 in the crater left by Krakatau, whose massive 1883 eruption killed at least 36,000 people. The volcano has been particularly active since June, noted Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff at the University of Paris-South. The tsunami that struck on Saturday was the second to hit Indonesia in six months. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes and lies on the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire” where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are frequent. Anak Krakatau, located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands, is close to densely populated zones. And while the tsunami was relatively small, R...

- PDP says any plan to extend the tenure of IGP Idris will be seen as a plot to carrying out rigging in the 2019 elections - Kola Ologbondiyan, the national publicity secretary of the PDP, alleges that the police boss has surrounded all the state commissioners of police with his own men who would be following them to any strategic meeting and spying for him - Ologbondiyan raises doubts about President Buhari’s intentions to conduct a free and fair election in 2019 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to drop the alleged plan to extend the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, by another six months. Kola Ologbondiyan, the national publicity secretary of PDP told journalists on Sunday, December 23, that any plan to extend the tenure of Idris will be seen as a plot to perpetrate rigging in the 2019 election, The Tribune reports. The party’s spokesperson alleged that the police boss had surrounded all the state com...

Update:: With the increasing adoption of electronic payment platforms, fraudsters are still managing to bypass security systems of financial institutions to steal customers’ savings. IFE OGUNFUWA examines the tactics being used by the cybercriminals I wanted to use the remaining money in my account to make part payment of the third term school fees of my two children in secondary school. I am also looking for another furniture project so I can make more money to offset the rest of the fees but none is forthcoming,” a sad-looking Lagos-based furniture maker, Mr Sunday Mogbonjubola, told our correspondent. He added, “But now there is no money left to pay these debts.” He said two weeks earlier, he was in the house when he received five text messages on his mobile device in quick succession. When he viewed them, he discovered they were debit alerts from his bank. Not fully recovered from the shock, he said he received a sixth debit alert. According to him, “The alerts showed t...