REMMY NWEKE in this WeekendDigits@ITREALMSexamines the Daniel Bwala-Mehdi Hasan clash on Al Jazeera recently, exposing the 'Data Fugitive' crisis where 5,000 viral voices confront political denial, proving that in the D2D era, rhetoric can no longer hide reality.
The Den! In the biblical story, Daniel survived the lions' den through faith. But in the digital-age "lions' den" of Al Jazeera’s Head to Head, faith is not enough, you need the digits.
When Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu, sat across from Mehdi Hasan, he walked into a data-driven trap. Within 12 hours, the interview had been dissected by over 5,000 commenters, creating a real-time digital referendum that exposes a massive "Reality Gap" in the Renewed Hope agenda.
A total of nine banks may be disconnected before end of this month due to unpaid debt arising from deployment of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Codes with Zenith, Fidelity, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Sterling Bank leading the list, reports ITREALMS.
Other financial institutions that may be affected include First City Monument Bank, Jaiz Bank Plc, Polaris Bank Limited, Unity Bank Plc, and Wema Bank Plc.
Based on credible intelligence, operatives of the Imo State Police Command Special Tactical Unit led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Aboki Danjuma in synergy with some local hunters stormed a suspected kidnapper’s hideout in a forest between Avu and Ihiagwa, on 29/01/2024 and arrested of 5 suspected kidnappers, reports ITREALMS.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Imo State Command, ASP Okoye Henry in a press statement available to ITREALMS gave the names of the suspects as Muazu Awuta, 30 ‘m’ yrs, Abdullahi Abubakar, ‘m’ 32yrs, Ozeru Sabo ‘m’ 25yrs, Saddam Suleiman, ‘m’ 27yrs, Bashir Yahaya, ‘m’, 28yrs all of Jau LGA of Jigawa State.