Zuckerberg Meets Lawmakers In Secret Before Public Showdown As Face Book Is Hit By Another Data Scandal

                          

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to earn some 'likes' from lawmakers, meeting privately Monday with some of those who will question him on the firm's privacy scandal later this week.

The secret Monday meetings come in advance of Zuckerberg's Tuesday testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Wednesday before a joint hearing with the Senate Judiciary and Commerce panels.

The closed-door meetings run through Monday afternoon and include some of the members who will question Zuckerberg, Reuters reported.

The world's fifth richest man is being coached by a team of experts and a former George W. Bush aide about how to handle lawmakers waiting for the chance to interrupt him or bash Facebook's security practices.


He has retained a team from the top law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants. It even set up mock-hearings with consultants playing members of Congress, the New York Times reported.

The behind-the-scenes prepping comes as Zuckerberg negotiated a media tour in which he accepted responsibility and the firm put out the bad and then worse news of how many millions of people had their data compromised.

'Their goal is to make Mr. Zuckerberg appear as humble, agreeable and as forthright as possible,' the Times reported, in a report sourced to people close to the operation.

Nigerian Arrested With Fake $400,000 Bills

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday arrested a suspected fraudster, Samson Otuedon, at Masaka, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State for currency counterfeiting.

Mr Otuedon, who allegedly specialised in counterfeiting foreign currencies, was apprehended following an intelligence report on the activities of a syndicate of fraudsters duping unsuspecting victims in the Masaka area of the state.

The commission, upon the receipt of the report swung into action by putting the area under surveillance, an action that led to the eventual arrest of the suspect on Saturday.


Upon arrest, over $400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) were recovered.

While being interrogated, Mr Otuedon admitted that the fake dollars were given to him by other members of his syndicate based in Lagos.

Mr Otuedon, who confessed to the crime, also admitted that the syndicate use fake dollars for money doubling.

The suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.

Policeman, OPC member, 3 others killed In Prince Buruji Kashamu Campaign activity in Ogun State

                                          

News report have been gathered that a police inspector, a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and four others have been shot dead in the wake of the cult violence that erupted in Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The gun battle, which started on Sunday evening at Oke-Sopen area of Ijebu-Igbo, continued till the early hours of Monday. Our reporters gathered that the crisis was caused by a political rally organised in Ijebu-Igbo by the Senator representing Ogun East in the National Assembly, Prince Buruji Kashamu.

The deadly fight that brought panic and unrest to the town has left several other persons with some degrees of injuries. However, as at press time, soldiers and armed policemen had already been deployed in the town to restore law and order.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the violence yesterday, said that the perpetrators would soon be fished out and brought to book. As opposed to circulating information, Oyeyemi, who stated that the Area Commander, Ijebu-Ode had been directed to move to the town, said that only three persons died in the clash.

According to him, a police inspector, one OPC member and a suspected cult member were the only people who lost their lives in the ugly incident. The police spokesman has advised residents to not panic, reassuring them that adequate security measures had been put in place to check violence.

We gathered that the violence was a result of longtime animosity between cultists and members of local security outfit in the town. We learnt also that Sunday’s violence erupted at the PDP rally when suspected cult members spotted a vigilante operative and attacked him.

The vigilance operative was said to have been fingered in the killing of a notorious cult leader in the town about three months ago. Therefore, the murder of the vigilante gave rise to further attacks and reprisals that led to gun battle through the night.

Sources stated that while four persons were shot dead during the clash on Sunday, two other persons were killed in a pre-dawn attack launched on Monday morning. Two policemen were shot in the clash, leaving one of them dead and the other seriously injured.

A resident said the cult members trailed the OPC operatives attached to Kashamu’s tour to Oke Sopen area of Ijebu-Igbo, where they engaged them in serious gun fight.

As at the time of filing this report, a detachment of soldiers, operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) and Anti-cult Unit of the Ogun State Police Command, among others, have been stationed in the town to enforce peace

Lady Praises God After Escaping This Horrible Accident

A young Nigerian lady, ‎Eneh Ogechi‎ has thanked God after she survived a horrible accident involving a Keke and a Truck.

Ogechi, who's based in Enugu state, said the accident happened moments after she took a selfie on the way. Her words;

"Please oooo my people help me thank God for saving me from this Terrible accident I don’t know what and where I would have been by now but here I am typing with my own hands I can’t thank you enough father for your mercies and love I thank you..

##Bus smashed to this extent and I survived ## Am a survival. Yes I survived. Oluwa got my back…"

60 Dead In Indonesia After Drinking Bootleg Alcohol

More than 60 Indonesians are dead and dozens have been hospitalised from drinking illegal homemade alcohol, authorities said on Monday (April 9), with the toll steadily climbing.

Police conducted raids in cities across the world's biggest Muslim majority country to arrest vendors selling the cheap homebrew.

Most Indonesians practise a moderate form of Islam and alcohol is available in big cities.

But high taxes make it expensive so poorly paid workers sometimes turn to potentially dangerous homemade alcohol.

Man Dies After Withdrawing Money From Bank

There was confusion in the Ojota area of Lagos State after a middle-aged man, identified only as Muyibi, collapsed and died in a commercial cab.

Punch Metro learnt that the victim boarded the cab after withdrawing money from a United Bank for Africa branch in the Ogudu area.

The driver was said to have demanded the cab fare from the victim, who was motionless. After reaching the terminus, a resident told Punch correspondent that the driver alighted from the cab to nudge Muyibi, who appeared to be fast asleep.

The resident, who did not want to be identified, said, “The driver had picked some other passengers along the way, and they had all paid and dropped off at their various bus stops.


“When the victim did not respond when they got to the terminus, the driver parked the cab to rouse him, but he was cold. The driver raised the alarm, which drew the attention of commuters and passersby to the scene. People checked him and discovered that the man was dead.”

Policemen from the Ogudu division were said to have been alerted to the incident.

Punch Metro learnt that the vehicle was impounded, while the body was deposited in a morgue.

Punch correspondent could not speak with the chairman of the cab drivers in the area, identified as Mukaila Bankole, as of press time.

However, a source at the park confirmed the incident.

“It happened around 3pm on Friday. The man went to withdraw some money in UBA. The Ogudu Divisional Police Officer was compassionate; she pitied the cab driver, who had become jittery. Although the man was not detained, his cab was impounded at the station pending when the deceased’s family would show up,” he added.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the police recovered N100,200 from the victim’s bag.

He said, “The man was on his way to Ojota when he collapsed and died. We recovered the sum of N100,200 from his bag. He also had a phone, which had a new SIM card. There is no contact on the phone and nobody has called him. We have a lead as to where he could be living. His body has been deposited in a morgue for autopsy.”