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Nigeria fined Meta $220 million for antitrust and data violations after a 38-month FCCPC investigation. Meta, owning Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, faces discriminatory practices, data misuse, and market abuse charges. Nigeria's government is not the first to take Meta to task for antitrust and data collection breaches. Earlier this month, the European Union accused Meta of breaching the bloc's tech regulations.

Meta faces mounting legal challenges in Africa, including substantial fines in Nigeria for alleged data privacy violations and discriminatory practices. Content moderators in Ghana are also preparing a lawsuit against a Meta contractor, citing mental health issues due to their work.

The World Bank has sanctioned a $1.57 billion package for Nigeria to bolster health, education, and sustainable power sectors. This includes addressing governance issues, strengthening primary healthcare, and improving dam safety to mitigate flooding. The financing aims to tackle challenges like insecurity in education and frequent natural disasters, enhancing overall service delivery.

Mobile telephone and data subscribers in Nigeria will now have to pay more after the government approved a 50-percent increase in tariffs, as the country battles one of its worst cost-of-living crises in decades. Telecommunications companies in the west African country had initially proposed a 100-percent tariff increase in the face of rising operational costs.

Gunmen attacked remote villages in north-central Nigeria's Plateau state, resulting in mass killings. At least 140 people were killed in the senseless and unprovoked attacks, which targeted 17 comm. The farmer-herder crisis in Nigeria has been blamed for such attacks, which have worsened the sectarian division between Christians & Muslims in the country. Security agencies are conducting clearance operations to find those responsible, & the Nigerian President has instructed the mobilization of relief resources.

Trials have indicated that microbicide gel, which offers protection against AIDS are increasing the risk of infection.

Gunmen attacked a remote village in central Nigeria, killing eight people and kidnapping about 150 more in the country's latest mass abduction. The attack took place in Kuchi village in Niger state, where local government chairman Aminu Najume reported that heavily armed bandits on motorcycles stormed the village, killing eight individuals and abducting over 150 villagers. The attackers operated for three hours without any intervention, highlighting the vulnerability of the area to such attacks.

A single oral vaccine that protects against two deadly strains of polio — P1 and P3 — could eradicate the crippling disease from the world in the next three years.

Bans are being considered by lawmakers in the US, Europe, and Canada. The site had already been blocked by the Indian government along with several other Chinese-owned applications, for allegedly sending users' data covertly to servers outside of India.

India has once again featured on the list of countries with the worst record of punishing the killers of journalists, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). This is the 11th year India has been placed on the list. The report claimed that the situation in India, which occupied 14th spot, has worsened with a total of 18 unresolved cases.

Britain has suspended its online visa application facility from India after data of thousands of Indians was compromised.

IShowSpeed’s Africa tour took a scary turn in Senegal when a bodyguard fell after nearly being hit by a truck. The moment went viral online. One day later, Speed hit 50 million YouTube subscribers in Nigeria. His tour across 15 countries has added millions of new fans and huge live viewership worldwide.

Scientists have predicted that India's population may peak to about 1.6 billion in 2048, & decline by 32% to around 1.09 billion in 2100, when it is also expected to be the world's most populous country. The analysis, published in the journal The Lancet, used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, & applied novel models to project future for 183 countries.

Recipients of this scholarship will be known as ‘Airtel Africa Fellows’. They will receive 100% of their college fees, US$12,000, as per the course fee structure of IIT Madras for a four-year programme.

Most global cities far exceed World Health Organisation's (WHO) air pollution guidelines, posing serious health risks, with Delhi and Kolkata figuring as top two most polluted cities in terms of being exposed to hazardous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) whereas Shanghai in China and Moscow in Russia figured as top two most polluted for being exposed to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), said a new report released by the US-based Health Effects Institute's (HEI) State of Global Air Initiative on Wednesday.

There are at present there are 29 million primary teachers working in classrooms around the world. Still in order to achieve universal primary education by 2015, another four million teachers will be needed.

India has exported a polio virus to Tajikistan, re-infecting the region for the first time since it was certified polio-free in 2002.

India and particularly Mumbai needs more incentives to promote affordable housing, as the United Nations latest report projects that urban population will increase manifold in the years to come, said a report released by Brick Eagle, a financial services firm for affordable housing in India.

The Open Doors 2022 Report on International Educational Exchange, released on Monday by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education (IIE), found that 948,519 international students from more than 200 places of origin studied at US higher education institutions during the 2021-2022 academic year, a 4% increase compared to the previous academic year.

India continues to have the world's highest number of polio cases this year, with the disease having crippled more children till April than it did during the same period in 2007.

India has maintained e-commerce may be good for development but it may not be prudent to begin talks since many countries don’t fully understand the implications of negotiating binding rules.

Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on Wednesday. In a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, researchers built on a second such study published last year that evaluated 8,011 species for the IUCN Red List.

A new study reveals alarming declines in African elephant populations, with savanna elephants down 70% and forest elephants down 90% since 1964. Poaching and habitat loss are the primary drivers, hitting northern and eastern Africa hardest. However, southern Africa offers hope, with conservation efforts leading to population increases in some areas.