Osuta Yusuf

Main opposition candidate of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar signed an election peace pact on Wednesday, saying a ‘communication lapse’ had prevented him from participating in the initial process with other candidates. Atiku, Donald Duke and Oby Ezekwesili, were some of the opposition candidates, who were notably absent at Tuesday’s ceremony in Abuja, at which President Muhammadu Buhari and dozens of other candidates vowed to ensure non-violence. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament on February 16 next year. Gubernatorial and state assembly elections follow two weeks later. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Abubakar was not at the event “due to (a) communication lapse between the National Peace Committee (NPC) and our party’s national secretariat”. But it added that both the party and Abubakar were “fully committed to a peaceful electoral process and elections in 2019”. At...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, who joined Twitter on Friday, has called out a social media user, who was soliciting funds in his name. In his second tweet after he joined the popular social networking site, Zuma quoted a tweet from a user who identifies themselves as Muke, and simply said ‘This is false’. — Jacob G Zuma (@PresJGZuma)   Muke had tweeted asking people to send monetary contributions to a specific Capitek bank account, saying they were ‘fundraising for uBaba’, as Zuma is fondly refered to in South Africa. The High Court in South Africa on Thursday ruled that Zuma must pay for legal costs of criminal prosecutions brought against him while in office. How Zuma was welcomed on Twitter. The 76-year-old former president, who was South Africa’s head of state from 2009 to 2018, joined Twitter on Friday, saying he felt the need to ‘move with the times’. “Hello, everyone. I have decided to move with ...

[12/13/2018, 21:27] Hashim Bruce: Something must be done,  the army seems to over step.  Captain Augustine please get to my inbox if you read this message Thanks. [12/13, 21:31] Osuta Yusuf: We Link up about this! [12/13, 21:32] Osuta Yusuf: At the same time, @⁨Hashim Bruce  and @⁨Ojobile⁩  we may also discuss privately and do something to avert this madness. [12/13, 21:32] Osuta Yusuf: I have written to Hon Wadri Kasiano and waiting for  his Feedback. [12/13, 21:34] Osuta Yusuf: As the way Forward is to Contact the MPs of other Constituencies; Maracha East and Maracha West, Terego East and Terego West, Adjumani, Obongi, Moyo, Ayivu, Koboko and Yumbe. [12/13, 21:46] Kasiano Wadri: Mr Osuta good evening to you. How are you. Your report on the arrest of the youths has equally pained me if they have nothing to do with the spate of armed robberies in Arua of late. I wish you could give flesh to the information so that I can link up with the s...

French authorities have arrested a man suspected of committing war crimes in the Central African Republic and he will face extradition to The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona was the “senior leader” of the Anti-Balaka militia that carried out systematic attacks on the country’s Muslim population in 2013-2014. Ngaissona, who denies wrongdoing, was elected in February to the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football despite objections from groups including Human Rights Watch. It named had him as a leader of the Anti-Balaka in a report in 2016. The ICC said Ngaissona was suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, deportation, persecution, torture, attacking civilians, and recruiting child soldiers. A chamber at the court “found reasonable grounds to believe Mr. Ngaissona is liable for having committed jointly with others...

Developers of phpMyAdmin, one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems, on 1 December 2018, released an updated version 4.8.4 of its software to patch several important vulnerabilities that could eventually allow remote attackers to take control of the affected web servers. The phpMyAdmin project last Sunday gave an early heads up  about the latest security update through its blog, probably the first time, as an experiment to find if pre-announcements can help website admins, hosting providers and package managers better prepare for the security release. "We are inspired by the workflow of other projects (such as Mediawiki and others) which often announce any security release in advance to allow package maintainers and hosting providers to prepare. We are experimenting to see if such a workflow is suitable for our project," phpMyAdmin release manager Isaac Bennetch told The Hacker News. phpMyAdmin is a free, open-source administration tool for ...

Africa’s most eagerly awaited yet delayed elections is finally due to be held on December 23, 2018. All things being equal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, will experience its first democratic handover of executive power. Elections due for December 2016 were postponed with the elections body, CENI, citing the inability to put together a valid voters roll but also government’s talk of not having funds to organize the process. Incumbent and outgoing Joseph Kabila managed to stay for two-years after the expiration of his second constitutional term in office. DRC’s constitutional court had in 2016 ruled that he could stay in office till when next polls were held. CENI at a point had projected that the earliest polls could be held was in April 2019. Pressure from political actors at home and considerable international push meant Kinshasa had to slate a 2018 date even with the brave move that the entire process was going to be state-funded. Then the focus turned t...

Google revealed on Monday 10 December 2018, that, Google+ has suffered another massive data breach, forcing the tech giant to shut down its struggling social network four months earlier than its actual scheduled date, i.e., in April 2019 instead of August 2019. Google said it discovered another critical security vulnerability in one of Google+'s People APIs that could have allowed developers to steal private information on 52.5 million users, including their name, email address, occupation, and age. The vulnerable API in question is called "People: get" that has been designed to let developers request basic information associated with a user profile. However, software update in November introduced the bug in the Google+ People API that allowed apps to view users' information even if a user profile was set to not-public. Google engineers discovered the security issue during standard testing procedures and addressed it within a week of the issue being introduced. T...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s outgoing president, Joseph Kabila, has rubbished claims that members of his family were unduly profiting from mining concessions in the country. He challenged those peddling such allegations to provide tangible evidence if they really had any. The most known such report is one published in 2016 by the Bloomberg news portal. “I probably believe that people who write those reports live on another planet which is not this planet. Feel free to give me the names of those family members and those permits, they don’t exist. That's where stupidity begins, allow me to use the word. I hope that one of these days someone will come up with something that is tangible instead of them being allegations left and right, Asked whether his wife and children were not holding mining rights, he responded: “Do you know how old my children are in order for them to have mining rights? “That’s where stupidity begins, allow me to use the ...

Prosecution agency of Rwanda has said it will appeal the recent acquittal of a government critic, Diane Rwigara and her mother Adeline Rwigara. The Rwanda New Times portal said prosecutor Jean Bosco Mutangana told reporters that the National Public Prosecution Authority, NPPA, was set to challenge the Kigali High court’s decision. The court last week acquitted the Rwigara’s who were facing charges of inciting violence and forgery on the part of Diane during the presentation of her candidature to contest presidential polls in 2017. The duo were acquitted with the court citing insufficient evidence on the part of the prosecution. This is the first time government is responding to the acquittal. The NPPA boss on Wednesday held a press conference with an aim of giving an update on the international cooperation on genocide fugitives. This follows the extradition Tuesday of Wenceslas Twagirayezu from Denmark. The 37-year-old opposition leader faced up to 22 years in prison fo...

We Condemn this Law. Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Bill—Here's Everything You Need To Know. Australia encryption telecommunications assistance bill Australia's House of Representatives has finally passed the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, on Thursday that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypted communications. The Australian government argues the new legislation is important for national security and an essential tool to help law enforcement and security agencies fight serious offenses such as crime, terrorist attacks, drug trafficking, smuggling, and sexual exploitation of children. Since the bill had support from both major parties (the Coalition and Labor), the upper house could vote in support of the Assistance and Access Bill to make it law, which is expected to come into effect immediately during the next...

Fellow Country Men, Country Women, Africans and whole World, Greetings. We are here Writing this article on the date of 9-12-2018 because Arua Municipality MP-Elect, Hon Kasiano Wadri has already made 100 days in Office. We are encapsulating this majorly as a reminding not to Hon Kasiano Wadri and His Supporters. Our kind request for silence, is to some of fanatic supporters of Wadri Kasiano, who bubble and abuse people whose opinions do not match with them. Bunch of Supporters who caucus like WhiteAnts wiggling because of Light. Perhaps, the main objective of this article is to have an inner look into 100 days of Wadri being in Office since he was elected in the recently concluded 15 August 2018 Arua Municipality Bye-Elections. For us in Neutral Opposition, we question the ways and criteria which some of Our fellow Opposition icons do, which in other ways, may be syndicate. It all started with Mr Kasiano Wadri jumping off from the Truck of Giant and Vibrant FORUM FOR DEMOCRATIC...

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Natural Greed and Turbo of many People including some Leaders, has landed them into Trouble. Idriss Deby of Chad and the Ugandan foreign minister, Sam Kutesa may have cause to worry, following the conviction of a former Hong Kong government official was on Wednesday found guilty of bribing them in exchange for contracts for a Chinese energy company. Chi Ping Patrick Ho, 69, was convicted of seven of the eight counts against by a jury in federal court in Manhattan, United States after a trial lasting just over a week. Edward Kim, a lawyer for Ho, declined to comment. Ho, a former Hong Kong home affairs secretary, was arrested in November 2017 on charges of violating U.S. foreign corruption law, money laundering and conspiracy. Federal prosecutors said he arranged bribes on behalf of a Chinese energy company that funds an organization he leads. At the time of his arrest, Ho was secretary-general of the Hong Kong-based China Energy Fund Committee, an organization funded by the Shang...

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than 2147483647 can execute any systemctl command unauthorizedly—thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability. The reported vulnerability actually resides in PolicyKit (also known as polkit)—an application-level toolkit for Unix-like operating systems that defines policies, handles system-wide privileges and provides a way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones, such as "sudo," that does not grant root permission to an entire process. The issue, tracked as CVE-2018-19788, impacts PolicyKit version 0.115 which comes pre-installed on most popular Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS. The vulnerability exists due to PolicyKit's improper validation of permission requests for any low-privileged user with UID greater than INT_MAX. Where, INT_MAX is a constant in computer programming that ...

Zambia`s Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that President Edgar Lungu can stand for the third time as president in 2021. Four political parties had petitioned the Constitutional Court, seeking a declaration that Lungu is eligible to contest in the 2021 presidential elections. Constitutional Court President Hildah Chibomba said the ruling by the seven judges of the court had been unanimous. “ Our answer is that the (Lungu’s first) presidential tenure of office...cannot be considered as a full term. ” “Our answer is that the (Lungu’s first) presidential tenure of office…cannot be considered as a full term,” Chibomba said. Lungu who was first elected in January 2015 after the death of President Michael Sata, served for one year and 6 months during his first term as president. He was then re-elected for a second term which began on September 13, 2016 following his victory in the August polls. The opposition had argued that Lungu’s th...

&#127381;&#127381;&#127381;&#127381; NB: Please Tomorrow Friday 7 December 2018 is gonna be massive in AWUPI, Kijomoro Sub-County in Maracha District as the World will be finalising plans to organise Charity Event to Raise 61 million Shillings (17500$) to help the Communities. Thanks. &#127381;&#127381;&#127381;&#127381;. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as  CVE-2018-15982 , is a use-after-free flaw resides in Flash Player that, if exploited successfully, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted computer and eventually gain full control over the system. The newly discovered Flash Player zero-day exploit was spotted last week by researchers inside malicious Microsoft Office documents, which were submitt...

&#127381;&#127381;&#127381;&#127381; NB: While all of you enjoy Reading Our Educative articles, Please, Help us by Donating any amount of Money to Help the Communities of AWUPI in Kijomoro Sub-County, Maracha District - Uganda, by Sending any amount of Money to Mr Stephen Esua, Telephone Number +256 784 179957. Little amount of your Financial Contributions is Highly Appreciated. This Charity is Aimed at raising Ugandan Shillings 62 million (17500$) which will be used to buy Chairs, Utensils, Tents and many  more items to Cater for Community Needs during Parties, Funerals and other Events. Remember: Gifted Hands are those that Give. Thanks. &#127381;&#127381;&#127381;&#127381;. NEW RANSOMWARE DISCOVERED. A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack... and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour. ...

Dear Ugandans, Africans and whole World, Greetings. Today Wednesday 5 December 2018, we are writing to bring to the attention of Everyone, inclusive of Foreign Governments, Foreign Humanity Organizations, Uganda Government, Activists from all walks of Life, that, the beginning of this New Month December 2018 has been a mystery Month for the People of, not only Arua People but also the Entire People of WestNile region have been Weeping, following consistent incidents involving unknown thugs. On Sunday 2 December 2018, at an Hour of around 21:46, unidentified thugs, carrying firearms, gunned down a Youthful Amati Ratibu, a mobile money operator at Nsambya in Arua. An innocent Youthful Soul gone! May his Soul Rest In Peace. On Tuesday 4 December 2018, just after one day from the ugly Sunday 2 December 2018 night massacre, unknown Gunmen again ambushed a Shopping Moll at Arua Hill, next to Tropical Suites Hotel! and it is reported that, the thugs went away with millions of cash money ...

The world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International on 30 November 2018 disclosed that unknown hackers compromised guest reservation database its subsidiary Starwood hotels and walked away with personal details of about 500 million guests. Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide was acquired by Marriott International for $13 billion in 2016. The brand includes St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, W Hotels, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Aloft Hotels, Tribute Portfolio, Element Hotels, Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, The Luxury Collection, Four Points by Sheraton and Design Hotels. The incident is believed to be one of the largest data breaches in history, behind 2016 Yahoo hacking in which nearly 3 billion user accounts were stolen. The breach of Starwood properties has been happening since 2014 after an "unauthorized party" managed to gain unauthorized access to the Starwood's guest reservation database, and had copied and encrypted the information. Marriot...

Today Tuesday 4 December 2018 is the Date Our Grand Children Derrick Emmanuel has Graduated after Successfully pursuing 2 years in Nursery Level (both Baby Class and Top Class). Drone File attached, entails Derrick Emmanuel receiving his Grade "A" Certificates in accompany with his Mother Mrs Adiru Melda, his Aunt Mrs Gertrude Adania and among others, Friends to the Mother of Derrick. This day, did not only perused as a Land Mark but has also exhibited the worthiness in the Mother of Derrick Emmanuel, Mrs Adiru Melda, who, single handedly accomplished educating this first born Son in Nursery Class. As the next Task and Prayer will be embarked on his Primary School Education, let's take some moments to appreciate and thank this iron lady Mrs Melda, for putting a spirited fight to see this Young and Brave Child Derrick Emmanuel Graduated. May the Almighty God reign his Protections and Blessings up on this.

Fedora may be the best overall desktop Linux operating system, but it lacks Ubuntu in one major area — support. You see, Canonical’s distribution has “Long Term Support” versions, some of which now have an insane 10 years of support. Fedora, by comparison, only offers support for one month following two subsequent major releases. This can vary based on delays, but it will probably average a bit more than a year. For instance, Fedora 27 was released November 14, 2017, and Fedora 29 was released on October 30, 2018. This means as of today, November 30, Fedora 27 has reached end of life mere weeks after its one-year anniversary. inRead invented by Teads “At this point, packages in the Fedora 27 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, the community adds no new packages to the Fedora 27 collection starting at End of Life. Essentially, the Fedora 27 release will not change again, meaning users no longer receive the...

Multinational computer technology company Dell disclosed Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a "cybersecurity incident" earlier this month when an unknown group of hackers infiltrated its internal network. On November 9, Dell detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to steal customer information, including their names, email addresses and hashed passwords. According to the company, the initial investigation found no conclusive evidence that the hackers succeeded to extract any information, but as a countermeasure Dell has reset passwords for all accounts on Dell.com website whether the data had been stolen or not. Dell did not share any information on how hackers managed to infiltrate its network at the first place or how many user accounts were affected, but the company did confirm that payment information and Social Security numbers were not targeted. "Credit card and other sensitive customer information wer...

Congolese authorities have confirmed that a security threat against U.S. government facilities that has kept the U.S. embassy closed all week is real and serious. The U.S. embassy in the capital, Kinshasa, has been closed since last weekend due to what it says is “credible and specific information of a possible terrorist threat”. It has declined to elaborate. Earlier in the week, Democratic Republic of Congo’s government spokesman said U.S. officials were keeping the government in the dark and questioned whether the threat was an “imaginary alert”. It’s clear these threats are serious. The U.S. and our services have serious information regarding the validity of the threat. But in a news conference on Friday, Foreign Minister Leonard She Okitundu, who met with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Fitzsimmons on Wednesday, said the threat was real. “It’s clear these threats are serious. The U.S. and our services have serious in...