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P A former Secretary-General of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Senator Femi Okurounmu, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to probe ministers that served during the tenure of the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, and a former maximum ruler, Ibrahim Babangida. Okurounmu said although Abacha was dead, some of the ministers who served during his tenure are still enjoying public funds looted during his regime. Speaking with our correspondents on Tuesday in Lagos, the Yoruba leader said the foundation of corruption was laid during Abacha and Babangida’s regime. He said, “If I were President Buhari, I will begin the probe and recovery of public funds from 1985 during Babangida’s regime. The regime of Babangida laid the foundation for massive corruption in public service. After Babangida’s rule, he should proceed to Abacha’s regime. Even though Abacha is dead, some of his ministers are still enjoying the ill-gotten wealth and there are evidences t...

Feeling outraged, tickled or touched by something you spotted on Facebook? Now you can say so, after the social media giant added five new reactions to its basic “like” button. “Like, love, haha, wow, sad or angry” — the expanded “reactions” feature rolled out globally on Wednesday is designed to let users express a range of emotions. Facebook had been testing ways to add to the “like” button faced with complaints that it was sometimes inappropriate, especially in cases of tragic events. “We’ve been listening to people and know that there should be more ways to easily and quickly express how something you see in News Feed makes you feel,” said product manager Sammi Krug in a blog post. “That’s why today we are launching Reactions, an extension of the Like button, to give you more ways to share your reaction to a post in a quick and easy way.” The familiar “like” button with a thumb...

Google chief Sundar Pichai on Wednesday expressed his support for Apple in its standoff with the FBI over unlocking an iPhone as part of a terror probe, warning that creating so-called “backdoors” into encrypted communications could have “bad consequences”. “We want to take a very strong stance against any form of backdoor whatsoever,” chief executive Pichai said during a conference at Paris’s Sciences Po university, as he waded into the controversy. “When you create backdooors it leads to very, very bad consequences which always ends up harming users.” Apple has found itself at the heart of a closely watched legal battle after a US judge ordered the tech giant to find a way to unlock the encrypted iPhone of US citizen Syed Farook, a gunman in last year’s deadly San Bernardino shootings. “User privacy is at the heart of what we do,” Pichai added, though he noted the company had in the past cooperated with authorities when due legal processes had been followed. His remarks e...

Who is the happiest man in the world? If you Google it, the name "Matthieu Ricard" pops up. Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk originally from France who has been called "the world's happiest man." That's because he participated in a 12-year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the University of Wisconsin, Richard Davidson. Davidson hooked up Ricard's head to 256 sensors and found that when Ricard was meditating on compassion his mind was unusually light.