'The 2019 elections will not hold on social media, If you don't have business with politics, stop wasting your data' - Journalist, Tope Aileru

Nigerian journalist based in Ghana, Tope Aileru has just shared an interesting perspective on the 2019 general elections in NIgeria.

According to him, 'the elections on February 16 and March 2, 2019 will not hold on social media. If you don't have business with voting (politics), stop wasting your data'.

He went on to say, 'I can't deal with the energy I see people waste on unnecessary arguments and fights on social media over this elections, when indeed those stuffs would eventually count for nothing.

More than 50% of those exchanging rants and bats on social media don't even have PVC, not to talk about having any influence they can pull on votes. And yet, they are the ones who do more than 10 political posts per day.

Politics is business and if you don't have anything to buy or sell in that market, I advise you spare your time and data on how to make your life better, personally.

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Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi joins championship club Middlesbrough until end of season

Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, 31,  has signed for Championship club Middlesbrough on a short term deal until the end of the season. 

The former Chelsea midfielder who became a free agent in November after a two-year spell with Tianjin Teda in China passed his medical with Tony Pulis' side without a hitch after agreeing on personal terms.

Mikel who won both the Champions League and Europa League with Chelsea told the club's website: 'For me, it's looking at the project.

'I spoke to a few clubs and I also spoke to Tony [Pulis], had a good chat with him. 'He's told me where he wants to go with it and it definitely fits with what I want to do.

'The club wants to get promoted so hopefully, I'm here to help in any way I can. 'It's a family club and this is what I want. I like stability and this is why I was at Chelsea for a very long time.'

Pulis added: 'I'm pleased to get him in. He is a man with a lot of experience and quality.

'He has a winning mentality and he wants to be here be a part of what we are looking to achieve.'

SEE JOHN OBI MIKEL'S HONOURS BELOW.

Premier League: 2009–10, 2014–15

FA Cup: 2006–07, 2008–09, 2011–12

League Cup: 2006–07

Community Shield: 2009

Champions League: 2011–12

Europa League: 2012–13

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Photos: Thai, Malaysian Police bust Nigerian online romance scam gang; arrest seven men and seven women

Thai police and their Malaysian counterparts have busted a

Nigerian gang operating online romance scams, the same gang that fled Thailand a year ago to set up in Kuala Lumpur.

Thai immigration police head Maj-Gen Surachate Hakparn, in his capacity as deputy director of the Thailand's Action Taskforce for Information Technology Crime Suppression (TACTICS), on Wednesday led his team to join with Malaysian economic crime busters to search seven locations in Kuala Lumpur.

At the same time, Thai police raided three locations in Thailand that allegedly had links to the gang.

The operation in Kuala Lumpur led to the arrest of seven Nigerians, all of whom were wanted for alleged fraud in Thailand, and seven female Thai accomplices.

Officers also seized computers and cell phones showing chat messages with victims, many of whom were in process of being convinced to wire money, and some scripts to persuade victims.

The romance scams would usually involve criminals using bogus white male identities to woo and later persuade women to wire money to pay an import tariff and fee for the delivery of overseas “gifts".

Surachate said TACTICS had come down hard on this gang, prompting the criminals to flee to Malaysia about a year ago. The gang set up their new base and resumed the romance scams, he said.

Surachate claimed that this gang had duped people of nearly Bt100 million in total.
Last year, TACTICS co-operated with their foreign counterparts to make nine arrests in seven countries.

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