Tag: BRITAIN

Insecurity: “Cancel your planned South-East visit”, IPOB tells British envoy

Aminu Imam

…Warns of assassination plot The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has advised the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, to cancel her planned visit to the south-eastern part of the country. IPOB made the call after it raised the alarm over an alleged plot to assassinate Laing during her visit to the region. According to an issued statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, yesterday, the proscribed group claimed it got the information through its intelligence arm, the M-Branch, revealing that the idea is to assassinate the envoy in the…

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Britain to ban installation of Huawei 5G kit beginning September 2021

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The British government, on Monday said that it would ban providers from installing Huawei equipment in the country’s 5G network beginning from September 2021. Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for the Department of Media, Culture and Sport, gave the new deadline ahead of the Telecommunications (Security) Bill coming before the Parliament today, British media including the Press Association reported. “We are taking bold steps to implement one of the toughest telecoms security regimes in the world “A central part of that is combating high-risk vendors, and I have set…

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