A waitress who was allegedly strip-searched at a popular Soweto restaurant says she was told “smile and carry on working” the next day after she reported the humiliating incident. Nikita Ntshingila, 25, a waitress at the Moja Café in Orlando East, broke down as she relived the degradation she suffered when she was forced to […]
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British technology start-up Onfido has raised $50m (£38m) in new funding from investors including Japan’s Softbank Investment (SBI) as it targets growth in the US and South-East Asia. The company, founded by three Oxford University graduates in 2012, has now raised more than $100m (£76m) for its software, which usesartificial intelligence to check documents and prevent
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Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 2 Apr 2019 at 23:25 Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America’s border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone. Gal,
By Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala and Omar Mohammed DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzanian authorities on Wednesday charged the managing director of Vodacom Tanzania and other telecom executives with economic crimes, court documents seen by Reuters showed. Egyptian Hisham Hendi and other telecom executives “intentionally and wilfully organized a criminal racket, which caused the government …
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Counterfeit medications claim thousands of lives each year. Nigerian entrepreneur Adebayo Alonge built a scanner that can detect fake drugs in 20 seconds to protect people from this growing issue. In Africa, the counterfeit drug trade is a $30 billionoperation. As pharmaceutical sales have grown the past few decades, suppliers have begun to flood markets with
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (image courtesy Reuters) Saudi Arabia has executed a Nigerian woman convicted of trafficking drugs, AFP news agency quotes state media as reporting. The woman was executed along with two Pakistani men and a Yemeni man in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, on Monday. A total of 53 people have been
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A former Yale University football coach has pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges for allegedly accepting bribes to help students get into the college. Women’s football coach Rudy Meredith accepted a $400,000 (£306,000) bribe to fraudulently mark a non-athletic student as a recruit, prosecutors say. The case is part of a wider scam that helped wealthy parents buy
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Don’t let fraud ruin your fun – Action Fraud warns against fraudsters targeting online gamers. Action Fraud is warning parents and online gamers of the risk of fraud involving Steam Cardsand Fortnite. Between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018, Action Fraud received 35 reports of Fortnite related fraud, with a total loss off £5,119 – an average of £146
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Small businesses should train up “cyber security champions” to better protect themselves from the threat of cyber attacks, new government research has suggested. A report by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claimed that in the case of more than half (57%) of businesses who
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A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt in the country
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