The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has debunked speculations in some quarters that its national identity database has been hacked. The NIMC denied the rumours in a statement on Wednesday issued by its spokesman, Kayode Adegoke. While describing the rumours as false, the commission said the data of Nigerians are safe in its custody and that the information of citizens being circulated on the internet is not from its database. According to Adegoke, investigations by the NIMC proved that rumours of an alleged data dump were not true.

It’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was overestimated, now say that the country is poised for a reckoning. In 2018, the last time the agency analyzed where the nation’s trash ends up, the plastics recycling rate came in at about 9%, meaning that more than 91% of plastics generated that year were put in a landfill or incinerated for energy.

Animation has had plenty of unknown geniuses — from the directors, artists and storymen of Walt Disney’s early features to the sly hands behind the silent pornographic cartoon Buried Treasure — but few were more obscure, or more important, than Alexander Anderson, who died Friday at 90 in Carmel, Calif. Anderson created the characters Rocky the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle Moose and Dudley Do-Right, and the vaudeville-style format, for the 1959 animated program Rocky and His Friends and its 1961 spin-off The Bullwinkle Show, known collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has described calls for his sack by the Labour Party and the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign as illogical and ridiculous. Naija News recalls that the Labour Party (LP), yesterday, called for the immediate dismissal and prosecution of the INEC chairman. The party and its presidential campaign council asked the international community to take “punitive action” against Yakubu and other top officials of the electoral body over the conduct of the 2023 elections.

Happy moments go by very fast. Sometimes, we just want to grab them and keep them with us forever to enjoy whenever we feel bad. Some people say it’s impossible but others have proven them wrong. We at Bright Side have collected the most moving photos from Internet users that couldn’t help but share the most memorable things and events from their lives. “My little cousin asked his brain surgeon before his operation if he could ’fix Sonic’s boo-boo.’ My grandma found this right after he finished his successful 6-hour surgery.