Cannabis Startup Raises $44m, MTN’s Service Disruption Affects A Few Customers
Cannabis startup raises $44m, MTN’s service disruption affects a few customers
MTN claims that its service disruption will affect only a few customers, and a Nigerian lawyer is suing the Federal Government over the Twitter ban.
Sanity Group, a cannabis and digital health startup based in Germany, has raised $44.2 million in a Series A round of funding. The round, which brings Sanity Group's total funding to $73 million, is being billed as Europe's largest cannabis financing. The weed continues to grow. Literally.
The new funding will be used to expand the group's medical division in Europe. Additionally, it will be constructing an EU-GMP-compliant research and manufacturing facility near Frankfurt, Germany.
Sanity is a health technology startup that uses cannabis to treat mental illness and chronic pain and uses a medical device to track cannabis-based therapy digitally. This device informs customers about the amount of active ingredient (THC, CBD, or other cannabinoids) they are receiving, which is then recorded in a therapy diary.
MTN says network disruption will affect only a few customers
MTN, Nigeria's telecom giant, has allayed fears of widespread service disruptions by stating that the outage would affect only a small number of its subscribers. This was explained by Nigeria's largest telco in a notice obtained by Nairametrics.
Several MTN subscribers have complained about service disruptions and outages over the last two days, particularly with regards to internet use. However, MTN had already informed its customers that such disruptions were to be expected.
MTN stated that the earlier concerns stemmed from a routine notification sent to customers informing them of potential disruptions. According to the company, this was standard procedure and thus should not have been exaggerated.
The company stated that the notice was sent to a small number of businesses in very few specific locations that were impacted by a specific challenge. These notices are routinely sent to partners and are not unusual.
Monday Ubani, Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association's Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA/SPIDEL), has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government over the Twitter ban.
According to Vanguard, the suit filed in the Federal High Court in Lagos seeks to overturn the Twitter ban on the grounds that it is unconstitutional and violates the fundamental right to freedom of expression, the right to hold opinions, the right to receive and impact ideas and information without interference guaranteed by the 1999 constitution.
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), the Minister of Information and Culture, and the Nigerian Communications Commission are named as respondents in the suit (NCC).
Recall that the FG banned Twitter from operating in Nigeria following the microblogging platform's removal of a series of tweets by President Buhari for violating the platform's rules. The AGF went further, ordering the arrest and prosecution of anyone who has not yet deleted their Twitter apps or accounts.
