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Saturday, 14 January 2017 02:31

How Nigeria is improving on TV digitisation – NBC

National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, says it has achieved tremendous success in the recently launched television Digital Switchover, DSO, in Abuja. Director-General of the commission, Mr Ishaq Kawu-Modibbo, made the remark while briefing journalists on the success of the Abuja Digitisation on Friday. He said that in the three weeks of DSO in Abuja, the commission had been able to distribute more Set Top Boxes than it did in eight months in Jos. The NBC boss added that over 100,000 boxes were in the residences of people in the FCT, adding that only eight boxes had so far been returned to…

Friday, 13 January 2017 15:58

MMM Nigeria returns with new conditions

Nigeria’s number 1 Ponzi scheme, MMM Nigeria, is back. This is according to a statement issued by the official Twitter account. “This is to officially inform you that MMM Nigeria is open for business a day earlier than promised! Let’s go there Nigerians,” the post said. This time around the Russian Ponzi scheme is back with new conditions, which includes encouraging its members to use bitcoin for transactions. Upon resumption, the scheme says its members will now be able to pay and receive money in bitcoins, the digital currency. MMM cites bitcoin’s steady growth in value as a reason for…

Friday, 13 January 2017 15:55

2 Unilag graduating students score 'A' in every course all through, attaining 5.0 CGPA

Two graduating students of the University of Lagos have recorded 5.00 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in 2015/2016 academic session, just like Ayodele Dada recorded same feat in the previous year. Prof. Rahamon Bello, the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the institution, who gave the hint during the 2016/2017 matriculation on Friday, named the two students as: Miss Taiwo Bankole and Miss Ajoke Omotuyi. The V-C had, during the 2014/2015 convocation, had described 5.00 CGPA as ‘a perfect score’. According to Bello, both students are from the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and the Department of Systems Engineering,…

Friday, 13 January 2017 15:52

3 suicide bombers kill 2 on market day in Adamawa

Three suicide bombers exploded at a checkpoint where scores of people were being searched for a bustling weekly market Friday in Nigeria's northeastern town of Madagali, witnesses said. The blasts killed two self-defense fighters who wanted to search them. Their challenge likely saved many lives. In December, two women suicide bombers killed 57 people and wounded 177, including 120 children, at Madagali market. Last week, three girl suicide bombers were killed on the outskirts of the same town. Residents blamed Boko Haram Islamic extremists for the attacks. Madagali is about 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, the largest city…

Friday, 13 January 2017 15:50

In new report, Human Rights Watch slams Nigeria’s 2016 rights record

Growing concerns about intolerance of dissent and a heavy-handed response to protests dominated Nigeria’s human rights landscape in 2016, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in releasing its World Report 2017. Government rhetoric about security sector reform and improving accountability for rights abuses has yet to translate into concrete action, Human Rights Watch said a statement. In the southeast, police killed at least 40 pro-Biafra members of the separatist Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) during protests and processions in February and May 2016. No security agent has been prosecuted for the killings. In December 2015, soldiers killed 347 members of a…

Friday, 13 January 2017 03:02

Buhari reconstitutes River Basin Authorities' management boards

President Muhammadu Buhari has reconstituted the Executive Management Boards of River Basin Development Authorities (RBDA). RBDAs are under the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. The appointments take immediate effect. They are as follows: ANAMBRA-IMO RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (AIRBDA): Michael Nwabufo — Managing Director Michael C. Nwachukwu–Executive Director, Engineering Nweze B. Obasi — Executive Director, Agricultural Services Benjamin Aneke — Executive Director, Planning and Design Ngozi C. Uche –Executive Director, Finance and BENIN-OWENA RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (BORBDA): Saliu O. Ahmed — Managing Director Modupe V. Olalemi – Executive Director, Engineering Agbetuyi O. Bamidele — Executive Director, Agricultural Services Olumese…

Friday, 13 January 2017 03:01

Adeboye’s decision to appoint national overseer irreversible – RCCG

Redeemed Christian Church of God has said the decision of its General Overseer, Enoch Adeboye, to appoint a national overseer for the church in Nigeria remains unchanged. The church also dismissed insinuations that Adeboye had resigned as the General Overseer of the RCCG. The church’s Head of Media and Public Relations, Pastor Segun Adegbiji, said this while addressing journalists at Redemption Camp, Mowe, Ogun State, on Thursday. He explained that the plan to have a national or country overseer for the RCCG Nigeria was ongoing before the purported implementation of the now suspended Corporate Governance Code by the Financial Reporting…

Friday, 13 January 2017 03:00

Soyinka faults Buhari, El-Rufai over Southern Kaduna killings

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka yesterday condemned President Muhammadu’s and Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s handling of the Southern Kaduna crisis. Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) alleged that no fewer than 808 people have been killed. Soyinka criticised the admission by El -Rufai that he paid killers of Southern Kaduna people to stop the carnage. He said religion “is more likely to induce anxiety leading to trauma rather than solace and the consolation of spirituality which many religions claim for themselves.” He spoke in Abuja at the launch of the book “Religion and the Making of Nigeria” written by Prof.…

Friday, 13 January 2017 02:53

UN: Humanitarian crisis triggered by Boko Haram is worsening

The humanitarian crisis triggered by Boko Haram's "violent and inhuman campaign" is worsening, with 10.7 million people in need of aid in northeast Nigeria and parts of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Thursday. Stephen O'Brien told the U.N. Security Council that although Boko Haram has lost much of the territory it once controlled as a result of military campaigns in the region, its raids and suicide bombings targeting civilians are still causing widespread death and destruction in those four countries which comprise the Lake Chad Basin. Over the past 12 months, he said, the crisis has…

Friday, 13 January 2017 02:49

Casualties as Akwa Ibom youth clash with Hausa community

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has urged the youth and Hausa community residing in Etoi community in Uyo to give peace a chance. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, for the command in the state, ASP. Cordelia Nwawe, made the call in Uyo on Thursday. She also advised communities to learn how to live peacefully. Nwawe, who confirmed that skirmish broke out between the indigenes and the Hausa community in Etoi, said that peace had been restored to the community. The police image maker added that some victims of the fight had been treated and discharged from the hospital. She…

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Friday, 13 January 2017 02:47

One dies as Gbagyi, Fulani clash in Niger

Residents of Gbagyi community in Niger State and Fulani again clashed in the Sabon-Ndaga village near Minna on Thursday evening, second of such incident within 48 hours. One Fulani man was said to have been killed in the latest crisis. The police which described the incident as a “reprisal" blamed the Gbagyi for the latest disturbance. Police Public Relations Officer DSP Bala Elkana who confirmed the incident said the timely intervention of the police stopped the incident from escalating. Elkana said reinforcement of security men had been despatched to the troubled community. Last Tuesday, four people were killed in a…

Friday, 13 January 2017 02:43

Reps OK offering asylum to Gambia leader

Nigeria's House of Representatives voted Thursday to offer asylum to Gambia's longtime leader, who is refusing to cede power after losing elections and whose mandate expires next week. Legislators confirmed the vote in favor of authorizing Nigeria's leader to offer safe haven to President Yahya Jammeh. On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari leads a regional delegation to Gambia to try to negotiate a diplomatic resolution to the crisis, seen as a test of democracy in a region once populated by military dictators. The asylum offer would "strengthen the hand" of Buhari in negotiating with Jammeh, said Sani Zoro Mohammed, the legislator…

Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:45

Nigeria raises troops for Gambia, ready to remove Yahya Jammeh

Nigerian Army has raised an army battalion that would be deployed in troubled Gambia to forcefully remove President Yahya Jammeh from power if he fails to step down on January 19. The battalion, christened ECOMOG NIBATT 1, was drawn from the Army’s 19th Battalion based in Okitipupa, Ondo State, military insiders have told PREMIUM TIMES. Personnel were also drawn from other formations and units across the country due to shortage of men at 19 Battalion which has a significant chunk of its troops deployed for internal security task force, Operation Delta Safe. This newspaper learnt that the Army Headquarters has…

Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:44

Nnamdi Kanu says Buhari worse offender, cites 1983 coup

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the offences for which he is being tried, do not compare to the 1983 coup d’état which led to the enthronement of Muhammadu Buhari as military head of state. Mr. Kanu, who spoke through his lawyer in court on Thursday, said the case of treason against him should be immediately dropped. “He’s a freedom fighter unlike people who overthrew a legitimate government in 1983. The court has no option but to discharge the charges. The court should trash the charges,” said his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, as he addressed…

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