Day: July 26, 2021

NCC Deepens Judicial Collaboration in Tackling Telecoms Service Challenges

Aliyu Aliyu

Danbatta receives commendation on nation’s digital transformation   In a bid to further protect telecoms infrastructure in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has restated its commitment to continue to strengthen collaboration with judicial institutions in Nigeria. The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, gave the assurance during a courtesy visit by a high-powered delegation of the Kano State Judiciary to the chief telecom regulator at the NCC Kano Zonal Office, in Kano, over the weekend. Addressing the judicial delegation, Danbatta said, while the…

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Why Nigeria Extended NIN-SIM Verification Deadline to October 31, 2021 -NCC

Precious Ibekwe

Focus shifts to remote, hard-to-reach areas, schools, health centres   The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for National Identity Number (NIN)-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) data verification to October 31, 2021. Platforms Africa reports that the decision to extend the deadline was made following a request by stakeholders to accommodate registration in hard-to-reach remote areas, foreigners and diplomatic missions, diaspora and address low enrolments in schools and hospitals, as evidenced by enrolment statistics. READ ALSO: Nigeria shifts NIN-SIM linkage deadline by two months BREAKING: Bandits Kidnap Negotiator…

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Nigeria’s President Buhari Jets Out to London

Aliyu Aliyu

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday, July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through exchange of best practices. It will also offer the opportunity for…

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Nnamdi Kanu: DSS Arrests Two ‘Americans’ For Taking High Court Photos

Dawood Rabiu

Two foreigners who were reported to be Americans were arrested by the Nigerian Secret Service, DSS, while staying at Treasure Suites, a hotel located adjacent the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, for allegedly photographing the court from their hotel balcony. DSS operatives and police officers reportedly took the foreigners and thought to be Americans by police officials on the site, away in a white Toyota Hilux vehicle. READ ALSO: UK Opens up as lawyer kicks on DSS refusal to let Nnamdi Kanu sign papers ‘How IPOB leader Nnamdi…

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PIB: Inside the Nigeria’s Controversial Oil ‘Law’

Efe Wellington

Clock ticks on NNPC, PPPRA, DPR as PIB harmonisation nears completion Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and other key agencies in the Nigeria’s multi-billion dollars oil and gas industry are at the eleventh hour of their existence. They will either be scrapped or change present form to a new one. This, according to a report by Platforms Africa, come as harmonisation of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) newly passed by the National Assembly nears completion. Harmonisation work of contradictory provisions in the bill, which began penultimate Monday, has been…

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BREAKING: Bandits Kidnap Negotiator for ‘stealing’ ransom, abduct 50 others

Aliyu Aliyu

A negotiator assigned to pay a ransom to secure the release of 136 children seized on May 29 from the Salihu Tanko Islamic school in Tegina has been abducted by bandits in Niger state, North central Nigeria. The negotiator, a 60-year-old community member, was kidnapped because the money he brought was too low, according to kidnappers. READ ALSO: COVID could be spread through fart — UK Ministers 29 days after, kidnapped Kaduna Baptist School Pupils released Family announces burial plans for Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga According to a news agency…

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