Day: September 15, 2021

Beneficial Ownership: 2-Yr Jail terms for erring Contractors, Businessmen – CAC

ADEOLA YUSUF

Head of CISLAC and Transparency International in Nigeria, Auwal Ibrahim Musa, has charged Nigerian Government to blacklist erring contractors, businessmen for beneficial ownership    Contractors and business owners in Nigeria who are found guilty of misinformation or false disclosure of beneficial ownership will be jailed for two years. Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Garba Abubakar, told Platforms Africa on the sideline of a two-day event organised by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) in Lagos, that misinformation or false disclosure of beneficial ownership has now been criminalised. READ ALSO: EFCC…

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Nigeria Damns Critics, Advances 5G deployment Nationwide

Dawood Rabiu

Antagonists of 5G have earlier blamed COVID-19 outbreak on the network   The Nigerian Government has advanced moves for the deployment of the Fifth Generation Network, otherwise called 5G across the country. Platforms Africa reports that some antagonists of 5G network have earlier blamed COVID-19 outbreak on the network. They have claimed that vaccination against COVID-19 might include injection of microchips into human system to tag them, a claim that has been thouroughly dispelled by researchers and scientists. The Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim-Pantami,…

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