Day: October 6, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Blackout as IBEDC customers go occultic, padlock isolators with ritual fringes

ADEOLA YUSUF

Pray for us, power utility firm begs Nigerians over Magboro crisis, assures Okeho community of better days ahead   Customers of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) have gone occultic in their face-off with the utility firm as they padlocked the IBEDC isolators in Magboro with ritual fringes. Platforms Africa reports exclusively that this incident has grounded the operations of the company in the axis and thrown hundreds of thousands of customers on the supply chain in Mowe, Aseese, Magboro, Ibafo and environs into total blackout. Magboro, an Ogun state community…

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Germany Donates Operational Vehicles To Nigerian Police, DSS, EFCC Others

Tade Salako

“The presentation of the vehicles is our own way of contributing towards assisting the Nigerian security agencies to maintain peace and security in Nigeria,” Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany declares   The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lagos, Herbet Maassen, has led the donation of vehicles by his government to the Nigerian Police Force at an event where the Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, vowed to intensify security of lives and property nationwide and decisively deal with emerging threats to…

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NCC Disqualifies under 18 from SIM ownership in Nigeria

Dawud Rabiu

The Nigerian Communications Commission says it has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module in Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that a draft copy of the modified Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the commission’s website, revealed. The copy showed that NCC limited telecoms subscribers to only include anyone above the age of 18. READ ALSO: NCC Craves Stakeholders Comments for key regulatory instruments’ Review NCC Disqualifies under 18 from SIM ownership in Nigeria NCC to Slam N200,000 per subscriber penalty on…

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NCC Craves Stakeholders Comments for key regulatory instruments’ Review

Aliyu Aliyu

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has craved more comments and inputs from stakeholders on the review opf three key regulatory instruments. Platforms Africa reports that the Executive Commissioner Stakeholders’ Management, NCC, Barrister Adeleke Adewolu, who said this in his remarks at the public inquiry on three (3) regulatory instruments held on October 5, 2021 at the conference hall, NCC headquarters, Abuja, noted that thi8s is to ensure that the regulatory instruments issued by the Commission are in consonance with the best practices in the industry. “The draft of all the…

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Nigerian Sports Federation Agonises as Journalist, Ben Alaiya, 3 others die

Gbenga Adeoti

How four of Nigerian sportsmen, administrators died within 35 days, enveloped country’s sports federation with mourning   The Nigerian Super Eagles former media officer, Benjamin Alaiya, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that the death of Alaiya, who held the position between 2011 and 2015 before he was replaced by Toyin Ibitoye, occurred few hours after that of former Nigerian football chieftain, Brig. Gen. Dominic Oneya, and few weeks after the deaths of international footballers, Thompson Usiyan and Sunday Oyarekhua. A statement on the Instagram handle of the Super Eagles on…

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Why Nigeria Is Reviewing SIM Registration, Replacement Frameworks -Danbatta

Aliyu Aliyu

Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has declared that the on-going review of the regulatory instrument is to ensure that frameworks that pertain to SIM Registration and Replacement in the communications industry meet the demands of the digital age and also further enhance the flexibility of the Spectrum Trading regime. Platforms Africa reports that Danbatta said this in his welcome address at the public inquiry on three (3) regulatory instruments held on October 5, 2021 at the conference hall, NCC headquarters, abuja “This Public Inquiry, on…

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Secure Oil Facilities in South-East, Independent Producers Beg Buhari

ADEOLA YUSUF

Crude theft in Nigeria becoming unprecedented and unsustainable particularly on the eastern axis, IPPG declares during a visit to country’s vice president   The Nigerian indigenous upstream oil Exploration and Production companies have declared that incidence of crude theft in Nigeria is unprecedented particularly on the eastern axis, soliciting President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian Government’s support in also protecting oil and gas facilities from attack especially in the Country’s Southeast. A statement issued from by the association of the companies, Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG), sent to Platforms Africa shows that…

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