The court of appeal sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered MultiChoice to sublicense some channels to Metrodigital, under the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC’s) code. MultiChoice is the South African owner of the satellite television services, DStv, and GOtv popular subscription-based platforms in Nigeria. Metrodigital Limited is a multi-channel terrestrial digital satellite service provider […]
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister’s office said. “Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s spokesman Dinouk Colombage told […]
Ahead of the Saturday governorship election in Osun State, the police and other security agencies, including the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, have declared war on vote-buyers and mapped out strategies to checkmate their activities. To curb the malpractices during the poll, the security agencies have deployed detectives, including undercover operatives, to monitor […]
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to resign immediately if the job is tough for him. HURIWA said this in a statement on Tuesday calling on the President to resign to minimize the damage his “crass incompetence and gross […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday said that Nigeria had signed an agreement for the repatriation of 1,130 Benin bronzes from Berlin in Germany. Mohammed during inauguration of The Art Hotel in Lagos, said that the bronzes were looted from the ancient city of Benin in 1897, 125 […]
Nollywood actor Kenneth Okonkwo has resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressive Congress citing abnormalities in the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party’s presidential candidates. On Sunday, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, and the APC Presidential candidate chose the former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima as his running […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested one of the wanted terror suspects who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centre, Kuje, following an attack on the facility by insurgents last week in Abuja. The fleeing terror suspect, Suleiman Sidi, was arrested in the early hours of Monday 11th July […]
Yusuf Lasun, the former deputy speaker of the house of representatives, says gunmen invaded his residence in Osun state on Monday. In a tweet on Monday, the former legislator said the armed men shot randomly at his residence. Lasun, who is the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), did not say if […]
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) presidential nominee, has named Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. Tinubu made this known in an interactive session with reporters during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina State on Sunday. A NAN source had earlier hinted that Tinubu had chosen Shettima […]
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two prominent and powerful football figures, have been acquitted of fraud in a Swiss court. The case is centered on a £1.6 million payment made by Blatter to Platini in 2011. Blatter, a former FIFA president, and Platini, his vice, were both found not guilty of fraud at […]
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