August 2022

MultiChoice Announces Launche Of New Channel On DStv

MultiChoice Announces Launch Of New Channel On DStv

August 1, 2022 12:50 pm

While broadening its entertainment options for its viewers, Multichoice has finally announced its open launch of an additional DStv channel, “News Central”.

Dr Busola Tejumola who is the Executive Head, Content & Channels, West Africa, MultiChoice Nigeria had made this disclosure in a statement on Monday.

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“DStv customers will enjoy more robust news coverage as MultiChoice launches ‘News Central’ on Monday, August 1, 2022.

“The brand new channel is a 24-hour news platform focusing on genuine and accurate storytelling.

“It will be available to DStv Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Access, …

NCC Grants Over ₦500m For Research To Nigerian Universities

NCC Grants Over ₦500m For Research To Nigerian Universities

August 1, 2022 12:43 pm

In lieu of the rising need to revitalise the research sector in the Country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced that it would be committing over ₦500 million to some of the Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions across the country to further facilitate for the increase in research and innovations to promote developments in the Nigerian telecommunications industry.

Prof. Umar Danbatta who is the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission had made this disclosure at a two-day Regional Roundtable with Academia, Industry and Other Stakeholders which ended in Kano at the weekend.

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Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

August 1, 2022 5:39 am

Tension is brewing currently after a drone attack on the Russian fleet in the Crimean port of Sebastopol on Sunday left no fewer than five people, the Russian-annexed city’s mayor Mikhail Razvozhayev disclosed.

‘This morning, Ukrainian nationalists decided to spoil the Day of the Russian Fleet’ being celebrated on Sunday, he said on Telegram, adding that five people, including employees of the army staff, had been wounded.

All festivities had been ‘cancelled for security reasons’, he said, asking residents of the city to remain indoors ‘if possible’.

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Huge celebrations …

Confusion As UN Peacekeepers Open Fire In DR Congo

Confusion As UN Peacekeepers Open Fire In DR Congo

August 1, 2022 5:23 am

A yet-to-be-identified number of people have been killed and several others were injured after United Nations peacekeepers opened fire at a border post in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has revealed.

A video of the incident which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York shared on social media, showed men – at least one in police uniform and another in army uniform – advancing towards the immobilised UN convoy behind a closed barrier in Kasindi.

The town is in eastern DRC’s Beni territory on the border with Uganda.

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2023 Tambuwal Holds Closed-Door Meeting With Obasanjo

2023: Tambuwal Holds Closed-Door Meeting With Obasanjo

August 1, 2022 4:24 am

The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal on Sunday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in what his team has described as a meeting to discuss national issues.

A Special Assistant to the former president on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, made this disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The meeting, he revealed, took place at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Penthouse residence of the former Nigerian leader in Abeokuta.

He, however, said the discussions between former President Obasanjo and Governor Tambuwal held behind closed doors.

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2023 Election We Will Vote Individuals Not Parties – CAN

2023 Election: We Will Vote Individuals Not Parties – CAN

August 1, 2022 4:18 am

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), His Eminence Most Rev. Daniel Okoh, has declared that Nigerians will not vote for just political parties next year in deciding on President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor after his tenure in 2023.

According to him, Nigerians have gone beyond casting their votes based on the political party fielding candidates.

The Archbishop, who made this known while delivering the sermon at the 2022 International Men’s Conference of Christ Holy Church International in Abuja on Sunday, stressed that the electorate, particularly the Christians will vote for candidates in the next general elections using their …

Over 16 Gruesomely Murdered In Northeastern Mali Attacks

Over 16 Gruesomely Murdered In Northeastern Mali Attacks

August 1, 2022 3:57 am

No fewer than 16 people were killed in two-midweek attacks which occurred in northeastern Mali by suspected jihadists on encampments of nomadic tribesmen, local sources have confirmed. 

A source close to the authorities in Menaka, the region near the Niger border where the attacks happened told newsmen on Monday that; ‘The killings took place in the evening between Wednesday and Thursday with the same modus operandi: assailants on motorbikes who came into the camp, shot at people indiscriminately from close range, then take away their livestock’.

A first attack targeted a nomadic camp about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the …

2023 Northern CAN Reiterates Opposition To APC Muslim Ticket

2023: Northern CAN Reiterates Opposition To APC Muslim Ticket

August 1, 2022 3:50 am

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and Abuja have once again reaffirmed its total opposition to the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Secretary-General of the Christian body, Sunday Oibe, made this point in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna State.

The statement which was made available to Africa Daily News, New York read in part; ‘We reaffirm our stand against the idea of a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a multi-religious and multi-cultural society like Nigeria, particularly considering the fact that the country has never been …

2023 Tinubu Understands The Problems Of Nigerian Youths –APC

2023: Tinubu Understands The Problems Of Nigerian Youths –APC

August 1, 2022 3:41 am

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has drummed up support for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu claiming that he is a grassroots politician who understands the dreams and aspirations of Nigerian youths.

The clarification was made by the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yakubu Ajaka, at a town hall meeting with young Nigerians in diaspora, Saturday night, in London.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Ajaka’s claim is slightly in contrast with the popular notion held by political pundits that the average Nigerian youth prefers the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, who they say has a …

You Have Messed Up War Against Insurgency, Gumi Lambasts FG

You Have Messed Up War Against Insurgency, Gumi Lambasts FG

August 1, 2022 3:21 am

Controversial Islamic cleric and preacher, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has condemned the wrong measures being deployed by the Federal Government in the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria, claiming that both sides of the divide have committed crimes.

Gumi made this assertion in a statement issued on Sunday, pointing out that if the next President of the country follows the same trajectory, it would result in a greater insurgency in the land.

He said, ‘The recent BBC Africa Eye documentary and Daily Trust documentaries about the insurgency in Zamfara State have exposed the ethnic and tribal undertones …

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