Twitter Ban: Time for FG to back down —IMS

PRESS RELEASE TWITTER BAN: FG SHOULD DISCONTINUE COURSE OF ACTION The Institute for Media and Society, IMS, has observed with great concern, the suspension imposed on Twitter, the microblogging and social networking platform. It is a bad decision and the government should discontinue its present course of action. It is recalled that on June 4,…

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Batch-C1: FG shortlists 500,000 applicants for N-Power program

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SADIYA UMAR FAROUQ ON PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL 1. On the 11th of March 2021, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development launched the National Social Investment Management System (NASIMS), for the Batch C applicants who were requested…

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Legislators, Pharmacists, Journalists, others back Akeredolu over benefits of Cannabis

…… MEDICINAL CANNABIS IS MONEY SPINNER – GOV AKEREDOLU …… Makes Case For Controlled Cultivation Of Plant For Medical Use ……. As Legislators, Pharmacists, Investors, Medical Personnel, Others Hold Round Table Discussion on Benefits, Opportunities of Cannabis Plant, CBD Oil. Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has said controlled cultivation of the cannabis plant…

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Media Twitter ban: Threat to freedom of Press —NUJ, Stakeholders

By: Ade Adeleke “….We’ll wake up one day, FG would have banned all Nigerians from all social media platforms including; Facebook, Whatsapp, others…..” The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) 3rd National Conference today commenced in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital with a theme: “The Media, Insecurity And National Unity”. Addressing participants and declaring open the…

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Twitter ban: Nigeria in danger of becoming rogue nation —IPC, MRA warn

Two non-governmental organizations, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the International Press Centre (IPC) today condemned the Federal Government’s indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria and threatened to lodge a formal complaint before the appropriate agencies of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) if the Government does not immediately rescind the ban. They…

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105 Medical Doctors resign in Ondo

By: Oluwatosin Adesola The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Ondo State Chapter has raised alarm over massive resignation of members from the state government’s workforce, saying 105 doctors have left the state service in the last one year. The Association in a press statement, signed by the NMA State Chairman, Dr. Stella Adegbehingbe and State Secretary,…

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