The Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has ordered MultiChoice to sub-license some of its channels to Metro-digital in line with the code of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC).
Delivering his judgement on Wednesday, Justice Olabode Adegbehingbe, dismissed the ruling of the lower court, which dismissed the suit of the Appellant, Metro-digital, despite the appealant proving the existence of the dispute between itself and the first respondent, MultiChoice. العاب للربح من الانترنت
Justice Adegbehingbe also urged the second respondent, NBC, to compel Multi-choice to follow the court order within 21 days. بلاك جاك
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Benjamin Kalu has hinted that the House upon resumption from recess will likely summon relevant government appointees to provide answers on circumstances surrounding the attack on Kuje correctional facility in Abuja the nation’s capital.
Suspected criminals had last week attacked the facility, freeing hundreds of awaiting trial inmates including terrorists in the custody.
Reacting to the development while featuring on a radio programme, Ben Kalu Mandate monitored by ABN TV in Umuahia on Tuesday, the Bende federal constituency representative said the House has concluded arrangements to pay a visit to the facility to ascertain the level of damage done and make appropriate recommendations.
The lawmaker who is also a member of the House Committee on Prisons said if states are given the opportunity to legislate on Correctional services which my bill on transferring it from the exclusive list to the concurrent list proposes , there will be a better management of these facilities as some of the incidents of jailbreak will be dealt with.
He added that the congestion of prisons across the country has exposed inmates to health hazards as well as conditions that are not reformatory, maintaining that people who have committed lesser offences once the constitutional amendment process is completed will stay in prisons managed within the confines of State governments while those who have committed more serious offences will be remanded in federal prisons, akin to what you see in the developed climes .
While expressing regret over the attack on Kuje prison, he said if the constitutional amendment process is concluded, such incidents will be mitigated as more effective security system will be put in place while correctional measures will be available for inmates.
He ended by saying that definitely, committee incharge of correctional services in the house has been given a matching order by the speaker and the leadership of the house to visit the facility within this week and before resumption to give a feed back to the house . Members of the committee has been asked to suspend their holidays to attend to this issue of national importance.
Nonagenarian and leader of the Southerner and Middle Belt Forum, Chief Edwin Clark on Tuesday added an interesting twist into the 2023 election saying if he were to vote, he would vote for the All Progressives Congress for zoning the Presidency to the South.
He said, however, that he had withdrawn his support for the APC because of its insistence on Muslim-Muslim ticket for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, despite the national outcry.
Clark, who is also the Convener of Pan-Niger Delta Forum and former Federal Information Commissioner of the First Republic, also gave an insight into why he withdrew his support for the Peoples Democratic Party.
The elder statesman also revealed how the Northern PDP governors contributed money towards the success of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), during the 2015 election.
According to him, the North squandered Jonathan’s money, betrayed and deceived him after assuring him of victory in the 2015 election.
Clark stated these during a solidarity visit to him by members of the Delta Central APC Leaders of Thought led by Chief Ominimini Obiuwevbi.
The DECALT leader said they were in the Abuja residence of Clark to find out their political direction in the 2023 general election.
Clark said, “We are saying that up till today, we still believe in a Southern President. So that’s why some of us have said the APC that we never wanted to talk about is the one that has listened to us by zoning the Presidency to the south?
“Because I am an old man of 95, I no longer belong to a political party. Whereas if I were to vote, and you put only two parties, APC and PDP, I will vote for APC for zoning the presidency to the south and listening to our appeal.
“The governors of the states, they feel they are so powerful. But the only thing your party has done that has made me to withdraw my support, is its Muslim-Muslim ticket. I won’t talk about it.
“Jonathan was the President for some time. The Northerners said it was their turn. In 2015, the Northern PDP leaders ganged up with APC to remove Jonathan from office. They didn’t campaign. Jonathan was on his own.
“So when people ask why Jonathan is not in PDP now, and not attending PDP meetings, I can simply say that he is learning his lessons that the people he trusted did not trust him. They squandered his money, the party’s money and they left.
“So when people ask, why is Jonathan not in PDP? he knows how they betrayed him; the Northern PDP governors contributed money towards Buhari’s success. How members of his government betrayed him.
“The national chairman of the PDP at the time, Dr. (Adamu) Muazu, did not go to his home to campaign. He was only following Jonathan about. He knew what he was doing. Every one of them wanted Buhari to win, so Buhari won.
“He has ruled for eight years. Now the same Northern leaders are now saying, competence, no zoning, integrity, no zoning. We thought it was a play but they maneuvered in PDP’s Mr. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who have been wanting to be Nigeria’s President over the years, championing the cause of division. So PDP, a party we loved, a party of Southern Nigeria, disappointed us.
Clark also shed light on how Atiku and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State jettisoned the agitation by PDP for the zoning of the Presidency to the South in 2023.
He said, “We all own this country. We didn’t come to settle with Northerners. It was Luggard who joined us in 1914. So, we stood by this. The governors then went to Lagos and said the same thing. They went to Enugu again in August and they affirmed the same thing.
“Several times we met here and before the PDP had their primary, we met here again and repeated the same thing.
“Our own Governor (Okowa) initiated the meeting. If you agreed for a meeting to be held in your house and you backed out thereafter, you have betrayed your colleagues. Isn’t it?
“Who is Atiku that thinks that he is very important? That people like us when we speak, he will not listen? A good leader must be the one that listens to calls. So if you become President, what will you do? Are we right? Will you support us?”
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Magnus Abe, has said he will not support Tonye Cole, who is the party’s governorship candidate in Rivers State.
Abe, a former lawmaker that represented Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, is nursing the ambition to succeed outgoing Governor Nyesom Wike under the APC.
“No, I will not support Tonye Cole. I think that is clear to everybody,” Abe said during an interview on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm.
He accused Cole of not paying his dues and pointed to the corruption allegations against him.
Abe added: “I am not part of how he became a candidate, he has not been part of our party to my knowledge, and he didn’t contribute anything to the establishment of the party. He has no record of service to our State.
“There is an allegation that over $55 million of Rivers State Government money was transferred to him by Rotimi Amaechi in a government in which I served and I didn’t even know about it. So how will I now go and support such a person to now take over the Government of Rivers State?”
Although Abe lost to Cole in the Rivers APC governorship primary on May 26, he remains confident that his name will appear on the ballot in next year’s governorship election.
He also insisted that he will not defect to another political party in his bid to become governor of the State.
Manchester United legend Roy Keane has revealed that the Red Devils still have a long way to go to be able to compete with Man City, Liverpool, and Chelsea in the Premier League.
Keane, who is known for his tempered enthusiasm, was not getting carried away after United thrashed Liverpool 4-0 in Bangkok in a preseason friendly.
The Red Devils were impressive in the first game under new coach Erik ten Hag.
Keane told Sky Bet: “Where do you want to start?
“The manager will no doubt be given money to spend, the recruits, four or five experienced players have left the club but I think that was a good thing.
“But I still don’t see United competing with Liverpool and Man City, not just yet.”
Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly is set to join Chelsea on a long term, according to multiple reports.
Despite the departures of Andreas Christensen, Antonio Rudiger, and Romelu Lukaku, head coach Thomas Tuchel is still waiting to make his first addition to the summer transfer window.
The Premier League giants have been linked with numerous center-backs, including Sevilla’s Jules Kounde and Juventus’ Matthijs de Ligt.
However, it has been widely suggested that Manchester City’s Nathan Ake is most likely to move to Stamford Bridge, returning for a second spell at the club.
In recent days, speculation has increased regarding the next move of Koulibaly with Chelsea known to want to bring another leadership figure into the group.
The Blues are allegedly prepared to meet the asking price of the Senegal international at a time when he has less than a year remaining on his contract.
According to French journalist Fabrice Hawkins, Chelsea is now closing in on wrapping up the transfer of the 31-year-old.
Hawkins says that Chelsea is ready to pay €40m (£33.91m) for Koulibaly, who is said to be ready to pen a three-year contract at the West Londoners.
Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain are hoping to offload as many as ten players ahead of the new season.
According to French publication L’Equipe, a whole raft of first-team stars has been left behind as the team heads for a pre-season tour in Japan.
They include former Liverpool man, Gini Wijnaldum, ex-Man United midfielder Ander Herrera and Idrissa Gueye who used to play for Everton.
Former Fulham loanee goalkeeper Sergio Rico is also on the list, along with Julian Draxler and Layvin Kurzawa.
Argentine striker Mauro Icardi has also been left out, three years on from departing Inter Milan.
The decisions come only a week after Christophe Galtier was named as Mauricio Pochettino’s replacement as manager, agreeing to make the call alongside new directors of football Luis Campos and Antero Henrique.
The biggest shock of all on the list is arguably Wijnaldum, who only left Liverpool last summer, moving to Paris as a free agent alongside blockbuster signings Lionel Messi, Sergio Ramos, and Gigi Donnarumma.
Despite the Dutchman continuing to shine as a goalscoring threat for the Netherlands, he only managed 22 starts in Paris and was booed by the Parc des Princes crowd on multiple occasions.
Also included on the list of absentees are Eric Junior Dina Ebimbe, Rafinha, and Abdou Diallo, with Galtier keen to trim his squad down to between 21 to 23 players.
That also includes new recruits, with PSG already securing former Wolves man Vitinha from Porto, and triggering Nuno Mendes’ £35million buyout clause after a season on loan from Sporting CP.
Meanwhile, PSG has already shipped out Angel Di Maria off to Juventus on a free transfer, and continues to be linked to names such as Robert Lewandowski and Man City duo Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez.
Roma manager, Jose Mourinho says he’s unhappy with the team’s lack of activity in the summer transfer window.
Mourinho finished the 2021/2022 season with a 1-0 win over Feyenoord to win the maiden Europa Conference League final in May.
The Portuguese were hoping to build on the success, by bolstering his squad ahead of next season.
Roma has brought in just three players so far, but only defender Zeki Çelik, who arrived from Lille, involved the payment of a transfer fee.
Both midfielder Nemanja Matic and goalkeeper Mile Svilar joined as free agents.
However, several first-team players have departed, including Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Alessandro Florenzi, Robin Olsen, and Cengiz Under.
While visiting Trajan’s Markets for the Phygital Sustainability Expo, where his daughter Matilde presented a sustainable jewelry collection, Mourinho couldn’t help but give the Italian media a quote about transfers.
“You can see from the fact that I am worried.
“I’m a bit frustrated with the market. But don’t worry, don’t worry,” he told Corriere Dello Sportwhen asked about Roma’s business dealings.
Senator Nicholas Tofowomo representing Ondo South Senatorial District has stated that Nigerians should be blamed for voting for bad leaders because goats do not vote.
This was made known by the federal lawmaker in an interview with The PUNCH when asked about what is wrong with the current state of the country.
Senator Tofowomo said Nigeria’s problems goes beyond bad leadership.
According to the Ondo South senator, it is beyond leadership.
“At every opportunity to choose a leader, we choose wrong people. When it comes to the election, it is ‘see and buy’. It is not goats that are casting the votes, it is human beings, it is we”.
“If you do not have money and if you do not have a name, you cannot win anything. The problem of Nigeria, if you look at it, is waxing stronger by the day”, he added.
“There are things that will make a country grow – for example, electricity. You can imagine, in my house here, I have not used government electricity in the last four months and I’m in Akure because the transformers we were using here are about three miles from my house. When I got here, I bought the cables to that transformer and I installed poles as well. How many megawatts do we have in this country? We cannot boast of 4000 megawatts as of today.
In Egypt, they have more than 60,000 megawatts. South Africa, they have more than 58,000 megawatts. Why won’t there be development?”, he concluded.
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