‘Court Cannot Determine DStv Tariff’
Early last week, I joined a social media discussion on the ruling of a Federal High Court in Lagos on the subscription fee increment announced by MultiChoice Nigeria Limited. The suit was filed two lawyers challenging what they consider as arbitrary increment in subscription rates imposed by MultiChoice Nigeria, operators of DStv and GOtv pay-TV platforms, on their subscribers.
EU Chief Election Observer laments poor voter turnout, lauds card reader’s performance
The Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission, Santiago Fisas, yesterday, lamented low turn out of voters for the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.
The fallacies of delusional negative triumphalism (1)
The March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections are now part of Nigerian political history, and the gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly versions were concluded yesterday. Like all truly historical events, the elections have both intended and unintended consequences. On the one hand, a new President has emerged, together with a different set of federal legislators that would run the executive and legislative arms of government at the centre for the next four years beginning from May 29, 2015. On the other hand, there is a new realignment of political forces:ultra-conservative members of the Northern establishment and some politicians in the South- West formed a successful alliance that returned political power to the North.
How the presidential poll was won and lost in Edo
The presidential and National Assembly elections in Edo State held amid tension penultimate Saturday, following the sour relationship between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and President Goodluck Jonathan. Oshiomhole had made it clear that the people of Edo will not support Jonathan whom he accused of neglecting the people of the state after they voted for him in 2011, in the election. The Esogban of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, also declared that the Binis will not support the president, lamenting that no Bini man was in the administration of Jonathan despite the support given to him in 2011 by the Binis.
AAG qualifier: Siasia has no excuse to fail – NFF
Just before the departure of the Dream Team to Lusaka, for the crucial All Africa Games qualifier against Zambia, the General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr Sanusi Muhammed, said the football house was sure the team had been well motivated to win the testy clash in Zambia.
Shun sin and embrace holiness—Rev Adeniran
THE District Superintendent of The Apostolic Faith, West and Central Africa, Rev. Adebayo Adeniran, has urged Nigerians to put their hope in God like never before and keep praying for peace to continually reign in the country, stressing the need for Nigerians to shun sin and imbibe the fear of God in order to experience divine transformation in the country.
