NNPC GMD to end oil theft in 8 months, to use drones to monitor oil vessels
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu has disclosed that oil theft would be eradicated in the next eight months as the corporation has put in place measures to check the menace and bring perpetrators to book.
For the average Nigerian, it’s 100 days of hope, anxiety
Increasing prices of food items: A medium-sized basket of fresh pepper now sells for N10, 000.00, from N5,000.00, while a basket of chili pepper goes for N13, 000.00, as against the N5,500.00 it sold. A jute bag of onions goes for N12, 500.00 from N11, 000.00, while a 20-litre keg of vegetable oil goes for N6,100 as against N6,000 previously. A four-litre paint measurement of garri still sells for N500 or N600. At the Daleko Market, Isolo, the price of the various brands of a 50-kilogramme bag of rice ranges from N7, 000 to N12,000. A 120 kilogramme bag of beans costs N24, 500.00, against N22.000.00 that it sold earlier.
NIG to help ensure efficient broadband penetration in Nigeria
PRESIDENT of Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), Eng. Adebayo Banjo has assured internet users in Nigeria that his association would work with relevant bodies to ensure that the country enjoys more effective and efficient broadband penetration. Banjo made the promise at the association’s annual conference and exhibition 2015, which held in Lagos last week. Banjo said that Information and communications Technology, ICT has become an integral aspect of human activity, noting that any activity that is not rooted on it will certainly go into extinction.
Why Nigeria needs National Postal Commission – Mori Baba
SInce the advent of Information and communications Technology, ICT, the impact on the Nigerian Postal Services Nipost, has not been favourable as the fortunes has continued to nosedive, as a result of huge apathy from the customers towards post services. Apart from the need for a total revamping of the Post occasioned by this development, experts have shared the view on the need for the establishment of a National Postal Commission (NPC) to engender proper regulation of the industry and at the same time check the excesses of the independent courier companies operating in the country.
Three months after, ICT practitioners pick hole in cybercrime law, demand amendment
BArely three months after former President Goodluck Jonathan signed the Cybercrime bill into Law to the admiration of the Information and Communications Technology, ICT industry, practitioners of same industry have picked holes in the law demanding amendment. Worried by the growing rate of Cybercrimes in Nigeria, legal experts in the Nigerian information Communication Technology ecosystem and IT experts have called for the urgent review of the Nigerian Cybercrime Law 2015, that was signed into law At the recently concluded Technology Times Outlook 2015 , organized by Technology Times.
Baby without hands: ‘A blessing from God,’ says mother
It is always a cause for joy when a woman successfully puts to bed after nine months or so of pregnancy. The joy is greater if the delivery comes without any problem and the baby is found to be healthy, normal and without any defect. Unfortunately this was not the case for 20-year-old Blessing Samson, an indigene of Lussa in Bogoro Local Government Area.
