" ITREALMS: 2020-12-27

Saturday, January 02, 2021

Questionable paternity: Stop this rumour, fake news says Tunde Thomas friend, Adetunji Iromini - ITREALMS

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A new twist has emerged as another round of petitioner claiming friendship of Tunde Thomas, has commenced new online slaught, this time in support of the embattled Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr. Adam Nuru, saying he never fathered any children belonging to late Tunde Thomas, reports ITREALMS.
The latest petitioner on behalf of friends of Thomas, who goes by the name, Adetunji Iromini, challenged the anonymous petitioner linking late Mr. Thomas children to Mr. Adam Nuru to own up.

Students send questions to astronauts @Space station - ITREALMS

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Some students had an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station as they sent questions to the Earth-to-space call which went live at 10:40 a.m. EST Wednesday, December 30, on NASA television and the agency’s website, reports 
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Astronauts Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) answered prerecorded questions from pre-K and early elementary school students from the United States of America (USA), who were part of the Noggin Kids community. 

Marriage scandal: Petitioners seeking sack of FCMB boss, Adam Nuru reach 1,895 - ITREALMS

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The petition seeking to compel the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the board of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) to dismiss Adam Nuru on ethical grounds over alleged marriage scandal is gaining momentum as it nears target of 2,500 signatures, reports ITREALMS.
At press time, the petition seeking 'Justice for Tunde Thomas' at Change.org has reached 1,895 and seems to be recording new signature every minute, from ITREALMS investigations.

Oyo govt: No robbery in SSG office, says its fake news - ITREALMS

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The government of Oyo State has classified as fake news, a report circulated online by Mega Icon News and Sahara Reporters, which indicated that the office of the Secretary to the State Government was burgled last week, reports 
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The government equally insisted that newsmen must always seek clarifications from requisite authorities to avoid the allure of fake news.

SIM replacement: FG introduces new guidelines, says subscribers must present NIN - ITREALMS

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The Federal Government (FG) has introduced new guidelines for replacement of any damaged Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) in the country, insisting on the presentation of the National Identification Number (NIN), reports ITREALMS.

The duo of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in a joint press statement available to ITREALMS by the NCC director of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde and Head, Corporate Communications at NIMC, Mr. Kayode Adegoke, informed that the drive to ensure all subscribers are linked with NIN paved the way for this new guidelines.

Friday, January 01, 2021

New Year Message: Fayemi promises 1,000 housing units for workers, LG poll, create LCDAs - ITREALMS

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The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi has promised to work harder to ensure a safe, secure and prosperous Ekiti State in 2021 where all residents will feel better impact of governance in all the key sectors, reports ITREALMS.

He also pledged to deliver all some 1,000 housing units for workers and deliver ongoing projects that would add value to the economy and lives of the people of the state, adding that that his administration would not leave any abandoned project behind, in spite of limited resources.

2021 New Year Message: What Buhari told Nigerians - ITREALMS

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NEW YEAR SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, 1ST JANUARY 2021

My fellow countrymen and women,
First, I would like to thank and praise the Almighty who saw us through the year 2020 and has given us the opportunity to witness the start of another new year. We especially thank God because the year 2020 was one of the most trying years since our existence as a Nation.
2. This can also be said about all other nations around the world, due to the challenges posed on our collective humanity by the novel COVID-19 pandemic.

New Year Message: Oyeyemi urges Nigerians to drive safely - ITREALMS

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The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has urged Nigerians to drive safely and stay safe as they enter into the new year, saying all bad driving habits should be discarded while the good lessons learnt and practiced during the outgoing year should be sustained with commitment to ensuring personal safety and health of the individuals. 
This was contained in the new year message to Nigerians by the Corps Marshal of FRSC as part of the ongoing sensitisation efforts by the Corps to curtail the spread of COVID-19 and ensuring public safety through adherence to traffic rules and regulations.

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Pope Francis prescribes New Year's resolutions for Laity, urges time for families - ITREALMS

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The Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis has prescribed some new year's resolutions for the Laity in the church, urging them to take care of their spiritual life, and relationship with God, "because this is the backbone of everything we do and everything we are,” reports 
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The Laity, ITREALMS gathered in religious organizations, consists of all members who are not precisely part of the clergy, and usually comprises any non-ordained members of religious orders, for instance, is a nun or lay brother.

Christmas sermon: Muslim coalition says Nigeria needs more Kukah, sees message as wake up call for presidency- ITREALMS

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A coalition of Nigerian Muslim Professionals (NMP) have warned those vilifying the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah for speaking truth to power to see message as a wake up call, reports 
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They also cautioned that attacks on Kukah could undermine the peace the Nigeria nation is currently experiencing currently, stressing that Nigeria will be a great place if there were two or three persons like Kukah.

Bishop Kukah and whose Ox is gored? - ITREALMS

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I recall with fond nostalgia that while growing up, after torrential rains, we will gather outside in the community and play gleefully. One play I enjoyed so much at that time was pelting stones into bodies of water which would have gathered still looking for exit routes. The ripple effect of that stone landing in the water would form rings in that body of water. I was later to learn that the rings formed is known as water viscosity.

In recent times, it has come to note that when some personalities make public statements, it sends shockwaves throughout the world like the stone does in still water. These personalities unfortunately are helpless when they occupy positions of public trust. In Nigeria, this kind of personalities abound. The usual reaction to statements made by those in the aforementioned category is usually a dismissal with many viewed as mere political jobbers who are either playing scripts of their pay masters or even seeking cheap relevance. Some others on the other hand enjoy some level of notoriety as such even the slightest jokes about national issues from them are regarded as ‘German jokes’. 

Study notes on ‘state’ and ‘state failure’ - ITREALMS

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This piece is dedicated to two of the surviving members of the Old Guard of the Nigerian Left: Comrade Biodun Jeyifo (BJ) who turns 75 on January 5, 2021, and Comrade Bene Madunagu.
As this extraordinary year 2020 comes to a close, the Nigerian Left appears to be faced with a mocking challenge partly orchestrated by radical and Leftwing social media: “revolution or state failure.” It is a challenge also appearing to leap directly from the packed events of the year: Coronavirus pandemic, youth protest or #EndSars, deepening mass poverty and desperation, Boko Haram and kindred insurgencies, banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery, deepening class exploitation and state robbery, state delinquency, increasing resort to fascist approaches to governance, increasing separatist agitations, state violence and lawlessness, generalized insecurity and the emergence of state-inspired, state protected, but formally “non-state” fascist movements.

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

SIM replacement: FG grants mobile operators permission says ALTON - ITREALMS

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The Federal Government (FG) has granted permission to members of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) to now replace Subscribers Identification Module (SIM), reports ITREALMS.

Confirming this development in an update on SIM Registration and National Identification Number (NIN) Integration made available to ITREALMS, ALTON revealed that their members have been granted permission to replace SIM for telecom subscribers in the country.

Godstime Nwaeze wins star prize @#EndSARS national poetry contest - ITREALMS

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The organizers of the #EndSARS National Poetry Competition have announced the winners of the just concluded national poetry competition aimed at combating and campaigning against Police brutality, assault and battery, with Godstime Nwaeze winning the star prize of 100$, reports ITREALMS.
The winners were meritoriously picked from the 20 shortlisted entries earlier picked by Terseer Sam Baki.

Terseer Sam Baki is a celebrated poet and all round writer. He is the author of the poetry collection, 'Euphoria of Sophistry' and has published in several anthologies. Terseer Sam Baki is also the immediate past General Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Benue State chapter. He holds a degree in English Education and currently pursuing his Masters in Language Education at the Benue State University, Makurdi.

COVID-19: SYNW President, Adedoyin recovers, commends Makinde - ITREALMS

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The President of the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW), 
Wole Adedoyin, has recovered from Coronavirus after testing negative for the disease, reports ITREALMS.

This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Ibadan after his exit from the Olodo Infectious Disease Centre.

N5bn deal: USAID partners WACOT Rice - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian based subsidiary of TGI Group, WACOT Rice Limited (WRL) recently signed a co-investment partnership with the USAID-funded West Africa Trade and Investment Hub (WATIH) to the tune of $10.5 million (about N4.99 billion) to support the company’s Argungu Rice Outgrower Expansion Project based in Kebbi State, reports ITREALMS.


This partnership, 
ITREALMS gathered would see WRL register an additional 5,143 farmers to complement its already existing outgrower network in the state. These new farmers are expected to cultivate over 5,000 additional hectares of land thereby producing over 20,000 tons of paddy which will be utilised at WRL’s 120,000-ton rice mill in Kebbi.

General Buhari's cauldron of nepotism, rejected by gods - ITREALMS

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Being a Christmas 2020 message by Most Rev. Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.

Excerpts.

1: Another Christmas with Dark Clouds of Death: 

Let me paraphrase the holy prophet Isaiah who said: “For Jerusalem (Nigeria’s sake), I will not be silent until her vindication shines forth like the dawn…..No more shall people call you forsaken, or your land desolate, but you shall be called my delight and your land espoused.” (Is. 62:1,4). 

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

59th FirstBank Lagos Amateur Golf champion teed-off - ITREALMS

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Premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, the First Bank of Nigeria Limited has endorsed the 59th edition of its annually Lagos Amateur Golf Championship Teed-Off at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938 on Monday, 28 December 2020, reports 
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The competition, which is one of the longest running international amateur events in the country is endorsed by the United State Golf Association (USGA) and the Royal and Ancient (R&A) of Scotland. Preceding the 2019 event, the golf tourney reached the notable milestone of being listed amongst the golf tournaments in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR).

COVID-19 social distancing sweater debuts, sounds siren when people get closer - ITREALMS

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A social distancing sweater, known as SimpliSafe, has made a debut and sounds siren when people get closer within six (6) feets, reports 
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According to CNET, unprecedented times call for unprecedented sweaters. Enter the SimpliSafe Social Distancing Sweater, which sounds an alarm when other people get within 6 feet.

Kukah spoke truth to power says Catholic Church - ITREALMS

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The leadership of the Catholic Church in Nigeria has overwhelming drummed support for the position expressed by the Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, on the state of the nation, reports 
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A press statement made available to ITREALMS on Monday by the National Directorate of Social Communications of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in Abuja, the church urged lovers of truth and justice to rise in defence of Bishop Kukah against the attack on his person and the attempt to discredit the simple obvious truth in his message.

Rivers APC crisis: Beware, your hatred for Amaechi may boomerang - ITREALMS

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The recent letter from the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to have laid to final rest, all speculations and uncertainties about the leadership of the party and the fortunes of her teeming members in Rivers State, who have continued to endure the raging storm since 2018 amidst challenges.

In a letter dated 23 December, 2020, signed by the Head of Legal Services of the APC - Dare Oketada Esq and addressed to the self-acclaimed Caretaker Committee chairman of the Rivers APC, Hon. Igo Aguma, the party said no record exists in the party's national secretariat or elsewhere, evidencing the legitimacy of Aguma and his cohorts as officials of the APC in any recognized capacity.

Christmas holiday: 5 tips for keeping your brain active, engaged and improving - ITREALMS

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Famous English writer Samuel Johnson once observed, “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” His point still stands in today’s ever-changing business environment; it’s more important than ever to never stop learning. You have to keep your brain active, engaged and always improving. Here are five ways to get started.

1. Deliberately foster curiosity 

One study on curiosity took a cross-section of 200 employees working in a variety of industries and split them into two groups. The first group received text messages twice a week for a period of four weeks, reminding them to be curious, to ask “why” questions and to figure out how they would make that part of the day. The control group received messages simply asking them to reflect on the work they had to do.

Smart city: Ekiti to engage architects in urban renewal - ITREALMS

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The Ekiti State Government is set to engage more architects and partner with the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON), to ensure its Urban Renewal Projects meet international standard for its desire for smart city, reports 
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The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi stated this when he received the leadership of ARCON, led by its National President, Arc (Sir) Dipo Ajayi and council members on a courtesy visit in Ado-Ekiti.

Monday, December 28, 2020

Buhari's nepotism rejected by the gods says Kukah - ITREALMS

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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah has called on the Nigeria’s president, General Muhammadu Buhari, to turn around because his policy of nepotism has been rejected by the gods, reports 
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Kukah in a Christmas message said, that despite handing over a majority of the plum jobs to Northern Muslims, the leadership of General Buhari has failed, especially the northerners.

Ibadan book club set to launch poetry, essay anthology for Ajimobi - ITREALMS

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Ibadan Book Club, the first book reading club in the pace setter state is set to launch its latest book of 151 pages in honour of the immediate past governor of Oyo State, Senator Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi who died early this year, reports 
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The book titled “Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Memories, Dreams, Reflections of A Mind Always in Motion” was edited by the duo of Wole Adedoyin and Marcus Ovie Ugboduma both the staunch followers and disciples of the Late Senator Isiaq Abiola Akimbo.

e-Waste: Nigeria provides regulation for EPR says DG

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The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has said that its 2011 regulations on Electrical/Electronic was based on life cycle approach and has provision on Extended Producer Responsibility Programme (EPR).
NESREA Head of Lagos Port Operations, Mrs Ezinwanyi A Udechukwu who represented NESREA DG, Prof. Jauro, delivering the keynote @ITREALMS EWaste Dialogue 2020 held at Welcome Centre Hotel, Lagos, while Executive Director, E-Waste Producers Responsibility Organisation of Nigeria (EPRON) Mrs. Ibukun Faluyi and Editor-in-chief of ITREALMS, Mr. Remmy Nweke, listen.
The Director-General of NESREA, Prof. Aliyu Jauro, made these disclosures at the 2020 ITREALMS e-Waste Dialogue held at the Welcome Centre Hotels Lagos, with the theme “e-Waste in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities.”

Polaris Bank partners IWS to boost vocational skills - ITREALMS

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Polaris Bank has been commended for her commitment to skills acquisition and empowerment of women in Nigeria. 

This commendation was given at the graduation and anniversary ceremony of the International Women’s Society (IWS) Skills Acquisition Center, Lekki Lagos which held recently.

The event which took place at the IWS Skills Acquisition Center, was graced by theformer Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. (Mrs) Oluranti Adebule amidst other eminent dignitaries; as well as Management of the center.

e-Waste: NESREA 2011 regulation provides for EPR says DG - ITREALMS

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The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has said that its 2011 regulations on Electrical/Electronic was based on life cycle approach and has provision on Extended Producer Responsibility Programme (EPR), reports ITREALMS.

The Director-General of NESREA, Prof. Aliyu Jauro, made these disclosures at the 2020 ITREALMS e-Waste Dialogue held at the Welcome Centre Hotels Lagos, with the theme “e-Waste in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities.”

Sunday, December 27, 2020

GOCOP, members mourn Bright-Mkpuma - ITREALMS

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The online publishers under the aegis of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) have bemoaned the death of their member, Mr. Ben Bright-Mkpuma, publisher of Watchdog Reporters. 
Late Ben Bright-Mkpuma

Bright-Mkpuma, aged 52, died on Christmas Day in his sleep after battling kidney failure for five years.

Speed-related crashes worries Corps Marshal, orders more enforcement - ITREALMS

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Worried by the rise in the speed-related road crashes, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has expressed deep concerns and directed Commanding Officers to step up enforcement of the law on use of speed limiting device, reports 
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This was disclosed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem in a press release issued in Abuja on Sunday. 

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MoneyGram Campaign: Polaris rewards customers - ITREALMS

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Thirty lucky customers of Polaris Bank across different business locations of the Bank will be rewarded with shopping vouchers in the Polaris Bank – ‘MoneyGram for You’ Campaign.

The beneficiaries are customers of the Bank who received transfers in Polaris Bank within the six weeks period of the campaign that ended December 6. 

Eschew message of disharmony, FG urges - ITREALMS

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The Federal Government has urged religious leaders in the country to refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity, warning that
resorting to scorched-earth rhetoric at this time could trigger unintended consequences, reports 
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''While religious leaders have a responsibility to speak truth to power, such truth must not come wrapped in anger, hatred, disunity and religious disharmony,'' the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said. 

Chico Ejiro: Minister mourns veteran film producer - ITREALMS

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The Federal Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the shocking death of veteran film producer Chico Ejiro as a huge blow to the nation's creative industry in general and to nollywood in particular, reports 
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In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday, the Minister expressed his condolences to the family and friends of the deceased, and indeed to the entire Creative Industry.