Konga extends Yakata by 7 days @shoppers cry for more - ITREALMS

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In an unprecedented move that has sent waves of excitement across Nigeria's shopping community, Konga, the nation's leading composite e-commerce group, has announced a one-week extension of its blockbuster Yakata sale campaign. Initially scheduled to end on November 30, 2025, Nigeria’s biggest sale of the year will now run until Saturday, December 6, 2025.

The announcement came after a wave of public appeals from shoppers across the country, many of whom took to social media pleading for more time to enjoy the discounts. 

Comments and heartfelt posts poured in from customers saying they needed “just one more week” to buy essential household appliances, smartphones, Christmas gifts, groceries, and work gadgets at the unbeatable prices Yakata offers. Others explained that with school fees, rent renewals, and year-end expenses, Yakata came at the perfect time; they just needed a little more runway.

Eastern Maritime stakeholders reject haulage hike, give 7 days ultimatum - ITREALMS

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Importers/Exporters, Shippers and Freight Forwarders operating in the Eastern ports of the country have unanimously rejected an alleged 200 percent increase in Haulage Fare by the Nigerian Shippers council (NSC) in connivance with the transport unions, Maritime flat and cargo and the Freight Forwarding transport, lamenting its impending inflationary effect should the alleged hike is allowed to stand.

The body unanimously threatened operational shot down as they declared a 7 day ultimatum during which the NSC is expected to return to status quo ante by reversing the hiked rate.

Hate speech: Igbo Board of Deputies give Tunde Bakare 7 days to recant or face legal battle - ITREALMS

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The Igbo Board of Deputies (IBD) has given a Lagos-based Pastor, Mr. Tunde Bakare of Citadel Global Community Church, seven days to recant his false narrative that Igbo soldiers killed the former Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Tafawa Balewa during the 1966 military coup or face legal actions at both local and international courts, reports ITREALMS.

Bakare, ITREALMS gathered from the video transcript, had asserted “on the day the late Tafawa Balewa was killed the Igbo soldiers arrested him, removed his turban, poured wine on his head, and forced him to drink and then shot him. While he was being killed, he cursed the Igbo race; that they would never govern Nigeria.”

NJC to Onnoghen, Tanko Muhammad: You have 7 days to respond - ITREALMS

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The National Judicial Council (NJC) has told the duo of Hon. Justices Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, and Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, they have seven (7) days to make their responses on the petitions against them before the council, reports ITREALMS.

Rising from emergency session Wednesday, NJC through the Director, Information, Soji Oye, Esq in a press statement made availble to ITREALMS, said that both have 7 days to respond instead of the usual 14 days in the bid to resolve the judicial quagmire occasioned by the suspension of Onnoghen by President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday.

The suspension has been largely critised by both members of the bar and bench as well as the international community.

According to Oye, the Council refered the petition against Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman, Danladi Yakubu Umar to the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC).

NJC, he said, would reconvene on 11th February, 2019 on the two petitions and should have received responses from Onnoghen and Tanko Muhammad.

At the emergency meeting Oye said, they considered four (4) petitions filed at its Secretariat, including the petition against Hon. Mr. Justice W.S.N. Onnoghen, GCON by Zikhrillahi Ibrahim of Resource Centre for Human Rights & Civil Education; Petition against Hon. Mr. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, CFR by Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative;

Petition against Hon. Mr. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, CFR by Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, OON; and Petition against Hon. Danladi Yakubu Umar, Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal by Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative.

"In view of the gravity of the matters involved, Council abridged the usual response period from fourteen (14) to seven (7) working days for the Hon. Justices to respond," Oye said, while the duo involved recused themselves from the meeting.

Consequently, Council elected Hon. Mr. Justice Umaru Abdullahi, former President of the Court of Appeal as Interim Chairman to preside over the meeting.

Uboshe Uboshe/Editor

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Pix: Justices Tanko and Onnoghen

Maina escapes second assassination attempt in 7 days

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The former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina has escaped two assassination attempts within the last 7 days, reports ITRealms.

The first, ITRealms reported was in Abuja, five days before Christmas, while the second occurred on the eve of Christmas.

Reports reaching ITRealms indicated that barely five days after some haggard looking men suspected to be hired assassins invaded the home of the embattled Maina, wielding sophisticated weapons and harassed his family members at his family house in Kaduna at about 9am on Sunday morning.

Also, The Street Reporters, informed that an eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Mallam Salisu, had told that no fewer than nine (9) men arrived the house in a Hilux van and a Peugeot 406 car.

They were said to have driven straight to the family house where Maina's mother resides at Kawu area of Kaduna State.

While the Hilux van was stationed outside the house, the 406 was driven straight into the compound and one of the occupants asked of Abdulrasheed Maina and his mother’s whereabouts.

After ransacking the house, breaking the front and the back doors as well as the ceiling in the process, and not finding their targets, the men who were shouting "Where Maina?"; "Where is the mother?" before they tired up the security man and took him to an unknown destination.

He was later dumped at the bush at an outskirt of Kaduna where he was found by the villagers with a handcuff.

The matter has been reported to the Kawu police station by one of the family members, identified as Aliyu Maina and security men have since been detailed to the house alongside anti-bomb experts who combed the house and its vicinity.

Some of the suspected assassins were said to be dressed in military uniforms.

Five days ago, similar incident took place at the Abuja home of the former pension reform boss where two rooms in the house were ransacked, checking personal apparels in the house without any form of identification or a search warrant.

Maina's Security aides who were immediately informed, arrived the rented house but the suspected men led by a man said to be wearing a police uniform was accosted but they rebuffed every attempt to get them disclose their identity and mission around Maina's home.

Recall that Maina who has escaped many assassination attempts while serving as the Pension Reforms Taskforce Team boss, has consistently asked for security protection by the federal government against the pension cabals who have been after him following his numerous revelations on their clandestine activities.

Ayo Midele with additional reports from TheStreetReporters/GEE

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GSM operators must deactivate pre-registered SIM cards within 7-day - NCC

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed all the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) operators in the country to deactivate any pre-registered Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards within the next 7 days, reports ITRealms.

NCC said this direction has become necessary due to avalanche of intractable security situation in the country linked to mobile communication, saying any defaulting operator would face sanction.

Director, Public Affairs at NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo in a press statement made available to ITRealms, said the directive was the fallout of a meeting between Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Department of State Service (DSS), the network operators and the NCC. 

The meeting, he said, which held at the NCC boardroom in Abuja and took into cognizance crimes committed against members of the public either by kidnappers, terrorists, robbers and threats to lives, through the use of such unregistered SIM cards across all the networks.

He also said that operators were however told to notify such subscribers before deactivation of their SIM cards.

At the meeting were the representatives of the NSA, Group Captain Ibikunle Daramola, DSS, Mr. Godwin Ometu, the immediate past NCC Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Dr Eugene Juwah Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Engr. Ubale Maska and representatives of MTN, Globacom, Etisalat, Visafone , Airtel and others.

Ojobo who was also at the meeting stated specifically that:

·        Seven days’ notice is hereby given for deactivation of all invalid/improperly registered SIM cards; these include all SIM cards without or improperly captured facial pictures and or finger – prints.

·        Affected subscribers to be notified to regularize their registrations.

The meeting resolved that:

·        Henceforth, ALL registrations must conform to the Data Dictionary, Technical Specifications on finger prints and facial images and the business rule agreed by all stakeholders.

·        All registration records must be validated before sending to the Commission; thus eliminating all invalid records that does not conform new registrations and indicate same in the monthly reports sent to Commission.

·        It was also resolved that operators will be held liable for cases for cases of pre-registered SIMs.

·        Earlier grace of 21 days given by the Commission has lapsed.

·        Accordingly, the Commission has commenced monitoring as from Monday, August 3, 2015.

·        SANCTIONs for default will apply in accordance with the SIM registration regulations.

On multiple registration. NCC Said:

·        The regulation did not set a cap for number of SIMs to be registered by individual or corporate subscribers.

·        However, operators must ensure ALL registrations valid and in accordance with the documents and specifications stated in 1 (a).

·        Unusually high number of registration by an individual should be flagged and reported to the commission.

·        The Commission and all operators are to embark on vigorous public enlightenment on the need/ desirability for subscribers to register their SIMs, as well as the dangers of selling /buying pre-registered SIMs.

Earlier, it was observed that:

·        To date, more than 120 million SIM cards have been registered and transmitted to the Central Database by the operators.

·        The validation exercise reveals a preponderance of unreliable data in terms of incomplete and/ or inaccurate demographic and / or biometric data.

·        The issues relating to unreliability of data essentially borders on the operators’ failure to ensure compliance with the formats and specifications that were jointly developed and agreed by the NCC and the operators before the commencement of the exercise in 2011.

·        The observation also image only noted that as at September 2014, about 45% of the total number of registered SIMs, at that time, were deemed invalid for reasons of a) invalid portrait image only, invalid fingerprints only, invalid portrait image and fingerprints, and incorrect/ inaccurate demographic data (name, address, etc).

·        Since the invalid records were returned to the operators in September 2014 for correction, less than 30% of the invalid records has been resubmitted.

·        These resolutions were part of the ongoing efforts by government to nip in the bud the incessant occurrences of threats via telecommunications networks and the danger they portend for psyche of the citizenry.

 

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