Soludo reassures on every investment, urges indigenes to look homeward - ITREALMS

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The Anambra State government has reiterated its resolve to secure every investment in the domain, ans urged indigens to look homewards, reports ITREALMS.

Speaking at the unvieling of the Anambra Homeland Consciousness Initiative in Amowo Odofin, Lagos, on Sunday, March 2, 2025, the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo gave this assurance ans beckon on indigenes to take homeland call seriously.

Mbelede charges KSM members: Look beyond Nigeria’s situation, provide poor with succour @Christmas - ITREALMS

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The Supreme Knight of the Order of Knights of St. Mulumba (KSM) Nigeria, Sir Charles Mbelede, has charged members to look beyond the situation of the country and ensure they provide succour for the poor in the society, reports ITREALMS.

Sir Mbelede in his 2022 Christmas message available to ITREALMS, noted that as Christians and knights of the church, KSM members should look beyond the very stressful and frustrating situations in the country.

CSO leaders: PDP convention is prospects of what democracy could look like – ITREALMS

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Some civil society leaders have commended the conduct of the national convention of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which held on Saturday in Abuja, reports ITREALMS.

The convention elected a former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, to fly the party’s flag in the 2023 presidential election.

Police look @technology to curb crime

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There are strong indications that the current leadership of the Nigerian Police under the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris is towing the digital route to curb crime and improve the prosecution of crimes in Nigeria.

You will recall that IGP Idris recently launched the Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU) to fight corruption and abuse by police officers.  The PCRRU engages citizens on all social media platforms.

Now, the police has partnered with leading technology firms to develop and deploy an innovative mobile app as well as an enterprise crime management “iPolice-Hawk Eye”.

Hawk Eye, a mobile app that will allow users to report crimes anonymously to the police by video, voice or text. It was developed by Lagos based tech firm Web Asset., which is working with US based tech firms BBGN&K and tech giant Microsoft to develop the system and provide key technologies such as facial recognition and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) with the active collaboration of the Nigeria Police.

When users report crimes using Hawk Eye App, police patrol vehicles equipped with iPolice Mobile Device Terminals which receives reported crimes, dispatched by command and control center for immediate response to be on hand for quick and efficient response.

With Hawk Eye app citizens are empowered as source of human intelligence in the fight against crimes such as kidnapping, terrorism, robbery, human trafficking etc. The system is expected to enhance the community policing plan recently announced by the government to improve security in the country. The project has been managed by DIG ICT, Foluso Adebanjo of the Nigeria Police Force. All reporting is ANONYMOUS, as the app does not identify nor capture the information of person filing report.

System is now available to citizens in FCT and coming to Lagos in September with roll out planned for other States.

To start using the app, visit the app store to download the Hawk Eye Crime Reporting app for free.Click here to download.

Hawk EyeCrime Reporter is available in English and Native languages.

(English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin).

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OSFON counsels MNOs on OTT: Look elsewhere to balance books

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The Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON) has counselled the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in the country to look elsewhere in effort to balance their books, instead of tinkering of how to block Nigerian telecom consumers from usage of Over-The Top (OTT) platforms, reports ITRealms.

OTT is one of the value added services (VAS) accessible over a given network service provider. OTT includes audio, video, and other media content delivered over the Internet without the involvement of a multiple-system operator (MSO) in the control or distribution of the content, which include WhatsApp, Skype and other Instant Messaging services as well as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). OTT refers to content from a third party that is delivered to an end-user, with the Internet Service Provider (ISP) basically transporting Internet Protocol (IP) packets.

Reacting to this development, OSFON through its National President, Mr. Dele Ajisomo, called for caution, noting that the news reports that MNOs are lobbying the government through the regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in efforts to block the usage of OTT platforms among Nigerians, negates the values embedded in openness of technologies which paves the way for network neutrality.

According to him, the principle of network neutrality is that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favouring or blocking particular products or websites.

OSFON emphasized that OTT cannot work comfortably without data, which are sold by the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), urging MNOs to be innovative and not limit their service offerings to data alone.

The group noted that the issue involves open and free Internet, freedom of the Internet, freedom of speech and information, in addition to access to free and open source technologies and/or software among others.

The MNOs, OSFON said, should look for other ways to balance their books and not by restricting Nigerians and their freedom to open, affordable and innovative technologies.

OSFON pointed out that access to the Internet is a human right and Nigerians will fight to keep this access, insisting that “It is actually inhumane for the MNOs to suggest blocking subscribers from any free and open technical and innovative products on the Internet.”

For the regulators and Nigeria Government, OSFON said, it is an unthinkable idea, because for some Nigerians “it’s the only means of communication with their loved ones.”

“OTT is the only way to communicate to their old age parents in the village. Nigerians in the diaspora also depend on Skype and WhatsApp to talk or see their families in Nigeria,” OSFON president said.

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