Dangote: We're saddened by passing of Ruth Otabor – ITREALMS

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The management of Dangote Cement Plc has said that it is saddened by the passing this evening of Ruth Otabor, who was injured in a recent road incident involving one of its trucks in Auchi, Edo State.

Ruth was hit by a Dangote Cement truck on August 13, 205 close to her school, Auchi Polytechnic.

Ibadan Book Club mourns passing of Olubadan, Oba Olakulehin - ITREALMS

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The Ibadan Book Club has expressed profound sorrow over the demise of His Imperial Majesty, Oba Akinloye Olalere Owolabi Olakulehin, the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland, reports ITREALMS.

In a heartfelt statement, available to ITREALMS, the literary community in Ibadan paid tribute to the late monarch, hailing him as a royal father who cherished tradition, wisdom, and intellectual growth.

Paradigm Initiative commends NASS for passing Digital Rights Bill

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Pan-African digital rights organization, Paradigm Initiative has commended the two legislative houses of the National Assembly (NASS) for passing the Digital Rights and Freedom bill, reports ITRealms.

The bill, ITRealms recalled was passed on Tuesday afternoon by the Senate following earlier passage at the House of Representatives last December, 2017.

The Bill, ITRealms gathered was a product of civil society efforts led by Paradigm Initiative beginning at the 2014 Internet Freedom Forum in Abuja, “provides for the protection of human rights online, to protect Internet users in Nigeria from infringement of their fundamental freedoms and to guarantee application of human rights for users of digital platforms and/or digital media.”

Speaking on the importance of the bill, Paradigm Initiative’s Digital Rights Programme Manager, Boye Adegoke said, “By the passage of this BIll, the legislative arm of government has shown a commitment to the development of digital rights in Nigeria.”

He expressed excitement about the provisions in this Bill regarding freedom of expression online.

“The bill will ensure that citizens can freely express their opinions online without interference. This is such a positive development at a time when Nigeria is moving into an election season and there are legitimate fears that there may be moves by some political interests to gag free speech in the country. 

The positive leadership of the National Assembly on the issue is quite commendable.” Adegoke said.

Also speaking, Director of Programme at Paradigm Initiative, Tope Ogundipe said “Nigeria has demonstrated remarkable leadership on the continent by passing this Bill. The Bill is quite important to the future of innovation and Nigeria’s digital economy in essence. It represents the needed framework to attract the partnership of global brands in the digital economy.”

Worthy of note about this bill, ITRealms gathered, is the provision of progressive legislative backing to online speech in the country.

Paradigm Initiative further urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the bill to transform it into a law, making it Nigeria’s first law on human rights online.

Clause 14 of the bill, for instance, reads, “Every person shall have the right to freely express opinion online without interference, this right includes the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas, regardless of digital frontiers”. Under this Bill, freedom of expression further includes the freedom to express and impart information and ideas of all kinds that can be transmitted to others, in whatever form, and regardless of media.”

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Passing flyairpeace.com as fake, is handiwork of competitors – Mgt

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The management of Air Peace Limited has refuted allegations making rounds that some set of people have been duped on its official website, www.flyairpeace.com, and pronounce same site as fake, is the handwork of competitors, ITRealms can authoritatively report.

Reacting to exclusive investigations by ITRealms on the purported report of “Fake AirPeace Airline website … Many duped of millions of Naira,” the management of Air Peace through the Corporate Communications Manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah, denied any such activities on its website, insisting that its obviously the handiwork of competitors who are scared of Air Peace's progress and success.

According to him, rather than engage in healthy competition, these failing airlines have resorted to all forms of ill-strategies to either dissuade members of the public from visiting AirPeace authentic website or patronising its flight services, which are unarguably the best in the country at the moment.

Iwarah maintained that www.flyairpeace.com remain the authentic website of Air Peace, stressing, “Anyone who claims to have been duped could not have visited this website. A simple click on the posted site here will prove that.”

He explained that the first thing visitors to the website see is their fraud alert, declaring that “You can't access the website without closing the fraud alert. So, there is no question of anybody not seeing it.”

Air Peace, he said, has not only reported cases of alleged fraud to the police and other security agencies, but also encouraged those who claimed to have been duped to do so, adding that immediately the cases of fraud were brought to Air Peace's attention, they took out advert spaces in four major national newspapers to further alert members of the public on the activities and modus operandi of the fraudsters.

ITRealms also gathered that Air Peace ensures proper reportage of the development by all major print, electronic and social media platforms, hence it the airline has not only provided members of the public its authentic website and other social media accounts, but also seriously warned members of the public against making payments to people claiming to be Air Peace agents.

Air Peace, he said, has reported all identified fake sites to the hosts, who most of the time swiftly acts by pulling them down.

Iwarah further said that the said online platform which is carrying alleged ‘fake website” never approached Air Peace for comments on the issue.

“It is shocking how a news medium that wishes to be taken seriously will concoct outright falsehood and attempt to put it in the public domain as the truth,” he said, insisting that Air Peace will never ask anyone to make payments to private accounts for any reason.

“Members of the public should be much more diligent in their transactions to avoid being duped by unscrupulous persons,” he said, advising those who may still be doubt to contact Air Peace, headquarters at Ikeja-G.R.A.

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