IHS cuts emissions, powers Nigeria’s 3MTT and clean air initiatives in new 2025 Sustainability Report - ITREALMS

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Shared communications infrastructure giant, IHS Holding Limited, widely known as IHS Towers, has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, heavily anchoring its biggest social and environmental milestone achievements in Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

The comprehensive document, covering activities from January 1 through December 31, 2025, detailed the telecom infrastructure developer's strategic progress across its foundational four-pillar sustainability framework, which targets ethics and governance, environment and climate change, education and economic growth, alongside its workforce and host communities.

Donald Trump: Umeagbalasi and powers of screwdriver salesman by Jude Chijioke Ndukwe - Commentary@ITREALMS

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It is never difficult to see the hand of Esau in the report by The New York Times under the headline, “The Screwdriver Salesman Behind Trump’s Airstrikes in Nigeria” purportedly filed in by one Ruth Maclean.

The mocking description of Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi as a “short man” and the repeated mention of “Onitsha”, a leading commercial town in southeast Nigeria, a region with arguably the highest population and concentration of Christians in the country, in the report send all the signal needed to conclude that the report was not about facts, nor about love for Nigeria, but all about labelling a man and the ethnic group he belongs just to keep promoting a dangerous narrative mischievously and maliciously skewed against the Igbo ethnic stock of Nigeria.

FirstBank powers mainland laffs 3.0 to light up Lagos - ITREALMS

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The Balmoral Convention Centre at the Sheraton in Ikeja underwent a remarkable transformation on Sunday December 7th 2025, becoming the epicenter of Lagos Mainland’s entertainment scene as the highly anticipated Legends Decemba/Mainland Laffs 3.0 event unfolded. 

This spectacular gathering, which brought together an exhilarating blend of comedy, music, dance, and drama, successfully reaffirmed its reputation as an essential cultural highlight of the year. From the moment guests arrived, the atmosphere was charged with excitement and anticipation. 

FirstBank powers digital lending with FirstCredit - ITREALMS

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In the fast-evolving world of digital banking, Nigeria stands on the brink of a financial revolution. As the global pandemic has accelerated digitalization, the need for accessible, efficient, and reliable financial services has never been more crucial. FirstCredit by FirstBank emerges as a groundbreaking digital lending solution designed to meet the demands of Nigerians where the need for quick cash is ticking ever northward.

The shift towards digital banking in Nigeria has been both rapid and transformative. With the increasing penetration of mobile phones and internet access, more Nigerians are embracing digital solutions for their financial needs. This trend has been further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which necessitated minimal physical contact and prompted a surge in digital transactions.

Konga Health powers Akiva exclusive partnership in Nigeria - ITREALMS

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In a move set to redefine the way Nigerians combat insect-borne diseases, Konga Health has partnered with LivFul, an international manufacturer, in the launch of its Akiva Anit-Mosquito Lotion brand.

The much-anticipated partnership event, held on Saturday, October 14, 2023, marked a historic milestone in Nigeria's healthcare solutions sector.

Court to determine powers of NITDA - ITREALMS

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A social enterprise and advocates for digital rights in Africans, Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has dragged the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to court for the determination of the agency powers, reports ITREALMS.

This, PIN said, has become necessary due to growing number of people with access to the internet and the increasing usage of digital technology in business, healthcare, commerce, banking, and other parts of the economy has created the need to develop more laws and policies around these issues.

GOCOP rejects NITDA’s code of practice, says it tramples on media rights, usurps NASS powers – ITREALMS

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The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has rejected in strong voice an attempt by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to trample on media rights in the country and usurp the powers of the National Assembly (NASS) under the guess of ‘Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries,’  reports ITREALMS.

GOCOP also advised NITDA to immediately jettison this code in its entirety or be ready to face legal action.

Ebido: Focus on powers of risen Jesus Christ - ITREALMS

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A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Augustine Ebido, has urged Nigerians to focus on the powers of the risen Jesus Christ as they celebrate the Easter, reports ITREALMS.

Fr. Ebido in his Easter Sunday message made available to ITREALMS at St. Jude’s Catholic Church, Mafoluku-Oshodi, Lagos, entitled “The Lord is risen” noted that today Nigerians especially Christians celebrate Easter, which comes out of a gory story when compared with individual human experiences could best be described as insignificant.

AfricaXP powers FTA local channel bouquet via SES - ITREALMS

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Local television broadcast audiences will now have access to 13 new free-to-air (FTA) channels delivered as a multi-channel bouquet branded ‘Premium.Free’. The bouquet’s launch channels will be supplied by AfricaXP and delivered via SES satellites at 28.2 degrees East, SES announced on Thursday, September 25, 2018.

AfricaXP is the leading independent African channel network, content distributor and producer, which owns and operates over 20 different themed channels supplied to major African broadcasters and African diaspora platforms worldwide. This new bouquet of FTA channels includes premium channels, which are custom-made for African viewers and blend premium African programming with top-flight international content across a diverse range of themes from sports to movies, telenovelas, kids, factual, reality and lifestyle programming.

“By choosing to work with SES, PREMIUM.FREE offers our channels full regional coverage for multinational language channels like Hausa. SES also offers the best possible verified reach in dynamic and important markets like Nigeria,” said Craig Kelly, CEO of AfricaXP.

“AfricaXP is well known for its compelling Nollywood catalogue and longstanding partnerships with prominent West African producers. We are confident that localization coupled with our fresh international rights will provide the kind of content blend that modern West African audiences demand. Transmitted free-to-air, this is obviously a great offer at a price point that can’t be beaten.”

SES reaches over 9 million Direct-to-Home households across West Africa from its orbital position of 28.2 degrees East. Those households with existing FTA set-top boxes (STBs) will be able to start watching the new channels on their existing STBs for free.

In addition to hosting these TV channels on the ASTRA 2G satellite, SES’ media subsidiary, MX1, is providing the necessary ground services such as uplinking, encoding, playout servers, and ad-insertion.

“The Nigerian FTA market in particular offers great opportunities for growth, and we are proud to have engaged with PREMIUM.FREE to deliver a differentiated content package for Nigeria and offer more choice for viewers,” said Clint Brown, Vice President of Sales and Market Development, Africa for SES Video. “New initiatives like this, which focus on delivering local and international content that is attractive for the end-consumer and is offered in high picture quality will further develop consumer choice in Nigeria.”

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MainOne powers Social Media Week'18 with free Wi-Fi

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MainOne has provided internet connectivity to participants at Social Media Week Lagos as the exclusive technology partner, through its provision of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) access, reports ITRealms.

This connectivity, ITRealms gathered is the third consecutive year, the West Africa’s leading connectivity and data center solutions company is partnering Social Media Week.

MainOne also said that the partnership targeted at delivering true value to the organizers and event guests was designed and installed an advanced managed Wi-Fi solution at the event venue, providing up to 1Gbps data capacity unhindered and free to users throughout the facility and for dedicated livestreaming of the event.

Attendees at the event leveraged MainOne’s unlimited access to the Internet during the event and took advantage of the opportunity to freely browse the Internet and engage on social media platforms. The organizers of the event also used the unlimited capacity to provide livestreaming to thousands of participants not physically present at the event.

Speaking during the sidelines of the event, Head of Marketing at MainOne, Tayo Ashiru described the event as an industry platform to help people and businesses connect and share trends, ideas and inspiration focused on improving better efficiency in a hyper-connected world.

He revealed that the company’s continuous support for Social Media Week Lagos, underscores its belief that with the right connections, businesses can be catalyzed and industries are transformed with huge benefits for the economy.

The Social Media Week Lagos is Africa’s largest tech and digital media event and usually convenes business leaders, global thinkers, entrepreneurs, Fintech firms, and media entrepreneurs.

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Taming the powers of Bourdillon

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Over the years, I have studied what makes Senator Dino Melaye tick. He is everywhere in the news, somewhere in the news, somehow in the news, somewhat in the news. He is the magic in the news. 

Who is Dino Melaye? 

If anyone tells you the Jarma of Okuta was born with a silver spoon, that person must have been a student of Truth Economics. Otunba Dino Melaye was born into a modest family, attended modest schools but became fervently against injustice from childhood.
His activism against iniquity and injustice made him a frontline students union leader in his days on campus . He was also at daggers drawn against obnoxious and draconian policies on campus. He is a hater of oppression.
Coming out of the university, the young Dino Melaye cut a niche for himself as an unrepentant advocate of anti corruption practices. He has led many battles against corruption and oppression in the society even at the detriment of his life.
His stance against corruption made him a household name in Nigeria and he became a political colossus. 

Dino and his politics 

Having represented the youth of Nigeria and Africa in many international organizations, it was time for Dino to enter into partisan politics.
In 2007, the popular figure won election into the House of Representatives with an unforgettable slogan: Imole De. He changed the political apparatchiki of Okunland when he defeated established political warlords. His pragmatism was irresistibly sweeping. 

In the history of representation in the constituency, Dino Melaye stood out as an unbeatable factor. His soaring influence in the PDP sent fears into the spines of the powers that be in the party, who scuttled his call to return to the House of Representatives for second term. While he defected to the then Action Congress of Nigeria, state powers were deployed against his reelection bid.
Sen. Dino Melaye joined forces with other progressive minded to form the All Progressives Congress which swept the nation like a hurricane. And Dino Melaye won the Kogi West Senatorial Seat against Senator Smart Adeyemi of the PDP and Hon. Sam Aro of Accord Party. 

The Genesis of the Senate battle of wits 

Shortly after the election, the roforofo fight for the soul of the Senate started.
It became obvious that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was rooting for the emergence of Senator Lawan against Senator Bukola Saraki .
As a crusader of social justice, Sen. Dino Melaye felt Tinubu was unfair to Saraki who left PDP with five governors to deliver victory to the APC.
In actual facts, Tinubu is not more of a leader in APC than Saraki. Tinubu lost some state and national parliamentary seats to the opposition while Saraki won all for APC. Two, Saraki sponsored the party in many states, including Kogi State. When he was sponsoring APC,  he was not painted with corruption but as soon as he became the Senate President against the graphing of some arrogant Powers, the CCB suddenly woke up from its stupor to fight a political war.
We can’t take away Tinubu’s contribution to the return of the nation to the path of democracy. But Saraki contributed more than Tinubu to the enthronement of Buhari.
The resoluteness of the Senate to stand by Saraki is plausible and commendable.

The Remi Misdemeanor 

The recent display of arrogance by Senator Remi Tinubu is a negative mark on women in position of authorities. It is therefore not surprising that many women groups across the country have come out to condemn the action of the Goddess of Bourdillon.
Remi failed to spot the difference between the Senate and Bourdillon and has therefore constituted herself into the punching gloves of her husband on the floor.
That Sen. Dino Melaye stood up to Remi at the Senate showed that Tinubu doesn’t own Nigeria. That he walked and single handedly occupied Bourdillon Street showed that Tinubu doesn’t even own Lagos.
The national condemnation of Remi Tinubu and his vindictive husband has taught us all a big lesson that control has limitation. The designer of automobile was wise enough to put a brake. Those who fail to apply the brake ends up Tinuburized.
When Jagaban jammed Jarma, the nation shook to its foundation. Not everyone is like Fashola who kept speaking grammar when the arrogant Powers felt he was becoming too powerful in Lagos and started victimizing him.
Dino is no Fashola. When Obesere sang Egungun be careful, he knew that any masquerade that fails to respect its limits will have its veil removed. Tinubu is no more a masquerade. So he is human after all!
If Remi is someone’s mother, Dino too is someone’s father. Respect is reciprocal. Enough is enough! 

*Achiever Peters sent in this from Abuja

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DMO deserves more powers - Reps

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The House of Representatives’ Committee on Aids, Loans and Debt Management has advocated for more powers for the Debt Management Office (DMO), Nigeria, saying the performance of the agency will increase, reports ITRealms.

Chairman, House Committee on Aid, Loans and Debt Management, Honourable Adeyinka Ajayi, gave this advocacy at a three-day retreat for them in Imo State capital, Owerri at the weekend, stressing that the mandate of the DMO should be strengthened to include monitoring the implementation of all projects of government that is financed with borrowed funds.

The Chairman of the House Committee on Aid, Loans and Debt Management, Honourable Adeyinka Ajayi, advocated for this position alongside other members of the Committee at a three-day retreat for member of the committee in Owerri, Imo State, over the weekend.

Ajayi, in his keynote address at the occasion, noted that it has become imperative for the DMO to be empowered to monitor the implementation of all projects financed with borrowed funds.

He pointed out that since it was the duty of the DMO to raise funds to finance budget deficit, “the body should be saddled with the responsibility of monitoring implementation”, noting that this would ensure compliance, transparency and accountability.

The Committee also commended the DMO management for coming up with the retreat, with the theme: Debt Sustainability and the Challenge of Financing Economic Recovery, adding that the retreat was timely, coming at a time the nation was facing some economic challenges.

Ajayi said the workshop is coming on the heels of concerns expressed by some Nigerians over the rising debt profile of the nation, acknowledging the prevailing economic challenges.

Further, Ajayi said, the committee will work with the Debt Management Office to ensure effective implementation of the 2016 budget, even as other members of the House Committee emphasised the need for the diversification of the economy especially in the areas of Agriculture, Solid Minerals and Manufacturing.

Earlier in his presentation, the Director-General of the Debt Management Office Nigeria (DMO), Dr Abraham Nwankwo, had affirmed government’s commitment to financing capital projects aimed at addressing Nigeria’s huge infrastructural deficit and repositioning the economy.

The DMO boss who spoke against the backdrop of the agency’s role in the implementation of the 2016 budget, said the nation’s long term debt financing of sustainable economic recovery and growth is feasible given its abundant ideal economic capacity.

Dr Nwankwo told members of the Committee that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has taken a bold step to stimulate the economy by making sure that the nation’s huge infrastructure gap was quickly closed through efficient and effective application of all borrowed funds into capital projects.

In a related development, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has commended the Debt Management Office, Nigeria under the leadership of Dr Abraham Nwankwo for her forthrightness in managing the nation’s debt portfolios as assets for national growth.

Governor Okorochas made this commendation when members of the House of Representatives’ Committee of Aides, Loans and Debt Management; and management of the Debt Management Office paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Owerri.

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Pix: Hon. Ajayi