COVID-19: Buhari extends total lockdown till Monday- ITREALMS

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… Approves 10-hour curfew in Lagos, FCT, Ogun

Nigeria’s President, General Muhammadu Buhari, retired, has pronounced a partial lockdown after the next five days, commencing Monday, May 4, 2020, reports ITREALMS.

Buhari in a third nationwide address on ChineseVirus-19 also known as Coronavirus or COVID-19, said he has approved a phased and gradual easing of lockdown effective Monday, May 4, 2020 by 9am, with a 10-hour curfew.

He also said in the address monitored by ITREALMS that it has become necessary following recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, various Federal Government committees and Nigeria Governors Forum arrived at partially relaxing the lockdown in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos and Ogun States.

As said by him, effective Monday, 9am on May 4, selected business and offices could now open from 9am to 6pm.

“There will be an overnight curfew from 8pm to 6am,” he said, stressing that this means all movements will be prohibited during this period except essential services, insisting that there will be a ban on non-essential inter-state passenger travels until further notice.

In addition, Buhari said there will be partial and controlled interstate movement of goods and services, to allow for the movement of goods and services from producers to consumers.

“We will strictly ensure the mandatory use of face masks or coverings in public in addition to maintaining physical distancing and personal hygiene,” he maintained.

Furthermore, General Buhari said, the restrictions on social and religious gathers shall remain in place, urging the state governments, corporate organisations and philanthropists to support the production of cloth masks for citizens.

The Presidential Task Force (PTF), he said, shall provide sector specific details and timing guidelines to allow for preparations by governments, businesses and institutions.

“State Governors may choose to amend, adapt and expand based on their unique circumstances provided they maintain alignment with the guidelines issued above on public health and hygiene,” he urged.

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REVEALED! Why NLC, affiliates suspended total strike - ITREALMS

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The Nigeria Labour and affiliated labour organisations including Trade Union Congress (TUC) has suspended the total strike planned to commenced today, Tuesday country wide, over the N30,000 minimum wages, reports ITREALMS.

The suspension, ITREALMS gathered followed positive and firm commitment extracted from the meeting of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage late Monday, November 5, 2018.

Consequently, ITREALMS reports that the committee signed the final report recommending N30,000 as the new national minimum wage and the willingness of President Muhammadu Buhari to avert the total strike and receive the committee’s report later today, Tuesday, November 6, which has been scheduled at 4:15 pm.

Confirming this, the General Secretary of NLC, in a press statement signed by Peter I. Ozo-Eson, urged members to note “that there are still several bridges to cross before the new Minimum Wage becomes law. It is our collective commitment and dedication that has made the progress so far possible.

“We all need to stand ready in a state of full mobilization in case future action becomes necessary to push for the timely enactment and implementation of the new Minimum Wage.”

He further saluted members’ commitment while urging their solidarity forever.

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Total, Worldline enter 8-country accord

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The Total and Worldline have entered a tripple binding accord on technology, commercial and financing with African Fintech InTouch, reports ITRealms.

Under the agreements, ITRealms gathered that Total and Worldline will support the deployment of the Guichet Unique solution in eight African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, the Republic of Guinea and Senegal.

Guichet Unique provides retail networks with a unique customer-friendly device that makes it possible to securely and seamlessly accept all means of payment, including mobile money, payments through private label cards and cash, and to distribute third party services, such as subscriptions to media content, bill payment, money transfer, card top-up, banking and insurance.

ITRealms also gathered that the solution is already deployed in over 170 Total service stations and more than 600 independent points of sale in Senegal, the Guichet Unique platform manages more than 30,000 transactions per day in that country.

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African total DNS market value @$52m

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The total annual value of the African Domain Name market is worth some $52 million says the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), reports ITRealms.

This is coming as ITRealms gathered that Africa has some 5.1 million domain names associated at May 2017.

According to ICANN in its latest report on Africa DNS market study released at the ongoing public meeting holding at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, which serves as part of ICANN's outreach efforts to support and improve the regional DNS industry.

ITRealms equally gathered that the report is the first of its kind in the region, which included 54 countries.

Other highlights ICANN said include that the strengths and weaknesses in the DNS sector in Africa.

To this end, ICANN proposed the development of recommendations on how to advance the industry to better exploit the opportunities available and to address identified challenges.

In addition, explore options for establishing an observatory to continuously monitor the growth, development and emerging needs of the DNS market in Africa.

Further, the study findings showed the pathway for the next steps for capacity-building in Africa, thus leading to significant conclusions and recommendations.

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PDP Dickson finally decks APC Sylva in Bayelsa governorship

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The Bayelsa State governorship rerun election has finally berthed with the incumbent, Hon. Henry Dickson of the People Democratic Party (PDP) winning his main opponent, Chief Timipre Sylva of All Progressive Congress (APC) with some 62 per cent of total vote cast, reports ITRealms.

This win, ITRealms reports spurred jubilations across Bayelsa, just as PDP got a total of  11,567 of the 14,445 in the rerun votes, while APC have a mere 2,721 votes from the figures released last night.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in summary of the election, announced Gov. Dickson as the winner of the governorship election which commenced last December but was put on hold due to elections in the Southern Ijaw local government was marred by violence.

Meanwhile, a close observation of the voting pattern in Bayelsa State, further makes victory almost certain for  Hon. Seriake Dickson, who is set to break the  two - tenure jinx. 

ITRealms gathered that Governor Dickson swept votes in Amassoma, the home town of the state's  first elected governor, late DSP Alamieseigha, in addition to winning 95 per cent of Sagbama votes,  Ogbia and Yenagoa.

In a related development, over 14 deaths have been recorded in the re-run to the governorship election.

 

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Nigeria Customs promotes 2065 officers

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The Nigeria Customs Service has promoted a total of 2065 senior officers who participated in the 2014 promotion exercise, reports ITRealms.

Comptroller General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi gave the approval to release the promotion results following the conclusion of the promotion exercise and ratification by the Nigeria Customs Service Board, in Abuja.

Customs Public Relations Officer, Mr. Wale Adeniyi confirmed to ITRealms that the Comptroller General of Customs also congratulated the promoted officers, and charging them to redouble their efforts to justify their promotions.

“The promotion exercise which featured competitive computer-based examination and oral interviews were conducted in all customs formations in October and November last year,” he said.

Mr. Adeniyi also explained that breakdown of the promotion list indicates that 48 Deputy-Comptrollers were promoted to the rank of Comptroller, 81 Assistant-Comptrollers were promoted to Deputy-Comptrollers, while 112 Chief Superintendents of Customs were promoted to Assistant Comptrollers.

Others include 32 Superintendents of Customs promoted to Chief Superintendents of Customs, 121 Deputy Superintendents of Customs to the rank of Superintendents of Customs, 65 Assistant Superintendents of Customs I to Deputy Superintendents of Customs and 15 Assistant Superintendents of Customs II to Assistant Superintendents of Customs I.

A total number of 1,591 Officers benefited in the Inspectorate cadre. Out of these 1493 were general duty whereas 98 officers were support staff.

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