Detractors impersonate, trail Peter Obi to UK - ITREALMS

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Detractors suspected to be from the All Progressives Congress (APC) have continued to scale up efforts at maligning the pressidential candidate of Labour Party in the controversial 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, as his impersonators may have been unmasked, reports ITREALMS.

Obi detractors were heavily perturbed for his effrontry to challenge the so-called result of the election in court as announced by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

NIBF 2023 gets underway, unveils enhanced website, social media accounts - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian International Book Fair (NIBF) has unveiled a newly enhanced website and social media accounts, reports ITREALMS.

NIBF, ITREALMS gathered, is a highly anticipated event that celebrates and promotes the literary arts in Nigeria and beyond. The event has been organized annually since 2001, and the 2023 edition is set to be one of the most exciting yet.

ICT Ministry, Bureau partner on AWIEF2023 - ITREALMS

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The Rwanda’s Ministry of ICT and Innovation and Rwanda Convention Bureau have confirmed their partnership with the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) (www.AWIEForum.org) for its 2023 conference.

The 9th edition of the annual AWIEF Conference, Exhibition and Awards will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre, in Rwanda, on 9 and 10 November 2023.

Mbadinuju, former Anambra State governor is dead - ITREALMS

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The first executive governor of Anambra State in the current democratic dispensation, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, is dead, reports ITREALMS.

He died at the early hours of Tuesday, April 11, 2023, aged of 78 years, at the National Hospital Abuja after a brief illness.

Sophos elevates Joe Levy, appoints Bill Robbins - ITREALMS

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Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced the promotion of Joe Levy to president of the Sophos Technology Group (STG). Sophos also appointed Bill Robbins president, Worldwide Field Operations.

Levy is currently Sophos’ chief technology officer and chief product officer, and will retain these titles and the organizational structure of STG.

NCC: We're not responsible for monitoring social media contents - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it is not the regulator of the contents of the social media networks that many stakeholders have complained about.

The submission came during a recent visit of the National Civil Society Council of Nigeria (NCSCN), led by its Executive Secretary, Blessing Akinsolotu, who sought the intervention of the Commission on the worrisome and misleading content of social media platforms.

Tinubu mourns exit of eminent jurist, Prince Bola Ajibola - ITREALMS

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The Presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed his profound sadness over the demise of eminent elder statesman and international jurist, Prince Bola Ajibola, SAN.

Prince Ajibola was Nigeria's former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in the military administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Before his Ministerial duty, Prince Ajibola was President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

NLNG commissions Neurosurgical & Stroke Centre at UCTH - ITREALMS

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L-R: HRH Etubum Oku Ekpeyong Oku; Prof Ikpeme Ikpeme, Chief Medical Director, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH); Prof. Emem Bassey, rep of the Minister of Health and CMD, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital; Barr. Emeka Akwaka, rep. of UCTH Board Chairman; Andy Odeh, NLNG’s General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development; and Iwokiri Aprioku, Head, Public Relations at NLNG during the commissioning of the Neurosurgical & Stroke Centre at UCTH under NLNG’s Hospital Support Programme in Calabar.

Navigating away from abyss of 2023 Presidential Election by Austin Okere - ITREALMS

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Reading about the post-2023 Presidential election discourse in Nigeria is exasperating. The politicians have successfully steered the discourse away from logical discussions about our country's development to emotional and divisive topics such as tribalism and religion. This tactic has been used to maintain the status quo by dividing the population. People are willing to overlook the truth and blindly follow their tribal or religious affiliations. We have all been manipulated and will continue to be until we can break free from this narrow-minded way of viewing national issues.

History has taught us that following the paths of ethnic and religious bigotry leads us to no viable destination. The Rwandan Genocide serves as an example of the tragic outcome of such paths.The genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, also known as the Rwandan genocide, occurred during the Rwandan Civil War between April 7 and July 15, 1994. Over the course of about 100 days, armed Hutu militias killed members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates put the number of Tutsi deaths between 500,000 to 662,000.

Beauty of harmonised USSD code in Nigeria - ITREALMS

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The harmonisation of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) notch for the telecoms sector is timeous, handy, and memorizable, writes ITREALMS’ REMMY NWEKE, with applause for the Industry Working Group (IWG) and all other parties involved in signing off on this initiative as Nigerians await the 5G bouquet.

Prelude:

In a suburb of Lagos known as Bolade in the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of the commercial city, a single mother identified as Iya Hannah Odewale operates an airtime kiosk. She deals in all manners of airtime; from phone airtime also called ‘credit’ in local parlance to providing top-ups for decoders, among others in the neighbourhood.

She also has a neighbour who works at a customer service centre of one of the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) known as Onyi Kachiukwu. One thing these neigbhours have in common is that they reside in same building at the neighbourhood and with the coming of the introduction of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) by mobile operators to conduct some services including checking of balances on airtime or data, Iya Hannah is sure Onyi has the precise code answer and from there, he became the help-line for Iya Hannah; giving her the needed and relevant codes so she can offer and fulfill customers request.

Was Pantami for telecom consumers?

Noteworthy is that towards the last quarter of 2019, especially on resumption of office, the current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami took it upon himself to kick against and even later formally commenced jettisoning plans by MNOs to introduce new charges for USSD, more so upon realisation that USSD is largely now being used by bank customers for financial transactions.