News
Reverse Internet suspension in Zamfara, Katsina, SERAP urges Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse suspension of internet and telecommunication networks in Zamfara and Katsina states.
The Nigerian Communications Commission recently ordered telecom operators to suspend all telecommunications networks in Zamfara State, and at least 13 local government areas of Katsina State to check “banditry” and terrorism.
SERAP in an open letter signed by its deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, said the suspension is without any legal justification.
It also said it is inconsistent with the principles of necessity and proportionality.
According to the organization, the suspension is a form of collective punishment of Nigerians resident in these states.
“The suspension of internet and telecommunication networks in Zamfara and Katsina states is particularly egregious, and suggests a disturbing trend, especially given the growing restriction of civic space in Nigeria.
“Shutdowns should never become an entrenched practice in the country,” SERAP said:
SERAP further said while the authorities have a legal responsibility to protect, ensure and secure the rights to life and property, any such responsibility ought to be discharged in conformity with constitutional and international human rights standards.
“Large-scale shutdowns of communication networks are a form of collective punishment. Shutdowns exert significant chilling effects, with direct implications on participatory democracy, whose existence depends upon an active and informed citizenry capable of engaging with a range of ideas.
“Shutdowns generate a wide variety of harms to human rights, economic activity, public safety and emergency services that outweigh the purported benefits. The suspension has the potential to affect millions of internet and telecommunication users in these states, and those on the margins of society are most impacted by it.
“The suspension of internet and telecommunication networks in Zamfara and Katsina states fails to meet the requirements of legality, necessity and proportionality.
“The requirement of necessity also implies an assessment of the proportionality of restrictions such as the telecoms blackout in these states, with the aim of ensuring that restrictions target a specific objective and do not unduly intrude upon human rights.”
News
Netizens mock prophet who prophesied world will end today
Netizens mock prophet who prophesied world will end today
Social media users have reacted to a self-proclaimed preacher named Prophet Metuh, who has declared that the world will come to an end on Thursday, April 25.
According to him, he received a ‘clear message’ from God, indicating that April 25, 2024, marks the final day for humanity.
In a video that has since gone viral on X, Metuh said: “By the 25th of April, the world is going to end. If you like take this seriously, if you don’t like don’t take it seriously.
“But this is real, rapture is coming, on the 25th of April 2024, I saw it very clear, do you understand? I saw the date very clear and the lord ministered to me. He mentioned it twice, it has happened twice.”
READ ALSO:
- Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
- BREAKING: APC NWC in peace talks with Aiyedatiwa, other Ondo gov aspirants
- BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
He also chastised social media users who were criticising him for his claim of rapture.
“This is not a joke, this is a reality. Rapture is coming, prepare yourself. The message was very clear and the date is also very clear, 25th of April 2024. Rapture is coming. The world has come to an end and that is just the reality.”
“I have seen a lot of reactions and comments on social media but it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you have to prepare yourself. The message was very clear, it is not for me to finetune for you to be happy or for you to like it. It is to pass the message as I got it and that is what I have done.
Netizens mock prophet who prophesied world will end today
News
Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
Reality star Tacha has tackled Nigerians on what she described as ‘selective outrage’ following the trending internet topic, bullying.
Her criticism followed a video capturing the bullying of a student by her classmates at Lead British International School in Abuja circulated online.
Angered by the outrage that followed the video, Tacha lambasted Nigerians for being hypocrites.
On her platform X, she uploaded a video where she criticized social media users, emphasizing that many of those advocating for justice in the prominent bullying incident were also prone to swift criticism and may have exhibited bullying behaviour during their own secondary school days.
READ ALSO:
- Judge absent in Fayose N6.9bn fraud case, matter adjourned to July 1
- In fresh attack, bandits invade two Zamfara communities, kill three, abduct many
- Unite against Israel to better humanity, Fani-Kayode task Christians, Muslims
She said: “This thing with Nigerians and selective outrage is something that I would never understand. All of a sudden everyone is acting brand new screaming ‘justice for…’ since yesterday and today, as if you guys were not bullies back in secondary school. Or as if you guys did not watch your friend bully junior students for doing absolutely nothing or seizing their food.
“You people wake up and bully celebrities unprovoked and insult them and nobody says anything. Is that not bullying? Are you not bullies yourselves? Justice for you! Justice for Tacha too that you people would insult unprovoked. Even if the person that they are owing over a million naira, no outrage because it’s someone that you don’t like. Hypocrites! Don’t come and be disturbing this timeline with justice for…’”
Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
News
BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
Enugu State Senator, Ayogu Eze, has reportedly passed on at the age of 66.
Eze represented Enugu North Senatorial District in Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate.
Eze, a former Senate spokesman, reportedly died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.
A source familiar with the development disclosed that the late Senator had been battling serious health challenge for a while now.
According to the source, the undisclosed ailment prevented him from being at his child’s wedding ceremony held earlier in the year in Lagos State.
READ ALSO:
- Nigerian man dies after snoring surgery in India
- LAUTECH: Police officers accused of killing student arrested
- Judge absent in Fayose N6.9bn fraud case, matter adjourned to July 1
He was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before he quit the party to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, where he ran for Enugu State governorship election.
In the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate in 2007.
After his reelection to the senate in 2011, he was appointed chairman of the committee on works.
Eze also served as a member of committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.
In May last year, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Eze and five others as Federal Commissioners for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC
BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
BDCs blame peer-to-peer Binance, others for naira fall
MTN, Airtel, others set to increase call, data tarrif
Netizens mock prophet who prophesied world will end today
-
Education5 days agoWhy we charge N42m fees for primary school pupils — Charterhouse Lagos
-
News7 days agoUpdated: More trouble for Yahaya Bello as Immigration places him on watch list
-
Auto5 days agoWe expect massive roll-outs of Nigeria-made cars by December 2024 – Minister
-
metro5 days agoJUST IN : Borrow pit collapses, kills seven Qur’anic school pupils
-
metro3 days agoHow gunmen killed Babcock university lecturer, abducted two – Police
-
International7 days agoUpdated: Tragedy hits Kenya, Defence chief, nine others die in military helicopter crash
-
News4 days agoWe’re not part of Yoruba Nation agitation, says MKO Abiola family
-
Politics5 days agoOndo APC primary: Ododo, gov aspirant in open confrontation