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YES, YES, YES!!
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Cornerkick:
Someone cannot park his car and rest again

Na wa o

Good thing he was not able to stumble into his car and go kill some innocent person(s)...
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ZOO!

Some people think cattle is more important than humans...
Others think that fish is worth more than a human hand! SMH
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It’s NOT a gutter...
There’s construction going on there, which involves digging up the road and temporarily cutting off direct access across the street.

There usually are areas where people can access or cross the road safely (using temp structures), so these are likely folks who could not be bothered to walk all the way to the designated crossing areas and chose to avail themselves of the “services” of the digger. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, what’s important is that this street will end up with covered drains and walkways/sidewalks with street lighting.

EKO ONI BAJE!
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DON’T CARE FOR EITHER MAN...
BUT FEEL SORRY FOR NIGERIA!

Kanu is CURRENTLY undergoing trial for corruption before a federal high court in Lagos, while Omo-Agege brought disrepute and showed disrespect for the institution he’s trying to co-lead by leading THUGS to remove and make away with its symbol of authority in full public glare. These are the “best” candidates that the APC, each of their geopolitical zones, and/or Nigeria can present to the world?! SMDH
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tactius:
The story get as it be.,....

We are told a Senator dashed his fellow senators 2 million dollars...with no source, no recording, no name of the senator, etc...

I know our Senators are corrupt...but let's not be telling tales without corroboration.

The Gandollar that we saw MULTIPLE “recordings” what happened?
Not necessarily saying the story is true but this is frankly not an unbelievable story either.
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Treasuredlove:
I think it is about time they start sanctioning ignorant wanna be journalists called bloggers. They are causing more harm than good in the world with false and bad investigative pieces. The federal government should look into this. There should be a dept for this in NBC. One cannot research online easily without checking and rechecking facts

You people have come with this nonsense again that we already fought against the NASS for...
Only limited people live their lives by social media “news” and there are readymade remedies for misinformation/libel - SM or the courts!
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mimilogistics:
The husband is putting on what we call coat

The material could sew agbada for three grown up guys today

I don’t want to throw shade...
But I can see why the dude was mistaken for a carpenter.
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Even with the cleared road...
You can still see Okada men driving AGAINST traffic! SMH

wirinet:
Please explain how "northerners deserved "worst for voting PMB" helps the business or social environment?

Let’s not conflate issues, because that would be her personal opinion (not mine)...
But you are wrong to contend that business and politics or social issues are mutually exclusive.

While you have to ask Nancy to explain herself, my guess nonetheless would be that the logical thought is that if a population is satisfied with the political status quo, any significant change in its socio-economic conditions would be highly unlikely to follow. Just a guess though!
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wirinet:
The subject matter is Nigeria's broadcasting code. Did AIT violate it or not? Should the broadcast code be expunged from our statutes. If you don't want it, petition your house member to raise the motion to repeal the law on the floor.

The broadcast code is SUBORDINATE to the Nigerian Constitution...
The Constitution GUARANTEES the freedom of opinion and the right to own/establish a medium to freely express such opinion (Ch. 4, s.39).
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wirinet:
You are comparing oranges with apples. Sanusi is some sort of social crusader, he has been complaining about the high poverty and illiteracy rates in the north for decades. His target is the northern political elites and not interested in bringing down his people.

Moneyline and Nancy on the other hand is a business programme directed at all Nigerians, the statement " Nigerian Poverty wears the northern cap and northerners deserved "worst for voting PMB. " is a political statement done in bad taste, that is irrelevant to a business programme. She is mocking Northerners and Northern electorates in general for voting in Buhari. That is unprofessional.

Business does not operate (or exist) in a vacuum...
Doing business in a poor location is different from doing it elsewhere, and neither can business be divorced from social issues.

We truly have to start telling ourselves (or each other) the unvarnished truth...
Not least because it is said that the first step towards a solution is admitting the problem. Burying our heads is a recipe for disaster.
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wirinet:
Why is the NGE not raising the alleged infractions against AIT/Raypower. The NGE is openly showing their bias by not even looking at the allegations. The should act as an arbiter and not as a party to the conflict.

Wow! Journalists defending the rights of other journalists to exercise their constitutional rights?
What next? The Nigeria Labour Congress would start defending the labour rights of Nigerian workers?
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frankmoney:
you don't know the effect of hate speech ... In a tensed political climate like Nigeria ....

Speech is NOT the cause of the so-called “tensed political climate”...

Resolve the underlying issues (and also give people education instead of a N5K handout), and you won’t need to muzzle people...
The beauty and genius of the free expression of divergent opinions is that you never know where/when the best ideas would emanate from.

wirinet:
It was not based on that one statement alone that AIT/Ray power was sanctions. They had been warned officially several times and they did not heed the warnings.

This is an AIT that had previously apologised both to Tinubu and Buhari's ADC for carrying false malicious and libelous report in a documentary.
DEAR communications throws professionalism to the winds on the alter of politics.

There’s nothing “unprofessional” about news media having a political bias...
Why do Nigerians keep repeating the same misnomer? Scores of UK and US media have partisan political biases.

Meanwhile, there’s CIVIL legal recourse and remedy for libel or slander. It is certainly not within the purview of the NBC.
Mr. Tinubu and the President’s ADC are citizens like the rest of us, not entitled to any greater deference or recourse than the law provides.
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ericsmith:
Lets learn, it quiet irritating when people talk without prior knowledge.
"In a case whose title sums up the hostile relations between the Trump administration and the media – Cable News Network"
search n readup the law suite between trump vs cnn/acosta ... cnn is still standing becos they are yet to violate codes & conduct of broadcast.
Ait saw these coming, even the public were aware of the several warnings nbc served daar communication ... moreover the nbc sanction letter has no iota of biase or witch hunt, they are free to go to court

With all due respect, your post shows little or no knowledge of what actually transpired in the Jim Acosta episode and case...

First, the Acosta case involves a totally different subject matter than that being discussed here. It is a case of revoking one journalist’s press pass (on the shaky grounds that no guest has an automatic right of access to the White House), not trying to revoke the license of a network. Furthermore, in the US, broadcast license are granted merely for the purpose of regulating broadcast spectrum (so that they do not interfere with each other), and not to regulate content.

For the avoidance of any doubt, the US’s Federal Communications Commission (the US equivalent of our NBC) does NOT regulate the content of things broadcast over the airwaves. In fact, the US Communications Act specifically provides (in Section 326) that “Nothing in this Act should be understood or construed to give the Commission the power of censorship...and no regulation or condition shall be fixed which shall interfere with the right of free speech...
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wirinet:
If you don't have any degree of censorship on the press and media in general, you are preparing the road to anarchy. Most of the crisis in the middle east was started and fuelled by social media. The Rwanda genocide was started and fuel by radio.

The Chinese government tightly control all media including social media because of the fear of its power to cause chaos. The Russians used social media to interfere in the US elections and uses it to cause conflicts within demographic, social and political groups within the US.

You cannot yell “fire” in a crowded theatre, but that’s different from picking and choosing which political opinions to censor...
The difference between “Nigeria is blessed” and “Nigeria is cursed” is merely one of personal opinion and neither should be penalized.
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iammo:
If we won't allow NBC do its job without sentimental interference, then let them pack and go.

Many people think they are hurting buhari, but unknowingly they are hurting Nigeria's own image, with countries like Ghana and kenya now trolling us.

Khakaki social basically lift off hate speech and inciteful comments on twitter and instablog9j.a

Immediately after the election, AIT aired an edition of moneyline with Nancy, and she went on and on trolling Northerners, saying the Nigerian Poverty wears the northern cap, openly saying northerners deserved "worst for voting PMB. That day i saw the painfull look on my aboki friend, the nonsense totaly ruined his mood for the day, that i had to leave his office.

This is a federal staff that is in an agency that can ruin nancy for life, without the directives of the president

I do not necessarily want to get off the main topic here, but...
Didn’t Emir Sanusi of Kano say substantively the same thing when he spoke at Union Bank’s 100 anniversary (and at other fora)?

When Emir Sanusi pointed out that according to UNDP 2016 statistics, Lagos has a poverty rate of 8.6% while Zamfara has a 91% poverty rate and even Kano has a 89% poverty rate, was he also “trolling” Northerners? When the same Emir Sanusi at the Kaduna State Investment Forum (and other fora) questioned why unemployed or underemployed Northerners would brag about having 20+ children (he nonetheless noted the irony of his own large family), who are then all but abandoned under the guise of Almajiri, was he “trolling” Northerners? When the same Emir Sanusi noted that disgracefully most of the out-of-school children are in the North, was that “on and on trolling Northerners”? What should actually ruin your “Aboki friend’s mood” (and not merely for the day, but for years) should be the grim REALITY of much of the North.
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martineverest:
CNN haven't broken any ethical rules...so they can't be revoked of their license

Abegi, what “ethical rules” did AIT break?
And are such nebulous “ethical rules” higher than Constitutional provisions?

No, the reason that anyone in the US government has not attempted to crudely revoke CNN license (despite the US President’s clear hatred of CNN) is that the US has a more enlightened, cultured and civilized leadership - and they respect both divergent opinions and the rule of law.
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wirinet:
Yes, for a radio and TV station operating very under a government license. They are only using social media as an excuse for propagating their political views. Why air those views? Whatever view you want to hold you will find it on social media. If you want views on paedophiles, murderers, rapists, etc, you will find it on social media. That does not give you the rights to propagate them.

Did AIT/Daar propagate “views on[sic] paedophiles, murderers, rapists, etc.”?

The reason that people resort to such wild and extreme HYPOTHETICAL examples is because they cannot rationally justify the REAL-LIFE events. The content that was sought to be censored was merely POLITICAL viewpoints and opinions, and there were being censored SOLELY because the government apparatchiks did not like those particular viewpoints. In other words, the crude censors were not necessarily against a discussion on the topic of splitting Nigeria, there were merely against opinions in favor thereof and would not have been bothered if the viewpoints were against splitting Nigeria (and for the record I am against splitting Nigeria, but will defend the right of others to a divergent opinion). This is as grotesque a violation of the freedom of opinion GUARANTEED by Ch. 4 (Section 39) of the Nigerian Constitution!
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Ultimatezlant:
OK,

AIT has been quite partisan in its affairs with an extra effort to promote biased analysis.

People are quick to say trump doesn't disturb CNN that critise him forgetting that Trump himself walked out a CNN reporter out of a news conference for asking questions.

CNN was banned from covering white house until it was revoked by authorities, same Trump so critized CNN in any event that a member of the white supremasist group that killed Jews in Pittsburgh had pro trump and anti CNN images in his bus.

The difference in USA is that press is almost another arm of government which the president has little control of stopping

Nope! The difference is that the US is led by enlightened/civilized folks and its government respect diversity of opinions (and the rule of law)...

Conversely, in this country of ANYHOWNESS, despite the CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES of freedom of speech and OPINION (Ch. 4, Section 39(1) of the Constitution), as well as the freedom to own, establish and operate any media for the dissemination of ideas and OPINION (Ch. 4, Section 39(2)), some uncouth political appointee and mouthpiece will wake up one day and seek to crassly censor OPINIONS that he (or his political paymasters) do not like. And worse, some citizens who should know better would publicly support such a rape of our Constitution and the RIGHTS provided and guaranteed therein. I weep for this SICK nation when I see citizens voluntarily grab their ankles to be sodomized.
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Ibegtodiffer:
You were making sense at the beginning of your write up. Immediately I saw that "Corruption" , you started sounding like government people, so I stopped reading.

You are a better man than I am, because I couldn’t even get past the first sentence...
Once people start to support censorship based on political content, then we are slip-sliding to full DICTATORSHIP. SMH
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dokiOloye:
When will they recommend for the probe of Amaechi,Fashola and Gandollar?
Shebi all of us were in this country when d same EFCC investigated and froze Fayose's account even as a sitting governor?

NigeriaIsDoomed:
including Ikoyi bullion van, Maina, baru, okey, yusuf buhari, akpabio, dubai real estate mogul,oshiomile,etc.
These folks are clowns

Thieves trying to throw us off their own scent by persecuting others...
The very person heading this panel himself Mr. Obong-Obla, according to WAEC, used a fraudulent WASC certificate to enter university.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/waec-forgery-house-writes-fg-demands-obono-oblas-sack/

So this is Next Level?
The return of full-fledged CENSORSHIP (and increased DICTATORSHIP)!
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safarigirl:
a majority

Ighalo, Aina, Musa, Onuachu, Onyekuru, Ekong, Collins, Osimhen, Mikel, Omeruo to name a few

You forgot to add Ndidi...
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Adalberto:
Meanwhile I have negotiated with God, if there is anything like 'next life' he should not bring me back to Nigeria

I hope you like Niger Republic...
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hisexcellency34:
Cruel from the bleaching senator. He is probably reffering to Dino Melaye. and him that read all the books couldn't secure a return to Senate

Dedetwo:
Are you structurally okay in certain areas above your shoulders?

Ouch!
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NoMoreBan:
Words from a wise man....

Africa's and Nigeria in particular don't want to upgrade their system....electric cars is in d corner and we are still fighting for petrol...

I weep for Blacks

God bless the White for using d sense giving to them wisely

It must really pain when you wake up everyday and remember that you are still black and will always be black...
One can only hope that you don’t hate your papa and mama, and your brothers and sisters, even your kids (if any), for being black! SMH
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THE HEADLINE IS GROSSLY MISLEADING...

Even though I do not have a dog in this fight and do not care either way how it turns out, the court did NOT refuse to bar Mr. Gbajabiamila from contesting the Speakership. All that the court did was decline to grant such an order ex parte (that is, without hearing the other side). It therefore asked the plaintiff to serve notice on Gbajabiamila, following which the court would then hear both sides and thereafter reach a decision. For clarification, the court has made NO decision yet on the merits of the case, and could still bar Gbajabiamila.

These Governors were elected in March...
It’s shocking that in June they don’t already have their political appointees all drawn up and ready to go.

Bodexman:
Education and connection my brother.

There are many PhD holders on the street.

Sadly in Nigeria not everyone with PhD is actually educated...
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