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lezz:
More troubles for the Mobile telecommunications company as Uganda hammered the firm with a huge fine. MTN Uganda

The commercial court has ordered telecoms giant MTN Uganda to pay the sum of Shs 2.3 billion (about $662,000) in damages to EzeeMoney Limited for sabotaging its business.


Justice Henry Peter Adonyo on November 6, 2015 also ordered MTN to stop acting in an unlawful and anti-competitive manner, which denies other businesses an opportunity to prosper.

Justice Adonyo said MTN should pay Shs 800 million to EzeeMoney in general damages for loss of business. It should also pay a penalty of Shs 1.5 billion in punitive damages to deter not only MTN but also warn other companies against uncompetitive business tactics, reported NAN/Reuters in a joint report on Wednesday.

It all started when EzeeMoney, which runs an e-money business, obtained a contract from MTN for the provision of digital transmission [E1] and 30 fixed telephone lines to carry out its mobile money business.

EzeeMoney then contracted Yo! Uganda Limited (YUL) to implement the service after Uganda Communications Commission, the regulator, approved it on December 2012, to use the 7711 short code to enable its customers to subscribe for e-money services.


But in 2013, MTN cancelled the contract, saying EzeeMoney was a direct competitor to its mobile money business. Through AF Mpanga and company advocates, EzeeMoney went to court, saying MTN’s action “restricted and distorted competition”.

EzeeMoney said MTN also damaged its ties with YUL and deprived it of services of other telecommunications operators. It argued that MTN used its exclusivity agreements to stop its agents from working for any other firm with similar business, further limiting competition.

In a January 28, 2013 letter to EzeeMoney, MTN appeared to say its business would be disrupted if the former was given access to its platform.

“EzeeMoney is in direct competition with MTN in the provision of mobile money,” read the letter in part.

Justice Adonyo said the letter confirmed that MTN was stopping services of the company because it considered it a competitor.

“It is testified that when YUL required the defendant (MTN) to activate the plaintiff’s (EzeeMoney) short code on its platform, the defendant declined to do so on the basis that the plaintiff was in direct competition with it,” the judge observed.

“YUL then seeing that the plaintiff couldn’t carry out the business they had agreed together, by a letter dated 7/2/2013, did terminate all services with the plaintiff as YUL did not want to jeopardize its relationship with the defendant.”

The judge also found that MTN coerced its agents to reject EzeeMoney. One witness, Sammy Mwathi, told the court that he was an MTN money agent and he was restricted from dealing with other firms in the same business by signing exclusivity agreement.

The ruling in Uganda came at a time when MTN Group has just suffered a $5.2 billion fine in Nigeria after it failed to disconnect unregistered lines.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/more-troubles-for-mtn-as-uganda-fines-telco-622-000/226059/

MTN...everywhere u go dem go pay run...

drop full link bro

too bad...naija policemen no go embrace change

i know the truth was gonna come someday...they used same army to stop Oshomole,Amaechi nd Fayose from entering the state as at the time of the election

wooooooooooooow p.h first baby

hmmm end time robbers

looks like a movie to me...basket mouth is humble af

billionaire dj of a billionaire daddy...

wat a beauty to behold...fine gal

baddyoosha:
THIS IS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TECHNOLOGY. THAT BOX AT THE BACK IS MEANT TO PUT STUFFS NOT FOR STUDY. AND ALSO IF YOU THINK THIS TECHNOLOGY WHY ARE THERE NO HELMETS THERE ARE TAKING RISK ITS MERE STEWPIDITY AND NOT MORE ADVANCED IN TECHNOLOGY

u take style murder English o

maka y

we know all dese stories nd how Fayose rigged d polls



change will catch up with him soon

looool.... nice one...nobody is above d law

#CHANGE

phemmyutd:
Is this not the Stadium Amaechi spent money on?
Yet Wike said he did nothing

u know this world as e be nau...anything u do dem must talk...d one u do dem go say u no do nd d one u no do dem go say u go


Wike no be thief e neva pay sharks players finish o

Gelengelen:
the minister of petroleum is a bastard....useless man!

hes useless md ur useful?? mumu I don't blame ur stupidity...I pray u get sense soon I swear........

they are all virgins noni

itsMrIke:
Werey ni eleyi

oluku

Speechless3:
Not until we see her

we?? make una spoil our relationship for us abeg o just gerarahere mehn......

Speechless3:
U cant afford

I have a precious gf noni...we way beta

Speechless3:
Abeg go...u sure say God never curse u finish.

Blind man

ugly girl

Speechless3:
Na u anoint them?

no allow God curse u ooo

itsMrIke:
End time pastor

are u okay touch not mine anointed

viviangist2:
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U NOW CLAIM OR STILL POSTS ABII...U DEY TRY NONI

SSpeter:
I felt breaking my boss head after he made some derogatory comments that got me angry and belittled.....

Yesterday a colleague and I went to take measurements of a bank for renovation works in one of the tertiary institution in ogun state. My colleague been the senior was given the full details and equipment needed. When we got to ogun state, he gave me the equipment (tape and camera) and asked me if I could do it that he has a babe in the school. I said yes and he gave me extra 3k I guess that was to shut me up.

After taking the measurement of the floor area in the banking hall and other adjoining spaces, I took pictures of the tiles and ceilings just to show my boss that they were in a very poor state. When I got back home I used my computer to scale the measurements and then redesigned the banking hall.

The main aim of the renovation was to increase the number of cubicles in the banking hall from 3 to 7. Today when I got to the office, I gave my boss the report and showed the the proposed design I made, he said "Great". During critic session I was surprised that the initial drawing was brought out and he was redoing the design. Well I no talk, I watched until he was done instructing the architect. Then I compared his proposed design with mine and I quickly pointed out to him that he has used up much space for circulation moreover our cubicle spatial analysis is till the same.

He called me Peter!!! ....what year were you born I told him, he said that was the year I started this company. If you have things in your head keep it. When you establish your firm, use it. Na so everybody dey look me like say I shit for body. See me wey for just keep quite....If it were to be somewhere else, Na orijin bottle I for arrange untop him head...............that is why I keep praying for a multinational firm....abeg make I quickly go check my shell application status....

lmao no do o...anyways i guess dats at Olabisi Onabanjo uni ryt??...i c dem doing a perfect job there tho...i work at one of d banks inside d skul

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has commended former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for prohibiting female genital mutilation in Nigeria.

The governor gave this commendation while speaking at a programme organised by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and Shericare Foundation (SCARF) at the opening of a high-level meeting on female genital mutilation in Osogbo.
Aregbesola stated that if the former president was accused of non-performance by a majority of Nigerians, he must still be lauded for signing into law on May 5, the female genital mutilation law.

He held that it must not go unnoticed that it was under the administration of Jonathan that it became a crime for anybody to mutilate the genital organ of a female in the name of circumcision or any other guise.

The governor described the practice as bad, borne out of primitive idea of the effort to continually dominate females in the society which must be stopped by all well-meaning Nigerians.

Aregbesola averred that government at all levels must ensure that they work towards the eradication of the act which has no advantage whatsoever.

He said: “If I have been saying that the former president has not done any good for the country like most people have been saying, I want to use this opportunity to commend the him for just one good thing he has done on the female genital mutilation law.

“Former President Jonathan did one good thing on Female Genital Mutilation, by making it a crime for anybody to mutilate the genital organ, there is a law signed by him on May 5 this year.

“Everybody must work hard to ensure that the practise is done away with, besides the damage it has done to women, it has create health challenges like acute urinary retention, delivery and child birth is affected, infection and many other complications.

“We have not established any scientific advantage let alone any religion supporting the practise. It is just a human design to suppress the other sex. We must all support UNFPA and SCARF to tell our society that an end must be put to female genital mutilation in our society and Nigeria.”

Earlier, the wife of the of governor and the President of the Shericare Foundation (SCARF), Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola, in her welcome address, described female genital mutilation as primitive.

Mrs. Aregbesola stated that it was disturbing that the primitive practice is prevalent in Osun, saying all hands will be on deck at ensuring that the archaic practice is eradicated in a no long distant time.

She chided the procedure of female genital mutilation which involves partial or total removal of the external female Instruments, noting that the procedures intentionally alter and cause injury to the female genital organ.

President of SCARF stated that the country has existing national policies and law banning female genital mutilation, adding that a recent survey conducted by UNFPA revealed a prevalence of 27 per cent for women ages 15-49 and 19.2per cent for girls 0-14 years.

She added that if the present trends continue, 2,718,000 girls born between 2010-2015 will be at risk of experiencing female genital mutilation by 2030.
She said: “I thank you all for honouring the call to this notable and historic meeting on our collective drive to eradicate a practice that bear no good for girls and women.

“Our meeting here today will be the first in the series of high level collective efforts initiated by the UNFPA to eradicate female genital mutilation. Female genital cutting of female in our society is very disturbing”. She told the gathering.
Speaking also, the country representative of the UNFPA, Ms. Ratidzai Ndhlovu, charged Osun to work and ensure the eradication of the practice.

She stressed that Osun has the highest prevalence rate of 7.6 per cent followed by Oyo State with 7.2 per cent rate.

The UNFPA boss added that it was important for the wives of governors in the country and other stakeholders to ensure strict compliance with the existing law on female genital mutilation and also the stepping up of advocacy.

In attendance were the wife of the Oyo State governor, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, the wife of the governor of Ekiti State, Mrs. Feyi Fayose, representative of the wife of the governor of Lagos, Imo and Ebonyi, Iyaloja of Osun, Alhaja Awawu Asindemade, among others.


source:http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/aregbesola-commends-jonathan-for-signing-law-banning-female-genital-mutilation/225302/



lalasticlala

Twenty years ago this November, my brother, Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed for his work to rescue our Ogoni homeland in Nigeria from further destruction at the hands of Royal Dutch Shell. Not a day goes by that I don’t miss my brother, but he has especially been on my mind these last six months. I wish he could have seen the growing global movement rising up against Shell’s latest destructive plan: drilling in the ecologically important and fragile Arctic. Activists took to the water in colorful kayaks, hung from a 200ft high bridge, sent letters to President Obama and filled social media with cries of “Shell NO!”

In response, Shell was quoted by the news media as saying, “We have consistently stated that we respect the right of individuals to protest our Arctic operations so long as they do so safely and within the boundaries of law.” This false benevolence was not in evidence on November 10, 1995, when Shell allowed my brother and eight of his compatriots to be put to death, by the Nigerian maximum dictator, Sani Abacha, for protesting the company’s operations in Ogoniland.

But I know what it is like to live amidst Shell’s oil operations. Ogoniland rests on some 1,000 square kilometers in the Niger Delta region of Southern Nigeria. In 1958, oil was discovered in Ogoniland and, over the next several decades, Shell became comfortable in its occupation, taking our centuries old home as though it were their own. But, where the Ogoni had practiced caretaking and stewardship for this place that fed and provided for us, Shell left a trail of environmental devastation and terrible health impacts on the people still living there.

The slow poisoning of the land and water began almost immediately. There were constant oil spills and uncontrolled flares. Once thriving fishing areas grew too toxic to support even the smallest creatures and the mangroves — which acted as nurseries for marine life in its infancy — were choked at the roots. Their once bountiful leaves stripped away, leaving behind only skeletons.

United Nations researchers have said that the damage is so complete that it will take decades before any kind of recovery will be possible. People have lost land and livelihood. I have lost my brother Ken.

But Shell says it respects the right of individuals to protest.

It was 1990 when my brother, a brilliant writer, founded the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). It was clear that Shell had no regard for the Ogoni people or this land which had been our home since before recorded history. By this time, Ken had already spent more than 20 years advocating for greater Ogoni autonomy, at one point sacrificing a prestigious position as Regional Commissioner for Education in the Rivers State cabinet for his beliefs.

With MOSOP, Ken spoke and wrote about our plight. He educated and organised. He opened eyes to the great cost being paid in the pursuit of the great rewards Shell promised, and raised voices in solidarity and hope.

On January 4, 1993, 300,000 Ogoni celebrated the Year of Indigenous Peoples by protesting Shell. My brother addressed the crowd saying, “We have woken up to find our lands devastated by agents of death called oil companies. Our atmosphere has been totally polluted, our lands degraded, our waters contaminated, our trees poisoned, so much so that our flora and fauna have virtually disappeared.”

The show of strength in the face of their oppression worried Shell’s leadership and, in a partnership as horrifying as it is unbelievable, the company began conspiring with the Nigerian military. Soldiers—operating with financial support from Shell—brutalised the Ogoni people, then took my brother into custody, tortured him and ultimately put him to death. All for trying to prevent Shell from leaving Ogoniland an empty, poisoned husk.

But Shell says it respects the right of individuals to protest.

A study by the United Nations Environment Programme has shown that, despite the fact that no oil production has taken place in Ogoniland since 1993, oil spills continue to occur with fierce regularity. The production facilities that Shell used to crowd out farmers and fishermen have fallen to rust and ruin, and neglected, antiquated pipelines continue to leak oil as they snake from other parts of Nigeria through Ogoniland. Fishermen and farmers can no longer make their living or feed their families from the water or the field.

This is the bounty that Shell has brought to the Indigenous people of Ogoniland. It promised prosperity and a bright tomorrow. When it wants to distract people from the price that will eventually be paid, Shell talks of jobs, crows about its lavish philanthropy and promises that no harm will be done, no chaos left in its wake.

I am hugely relieved for the people of the Arctic, many of whose families have lived there for thousands of years, that Shell recently announced it was retreating from Arctic drilling for the foreseeable future. But this is a company that pantomimes concern and compassion for human beings when its only true concern is for where new money can be found. No doubt Shell’s sights are already set on its next oil field conquest, irrespective of who lives there or their history with that land.

When my brother Ken was executed, his last words were “Lord, take my soul…but the struggle continues.” I hope Ken is watching and seeing that, yes, it does. From Ogoniland to the Arctic and beyond, people are rising up to say “Shell No!” They are standing strong against a corporation and an entire industry that will mortgage our future for quick profits. I can’t think of a better way to honour my brother.

–Wiwa, a global health consultant and human rights activist wrote in from Abuja


lalasticlala over to u

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has forced no fewer than 11 permanent secretaries in the state civil service into retirement.

This was disclosed shortly after an emergency State Executive Council meeting on Tuesday at the Peoples House, Makurdi.

The affected permanent secretaries are Stev Ato, Terna Iorkyaa, Joseph Okor, Akperan Anunne and Eugene Ivase.





Others are Godwin Ejembi, Shabu B., Ade John, Asen Sambe, Tor Jun and Terlumun Tsegba.

Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Ode Ageh, said that the directive took immediate effect.

The commissioner expalined that the reason for the retirement was based on their health conditions, age and performance.

Ageh also said seven vehicles were recovered from officials of the past administration of Gabriel Suswam, warning that those still keeping properties owned by the government should return them so as to avoid prosecution.



source:http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/11/ortom-forces-11-permanent-secretaries-into-retirement-seizes-their-vehicles/


cc lalasticlala

dhtml18:
I have confirmed that the website is leggit in a post above with the screenshot.

good one buh u just invited more persons to apply with u....my boss would say..u GOOFED

if this is true that means the church must av betrayed her cos how efcc take know her tithe to the church?

I quit..i quit...I quit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what nonsence!!! mtn nd yahoo.....

Dejinho14:
when I was filling fidelity bank recruitment form online, I got to dis stage and I'm so confused I dnt knw mayb I shld continue with the form or I shld stop..I saw where I'm to fill my bank details and BVN...Advise pls !
see wat I saw below !!!

I work in a bank..i advise u continue boss....dats d original website of fidelity bank...its not hacked