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Tinubu’s Daughter Locks Up Computer Village

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Shalom Ekelaka
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Tinubu's Daughter Locks Up Computer Village

Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, the daughter of National Leader of the All Progressive Congress(APC)Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is on rampage.

Folasade Tinubu-Ojo who is also the Iyaloja General of Lagos has shut down Nigeria’s equivalent of the silicon valley, the Computer Village, which is the hub of ICT accessories in Nigeria.

She gave her aides the order, who invaded the village overnight removed signboards of the various associations domiciled in the village with the order that no shop should open for business.

That has been the case. Her order was carried out at a time, when many are just recovering from the lockdown, following the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. At her behest, Nigerians who survive daily on income from the Computer Village have been locked out.

We gathered that her grievance was the refusal of about 5 million businessmen, some of them experts inhabiting the hub to pay the imposed levy of N1000 per day , irrespective of about 15 existing associations, all registered by the Federal Government, in what many have described as political move to keep the area under control.

When our correspondent visited the area, all the shops were under lock and key, no business was ongoing with the situation very tense at the moment. Sources informed us that the situation will likely persist in the coming days.
Some shop owners who spoke said they will never submit to her authority. They wonder how Folasade Tinubu- Ojo will want to wield her influence in a hub where she has no shop. They told us that leadership in the market is based on democratic election and challenged her to put up a candidate when elections are due.

We also gathered that the hub had already succumbed to a Baba Oloja who also owned no shop in the area but that this time, it will be fight to finish. Sources informed us that the relevant association may go to court stop this impunity by the Iyaloja General of Lagos.

Last year, members of the Computer Village protested her decision to impose Iyaloja on them. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo who addressed the issue said the protesters were ill-informed.

“According to our constitution, I can choose anybody from any local government in the state to head the market, all the Iyaloja and Babaloja in all the Lagos markets are my representatives in the market where they operate.

“Kindly educate them that phones, handsets, computers are commodities. They cannot tell us they are not pepper sellers, everybody cannot be textile dealers; they can’t tell us that computer village will be exonerated from other markets. We have the right to choose for them Iyaloja and Babaloja.

“Those people protesting never approached me to complain. They don’t have the initiative that the person leading the protest has finished his tenure and wants to remain in power…

“Computer village is not just an ICT hub, there are a lot of commodities being sold there; nobody can say it is wrong to select a babaloja and iyaloja for the market. Those that have been selected were not selected because they are Yoruba, in some of our markets in Lagos we have Igbos that were selected as market leaders,” Tinubu-Ojo said.

FG plans to tax Netflix, Facebook, others

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Shalom Ekelaka
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FG plans to tax Netflix, Facebook, others

The Federal Government plans to tax foreign digital service providers offering services to Nigerians and earning revenue in naira.

Some of these service providers which are video streaming sites, social media platforms, and companies that offer downloads of digital contents are expected to pay digital tax to the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, had issued the Companies Income Tax (Significant Economic Presence) Order, 2020 as an amendment of the Finance Act 2019.

The order aimed to impose tax on a foreign entity with respect to certain services or digital transactions if it had a Significant Economic Presence in Nigeria.

It further stated that the finance minister may by order, determine what constituted SEP in Nigeria.

Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, among others are some of these foreign companies that offer digital video and advertising services to Nigerians.

Others like Alibaba and Amazon generate revenue from Nigeria by processing and transmitting data collected about users in Nigeria, provision of goods or services directly or through a digital platform or offer intermediate services that link suppliers and customers in Nigeria.

The new regulation would apply to companies with income of N25m or equivalent in other currencies from Nigeria in a year and those with a Nigerian domain name (.ng) or a website address in the country.

The SEP order mandated foreign companies with sustained interactions with persons in Nigeria and customising their digital platforms to target persons in Nigeria by stating the prices of its products or services in naira to pay taxes.

According to the Act, a foreign entity providing technical services such as training, advertising, supply of personnel, professional, management or consultancy services shall have a SEP in Nigeria in any accounting year if it earns any income or receives any payment from a person resident in Nigeria or a fixed base or agent of a foreign entity in Nigeria.

However, payments made to employees of a foreign entity or for teaching in an educational institution are exempted.

Analysts at PricewaterhouseCoopers said some of the affected foreign digital companies would be required to register for income taxes in Nigeria and file annual tax returns even if they did not have a physical presence in Nigeria.

They added that Nigerian resident businesses (as well as the fixed bases of non-resident companies) that have transactions with the affected non-resident companies would also be required to account for withholding tax on some of the payments made to these foreign companies.

PwC raised concerns as to how the FIRS would enforce compliance without international consensus, as a number of the companies affected might be outside the territorial reach of the agency.

According to the consulting firm, the problem will also be exacerbated where the companies sell their products and services directly to individual consumers in Nigeria.

PUNCH

Breaking News: Abia State Governor Tests Positive For COVID-19

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Shalom Ekelaka
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Breaking News: Abia State Governor Tests Positive For COVID-19
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has tested positive for coronavirus.
 
The state Commissioner for Information, John Kalu, made this known in a statement on Monday.
 
The commissioner said the governor has since gone into isolation as required by the protocols of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
 
He said, “Recall that on Saturday, 30th May, 2020, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu volunteered his sample for COVID-19 test and subsequently directed members of the state Executive Council and those of the inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19 to submit themselves for the same test.
 
“On Tuesday, 2nd June, 2020, the result of Governor Ikpeazu’s test returned negative.
 
“On Thursday, 4th June, 2020, the governor submitted another sample at the Nigeria Center For Disease Control laboratory for confirmation and the result returned positive.
 
“As a result, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has gone into isolation, as required by relevant NCDC protocols, and he is being managed by a competent team of medical practitioners with a view to nursing him back to good health.”

Breaking News: Commotion As Truck Catches Fire On Niger Bridge

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Shalom Ekelaka
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Breaking News: Commotion As Truck Catches Fire On Niger Bridge

The Anambra State axis of the River Niger Bridge on Friday morning was reportedly gutted by fire, The PUNCH reports.

It was gathered the fire emanated from a truck that went in inflames on the bridge.

The Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Anambra State, Paschal Anigbo, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.

He said, “A truck is currently on fire on the River Niger Bridge, this morning Friday 5 June, 2020.

“The Fire Service has been contacted.”

Our correspondent learnt that there had been some agitation in some quarters over the barricade of a section of the bridge by the Anambra State Government as a measure to check influx of passengers into the state as a result of the lockdown occassioned by coronavirus pandemic.

Details later…

Kanye West Joins Protesters In Chicago After Donating $2m To Families Of Geroge Floyd, Breonna Taylor And Ahmaud Arbery

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Shalom Ekelaka
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Kanye West Joins Protesters In Cicago After Donating $2m To Families Of Geroge Floyd, Breonna Taylor And Ahmaud Arbery

Billionaire rapper, Kanye West, joined hundreds of #blacklivesmatter protestors to march round the streets of his native Chicago in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed after a police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes last week.Kanye West Joins Protesters In Cicago After Donating $2m To Families Of Geroge Floyd, Breonna Taylor And Ahmaud Arbery

Kanye who has been vocal about racial injustice his whole career, wore a face mask and grey sweatshirt during the protests on Thursday, hours after he contributed $2m ‘to the families and legal teams’ fighting for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and offered to fully pay for the college tuition of Floyd’s six year old daughter Gianna.Kanye West Joins Protesters In Cicago After Donating $2m To Families Of Geroge Floyd, Breonna Taylor And Ahmaud Arbery

Arbery was killed by white men who hunted him down and shot him while he was out jogging in Georgia saying he fit the description of a burglary suspect.

CNN

3 Brothers Lure Widow From Facebook, Kill Her With Poison And Bury Her In Septic Tank

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Shalom Ekelaka
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3 Brothers Lure Widow From Facebook, Kill Her With Poison And Bury Her In Septic Tank

Police personnel attached to the Intelligence Response Unit have arrested three siblings for the gruesome murder of a mother of five, Mrs Janet Ogbonnaya, The PUNCH reports.

The deceased, a widow, was lured from Facebook by the suspects, who allegedly poisoned her and buried her corpse in a septic tank in a house in the Wumba District, Lokogoma, Abuja, on May 14, 2020.

The suspects, Johnson, 38; Gideon, 31; and Success Emmanuel, 27, were tracked down to their home town, Isiekenesi, in the Ideato Local Government Area of Imo State, where they were hiding after killing Ogbonnaya in Abuja.

The arrest of the suspects was sequel to the complaint received from one Chinedu Ogbonnaya, who alleged that his 55-year-old mother, a native of Ozuitem in the Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, had been kidnapped and N5m ransom was being demanded by her captors.3 Brothers Lure Widow From Facebook, Kill Her With Poison And Bury Her In Septic Tank

According to the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, painstaking investigation by the police resulted in the arrest of the suspects, who in the course of interrogation, revealed that the victim had been murdered and buried.

It was gathered that the victim was a Facebook friend of the principal suspect, Johnson, who lured her from her home in Gwagwalada to visit him.

Mba said in a statement on Thursday, “The suspects, thereafter, took advantage of the visit, served her yoghurt laced with drugs and subsequently had her murdered.

“The suspects buried her remains in a septic tank, then went ahead to reach out to the family of the victim, using her phone, and demanded N5m ransom as pre-condition for her release.

“The suspects led a team of investigators and pathologists to a residence in the Wumba District, Lokogoma, Abuja, where the victim’s decomposing body was exhumed from the septic tank.

“The body has been taken to the University Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, for forensic examination.”3 Brothers Lure Widow From Facebook, Kill Her With Poison And Bury Her In Septic Tank

The police added that a Toyota Highlander SUV belonging to the deceased had been recovered at a mechanic workshop in Apo, where it had been repainted into a different colour.

The force noted that the vehicle documents had also been fraudulently changed and the ownership criminally transferred to Johnson.

Investigation further revealed that the house, where the deceased was killed and buried, originally belonged to one of the suspects, but it was hurriedly sold off to a third party, apparently to conceal the evidence of their evil action.

While commending the operatives for a job well done, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, stated that “the perpetrators of any form of crime in the country will not go undetected and unpunished.”

NCDC Issues New Set Of Guidelines For Discharging COVID-19 Patients

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Shalom Ekelaka
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NCDC Issues New Set Of Guidelines For Discharging COVID-19 Patients

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has issued a new set of guidelines for the discharge of COVID-19 patients in treatment centres.

The Director General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, stated that COVID-19 patients would no longer require a negative test result before being discharged.

The discharge criterion by the NCDC, which had included two consecutive negative tests, was reviewed last month to one negative test.

Ihekweazu, however, explained that, with new knowledge on the duration of the virus, it had become unnecessary to keep COVID-19 patients in treatment centres until they tested negative.

He said, “The two critical groups of patients are symptomatic and asymptomatic. For symptomatic patients, they may now be discharged at least 10 days after symptom onset and at least three days without symptom.

“So, if you’re symptomatic, you can be discharged if you’ve had three days without symptoms in addition to at least 10 days of symptoms. If your symptoms stay longer, we will wait for longer while managing you supportively.

“If you’re asymptomatic, you can be discharged 14 days after your first positive test, with confidence that you can go home and you’re no longer infective and you’re not putting anyone else at risk. So, we no longer have to wait for a negative test to discharge.”

The NCDC DG stated that medical professionals were ignoring the new guidelines due to their attachment to the previous protocols, adding that the science showed that 10 days without symptoms was sufficient to discharge patients.

On post-discharge management, he noted that only asymptomatic patients would be discharged.

Ihekweazu said, “We are not suggesting that people are discharged while they are still symptomatic, so we are talking about discharging people that are asymptomatic and have recovered.”

According to Ihekweazu, the reviewed guidelines are in line with the findings of the World Health Organisation, based on a new research.

BREAKING: Many Feared Killed In Kogi Bank Robbery Attack

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Shalom Ekelaka
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BREAKING: Many Feared Killed In Kogi Bank Robbery Attack

An unspecified number of people were said to have been shot dead in a bank robbery attack in Isanlu, Kogi State, on Thursday.

A source, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said that the robbers stormed the bank few minutes after closing hour, shooting sporadically and killing many customers and staff in the process.

The robbers were said to have succeeded in the operation and carted away a huge amount of money.

Details of the attack is still sketchy as at the time of this report.

SaharaReporters

Full autopsy report reveals George Floyd tested positive for Coronavirus

By
Shalom Ekelaka
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Full autopsy report reveals George Floyd tested positive for Coronavirus

A 20-page autopsy report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office has revealed that George Floyd who died after some Minneapolis police officers knelt on his neck, tested positive for Coronavirus in April.

The autopsy report came with the family’s permission and it was released after the coroner’s office released summary findings which affirmed that Floyd had a heart attack while being restrained by officers. George Floyd’s death has now been classified as a homicide.

TMZ reported that the Coroner said;

“Positivity for 2019-nCoV can persist for weeks after the onset and resolution of clinical disease, the autopsy result most likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent PCR positivity from previous infection.”

This meant the deceased was likely walking around without issues or active symptoms, but the virus was still in his body. The final report from Hennepin on Wednesday says Floyd had “no injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures.”

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Wednesday June 3, upgraded charges against Chauvin to 2nd-degree murder and also charged the three other officers on the scene with aiding and abetting.

Floyd family attorney, Ben Crump had earlier decried the official autopsy as described in the original complaint against Chauvin, for ruling out asphyxia. An autopsy commissioned by the Floyd family concluded that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression.

TMZ

Snapchat limits Trump’s reach for inciting ‘racial violence’

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Shalom Ekelaka
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Snapchat limits Trump’s reach for inciting ‘racial violence’

Snapchat on Wednesday became the latest social network moving to curb the reach of US President Donald Trump, claiming the president has been inciting “racial violence.”

The youth-focused social network said it would no longer promote Trump on its Discover platform for recommended content.

“We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover,” a statement from Snapchat said.

The move came days after Twitter took an unprecedented stand by hiding a Trump post it said promoted violence, heating up the White House war with Silicon Valley and social media.

Snapchat parent Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel over the weekend sent a lengthy memo to employees condemning what he saw as a legacy of racial injustice and violence in the US.

Snapchat will not promote accounts in the US that are linked to people who incite racial violence on or off the messaging platform, according Spiegel.

“Every minute we are silent in the face of evil and wrongdoing we are acting in support of evildoers,” Spiegel wrote as companies responded to the outrage over the police killing of a black man in Minnesota.

“I am heartbroken and enraged by the treatment of black people and people of color in America.”

The Discover feature at Snapchat is a curated platform on which the California-based company gets to decide what it recommends to users.

– No longer recommended –

Trump’s account remains on the platform, it will just no longer be recommended viewing, according to Snapchat.

“We will make it clear with our actions that there is no gray area when it comes to racism, violence, and injustice – and we will not promote it, nor those who support it, on our platform,” Spiegel said in the memo.

Snapchat is particularly popular with young internet users, claiming that about half of the US “Generation Z” population tapping into news through its Discover feature.

“There are plenty of debates to be had about the future of our country and the world,” Spiegel said.

“But there is simply no room for debate in our country about the value of human life and the importance of a constant struggle for freedom, equality, and justice.”

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale denounced the move, saying that “Snapchat is trying to rig the 2020 election, illegally using their corporate funding to promote Joe Biden and suppress President Trump.”

Parscale said in a statement: “Snapchat hates that so many of their users watch the president’s content and so they are actively engaging in voter suppression… If you’re a conservative, they do not want to hear from you, they do not want you to vote. They view you as a deplorable and they do not want you to exist on their platform.”

– Facebook looks away –

The move by Twitter last week prompted an angry response by Trump, who within days signed an executive order calling for heightened government oversight of social platforms.

Trump accuses the platforms of “censorship” and limiting “free speech,” but his critics say the president has distorted the interpretation of those terms and is himself seeking to regulate online content.

In contrast to Twitter and Snapchat, Facebook has defended his decision not to interfere with posts by Trump.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his position in a call with employees this week, according to reports, despite criticism of the Facebook policy by civil rights activists.

The coronavirus pandemic has put an abrupt stop to traditional US political means of courting young voters – forcing presidential candidates to turn to Snapchat instead.

The photo-sending app that boasts 229 million users – better known for filters that turn your face into a puppy or a vampire – is a new battlefield for opponents Trump and Biden, both of whom are in their 70s.

Last month, Ken Farnaso, the Trump campaign deputy press secretary, told AFP that Snapchat was an important element of the re-election effort and that the Republican was ahead of Biden on the platform.

“It’s clear that we’re wiping the floor with Biden’s campaign,” Farnaso said of the Snapchat effort.

(AFP)

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