We’ll continue to block illegal loan apps – FCCPC

 

Babatunde Irukera is the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. In this interview with ANOZIE EGOLE, he talks about the wins and challenges of the agency

'City Boy' Rally In Abuja As Youths Campaign For Tinubu

 'City Boy' debuts in Abuja As Youths take over FCT for Tinubu

LAWMA / PSP begin Clampdown on defaulting customers in Abesan, drags them to court!

Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and PSP operators in Abesan Estate have dragged over 200 residents before a Lagos mobile court at Bolade Oshodi for non-payment of refuse package services rendered to them by Cornerstone concepts Ltd., a PSP operator servicing the estate.

After so many attempts by the operators to get the defaulters whose debts range between N10, 000 and N56, 000 to pay their debts proved abortive, they had no choice but to drag them to court.

M.D of Cornerstone concepts, a PSP operator, Pastor Ogunfowokan, while speaking with Abesan News noted that they had on several occasions met with the residents’ association on the issue and pleaded with those owing to either pay or visit their office if they had any complains on their bill.

IKEJA ELECTRIC SOLICITS COMMUNITY SUPPORT TO TACKLE ENERGY THEFT, VANDALISM

In continued effort to curtail the rising cases of energy theft and vandalism amidst huge investment on power infrastructure, Ikeja Electric, Nigeria's largest electricity distribution company is soliciting the support of stakeholders in tackling the issues within its network.

Hope Builders’ Skill Development and Acquisition Foundation Opens Entrepreneurship Hub in Lagos

A non-governmental organization, Hope Builders Skill Development and Acquisition Foundation (HBF), on Monday, September 5, 2022 opened a state of the art entrepreneurship Hub in Ipaja, Lagos state.

A non-profit organization established in 2003, the Director of HBF, Mrs. Folayemisi Adu while speaking at the event said their mission is to educate, develop entrepreneurship skills and offer scholarship to the less privileged in the society.

In their over two decades of operation, HBF boasts to have trained more than 5000 youth and women who are doing well in various skills. They have also registered 232 businesses with CAC free of charge for their trainees. Some of these businesses have access to market and funding through their aftercare support.

Misconception on the operation of Truecaller app

I was a little bemused this morning when a supposed security consultant blamed the gov't for the manner names appear on truecaller.

He wondered how a name like 'Baba' could come up when you dial a number. "How's Baba supposed to be someone's name?", he quizzed.

This ignorance was exhibited on a national Radio station during their breakfast show.

He thinks names registered on SIM are the names that come up during calls. He most likely thinks the gov't submit names to the app after registering citizens!

Many people are like this man who are innocently angry. They are sincerely wrong and promoting or exhibiting ignorance, albeit angrily!

Mass Metering: Ikeja Electric trains 140 staff

 

Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), Nigeria’s leading electricity distribution company, has trained 140 employees to boost metering density and meter management across its network.

Speaking during the presentation of certificates to the graduands, the Chief Executive Officer, Ikeja Electric, Folake Soetan, said Ikeja Electric Metering Academy was launched in 2020 as a result of a shortage in the human capacity for the installation of meters, resulting in the slow pace of metering across its network.

Omatseye, Death Threat & Moderation

Mr Sam Omatseye just reported that he has been receiving death threats from supporters of Mr Peter Obi over his article of yesterday.

That is, without mincing words, condemnable and unacceptable. A threat to one is a threat at all. It is a place we should never get to.

But are we there already? If not so, we are getting dangerously close. Apparently, not many of us are perceptive enough to see that trenches have been dug over time, with people trapped in bubbles therein. They are only able to hear themselves and no-one else, with truth, facts and logic filtered out.

Sam Omatseye As A Kept Man

 

I had an extravagance of laughter when a dear friend of mine showed me a so-called column written by Sam Omatseye. 

To give him his due, Sam Omatseye has been somebody I always wanted to encourage; for instance, agreeing to serve as the official reviewer of his novel at its launch in Lagos barely a week after burying my father in the East.

I had my hilarious laughter upon seeing Sam Omatseye’s column because when you already know the end of a writing after reading just the first sentence, there’s no doubt that the writer is not up to par. 

Obi-tuary - In Touch by Sam Omatseye

Suddenly, it is all quiet on the eastern front. No street heckles or flag waving or mooning over a yellow sun, no hooting or baying in public. The rabble no longer raves. Few wonder what happened to the Nnamdi Kanu crowd. Some may wonder if they are withering?

The answer is before our eyes. The Biafran babblers are alive and well. They just swapped icons, rechristened the shrines and rewrote the rites. They left the prophet for a secular priest. They have had a switch of battle gear.

Maybe it is not quiet. We can hear and feel the cacophony. The chants and caterwauling are everywhere, especially on the phones. The twitter bees, the Instagram grimes, the Facebook freaks. They are alive and well, but they have not been at war at the side of their icon, who is griping in detention.

Inside Omatseye’s Heathen Heart by Emmanuel Ogbeche

 

 

Sam Omatseye, the Delta state-born chairman of the Nation Newspaper, ignited a firestorm with his graceless piece, Obi-tuary, in the August 1, 2022 edition of the paper. There has been an avalanche of cringing over the article steeped in half-truths and absolute falsehoods. 

It is an article that is filled with bile as it is vile; tasteless, gangster-like, and morbid. Reading the1,329 worded write-up is like wading through a field of putrid. It ranks foul as it is revolting.