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The Acting Director General of the Nigerian Television Authority, Mr. Salihu Dembos says the experience of the station since the migration to the Nigerian Communications Satellite remains the best in the history of the authority.
The DG disclosed this when he led a delegation of the African Union of Broadcasting, AUB on a facility tour of the Nigerian Satellite at the weekend.
The delegation were in Abuja for one week for a general assembly, which is 14th Edition.
The AUB is a public broadcasting union that cut across the whole of Africa.
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Gunmen have reportedly abducted Jude Maduka, the parish priest of Christ the King Catholic Church, Ezinachi/Ugwuago in Okigwe LGA of Imo state.
The cleric was said to have been whisked away from the parish house in the early hours of Sunday while he was preparing for mass.
Another cleric serving in the same community confirmed the incident to journalists, saying the diocesan leadership has been informed about the kidnap of the priest.
He said the kidnap of the priest has unsettled the parish, the diocese and the entire community.
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Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has opposed the move by Chris Ngige, minister of labour, to facilitate the payment of withheld salaries of some lecturers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK).
The salaries of the lecturers were withheld as a result of the eight-month nationwide industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last year.
In 2022, lecturers under ASUU embarked on an eight-month strike over the non-implementation of their demands by the federal government.
Members of the union have been at loggerheads with the government since the strike ended over non-payment of their salaries for the period the industrial action lasted.
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A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to account for the spending of a $460 million Chinese loan to fund the failed Abuja closed-circuit television (CCTV) project.
Emeka Nwite, the judge, gave the order while delivering judgement in the freedom of information suit ‘FHC/ABJ/CS/1447/2019’ brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).
The judge ordered the government to publish the total amount of money paid to Chinese and local companies and contractors, specific details of the identities of the companies and contractors as well as the implementation of the project.
In December 2019, SERAP filed a lawsuit against Zainab Ahmed, finance minister, over failure to disclose information and specific documents on the total amount of money paid to contractors from the $460 million loan obtained in 2010 from China to fund the Abuja CCTV project.
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