Author: Chronicle Editor

MultiChoice, the leading pay TV service provider in Nigeria, recently held its annual Media Showcase which happened virtually for the first time. The MultiChoice Media Showcase took place on Wednesday, 9th September 2020 and was organized to further amplify the company’s promise to continue telling stories that resonate with their viewers, while unveiling some of their new offerings as well as plans for the year. The Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe said: “Putting our valued customers in the forefront has always been our goal at MultiChoice Nigeria. We have continued to invest in the Nigerian economy…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri zonal office, on Monday, September 14, 2020 re-arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil, a.k.a “Mama Boko Haram” before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on three fresh separate offences of fraud to the tune of N97,400,000.00 (Ninety-Seven Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) only. Each of the offences contained two -count charges, making a cumulative six-count charge before the court. Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode were re-arraigned with Wakil. A count in the first offence read: “That you, Tahiru Saidu Daura, Aisha Alkali Wakil and Prince Lawal Shoyode,…

Louis Odion, FNGE It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak to a national emergency, but the circumstances are starkly dissimilar. Nigerians that marched across the nation in the harmattan-scorched January of 2012 were actually protesting a touted rising economic tide that didn’t in any way raise their individual boats. Rather, what they saw was an emergent tribe of of free-loaders fattening on petrol subsidies. Then Senator Bukola Saraki had blown the whistle: billions of naira budgeted as petrol subsidy originally were ballooning into trillions. And the beneficiaries…

The Insight by Lateef Adewole Just like yesterday, it came to me like a movie, vividly replaying in my head. It was no other thing than the massive protests across the country that greeted the announcement of the total deregulation of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol in Nigeria. On New Year’s Day in 2012, the administration of former President Jonathan had announced the government’s exit from subsidizing for petrol. Many reasons were proffered such as the act being unsustainable, the fraudulent practices that shrouded it, the wastage that it constituted to the economy, the fact that…

Liverpool and Manchester City are pundits favourite to win the Premier League this season but there is an outside Chelsea could nick it if the stats are anything to go by. Chelsea must have to get past Brighton if they are to be third time lucky. Today’s match is the third time Chelsea are starting a Premier League campaign on a Monday. The last two times the Blues played their opening matches on a Monday in 2014-15 and 2016-17 seasons they went to win to the title both seasons. TEAM NEWS Brighton’s new signing Adam Lallana will be looking for…

Microsoft has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to make a last-minute bid. US President Donald Trump gave a 15 September deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down. The Trump administration claims TikTok and other Chinese apps are national security threats. Microsoft and Oracle led the race to buy the social media platform from Chinese firm ByteDance. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported that Oracle, which sells database technology and cloud systems to businesses, had won the bidding war,…

Japan’s governing party has elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, meaning he is almost certain to become the country’s next prime minister. Last month Mr Abe announced his resignation due to health reasons. Mr Suga, 71, serves as chief cabinet secretary in the current administration and was widely expected to win. He is considered a close ally of Mr Abe and likely to continue his predecessor’s policies. Mr Suga won the vote for the presidency of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) by a large margin, taking 377 of a total of 534 votes from…

Police in the US state of Georgia say a sheriff’s deputy has been fired after video emerged showing him pinning a black man to the floor and punching him in the face. Roderick Walker, 26, was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by deputies for an alleged broken rear light. After an altercation, police tried to arrest him. Video shared on social media showed Mr Walker being held down by two white deputies, one of whom punches him. In a statement, Clayton County Sheriff’s Office said “the deputy who repeatedly struck Roderick Walker” was to lose his…

Federal government agencies in the Presidency have held consultations for the 2021 budget. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr Tijjani Umar, led the 2021 budget bilateral meeting between Government Agencies under the Presidency and officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. The virtual meeting took place on Saturday, September 12, 2020, at the conference room of the State House administrative block. It was attended by Chief Executives and key budget, finance and accounts staff of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), National Institute of Policy…

The Presidency has described a recent statement credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an attempt to divide the nation while President Muhammadu Buhari continues to promote nation building and the unity of Nigeria. The difference is clear. From the lofty heights of Commander-in-Chief, General Obasanjo has descended to the lowly level of Divider-in-Chief (to adapt the coinage of Time). Before responding further to the unfair attacks on President Buhari and his administration by the former President, it is important that we categorically state that contrary to the assertions by a few analysts, the recent speech in which President Buhari…