FG To Purchase 2 Additional Satellites For Nigcomsat At $550m – Shittu

The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, says the Federal Government plans to purchase two additional satellites for Nigeria Communication Satellite (NigComSat)  at the cost of $550 million.

Shittu disclosed this on Saturday while speaking with newsmen at the end of the 4th National Council on Communication Technology meeting in Kaduna.

He said that the Federal Government was already negotiating with China EXIM Bank for the purchase of the two additional satellites for storage of Data.

According to him, efforts are being made to procure two additional communication satellites to complement the existing NigComSat as a means of reaching areas that cannot easily be covered by terrestrial fibre.

“We need just about 550 million dollars to acquire two new satellites; we are already negotiating with China EXIM Bank, who had assured us that they will deliver the money.

“We will negotiate and procure extra satellites for NigComSat,  so that there will be adequate back up for and once this done whatever data is stored in one satellite will equally be shared by the two or three satellites.

“With that, there will not be fear of any problem because there will be enough data collection centre and there will be reliability.

South Africa set to pass a bill that could see comedians serve 10 years in jail for sarcastic jokes

Following the prevention and combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill that was released by the Justice Minister Micheal Masutha last week, South African government is reviewing a proposed bill that could see comedians hit with a 10 year sentence for making sarcastic jokes.
According to BuzzSA, the provisions of the bill, will carry heavy fines and a maximum jail term of 10 years for anyone convicted of showing bias, prejudice or intolerance on the grounds of race, colour, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, belief,  culture, language, nationality, birth, disability, HIV status, occupation or trade, albinism and ethnic or social origin.
Reacting to the proposed bill on City Press, popular comedian, Jason Goliath criticized the bill saying:

‘What comedians do on stage compared with what people like Penny Sparrow, for example, say, shows a definite difference between freedom of speech and hate speech. We do it in the name of fun’

Niger Delta Stakeholders Present 16-Point Demands To President Buhari

stakeholders in the Niger Delta region on Tuesday presented a 16-point demand to President Muhammadu Buhari on issues that bordered on the socio-economic development, security and restoration of peace in the region.

Chief Alfred Diete-Spiff, the Chairman of Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers’ Council, confirmed this development to State House correspondents in Abuja after the meeting between Buhari and stakeholders from the Niger Delta region.

According to him, the demands include the need to fast-track interventions on some of the  regional infrastructure, Presidential Amnesty programme, law and justice issues and the effect of increased military presence in the Niger Delta.

He said that the plight of Internally Displaced Persons, the Ogoni Clean-up and Environmental Remediation, the issue of Maritime University, Okerenkoko, and security surveillance and protection of oil and gas infrastructure were part of the demands.

Diete-Spiff said the stakeholders also presented the issues of the relocation of administrative and operational headquarters of oil companies to the region, power supply, inclusive participation in oil industry and ownership.

Algeria name 'killer squad' to face Nigeria, that includes Player of the year, Riyad Mahrez

Ahead of the must win Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Algeria slated for November 12 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Algeria has named it's 'killer squad' to face the Super Eagles and it includes big names like Islam Slimani, Hilal Soudani, Yacine Brahimi, Sofiane Feghouli and PFA player of the year, Riyad Mahrez.

Nigeria must win this game if we are to stand a chance of topping the qualifiers in a group that contains Cameroon, Zambia and Algeria and has been labelled the 'group of death'.

See the full List of invited players below. Do you think the Super Eagles have what it takes to defeat the Algerians man to man?

SQUAD LIST

Goalkeepers: Rais M'Bolhi (Antalyaspor, Turkey)

A big, dirty secret from Donald Trump’s tax returns has been exposed

Unlike past presidential nominees, Donald Trump has declined to release his complete tax returns, which has fostered fervid speculation about what they might contain — especially since the New York Times published a few pages from Trump's 1995 tax documents last month.

Those documents suggested that the Republican nominee could have avoided paying taxes on as much as $916 million in income. The question was how he could do so legally. Experts had put forward a range of intricate theories, but according to new documents disclosed by the Times on Monday, there is a simple explanation for how Trump sheltered the bulk of that money.

“He made it up,” said Edward Kleinbard, a legal scholar at the University of Southern California. Experts had missed Trump's maneuver, Kleinbard said, because they did not think that it would have been allowed at the time.

celebration of the Itsekiri Woman Day

There is no doubt that our women are the best in the whole world with epitome of beauty and good character worthy of emulation.May God almighty continue to strengthen them for the development of our nation.

British banker who killed two Hong Kong prostitutes had sex with transsexuals, surfed gay websites for black men and told bosses he had HIV to justify time off work

Double killer Rurik Jutting had sex with transsexuals and searched for sex with other men as his life spiralled out of control from taking drugs and watching violent pornography, a court heard today.

The British banker even lied to his employers he was HIV positive after missing so much work because of his drug use and addiction to prostitutes.

Jutting surfed the gay website Grindr looking for black men to have sex with, his lawyer Tim Owen QC told the court.

He also had encounters with two transsexuals as well as numerous prostitutes while high on drink and drugs.

British banker Rurik Jutting, 31, pictured in 2014, has pleaded not guilty to the murders of two Indonesian sex workers

Jutting was charged with the murders of Sumarti Ningsih (left) and Seneng Mujiasih (right), whose bodies were found in his upmarket apartment near Hong Kong's red-light district

A court in Hong Kong was told in the two weeks before killing two prostitutes in October 2014 he had failed to turn up for work as he took cocaine and met prostitutes.

The sordid sex life of the Cambridge educated banker was detailed by a top psychiatrist from Broadmoor Hospital for the criminally insane who talked about his lengthy interviews with Jutting in prison.

Professor Derek Perkins spent 15 hours with Jutting earlier this year talking about his early life, work and the death of the prostitutes.

Jutting opened up about his life and how it had spiralled out of control leading to the murder of two Indonesian prostitutes in October 2014.

Jutting, who has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denied murder, told Professor Perkins he wanted 'new experiences'.

The court has previously heard from UK based psychologist Dr Richard Latham that Jutting suffered from narcissistic personality disorder and sexual sadism disorder.

He had also been abused as a boy at top public school Winchester College and witnessed his father attempt suicide.

The court has been told Jutting was addicted to cocaine and violent pornography and tortured his first victim Sumarti Ningsih, 23, for three days before slitting her throat.

His second victim, 26-year-old Seneng Mujiasih, died after she tried to flee from his luxury high rise flat in Hong Kong.

A £350,000 a year highflying advisor with Bank of America Merrill Lynch he called police from his flat to confess.