Archive for month: January, 2020

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An Abuja High Court has sentenced the Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Olusegun Runsewe, to prison. Justice Jude Okeke made the order on Thursday while ruling on a motion drawn from a suit filed by Ummakalif Limited against Minister of the FCT, Federal Capital...

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The National Universities Commission (NUC) has unbundled Mass Communication into seven separate degree programs. Apart from the fact that Mass Communication, as a stand-alone degree programme, it is too wide, the move is also to meet present demands and it takes effect from 2020 admissions into Nigerian universities. NUC’s...

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Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to implement the 70% local content in broadcasting under the new broadcast regulations. The new regulations also frown against illegal and unpaid use of musical works by broadcast stations without payment of royalties. It...

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Netflix has been ordered by a Brazilian judge to stop showing a film depicting Jesus as a gay man and which prompted a gasoline bomb attack on the satirists behind the film. The ruling by Rio de Janeiro judge, Benedicto Abicair, on Wednesday responded to a petition by a...

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A fire outbreak that started around 11:00 pm on Tuesday at Red Bricks quarters, #Maiduguri Road, #Damaturu, #YobeState, claimed the lives of a pregnant woman and her three children. Giving an account of the incident, Usman Habu, an officicer of the Yobe State Fire Service Station, said: . “As we arrived at the...

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