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By Eguono Odjegba Sea port ASSOCIATION of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, has called on the Federal Government to declare a force majeure on imports and exports operations in the ports with immediate effect. ANLCA, in an open letter to the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said it is fully in support of Federal Government efforts to contain the spread of the virus through partial lock-down of industrial and business activities, and argued that a force majeure will not only suppress the spread of the deadly virus but also create a buffer against unquantifiable economic loses which accumulated port charges and fees will impose on the port economy and the port business community at the end of the COVID-19 crisis. The letter signed by the ANLCAs National President, Mr. Uju Nwabunike, stated that “whereas partial and total lockdown by various states has immediately taken adverse toll on all imports and exports, presently trapped in the various gateways to the nation; demurrages...

•Why Pantami, Danbatta must work together •How Telcos’demands could be met •What NCC”s order on collocation may achieve Pantami-Danbatta-Inuwa By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor President Muhammadu Buhari, overlooked the melodrama between the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr  Ibrahim Pantami, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta and the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, during the launch of the digital economy complex Ombura, Abuja recently, to charge them on closing the access gaps in the country. The president who listened to claims and counter claims from the three stakeholders on their contributions towards the developments in the sector, however, charged them to ensure that telecom operators in the country, met the targets set in the new National Broadband Plan 2020-2025 by giving special attention to the un-served and underse...

President Muhammadu Buhari HAVING heard from President Muhammadu Buhari the measures the Federal Government is taking in partnership with states and patriotic individuals to contain the Coronavirus pandemic, there are further measures we want to see in the comings days. We must all bear in mind that though the Federal Government and President Buhari must provide the leadership in mobilising (as it has done) the enormous institutional and financial resources at its disposal, the main hands-on fight is at the state, local government, community, family and individual levels. We must all be involved and do our part. Awareness must continue to be drummed up through all available means. The big danger is that the vast majority of Nigerians are not fully aware that Nigeria is a potential disaster zone. Some foreign countries, such as Israel, appear to have taken proactive steps to escape a putative explosion of infections in Nigeria by evacuating their citizens. The numbers appear very...

•The BBC team at the session By Prince Osuagwu One month after, the echoes of Social Media Week Lagos SMWL, is still reverberating. One of the major reasons this social gathering still makes impact long after it held, appears to be the relevance of the sessions and quality of discussions they attract during and after the event. As a platform that specifically champions the course of social media for social good, it may not be surprising that a play-back of some of the sessions, find themselves at the heart of developments in the society, weeks and months after. For instance, the British Broadcasting Corporations, BBC’s session “the growing audiences in a competitive digital space” appears to have anticipated the tough information management Nigeria and other countries of the world are grappling with now, with the rampaging Coronavirus pandemic gaining tremendous ground across the world. Although the aim of the session, was more about explaining how BBC has had to change its reach...

By Juliet Umeh Cyber security company, SophosLabs has revealed that email scams associated with coronavirus, COVID-19 have nearly tripled in the past weeks. According to Uncut blog, the scammers are using domain names like spam, phishing attacks, and malware to attack people’s devices. For instance, the criminals are using different means such as fake shipping and delivery emails to convince unsuspecting victims into opening attachments and infecting their computers with the Kryptik Trojan. The report revealed that attackers are increasingly impersonating the World Health Organization, WHO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, North America and the United Nations, UN, as evidenced in scams tracked by SophosLabs. Speaking on the development, Sophos Principal Research Scientist, Chester Wisniewski, said: “Cybercriminals are wasting no time in shifting their dirty, tried and true attack campaigns toward advantageous lures that prey on mountin...

•As oil demand sets to drop further by 10 % — Report By Udeme Akpan With the outbreak of coronavirus in China and spread to other economies, including Nigeria, crude oil price has dropped from over $60 to $22 per barrel. This occurred as the disease has culminated in the closure of many oil-driven industries in China, accounting for two-third of global demand growth and other nations, thus creating a serious glut in the volatile market. However, the situation is set to worsen in the coming weeks following fears that global oil demand will soon plunge by more than 10 per cent from the typical 100 million barrels per day, bpd, consumption, as the raging coronavirus pandemic otherwise known as COVID-19 forces countries into lockdown, as global demand is expected to drop further because of the pandemic. In its latest report, International Energy agency, IEA, stated: “Global oil demand is expected to decline in 2020 as the impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the w...

Onikan Isolation Centre Lagos By Bose Adelaja, Olayinka Latona & Rose Chukwu “We have seen what reasonable countries did in this crisis, like giving the citizens some money to sustain them while they stay home. “What’s our government doing? Nothing! They expect us to stay at home and die of Povid-20, hunger? Feed the poor masses if you want them to stay at home, otherwise be ready for the death of all because there’s nowhere to run to now.” -Bakare Oluwaseun,  Activist “The response to the pandemic is quite commendable but not enough because, aside from the isolation centres in each state, government did not provide anything for Nigerians to live on after declaring a total lockdown in some states. “They should provide money for everyone. That will save the masses.” -Akintunde Johnson, Media practitioner ALSO READ:  Buhari’s COVID-19 package (1) “They are doing their best. It wouldn’t have gotten to this extent if the borders were shut at the initial stage....