Shun Breaking News, Sensationalism, INEC Tells Journalists
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mobile Magistrate Court has remanded Binta Dahiru, 33, and her husband Dahiru Musa, 37 in Kuje Prison for erecting an illegal structure in violation of section 35 (1).
They are also being prosecuted for obstruction contrary to section 36 (2) of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) Act No 10, 1997.
The prosecutor Barr. Eze E. Eze, while arraigning the plaintiffs before Magistrate Musa Jobbo, said the couple’s action contravened Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) Act No 10, 1997.
Binta Dahiru, during her trial, feigned ignorance of biting the Niger Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer during Wednesday’s clean-up of illegal structures in Katampe Extension, Abuja, by the FCT task force team led by the senior special assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah, and later admitted to the crime.
Admitting them on bail, Justice Jobbo told the plaintiffs Binta and Musa to pay N100,000 each and with a surety or be remanded in prison on failure to meet the bail conditions.
Attah, who reacted to the ruling, said it would be a deterrent to others fond of attacking uniform personnel.
“For us, in FCTA it is a very encouraging one, we thank the officers for being very civil, despite the attack they didn’t fire the woman that chopped off the flesh of the NSCDC officer.
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his condolences over the demise of an academic, administrator and politician, Dr Shettima Mustapha.
Buhari said Mustapha left behind an indelible record of contributions to national development.
In a statement issued by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, he said Mustapha served as minister of agriculture and natural resources and in 2007 was appointed minister of defence in the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. He later became the minister of interior.
“The late Shettima was indomitable, full of life and insightful. He had a strong belief in Nigeria’s strength and capabilities. He inspired many generations of Nigerians to believe in our agriculture,” Buhari said.
“My condolences to his family, the government and people of Borno State and his many admirers. We will miss him greatly but we will never forget him,” Buhari said.
Nutrition experts have appealed to the federal government to implement the Child Right Act signed into law in 2003 and ensure improvement in the nutrition value of foods given to children, saying its implementation would add to the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country.
This was part of the views expressed at a workshop organised by the National Council on Nutrition (NCN) on the topic, “Communicating to inspire change dialogue on Nutrition”.
Speaking at the event yesterday in Lagos, the chief nutritionist
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has charged media houses in the country to shun breaking news, sensational headlines, tilting of for United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Mrs. Nemat Hajeebnoy, said about 100 children die per hour in Nigeria on a daily basis due to malnutrition
To this end, she urged the federal government to do everything within its power to change the narrative, because the high rate of mortality due to malnutrition is not good for Nigeria’s image.
She said since Nigeria signed the Child Right Act, there was nothing on ground to show that the government cared about the rights of the children. stories so as not to heat up the polity.
INEC’s national commissioner and chairman of Information and Voter Education, Barr Festus Okoye, made the call at a one-day workshop organised by the national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists
Hajeebnoy said from research carried out, only one-third of children given birth to in Nigeria has access to good feeding, just as she advised nursing mother, to exclusively breast feed their children for at least six months after birth because the development of their brain and nutrition level had not been completed in the womb before their birth.
Earlier, the special assistant to the president on nutrition, Mrs. Abimbola Adesanmi, said NCNon is saddled with the responsibility of tackling the issue of malnutrition by developing and monitoring programmes
(NUJ) on conflict sensitive reporting and the 2023 general elections.
Represented by the commission’s deputy director of publicity, Mrs Chinwe Ogbuka, Okoye said some mainstream media houses had gravitated towards online journalism with the attendant that promote nutritional value.
She said the workshop was to engage the media and make them understand how messy the issue of malnutrition had become in Nigeria, stressing that the issue of nutrition should be addressed now and in the future.
In his remark, Alhaji Jamil Abdallah, who represented the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, said the workshop was an opportunity to sensitise media practitioners to promote nutrition values to the national development, noting that nutrition would be a panacea to the development of the country. quest for breaking news and in the process, the information is sometimes unverified.
He listed sensational headlines, deliberate falsehood to drive traffic and tilting reports towards religious, zonal and ethnic narratives as other negatives that affect their activities.