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Skit makers now risk arrest if they release their skits or contents without the approval of the relevant government agency. This announcement might be shocking to the industry players but that is the reality and regulations. The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) announced plans to arrest skitmakers releasing online content without approval. The board, led by Shaibu Husseini, issued a social media statement warning filmmakers and content creators to stop producing, promoting, and distributing unapproved content on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter. The statement expressed growing concern over the proliferation of content violating Nigeria’s censorship laws. “The attention of the National Film and Video Censors Board has been drawn to the activities of some unscrupulous filmmakers/content creators who are clearly flouting the provisions of the country’s law with impunity,” it began. The NFVCB specifically targeted same-sex content, declaring it illegal i...

Late DC Etop Essien  Etop Andrew Essien, a Deputy Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs died instantly while answering questions from House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts.  Essien who was born in November 1967, joined the NCS in 1989. He hailed from Nsit-Ubium LGA in Akwa Ibom state. The Media had reported that a senior customs officer have reportedly collapse and died during probe by the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee. Essiens last words were; “Sir, I may need to take water". Those were his last words approximately five minutes into his presentation before the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee. His request was obliged. But he slumped and passed on. Ironically, when the Customs chieftain walked into the National Assembly Complex, on Tuesday, there was no indication that he would not walk out of the parliament alive. He looked hale and hearty and walked spritely. Andrew had led a team of top customs officers to the House of Rep...

Against the popular age long practice of storing cooked food in refrigerators for days and weeks by Nigerians, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Administration and Control, NAFDAC has urged Nigerians to refrain from storing cooked food in the refrigerator for more than three days. Professor Moji Adeyeye the DG of NAFDAC  warned that cooked food stored in the refrigerator for days is susceptible to contamination by disease-causing pathogens, key agents of foodborne diseases that can lead to death. She made this known in a statement on Tuesday signed by Sayo Akintola, the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, News360 Nigeria gathered Adeyeye, who said this in commemoration of the 2024 World Food Safety Day with the theme, ‘Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected’, urged stakeholders in the food supply chain to take deliberate actions to institute a food safety culture in their operations to mitigate food hazards and risks that could compromise food safety. The Wo...

Former Governor of Anambra State and former Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has said that President Tinubu has kept to his campaign promises. Mr. Obi made the assertion while featuring as guest this evening in a prime time democracy day interview on Arise Television. According to Peter Obi President Tinubu during his campaign ahead of 2023 elections, promised to continue from where Former President Muhammadu Buhari stopped, adding that Tinubu has kept to his words by taking the economy, insecurity, corruption, borrowing and flagrant disregard for the rule of law from bad to worst as he promised. On the democracy day celebration taking place today, June 12, Mr. Obi says all indices of democracy and its supposed benefits to the people are unfortunately on a downward slide in the country beginning from credible elections, economy, transparency in governance, and absence of democratic dividends. In his words, “The first question to ask is are we practicing democra...

 The 2023 Presidential Candidates of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has faulted the model of democracy currently practiced in Nigeria, describing it as a “state capture”.  Mr. Obi made the assertion while featuring as guest this evening in a prime time democracy day interview on Arise Television. According to Mr. Obi all indices of democracy and it’s supposed benefits to the people are unfortunately on a download slide in the country beginning from credible elections, economy, transparency in governance, and absence of democratic dividends. “The first question to ask is are we practicing democracy? The answer is that what we are practicing is state capture, and those that captured it have also taken all the benefits accrued to us via democracy. It’s unfortunate”.  Speaking on and on, Peter Obi when asked to rate President Tinubu’s performance in the last one year in office, said that in his opinion President Tinubu has kept to his campaign promises of continuing from whe...

The Chief Coach of the Nigeria National Team, Finidi George has opened up on his reason for leaving in-form super eagles striker, Victor Boniface on the bench during the all important cracker between Nigeria and South Africa in Uyo. Despite tantrums thrown by Nigerians at the coach, on why the promising striker was on the bench, Finidi explained that the circumstances on the field of play prompted a change in plans resulting in the sacrificing of Boniface’s play time to maintain equilibrium on the pitch.  In his words at the post-match press interview “We thought about bringing him in, he was supposed to come in, but when we had Ajayi complain that he couldn’t continue, we had to reverse that,” Finidi acknowledged. The coach noted a tactical shift, ultimately leading to Boniface’s exclusion from the match. However, the coach was quick to reassure fans that the talented forward’s opportunity may still come. “We have another game definitely if he’s up and doing he’s going to play,” h...