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Use social media positively to promote peace, development – Don tells youths
A don, Abdulmutalib Gambo-Dauda, on Tuesday called on the youths to use social media positively to promote peace and ensure speedy development in Nigeria.
Gambo-Dauda a lecturer with the Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, made the call in a paper:”Social Media Ethics, Security, Unity and Agitation for Sustainable Development”.
News reports that the round-table discussion with theme:”Bridging the Divide, Youth as Agents of Construction, not Destruction,” was organised by the National Youth Council of Nigerian(NYCN), Toto Local Government.
”There is positive anecdotal evidence that social media can contribute to peace-building by improving knowledge for conflict prevention and increasing contact and understanding between opposing groups.
”Social media can facilitate peace by encouraging valuable dialogue between people from different ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds.
” However social media can also be used to create divides when people abuse it,” he said.
Gambo- Dauda called on the youths and other Nigerians to use the social media wisely in their interest and for the overall development of the country.
He urged the youths to embrace education and other meaningful ventures in order to contribute their quota to the development of the society.
The don also charged social media handlers not to deviate from its ethnics but validate the legitimacy of messages sent across by acknowledging the sources of the information to avoid causing chaos.
He urged Toto elites to provide jobs to the teeming youth population, as well as unite the people irrespective of their affiliations for development to thrive.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the occasion, Mr Yakubu Galadima, a legal practitioner and Alhaji Mohammed Musa- Maikaya, President, Toto Development Association commended the youths for organising the discussion.
They said that the event would promote unity and peaceful co-existence among the youths and other people of the area.
Earlier, the Chairman, NYCN Toto Local Government, Mr Musa Bashir said the discussion was organised to educate youths on using the social media to promote unity and peace among all ethnic groups.
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Stop using repressive laws to intimidate journalists – SERAP, NGE tell FG
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, have called on Nigerian authorities at all levels of government to stop using repressive and anti-media laws to target, intimidate and harass journalists, critics and media houses.
The groups made the demand after an interactive session on ‘the state of press freedom in Nigeria’ held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Ikeja.
In a joint statement, SERAP and NGE said that, “the government of President Bola Tinubu, the country’s 36 governors and FCT minister must now genuinely uphold press freedom, ensure access to information to all Nigerians, obey court judgments, and respect the rule of law”.
They expressed concerns about the escalating crackdown on the right to freedom of expression and media freedom and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law by authorities at all levels of government.
The groups note that the suppression of the press in recent times takes various forms ranging from extrajudicial to unlawful detentions, disappearances, malicious prosecutions and wrongful use of both legislation and law enforcement.
The statement read in part: “We would continue to speak truth to power and to hold authorities to account for their constitutional and international obligations including on freedom of expression and media freedom.
“Nigeria as a country has a long and unpleasant history of press gagging and clampdown on media freedom, which is evidence of extensive state censorship of media and in some cases, the utter control of state-owned media houses.
“This position has not changed considerably despite almost 25 years of unbroken democratic rule in the Fourth Republic.”
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Tax: Court orders FCT-IRS agency to seal off defaulting coys
A Magistrate Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) to seal off a company, Ifedi A.K. Nigeria Ltd, over allegations bordering on non-filing of annual returns.
The Magistrate, Janada Balami, gave the order after lawyer to FCT-IRS, Michael Towolawi, moved the application to the effect.
Towolawi told the court that the company had failed to file its annual returns from 2019 to 2023 in breach of Section 81 of the Personal Income Tax Act, LFN, 2004, and amended in 2011.
He said all efforts to make the company comply with the law proved abortive.
The lawyer, therefore, applied that the company be compel to appear before the court to explain why it acted in breach of the law.
Balami, who held that the application by the agency against the company had merit, accordingly granted same to seal the No 6, Rudolph Close, Off Katsina-Ala Street, Maitama, Abuja.
She, consequently, ordered the company, the sole defendant in the matter, to appear before the court on May 16.
The Director, Legal Services of the FCT-IRS, Festus Tsavar, told journalists after the proceeding that the service would move against companies that do not file their annual returns as provided by law.
“You know that we have a new minister in FCT that is doing a lot of projects and that hinges on money.
“And of course, you are aware that FCT has come out of TSA.
“So it is the internally generated revenue that will make the government of FCT to be able to do those projects completely within required time,” he said.
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