NUJ GIVES RIVERS POLICE 14 DAYS TO APOLOGIZE FOR ASSAULTING JOURNALISTS OR FACE MEDIA BLACKOUT. (PHOTO).

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  The Rivers State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Rivers State Police Command, demanding a public apology for the assault on five journalists during a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt. Failure to comply, the union warned, would result in a statewide media blackout. In a statement jointly signed by Council Chairman Comrade Paul Bazia and Secretary Dr. Ijeoma Tubosia, the NUJ condemned the police actions as “unprovoked, barbaric, and inhuman,” calling for the immediate identification and prosecution of the officers involved. “The NUJ, as a watchdog of society, will not sit idly by while media practitioners are subjected to barbarism and brutality. Enough is enough,” the statement read, adding that further attacks on journalists would be “vehemently resisted.” The assaulted journalists—Charles Opurum of Channels TV, Allwell Ene of Naija FM, Soibelemari Oruwari of Nigeria Info, Ikezam Godswill of AIT, and Femi Ogunkhilede of Supe...

BANKS IN DUBAI ARE ORDERED TO CLOSE DOWN,NIGERIAN CITIZEN'S BANK ACCOUNTS,TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING.

          According to sources who spoke to a top official of the Dubai Financial services Authority,DFSA,explained that the move is a fall out of the country's new Central Bank Laws,prohibiting Nigerians not working in the UAE from possessing accounts in any local or foreign banks.With the new monetary laws by the Emirate apex bank,all accounts of Nigerians that are not linked to work in the UAE have been closed and cheques issued in favour of the customers cashable in five working days.Investigations revealed that politicians who have stashed away huge sums of money in Dubai and other locations in the UAE are already panicking over the fate of their money and are moving to safeguard their finances.The government source said ''I's going to be a huge scandal for politicians and businessmen who go to Dubai to hide their money.And if really they are closing non salary accounts of Nigerians in Dubai,we are going to see something we have never seen before,scandals''.

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