Farooq Kperogi: Buhari’s phantom $500M donation to Clinton’s campaign

by Farooq A. Kperogi
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s emergence as America’s president-elect, fringe, dodgy, clickbaity Nigerian websites have invented a transparently fake but wildly viral story that President Muhammadu Buhari donated $500 million to the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, and that this “fact” would strain relations between Nigeria and the United States next year when Trump is sworn in as president.
I initially ignored the story because I didn’t think anybody with even the littlest brain cell in their head would believe it. But the lie has now taken a life of its own; it is being shared and reshared on multiple social media platforms and has become a talking point in many online conversations. Many people,

Plateau Peace Concert holds in December

ARRANGEMENTS have been concluded for the hosting of the 12th Edition of the Plateau Peace concert 2016 in collaboration with the Plateau State government to be held at the Hill Station Hotel, conference Hall, Jos.
A statement issued by the President, Maryann international Ministry Pastor Maryam Mutle indicated that the event would take place on December 10th and 11th respectively.
According to her, events lined up for the first day would be peace walk from the Rwang Pam Township Stadium by 7.00am through some major streets in the city centre while activities for 11th December, would features dinner, Peace Award and concert starting by 2.00pm at the Hill Station Hotel Jos.
The president who is also a Peace Ambassador pointed out that the Plateau, Peace Concert 2016 would involve all tribes and faiths in one love, to demonstrate the return of peace on the Plateau under the Rescue Team of Governor Simon Lalong.
She said the concert, with the theme “Plateau United” is expected to feature TOWOF Singers, Aaron Damap, Ezra Jinang, Peace Band, daring Jah and government Hose chapel Band among others.
According to her, all the events were open to all peace livers on the Plateau, adding that the inter faith event was held in Bauchi Zaranda Hotel, Taraba and Adamawa among others.
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PLHA confirms PLASIEC nominees

Plateau State House of Assembly has screened and confirmed the nominees earlier presented by the Plateau State Governor Simon Bako Lalong for the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission PLASIEC.
The confirmed nominees who are eight in number were screened one by one after being introduced by members of the House from the local government they came from.
Out of the eight nominees only two, Dr. Stephen Hirse and Mr James Dashan addressed the House, but the remaining six were told to take a bow and leave which they did.
The first to screened was the proposed chairman Commission, Mr. Fabian Ntung Ari from Qua’an-Pan local government area after which Comrade Patrick Mamgin from Mikang local government, Mr. Joshua Perfum from Pankshin local government, Dr. Stephen Hirse, Mangu local governemnt, Mr. Lamidi Tangenze, from Bassa local Government, Mrs. Hafsatu Hassan Amin from Wase Local Government as well as Mr Adala Peter from Jos North and Mr James Dashan from Bokkos followed suit.
It would be recalled that the Plateau State Governor Barr, Simon Bako Lalong in a communication to the Plateau State House of Assembly, on Tuesday 8, November, 2016 presented the names of the eight nominees to serve as members of the State Independent Electoral Commission.
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Plateau State Govt Plans 22,500 Housing Units.

PLATEAU State Government, has concluded plans for the foundation laying of over twenty two thousand, five hundred (22,500) housing units spread across nine (9) sites by next month to ease the accommodation needs of citizens in the state.
The State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Malam Muhammad Nazif, disclosed this at the monthly Ministerial Media briefing for the month of November, held at the conference Hall of his Ministry at the J.D. Gomwalk Secretariat in Jos.
He said, “Government is concerned about shelter for its citizens. In this regard, it has signed MoUs with developers under the Public Private Sector Participation cheme to construct 22,500 housing units at nine sites. The Executive Governor has already approved the appointment of FHA Mortgage Bank, Abuja as the primary mortgage institution for the housing program to commence immediately.
We are also happy to say that our desire to keep our roads motorable has been boosted with the arrival of two road patchers. This had earlier been procured by the Ministry of Housing and Urban

See epic reply a dad gave his son who wrote a long NYSC camp list

A new set of corps members will be in camp by the end of this month, and as usual most people have started preparing. Twitter user, @ajibz_tosin wrote the list of things he'd need for camp and posted in his family's Whatsapp group.

See more of the list and his dad's reply after the cut...

Police release official statement on viral jungle justice on 'boy' allegedly killed over garri

Lagos state Police PRO, Dolapo Badmus, has today released an official statement addressing the Lagos mob action against an alleged 'garri thief' which has grabbed the attention of the country.

 She said investigation is currently going on and the perpetrators of the gruesome act will be arrested and prosecuted. Continue after the cut

My S3X Life with my Neighbour's Daughter (EPISODE 3)

….. It was from this torturously slow pace that, in no time at all, I climaxed into her. I was kind disappointed in myself because I didn’t actually enjoy the sex the way I wanted to. I felt for her because she didn’t achieve orgasm.

When I was pleading with her immediately my phone rang immediately I woke up behold it was a dream. As I woke from this lovely and sweet dream of mine I realize that my boxer was covered in my sperm. I had to go into the bath room to wash myself up and get ready for evening football training.

Photo of the Sexiest Man Alive..

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is named Sexiest Man Alive

People Magazine has named Dwayne Johnson its 2016 Sexiest Man Alive. The Rock is the second non-white man to hold the title after Denzel Washington.
Dwayne, 44, stands at 6-foot-5 and weighs 245 pounds.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is promoting his new movie, an animated Disney film Moana. He’s also filming the Jumanji remake and will be in the eighth edition of Fast and Furious set for a 2017 release.

PHOTOS: President Buhari Arrives Morocco..

 

President Buhari who departed Abuja yesterday and was accomapanied by Chairman Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Environment Amina Mohammed, Chairman House Committee on Climate Change, Hon. Samuel Onuigbo, Chairman House Commitee on Environment Senator Oluremi Tinubu arrived safely in Morocco ahead of Climate Change Conference COP 22 in Marrakech. More photos after the cut...

Former Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, is dead

The 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, is dead.

Mr. Dasuki died in a private hospital in Abuja on Monday night, family Premium Times reports.

The deceased is the father to former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is currently facing corruption charges.


The ex-Sultan died at the age of 93. He was deposed as Sultan by the former military dictator, Sani Abacha, in 1996.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Nine )

ECONOMIC RELEVANCE OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM TO THE BROADCAST MEDIA IN NIGERIA

Considering the fact that the sole aim of establishing any media enterprise is profit oriented, most media establishments tend to patronize more of western media content because it is cheaper to buy foreign media content than to produce  local programmes. In doing this, the broadcast media saves some reasonable amount of money for other purpose. Importing foreign media content also saves a broadcast media establishment the cost of sending correspondence outside the country of its operation get news story.

EFFECTS OF FOREIGN CULTURE ON THE LIVES OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS

Rattle by the current stiff competition by the television stations, the Nigerian television industry has continued feeding viewers with foreign programmes at the expense of

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Eight )

2.7       REASONS FOR CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN NIGERIA

There are a lot of reasons for cultural imperialism in broadcast media in Nigeria.

 FINANCE: The economy of the country is not in a good shape due to mismanagement and outright corruption. The financial crunch resulting from the bad economy acts like an incubus on television especially with regard to such programmes that involve huge financial stakes. Mid January, 2006, ten (10) broadcasting organizations (including some television stations) were closed down by the NBC for failure to fulfill their financial obligations to the commission, to enable the renewal of their broadcast licenses (Osakue and Elo, 2010). According to Silas Yisa (then Director General of the Commission) “after a mutually agreed decision in which the affected broadcasters were to pay half of the amount owed, most of them still refused to pay their debt, some as old as the day the stations commenced operations” (personal communication, January 19, 2006, cited in Osakue and Elo, 2010).  In a situation like this, the broadcast media may find it impossible to do their own programmes.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Seven)

2.6       THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM THROUGH THE BROADCAST MEDIA

The term imperialism occurs in different spheres of our human endeavours. The term Imperialism is associated with political, economical, social and cultural domination by a powerful nation over a less powerful nation. In this case, they western countries (developed countries) appear to be dominating the third world countries that happen to have inadequate technological power to compete with these technologically advanced countries of the world.
A man’s pride lies in his confidence and his personality is greatly nurtured in his culture. Man is essentially the product of his culture; it beats and moulds a person into a particular shape. Culture makes one speak, dance, think and behave in a particular way. As soon as a child is born, nature assigns him the task of actualizing himself through culture; it is culture that makes one Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Kanuri, Tiv, Eggon etc. Nigerian youths are the most vulnerable victims of cultural imperialism. Most of them can no longer speak the Nigerian local languages. Our mode of dressing has been totally distorted by western civilization through foreign films and broadcast media content. Today

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Six)

2.4       The Concept of television viewership 

            TV programmes are design and packaged to attract and retain audience viewership interest and the same time influence behavioural attitude.

            This account for why TV performs socializing functions as well as social control functions

Nwosu (2004, p.32) explained the social change intent/focus of TV foreign programme thus:

The culture, politics, the sophistication of society has crime about principally through communication of forces knowledge, influence and development.

Through TV programmes issues are raised and agenda is set for discussion which helps in the formation of public opinion and influence.

It therefore suffices that the consistent repetition of foreign TV programmes either soap operas, talk shows etc set raise an issue for public debate for the purpose of opinion formation, attitude change and impact.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Five)

2.3       The concept of TV programming

Programming is the basis of TV messages transmission. TV message content is packaged disseminated in the form of programmes. The act of TV programming according to Duru (2002,p.134): “Is a segmental activity that presumes organization materials into a coherent programme service suitable to the target audience”.

Every TV programmes must be thus be packaged to carry out the functions of the press. Explaining these functions, Nwosu (2004, p.31-34) noted the following:

Importance in the discussion and debate, importance on social control, importance in social change, importance in industrial complex.

Analyzing the advantages of TV at carry out the afore stated functions Nwaeze and Nkoli noted

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Four)

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1     INTRODUCTION

The world information flow controversy is perhaps the most topical issue in international communities today. This global controversy is basically about the demand by the south for a change in the present pattern of information flow between it and the north. The south also knows that the third world or under developed or developing countries of the world contends that there is gross unbalance both in quality and quantity, in global information flow between the south and the north, also known as the first world countries of the world.

            This unbalance according to the south has placed it at the receiving end as developing countries are daily bombarded with information and other media materials which do not meet their development needs and more importantly tend to debase their culture and portray them as inferior in the eyes of all.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part three)

1.8       SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This study is delimited to full- time students of University of Nigeria Nsukka community located in Nsukka Local Government of Enugu  State. The researcher shall however, study subset of students population. Hence, 300 level students of Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies  and Mass Communication departments will be studied.

The researchers’ choice of these departments is justified from the inter relationship between their courses and Western television content. The assumption is they are better equipped to provide relevant answers to the research questions.

1.9       LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Two)

1.3       STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

There is no doubt that western television programmes have offered a lot of meaning and purpose to the social lives of Nigerian students. Some students see them as a way to shake up and release tensions. Some others value their entertainment functions and some see them as a way to keep in touch with the so called latest fashion trend.  Whichever way the youths perceive western television programmes, is an indication of their bias against local programmes.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes.

CHAPTER ONE

1.1       INTRODUCTION

Communication is the transmission of a message from a source to a receiver (Baran, 2009). Communication is the engine room that sustains the existence of the human society. Communication is also the motor and expression of civilization and human activity. This view of communication has been identified with the writing of Political Scientist Harold Lasswell (1948). He said that the convenient way to describe communication is to answer these questions: who says what, through what Channel, to whom and with what effect?

Strange!!!! Baby born with teeth (Photo)

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I wish all my kids came from one woman –Tuface

Nigeria music iconic, Innocent Ujah Idibia, aka Tuface, in this interview talks about his music, life and inspiration.
Read excerpts after the cut...

These ladies boobs baring outfits got people talking (Photos)

Fashionable, stylish or tacky? Another after the cut...

30-year-old woman reveals why she married boyfriend who infected her with HIV

This is the love story of a postgraduate student, Talatu John, who got married to the man who infected her with HIV.

Her misery started after a scary dream on June 24, 2016. It was five months to her wedding. Thirty-year-old Talatu John (not real name), a postgraduate student of a university in the North, woke up feeling disturbed.It was not the first time she had nightmares, but this particular day was different.