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Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed President Muhammadu Buhari has approved extensive reformsin the broadcasting industry, including the licencing of online radio and television stations. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Friday when he received members of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on a courtesy visit in Abuja. Responding to a request made by BON for the review of the Broadcasting Code, he said, “I just want to use this opportunity to inform you that Mr President has actually already approved a review of the Broadcast Code that is going to take care of many of the issues you have already raised here.” “In particular, the President has approved that WebTVs and radio stations, including foreign broadcasters beaming signals into Nigeria, will be licensed because we must bring sanity into this industry. “Mr President has also approved a wide range of reforms in the industry which, at the appropriate pla...

The Kogi State National Assembly/State Assembly election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja, has cancelled Senator Dino Melaye’s election. The tribunal cancelled the Senator's election earlier today, Friday 23, August. It is recalled that Dino Melaye was declared the winner of the Kogi West Senatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in February. The results which was declared by INEC showed that Melaye, who contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) scored 85,395 votes to defeat Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress(APC), who polled 66,901 votes. Obviously unsatisfied with the election result Adeyemi approached the tribunal which in turn, ruled in his favour on Friday. A three-man panel led by Justice A. O. Chijioke in a unanimous judgment accepted Adeyemi’s ground and ordered for reelection into the Kogi West senatorial district.

South African media personality, Somizi Mhlongo and his actor fiancé, Mohale Motaung wedding date has been revealed after a long wait. The couple have been busy planning their wedding after getting engaged in March 2018 at Paris and it's been revealed they will be hooked in January 2020. Somizi announced their wedding date in an Instagram post, and also thanked his London-based friend for meeting up with him in Italy for lunch and catch-up. See the Instagram post: