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News Skye9 mobile app redefines entertainment with unlimited movie access Josephine Okojie
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he Nigeria entertainment industry has received a boost with the recent unveiling of unlimited access to African movies by Skye9 mobile app for subscribers. Skye9 is a local entertainment company as well as an app that provides audiences across Africa access to any African movie of their choice. It operates a business subscription model. Tosin Shodipo, head of sales, Skye9, said during a press conference recently in Lagos that the quest to come up with something innovative and competitive borne the Skye9 brand into the Nigerian market. “Our platform is a robust one and it is compatible with all devices ranging from mobile phones, ipads, PCs even on TV. You do not need to fret about heavy data consumption when you stream the movies as it consumes very less data and you can watch on full HD formats,” Shodipo said. “Skye9 is set to redefine the entertainment landscape and create a viable and preferred option across the world especially for Nigerians at home and in the
Diaspora. “We provide subscribers the benefit of a successful offering to fit their digital lifestyle becoming the largest online store house of Nollywood movies globally,” he added. He noted that Skye9 mobile app consumes less than 20 megabytes of data and that the brand subscription rate is one of the lowest in the industry. He stated that the business will continue to provide unique services for its subscribers, adding that the organisation pride itself in fully understanding customers needs while giving them quality service. Also speaking with journalists, Jumoke Awe, brand strategist, Octo Consultmarketing firm of the Skyep9 brand, said that the organisation has commissioned some movie producers to provide content for the platform. “Skye9 sponsor commissioned some producers to produce unique movies and other content for our platforms such as weddings and comedy that will be exclusively for us,” Awe said. “We also buy content as well. We ensure we launch two new movies every week on the platform and subscribers,” she said.
Concerns mount in Ijanikin, a Lagos suburb, over planned tanker terminal JOSHUA BASSEY
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oncerns are growing in Ijanikin, Ojo area of Lagos State over the planned siting of a petroleum tanker terminal within that locality, with the residents arguing the plan is tantamount to shifting a crisis from one part of the state to another without actually solving it. Some residents of the area are apprehensive that the planned development of the truck terminal means that the current congestion crisis in Apapa and its environs would be shifted to them. Although the Lagos State Government is yet to unveil the exact location to construct the truck terminal, the residents are worried that a large concentration of petroleum tankers and container bearing trucks in Ijanikin and its environs would impede traffic flow and unleash hardship on the densely populated area. “This is like shifting the
crisis from one part of the state to another. I believe this is not the best approach to solving the problem,” said Maduka Ikenna, a resident of Ijanikin, who advised the government to consider building the facility outside of the area fully occupied by people. Ikenna’s concerns are shared by Adebola Owoeye, another resident of Ijanikin, who noted that the planned truck terminal in Ijanikin was like going round a circle and ending up at the same spot. “Why not look for a land along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for example, to build the terminal and then make the call-up system very effective, such that only trucks that can tender genuine documents of having business to transaction in Apapa are allowed to start driving to Apapa. By choosing Ijanikin, a densely populated slum, they’re simply saying that rather than suffocating Apapa, let’s go suffocate the residents of residents. So at the end of the day, you would have succeeded in shifting the crisis from
Apapa to Ijanikin. The question to ask is what have you really achieved, because a little while the residents and businesses in Ijanikin would start crying out the same way Apapa is crying out today,” said Owoeye. Samson Adaka, another resident of the area, who sells used foot wears at the Ijanikin market, also expressed his concerns. According to Adaka, Ijanikin is already a troubling area given the bad state of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, and the trucks would only come to worsen the situation. “The government should think deeply about this decision,” he said. Recalled that the Lagos State government last weekend announced it was planning to develop a terminal to hold at least 5,000 trucks at Ijanikin in addition to the ABAT terminal which is being rehabilitated near Orile-Iganmu as part of the solution to the lingering congestion crisis in Apapa. The state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, who flagged off the rehabilita-
tion of the ABAT termina, said: “One of the resolutions during the stakeholders’ meeting we had the Vice President is that we should have authorised truck terminal park. And so my visit to this place today (last Sunday) is to flag off the reconstruction of this terminal so that we can accommodate 1000 trucks. “We would do this in collaboration with the Nigeria Ports Authority so that the call-up system can work efficiently. We are expanding this particular terminal by acquiring the adjoining land. We would use that primarily for nonpetroleum trucks so that we can sectionalised these trucks and allow the callup system to work. “I have also been briefed that we have an additional land space in Ijanikin that can accommodate 5000 trucks. We will explore that possibility immediately; all that we are doing is to make sure that there is a permanent solution to this whole idea of trucks destroying our bridges and roads”.
Kogi PDP urges Nigerians to uproot APC to avert anarchy Victoria Nnakaike, Lokoja
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HE People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Kogi St a t e , h a s e n joined Nigerians to join hands and uproot the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) before it further throws the country into a state of anarchy. The PDP equally raised the alarm that the ruling party had perfected plans to engage in vote-buying, adding that actions of the party in the state and at the national level in the last three years had shown that it lacked the capacity for governance. Speaking at a rally Ibrahim Idris, a former governor of the state, said the people of Kogi have experienced the governments of the PDP and that of the APC, saying they had become wiser now. The former governor
said for almost 13 years that the PDP governed the state, there were never reports of civil servants
that were dead because of non-payment of salaries, as he lamented that many had died in the last two-
and-half years of the present administration led by Yahaya Bello in the state. He also said that the ac-
tions of the party in the state and at the national level in the last three years had shown that it lacked
L-R: Yahav Levy, professor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme of Tel Aviv University, Israel; Uri Paz, lecturer, Recanati Executive MBA Programme, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Uche Anyanwagu, physician and clinical epidemiologist; Obichi Obiajunwa, founder and executive director, the HELP Fellowship; Nnamdi Ifeagwu, programme director, the Hutzpa Excellence Leadership Programme (HELP) Fellowship, and Emeka Okereke, professor of Finance, University of Port Harcourt, at the HELP Fellowship event held in Lagos, recently.
the capacity for governance. Idris, who governed the state between 2003 and 2012, said APC stood for deception as the people were deceived to vote for it in 2015. Also speaking, the immediate past governor of the state, Idris Wada, alleged that that APC had perfected plans to buy votes with huge sums of money. He however, charged the electorate to be vigilant, collect the money and vote according to their conscience and for the PDP, adding that the election had given the people an opportunity to express their dissatisfaction with the present administration by voting massively for the PDP. Senator Tunde Ogbeha, a former senator from Kogi west, pointed out that it was disheartening that the state government had been using security apparatus to harass members of the opposition.