Mahmood Ahmadu – The senior management of New Works Nigeria Limited, comprising of the Chairman, Alh. Mahmood Ahmadu mon, Turakin Mubi, alongside his Chief Operating Officer Mr Anthony Nwachukwu, Managing Director Abubakar Kuso mni, and Company Secretary Bar. Rowena Ogbetuo paid a courtesy call on the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Muhammad Babandede on October 4th in Abuja.

The purpose of the courtesy visit was to commence talks on how the two organizations can efficiently deliver effective and enhanced service to Nigerians within the context of their existing relationship in facilitating passport and visa payments.

The Chairman of New Works Nigeria Limited Alh. Mahmood Ahmadu who commended the CGI Babandede for the giant strides and efforts he has implemented to ensure Nigeria issues Biometric Visas in line with international best practices. Alh. Mahmood Ahmadu also cited the improved technology as the bases for the global rating of Nigerian Visa as Number 3 in the world in terms of security and other features.

The CGI Babandede in response thanked the management of New Works Nigeria Limited for being supportive and technologically enabling the services rendered by NIS in Visa issuance and payment platform for Visa and Passport, which if improved upon will further bring ease of doing business to Nigerians applying for Passport and Foreigners applying for Visa to Nigeria.

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Both New Works Nigeria Limited and NIS Management agreed to work together to deliver the best service to Nigerians and Non-Nigerians. A signed statement issued by Deputy Comptroller General (DCI) James Sunday said that the Chairman of New Works Nigeria Limited was full of praise for the great work being done by the CGI and his team.

Source – https://newsdiaryonline.com/

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Over the last two weeks, an outpouring of support for Nigerian protesters has played out on Twitter, with various hashtags, but predominantly #EndSARS.

Sars stands for the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

Accusations of Sars officers robbing, attacking and even killing people go back years but a new wave of protest started at the beginning of October.

The Tweeter, who calls himself Chinyelugo, told the BBC that he normally keeps a low profile on Twitter but that he personally had been harassed by the police previously so when a friend told him about what appeared to be another attack by police he felt the need to tweet it.

“If Sars see you as a young person who is successful with a nice car, they will harass you and extort money from you,” he explained.

He later tweeted video of what he said was the young man shot by police.

The video appeared to be from an Instagram stories post by an account by someone who describes themselves as Azakaza Sarah – a brand ambassador.

Her posts are normally a mixture of posing in fishnet tights and promoting body scrubs.

It’s possible that this video had already passed from the person who filmed it, through many different people, and WhatsApp groups before it reached Azakaza Sarah.

A few people who the Nigerian press described as social media influencers, and later described themselves as “accidental leaders” took up the cause.

The BBC’s Nduka Orjinmo says the real energy was injected on Wednesday 7 October, four days after the tweet about the man being shot, when Rinu Oduala, a woman who describes herself as a media strategist, persuaded other protesters to spend the night outside government house in Lagos.

In the early days of the protests BBC Nigeria correspondent Mayeni Jones observed an interesting digital protest which could explain why this protest got so much more attention than previously.

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The organisers appeared to be attempting to shame brands and journalists by tagging their twitter handles in tweets and asking them why they weren’t covering the protests.

Here’s one directed at broadcaster DSTV.

Source – https://www.bbc.co.uk/

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