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  Hushpuppi’s death By  Starhuq      Share By Sam Omatseye It is Ramon Abbas he bears. Even that name puzzles. Some reports anglicise his first name as Raymond. But it is Hushpuppi we know, poetic, lyrical and even symbolic. Hush implies silent, furtive, conspiratorial, shadowy. Puppy, in this regard, means playful like a week-old dog. That makes him a sly dog. But then it has other origin stories. Some others date it back to the founding of New Orleans that gives the world Mahdi Gras, an unhinged carnival for pilgrims of pleasure. An immigrant woman invented a snack of a ball out of cornmeal and the city called it hushpuppy. Their own incarnation of akara. Even then, Abbas’ nickname is spelt ending with an i instead of a y. The one picture that has trended of late features him in a shirt sporting a familiar brand Fendi. But another brand had been stalking him like a forest cat, slinking, longsuffering and calculating. It was a brand as counterforce: FBI. Nabbed...

  NIN-SIM linkage •The hammer falls at last By  G gdslove  On  Apr 8👥👥, 2022   Share It was bound to happen sooner than later: phone lines whose users are yet to have their Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards linked with their unique National Identification Number (NIN) have been partially tossed. The partial deactivation of the lines took effect last Monday to implement a policy unveiled by government in December 2000. In a joint statement, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the  National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced that subscribers who had not complied with the NIN-SIM linkage policy as of April 4 were being barred from outgoing calls and must do the needful before telecom operators could lift the restriction on their lines. It was not categorically stated, but the implication of the partial deactivation was that concerned subscribers yet had a leeway to receive calls, use short message services and access onli...