500 Lagos students partake in U.S. Consulate-backed STEM workshops
More than 500 high school students from underserved communities of Agege, Alimosho and Ifako-Ijaiye in Lagos Education District 1, participated in a series of STEM workshops sponsored by the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos. The workshops were held between October 12 and 28. During the workshops, the students learnt how to build, programme, and fly drones, computer coding, solar panel assembly, weather...
EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria seeks $360m loan for mosquito nets, malaria drugs, surveillance
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) is seeking $360 million loan for the purchase of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) and malaria drugs, and for surveillance activities for its malaria programme. This is contrary to the $200 million that was disclosed during the budget presentation by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mahmuda Mamman. The Star reports authoritatively that two key donors in...
UBA GMD, Kennedy Uzoka, wins ‘Finovator of the Year’ Award
The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc., Kennedy Uzoka, has been announced as the winner of the Finovator of the Year’ Award for the year 2021. The Finovator of the Year’ Award is organised by the Finnovex West Africa Awards 2021, co-located with Finnovex West Africa Virtual Summit. Uzoka was selected as the winner of the...
Lawmakers’ thugs clash as embattled Plateau speaker, colleagues meet
The crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly continued on Monday as rival thugs supporting the two contending sides clashed at the assembly’s complex. Trouble started when the embattled Speaker, Abok Ayuba, and lawmakers loyal to him were holding a meeting inside the building. Ayuba was on October 27 impeached by eight of the 24 members of the assembly and...
Messi: I’ll love to return as Barcelona technical director
Lionel Messi said he will return to live in Barcelona with his family when his time at Paris St Germain was over. He said he would like to help the LaLiga club in the role of a technical director. Messi ended a two-decade stay at FC Barcelona, where he was their record scorer with 672 goals, in the off-season he joined...
Anambra 2021: Andy Uba’s ‘Igwebuike’ philosophy and winning streak
By VICTOR AFAM OGENE That democracy is a game of numbers has never been a subject of debate. It is an obvious fact, both in principle and in practice. Indeed, in this universally preferred form of government, the people are rightly the vital engine that powers democratic processes and its actualisation. Therefore, from this foundational framework, there is no gainsaying that...
Why Nigeria needs Commodities Price Regulatory Agency
Never has there been a time more than ever before in our nation's economic history when there is an urgent need for the introduction, or rather re-introduction, of a price control mechanism like the Price Control Board by past governments decades ago. A simple general sampling of some major market prices across the various markets in the country of recent...
JKF: Celebrating an intellectual in the saddle
I was at Ado-Ekiti just about three years ago with a large team of young persons from across South-South Nigeria to participate in the electioneering of my friend and senior Comrade in the struggle for democracy in Nigeria, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. It was a big fight between the 'stomach infrastructure' led regime of Ayo Fayose and the more enduring legacy of...
DAKUKU PETERSIDE: Rising gas prices, crisis in the making
Nigerians are facing hydra-headed challenges on all fronts: debilitating insecurity, extreme poverty, hyperinflation, high cost of food and essential consumables, diminishing trust in government and its institutions at all levels, and worse, there is no clarity on the way forward. Everyday quality of existence for the average Nigerian is depreciating, and people are quickly bemoaning their fate and hoping...
Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia highlights: Inequalities breed unrest
President Muhammadu Buhari had a very successful visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the high which is the symbolization of our mutual trust and resolve to combat climate change, improve trade and promote investment in humanity, not profit as a motive. It was also an opportunity used by the President to reassure the global investment community on the question...
