Day: January 5, 2021

Shams and OMNES Media Unveil An Influencers Platform With Huge Opportunities

Shams Media Services, a subsidiary of Sharjah Media City (Shams), and OMNES Media, an integrated media and communications solutions company, have launched OMNES Influencers platform in its Beta Edition to help users explore and benefit from an ever-expanding online market, which is witnessing a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 32%. “The global influencer platform…

Portuguese Health Worker Dies Two Days After Receiving Pfizer Covid Vaccine

Portuguese Health authorities are investigating the sudden death of a health worker who was found dead two days after receiving the COVID vaccine. The health worker, identified as Sonia Acevedo aged 41, worked in the paediatrics department at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Porto. She was said to have received the vaccine shot on…

Yuletide: CBA Foundation Donates Food Items, Cash Gifts To Widows In Anambra

As part of the New Year celebration, the Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) Foundation, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria, has put smiles on faces of some widows in Nnewi, Anambra State. The event, which was held on Friday, January 1, 2021 had excited widows numbering over 55 going home with food-items and financial empowerment. Speaking at the…

Lasaco Meets The Recapitilisation Deadline

Lasaco Assurance Plc, under the new leadership of Chief Mrs Teju Philips, has scaled the first hurdle of the recapitalisation exercise for insurance and reinsurance companies mulled by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) for the strengthening of the financial bases of underwriters. The Company met the 31st December 2020, deadline given to underwriters to recapitalise…

Prominent Nigerians Mourns Ex-UNILAG VC, Prof Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe

Nigerians from every nook and cranny have continued to mourn the death of former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe. Prof. Ibidapo-Obe aged 71 reportedly died from COVID-19 complications on Sunday, January 3. The professor who emerged the overall best graduating student of the University of Lagos in 1971 was…

Lagos Makes U-Turn, Orders All Schools To Resume January 18

The Lagos state government has reversed its earlier decision of shutting down schools indefinitely by announcing the reopening of all public and private schools in the state for the second term of 2020/21 academic session from Monday, January 18, 2021. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who revealed this on Monday, stated that the…