Oyewale Femi, a media entrepreneur and publisher Sahara Weekly, has taken oath of office as President, National Association of Online Security Reporters, NAOSRE. Femi, alongside other executives, emerged elected in an election conducted by the association on October 29. The oath taking ceremony was held in Lagos on Thursday, November 12. Speaking, Oyewale rationalized the…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has announced that starting from January 2021, Adire fabric would become the official school uniform in all public schools in the State. Governor Abiodun who disclosed this at the official launch of Ogun Adire Digital Market Place at the June 12 Cultural centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, also called on the…
The Lagos State Government has announced the commencement of polio outbreak response exercise from Saturday, November 14, 2020. The immunization exercise will be conducted in five LGAS – Apapa, Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Somolu and Surulere. A statement issued by the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board revealed that children between 0 – 5 years would…
Queen Aanu, one of the wives of Alaafin of Oyo says her life is being threatened by the monarch because she walked out of the marriage. The former Olori shared a statement on her Instagram page, stating that the monarch should be held responsible if anything happens to her. She wrote: “It is with great…
The former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, has died from an undisclosed ailment at the age of 73. The former leader was admitted to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana’s capital, Accra, last week before giving up the ghost in the early hours of Thursday. Nigerian media mogul, Dele Momodu, who has close…
The UK’s COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 50,000 making it the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 deaths. The tragic milestone was passed on Wednesday as the government announced that 595 people had died within 28 days of testing positive, bringing the total by this measure to 50,365. This makes the UK the fifth…
Despite recent developments succeeding the global impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC), an international regulator for media measurement and evaluation is organizing its annual AMEC Measurement Month in November 2020. The event brings together over 160 members of the association in 86 different countries of the…
After being discharged from hospital yesterday, Argentina legend, Diego Maradona was taken to a recovery clinic where he will be treated for alcohol dependency. The former Napoli and Boca Juniors player had emergency surgery eight days ago for a subdural haematoma, a blood clot on the brain. The legend was admitted to a La Plata…
Leaders across the country have joined the government and people of Kaduna State in mourning a former civilian Governor of the state, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, who passed-on on Wednesday. Alhaji Balarabe Musa, the first Executive Governor of Kaduna State was said to have died of heart attack in the early hours of Wednesday at age…
Abia State Governor, Mr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has said criminals who carried out the last month coordinated attacks on public assets and private businesses in Lagos State orchestrated the violence to hurt the whole country. The Governor who spoke on Wednesday during his visit to Lagos to commiserate with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the attacks condemned…