President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Governors of the All Progressives Congress to ensure that the forthcoming convention to pick a presidential candidate reflects all the values and virtues of the party. At a meeting Tuesday at State House Abuja, the President told the 22 Governors and the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu:…
Huawei Technologies (Nigeria) Limited and Nigeria’s National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the deployment of ICT Academies in all of colleges of Education in Nigeria. Captured in the signed Expression of Interest was the modality for which all Federal and State colleges of Education will be on…
President Muhammadu Buhari will today depart Abuja for Madrid, Spain on a State Visit at the invitation of the Spanish President, Pedro Sanchez. The president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. According to Adesina, at a separate meeting during the visit, the first by the Nigerian leader, Buhari will…
As part of its corporate social responsibility, the management of Huawei Technologies in partnership with the Special Intervention Program on Communal and Societal Development (SIPCOD), a Non-profit organisation has upgraded and equipped an e-learning center with 58 state-of-the-art computers among others at the Sardauna Memorial College, Kaduna. The gesture was to support the students with…
In a bid to decongest correctional facilities and ensure quick dispensation of justice, the Lagos State Government has launched a restorative justice centre and secretariat of the Criminal Justice Sector Reform Committee (CJSRC). The Lagos State restorative justice centre will serve as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism and a tool for decongesting the courts of…
Global technology company, Huawei, has announced that it is actively searching for the world’s top ICT talents to support its strategy for innovation and building a greener intelligent world. This presents an opportunity for Nigeria’s fast-growing pool of ICT professionals. Presently, Nigeria is of the countries with the fastest growing talents in Information and Communications…
Africa’s Global Bank, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has rewarded its loyal customers in the just concluded UBA Super Savers draw, giving out a total of N16.6m in cash prizes. The computerised draw held at the Tony Elumelu Amphitheatre at the UBA Head Office on Friday, was witnessed by members of the press…
The coming on stream of the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Petroleum Refinery will guarantee availability of high quality environmentally compliant products in Nigeria, regional markets in West Africa, Southern Africa and inter-continental markets. The President/CE of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote made this disclosure on Tuesday at the Nigerian Content Midstream – Downstream Oil and Gas Summit…
A wanted drug kingpin behind the 2000.6kg Cannabis Sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on 2nd December 2021, Henry Chukwuneku Okamaru (a.k.a. Lawrence Ik Okamaru) has been arrested in Ondo state after five months of manhunt by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The agency spokesman, Femi Babafemi,…
Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, held an event in Lagos to recognise the services and ongoing partnerships of its top leading travel industry agents. The event was the first to take place since the outset of the pandemic, and gathered the industry’s best, reaffirming the airline’s ongoing commitment to the market and its longstanding…