Lagos State Government (LASG) discloses it would continue to support youths and students’ engagements in different agricultural value chains in order to encourage them to grow into a more productive agricultural labour force as adults. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya stated this today at the Schools’ Agric Quiz Competition for students of public senior secondary schools in the state as part of activities lined up to celebrate Y2021 World Food Day in the State. Olusanya who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Hakeem Adeniji explained that it by so doing that the problem…
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Notable South-South leaders on Wednesday lauded the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio, for making an effort to provide greater autonomy to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). “The South-South leaders know the meaning of purposeful leadership that feels their pains, understand their yearnings and pursue the aspirations of this country. Chief Godswill Akpabio is a key to the solution of the Niger Delta problem.” They also praised President Muhammadu Buhari for taking decisions he considers best for the overall benefit of the Niger Delta people. At a meeting in Calabar to discuss 2023 politics, governance and its…
A poultry farmer, Tekena Ovuru, has emerged winner of the monthly Princewills Trust Help the Hard Worker competition. The monthly competition is put together by the hard-working team of the Princewills Trust. A Rivers State-based poultry farmer, Tekena Ovuru emerged the winner of the September 2021 edition, beating both Collins Moore and Kingsley Peterside to win the N100,000 cash prize. A statement from Princewills Trust quoted Prince Tonye Princewill, who presented the cash award on behalf of his Trust, as saying the aim of the Trust was simply to encourage hard workers and move away from the mindset of entitlement.…
Amaechi Vanguard, Amaechi Agenda, NACRA23, APM, and a host of over 100 volunteer groups mobilise the regions’ support for Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to contest and win the 2023 presidential election. Chief Eze hails groups for their foresight, steadfastness for clamouring and drumming massive support for Amaechi’s candidacy. “How pleasant it is to see Nigerian youths, without any form of inducement, compulsion or sponsorship, united for the ultimate course of promoting national integration and cohesion, by converging under different platforms, to call on the Hon. Minister of Transportation and South-South leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the very…
The CTO at Facebook, Mike Schroepfer, today, tenders the organisation’s apologies for today’s outage that has affected all Facebook’s suites of services such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Schroepfer made the apology on Twitter and stated “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible” We earlier on reported that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are all down today in a major outage shortly before 5:00 pm today, 4th October 2021. As of the time…
Wonder what is happening today to the Tech Giant, Facebook. All the platforms being owned by Facebook e.g. Facebook.com, Instagram.com and WhatsApp.com are all down. According to the information reaching out, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps and websites that are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure have stopped working shortly before 5:00 pm today, 4th October 2021. Other products e.g. Facebook Messenger and Workplace, have also stopped working since the time. It is unclear what could have caused the issue although Facebook has suffered outages before. In…
The Chief Executive of the Dubai Tourism Corporation and Marketing, Issam Kazim says the Dubai Expo 2020 which opened on the 1st of October will offer people of diverse cultures around the world, an opportunity to see world-class destinations, the latest advancements in technology and tourist attractions all in one. He said the Expo is part of efforts to showcase Dubai and announce the recovery of the tourism sector from the pandemic, which ravaged the world in 2020. Kazim also disclosed that they were also working with the Afrozons Dubai Sound Off project as a partner to bring more celebrity…
Accountability advocacy non-governmental organization, Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative, has implored the Rivers State government, the Federal Government, multinational companies, their subsidiaries and all concerned to swiftly and immediately act on the deplorable state of Oyigbo-Afam Road, describing it as total neglect. The advocacy group who quoted Abraham Lincoln thus, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of mankind” explained that the quote above reminds of the present situation in Oyigbo Local Government area in Rivers State, Nigeria. Citizens Quest in a news report made available to newshounds in Port Harcourt opined that a local government area…
Amnesty Staff Fight Back, say “we Are Professionals Not Criminals”. Some staff of the Presidential Amnesty Office have come out to refute claims by Col. Milland Dikio, that staff of the office sabotaged his administration, while in office. Last week Col. Dikio, through a press release issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Nneotaobase Egbe, titled “Corrupt Officials in Nigeria’s Presidential Amnesty Programme Office Delaying Projects for Ex-militants”, said that, “officials of the office had adopted various tactics to stall important projects in the reintegration process”. Some concerned staff who requested anonymity have denied these claims with facts. In a…
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, who authors a book on Amaechi; commends Hon. Brown, Prof Ugboma, Prof Agu, Others for Unusual Editorial Work; and feels elated for the privilege to do a detailed and expository book on his friend, associate and Political Leader, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, erstwhile Governor of Rivers State and extraordinary Minister of Transportation. Eze discloses the work captures in rich detail, the past and present legacies, development model and political beau ideal of Amaechi. Dr Dakuku Peterside, a close ally and confidant of Chief Eze, wrote the book’s classical exordium. Chief Eze’s irresistibly appealing and succinct…
The Abeokuta Golf Club hosted the inaugural edition of the Apagun Olumide Golf tournament in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, from Wednesday the 22nd of September to Saturday, the 25th of September, 2021. The four-day event is expected to attract about 150 golfers from around the world, with the aim of sustaining the vision of Late Apagun Olumide for the Abeokuta Golf Course and the development of golf in the country. The Chairman, Planning Committee of the tournament, Prince Robert Bakre in a statement stressed that the tournament is driven by the passion and vision of the late Apagun Olumide…
It’s amazing what partisan reporting can do to a distressed nation. The reports that came out of the request by the Presidency to the senate for the $4.9Bn loans chose to headline it with the rail project to Maradi (Niger Republic) but ignored all other bigger projects in the bouquet or batch. This may probably be to incite Nigerians against the loan knowing that Nigerians wake in anger each time they hear about loans or rail or the Niger Republic. The amazing aspect is that the hated rail project to Maradi is only $190m (0.19Bn) out of the $4.9Bn. Even…
Eze states that the move is a trick to deny the South her two terms after the two terms of the North through President Muhammadu Buhari, describes the plot as an unacceptable insult on both Jonathan and the entire southern political class. Having carefully perused through the series of articles on the deadly scheming of some Northern Leaders to lure former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan into the 2023 Presidential contest, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has said it smacks of…
Just like a flash of lightning and the sound of the thunder, the media space was buzzing with the news of Femi Fani-Kayode’s defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) thereby ending weeks of speculations and rumours that he intends to abandon the opposition ship, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The man popularly known as FFK or Mr Short fuse left doubters gasping for air as he made his way to the Government in power, thereby confirming the popular slogan used to describe people who easily switch from their position to the Government of the day-Any Government in Power,…
Chief (Mrs.) Sifau Omolere Suraju was born to the Royal family of Late Alhaji & Mrs Mustapha Adenuga Tembele of blessed memory on the 10th of April 1926 in Ogere Remo. Her father, Late Alhaji Tembele was a great and early Islamic Cleric in Ogere. He would be remembered for passing fatwa that all Muslim Pilgrims should work and put loads on their heads which he demonstrated by moving around the entire town with his head loaded. That was as a result of common belief then that whoever has gone for Hajj and worn Zabaka Cap shouldn’t put loads on…
Chief Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe, the President of Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative, an accountability advocacy Non-Governmental Organization has appealed for the release and accessibility of the NDDC Forensic Report to those who want to have access to it in accordance with the spirit and letter of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Chief Obiaruko who made the appeal on her “Media FBI” Youtube Channel with the headline “Matters arising from the Forensic Report on (NDDC)” said, “The forensic report has come out, the President has received it. He has asked Malami, the Minister for Justice, to look into it, set up…
The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war drowning the initial applause that greeted the order for the financial probe of the corruption-riddled interventionist agency – the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), whose headquarters is in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The first Salvo was fired by the Vice President sometime in May 2019, while on a visit to Delta State. Professor Yomi Osibanjo had publicly declared the Commission a non-performer having failed to fulfil its first mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta, in 9 out of 36 states. This shot by Buhari’s Deputy had sent the signal that…
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) Women in IT (WIIT) chapter celebrated its relaunch and the launch of its new website with a special Women’s Day webinar on personal and professional coping strategies. The special Women’s Month event allowed participants to compare notes on how women IT professionals are juggling the work from home environment, looking at how they can better own their time, master their headspace and make remote working work for them so that they can show up powerfully to themselves in life and business. TEDx speaker, coach, trainer, and author from Beyond the Dress,…
Rivers State’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has praised the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) for stepping in to arrest the drift in the judiciary, following the indiscriminate sale of restraining orders by judges to politicians. The party said in its reaction, that the decision of the CJN and the leadership of the NBA over forms of judicial abuse has come at the right time. “We believe that the intervention of the CJN and the Nigerian Bar Association on the side of truth, as a result of the horrifying manipulation of the judiciary by members of the political class, has come…
BudgIT, a foremost civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria, has launched govspend.ng, a visual platform that provides citizens, CSOs, the media and stakeholders access to simplified data from the Federal Government’s Open Treasury Portal. Recall that in December 2019, the Federal Government launched the Open Treasury Portal to increase transparency and accountability in government spending. The portal provides a space for collating data by all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on budget implementation financial records and transactions above the threshold of N5 million by MDAs and N10 million by the Office of the Accountant…