Ijebu Muslim College Old Students’ Association (IMCOSA) holds 2017 Annual Lecture in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. A communication expert, Mr Olalekan Ajia, says good social media behaviour can aid the performance of students in schools. Ajia, a former Communication for Development Specialist at the United Nations, said this on Saturday at the 21st IMCOSA Annual Lecture in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun state. The lecture entitled, “ Influence of Social Media on Youth Education; Issues and Challenges,’’ looked at ways of checking abuse of the social media by youths. Ajia said social media could help young people and adults to access informational and educational…
Author: Alaba Rotimi
Karama Central Mosque steering committee in Daura, Katsina State, has received a plot of land to construct an e-library to facilitate research by students in the area. The mosque committee had recently offered scholarship to 30 indigent students and medical assistance to 20 individuals. Malam Barau Musa, Chairman of the committee, said in Daura that work on the e-library project would commence soon. Musa, who made the disclosure at a lecture on the importance of unity and cooperation among Nigerians, said the library would serve dual purpose of a school and research center. “It will also be used as center for…
Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (Chief of Army Staff) has directed Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maiduguri, to capture Abubakar Shekau, self-styled leader of the Boko Haram sect, “dead or alive”. Buratai further directed the Theatre commander to do so within 40 days. A statement issued by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, on Friday night, said that Attahiru should “employ all arsenal at the disposal of the Theatre Command to smoke out Shekau wherever he is hiding in Nigeria.” “The general public is please requested to also assist and volunteer information that would lead to…
Etisalat Nigeria was on last Wednesday officially unveiled its new brand identity, 9mobile, with a new logo and website. The Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, Mr Boye Olusanya, said at a news conference in Lagos that the new logo was in conformity with the new name. Olusanya said that with the migration to a new name and brand, 9mobile promised to sustain and continuously provide innovative and value-adding propositions, which it had delivered since inception nine years ago. He said the new brand identity reflected the bold and creative attributes which the company shared with its valued subscribers. According to…
Teams of students from Lagos State Model College, Meiran and Araromi Ilogbo Junior Secondary, Oke Afo on Saturday emerged champions of the Nigerian edition of the 2017 World Robot Olympiad. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2017 edition of the competition which took place at the School Hall of British International School, Victoria Island, was sponsored by Arclights Foundation for Educational Development and Improvement in Africa. Arclights Foundation is the exclusive partner of LEGO in Nigeria and LEGO Education in West Africa, the organisers of the World Robots Olympiad, an annual event that draws participants from across…
France will host talks on Tuesday between Fayez al-Serraj, head of Libya’s UN-backed government in Tripoli, and Khalifa Haftar, a powerful military commander in the divided country’s east who has so far rejected his authority. According to a statement, during the talks, President Emmanuel Macron aims to show France’s support for UN-backed efforts to stabilise the country. “The talks would be based on the involvement of all the different factions in Libya,” Macron’s office said. NAN reports that Haftar and Seraj held talks in Abu Dhabi in May, their first in more than a year and a half, about a…
Igho Sanomi of Taleveras Group is named in US Court papers along with Omokore, Aluko, Diezani. Court documents filed in Houston by the US Justice Department in the assets forfeiture proceedings filed against Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Messrs. Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore have revealed the third man in the $1.7billion swindle of Nigeria. He is Igho Sanomi, one of Nigeria’s young billionaires, who owns the Taleveras Oil Group. Taleveras, along with oil traders Arcadia and Glencore, were found to have paid $1.2 billion into Kola Aluko’s account in Switzerland, proceeds from crude oil lifted from Aluko and Omokore’s company.…
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha said President Muhammadu Buhari was very cheerful and has not lost any bit of his sense of humour when he and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) met him in London yesterday. Okorocha gave this report in a telephone conversation Reported by President Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina. According to Adesina, the Imo state governor said the party delegation spent more than an hour with President Buhari over lunch, and it was very clear from the discussions that he followed developments at home very closely. He said the President…
Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has urged parents and guardians of the kidnapped Lagos School boys not to lose hope on the return of their wards. This is even as he assured that the Federal Government in collaboration with state authorities are working tirelessly to ensure their safe return. On May 25, six secondary school boys of the school were abducted by unknown gunmen, this is even as four students and six staff of the same school were also kidnapped in October 2016. In a chat with newsmen on the sideline of the birthday thanksgiving service of Pastor Salami Ololade…
German carmaker Bayerische Motoren Werke AG or in English, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) that is manipulated emission treatment system in its vehicles. In a statement on Sunday, the carmaker rejected media reports that the systems did not work effectively and that it colluded with rivals on their design and prices. Der Spiegel magazine had reported on Friday that BMW, VW, Audi and Porsche may have colluded to fix the prices and designs of diesel emissions treatment systems and other vehicle parts. “Cars of the BMW Group are not being manipulated and are in line with the applicable legal requirements,” it said…
The renowned Yoruba novelist, actor, broadcaster, Adebayo Faleti is dead. He passed on July 23, 2017 at the ripe age of 86. He died at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, a city in which he had spent most of his life. He is survived by three wives including Mrs. Moteniola and Olubunmi, his current wife and has about 15 children. Pa Faleti was a Yoruba translator, TV exponent and a pioneer staff of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television, WNTV. He was responsible for translating Nigeria’s anthem from English to Yoruba. He also translated speeches made by…
He said before his departure in Istanbul that no-one had an interest in prolonging the crisis. Erdogan will first meet the Saudi leadership in Jeddah before moving on to Kuwait and then visiting Qatar on Monday for his first face-to-face talks with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani since the crisis began. Turkey has been a staunch supporter of Qatar since the crisis began on 5 June. “No-one has any interest in prolonging this crisis any more,” said Erdogan at Istanbul airport before leaving on the two-day trip. He accused “enemies” of seeking to “fire up tensions between brothers” in…
The widow of former South African President Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, has threatened legal action against his personal doctor, Vejay Ramlakan, over a book that reveals previously undisclosed details of his patient. According to Africa Review, Dr Ramlakan, headed the former South African leader’s medical team until his death in December 2013 at the age of 95. He released his book, “Mandela’s Last Years’’ on Tuesday to coincide with Mandela Day on July 18, in honour of his memory. “I condemn the book in the strongest terms,” Ms Machel said in a statement released by her foundation. “I am taking…
Shopping with girlfriends or wives may be one of the most tedious chores for men. A shopping mall in China’s Shanghai Municipality has solved this problem by launching “husband storage” facilities. The transparent self-service pods in Shanghai’s Global Harbor shopping center are equipped with a TV screen, a leather massage chair, and game consoles. “Men usually get bored when shopping with their female partners, so we have provided them a place to rest. They can play games and charge their mobile phones here,” said Zhou Jun, who operates and maintains the pods. Users scan to QR code to reserve a…
Members of the Retired Staff Association of the NNPC on Sunday called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to come to their rescue. This is due to their frustration over the non-payment of their entitlements in the last 10 years by NNPC. Vice-Chairman of the Lagos State branch of the pensioners association, Femi Johnson, while briefing newsmen on Sunday called on Osinbajo to help ensure they are paid so as to save their lives and end the sufferings of those still managing to survive. Earlier in the month, the Federal Government approved the release of N27.tln for the payment of outstanding…
People trafficking in USA turns tragic at San Antonio, Texas Eight persons were found dead Sunday in a truck in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent human trafficking case, authorities said. In addition to the dead, there were 28 injured — 20 of them severely — who were being treated at seven local hospitals, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus and Fire Chief Charles Hood told reporters. The group included children and adults, the police chief said. He said the truck driver had been arrested. “We got a call from a Walmart employee about a…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Dr Kayode Fayemi, former Governor of Ekiti State and current Nigeria’s Minister of Mines and Steel Development, “to join us in promoting and supporting legislative measures to redirect public funds spent to provide life pensions to former governors for the benefit of the most marginalized and disadvantaged Nigerians. The group in an open letter asked the minister to tread the path rather than issuing threat of legal action “against us for exposing the existence of unfair and discriminatory life pensions states’ laws.” The organization said, “Dr Fayemi’s dramatic accusation regarding the content…
Men of the Nigeria Police at Bayelsa Command has arrested one youth suspected to be armed robber in Azikoro, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. In a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Yenagoa, the command’s spokesman, DSP Asinim Butswat, said a local pistol was also recovered for the suspect. “On July 21, the policemen responded to a distress call by a staff of Community Secondary School, Azikoro, Yenagoa, that some boys were gathered around the school premises in a suspicious manner. “Subsequently, plain cloth policemen were dispatched to the scene and arrested a youth, wielding a local…
The government of Israel has installed new security cameras on Sunday at the entrance to a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem, an official told dpa, following violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a cabinet meeting Sunday morning and is expected to hold another meeting of the security cabinet Sunday night to discuss security measures at the site known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and Jews as the Temple Mount. The cameras come in addition to metal detectors installed at the entrance to the site after three men – described by police…
The President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Mr Chinonso Obasi, on Sunday called on Nigerians to pray for the quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari instead of wishing him dead. Obasi, in a statement in Abuja, said his conversation with the presidency on July 22 showed that Buhari was recuperating fast and would be back soon. He said that it was unfair to politicise the president’s health. “My telephone conversation with the presidency yesterday from London has given more hope that President Buhari will soon be back, alive and able to return to his presidential seat. “In the…