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…