By Dennis Isong The highly anticipated Dangote Refinery, a monumental project, was inaugurated with great fanfare on May 22nd, 2023, by President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling economic hub. This marked a significant milestone in the nation’s pursuit of energy self-sufficiency and economic development. The Dangote Refinery stands tall as a testament to engineering marvels and cutting-edge technology. Boasting an impressive capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, it proudly holds the distinction of being the largest single-train refinery globally. Its state-of-the-art infrastructure and advanced processing capabilities position Nigeria as a prominent player in the global petroleum industry. With its…
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The Chartered Institute Human Resources Management Nigeria, CHIRM, has inducted Mr. Sunday Udemaguna Odita, as a Doctoral Fellow. The induction was held on May 27, 2023, at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. Odita is a seasoned journalist and a man of many parts. His quest for higher knowledge led to his admission as a Mass Communication student at the famous Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo State, where he took time to learn the arts and science of journalism for four good years and subsequently bagged the Higher National Diploma with distinction. Not done with that, he obtained an Advanced Certificate…
Nestlé Nigeria marked Children’s Day 2023 with children in the 30 Nestlé for Healthier Kids beneficiary schools, by providing them with learning materials. The company has been at the forefront of efforts to help children live healthier, happier lives through research, product innovation, food fortification, nutrition education and promotion of an active lifestyle. The company collaborates with stakeholders to reach children every year through several initiatives including Nestle for Healthier Kids, N4HK, a school-based nutrition education program. The program aims to help children imbibe healthy habits including good nutrition, good hygiene practices, healthy hydration, and active lifestyles through adequate physical…
Members of the Africa Communications Week, ACW, hosted communications professionals across Lagos to a conversations-and-cocktails event on Thursday, to commemorate Africa Day and Africa Communications Week 2023. The event, themed ‘Telling the Africa Story: The Communicators’ Responsibility’, was hosted by Quadrant MSL on the grounds of the Insight Redefini Campus, the integrated marketing communications group of Troyka Holdings, and member of Publicis Groupe. The event and dialogue which was spearheaded by ACW host, Victoria Uwadoka, Corporate Communications Manager, Nestle Nigeria, was designed to promote intentional and responsible communications practices for a strong African narrative. On why Africa Communications Week is…
The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour, NACTAL, has called on government to create enabling environment for proper nurturing and upbringing of Nigeria children. This call was made by the group’s National President, Abdulganiyu Abubakar on this year’s children’s day. To mark this year’s event themed:“State of the Nigeria Children Today: Proper Parenting for value re-orientation and national consciousness”, NACTAL says the theme by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs no doubt underscore the significant role of parents, caregivers, guardians and children minders who are involved in the life of children in nurturing a total child devoid of negative…
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman, has approved the redeployment of some Police Public Relations Officers, PPROs and appointment of new ones. The redeployments and new appointments, which affected 15 Officers, according to a signal signed by the Force Secretary, Assistant Inspector General of Police, Habu A. Sani and dated May 25, 2023 affected, CSP Isah Gambo, spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command, who has now been moved to Zone 4, Katsina; Stifanu Sunday Bako, PRO of Zone 7, Abuja, now to serve in the Force Criminal Investigation Department; SP Ihunwo Joseph of Zone 13, who is now PRO…
BEING VALEDICTORY SPEECH BY FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN AS MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2023. Mr. President, you first appointed me as Minister of State in the Ministry Niger Delta Affairs in August, 2019 and you later redeployed me as Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Today, I cannot find the words to express the depth of my gratitude to you for finding me worthy, out of over two hundred million Nigerians, to be nominated and subsequently appointed to serve as a Minister of the…
A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has faulted the decision of the Supreme Court on the double nomination case against the joint ticket of the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had approached Court to invalidate the joint ticket. Reacting to the judgement through a statement on Friday, Timi Frank said the court that is meant to be the last hope of the citizenry has become a place of the highest bidder, wondering whom Nigerians offended. According to him, one would be tempted to…
On 21st May, 2023, in the midnight, the Area Commander and the Divisional Police Officer, Igando received a distress call from members of the public touching on an ongoing armed robbery around a property at Igando. Though Ugochukwu Onyenuforo, 30, Ramon Ogundele, 32, Yaro Ndudu, 25 and Abiodun Usman, 30 – the suspected robbers were four in number, they alledgedly unleashed terror on residents around the Igando area of Lagos. But Officers attached to the Lagos State Police Command led by the Igando Divisional Police Officer, DPO, CSP Ekehinde Ohiomba with a team of Police officers braved the odds to…
Mrs. Favour Monday, wife of the police officer, Inspector Monday Orukpe gruesomely murdered from the torture he suffered from some military officers in Trade Fair section of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway Area of Lagos August last year have sued the Army, claiming a N300 Million damages for the illegal violation of the fundamental rights to life of their breadwinner. In an originating motion filed before the Federal High Court, Lagos by Femi Falana chambers on behalf of the deceased family, they are praying the court among other things to declare that the extra-judicial killing of the Applicant’s husband, Inspector Monday Orukpe…