Regulations to provide special ICT tools for physically challenged, underway
WITH the number of physically challenged groups of persons constituting 25% of the total Nigerian populace, the Senate Committee Chairman on Communications, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu has said that the Senate and other arms of government would ensure that relevant policies and regulations are put in place to provide specially designed ICT needs of these groups.
NGO plans free motivational confab
AN NGO, Possibility Network, in partnership with high net worth individuals and some corporate organizations, is putting together a motivational conference aimed at helping youths seize obvious and hidden opportunities in the country. The first part of the conference kicks off in Ota, November 14, tagged “YOU CAN: Exploiting New Opportunities for Upward Mobilityâ€. Lanre […]
The journalist as a patriot: Onyema Ugochukwu at 65
Tribute by Tunde Olusunle & Dan Okereke IF Chief Onyema Ugochukwu needed a reminder of what the ordinary Abian expects of him, the treatment he got at a recent party rally in Umuahia Central will help steady his walk through the slick trail of Nigerian electoral and judicial politics. Thousands of supporters mobbed him like […]
Nigerians will benefit from DSTV Access — Hundah
MULTICHOICE, Nigeria’s leading premium pay-TV providers, has formally launched DStv Access adding to its existing premium, compact and family bouquets. DStv Access comes with 27 world-class channels at only N1,500 monthly subscription. It is expected to provide access to many Nigerians wishing to watch high quality television programmes.
Describing the launch, which held at the weekend in Lagos, as momentous, Joseph Hundah, managing director, MultiChoice Nigeria, said: “
Ozuruimo festival relaunches Imo culture
IT was with pomp, class and pageantry that the 2009 edition of the re-branded Ozuruimo Festival held at Owerri, Imo State. The four-day pan Imo State cultural and arts festival began, October 28, 2009, with a colloquium paper delivered by Prof. Aloy Ejiogu, of the University of Lagos. The theme of the thought provoking lecture, which held at the expansive Multi-Purpose Hall, Owerri, was:
New novel berths TM Aluko’s stroke of the Pen
DR T.M. Aluko was attacked by stroke, August 27, 1987 after attending the annual general meeting of Heinemann Educational Books in Ibadan, taking with it, his right writing hand. This almost put paid to the writing and engineering career of this foremost Nigerian satirist-novelist of the colonial-colonised relations and transitions.
