The winner receives a cash prize of £15,000 in addition to a fellowship at the prestigious University of East Anglia under the mentorship of the award-winning author, Professor Giles Foden.

The Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has began a review of the current investment laws with a view to making it more attractive to foreign investors while also strengthening NIPC’s institutional capacity to deliver on its statutory mandate. The affected laws are NIPC Act No 16 of 1995 and the draft Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA).

“Over the years, the Commission has had a sustained mutually beneficial relationship with the media. For instance, we have not had serious reasons to disagree with reports about the Commission in the media. The Commission shall continue to acknowledge and appreciate you in this regard,”

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has urged all the stakeholders in party to accept the outcome of the elections that brought Senator Bukola Saraki and Rep. Yakubu Dogara as Senate president and Speaker, House of Representatives respectively and move on as one family.

“The changing role of marketing in digital economy,” saying that the workshop is a platform provided by the Association for knowledge sharing with different experts on various subjects with the objective to build the marketing industry and marketing experts that will help grow Nigeria’s economy.

The Rivers government said on Sunday that 70 of the 80 persons who took contaminated local gin, also known as Ogogoro earlier this month, had died. Dr Nnanna Onyekwere, Director Public Health Services, Rivers ministry of health, told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Sunday that two of the survivors had visual impairment.

Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has enjoined the people of the state to imbibe the habit of telling Governor Ifeanyi Okowa the truth about the situation of things in the state instead of praise singing his administration.

“That speaks to the commonality of the faith of those who were slain and those who were left behind,” he said. “But it’s not enough to forgive and love, we have to also hold accountable, we have to also say to this young man and to those who may have influenced him, we are not allowing you to corrupt our democracy.”

Pastor Babatunde Idowu, the District Overseer of Foursquare Gospel Church, Wuse, on Sunday, called on fathers across the country to do their best to make their families successful.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged state governments and the Federal Government to International Labour Organisation (ILO), “requesting its Governing Body to, suo motu, and in its own capacity, establish without delay a Commission of Inquiry to examine systematic and egregious non-observance of Convention No 29 on Forced Labour and other international standards on the right of workers to timely payment of salaries.”