Kamata: Diamond Platnumz’s new song featured on New York Times Square Billboard
It’s been an absolutely amazing year for Tanzania’s sensational recording artiste Nasibu Abdul Juma Issack, known by his stage name Diamond Platnumz as his recent hit single, Kamata, got featured on international billboards including popular New York’s Times Square, LA billboard, Connecticut, New Jersey and also on Amazon store. The artist got his fans on […]
Nigeria misses out on $4.4bn World Bank COVID-19 vaccine rollout package earmarked for 51 countries
The World Bank has announced a provision of $4.4 billion for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines for 51 developing countries, but Nigeria is not listed among the benefiting countries half of which are in Africa.
Anambra endows Chinua Achebe Prize for Nigerian Writing
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) which Africa’s greatest raconteur and novelist founded at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka, the Anambra State Government has endowed a one-million naira (N1 million) worth Chinua Achebe Prize for Nigerian Writing
B3W to take on China’s BRI
Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative of the group of seven richest democracies, known as G-7, to help developing countries on a host of issues ranging from climate change to vaccine deployment and trade and infrastructure is by no means a direct challenge to President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) but it does […]
PIB: Petroleum Minister, NNPC GMD to brief Senators in closed session Thursday
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, would tomorrow brief Senators in a closed session ahead of the consideration of the Petroleum Industry Bill by the upper chamber on Thursday. […]
Creation of new tertiary institutions despite confessed inability to fund revival of educational system: Duty of FG to revive education in Nigeria
My immediate response to the above is to ask the poser – why create new tertiary institutions when government cannot fund the revival of the country’s education system?
