Lagos journalists to rename NUJ Lighthouse after Jakande
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State Council, has said that it would rename the NUJ Lighthouse in Victoria Island after late Alhaji Lateef Jakande who died on Thursday at his Ilupeju residence in Lagos. The Chairman, NUJ Lagos State Council, Mr Adeleye Ajayi, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
NOUN’s fifth VC, Prof Olufemi Peters assumes office
By Joseph Erunke Professor Olufemi Peters on Thursday assumed office as the fifth Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), succeeding Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, whose five-year tenure ended on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. In a brief handover ceremony held at the university’s headquarters in Abuja, Peters, who was elected the Vice-Chancellor on […]
‘Nigeria must feed herself’
Dr Ogbonnya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, said in Abuja on Thursday that food security was very critical to Nigeria and that the nation must be well positioned to feed itself. Onu said Nigeria’s burgeoning population meant that its inability to feed its citizens would create problems for the country and also for the […]
Nigeria needs N15trn to bridge digital infrastructure gap – ATCON
NIN key to national planning, security – Pantami …Faults computation of digital services contribution to financial sector By Emmanuel Elebeke The Association of Telecommunications Companies in Nigeria, ATCON says Nigeria requires over N15trillion to bridge the infrastructure funding gap for the telecom/ICT industry. The President of the Association, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani disclosed this Thursday when he […]
Just in: 4000 herdsmen return to Kaduna
By Ibrahim HassanWuyo About 4,000 herdsmen have moved into Kaduna state from the south following the quit notice order given to criminal herders by some state governments in the south. Journalists were told that a popular grazing community in the state, Labduga community in Kachia Local Government Area, started witnessing large influx of these herdsmen […]
ACF writes CBN over financial exclusion of the North
By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has written to the Central Bank Governor complaining of the exclusion of the Northern Nigeria from critical aspects of the nation’s financial life. In the letter dated 29th January 2021 and signed by Chief Audu Ogbeh, the former Minister of Agriculture and Chairman of ACF, observed that […]
