Africa Fintec foundry to boost innovation and ‘Techpreneurs’ with 2021 ‘Accelerator’ programme
Africa’s foremost innovation hub, the Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF), has opened up its registration portal for the2021 Accelerator program. The initiative, which is being executed in partnership with Access Bank Plc, seeks to fast-track the growth of the best start-ups operating within the African technology ecosystem. The ‘Accelerator’ programme will fast track and assist the […]
2023: Group charges Yoruba to champion common cause
A Yoruba socio-political group, Yoruba Patriots Movement (YPM), has charged political players in the South-West to champion a common cause towards placing the region at its rightful position.
COVID-19: Lagos Assembly lifts suspension on Jumat Service
The Lagos State House of Assembly Muslim Community has lifted the suspension on Jumu’a Service in the complex. The spokesperson for the community’s League of Imams, Mr Adegbite Muktar, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday. The statement said the lifting of the suspension became necessary after the completion of the […]
NiMet to advance credible, reliable services in 2021
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) on Thursday in Abuja expressed its level of preparedness to continue rendering credible and reliable services to all relevant sectors in the New Year. Mr James Odaudu, Director of Public Affairs in the Ministry of Aviation, quoted NiMet`s Director-General, Prof. Sani Mashi in a statement, as saying this during a […]
COVID-19: Africa in danger of being left behind in race for vaccines, says WHO
The World Health Organisation, WHO has raised the alarm that Africa is in danger of being left behind in the race for COVID-19 vaccines even as countries in other regions strike bilateral deals, driving up prices.
The diaspora quagmire for Nigeria
By Idoko Ainoko It is established that the population of a nation is its strength; the intellectual and positive productive gifts of its citizenry are its power and enviable assets. The overbeaten cliché in the inaugural address by a former American President. Mr. John F. Kennedy’s in 1961, pricked the consciousness of the people to […]
