Wole Soyinka (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu My studies at Great Ife under Prof Wole Soyinka got off on a beery note. I was with my classmates in Soyinka’s house for practical lessons on television production when I told the future Nobel Laureate’s steward, the Ghanaian lad Francis, to […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari sends warm felicitations to former Director-General of Nigerian Television Authority, Olusola Omole, on his 70th birthday, November 14, 2021. The message is contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, titled, ‘President Buhari congratulates former NTA DG, Sola Omole at 70’. The President congratulated the former […]
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Twenty-four year old Joy Adesina received gifts of a house, N5m and a scholarship from Ogun State Government for emerging as the best graduating medical student from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State in the 2018/2019 academic session. In this interview with Alexander Okere, Adesina says her achievements did not come on a silver […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr Tony O. Elumelu over the selection of 4,949 beneficiaries in its 2021 entrepreneurship programme. He praised the industrialist on his remarkable vision in training, mentoring, and funding entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, describing it as “a truly lasting legacy.” A statement […]
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A Nigerian, Olanrewaju Shitta-Bey, has been appointed as a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities by the University of Maryland Global Campus, USA. Until his promotion, the university lecturer was an associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities of the university. In a chat with our correspondent, Shitta-Bey said his promotion will benefit Nigeria […]
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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has honoured nine-year-old Miss Deborah Quickpen for her heroic feat at the recent Africa Youth Chess Championship in Accra, Ghana. Quickpen emerged champion in the U-10 category after winning nine of 10 games. According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Alabrah, aside from appointing the Bayelsa-born chess […]
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To read Onyeka Onwenu’s autobiography is to be a fly on the wall completely absorbed in multilayered intimate conversations with her about a thoroughly fascinating life. It transports the reader from the joys of a relatively privileged childhood in pre-Civil War Port Harcourt to the traumatic death of her father in a car crash before […]
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Ebonyi State Governor, Engineer Dave Umahi, has been nominated by the Coalition of Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders of Nigeria (CENYLON) as the Infrastructural Governor of the Year Award 2021. This was contained in a statement on Friday by the coalition’s National President, Comrade Eric Oluwole and Public Relations Officer, Engineer Salahudeen A. Lukman. The statement […]
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In celebration and recognition of the role of lawyers, company legal departments and legal professionals across Africa, the ESQ Nigerian Legal Awards 2021 edition is set to hold in November 7, 2021 at the Landmark Event Centre with many firms, In-house teams and legal professionals making the shortlist. Currently, in its 11th year, the Nigerian […]
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A student of Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Kaitlin Gee-Akwada, emerged as the one-day Vice Chancellor in her school as she attained a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 5.0. The elated student took to her LinkedIn page to share pictures of the event on Wednesday. According to Gee-Akwada, her achievement was an answered prayer and a […]
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