The Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mr. Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, has denied allegation that bothers on “breach of contract code”, raised by Donnington Nigeria Limited. Salihijo, while responding to a petition to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) by the firm denied any wrong doing. The allegation had claimed that the MD/CEO, was a Director in Velocity Logistics and Marine Services Ltd (Velocity) while equally serving as the MD/CEO of the Rural Electrification Agency. In providing clarification on the issue, Salihijo, said, “It became necessary to respond to this claim as it is…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
-By Azuh Arinze Iconic businessman and legendary philanthropist, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., is 70 years old today, Saturday, April 29, 2023 – and even though I have not had a one-on-one encounter with him, here are 70 things I have come to know and marvel about him: 1. He is a very, very mysterious and unusual personality who rarely socializes, even with fellow billionaires. 2. Reaching him on phone or even bumping into him at events could be likened to the Biblical camel passing through the eye of a needle. However, whenever he needs to see you, it’s at the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled for 3-7 May 2023, to a date to be determined by the incoming Administration. The President gave the approval after meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council and the Chairman of the National Population Commission and his team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday (28 April 2023). In arriving at the decision to postpone the Census, the meeting reiterated the critical need for the conduct of a Population and Housing Census, 17 years after the last Census, to collect up-to-date…
As part of his preparation for the May 29 inauguration, the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appointed Lieut. Col. Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf as his Aide-de-Camp designate. Barring any last-minute twist, this writer can authoritatively confirm the appointment of Yusuf by Tinubu and he’s expected to resume official duties on Monday, May 1, 2023. Yusuf is not a stranger to the Aso Rock vicinity, having previously served in sensitive roles in the Presidential Villa during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan. This indicates that the ADC-designate is bringing to the job his experience in intelligence and VIP protocol and protection. So, it’s…
An educationist, Dr. Larry Jones-Esan has advocated for the introduction of vocational qualification into Nigeria’s educational system as the only way out of the conundrum being presently experienced. Dr. Jones-Esan who is the Executive Chairman of a private educational institution located in the heart of United Kingdom, London Academy Business School (LABS), made the call during a media parley organized in Lagos by the institution on Thursday, 27 April, 2023. The LABS Executive Chairman said London Business Academy School in partnership with the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom is coming into Nigeria with the aim of educating the…
3line Limited, one of the trailblazers and creators of secure payments platforms in Nigeria has organized a hackathon to explore the untapped opportunities for AI integration in the payment space. The event, called Hack-It Challenge at Covenant University, is aimed to bring together tech-savvy youths to collaborate and develop innovative digital solutions that can address the challenges in the sector. The participants were grouped into teams and guided to use an iterative product development method (Agile Scrum Framework) to enable digital dexterity, talent development, and team competition. The hackathon resulted in various community-based solutions around wallets that made transactions easy…
A 24-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the clitoris after a stray bullet entered her home while she was sitting in her living room. Medical operatives at Erdoğan Hospital in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, have extracted a two centimetre bullet from the vagina of a 24-year-old after she was rushed to hospital in severe pain. The bullet, which reportedly came through the ceiling pierced her clitoris, while she sat in her living room and the operation took place through the help of Computerised Tomography (CT) scans, which revealed the bullet had become lodged inside her clitoris after being fired…
The Federal Government has declared Monday, 1 May, 2023, as Public Holiday to mark this year’s Workers Day celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement titled “SOLIDARITY FOREVER”: CELEBRATING THE COLLECTIVE STRENGTH OF NIGERIAN WORKERS. The Minister quoted from the International Trade Union Anthem to express deep solidarity with the Workers of Nigeria. He congratulated workers across the country on this year’s celebration. Ogbeni Aregbesola commended workers for their resilience, hard work, diligence and sacrifice noting that their contributions are essential for the greatness of the country…
Nigerian investigative journalist, Alfred Olufemi, has emerged as one of the winners of the 2023 African Prize for Investigative Journalism (PAJI). The annual award ceremony was held in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday evening. Launched in 2021, PAJI was created to promote investigative journalism endeavours on the African continent. The 2023 edition of PAJI is organised by Media & Democracy (M&D) in collaboration with the Senegalese Centre d’Études des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information (CESTI). The categories of the award include Print, Web, Radio and Television. Olufemi, a multiple award-winning investigative journalist, was named the winner of the Print category. He…