The communications team at United Bank for Africa (UBA) has another reason to celebrate as Abiodun Coker, Media & External Relations Lead, was honored with the “Future Leader in Media Management” award at the 6th edition of The Industry Summit/Awards. Organized by The Industry Newspaper, the leading brand marketing publication in West Africa — the prestigious awards recognize outstanding professionals shaping the future of brand marketing and communications across the region. The award jury, chaired by Mr. Tolulope Ogunjobi, renowned broadcast business correspondent and Business Editor at TVC News, cited Coker’s exceptional achievements in the public relations field during the…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
As part of ongoing efforts to promote mutually beneficial partnerships and foster healthy competition, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) and Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals (DPRP) have pledged to deepen collaboration aimed at ensuring Nigeria’s energy security and advancing shared prosperity for Nigerians. This commitment was made during a courtesy visit by the President/Chief Executive of Dangote Group, Mr. Aliko Dangote, and his delegation to the Group CEO of NNPC Ltd., Mr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, and members of the company’s Senior Management Team at the NNPC Towers, on Thursday. During the visit, Dangote pledged to collaborate with…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, 9 May, 2025, inaugurated a state-of-the-heart Accident and Emergency Centre in Epe. The purpose-designed trauma management facility, situated in the Federal Medical Centre, Epe (formerly Epe General Hospital), in an intervention initiated by Custodian Investment Plc to bridge medical emergency care gap in the Epe Division. Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Health, took delivery of the fully-furnished facility funded by Custodian Social Responsibility Foundation. Prior to the intervention, Epe had no dedicated trauma centre that could handle major emergency cases, burdening the old General Hospital to grapple with unpredictable response time…
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has commissioned Nigeria’s first large-scale rapid diagnostic test (IVD) production facility and the second of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. The company, CODIX BIO Limited, an In-vitro Diagnostic (IVD) factory, is located along the Sagamu expressway, with a scope of production that concentrates on manufacturing test kits for HIV, Malaria, as well as Hepatitis B and C. The Governor, while speaking at the event on Friday, expressed delight over the giant strides, adding that with the capacity of the facility to produce about 147 million test kits annually, the factory marks the dawn…
The Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, mni, NPOM, and members of the university management received and hosted the all-conquering UNITECOL champions, LASU Trail Blazers on Wednesday, 7 May, 2025. The short but colourful event was held at the Vice-Chancellor’s Conference Room, 6th Floor, Babatunde Raji Fashola Senate Building, LASU Main Campus, Ojo, Lagos. A highly elated LASU Numero Uno, while receiving the young lads, in her address, said she was very proud of the team’s achievement, but, advised the players not to rest on their oars and should strive to win more laurels for the institution, in…
President Bola Tinubu has welcomed new initiatives by Qatari investors to explore opportunities in the agricultural sector and assured that Nigeria remains open to strategic partnerships. The President gave the assurance on Friday, 9 May, 2025, at the State House while receiving Dr Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, a special envoy from the Amir of the State of Qatar. Dr Al-Khulaifi, Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, conveyed Amir’s strong interest in expanding bilateral cooperation, announcing that a high-level Qatari business delegation will visit Nigeria in the coming weeks to explore opportunities in agriculture, food security, and other critical sectors.…
By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, May 9, 2025) After about 500 years of imperial dominance—extending into present-day Republic of Benin and Togo, and reaching the Sahelian fringes of Nupe, Borgu, and parts of Hausaland—the fall of the Old Oyo Empire was total by 1835, when Fulani forces burned down Oyo-Ile, the imperial capital, following the death of Alaafin Olúéwu. The royal family, elite, and many other survivors of the Fulani onslaught on Oyo-Ile, also known as Katunga, fled southward and relocated the capital to Àgó d’Òyó, a more southerly and defensible site than the original seat…
AMBO Grassrooters, a frontline support group for the actualisation of the governorship ambition of Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO) on Thursday, 8 May, 2025, commenced its sensitization and familiarization tour of Osun Local Governments with a symbolic visit to Ila Local Government to canvass support for the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA). Led by a former Chairman of Ede South LGA, Elder Deji Agboola, the group noted that Oyebamiji’s wealth of experience in public and private services with unassailable integrity and track records of verifiable achievements stands him out as the…
As Ilawo Hosts 2nd Ayo Olopon Games In a bid to strengthen the reportage and access to information on his community, the Olu of Orile Ilawo indigenous community, Alaiyeluwa Oba (Prof) Alexander Olusegun MacGregor has appointed a veteran journalist, Lanre Olaleye as Head of the Media and Publicity Directorate of the palace. In a press statement signed by George Olabode Adebini, Palace Secretary to the Olu of Ilawo on Wednesday 7 May, 2025, Olaleye’s appointment bodes well with Kabiyesi’s agenda to position Ilawo among the top echelon of indigenous communities in Nigeria. “Kabiyesi is strongly committed to the all round…
President Bola Tinubu has called on other African leaders to make education system inclusive,safe and anchored on child-sensitive policies. He gave the charge at the First Regional Meeting of Africa’s Pathfinder Countries under the Global Alliance on Ending Violence Against Children held at Banquet Hall, Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday, 8 May, 2025. According to President Tinubu, the meeting could not have come at a more appropriate time as it breathes new life into the bold declarations made at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children held in Bogotá. “That moment in our shared history…