Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will join other world leaders across the globe for the Corporate Council on Africa’s 10th Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit, to be hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Monday 1st to Thursday 4th February, 2016. The US-Africa Business Forum will bring together 1000 private sector and government officials including heads of states, entrepreneurs and investors from throughout Africa, United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. This year’s forum will focus on key opportunities and challenges in agribusiness, energy, health, infrastructure, security, trade facilitation, ICT and finance to increase trade and investment. In a statement…
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Senate Committee on Marine Transportation led by Senator Sani Ahmed Yerima, representing Zamfara West, Monday visited the head office of the Nigerian Maritime Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA) in Lagos to look at its 2015 budget performance. In his welcome address, the Director General of NIMASA, Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro rolled out the constitutional duties of the agency as enshrined in the establishment Act and other extant laws and regulations, saying in the last budget year, NIMASA has passed through rough edges caused by administrative changes on one hand and delays by the ministerial committee on projects evaluation which up…
President Muhammadu Buhari will begin a week-long official visit to France and Britain on Tuesday, February 2. The President who had barely touched down in Nigeria on Monday after similar visits to Kenya and Uganda is expected to continue his push for global unity against terrorism in the two countries during the visits. He would be due back in the country at the weekend. A statement by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said at his first stop in Strasbourg, France, President Buhari would on Wednesday, February 3, address a special session of…
Senate Committee on Education on Monday discovered N9.982,258,479 tucked into the budget of parastatals by the Ministry of Education. According to details of the budget presented before the committee, the entire personnel cost for the ministry and all its subsidiaries including schools and colleges declined drastically when compared to that of last year, only that of parastatals increased at geometric progression by almost N10 billion. Members of the committee who requested the details of internal generated Revenue of the Education suspected that the huge sum was deliberately hidden under parastatals’ personnel cost. The budget of the ministry of education revealed…
CHAIRMAN of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Onyegun, has warned that any one trying to plant mole in the party will be disappointed, adding that the party is not a favourable ground for any hidden agenda acting a script. This assertion was made by the National Chairman of the APC John Odigie-Oyegun during a media chat with journalists at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, yesterday. He said, “The essential fabric of APC is strong enough to withstand any attempt to undermine it. And I think there is freedom of association which is guaranteed in the constitution. If…
The Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently reevaluate his government’s agenda, refocus, lead by example on all fronts or risk plunging Nigeria into a state of despondency. In a release by the Director of Social Communications of the Diocese, Monsignor Gabriel Osu, Okogie accused the president of waging a shoddy corruption war and acting with disdain towards the judicial authorities while millions of Nigerians were left to contend with a myriad of social problems. “He must retool, refocus and aggressively face the social, economic (fiscal and monetary)…
Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), has charged the Federal Government to streamline its electricity tariff to reflect actual consumption by industries rather than the current use of estimated billing. The President of MAN, Dr. Frank Jacobs, who stated this at a recent media event at the MAN’s house in Lagos, said if electricity tariff is regulated, it will contribute to further improvement in production. He advised that power companies can create a special electricity tariff lines for heavy users of electricity like steel, cement and other strategic sub-sector. He said, “We want the President to make it mandatory for DISCOs…
Senator Stella Oduah On Friday in Abuja described as “a misinterpretation”, media reports which quoted a Supreme Court judgment to have sacked her and other federal lawmakers from Anambra. Reports in the media said that the apex court had ordered the replacement of Oduah and other federal lawmakers from the state saying that their nomination to contest in the 2015 election was wrong. In a statement issued by Cynthia Ferdinand, Press Secretary to the Senator, Oduah said that the report in the media was misleading as the apex court did not order the withdrawal of her certificate of return. She…
If you frequent social media streets, you must have come across the ‘Yoruba Devil’ tag made towards Yoruba men for reasons that have heart breaking connotation, literally. Inasmuch as we believe there’s no smoke without fire, we also think that fire is solely fanned by subjective opinions as we’ve met several Yoruba men who are angels and nothing like demons. That said, there’s one objective fact we know we can unanimously agree on, and that is, the Yoruba tribe has one of the coolest traditional male attire – Agbada. So we’ve put together images for your viewing pleasure to inspire…
This year has kicked off on an amazing and forward note in the Nigerian fashion world. It is not the case that our designers need external validation to prove their worth, however, it is every designers dream to expand their shores of creative impact. Hence our excitement when we saw the vogue ‘lost in colour’ editorial feature designers like, Orange Culture, Tzar, McMeka Kenneth Ize, Re by Rebahia, Maxivive, Tokyo James and Sisiano. We absolutely loved not just the clothing pieces, but also the creative direction of the shoot; the serene beach and the unique poses, added an extra zhoosh.…