The Central Working Committee of The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has announced its partnership with The British Council on The Future Awards Prize in Media Enterprise 2013. “We are very excited to announce the introduction of a special category, The British Council and The Future Awards Africa Prize for ‘The International Young Media Entrepreneur of the Year’,” said Adebola Williams, who is a Director with The Future Project. “This is a first with TFAA as we step on the continental stage, and it furthers the search for outstanding young entrepreneurs in the media and entertainment sectors where our continent…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the appointment of Mrs. Augusta Chinwe Ogakwu as the new Secretary to the Commission. Her appointment was approved at the meeting of the Commission today, Thursday, July 9th, 2013, in Abuja.She succeeds Abdullahi A. Kaugama, whose five-year tenure expired on June 26, 2013. Mrs. Ogakwu will assume the new office from her present position as Director, Legal Services Department in INEC. She had assumed that position in April 2013, after serving as the Head of Unit / Director, Alternative Disputes Resolution since May 2009. She was also Acting Director, Legal Services Department…
Timothy Elerewe and Adegbuyi Ayodele, former chairman and secretary respectively of the Nigerian Union of Journalists Correspondent Chapel, Abuja, were on Tuesday July 9, 2013 remanded in Kuje prison by Justice Suleiman Belgore of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja following their arraignment on a 5-count charge that borders on conspiracy and criminal breach of trust preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.. The duo are alleged to have in 2006 informed their members of a 33.32 hectares of land purportedly allocated to the NUJ Chapel by the Nasarawa State Government. In a bid to…
From Sam Ade, Abuja : The Nigeria Football Federation has placed indefinite suspension on all the four clubs involved in scandalous score-lines during promotion play-offs into the Nigeria Nationwide League, the lowest tier of Nigeria domestic League, on Monday. In a mind-boggling show of shame never previously witnessed in Nigeria football, Plateau United Feeders somehow manufactured a 79-0 victory over Akurba FC while Police Machine FC demolished Babayaro FC 67-0. All teams were involved in promotion play-offs in which the winners would qualify to play in Nigeria Nationwide League Division 3. Chairman of the NFF Organising Committee, Mike Umeh, who…
Pandemonium broke out on Tuesday at the Rivers state House of Assembly when hoodlums broke into the House and attempted to seize the mace, the authority of the House. Five members of the House led by Evans Bipi had moved to impeach the Speaker and in the process, the hoodlums were said to have also assaulted the Speaker of the House, Otelema Amachree. Rivers state Commissioner for Information, Ibim Semenitari, confirmed this in a telephone interview with Channels Television. She revealed that commotion started when Mr Bipi walked up to the speaker and started ‘slapping’ him as members were still…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on Boko Haram members to disarm totally and permanently in the spirit of the Ramadan fasting period, which begins among Muslim faithful in the country on Wednesday. In a good will message to mark the beginning of the 30-day long Ramadan fasting by Muslims, the former Vice President appealed to the Boko Haram insurgents to permanently abandon any form of violence against innocent people. According to him, cold-blooded murder of innocent people is against the teachings of Islam and, therefore, advised the Boko Haram insurgents to embrace peace, using the Ramadan season as…
FCT Social Development Secretary, Blessing Onuh and the Director of Sports, Alim Musa are said to be running from pillar to post over FCT Sports’ Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN)’s call for their removal from office for gradually grounding sports to a halt in the capital city. SWAN, FCT chapter had on Monday called on the Minister, Bala Mohammed to relief the duo of their appointments before they finally send sports into oblivion. The association had also called for a complete overhaul of sports in the interest of the youths resident in the territory. According to a statement by FCT…
The flagging –off of the reconstruction and expansion works on Lagos-Ibadan expressway Sections I&II is a milestone in the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration commitment to deliver better road infrastructure to the nation in line with the Transformation Agenda of the Federal Government. The Honourable Minister of Works Arc. Mike Onolememen stated this at the official flag-off ceremony of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway which is the first expressway to be constructed in the country and was commissioned in August 1978. The road is part of arterial route A1 linking Lagos, the commercial center of Nigeria through Ibadan to the Northern part of the…
President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to begin a state visit to China during which several new agreements will be concluded and signed to boost bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and China in areas such as defence, finance, trade, agriculture and communications. Accompanied by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, he was received at the Capital Airport in Beijing by China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Li Yucheng and Nigeria’s Ambassador to China, Alhaji Aminu Wali. The President will be formally welcomed to China tomorrow by President Xi Jinping at a grand ceremony scheduled to hold at the…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sent goodwill message to all adherents of the Islamic faith in Nigeria as they begin this year’s Ramadan fast. “As they join the global Islamic community in undergoing the spiritual purification of Ramadan, President Jonathan urges all Nigerian Muslims to offer special prayers during the period for greater peace, security, unity and rapid socio-economic development in the country. “The President calls on all Nigerians, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, to strive to imbibe in greater measure, the virtues of piety, self-discipline, tolerance, equity, fairness and sympathy for the less privileged which the Ramadan fast promotes. “President…