archiveOctober 2016

The 2016 edition of the Med-view NUJ Media Games is expected to kick-off today, Monday 24th of October, at the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos. The Games, which is also co-sponsored by a soft drink making company, BIG Cola, will see 16 media chapels competing in the football category, while there...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the Federal Government to adopt Kenya option to decongest prisons in the country. Last week, Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, freed 7000 prisoners in the country to decongest the prisons and also to make room for incoming corruption offenders. While applauding this intervention, MURIC...

Every Nigerian who owns a small business understands that the customer is the major source of sustenance for his trade. These days in Nigeria though, no one wants to be sold to, and so most small business owners are now finding it extra hard to attract customers. Some of them...

Calls for national debate on it The management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) led by Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has resolved to ensure that the change agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari, concerning education is actualized in no distance time. As a result of this, the JAMB Registrar has...

Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary spraks during a debate-watch party at The Space at Westbury on September 26, 2016 in Westbury, New York. Photo: AFP Hillary Clinton has soared to a 12-point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to a new poll released Sunday, with...

Mr. Imoh Essien, a teacher from Special Education Center for Exceptional Children, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, emerged the 2016 Maltina Teacher of the Year at the grand finale in Lagos on Thursday. For the feat, Mr. Essien was rewarded with one million naira in addition to five hundred thousand naira...

  Stanbic IBTC, CBN, NCC to speak at event As part of efforts to further educate Nigerians on the need to embrace the use of mobile money in the country, the Brand Journalists Association of Nigeria (BJAN) has centred its 2016 annual conference on Mobile Money scheduled to hold between...

Managing Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr Peter Ndegwa, has reiterated the company’s commitment to increase the use of local raw materials such as sorghum and maize which have been part of its sourcing strategy for over a decade now. He also announced the company’s intention to raise the use of...

The 36 states got N143.6 billion from the federation account in September as their share of distributable revenue generated for the month. This is according to the breakdown by the report News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) which it sourced from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation in Abuja...

Security experts in Lagos on Sunday urged Nigerians to publish and report phone numbers of suspected fraudsters on every available platform, so that the appropriate security agencies could go after them. In separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, they said that reporting the numbers would...