Joseph Bakare The West African Examinations Council, WAEC has disclosed that a total of 1,621,853 candidates from 20,851 secondary schools have registered for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates. The Head of the Nigeria National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, said the WASSCE would take place between Monday, the 8th of May, and Friday, the 23rd of June, 2023 in Nigeria, spanning a period of seven weeks. He added that candidates would be examined in 76 subjects, saying about 30,000 practicing senior secondary school teachers, nominated by the various State Ministries of Education, would be…
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Ken Okeke The International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), has implored governments of African countries to arrest the growing cases of violent deaths against music stars on the continent. The Committee is also calling on South African authorities to expedite the process of prosecution of the killers of rapper Kiernan Forbes popularly known as AKA. AFRIMA recalls that the 35-year-old AKA was killed in a cold-blooded shooting on February 10, 2023, at a nightclub in Durban, South Africa and the awards body is demanding that everyone linked to his gruesome murder be expeditiously brought to justice.…
Yemisi Izuora Stanbic IBTC Trustees, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings in collaboration with the Lagos State Government and the Sports Global Ambassadors Program, has sponsored the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace with a three-day event. The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace also known as World Sports Day is a United Nations initiative celebrated 06 April every year to promote social cohesion, peaceful coexistence, and sustainable development goals through sports. The three-day event featured several sporting activities, a health talk, first aid medicine demonstration, a debate on exploring sports’ power in youth development…
Yemisi Izuora Wema Bank, has announced top 3 contestants in its highly anticipated Sounds of ALAT competition. The competition, launched a few months ago, aimed to discover and support budding upcoming musicians across Nigeria, and give them a platform to showcase their talent to the world. After a rigorous selection process, the top 3 contestants; Onyealisigwe Bright, Fashoro Taiye, and Kareem Tomiwa were unanimously announced by the celebrity judges; Cobhams Asuquo, Omawumi, DJ Sose, and Alpha Ojini at a 4-day boot camp hosted at the bank’s Purple Academy. These talented top 3 individuals will now proceed to the final…
Francesca Odimgbe Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, said the State is always open to partnership and therefore advised investors to take advantage of the market that Lagos represents He said Lagos State is the best place to do business, noting that his administration, having attracted a lot of significant investments into the State, will continue to make Lagos attractive for investors. Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke on Friday at Alausa, Ikeja during a courtesy visit by the African Delegation from World Economic Forum (WEF). The delegation was represented by the Head of Regional Agenda Africa of…
Yemisi Izuora Fidelity Bank Plc, has concluded plans to expand in at least five African countries after finalizing the acquisition of the London unit of rival Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. The 35-year-old institution is negotiating a second purchase, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, chief executive officer, said, without identifying the target, Bloomberg reports. The lender expects to complete the transaction this year, she said. “The strategy is for us to move footprint outside Nigeria and be able to compete favorably with our peers,” Onyeali-Ikpe said in a phone interview from Lagos, the country’s commercial hub. “In the next three years, we…
Yemisi Izuora The Board of Diplomates for Forensic Accounting and Auditing of the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Certified Fraud Examiners of Nigeria (CIFCFIN) has admitted Guinea Insurance Plc’s Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Dr. Pius Osaro Edobor, as a member. The ceremony, which took place at Audit House, Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, Abuja, marked the inauguration of the Governing Board of the Nigerian College of Forensics and Fraud Investigators (NICFFI) as well as the Board of Diplomates for Digital Forensics and Board of Diplomates for Forensic Accounting and Auditing of the CIFCFIN. As…
Richard Ginika Izuora Nigerian troops have found two of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram jihadists nine years ago, bringing to 14 the abducted girls found by troops in recent years, the military said. Dozens of Boko Haram militants stormed the Chibok girls’ boarding school in April 2014 in northeast Borno state and herded 276 pupils aged 12 – 17 into trucks in a mass abduction that generated global outrage. Fifty seven of the girls managed to escape by jumping off the trucks shortly after their abduction while 80 were released in exchange for some detained…
Yemisi Izuora Most parts of Lagos State under Ikeja and Eko Distribution networks where power supply had been epileptic would begin to enjoy normal supply. This follows delivery by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) of a brand new 300MVA 330/132/33kV power transformer at its Lekki 330/132/33kV Transmission Substation on April 30, 2023. This is the latest addition of new transformers delivered to the substation. Earlier, the substation received two brand new 60/75MVA power transformers in February and three heavy-duty truckloads of transformer components in January, 2023, among others. According to Ndidi Mbah, General Manager, TCN, the Management through…
….3 Others As Brand Influencers Joseph Bakare TAJBank Limited, Nigeria’s leading non-interest banking services provider, on Wednesday announced Osita Iheme (Pawpaw) and Saratu Daso as brand ambassadors in furtherance of its marketing strategies to popularize its techno-powered innovative products and services in the grassroots and deepen financial inclusion in the country. Speaking during the occasion of the unveiling of the brand ambassadors at the bank’s headquarters in Abuja, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hamid Joda, who also listed Uzee Usman, Aisha Falke (Northern Hibiscus) and Hauwa Jalilah as Brand Influencers of the non-interest lender, said the emergence of…