Yemisi Izuora The 10th edition of agrofood & plastprintpack Nigeria will open on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, featuring Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the keynote speaker. His presence emphasises the State’s commitment to industrialisation, trade expansion, food security, and sustainable packaging solutions. The highly anticipated international conference and trade exhibition will take place from March 25 to 27, 2025, at the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos. It aims to bring together over 110 exhibitors from 13 countries and provide a platform for global and local industry leaders to showcase cutting-edge innovations in agriculture, food processing,…
Author: Orientalnews Staff
Agency Report Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday after more than five weeks in hospital with pneumonia, taking time before leaving to thank well-wishers for their support. Looking tired and worn, the 88-year-old Catholic leader waved to a crowd outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital from a balcony, the first time he has been seen in public since he was admitted on February 14. “Thank you, everyone,” a weak-sounding Francis said into a microphone, seated in a wheelchair, as hundreds of pilgrims chanted his name. He waved his hands from his lap, doing an occasional…
Yemisi Izuora The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure only fit and proper individuals are permitted to operate in Nigeria’s capital market to enhance investor protection. Speaking in Abuja, SEC Director-General, Dr. Emomotimi Agama emphasized that market operators engaging in unscrupulous activities would not be allowed to go unpunished. According to him, “It’s important that, as a form of self-regulation, they are aware beforehand that if you do what is not right, the SEC will bring you out to the wall to say that you do not have character, because the very ethics…
Valentine Okafor The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) are strengthening their partnership to deal with human suffering caused by malnutrition especially in many communities. This was the outcome of a strategic meeting by both organizations at a meeting held at NiMet headquarters in Abuja on Friday, 21st March 2025. Speaking at the meeting, the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the NiMet, Professor Charles Anosike remarked that nutrition begins with soil health and weather has a significant impact on soil health and plant nutrition. “It’s very important that we formalize the relationship…
Joyce Onwuka Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have raided a popular hotel located at Zamaru, a few kilometers away from the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. During the operations 7 suspected victims who were being prepared to be trafficked to Baghdad, Iraq, for exploitation were rescued. The raid which also led to the arrest of the manager of the hotel followed credible intelligence from concerned stakeholders who noticed the unusual movement of some young girls and strange-looking men within the flourishing hotel thereby indicating that the facilities are being used to…
Ken Okeke Passengers can now enjoy direct flights between Lagos and Jos as ValueJet has concluded plans to begin flight services to Jos, Plateau on April 2, 2025. The airline equally plans to spread its wings to other key destinations. The carrier would operate direct flight from Lagos three times a week scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a start as it could expand it to daily operation. It is not the first time ValueJet would be operating to Jos. The airline had on October 10, 2022, launched its inaugural flight and in February 2023 began flight services…
Tunde Bakare The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of one Hammed Saka to three months imprisonment for hawking new Naira notes He was jailed by Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The charge reads: “That you, Hammed Saka, on or about the 14h day of December, 2024, at Villa Dome Event Centre, Okotie-Eboh Street, Ikoyi, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, hawked the sum of N800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of…
Yemisi Izuora Dominion City Church is set to host its highly anticipated Camp Meeting 2025, a power-packed spiritual gathering designed to ignite revival, salvation, deliverance, miracles, and breakthroughs in the lives of attendees. The event, scheduled to take place from Thursday, April 17th to Monday, April 21st, 2025, will be held at Golden Heart Place, Km 22, Lekki-Epe Expressway, beside Lagos Business School, Ajah, Lagos and usually attracts thousands of worshippers onsite and online. This year’s Camp Meeting will be led by the Senior Pastor of Dominion City, Worldwide, and President of the Dominion Leadership Institute, Dr. David…
Francesca Odimgbe The Chairman of the South-West Governors Forum and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed the readiness of Lagos to host the maiden edition of the South West Games. The South-West Games scheduled for March 26 to 28 will provide an avenue for athletes from the six states in the region – Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti – to compete in different sports activities at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Rowe Park and Yaba College of Technology. The Governor assured the organisers and all the participants that the Lagos State…
Joyce Onwuka Nestlé Nigeria has continued to demonstrate commitment to providing accessible and affordable nutrition with the launch of Golden Morn 3in1, Nigeria’s first fully ready-to-eat cereal. According to a statement by Toritseju Egbebi, Corporate Affairs Manager, at Nestle Nigeria, “This product combines Nigeria’s favorite Maize and Soya cereal with milk, requiring only the addition of water to serve a complete meal that can be enjoyed at any time of the day. “Golden Morn, the cherished homegrown family cereal born in 1986, has since grown into the most consumed cereal in Nigeria. Building on this rich heritage, Golden Morn…