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By Aduragbemi Omiyale There are plans to add more schools to the Re-imagine Education program of Airtel Nigeria and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria. In December 2022, both organisations launched the initiative to transform education, leveraging the power of technology to enhance teaching and learning experiences for children across the country. With a shared vision of empowering children through education, Airtel and UNICEF have been working together to provide innovative solutions that bridge the digital divide and create equal opportunities for all children. The two parties have promised to continue to work hand in hand to expand

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A leading human capital development consultancy company, KloverHarris, has given out free books and writing materials to top-performing students of Local Government Primary School, Isiwu, in Ikorodu, Lagos State, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) aimed at inspiring and encouraging brilliant academic performances. The CSR project undertaken on Friday, July 21, 2023, at the school premises saw the company gifting the best students in each class academic materials aimed at creating a positive impact on the beneficiaries and others, as well as reinforcing that there is dignity in labour. The Managing Partner of KloverHarris, Ms

By Aduragbemi Omiyale At least 63 students from Rivers State admitted to the Nigerian Law School have been awarded scholarships by the O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation. The beneficiaries were those chosen for this year’s edition of the gesture. They were given a grant of N120,000 and a brand-new laptop each at the 14th Law School Students Scholarship award ceremony held on Tuesday, July 25, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Since the foundation started offering scholarships to students of the state in 2009, not less than 868 persons have benefited. “The O.B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation firmly believes in the power of education and

By Bon Peters A beneficiary of the Andoni Local Government Maritime scholarship scheme, Mr Ukotije Hezekiah, has emerged as the 2023 best-graduating student of Charkin Maritime Academy. At the passing out parade/convocation ceremony weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital, Mr Erastus Awortu, Chairman of the area council and initiator of the program, lauded cadets for putting in commensurate efforts in their respective courses of study. Mr Awortu said that upon commencement of his administration in 2021, he unveiled the Maritime scholarship scheme. According to him, 15 students (4 females and 11 males), who successfully completed the scholarship requirements,

By Dipo Olowookere Some additional shares of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc have been listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), a circular has confirmed. The stocks, 146,878,241 in number, were admitted on the trading platform of the exchange on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, the notice signed by the Head of Listings Regulation Department at the NSE, Mr Godstime Iwenekhai, stated. This has now increased the total issued and fully paid-up shares of Dangote Sugar to 12,146,878,241 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each from 12,000,000,000 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each. The fresh equities of the sugar milling

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) says it will partner with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to train victims of human trafficking with the aim of rehabilitating and equipping them with skills they would need to become self-reliant. Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Mr Simbi Wabote, made the commitment at a recent meeting he held with the management of NAPTIP at Abuja and added that the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act empowered the Board to carry out capacity building schemes in the oil and gas industry

By Dipo Olowookere On June 20 and 21, 2018, experts in the insurance industry will gather at the Villa Rosa Kempisnki Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya to brainstorm on how to move the sector forward. The platform providing this opportunity is the Annual Insurance and Reinsurance Conference 2018, which enters its eighth edition this year. The theme of the conference is ‘Innovate to Capture Growth Potential’ and renowned industry experts already confirmed are Justus Mutiga, C.E.O, ICEA; Ashok Shah, CEO, APA Insurance; Ezekiel Owour, Managing Director, CIC Life Assurance Ltd. JacqulineKarasha, Head of Corporate Business, Sanlam; S. Chalapathi Srinivasan, Director, General

By Adedapo Adesanya The Naira moved in a different direction in the various segments of the foreign exchange (FX) market on Monday, May 22, appreciating against the United States Dollar in the Peer-2-Peer (P2P) and the black market window but depreciating in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) category. Customers exchanged their local currency for the American currency at N770/$1 in the peer-to-peer segment after it was strengthened by N3 on the previous session’s exchange rate of N773/$1. It was a similar story in the parallel market yesterday as the domestic currency gained N1 against the greenback to settle at N757/$1

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The third season of a loyalty reward programme for customers designed by Ecobank Nigeria Limited has commenced and for two months, 100 customers will win N50,000 monthly. The customer-focused initiative called Super Rewards Campaign, according to a statement from the company, will run from June 20, 2022, to August 21, 2022. It was disclosed that two customers will also go home with N1 million each at the end of the season, with participation open to both new and existing individual customers of the bank. The Head of Consumer Banking at Ecobank Nigeria, Mrs Korede Demola-Adeniyi, advised residents

By Dipo Olowookere Federal Government has inaugurated health coordination units across the federation with 34 states already having Logistics, Management Coordination Units (LMCU) in their local government areas. This is mainly to take quality healthcare service closer to Nigerians. The inauguration was done by the Nigeria Supply Chain Integration Project (NSCIP) of the National Products Supply Chain Management Programme in the Federal Ministry of Health. It is believed that the local government level remains very critical in providing staff who help make health commodities available according to the needs of facilities and also they provide direct leadership to facility staff

By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh While Russia’s interest in sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it’s time to move back primarily to reclaim its economic footprints and to find old Soviet-era allies, but that step comes with new challenges, especially from other foreign players and the changing internal political and economic conditions in Africa. Long before it held its first symbolic summit in October 2019, many experts indicated in several policy reports that “Russia has often failed to capitalize on the historical connection between Moscow and those African elites who had been educated in the Soviet Union

By Dipo Olowookere Stakeholders in the banking profession recently gathered at the weeklong Annual Cash & Trade Seminar organised by Citibank. During the programme, more than 45 professionals from different banks in the country were taken through current global developments and emerging trends in the banking world. Chief executive of Citi Nigeria, Mr Akinsowon Dawodu, who declared the event open, highlighted Citi’s partnership with other banks in the industry and reinforced Citi’s commitment to improving the standard of banking for all key stakeholders including regulators, banks and customers. He noted that the annual seminar was a demonstration of Citi’s commitment