#EndSARS: A Wakeup Call for Nigerian Media (The Fourth Estate or Fourth Power of the Realm)

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi Seemingly good news came recently the way of Nigerians living in the flood-prone areas of the country. The message, which was from the new Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof Joseph Utsev, among other remarks, stated that ‘there is no immediate threat of flooding in the country. Utsev, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, explained that the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) had observed an increase in the volume of flow along the River Benue system, registering a flow level of 8.97 meters today. This, he said, was insignificant, as compared to a

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi It is pedestrian information that the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Western Zone, comprising Delta, Edo and Ondo States, in a recent media statement signed by the trio of Comrade Doubra Collins Okotete (Zonal chairman), Comrade Olu Derimo (secretary) and Lugard Izoukumor (Information Officer), specifically called on Governor Oborevwori to commence work on the long-awaited Ayakoromor bridge project, the Ogulagha-Odimodi road project, the permanent site of the School of Marine Technology, Burutu among other critical projects. Indeed, while there exists glaring evidence that Oborevwori has, in the last 100 days of his administration in the state, demonstrated

By Carl Jordan It’s all too easy to underplay how social media and other online platforms have altered the advertising and marketing landscapes over the past 15 or so years. It’s given businesses of all sizes the ability to reach and engage with their customers in ways that simply wouldn’t have been possible previously. Moreover, it’s given those organisations’ marketing teams a greater sense of certainty that they’re reaching their intended target audiences. Rather than simply hoping that they reach those audiences through things like billboards and television ads, they can see and measure it in the data. But simply

By Adebayo Komolafe The year is 15th March, 44 BC, and the great Julius Caesar lay helplessly on the floors of the Roman Senate, soaked in his own blood. He is gasping for his life after 60 Roman senators had conspired to assassinate him and thereafter stabbed him 23 times during a Senate session. One would ask how could a well-respected icon die such an awful death? Bewildered, one would think again: How could Caesar, who is so revered across the world and so honoured and loved by his own people, die in such a cruel way? Some more context,

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A gas agreement has been signed by Egbin Power Plc last Wednesday in a bid to boost power generation in Nigeria. Business Post gathered that the Side Letter to the 2011 Gas Sale and Aggregation Agreement (GSAA) was sealed by Egbin Power with Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) and Gas Aggregation Company of Nigeria (GACN). The signing ceremony happened at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja on Wednesday, October 31, 2018. Formalizing the agreement on behalf of the three companies were Dallas Peavey Jr., Morgan Okwoche and Sanjay Narasimhalu who are Managing Director of Egbin Plc, Director Downstream

By Adedapo Adesanya In its proposition to play a significant role in the insurance industry retail space, Universal Insurance Plc has keyed into the Passengers Manifest Scheme (PAMS) project of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), becoming the official underwriter of the initiative. This partnership means that Universal Insurance will be the official insurer of all the passengers and drivers under the scheme. The PAMS initiative was designed to ensure that passengers travelling by road across the country have their names authenticated in the union’s digital manifest and are covered with genuine insurance policy. In event of any

By Dipo Olowookere Activities of some currency traders in Abuja were on Friday disrupted by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It was alleged that the foreign exchange (forex) traders were mopping up hard currencies, especially the Dollar, in circulation in a bid to create artificial scarcity for the purpose of selling at higher rates later. Currency speculators had taken over the local FX market in the past few days and this action has weakened the domestic currency to different all-time lows. On Thursday, the value of the Nigerian currency against the United States currency depleted to

By Dipo Olowookere The management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced making a total of $471.90 million in export receipts for the month of July 2017 as against $219.34 million posted in June 2017. According to the July edition of the Monthly Financial and Operations Report of the agency, which was made public on Thursday, contribution from crude oil amounted to $392.20 million while gas and miscellaneous receipts stood at $64.72 million and $14.98 million respectively.  . The report indicated that of the export receipt, $108.09 million was remitted to the Federation Account while $363.81 million was

By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke Wikipedia describes electronic waste or e-waste as discarded electrical or electronic devices. It added that they are used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling or disposals are also considered e-waste. Surprisingly, these discarded electronic devices don’t end up in China, The United States of America, Indonesia, and England. They come straight to Africa and route it to Nigeria. So, why is Nigeria an attractive destination for e-waste? Jumia Travel, identifies 5 reasons. We love cheap products Cheap products and some Nigerians are like Siamese twins. They are inseparable. Funny enough, some sellers will encourage

By Dipo Olowookere For the first time in eight consecutive trading sessions, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed in the negative territory on Thursday at the close of trading activities. This was the handiwork of Dangote Cement, Fidson, Access Bank and 16 other price losers, which invited the bears to the market to oust the bulls. As a result, the market crumbled by 0.10 per cent and expanded the year-to-date loss to 5.73 per cent. Dangote Cement was the biggest price decliner yesterday as its shares went down by 80 kobo to trade at N134.20 per unit, while Fidson depreciated

By Aduragbemi Omiyale A partnership that will empower Nigerian youths with digital marketing skills has been entered into between Facebook and Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN). The collaboration is in line with the organisation’s vision of raising a generation of digitally-inclined young business leaders. Beneficiaries of the scheme will be incorporated into the digital marketing module of JAN’s flagship company programme. This element teaches secondary school students how to start and run their own business, develop a product or service, form a company, choose a business name and elect company officers to oversee the operation of the company. The initiative aims

By Dipo Olowookere Outlets of popular online classified advert platform, OLX, in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana would be shut down. According to multiple reports, offices of OLX in these three African nations would be closed by the end of March this year. OLX, a global classifieds platform, has physical presence in nearly 40 countries, but has struggled to gain confidence of users in Nigeria, especially with some people falling victims of fraudsters who allegedly use the platform to carry out their operations. Few years ago, a woman in Lagos, who used OLX to employ a housemaid, fell victim of kidnapping