Firms Must Set Clear Targets to Address Gender Equality—Makinwa

By Aduragbemi Omiyale An artificial intelligence-powered feature, Dream Screen for Shorts, designed to redefine how creators use YouTube, has been unveiled by the video streaming platform. The feature was introduced by the tech giant on Thursday alongside others at the Made On YouTube event. It was created to allow YouTube creators to reach more viewers. According to the firm, Dream Screen allows creators to add AI-generated video or image backgrounds to their Shorts simply by typing an idea into a prompt. With Dream Screen, creators will be able to generate new, fantastic settings for their Shorts that are only limited

Do you struggle with writing college essays? Take a look at the top hacks for improving writing skills and developing clear idea articulation in our text below. Writing is an art that requires refining until perfection. While it is innate to most people, several undergraduates struggle to articulate thoughts on paper. Either way, you cannot escape composing. Why? It is integral to education and career. Students across all levels need the skills to gain admission, pass tests, and graduate school. Likewise, professionals need writing abilities, present ideas skills, and stand out. Despite the dread, the formatting process is simple. Don’t

By Modupe Gbadeyanka On October 1, 2023, food enthusiasts and stakeholders will gather at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos to have a taste of Nigerian cuisine at an event organised by 3X4 Foods, a subsidiary of 3 BY 4 Gourmet. The founder of 3X4 Foods, Ms Banke Makinde, said the programme, Street Food Celebration, would be used to showcase the Nigerian culture, through food, to the world. She said the event would provide an opportunity to celebrate Nigeria’s culture, history, and people through street food, and promote cultural entertainment, and delicious gourmet street food. According to her, Street Food Celebration

By Bliss Okperan The early morning fire that gutted a part of the Supreme Court complex in Abuja has been blamed on an electrical malfunction. The Director of Information of the apex court, Mr Festus Akande, said this on Monday morning when he appeared on Arise Television’s breakfast programme, The Morning Show. According to him, preliminary investigation showed that the fire was triggered by an electrical fault, playing down rumours that the Supreme Court was attacked by arsonists. Attention is on the apex court over the outcome of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 15, 2023. The Appeal Court

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A new show to look into possible ways of living in the future and how the cities of tomorrow are being imagined today has been launched by CNN. This television programme called The Next Frontier is hosted by CNN Business Correspondent, Rahel Solomon, and it involves talks with architects, designers, and others working on the future way of life. In the new six-episode series, which made its debut on December 10, 2022, on CNN International, the anchor examined the topic of How We Will Live. From soaring skyscrapers to subterranean designs, the ways cities will evolve in

By Dipo Olowookere Shareholders of MTN Nigeria will receive a N10 per share dividend for the financial year ending December 31, 2022. The board proposed this cash reward in a regulatory notice filed to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited. The payment is only for shareholders who have the company’s stocks as of March 27, 2023, with the payment date fixed for April 20, 2023. The telecommunications giant is rewarding its investors with this money amid a very profitable accounting year. Details of its financial results showed that the revenue generated in the year under consideration improved by 21.5 per cent

By Ahmed Rahma The red chamber of the National Assembly has disclosed that the N38 billion proposed by the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the maintenance of federal roads in the country next year would not be enough. Chairman of the Senate Committee on FERMA, Mr Gersome Bassey, while speaking during the budget defence, stated that about N400 billion would be needed annually to put the 35,000 kilometres roads belonging to the federal government in good shape and not the meagre N38 billion in the 2021 budget estimates. According to him, nothing meaningful can be achieved with the amount

By Adedapo Adesanya WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows users to share a direct link to a call, just as it is planning to allow up to 32 users during a call session in a move that can see the Meta-owned platform rival other platforms. The Call Links feature will start appearing on WhatsApp this week and can be accessed through a banner at the top of the Calls tab. WhatsApp users who want to try the Call Link feature will need the latest version of the app, which can be updated through the app store. Mr

By Dipo Olowookere Access Bank Plc is paying its shareholders an interim dividend of 30 kobo for the first half of 2021 ended June 30, a notice from the lender has confirmed. However, the HY dividend is subject to appropriate withholding tax and would be paid on Wednesday, September 29 to shareholders whose names appear on the register of members as at the close of business on Thursday, September 16 and to those who have completed their e-dividend registration and mandated the registrar to pay their dividends directly into their bank accounts. A look into the performance of the banking

By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh On the eve of his four-nation African tour from July 24 to 28, Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, shared reflections on the prospects for Russia-African relations within the context of the current geopolitical and economic changes. He makes official working visits to Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo. Before taking off from Moscow, he gave a joint interview to Russia Today television, Sputnik news agency and Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency. According to Lavrov, Russia has had long-standing good relations with Africa since the days of the Soviet Union which pioneered and led a

By Investors Hub European stocks have moved mostly higher during trading on Monday as trader look ahead to the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump backed out of a joint communiqué after the G7 summit over the weekend, and although this has raised trade war concerns, traders appear to have shrugged off this development for now. While the U.K.?s FTSE 100 Index is up by 0.6 percent, the French CAC 40 Index and the German DAX Index are both up by 0.1 percent. On the economic front, data released by the Office

By Modupe Gbadeyanka In the month of March 2020, the government of Bayelsa State increased its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to N1.2 billion from N848.9 million achieved in February 2020. At a briefing over the weekend, the Technical Adviser to the Governor on Treasury, Account and Revenue, Mr Timipre Seipulou, stated that in the month under review, the gross inflow was N12.8 billion, while total deductions from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) stood at about N1.5 billion leaving a net balance of N11.3 billion. According to him, from the N848.9 million IGR in February, funds from other sources came