mediaReach OMD presents the latest edition of MediaFacts Book. mediaReach OMD has been instrumental in publishing the MediaFacts Book annually for over a decade (since 2001), with an objective to organize and make media information for West & Central Africa easily accessible, useful and meaningful to all. It is noteworthy to state that this edition coincides with the 20th Anniversary ... Read More »
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From Nigeria to Canada: Climate Change, the Youth and a Bridge to Cross By Hamzat Lawal
I was still a child the first time I heard of Canada. This was in 1995, during the controversial execution of the Ogoni-born Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, by the then military government of late General Sani Abacha. Growing up in Abuja, the newly installed seat of power, I, like many other young people, was quite aware of the national burning ... Read More »
Kwara’s Commissioner-designate named Fellow of Institute of Architects
The Nigerian Institute of Architects will on Wednesday confer Architect Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen, a commissioner-designate in Kwara State, with the status of a Fellow of the Institute. The conferment would hold at the Institute’s 2019 Fellowship Investiture and Dinner in Abuja as part of the body’s Biennial General Meeting/Assembly. Saifudeen would be invested with the prestigious title alongside 112 others. ... Read More »
SECURITY: SANWO-OLU OFFERS AMNESTY TO CULTISTS IN LAGOS
…Asks Criminals To Surrender Illegal Firearms …Restricts VIO’s Operations To Three Hours Daily Members of secret cult groups in Lagos State have been asked to surrender illegal firearms in their possession and renounce their membership of criminal groups. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced amnesty for criminals and cultists operating in the State. The Governor’s offer of amnesty followed a ... Read More »
Oyo Govt To Jerk Up Education Budget To 20 Per Cent In 2020-Makinde
…releases N500m subvention to LAUTECH …as gov inaugurates committee on varsity ownership today Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has announced the increment of the state’s education budget to 20 per cent in 2020. The Governor, who announced the decision while speaking at a consultative meeting with stakeholders at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, said that in ... Read More »
BEFORE THE HATE EXECUTIONER COMES By Femi Akintunde-Johnson
Not many Nigerians will pick bones with Senator Sabi Abdullahi (representing Niger North Senatorial district) for sponsoring a private bill aimed at ‘prohibiting hate speeches and (for) other related matters’. Many discerning Nigerians have been alarmed at the crippling enthronement and insidious effects of hate speech on our body politics, since the acrimonious electioneering campaigns of 2007 presidential and national ... Read More »
Why we Abolish pension for Ex Governor in Zamfara – Zamfara Assembly
The zamfara state house of assembly in its 078 sittings today has laid to rest the ranging controversy of payment of pension and other entitlements for the fmr govs,their deputies,speakers,and their deputies in the state by repealing the law outrightly. Presenting the bill before the house today the house leader hon Faruk Musa Dosara (PDP Maradun 1) urged his collogues ... Read More »
Oyo Govt Releases N500m Subvention To LAUTECH, Jerks Up 2020 Education Budget To 20 Per Cent
Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has announced the state’s education budget to 20 percent in 2020. The Governor, who announced the decision while speaking at a consultative meeting with stakeholders at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, said that in 2020, Oyo State would devote 20 percent of its budget to education. A statement by the Chief ... Read More »
Why we renovated Kwara NYSC camp, by AbdulRazaq
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said his administration renovated the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in the state as part of his efforts to project Kwara in positive light to the outside world. “This intervention is the right thing to do. Each Corps member that comes to Kwara becomes an ambassador for the state when they leave. Then, we ... Read More »
YAYI OFFICIALLY PRESENTS MIKANO GEN. SET TO RCI, PROMISED TO RENOVATE CLUBHOUSE!
The Senator representing Lagos West at the National Assembly, Rec. Olamilekan Solomon Adeola, fondly called Yayi has assured members of the Recreation Club Ilaro of his readiness to give the clubhouse a facelift. Yayi who stormed the clubhouse in company of five Senators gave this assurance on Saturday November 23, 2019 during the official presentation of a brand new Mikano ... Read More »