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It’s no longer news that REDTV’s Red Hot Topics is now in high demand with millennial’s constantly craving for more. Well the latest update is that the show has nowdropped episode 5 with great promise of more rich and robustsubjects. The show which follows a panel of young people discussing current and relevant topics that affect everyday life has gotten very popular with enormous followers always waiting to catch the next episode. Every gathering of the 11 exciting, energetic, hot young folks, features them openly and frankly touching on topics ranging from equality to infidelity, sex, relationships, honour, business and…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja No fewer than five thousands unemployed youths, mostly graduates on Thursday besieged the International Conference Center in Abuja, venue of the “Abuja Job Fair 2019”, seeking to secure about five hundred job vacancies declared by the organizers. The one-day event was organized by the German Cooperation (GIZ), in collaboration with the Nigerian-German Center for Jobs, Migration and Integration and the Federal Ministry of Labour & Employment at the M&M Event Center. About 110 participating companies and organizations including UBA Plc, NPC, ECOWAS, ILO, Acess Bank and Abuja Chamber of Commerce took up stands at the Fair…
The Federal Government has inaugurated a team of 89 persons drawn from five key agencies to ensure transparency and accountability in the distribution of petroleum products across the country. Speaking at a brief ceremony held at the NNPC Towers Thursday in Abuja to launch the initiative code-named ‘Operation White’, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said the team would help to authenticate the actual volume of products imported and consumed in the country and ensure that the nation attains energy security. Sylva, who earlier visited the team’s Command and Control Centre at the NNPC Towers, observed…
Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has again rewarded another 20 customers who have emerged winners in the final draw of the UBA Wise Savers Promo, winning N1.5 million each, bringing the total amount won by 80 customers for the duration of the draw to N120 million. The electronic raffle draw, which was held at the UBA Head Office in Lagos on Thursday, October 10th2019, was witnessed by the relevant regulatory bodies including the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Lagos State Lottery Board and Consumer Protection Council. Lucky customers who emerged winners in the fourth draw cut…
The arrest of yet another scammer linked with the Buhari Presidency further confirms that the Presidency under President Muhammadu Buhari has become a den of thieves, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has said. Kola Ologbodiyan, the party’s spokesperson says that the shocking fact that the scammer, Abdulrauf Illyasu, even enjoys an office accommodation within the safety and cover of the Presidential villa, from where he carries out his fraudulent assignments, is a hard evidence that the Buhari Presidency breeds and facilitates swindlers, charlatans and treasury looters. The PDP however notes that nothing is impossible for a Presidency replete with…
By Harry Awurumibe, STATE HOUSE, Abuja Former Nigeria’s President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s unscheduled visit to President Muhammadu Buhari today (Thursday) may not be unconnected with his recent appointment by the African Union (AU) as the leader of the body’s Elections Observations Mission to Mozambique. Dr. Jonathan who had earlier today paid President Buhari a surprised visit may have come to tell the current Nigerian leader that he has been nominated by the AU to lead the continental body’s Election Observation Mission to Mozambique’s scheduled October 15 general elections. In view of this, the former President is billed to leave the…
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, has identified the development of entrepreneurship as a major solution to unemployment and various challenges facing the country in the health, housing, agriculture and security and other sectors of the economy. Speaking at the opening session of the first Ekiti State Entrepreneurship Week, in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, the Governor said his administration had started implementing policies that will not just support education for the sake of holding certificates but equip holders of certificates to be capable of applying the knowledge gained to proffer solutions to numerous problems confronting the State and Nigeria in general. Dr…
The Governing Council of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), has approved 15 new courses for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to give opportunities to Nigerians wishing to study in the institution. Prof. Peter Okebukola, the Chairman, Governing Council, NOUN, said this in Abuja on Thursday while briefing newsmen. He noted that three of the courses, International Relations, French as well as Development Studies, were approved for undergraduate programmes. Okebukola explained that 12 of the programmes including Master of Law, Master of International Law and Diplomacy (MILD), Public Health, Economics and Mass Communication were approved for postgraduate programmes. Others courses…