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2019 Elections: IPC Advances Women Participation Ahead Electoral Process

Mrs. Jumoke Anifowoshe delivering her paper at the event

Lagos-based media NGO, the International Press Centre (IPC) recently held a one-day Stakeholders’ forum on Advancing Women Participation Ahead the 2019 Electoral Process in Lagos. The event, in furtherance of a series of citizens engagement programmes which began in 2014 drew participants among community members from 18 communities across six Local Government Areas in Lagos State including Amuwo-Odofin, Surulere, Shomolu, …

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Lagos Lacks Capacity To Handle Effects Of Adverse Weather Condition -Environmentalist

Lagos Island

An environmentalist, Adetokunbo Ladega has said that despite generating highest internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in Nigeria, Lagos State still lacks the capacity to handle effects of adverse weather condition. Ladega made the submission at a workshop bothering on preservation of the environment titled ‘Integrating ICT in Urban Transitions: Transforming Lagos To A Smart City.’ The event which held Friday  at …

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NAWOJ President, Omowole, faces fire over multimillion-naira journalists’ housing scandal

In 2014, the President of the National Association of Women Journalists, Mrs. Ifeyinwa Omowole, sold the idea of low cost housing for women journalists in the state to the National Union of Journalists, Lagos State Council. Three years down the line, with contributions running into almost N100m, no journalist or contributor to the scheme has got any house while prospect …

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Yabatech Alumni Marks Institution’s 70th Anniversary With National Workshop

Cutting the 70th anniversary cake

Nominee Chairman of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Dr. Tunde Lemo has advised Nigerians to take their destinies in their hands and mind the process producing leaders in the country. Lemo, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) gave this charge at the 70th anniversary of Nigeria’s foremost tertiary institution; the Yaba College of Technology in …

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Ambode Unveils Fela’s Statue, Pays Tribute To Late Afrobeat Maestro

The Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Statue titled - the Liberation, at Allen Roundabout, Ikeja, unveiled by the Lagos State Government on Sunday, October 15, 2017.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Sunday extoled the virtues of the late Afrobeat legend and freedom fighter, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, describing him as an enigmatic artiste who used the platform of his art to agitate for social and human rights by challenging government and people to explore development through social and economic activities rooted in African values. This is as …

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World Food Day: Govts, Donors Failing Women Farmers– Oxfam

Women farmers are not getting the resources they need to be able to feed their families and communities as well as adapt to climate change, Oxfam said its analysis of policies and public investments in six countries has shown. This shortfall, the international humanitarian agency said, “exposes a sham in the rhetoric and commitments by countries and donors” to strengthen …

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That Our Women May Be Free Indeed

By Betty Abah I was blessed to be a part of a compelling session on women’s safety online at the 2017 Forum on Internet Freedom (FIFAfrica17) which held in Johannesburg, South Africa between September 27 and 29 this year. And I was the moderator. What a golden seat to sit on, what a familiar-turf-matter to take on! Fact is women …

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PRESIDENT BUHARI, ASIWAJU TINUBU AND 2019

In the race to 1983 presidential election, Chief Obafemi Awolowo of UPN and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP made frantic efforts to present a consensus candidate through an alliance that crumbled at the eleventh hour. It was indeed the best time for Chief Awolowo to ascend the leadership of Nigeria and replicate at the federal level the master piece of …

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Senator Udoma Udo Udoma Speech At the 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit

Senator Udo Udoma

Senator Udoma Udo Udoma Honourable Minister of Budget and National Planning At The 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit Advertisement I am delighted to welcome you to the 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit, organized by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in collaboration with my Ministry, the Ministry of Budget and National Planning. As you know this is an Administration that is committed …

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OGUN 2019: Your Portfolio Will Count

By Uzoma Ngozi Earlier this year, the media was awash with news that the APC in Ogun State had zoned the governorship slot to a section of the state ahead of 2019 gubernatorial elections. As interesting as it may sound, politicians need to know come 2019; victory at the polls will be determined by a candidate’s portfolio rather than party …

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