Day: March 10, 2021

Ranking: LASU Tops UNILAG, OAU, UNN, Retains 2nd Position In Nigeria + LIST

Precious Ibekwe

    Three Nigerian universities: the University of Ibadan (UI), the Lagos State University (LASU) and the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have emerged among the top 800 universities globally, according to the 2021 global ranking of universities by Times Higher Education World University Ranking. The body thus ranked UI, LASU and UNILAG respectively as the first three leading universities in the country. In the fourth position is Covenant University in Ota, Ogun State which retained its position as the best private university in Nigeria. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka followed…

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$2.7bn ‘Oil Theft’: Shell fails to get 20 Nigeria’s Bank Accounts Unfrozen

Tade Salako

  Here is why Nigerian Court Declined To Unfreeze Shell’s Bank Account plus update on legal fireworks between Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited over $2.7bn worth of missing crude oil.   Shell fails to get Bank accounts unfrozen, deepens 2.7bn ‘Oil Theft’ defenseJustice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of a Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday declined to vacate the interim mareva injunctiondirecting20banks to block the bank accounts of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and its subsidiaries over alleged oil theft. The judge also summoned…

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Schneider Electric to deepen support for NDES Female Start-ups’ finalists

Efe Wellington

  The six winning female Start-up Founders at the just-concluded Nigeria Digital Economy Summit (NDES) Accelerator Programme held in collaboration with Foresight Seeds Fund, a part of The Foresight Group, will receive some sponsorship and continued mentorship from Schneider Electric, Foresight Seeds Fund and other partners for the next twelve months to enable them evolve into successful businesses. Sub-Saharan Africa’s General Manager for Schneider Electric Process Automation, Mr Ajibola Akindele, announced this at the finals of the selection process which was held virtually on the 8th of March 2021 to…

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Top Nigerian politician Bola Tinubu’s foundation donates bus to Journalists

Gbenga Adeoti

  A foundation belonging to Nigeria’s top politician, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), has donated a bus to the Lagos council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). The Foundation, Platforms Africa gathered, donated the 18-passenger Hummer Bus to the Adeleye Ajayi-NUJ Lagos State Council today in Lagos. Receiving the gift, Chairman of the council, Mr Adeleye Ajayi, showed appreciation to the foundation for its support to the union. Mr. Tinubu, who has been rumoured to be eyeing the seat of President Muhamadu Buhari is at the centre of a controvery…

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Meet Ramata, Professor who backed Student’s Baby in US Varsity’s Classroom

Wonuola Olujobi

  Here is why her white students who were astonished that the baby slept immediately after it was backed, mistook Ramata‘s act of kindness and warm for African black power   The woman backing the baby is a professor. And she backed the baby while teaching a class of physiology and anatomy. No ,the baby is not hers. And this scene played out for three hours at a University College in Georgia ,United States of America. Ramata Sissoko Cissé, an assistant professor of biology at Georgia Gwinnett College in the…

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Nigerian Media and framing: Wakili a Fulani warlord but Igboho an activist?

Fredrick Nwabufo

  The media possesses near-celestial powers. It calls into existence what must be and what must not be. It can actuate change and mobilise consciences to a cause. It can destroy, it can build; it can hurt and it can heal. Yes, it can call into existence ‘’the things that do not exist’’, – the power of god. I must say, the power of the media is also its burden. The ‘’omnipotence’’ of this public institution straps on it great responsibility. After all, ‘’with great power comes great responsibility’’. The…

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