The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) event at the annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) appears to be losing its glamour as the 2022 edition suffered low turnout of participants, especially top industry operators, policy moulders, government functionaries among others. The PETAN, an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies providing specialized services to the upstream and downstream sectors of the Nigerian oil and gas industry, has been responsible for leading the Nigerian delegation to the prestigious event annually and is still offering tangible business opportunities for the supply chain.…
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1,000 Bags of Poisonous Rice From India Imported Into Nigeria
Over 1,000 bags of poisonous foreign rice have been imported into Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that the Acting Comptroller, FoU, Zone A, of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hussein Ejibunu, who said this on Thursday in Ogun, maintauned that the products have been seized. READ ALSO MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile To Slam 40% Tariffs Hike On Nigerians Ogun Gov Abiodun’s ex-aide, Abidemi Rufai, pleads guilty to $350,000 fraud in US Russia: Nigeria Buys Emergency Canadian Potash Amid Food Crisis Fears Oil Theft: Fact And Figures Of A National Emergency, By Adeola…
Read MoreCrescent varsity Lecturer Wins Journalism Summit Scholarship In U.S.
A lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication of Crescent University, Abeokuta, Jamiu Folarin, has won a scholarship to the United States to attend the 2022 Solutions Journalism Summit holding in Utah. Platforms Africa reports that the summit holding in Sundance, Utah from 5th to 8th May, 2022 is being sponsored by Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). READ ALSO: BREAKING: UNILAG Lecturer, Ismail Ibraheem, Now Professor of Communication Meet Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, UNILAG first female Professor of Mass Comm Lagos Varsity names Alawode first Professor of Broadcast Journalism Adeola Yusuf secures Columbia…
Read MoreMTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile To Slam 40% Tariffs Hike On Nigerians
N100 recharge card, data to now worth N60 Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria, ALTON have recommended an upward adjustment in call and SMS tariffs to cushion the increasing cost of operation in Nigeria. Making the proposal in a letter to the Nigerian Communications Commission, the association lamented that the cost of doing business in the country had risen by 40 per cent. The association claimed that the telecommunications industry had been financially harmed by an economic downturn that occured in 2020 and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. READ ALSO: MTN Loses 1.3…
Read MoreAfrican Church Model Grammar School Wins N1m Caleb Varsity Debate Contest
Barachel College, Baptist Academy and Dansol High School came 2nd, 3rd and 4th at the debate attended by about 700 students from 40 secondary schools Caleb University, Lagos fulfilled its pledge to award N1m to the winner of its 2022 National Intellectual Development Programme (NIDP) debate competition for secondary schools in Nigeria. African Church Model Grammar school, Ifako Lagos, emerged winners and got the star prize of one million Naira at the Inaugural competition, organized by Caleb University Imota Lagos, held on Thursday April 28 at the Institution’s Multipurpose…
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