Paris Olympics 2024
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In a remarkable display of vision, leadership, and innovation, the Lagos State Sports Commission hosted the Lagos Paris Olympics 2024 Esports and Sports Economy Roundtable at the Africa Station Doom, L’lle-Saint-Denis in Paris, France. Convened under the theme “Exploring New Frontiers and Business Opportunities in Sports,” the Director General, Lagos State Sports Commission, Mr. Lekan…
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The Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigeria has said that without an effective, efficient, and vibrant midstream and downstream sectors, investments in the upstream sector would become meaningless. The Chairman, SPE Nigerian Council, Salahudeen Tahir,who stated this at a media parley during the closing of Nigeria Annual International Conference & Exhibition (NAICE) 2024, in Lagos,…
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• Nigerians Count Gains, Losses Of Exercise • Say It’s A Warning To Ruling Class To Curb Luxurious Lifestyle As the 10-day #EndBadGovernance nationwide protest ends today, Nigerians are counting their gains and losses, even as they are naming the heroes and villains of the exercise, and sharing the lessons learnt. Despite assurances that…
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•Seek Synergy, Action Against Abuse The First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, and the wife of the governor of Enugu State, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, have flagged off the 2024 Annual August Meeting in Enugu State, calling for synergy and action against all forms of abuse. Tinubu and Mbah commended the August Meeting initiative as a veritable…
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The incessant rejection of Nigerian livestock and fish abroad has been partly linked to wrong application of antibiotics by farmers, which has been identified as causes of serious cases of antibiotics resistance in humans. To this end, experts have discovered an alternative – onion peels, considered as the richest part of onions because it contains…
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United States-based sprinter Favour Ofili went through the junior ranks, ruling the Nigeria Youth Games before leaving for the U.S. on a scholarship at Louisiana State University. Since then, her athletics career has been on the rise winning medals for both the school athletics team and Nigeria. In this report, GOWON AKPODONOR looks at Ofili’s…
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The immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, recently, underscored the importance of population control in Nigeria. This is just as the World Population Day was marked, globally, some weeks ago. In this report, Assistant News Editor, Weekend, GBENGA SALAU, interrogates the correlation between accurate census data in designing measures for population control. Since the 1980s, population…
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• ‘Tinubu Has Directed That Public Servants Should Buy Locally Made, CNG-powered Vehicles’ Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, in this interview with AZEEZ OLORUNLOMERU, speaks on the efforts of his government to address the high cost of transportation through the introduction of CNG mass transit buses and other initiatives, assuring that the initiative will eventually take…
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took her to the United States, where she is now working on a Master’s in Cybersecurity and Networks at the University of New Haven. Having worked at Venture Garden Group and First Bank of Nigeria, she returned to the U.S. in 2023 to work as an Information Technology Risk Analyst at Avant LLC in Chicago and is currently at Shure Incorporated…
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“What will the Sports Minister John Owen Enoh tell President Bola Tinubu now that Nigeria failed to win a single medal at the Paris Olympics?” That was the big question by the chairman of Gombe State Athletics Association, Shuiabu Gara-Gombe, on Friday, shortly after World Record holder, Tobi Amusan, failed to qualify for the final…
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So it was that some Nigerians, exasperated, dissatisfied and angry with the existing socio-economic conditions in the country, gave a long notice to the Nigerian state that there would be a ‘day of rage’ come 1st of August, a day when Nigerians would take to the streets and express their umbrage about living conditions in…