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Two Nigerian teams clinched the grand prizes in the Network and Cloud tracks of the regional finals of this year’s Huawei ICT competition. This year marks the 3rd ICT Competition in Nigeria. Remarkably, the Nigerian teams took the mantles from the Tanzanian and Kenyan Teams. While the University of Port Harcourt team comprising of Udochi Danielle, Ushuta Anthony and Adebayo ...

  Since his emergence as Nigeria’s number-two citizen, different accounts had been flying around on how Professor Yemi Osinbajo, actually secured the coveted vice-presidential slot, a majority of which revolved around the person of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his former boss. Indeed, the recent revelation by Chief Bisi Akande in his book, “My Participations” was equally slanted to further pin down ...

It has been two years since coronavirus (Covid-19) hit the globe and fiercely impacted every aspect of human existence.   While it may appear on the surface that the world has made a successful return to business as usual, this is not the reality of most businesses. This is especially not the case for real estate development companies like LandWey ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has finally declared his intention to run for president in 2023 on the ticket of the All Progressives Congress APC   Osinbajo disclosed this through a video posted on his social media pages on Monday morning.   According to him: “For the past seven (7) years, I have served as Vice President under a true Nigerian ...

Terrorists who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train and killed eight people have released a fresh hostage video showing their victims in an unidentified location suspected to be a forest.   The Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali-Hassan, who was recently released was flanked by other abductees in the new video.   The masked terrorists wore military uniforms ...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is currently hosting the All Progressives Congress, seeking their support for his presidential ambition ahead of next month’s Presidential primary.   Impeccable sources at the Presidential Villa disclosed that the Vice-President is hosting the governors to the breaking of Ramadan fast (Iftar). “The Iftar dinner being hosted by the VP is just commencing. APC governors, especially those ...

The terrorists, who abducted passengers on a Kaduna-bound train last month, have threatened to kill them if the federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari, fails to meet their demands.   In a video released on Wednesday, the armed men said they were not interested in money, adding that the Federal Government knows what they were asking for.   The ...

Alwan Ali-Hassan, the managing director of the Bank of Agriculture, has been released by the terrorists who bombed the Abuja-Kaduna train.   Mr Hassan was among many passengers whose family declared missing after the incident. Mr Hassan reportedly regained freedom on Wednesday after payment of “huge ransom”, which he did not specify.   It was reported that terrorists had on ...

Nigeria’s response to Covid-19 has been reviewed by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) as a result of the declining number of cases.   In a statement dated April 2, the committee explained that the decision followed the reduced risk of importation of new variants, as well as the availability of vaccines and the increasing number of people vaccinated in Nigeria ...

As much as 146 out of the official figure of 362 passengers on the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train cannot be reached since the train was attacked by terrorists on Monday night last week. Mr Fidet Okhiria, the Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation, who made this known in a statement on Monday, however, said the number of safe passengers had risen ...