A Team from the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) has won the 2022 edition of a digital based competition for undergraduates students sponsored by Wema Bank. The competition, Hackaholics, hosted by ALAT under the aegis of Wema Bank allows start-ups to pitch their unique business solutions using digital configurations developed by them for a grand cash prize of N5 million and other business support (including technical). The Team FUTA made up of Ige Shalom Oluwaseun, Otobo Nemi Richard, Abisuwa Oluwadunsin Timothy, Agunbiade Temitope Comfort and Jumbo Tamarapreye Toluwanimi all year four students, studying Industrial and Production Engineering and Mechanical…
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By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Chairman, Infectious Prevention, Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi, Professor Sambo Zailani has noted that proper hand hygiene among workers in health facilities is key to preventing hospital acquired infections. He was speaking at a rally and presentation on hand hygiene by the committee at the Trauma centre and ANC clinic of the hospital to commemorate this year’s World Hand Hygiene Day. Zailani said hand hygiene is important in health care facilities as it protects not only the health worker but also the patient and visitors against…
The Vice Chancellor of Sokoto state University (SSU), Professor Sani Mohammed Dangoggo, has handed over to the newly appointed Professor Bashir Garba after the expiry of his five-year tenure on May 5, 2022. Sokoto state governor and Visitor to the University, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal appointed Prof. Garba as the new Vice Chancellor on Tuesday, 26th April, 2022, following the recommendation of the University Governing Council. At the handing over ceremony, which took place on Thursday, at the Umaru Ali Shinkafi Senate Building of the University, the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dangoggo reeled out some of the achievements recorded during his tenure.…
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has reconfirmed its decision for upward adjustment of the monthly overall production by 0.432 million barrels per day (mb/d) for the month of June 2022. The OPEC said this in its statement following the conclusion of the 28th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, held via videoconference on Thursday. The meeting reconfirmed the production adjustment plan and the monthly production adjustment mechanism approved at the 19th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting. The meeting reiterated the critical importance of adhering to full conformity and to the compensation mechanism, taking advantage of the extension of…
University students took to the streets for the second straight day on Thursday in protest against the strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Tagging themselves ‘The University of Streets’, the protesters walked along the Ugbowo-Lagos expressway in Benin-City. The walk was expected to terminate at the Ring-Road area of the city. Other students and concerned Nigerians were scheduled to join the students in protest at Ring Road. On Wednesday, the students had taken their protest to the King Square area of the city, demanding an end to the strike. They said they are tired of staying at…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Sunday Asefon on Thursday suggested that the union is prepared to protest against the strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Its National President, Sunday Asefon made the comment while speaking on ChannelsTV’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. According to him, the government appears not to be interested in ending the strike as focus shifts to elections in 2023. He referenced the protests in Benin-city embarked by some university students. “We are talking about education, we are talking about life. Our life is no longer being discussed by the leaders, these…
Russia expelled seven Danish embassy workers on Thursday in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Denmark. “On May 5, the Danish ambassador to Russia, Carsten Søndergaard, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry because Copenhagen unjustifiably declared 15 employees of the Russian embassy and trade mission in Denmark undesirable. “And because the Danish authorities are providing military assistance to Kiev,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Danish diplomats will now have to leave Russia within two weeks. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, there has been a spate of diplomatic expulsions. By Moscow’s count, some…
Hearing in a suit filed by a lawyer, Festus Onifade and Coalition of Nigeria Consumers (CNC) against MultiChoice Nigeria Limited which came up on Thursday has been adjourned till June 15. The development occurred following an application for an adjournment moved by Onifade. Onifade, who is the 1st claimant in the suit, prayed for an adjournment shortly after the three-member tribunal headed by Thomas Okosun began sitting. The lawyer hinged his application on ill-health. The tribunal had, on March 30 in an ex-parte motion marked: CCPT/OP/1/2022 moved by Onifade on behalf of himself and the CNC, restrained MultiChoice from increasing…
The U.S. on Wednesday surpassed one million COVID-19 deaths, according to data compiled by American broadcast television network, NBC News. The number – equivalent to the population of San Jose, California, the 10th largest city in the U.S. – was reached at stunning speed; 27 months after the country confirmed its first case of the virus. “Each of those people touched hundreds of other people. “It’s an exponential number of other people that are walking around with a small hole in their heart,” said Diana Ordonez, whose husband, Juan Ordonez, died in April 2020 at age 40. While deaths from…
The Bauchi state Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), has called on governments at all levels to provide a conducive, and more secure environment for its members to operate. This is contained in a statement signed by the Union Chairman and secretary, Umar Sa’du and Isah Garba Gadau to mark the World Press Freedom Day in Bauchi. The statement explained that ingredients for development of any society could not achieve the set target in the absence of a secured environment. The union called on governments, individuals, especially politicians and security agencies, to allow journalists carry out their responsibilities without…