The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Google on Wednesday announced an inaugural Google.org fellowship to provide one million additional Africans with access to TEFConnect. Jen Carter, global head of technology at Google.org, said at the Foundation’s headquarters in Lagos that it was part of the Foundation’s mission to empower young African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries. Carter said that the partnership was the first Google.org Fellowship in Africa and would offer enormous opportunities for Africa’s digital community. She maintained that nine full-time Google employees, including software engineers, UI/UX researchers, and policy experts, would work with the Foundation to design…
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A frontline All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, met with the party’s senate caucus at the National Assembly, NASS, in Abuja, urging them to support his lifetime ambition of becoming Nigeria’s president in the 2023 general elections. Tinubu said he has the experience and capacity to be the president of the country having served as Lagos state governor and state senator. He hailed the National Assembly for sustaining the nation’s democracy, adding that the interest of women, which the APC is doing its best to include, is necessary. Tinubu, who was received by the APC Senators,…
The Alumni Association of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, has canvassed the selection of an old student of the institution as its next Vice Chancellor in May 2022. The Association made this known in a position paper it presented to the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Dr Godknows Igali. According to the President of the FUTA Alumni Worldwide, Engineer Adeyemi Bello, who led a delegation to Dr Igali, there are many alumni who are in senior academic positions that fit the bill as the institution’s Vice Chancellor. He said FUTA which was established in 1981 has…
Kebbi state governor, Abubakar Bagudu has approved the release of N3,097,013,964.47 as gratuity and death benefits due to the state, local government and local education authority workers disengaged in 2019. The governor had on January 17 January, 2022 also directed the release of N381,778,623.68 as balance for state workers who retired from service in 2017 and 2018. A statement by the Acting Head of Service, Safiyanu Bena on Wednesday, said that the two releases were from the N6 billion earlier approved by Bagudu, while reconciliation exercise is continuing in respect of 2020 and 2021.
Real Madrid have donated one million euros ($1.1 million) to help alleviate the needs of the displaced population of Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia. Ukraine was invaded by Russia three weeks ago and almost three million citizens have now fled the country, according to the United Nations (UN). European football governing body UEFA recently pledged one million euros to assist Ukrainian children, and Los Blancos have matched that sum through the Real Madrid Foundation. The Spanish club made the announcement on their official website on Wednesday, with the funds going to the Red Cross and United Nations High…
Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor has blocked access to at least a dozen media websites on Wednesday, AFP has reported. The crackdown on online websites has sharply escalated after President Vladimir Putin sent in troops to Ukraine. AFP was unable to access at least a dozen Russian and foreign-based media inside the country. These included award-winning investigation website Bellingcat, a Russian-language Israeli news site and regional websites, like Permdaily.ru. Their websites were listed as blocked by Roskomnadzor.
Hong Kong has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths under three months, since the highly transmissible variant broke through, throwing the country’s morgues overflowing with dead bodies — the bulk of them from the city’s unvaccinated elderly population. A funeral industry representative told local media the soaring death toll had seen a crunch in the city’s coffins supply, with only 300 remaining and expected to be gone by the weekend. Leader Carrie Lam acknowledged the supply issues during a press conference Wednesday and said two more shipments of coffins will arrive in Hong Kong from the…
The National Industrial Court, NIC, in Abuja, has set aside the 2021 promotion examination conducted by the National Examinations Council, NECO, on November 13, 2021 for unlawfully excluding names of its two senior staff. Charles Berje and Dr. Anthonia Utoh who were excluded from the promotion examination, had approached the court challenging their exclusion from the list of staff slated by the Council’s promotion examination in the 2021. Justice O.Y Anuwe held in his judgement of February 25, 2022, a copy of which is obtained by ASHENEWS, that the exclusion of Charles Berje and Dr. Anthonia Utoh from the list…
… Commiserates with Police over killing of officers Niger state governor Abubakar Bello has condemned terrorists attack on the Divisional Police Office in Nasko and expressed heartfelt condolences to the Nigerian Police Force and members of the vigilante corps over the loss of their personnel in a gun battle with terrorists in Nasko, Magama local government area of the state. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje on Wednesday, described the killings as painful and unfortunate loss of personnel who were in action to ensure the safety of lives and property. He said while some…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has described the March 8 decision of the Federal High Court Abuja, which sacked Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi and his deputy from office as sound and commendable. Falana, who spoke from Accra, Ghana as host ChannelsTV’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday, said the court’s decision was like no other before it. “What Gov Umahi and his deputy should have done honourably was to resign when the left the mandate of the party that voted them into power rather than contesting the matter. “You cannot get a mandate from the people who…