The Black Friday shopping season isn’t just a time for shopping for tangible products, such as electronics, gadgets, household items, groceries, or health and fitness. Providers of intangible products such as hotels and airlines also leverage the Black Friday frenzy to attract traffic. Often times, they do this through a marketplace that channels a constant…
The quest for the best teacher in secondary schools in Nigeria in 2018 came to a glorious end last Thursday, when Olasunkanmi Samuel Opeifa, a teacher from Government Day Secondary School, Karu, Abuja emerged as the 2018 Maltina Teacher of the Year. The journey was not smooth for Opeifa as he had to battle other…
Heritage Bank PLC, Nigeria’s most innovative banking service provider, and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have joined forces to educate stakeholders about the maritime enforcement global benchmarks. The training session, which had as its theme: Maritime Enforcement Safety: Current Global Benchmarks, had representatives of these organizations present: Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Ports Authority, Lagos…
The media-friendly Corporate Affairs Adviser and member of Executive Committee of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Kufre Ekanem, has resigned from the company. Kufre left the brewing giant with effect from October 1, 2018 after five years of being the image maker of the company. He bowed of Nigerian Breweries to start his consulting dream with Philosoville…
Managing Director of Jumia’s hotel and flight services, Omolara Adagunodo, has been named among the top 100 tourism personalities in Nigeria this year by Travellers Magazine, the First Travel Magazine in West Africa published since 1996. Also on the list are Otunba Olusegun Runsewe – DG, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC); Folorunsho Folarin…
The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has disclosed that over 30 per cent of farmland in the Niger Delta region has been lost to this year’s ravaging flood. Uduaghan, a senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Delta South Senatorial District in the 2019 general elections, noted that the…
United Bank for Africa Plc, the pan African financial institution with presence in 20 African countries has announced its unaudited 2018 Third Quarter Financial Results, with impressive growth in Gross Earnings, which berthed at N374.8 billion, an 12.3 percent increase when compared to N333.9 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2017. According to the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has denied reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, the state capital, has restrained the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party from submitting the list of party candidates for the 2019 election from Delta State to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This clarification…
Organisers of the prestigious Nigeria Fashion Show have promised that this year’s edition of the event will be better than the past. This is because participants for this year’s show have also promised to come up with some of their latest designs that will wow the audience. Nigeria Fashion Show is organised by Legendary Gold…
A support staff from Integrated Corporate Services attached to Access Bank Wuse 2, Abuja, has been sentenced to six years in prison on a 12-count charge bordering on diversion and misappropriation of depositors’ money. The convict, one Godfrey Ango, was convicted on Friday, October 12, 2018 by Justice J. Adepoju of the FCT High Court…