Author: KANABE MEDINAT, Editor

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)-As part of its commitment to supporting young Africans, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced ongoing opportunities for applications from young entrepreneurs across Africa on Tony Elumelu Foundation Connect (TEFConnect).  These opportunities include the Women Entrepreneurship For Africa (WE4A) initiative, a partnership between the European Union, GIZ, and TEF, and the Aguka Entrepreneurship Programme, a partnership between UNDP and TEF in Rwanda. This was made known in a press statement sent to VONa to announce the successful entrepreneurs in the tenth selection for the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, providing new opportunities for young African entrepreneurs. 20,000…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities(SSANU) has announced that its seven-day warning strike together with the Non-Academic Staff Union( NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists(NAAT) over the same concern is ending at midnight on Sunday The body says it may down tools again and even make it indefinite if the Federal Government continues to delay the payment of members’ fourth month withheld salaries. The National President of SSANU, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, made this declaration at a stakeholders’ virtual forum organised by the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria(EWAN) on Sunday evening. EWAN…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Precisely 10 days ago, Nigerians awoke to the most horrendous news of the death of high-ranking military personnel not at the warfront or some strange foreign lands but at home-soil, at the backwater of Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. No fewer than 17 military personnel were killed by irate youths during a communal clash over a land dispute in Bomadi and Okuoma communities in the state. The personnel attached to the 181 Amphibious Battalion according to report, were said to have gone to the community while responding to…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Stanbic IBTC, a leading financial service provider in Nigeria and a member of the Standard Bank Group, took a step towards enhancing education and fostering sustainable development in communities across Nigeria. The Group announced that it adopted four schools under its Adopt-a-School programme. The schools selected for adoption were Methodist School, Mbiafun Nkwono Ikono, Akwa Ibom State; Aramoko District School, Aramoko Ekiti State; Magin Rafi Model Primary School Tudun Wada, Sokoto State; and Mala Kachallah Model School, Maiduguri, Borno State. Dr. Demola Sogunle, CEO of Stanbic IBTC, underscored the strategic importance of the initiative,…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Nigerian shipping community are in a horns of a dilemma as they lament the rising operating cost which is already taking a serious toll on their businesses. Speaking under the National Shippers Association of Nigeria (NSAN), at the maiden press conference in Lagos, recently, the stakeholders said it has become tough surviving the turbulent economic situation in the country today. Speaking at the event, the President-General of NSAN, Sir (Dr.) Innocent Akuvue said the inconsistency of policies on the part of the federal government is largely to blame for the parlous state of the…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The National Institute of Credit Administration (NICA) has stressed the need for employers of professional credit managers to set up a Credit Awareness Desk in their respective firms. Speaking with our correspondent in Lagos, the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, NICA, Prof. Chris Onalo, said this will further help to bridge the gap between the credit grantors/providers and their customers to whom they have granted credit lines and those whose applications are on cue. He said, “There is a need for the employers of credit professionals to introduce credit awareness desks or credit counseling desks. There…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- With fears rife over the crashing of the foreign exchange rate to the naira, currency hoarders are being forced to sell off what is in their custody. From available information sourced from various platforms, the naira is fast gaining value fueling worries that those still hoarding the forex are in for a shock. Details gleaned from the LSEG Data & Analytics, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, showed that the naira firmed to 1,312.51 per dollar during mid-day trades on Friday, after the CBN revealed that it had cleared…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Nigerian Institution of Water Engineers (NIWE) has called for partnership and cooperation between Nigeria and her neighbours in the management of water resources, especially the Lake Chad basin, to ensure security and peaceful development in the north – east geopolitical zone of the country. NIWE which identified the drying up of the Nigeria’s portion of the Lake Chad basin as partly responsible for banditry, Insurgency, abductions and other violent crimes in the North, said when people whose means of livelihoods hitherto depended on the Lake Chad basin were later rendered jobless, hungry and penniless when…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- As part of activities to mark the World Water Day 2024, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has announced that over 8 million Lagos residents currently lack access to clean drinking water.   This was disclosed during the ‘Our Water Our Right Coalition’s’ press conference held at the company’s office in Ogba. Saying despite the fact that Lagos prides itself as a megacity, it lacks portable water, CAPPA spotlighted the persistent issue of water access across Africa, highlighting Nigeria’s struggle to provide safe drinking water to its citizens. While noting that the issue of…

LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)-The Ikeja High Court has restrained Nollywood actress Mariam Muftaudeen, also known as Omo VC, from defaming the Chairman of the Lagos State Park Management Board, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo. In a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the proceedings obtained by journalists today, Justice M. O Dawodu made the order following Akinsanya’s ex parte application filed on March 4, 2024, through his counsel Adedotun Ajulo. The order shall elapse after 21 days. The application in a suit marked ID7849GCM2024 sought, among others, to prevent Ms. Muftaudeen from further publishing allegedly defamatory videos…