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One of the Non-governmental organizations, SWEEP Foundation will mark a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving sustainable circular economy and urgent need to streamline national campaign against plastics and other environmental waste on September 12-13th in Lagos According to the NGO President Ambassador Phillips Obuesi, the forum aims at bringing together key players in the waste and environmental management who will once again come together in search of effective, collective and sustainable solutions to prevailing sector challenges. He said the action-oriented plenaries withhigh level networking, high-level speakers whereSustainable solutions would be obtained are expected. The FORUM 2023 he opined,…
Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi has said that deliberate plans are being put in place for recruiting indigenes of border communities into the Nigeria Customs Service. The Ag. CGC said, “We believe there are gaps, and we can do better”.He said, deliberate actions will be taken to create awareness about the service’s operations. Adeniyi disclosed this when he presented a paper titled “The Nigeria Customs Service and the Public Relations Challenges” at the 17th International Public Relations Congress on Wednesday, 16th August 2023.“We discovered that in so many cases, people are always very ignorant of what we do,…
Former Sports Minister, Chief Sunday Dare has described Thursday’s ruling of an arbitration panel that lifted the provisional suspension, slammed on Nigeria’s world record holder in women’s 100 meters hurdles, Oluwatobi Amusan by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) as timely and a huge relief. The former Sports boss stated this in a congratulatory message sent to Amusan, in which he also said the verdict was justice well served, and a vindication of the hurdler as “a clean athlete, that she’s always been”. Chief Dare told the reigning world champion that he is personally overjoyed to have received the cheering news…
The World 100m hurdles champion and record holder (12.12), Tobi Amusan says she is thrilled to be cleared of allegation of an anti-doping rule violation and looks forward to defending her title in Budapest, Hungary. The Athletics Integrity Unit, AIU, announced Thursday evening that the 26 year old has been cleared of the Whereabouts Failures charge slammed on her and that her provisional suspension has been lifted immediately. ‘A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period,’ wrote…
Sequel to his appointment as Nigeria’s Sports Minister by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, John Owan Enoh, known with the acronym JOE, is now the new boss in the Sports Sector. He becomes the 36th person to occupy Nigerian sports since Chief Joseph Modupe Johnson (JMJ) in 1960. The new sports minister was a senator representing the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State in the 8th assembly that ran from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) until May 2017 when he decamped to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).He contested…
Sequel to the mandate of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA) which includes safe shipping and cleaner oceans, a team comprising of Search and Rescue and marine accident investigation officers have been dispatched to the scene of the incident involving the Majestic Rig belonging to Depthwize Nigeria Limited, which capsized at Ovhor in Warri, Delta State. This was contained in a press release issued by Edward Osagie, NIMASA’s Head of Public Relations on Wednesday in Lagos According to the release, Initial findings have confirmed that the ill-fated Rig is Panama Flagged and has been operating on Nigerian waters…
The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo heads new portfolio apparently in response to popular industry demands as President Bola Tinubu carved out a new Ministry from the Ministry of Transportation. The new creation which was made known in the recently announced assignment of portfolios to new ministers will be headed by youngest old Lawmaker. The new Marine and Blue Economy minister is a 41 year old politician from Ondo and a federal lawmaker representing Akoko North East/North West Federal constituency. Tunji Ojo is expected to bring fresh ideas into the new ministry being one of…
One of the Eye-catching series of festivals celebrated in Ipele Town, the Ero Festival stands out. The festival attracts not only indigenes and residents of Ipele Town also friends, well wishers, in-laws, co-workers and admirers of culture and tradition in all environs. Ero festival is an age long ‘age- grade” celebration which brings people of certain age bracket together at a certain time of the year where citizens belonging to same age group return home to celebrate with his or her age mates. The basic attraction and one unique thing about the Ero Festival is that it comes once in…
The Ag. Comptroller General of Customs Bashir Adeniyi MFR has called for a strategic partnership between Customs and the Oyo state government in the fight against smuggling. The Ag. CGC made the call when he visited the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, His Excellency Adebayo Lawal, on Monday, 14th August 2023, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Stating the purpose of his visit, the Ag. CGC noted that smuggling threatens the security of the nation. Hence, it should be a matter of concern for all tiers of government. He said, “It is important for us to call on the state government to…
Management, Staff and colleagues of the Corps have been urged to focus on excellence rather than challenges of life. The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, mni, OFR, said this while Commending participants for completing the course and wished them well in the service. The Public Relations Officer( PRO ), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ), Deputy Superintendent of Corps Abolurin Oluwaseun Olumide has emerged the overall best winner, during the graduation ceremony of the participants of the Maiden Staff Course 01/23 of NSCDC Command and Staff College, Lamingo, Jos, on…