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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Fredrick Okopie IN furtherance of its commitment to engage directly with its customers under its ‘Voice of the Customer’ initiative, senior executives of MTN Nigeria held a feedback forum with students of the University of Abuja. Leading the MTN delegation was the Chief Operating Officer, Muhammad Zia Siddiqui, who was received by Bankole Ariyo, the Financial Secretary of the Students’ Union Government of the university. Expressing delight at the presence of the MTN delegation, Bankole commended the telecommunication giant for taking time off to engage with the students of the university. Educational foundation According to him, the engagement will provide a platform for the MTN brand to connect with UniAbuja students. “We commend MTN for visiting us because it is an opportunity to interface with students of the university to understand how they can serve us better.This shows that MTN cares about the plight of students. On our part, we intend to seize thi...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Nigerian oil giant, Taleveras, and two others, yesterday, won oil blocs in Equatorial Guinea The others are Exxon Mobil and the UK-based  Ophir Energy. Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Gabriel Obiag-Lima, made the announcement at the African Oil and Gas Conference in Cape Town. All winners were revealed by Obiag-Lima at a press conference. Exxon Mobil, in a statement, confirmed it had signed its Production Sharing Contract, with Equatorial Guinea for Oil acreage EG.-11, thereby heading the list of acreage winners in Equatorial Guinea’s latest licensing bidding round. UK-based Ophir Energy won the bloc EG 24, whilst Taleveras picked the highly potential EG-07 oil bloc and Clonterf Energy landed bloc EG-18. The West African nation’s Ronda 2016 open and competitive bidding round was declared a success by industry analysts and watchers. The post Taleveras, two others win oil blocs in Equatorial Guinea appeared first on Vanguard New...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HAR-COURT—  Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured that it will change its negative image of a corrupt institution. Speaking  yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at a reception in his honour by a group, Last Eleven, the member representing Bayelsa State on the new board of the commission, Professor Nelson Brambaifa, said it was disheartening when they assumed office to be confronted with image of the commission as a very corrupt intervention agency. Brambaifa said  the new board of the commission had resolved to change the ugly narrative, assuring that most of the abandoned projects of the commission in Bayelsa  State with value for the people would be revisited. “We are going to change the narrative of NDDC as the most corrupt agency.  We want to empower youths. Unfortunately it appears the highest number of abandoned projects  of the commission are in Bayelsa State. Some of the project...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Sola Ogundipe N O less than 730,000  people including Internally displaced persons, IDPs, are hungry and at risk of  starvation as they battle the devastating Boko Haram insurgency among other shocks in the  Lake Chad Basin region. Although the area, bordered by Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad and Niger, has been  under siege from  insurgency for years, and has benefited from series of interventions, the threat of chronic hunger from famine and food shortages has escalated. As part of measures to relieve the situation,  Germany has contributed  25.5 million euros (US$28.5 million) to assist the thousands of hungry persons in the immediate region. The sum was  contributed  to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support its  activities in the four affected countries. A breakdown shows that Nigeria will receive (10.5  million euros), Cameroon (5.6 million euros), Chad and Niger (4.7 million euros eac...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Abdulwahab Abdulah, Gabriel Olawale & Jane Echewedo The Federal Government has been asked to reverse the planned concession of the Port-Harcourt Refinery or face a legal action. 20 coalition of civil society/anti-corruption groups based in Lagos, including Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Campaign for Democracy, Centre for Change, Nigerians Unite Against Corruption and Grassroots Democratic Initiative noted that the planned concession to Agip and OANDO Plc amounts to giving away another national asset to few individuals. The groups also warned the National Assembly not to collaborate with the executive arm on the sale of the refinery without due process. Speaking at a joint press briefing in Lagos, the Chairman, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran, said that the handing over of Port-Harcourt refinery to Agip Oil Company was against the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission Act. The coalition called on ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Caleb Ayansina The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig-General Sulaiman Kazaure, yesterday, commended Buhari  administration for the ousting of Boko Haram insurgents from the North-East and the return of peace to the region. The commendation came as the NYSC reopened its Orientation Course for Corps members in Adamawa State after the government closed the camp and converted it to host internally displaced persons for several years. Addressing Corps members of the 2017 Batch ‘A’ (Stream One) at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in the state, Kazaure particularly noted that the final defeat of the insurgents had made the resumption of the hosting of the Orientation Course in Adamawa possible. The post DG hails FG as NYSC reopens camp in Adamawa appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2roarT7 via Blogger http://ift.tt/2rRPvVY

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A bomb scare triggered panic among Juventus fans assembled to watch the Champions League final in Turin on Saturday, leaving some 200 supporters injured, according to local police. AFP reporters at the scene said chaotic scenes ensued ten minutes before the end of the match, apparently triggered by fireworks being let off and one or more people shouting that a bomb had gone off. That was enough to trigger a stampede out of the city’s Piazza San Carlo, in which the injuries occurred. The incident compounded a miserable night for supporters of Juventus, who lost the Cardiff final 4-1 to Real Madrid. The square was evacuated so quickly it was left strewn with sneakers ripped off people’s feet as they ran. “The root cause of this was panic, to understand what triggered it we will have to wait a while,” said top local official Renato Saccone, the prefect of Turin. Police said some 200 people had needed hospital treatment with two of them in a serious condition. S...

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http://ift.tt/2rEreBT The London Ambulance Service said “multiple resources” were being sent to the scene. Police are dealing with a “major incident” on London Bridge, Transport for London said on Saturday, after witnesses reported seeing a van mounting the pavement and hitting pedestrians. “Police are dealing with a major incident and all routes are being diverted,” the transport agency said on Twitter. The London Ambulance Service said “multiple resources” were being sent to the scene. Will Heaven, managing editor of The Spectator, said on Twitter that he saw “two casualties — one on pavement, one edge of road” and reported seeing armed police on the bridge. BBC reporter Holly Jones, who was there at the time of the incident, said she saw a van driven by a man travelling “at about 50 miles an hour”. She said about five people were being treated for injuries after the vehicle mounted the pavement and hit them. She said she saw a man, who had his shirt off and was in han...