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http://ift.tt/2rg0xQ2 Kemi Adetiba The Junior Chamber International (JCI) Nigeria has announced the names of 29 young Nigerian professionals as nominees for its annual Ten Outstanding Young Persons (JCI TOYP) Awards. This comes just few weeks after kick starting the nomination process for 2017 edition of the 34 year-old awards ceremony. From the list, the final 10 individuals selected by Nigerians through votes, will receive the highly coveted honours. Amongst nominees in the ten voting categories are popular entertainers and artistes such as TY Bello, Kemi Adetiba and Cobhams Asuquo, as well as technology business leaders such as Jason Njoku, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Oluseun Onigbinde, Oluyomi Ojo and Seyi Taylor. Nominated for outstanding academic achievements category are Ufot Ufot Ekong, Ayodele Daniel Dada, Victor Olalusi, plus those recognised for their contributions to child rights, world peace, cultural development and humanitarian works such as Bukky Shonibare, Orondaam Otto, ...

http://ift.tt/2rfyW1y Bad Market is a short film about a 14-year-old runaway girl, Eno, who was trafficked to the big city of Lagos by Chike, a ruthless pimp/con artiste who intends to profit from her seeming innocence. Women’s Film Club is presenting the first screening of the quarter featuring a contemporary Nigerian film, Bad Market, directed by Paul Gaius, at the Ford Foundation. The Women’s Film Club is a platform that aims to make independent cinema accessible to the Nigerian public through a curated program of film screenings, forums and related events. The Women’s Film Club explores the role of women in film to an African and global audience. TWFC organizes regular screenings of independent films in Lagos not otherwise shown in mainstream cinemas – including special projects like festivals and art exhibitions. Bad Market is a short film about a 14-year-old runaway girl, Eno, who was trafficked to the big city of Lagos by Chike, a ruthless pimp/con artiste who intend...

http://ift.tt/2qMhy4c Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose Ekiti has lowest crime rate in Nigeria, says DIG The former Governor of Ekiti State and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi has challenged the competence of the Judicial commission of enquiry set up by Governor Ayodele Fayose to probe his administration. He, therefore, urged an Ado-Ekiti High Court for an injunction to restrain the state government and the commission from probing him.In the suit number HAD/57/2017, Fayemi is asking the court to restrain the state governor, the state Attorney-General and members of the judicial commission of enquiry from investigating him as two cases of the planned probe were pending in courts of competent jurisdiction. Also joined in the suit filed by the Counsel to the Minister, Rafiu Balogun are the Ekiti State House of Assembly and its Speaker.Fayemi is also seeking a declaration that the motion and subsequent resolution of Ekiti Assembly directing Fayose (first...

http://ift.tt/2qpKsry Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade Four persons were yesterday feared dead and over 100 buildings destroyed in a communal clash between two communities in Cross River and Ebonyi states.The perennial clash between the people of Ofunakpa Inyimagu in Ebonyi and their neighbours in Nsobo area of Cross River State was said to have started in 1984. Only a few people were seen in the deserted community when The Guardian visited the place yesterday, while policemen had taken over the area.It was leant that over 500 residents had also fled the communities to safer locations Most of the destroyed property around the boundary between the two communities included cars, motorcycles and food crops.Some of the residents, including women, children and youths have taken refuge at a camp in Ofunakpa Community Secondary School. Speaking to journalists, the village head of Ofunakpa community, Mr. Nwofurakpa Emmanuel explained that the crisis started in April 20...

http://ift.tt/2qRo0u7 FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi<br /> Corp Marshal of the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, Vice Chancellor of Caleb University, Prof Diji Aina, and Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Anofiu Olarewaju Elegushi, are among the industry stakeholders expected at the 2017 Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) Training and Capacity building workshop, the group has said.    Scheduled to take place in Lagos, the group said the event planned to take place in June, would focus on critical industry issues that would help to shape and galvanise conversation within the country’s automotive industry.     While the FRSC chief will be taking a look at “Decade of Action on Road Safety; The Gains, The Pains,” Aina will be speaking on “The Political Economy of Nigerian Automotive Industry Crises: Outsider Perspective.”    The annual programme with Ford Motor Corporation as lead sponsor is...

http://ift.tt/2qGK7Rd PHOTO: Mirror Researchers are moving closer to fully curing Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by designing a more accurate, cost effective, and efficient test for detecting how much of the virus is left in the human body. The new test can detect more efficiently the HIV reservoir that continues to stay hidden in the body’s CD4 cells (marker of the immune system). The new study – published in the journal Nature Medicine – details the new test, which the researchers have dubbed the “TZA test.” The greatest challenge for researchers who have been hard at work trying to come up with a cure for HIV is detecting the virus after retroviral therapy. HIV can “hide” in immune cells at levels that are hard to identify. Current anti-HIV therapy suppresses the infection to an almost undetectable level, but the virus can persist in a dormant form in CD4 T cells, which are also called T cells or T helper cells. However, most of ...

http://ift.tt/2qMaXGW The deceased family For the umpteenth time, the murderous gang, known as Badoo has struck again in Ikorodu, Lagos State, killing a man, his pregnant wife and two children.They were killed in the wee hours of Monday when their Letter N Junction, Radio Area, Erunwen residence in Ikorodu was invaded. It was gathered that in their normal modus operandi, the dreaded gang used heavy stones, mortar and pestle to smash their victims’ heads and club them to death before wiping the brains and blood of their victims with pieces of clothes. They then proceeded to use a knife to cut open the pregnant woman’s womb and removed the foetus before escaping into thin air.One of the family members, an SS 3 student, who survived the attack, (names withheld), is battling for her life at a specialist hospital. She was found naked and unconscious on Tuesday morning with a black cloth around her head. The spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said ...

http://ift.tt/2pVl8g1 Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in the United States (US) modified the drug so it works in three separate ways on bacteria, making it much harder for them to develop resistance. Scientists have successfully modified a ‘magical’ antibiotic to kill drug-resistant superbugs.Vancomycin has been prescribed by doctors for 60 years, but bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to it. Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in the United States (US) modified the drug so it works in three separate ways on bacteria, making it much harder for them to develop resistance. The first tests on the drug showed it to be a success – in an advance which researchers hope will help fight the threat of antibiotic-resistant infections. The World Health Organisation (WHO) warns antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development, with major diseases becoming harder to treat because the drugs used on them are bec...

http://ift.tt/2qGDbDT Larry Ettah • Commissions 5,000MT Silo in Aba Livestock Feeds Plc, a subsidiary of UAC of Nigeria Plc, has announced that it is currently investing in its supply chain operation to drive further growth, and enable it deliver better value to all stakeholders. The Chairman of the company, Larry Ettah, while addressing shareholders during the company’s 2016 yearly general meeting held Lagos on Tuesday, said the company, in a bid to foster efficient supply chain operations, has installed massive storage facilities across the agro-ecological zones. According to him, going by the seasonality of its production raw materials, the storage facilities would enable the company to take advantage of cheaper market prices during harvest seasons. “One of such projects is the recently commissioned 5,000 metric tonnes Silo installation in the Aba factory. This facility is expected to position the company at a vantage position over and above competition to increase our ...

http://ift.tt/2oCmZ6h Faseluka noted that the development was sequel to the recent passage of the bill on the Pension Scheme by the State House of Assembly and its subsequent signing into law by Governor Ayodele Fayose. The Ekiti State Government has commenced its Contributory Pensions Scheme (CPS) with 4,938 workers. The State Head of Service (HoS), Dr. Olugbenga Faseluka who made this known at a forum in Ado-Ekiti, said that government started the scheme with workers who were employed into the state public service from 2010 till date. He explained that the affected workers (employees) would contribute eight per cent of their basic salaries from January 2012 while government (the employer) would pay 10 per cent of the basic salaries into the scheme in accordance with provisions of the state contributory pension act. Faseluka noted that the development was sequel to the recent passage of the bill on the Pension Scheme by the State House of Assembly and its subsequent signing into...

http://ift.tt/2oNRwgC Okezie Ikpeazu. PHOTO: abiaonline.gov.ng The Lagos State wing of the Abia State Youth Development Organisation (ASYDO), Igbo students in Yaba College of Technology and the University of Lagos have called on Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to empower Nigerian youths, especially those of Abia origin. While congratulating the governor on his recent Supreme Court victory, they restated their quest to see the youths of the country empowered and productively engaged. Speaking at a joint meeting, the National President of ASYDO, Obinna Ehumadu called on the Abia State government to get closer to Abia people in the Diaspora, especially the youth with a view to acquainting themselves with the challenges they face and help them become better youths. “I thank the government for the recent developments in the state, the recent empowerment of 120 youths who were taken to China to learn shoe production. It is a good way of securing their future and we expect to see more of ...

http://ift.tt/2pzItTg Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta The Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo has expressed concern over the directive of the education minister, Adamu Adamu that all specialised universities should stop offering management courses forthwith. Adamu had directed that effective from 2018 academic year, all management courses in specialised institutions must be discontinued. But the monarch in whose domain, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) is located, appealed to the federal government to have a rethink on the matter. Oba Gbadebo in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and signed by one of his chiefs, Olotu Layi Labode were sent to Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, all Ogun State National Assembly members and the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed said feedback from concerned sta...

http://ift.tt/2sg7AtP According to the MOU, the two parties created a strategic partnership with the aim of achieving a shared objective and common goal, which is to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. PHOTO: Medscape As part of efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, Africa’s leading digital Television (TV) operator StarTimes and Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) has formally established partnership with signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Beijing, China. According to the MOU, the two parties created a strategic partnership with the aim of achieving a shared objective and common goal, which is to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. StarTimes and UNAIDS will work together to increase awareness on Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and to reduce stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV and whose live affected by HIV across the broadcast networks of StarTimes that are available throughout the African continent....

http://ift.tt/2rGDEd8 SHRM, which has over 250,000 members in over 140 countries and wholly devoted to human resource management, made the call during the 7th Future-Ready Human Resource Conference in Lagos recently. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has challenged governments and organisations in the private and public sectors to see strategic investment in human capital as the right thing to do in a recession. SHRM, which has over 250,000 members in over 140 countries and wholly devoted to human resource management, made the call during the 7th Future-Ready Human Resource Conference in Lagos recently. President of SHRM for Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brad Boyson in his paper titled: “Business and Human Capital Challenges Now and in the Future,” said, “Around the world, whenever there is economic recession, the first activity organisations cut is actually training or investing in people.” He however, said that history has shown that organisations that go a...

http://ift.tt/2rGTggQ United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has charged students across the country to live in peace and harmony with one another, saying this is one sure way of moving the country forward. United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has charged students across the country to live in peace and harmony with one another, saying this is one sure way of moving the country forward. President, Youth Orientation for Development, a non-governmental organisation affiliated to UNESCO, Mr. Emmanuel Ejiogu, who addressed a group of students at the 2017 UNESCO World Day for Cultural diversity for dialogue and development, said the essence of the day was to sensitise youths on the value of peace and the need to eschew violence in their relationship with one another. He explained that the event titled, “Importance of Cultural diversity for sustainable development,” and organised in collaboration with the national tr...

http://ift.tt/2sfX0TF International Centre for Sustainable Development, Nigeria (ICSDN), is organising a two-day national workshop to brainstorm on sustainable human development anchored on skills acquisition to help the country exit recession. The International Centre for Sustainable Development, Nigeria (ICSDN), is organising a two-day national workshop to brainstorm on sustainable human development anchored on skills acquisition to help the country exit recession. Organisers of the workshop with the theme: “Skills Acquisition and Empowerment Programmes: A Pathway for Exiting Economic Recession,” scheduled for July 20, would be the first of its kind in Africa and would focus on redirecting government energy to the growth and development of the Nigerian youth for better productivity. A statement by the Secretary General of ICSDN, Pureheart Loveday in Abuja said that the publishers of the Handbook of Skill Acquisition Training and Empowerment Programmes would partner stakeholders...

http://ift.tt/2rGJ9sp PSN President, Ahmed I. Yakasai Pharmacists under the aegis of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have said that the Federal Government’s Executive Order, which authorized all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) to source at least a minimum of not less than 40 per cent of procurement of goods from local manufacturers will ensure drug security in the country. The Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on May 18, 2017, signed the Executive Order on support for Local Content in public procurement. The PSN, yesterday, in a statement, noted that the Federal Government deserves commendation for deeming it fit to include locally manufactured medicines in the Executive Order as specified in its Section 4F of the order. President PSN, Ahmed Yakasai, and National Secretary, Gbolagade Iyiola, who signed the statement said that the move will surely give a boost to pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria by guaranteeing adequate medicines supply for local needs as ...