Category: Spotlight
Patoranking offers university scholarship to 10 Africans
Award-winning dancehall artiste, Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, more popularly known as Patoranking has announced 10 African students as 2020 winners to get [...]
Nigerian, Nneka Ede buys Portuguese football club
A Nigerian entrepreneur, Nneka Ede has become one of the few Africans to own a European club after she bought Portuguese side, Lusitano Ginásio Clube, [...]
Nigerian, Prof Egbu heads UK university as Vice-Chancellor
A Nigerian of Igbo extraction, Professor Charles Egbu from Nigeria has been appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity university in the United Ki [...]
Slum2School calls for partnerships as they launch first virtual learning classroom to provide education for children in slums, remote communities
On Monday, July 13, 2020, Slum2School, a leading volunteer driven social developmental organization, officially launched the first ever virtual learni [...]
CACOVID donates N1.4bn medical equipment, additional 26,400 test kits to boost Covid-19 testing across Nigeria
The private sector-led Coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated N1.4 billion worth of medical supplies and additional 26,400 test kits suffici [...]
Rivers, Kwara get 6 ambulances, N100m each from BUA
BUA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of BUA Group, has donated six ambulances and N100 million to Rivers and Kwara states, each. Food supplies were a [...]
CACOVID donates 150-bed isolation center, multi-million-naira medical equipment to Lagos State
The Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated a 150-bed fully equipped isolation facility with medical equipment worth mill [...]
ECOWAS endorses Okonjo-Iweala for WTO job
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organi [...]
Offa Poly invents solar-powered anti-COVID-19 machines
The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, has invented solar-powered machines, which can prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The Registrar of [...]
Canada donates $750,000 to fight gender violence in Nigeria
The High Commission of Canada to Nigeria says it has donated $750,000 to help women’s rights organisations ramp-up efforts to end Sexual and Gender-Ba [...]