December 2024 – Page 194

Funke Akindele Cautions Fans Against Cinema Recording Ahead Of New Movie Release

12.12.2024

Renowned Nollywood producer and actress, Funke Akindele, popularly known for her comic character in the series “Jenifa’s Diary” has cautioned against attempt to pirate her yet-to-be-released movie ‘Everybody Loves Jenifa,’ declaring that whoever records the movie in cinema will still be liable to piracy. LEADERSHIP understands that the highly anticipated movie will hit the Nigerian...

Buni Disburses N2.9bn On Agric Empowerment To Stimulate Growth

12.12.2024

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has disbursed N2.93 billion as part of his agricultural empowerment program to stimulate economic growth, recovery and repositions the state for postinsurgency recovery. Buni, who disclosed this made this clarification in Maiduguri, on Wednesday, after commissioning a 500-unit housing estate named after by Borno State government. At the...

Nairametrics To Launch Top 100 Nigerian Most Impactful Firms

12.12.2024

Nairametrics, Nigeria’s leading financial media platform, is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its Nairametrics Top 100 Companies Index— a definitive ranking of Nigeria’s largest and most impactful companies. Inspired by global benchmarks such as the Fortune 500, the Index will spotlight organizations that exemplify excellence across key metrics, including revenue, market share, profitability,...

Borno Inmate Wins N1m In Maiden Chess Competition

12.12.2024

One of the inmates at the Maiduguri Maximum Custodial Centre in Borno State has won N1million prize in the maiden edition of Chess in Prison Championship organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) The chess competition, which held at the premises of the correctional facility on Tuesday in Maiduguri, brought together...

Pre-Trial Injustice: Group Demands Overhaul Of Nigeria’s Criminal Justice System

12.12.2024

A non-governmental organization, Zarephath Aid, yesterday, raised concerns over the alarming number of pretrial inmates in the nation’s correctional facilities, which it describes as a failure of the criminal justice system. This alarm came as the world marks Human Rights Day. Speaking during a media briefing, Ben Abraham, the organization’s founder, stated that approximately 80%...

NAFDAC Destroys N11bn Smuggled, Fake Drugs In Oyo

12.12.2024

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday in Ibadan destroyed unwholesome products worth about N11 billion. The destruction of the unwholesome, substandard, falsified, medicinal and other unwholesome regulated products was carried out at Akinyele dump, Ibadan. Director-General Mojisola Adeyeye, represented by the South-West Zonal Director Roseline Ajayi, said the...

Banditry: Desperate Politicians Aiding Banditry In The North West–Group

12.12.2024

Some supporters of President Bola Tinubu in the North, have said the incessant banditry attacks in the North West region could be traced to some “desperate politicians” who are bent on frustrating the administration of the President. Coming under the aegis of Asiwaju Social Network (ASoN), North West Zone, the group warned those it described...

MC Oluomo, NURTW Officials Visit Oyetola In Abuja

12.12.2024

The National President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo has paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, at his office in Abuja on Wednesday. Oluomo visit’s to the Minister was announced in a statement shared on MC...

We’re Ready To Reclaim Title— River Angels’ Coach Blackson

12.12.2024

The Head Coach of Rivers Angels, Tosan Blackson has expressed the team’s readiness to reclaim the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) title. New Telegraph recalls that the Port Harcourt-based club lost their NWFL title to Edo Queens last season. “You should know that Rivers Angels is a serial winner,” Blackson made this known during an...

COAS Pledges Empathetic Leadership

12.12.2024

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Oluyemi Oluyede, has reaffirmed his dedication to leading the Nigerian Army with empathy, promising to ensure that every officer and soldier receives their entitlements. The Director of Army Public Relations, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, said Lt Gen Oluyede stated this during his maiden operations visit to Headquarters,...