Chief Summer VC Nwokie bagged an honorary award

 

A Nigerian UK based HIGH CHIEF popularly known as DR. SUMMERS VC NWOKIE was honoured with an award of excellence for contributing and investment positively in the Nigerian system and the youth. 

Meet The Nigerian man who owns 3 airports in England

 Adebayo Ogunlesi, a Nigerian who started out as a lawyer and later an investment banker, has spread his wings around the globe and is now currently the Chairman and Managing Partner at the private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Though his name does not ring a bell like Aliko Dangote, Otedola and Mike Adenuga, Ogunlesi is equally a billionaire in his own right.

Early years

Adebayo hails from Makun, Sagamu, Ogun State, and was born on the 20th of December 1953 to the family of Dr Theophilus O. Ogunlesi, who later became Nigeria’s first Professor of Medicine in Ibadan.

Traders in Kano lament as onion bag sold in the South for N35k crashes to N7k in the North

 

Farmers and traders in Kano are lamenting as farm produce, which can't be sent to the South due to the ongoing strike by sellers of cows and food stuff, are now being sold in the North at ridiculously low prices.

In video shared by Daily Trust, the farmers and marketers at the Gun-Dutse onion market, Dawakin Kudu Local government Area of Kano State, are seen lamenting the effect of the ongoing strike by the sellers of cows and foodstuff.

Recall that trucks bringing food stuff to the Southern part of Nigeria were turned back at Kara Jebba, the last village between Niger state and Kwara state, to prevent them from bringing food to the South (read here ).

A Nigeria man single-handedly manufacture a car and was asked to drive it

Mr. Auwal Hassan has left many people in awe after he displayed the brand new car that he manufactured by himself with little resources. This 30-year-old man who comes from Bauchi State has caused a stir on social media with his unmatched level of creativity. This man discloses that he built the car from the scratch all by himself. Many people were impressed and it went viral which caught the attention of the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu. The minister was surprised by the impeccable creativity of this young man.

The Federal Government has extended the linkage of NIN to SIM

 

The Federal Government has extended the linkage of the National Identity Number (NIN) to Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM) by eight weeks.

Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, who disclosed this in a message to our correspondent, said the extension was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.

Pantami conveyed the message during the meeting of the Ministerial Taskforce on NIN-SIM registration which held on the 1st of February, 2021.

It said the new deadline is now April 6, 2021.

Oyo crisis: My burnt house worth N50m, says Igboho

Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said that what was destroyed at his old house set ablaze by arsonists cannot be worth anything less than N50 million.

Igboho’s old house in Soka was set ablaze by unidentified men in the early hours of Tuesday just hours after a meeting between Southwest Governors and members of Miyetti Allah.

The origin,demon and all you need to know about"CHARLIE CHARLIE" game

 “Charlie Charlie,” a game/Internet urban legend of sudden and inexplicable popularity, surged to the top of the global social media charts this weekend after kicking around on the Spanish-language Internet for much of eternity. As of this writing, #CharlieCharlieChallenge has been tweeted more than 1.6 million times. More people are Googling “Charlie Charlie” than virtually any other news event.

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What’s all this about?! Below, our no-nonsense explainer for the old/unimpressed.

How do you play Charlie Charlie?

Simple! You could, if you wanted, even do it at your desk.

ELON MUSK BECOME THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST PERSON

 

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla, overtook Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s wealthiest person, US media reported Thursday.

Musk is a major shareholder of the electric car company and has benefited from Tesla’s surging share price over the last year. CNBC estimated his wealth at $185 billion.

The distinction is the latest superlative for the South African-born Musk, who also leads the aerospace venture SpaceX.

Tesla is widely seen as a pacesetter for the car industry as conventional automakers try to catch up in electric autos.

The Federal Government has listed fresh conditions for telecommunication service subscribers on sim card

 

The Federal Government has listed fresh conditions for telecommunication service subscribers to replace lost, stolen, misplaced or damaged SIM cards.

According to the Nigerian Communications Commission, subscribers must present their National Identification Numbers for their SIM cards to be replaced.

The National Identity Management Commission will also verify the National Identification Numbers presented by subscribers before Mobile Network Operators replace such SIM cards.

Sowore, Others Were Illegally Arrested, Brutalised In Abuja

Sowore and other activists were carrying out a peaceful procession to mark the New Year. The activists were almost done with their crossover procession when about seven loaded vans of the Nigerian security forces swooped on them, brutalising everyone at sight.

Eyewitnesses say police officers suspected to be the Rapid Response Squad stormed Gudu junction in Abuja, wounding Sowore before whisking him away with other activists from the location.

They were taken to Abattoir police station of the allegedly disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit in Abuja, where they are currently being tortured and detained.

According to sources, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2019 elections was severely injured by the policemen.

ALIKO DANGOTE BREAKS MY HEART- EX GIRLFRIEND TO THE RICHEST BLACK MAN (ALIKO DANGOTE) LAMENTED

 ex-girlfriend of the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote , has posted him on Instagram and revealed how he broke her heart in 1000 pieces.

According to Dangote’s ex-girlfriend, Bea Lewis , aside from him breaking her heart in 1000 pieces, she learned a lot of business success lessons from him and that alone compensates the heartbreak.

Bea Lewis in an Instagram post revealed;

“In my 33rd Year:

I dated the richest black man in the world.

He broke my heart in 1000 pieces.