By Strive Masiyiwa When I first arrived in Nigeria to set up the country’s first GSM mobile network, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), I had to serve as the company’s interim CEO for about six months, until we appointed someone substantive. This meant I practically lived in Nigeria... Read more
The pioneer post graduate students at the Marine and Offshore Engineering Centre of Excellence have commenced studies at Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, involving 18-month academic and field work that will lead to the award of Masters degrees in Marine Engineering (Power Plants), Naval Architecture and Offshore and Subsea... Read more
Coach Chris Danjuma has invited 35 players to the camp of the U20 Women National Team, Falconets, for the first phase of preparations for this year’s FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in France. The list of players who have been told to arrive at the Serob Legacy... Read more
Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, will depart the shores of the country on Wednesday for Guinea Bissau, where they will take on their Guinea Bissau counterparts in the first leg of a 2019 Africa U20 Cup of Nations second round qualifying fixture on Saturday. The match will take... Read more
The Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, will return to camp on Thursday ahead of preparations for the 2018 Women Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against their Gambian counterparts. Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has called up 26 players, including overseas –based defender Ngozi Ebere, to resume camp... Read more
The Total Group in Nigeria which comprise of Total Nigeria Plc and Total Upstream Companies and her partners (NNPC, NAPIMS, SAPETRO, Petrobras & CCNOC) joined the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Malaria Day. The determination of Total and her partners to eradicate malaria in Nigeria... Read more
There was an attempt on the life of the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, Senator Uwajumogu, on Saturday, by dangerous armed looking thugs numbering over 200 but for the intervention of gallant armed mobile police officers and other security agents. The incident took place at the Secretariat... Read more
An oil worker abducted during a Joint investigative Visit (JIV) on April 19 at an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Kalaba community has regained freedom. Community sources in kalaba and Ayambele in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa said that the victim was dropped... Read more
Port Harcourt–The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Rivers Council has commended the Rivers Government’s efforts to revive Rison Palms, a moribund agro-based industry now managed by Siat, a Brussels-based agro-industrialists. The union made the commendation on Friday in Port Harcourt when the Olalekan Ige-led Press week committee visited the... Read more
. Commends the Security Agencies for averting the bloodbath Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the unprecedented success and peace recorded during her Ward’s Congresses of 5th May, 2018 in the 319 Wards of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State as an... Read more
