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  • Liberian President, George Weah confers award on Nigerian Army officers

    Liberian President, George Weah confers award on Nigerian Army officers

    President George Weah of Liberia has conferred award of “Distinguished Service Order of the Republic of Liberia” on some Nigerian Army senior officers at the nation’s 65th Armed Forces Celebration.

    The Director, Army Public Relations Officer, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Saturday, said the award was in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Liberian Armed Forces.

    Nwachukwu said that the Liberian President made the presentation during the 65th Armed Forces of Liberia Day Celebration held on Friday at the Barclay Training Centre, Camp Johnson Road, Monrovia, Liberia.

    He quoted President Weah as saying that the Liberian Government gave the awards annually to individuals whose outstanding contribution had significantly impacted the growth and development of Liberia, its armed forces and humanity.

    Nwachukwu said the awardees also got a letter of commendation from the Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, Amb. Godfrey Anichebe Odudigbo for making Nigeria proud.

    He said the award was conferred on the senior officers, who were seconded to the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) at different times, as part of ECOWAS Advisory Training Team.

    According to him, the awardees contributed immensely to the building and restructuring of the new AFL.

    “The officers who benefitted from the awards are, Col. Aminu Usman Gumel, Col. Gbenga Oyinwola, Col. Emmanuel Chukwu, Col. Ismaila Sule and Lt.-Col. Abdulkadir Abubakar.

    “Other awardees were drawn from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and USA,” he said.

    The Army spokesperson said that Col. Gbenga Oyinwola received the awards and letters of commendation on behalf of the recipients.

    He said that Oyinwola expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya for the opportunity to have served Nigeria in their various capacities.

    “He stated further that the award will motivate the recipients to be more productive in their service to the Nigerian army and the nation,” he said.

  • Photos: Gani Fawehinmi Awards honours 12 finalists, present Lifetime awards to Sound Sultan, others

    Photos: Gani Fawehinmi Awards honours 12 finalists, present Lifetime awards to Sound Sultan, others

    Eminent personalities converge in Ikeja as the 4th edition of the Gani Fawehinmi Impact and Integrity Awards (GFIIA) honoured twelve distinguished personalities across Nigeria and the Diaspora, following a five-month public process of nominations, shortlisting and voting.

    The Awards which was graced by Mr Femi Falana SAN as well as Hon. Justice Habeeb Abiru, JCA, also presented lifetime Awards to Mohammed Fawehinmi, Olanrewaju Fasasi (Sound Sultan) and Dr Ayotunde Alao. Channels TV Judiciary correspondent, Mrs Shola Soyele and Mr Emmanuel Eluu, a staff of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited and driver at Muritala Muhammed Airport, who found and returned $40,000 belonging to a passenger, were also honoured.

    In a statement issued by the organiser of the Award, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) and signed by its Chairman, Mr Olanrewaju Suraju, the organisation said: “Today is the climax of the 4th edition of the Gani Fawehinmi Awards which started on July 13, 2021 with a public call for nomination following which 271 nomination entries were received; of this number, 21 persons were shortlisted for voting in the four categories of the Awards: six for Outstanding Impact, eight for Outstanding Integrity, four for Valuable Whistle-Blower and three for Nigerians-In-Diaspora Integrity Ambassador.

    “Finally, the top three nominees in each category were honoured today as follows: The Outstanding Integrity Award was won by Mr Olasupo Abideen Openyemi, an Alumnus of Harvard Business School, United States of America. The runners up are Dr Tonye Clinton-Jaja, former Chairman of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Copyright Commission and Acting Head, Bills and Legislative Drafting Division of the National Institute for Legislative Studies; as well as Mr Molik Sherifdeen, a member of the Junior Chamber International (JCI).

    “The Valuable Whistle-Blower Award was won by Mr Paul Alaba Lawani, a winner of the Global Town Crier Media Award; while the runners up are: Mr Akinyemi Ojo Adebayo, Chair of the Board of Trustee, International Organisation for Human Rights Development and Environment, Nigeria; and Mr Tukur Muazu.

    “The Outstanding Impact Award was won by Mr Baba Muhammad Dzukogi, former National Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors; while the runners up are Ambassador Chineke Cajethan Goodluck, founder of the United Organisation for Education and Sports Development; and Professor Nwaocha Ogechukwu, a Professor of Religious Studies and 2022 Nominee for Nobel Peace Prize”

    HEDA added: “The Nigerians in Diaspora Award was won by Ms Onuike Ifeoma Chinenye, a passionate girls’ rights activist who has also displayed the attributes of distinction when she graduated as the best student and valedictorian in the Girne American University securing a first class degree in law and repeated the same feat in her Master’s degree.”

    Other prominent personalities at the Awards ceremony include members of the Board of the Award Comrade Achike Chude, Barrister Nurudeen Ogbara.and Mr kule Adegoke, SAN.

    According to Mr Suraju, Chairman of HEDA Resource Centre, “The overall objective of the Awards is to take the fight against corruption beyond the usual naming and shaming, and to step outside the box by ensuring that those who notwithstanding the attractiveness of corruption, bribery and other forms of sharp practices have taken to a life of transparency, honesty and integrity are identified, duly recognized and honoured, as a form of inspiration for greater number of people to follow.” This is why HEDA, with the Support of MacArthur Foundation, launched the GFIIA in 2018 to recognise these forthright individuals, he added.

  • NCC receives ‘trove of garlands’ in 20 years regulatory excellence

    NCC receives ‘trove of garlands’ in 20 years regulatory excellence

    The trove of garlands for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for its role in enhancing digital transformation in Nigeria has swelled with new awards conferred from an array of stakeholders.

    It is two decades since the NCC midwifed the birth of Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM), to herald a new era of public communication in Nigeria.

    The new awards were conferred on the Commission and its Management at different fora organised to commemorate 20 years of revolutionary digital communication in Nigeria.

    Besides the serial honour attending the celebrations of two decades of the GSM revolution, the Commission also won awards at annual events organised by strategic stakeholders, including, the Nigerian telecom sector’s equivalent of Oscars, the Nigeria Tech Innovations & Telecoms Awards (NTITA), 2021.

    At NTITA, NCC received the ‘Outstanding Telecom Regulator of the Year’ award, while its CEO, Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman, was honoured with the ‘Telecoms Industry Leader’ award. The event took place in Lagos, on 19th November 2021.

    A week earlier, at another event organised by the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), in collaboration with Digivation Network, the Commission had received, ‘The Premier African Regulator’ award.

    The EVC was also honoured with the ‘Regulatory Excellence Award’, while the Executive Commissioner Stakeholder Management, Barrister Adeleke Adewolu, received ‘The Outstanding Digital Impact Personality’ award. The event, tagged 20 Years of Digital Revolution Powered by GSM, took place at the Nigerian Air Force Conference Centre, Abuja, on 11th November 2021.

    The same day, at yet another event organised by E-Business Life Magazine at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos to mark the 20 years of the birth of GSM, the NCC also received, ‘Technology Transformer Award’.

    Additionally, just over the weekend, the NCC also received the ‘Regulator of the Year’ award at the New Telegraph Awards 2021, organised at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, on Friday, November 19, 2021.

    Meanwhile, at the event organised at NAF Conference Centre in Abuja, a panel representing shades of stakeholders in the telecom and ICT sector, took a retrospective reflection at the last 20 years of telecom liberalisation under NCC’s supervision. The panelists agreed that there have been irreversible, exponential transformation of the sector with visible impact on all other sectors of the Nigerian economy.

    The panelists reminisced on developments in the sector in an inquisitorial manner, asking the audience to measure the dynamism in the telecom sector in terms of digital sophistication and digital literacy in comparison to what it was two decades ago.

    The speakers, one after another, examined in objective contexts, how telecoms service availability, affordability and accessibility have benefited persons of all social strata, especially the disadvantaged segment of the society. The panel also took a stock of the general impact of the digital culture from a historical perspective in order to properly capture the milestones.

    As Nigeria prepares for the launch of the Fifth Generation (5G) networks, the panelists agreed that there will be more benefits to harvest from the emerging technologies. Thus, they urged all stakeholders to heighten education of citizens and especially telecom consumers, in order to halt the misinformation about 5G.

    The discussants also expressed confidence in the ability of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the NCC to rally stakeholders to deepen engagement at all levels and sectors to focus on the implementation of policies to ensure attainment of the set targets.

    Meanwhile, the Director Public Affairs at the Commission, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, commended stakeholders, who gathered at various events where the Commission and its leaders were honoured, for their dedicated solidarity. He also thanked the various stakeholders who recognised the Commission with landmark awards, for the impeccable honours. Adinde stated that such number of awards to NCC in a fortnight testified to the strong collaboration between the Commission and the stakeholders and their conviction that NCC is fulfilling its mandate.

    Adinde particularly told the audience at the E-Business Life forum that the recognitions coming to NCC will further encourage the Commission’s management led by Prof. Umar Danbatta and his dynamic team to do more to expand the frontiers of opportunities of digital economy to enable citizens and other investors to enhance their contributions to Nigeria’s growth and development.

  • Stop decorating politicians with awards, challenge us to perform better, Wike charges journalists

    Stop decorating politicians with awards, challenge us to perform better, Wike charges journalists

    Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has challenged journalists to hold government officials accountable, rather than give them awards on the basis of “friendship”.

    The governor stated this on Friday when the national leadership of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) paid him a courtesy visit at the government house in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.

    Wike, according to a statement by Kelvin Ebiri, special assistant to to the governor on media, said there was a need for journalists to put in more efforts as the “strong voice and conscience of the society”. “What I have seen of you is that you praise us and give us award because of relationship or friendship. That’s not the way it should be. Challenge us — the people in authority — and we will sit up to our responsibilities. We will have no choice than to perform and serve the people as it should be,” he said.

    “My support for you has to do with the fact that you are supposed to tell the truth of what is happening in Nigeria. “There was a time you were exposing the ills of society. If not for you, certain things will not be known. Assume your role, grow strong again and speak out.”

    He also commented on the #EndSARS protests, stating that the youth were able to organise themselves without having leaders.

    “If when I castigated the operations of SARS you added your voice, who knows what good that would have achieved,” the governor said. “Now look at what has happened. There was EndSARS protest across the country. Nobody knows how the youth were able to organise themselves without a leader. “Up until now, intelligence can’t even know how they did it and who’s behind them. Without good intelligence, how can Nigeria even defeat Boko Haram?”

  • I don’t want to be a polygamist like my dad-Reminisce

    I don’t want to be a polygamist like my dad-Reminisce

    Nigerian rapper, Remi Shafaru a.k.a Reminisce has come a long way in the Nigerian music industry. Reminisce who recently released a new album ‘Vibes and Insha Allah’ has averred that he gave up vanity and the super star life to focus on his family because he doesn’t want to be a polygamist like his dad.

    “I’m 39 and fresh as a house husband. I love my family, I conduct my business, read all the books I want, play FIFA – the only way I piss my wife off [laughs] – and be happy. I gave up vanity and the superstar life to focus on my family because I didn’t want to be a polygamist like my dad. I can’t risk this virus.

     

    “In 2012, eLDee told me, “Some people get carried away with this stardom thing and forget to live life.” Now, I’m living life. Before you guys leave, I’ll probably eat Fried Yam, crayfish and Akara . I just want to be happy. Two days ago, Cabasa abused 9ice and I for playing FIFA at 3 am in the morning

    “I didn’t release music for 18 months, so I used that time to know my Children more and study music streaming. The first experiment with streaming was ‘Ponmile’ which was very successful. Then, ‘Diet’ and ‘Problem,’ and it all shocked me because it was new. I also realized that as procedural or bureaucratic as it is, it is also secure and beautiful”, he told Pulseng.

     

    Asked the importance of winning awards as an entertainer, he said: “If awards matter, I’d be livid – with all the losses. My Egbon, Ayo Animashaun, called me recently to come get all my plaques from him. My wife and my kids want them, but I’m never bothered. You have to accept that some other person has also been excellent.

     

    “At the AMVCA, I stayed at home because I knew I wasn’t going to win. Real recognize real. I have a lot of them though – even with the awards I’ve lost. In 2014, iLLBliss told me that, “Rems, you are only as good as your last hit,” that’s why I keep going.”

     

  • Chika Ike’s Small Chops wins multiple international awards

    Chika Ike’s Small Chops wins multiple international awards

    Nollywood actress, Chika Ike is excited to show off her several international awards, recently won for her movie ‘Small Chops‘ from different countries around the world including, USA, Italy, Venezuela, India and more.

    She won awards such as; Best Actress, Best production, best sound design, Best Supporting actress and Best director.

  • NCC boss, Obaseki, Ganduje, others honoured at Independent Awards

    Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Saturday in Lagos received an Outstanding Regulator of the Year Award for setting performance standard in the country’s telecommunication industry.

    Danbatta was honoured at the Pacesetters Independent Newspaper Awards 2020 which celebrated excellence in various fields in the country.

    Zenith Bank won the Bank of the Year, while Airtel received Telecommunications Company of the Year in the 27 categories awards held at Eko Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    Among other award recipients were Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki, who received Governor of the Year in Economic and Youth Empowerment; Kano Governor Abdullahi Ganduje – Man of the Year and Lagos Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, who bagged State Legislator of the Year award.

    Others included Deputy Gov. of Delta State, Kingsley Otuaro – Peace Ambassador of the Niger Delta, Central Bank of Nigeria – Federal Institution of the Year, while Mercy Johnson-Okojie was Actor of the Year.

    The Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of Independent Newspapers, Mr Steve Omanufeme, said the event was to recognise and honour eminent Nigerians who had contributed to the development of the country.

    “Today is the day we recognise and honour eminent Nigerians who have done well in their respectful fields.

    “We are pleased to celebrate and honour you for your contributions,” Omanufeme said.

    Speaking on behalf of the awardees, NCC Spokesman, Dr Henry Nkemadu, who represented Danbatta, said the Commission would continue to contribute to the Gross Domestic Product of the country and sustain excellence in all areas of service.

    “We are grateful for the award and recognition as the Outstanding Regulator of the Year.

    “Our work touches the lives of every Nigerian and we will continue to contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.

    “We dedicate the award to the consumers and other ICT teams,” he said.

    The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, was the Royal Father of the Day at the awards which featured cultural displays by various dance troupes.

  • I am the only entertainer who has awards in every aspect of entertainment- Koffi

    Ace comedian, Koffi Idowu Nuel is a multi -talented entertainer who has inputs in every aspect of the Nigerian entertainment scene.

    Asides being a comedian, Koffi is also an actor and singer. The graduate of Chemistry from the University of Lagos has stated that he is the only entertainer who has won awards in all aspects of entertainment in Nigeria

    Speaking in a chat with Hip TV, the entertainer who is gearing up to release his film said: “I am the only entertainer that has an award in every scene in entertainment. I am not a man for awards, I am a man for rewards .I am a man who doesn’t really go all out about awards. I have never taken pictures with all of my awards”.

    Asked about his driving force, the actor born in Maroko (an old slum in Lagos, where the New Lekki Oniru sits after it was demolished in 1990) said:”I see myself as someone who continuously progresses, for me fulfilment is not in cars, houses but waking up each day and actualizing something new”.

     

    Koffi also stated that he has done music in every genre.

     

    “I have done music in every genre ever, people don’t know I have an ‘Apala’ medley album. I have a hip-hop album that they don’t know about. I just play around with everything that I can do. I have acted every kind of role. For me, its about being you, continuously being you”.

     

     

     

  • FIFA to announce nominees for best football awards today

    FIFA will Today announce the shortlist for the four awards that will feature at the third edition of “The Best FIFA Football Awards.”

    TheNewsGuru gathered that the awards will hold on September 24.

    “The world will move a step closer to learning the identities of this year’s winners, with FIFA announcing the shortlists for four awards throughout the course of the day on its website and across social media,” FIFA said on Monday.

    “Starting at 13:00 CET, the announcement will begin with the candidates for ‘The Best FIFA Women’s Coach’ and will be concluded with those for ‘The Best FIFA Men’s Player’ at 16:00 CET.”

    “The Best FIFA Men’s Coach’’ and “The Best FIFA Women’s Player,” are the two other awards that would be given.

     

  • Most Nigerian movie awards lack credibility-Ibrahim Chatta

    Popular Yoruba actor, Ibrahim Chatta has stated that most Nigerian awards lack credibility. Chatta made this known as a guest on the popular TV show, ‘Your View’.

    Recall that Chatta rejected his 2016 City People Award nomination, saying it is not credible.

    Chatta said during the talk-show: ”Most Nigerian movie awards lack credibility. I am a practitioner. They ask you how many sits you will be buying at the award before giving you can win an award.

    A lady who is a makeup artist in my industry insisted that she wants to play the lead role in her movie, my director friend said he wasn’t feeling her acting .However before the release of the movie, this lady clinched the award as a rising star in the industry. What criteria do the use?”, he laments.

    Ibrahim Chatta is an actor and director, known for movies like Odunbaku, Òmìn, Awure eni among others.

     

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