Ablegenius boss, Ebuka Agu, harps on sugarcraft art, insists being grand in what you do begets results - ITREALMS

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Sugarcraft prince based in Lagos, Ebuka Agu Godwin of Ablegenius Craft 'n' Events, says it requires skills and patience, learning, unlearning and relearning in sugar art. He spoke to ITREALMS' GBEMI OMOTOSO recently.

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What inspires you into crafting in cake design?
The love for craft has always been my childhood skill, as an artist while growing up, however, coming into the cake industry was just a plus.

Lagos CBOs extend outreach to private schools on ATM - ITREALMS

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Some Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) have started to extend their advocacy outreach for improved health sector to private schools in Lagos on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM)-related, reports ITREALMS.

Confirming this to ITREALMS, after the October Coordinating Meeting of ATM in Lagos, the Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) lead, Mrs. Bunmi Tejumola said that some members of the team have in recently extended in the Isheri part of the state.

Arrested! 'Fake NIMC officials’ registering non-Nigerians @Niger Republic - ITREALMS

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The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said its troops have arrested fake officials of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) registering non-Nigerians in Niger Republic, reports ITREALMS.

Nigeria is bordered to the north by Niger, to the east by Chad and Cameroon, to the south by the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by Benin.

@50: Pantami is worth celebrating says Solomon - ITREALMS

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Project Coordinator of the Nigeria Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project, Musa Odole Solomon has said that Nigeria’s Honourable Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Pantami is worth celebrating.

Solomon stated this while joining friends and well-wishers to extend goodwill messages to the Honourable Minister, as he adds another year to his life.

FG sets December deadline to unveil National Dig Once Policy - ITREALMS

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·Says Policy to Accelerate Broadband Infrastructure Roll-Out

Professor Isa Pantami, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has disclosed that Nigeria is giving the final touches to its proposed National Dig Once Policy, hinting that there is a plan to unveil the policy before the end of 2022.

Pantami made the disclosure in Lagos at the just concluded fourth edition of Policy Implementation Assisted Forum (PIAFo) on Dig Once Policy and Fibre Strategy in Nigeria with the theme: Laying the Foundation for Ubiquitous Broadband for Nigeria’s Economic Breakthrough.

Governors assemble for broadband awareness forum - ITREALMS

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All Nigeria State Governors are set to discuss how to empower the citizens with latest telecoms technologies as they partake in the maiden edition of Broadband Technical Awareness Forum for Governors (BTAF), put together by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and slated for Thursday in Abuja.

According to a press statement available to ITREALMS by the Director, Public Affairs at NCC, Mr. Reuben Muoka, the programme, which takes place at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton, Hotel in Abuja on October 20, 2022, and themed: “State Broadband Coordinating Councils: Potentials and Possibilities”, will appraise the Nigerian National Broadband Plan (NNBP) 2020-2025, which targets 70 per cent broadband penetration and to cover 90 per cent of the population.

APC refutes report Amaechi protests over Wike's pesidential honour - ITREALMS.

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The Rivers APC 2023 Campaign Council has refuted media reports that the former Minister of Transport, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is protesting the recent honour by President Muhammadu Buhari on Governor Nyesom Wike of the garden city, reports ITREALMS.

Sogbeye C. Eli, spokesman, Rivers APC 2023 Campaign Council, said their attention have been drawn to a publication in the New Telegraph newspaper with the caption "Re: Wike's Presidential Honour: Amaechi Protests, Lambasts Osinbajo, Denied Access to Buhari."

Digital Talent Foundation, US Consulate skill 100 youths on STEM - ITREALMS

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Digital Talent Foundation (DTF) has commenced the training of over 100 youths in Lagos, as part of the United States government-funded five-week programme on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), reports ITREALMS.

Speaking to ITREALMS at the opening ceremony at the Ikeja American Corner, Courier Plus Compound, Airport Road, Ikeja, the founder of Digital Talent Foundation, Mr. Tosin Ojo, said expected to provide 225 youths in Lagos and Osun States with digital skills on website development, computer hardware, engineering, and cinematography.

Sophos’ industry-leading MDR service launches compatibility with third-party cybersecurity technologies - ITREALMS

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Global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, Sophos, has launched new third-party security technology compatibilities with Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to better detect and remediate attacks with speed and precision across diverse customer and operating environments.

The industry-leading service with more than 12,000 customers now integrates telemetry from third-party endpoint, firewall, cloud, identity, email, and other security technologies as part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem.

Irona: PDP disowns fake suspension letter - ITREALMS

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oguta Ward A, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State says the immediate past Deputy Governor of the State, Hon. Engr. Gerald Irona is the Pillar of the party in the Ward.

Chairman of the PDP in Oguta Ward A, Chukwuma Okoroafor, disclosed this in a Press Statement made available to newsmen in Owerri, Monday afternoon.


Okoroafor, who frowned at rumours of purported suspension of the former Deputy Governor said the names on the purported letter of suspension are not members of the Party in the Ward and therefore not known to the party.


Still speaking on the purported letter alleging that the former Deputy Governor was suspended by his Ward (Oguta Ward A), Okoroafor described the letter as fake, adding that those whose names appeared on the said letter were neither members nor known to the PDP in the Ward.


He warned that the party would deal decisively with anyone caught, wanting to bring the name of the former Deputy Governor to disrepute.


“Hon. Engr. Gerald Irona is our Pillar in Oguta Ward A. He is our Hero. We have no problems whatsoever with him. There is no pending issue whatsoever, not to talk of suspending our leading light. Those behind the fake letter are not members of the PDP. They are not known to the Party. They are being sponsored to embarrass our leader. We shall deal ruthlessly with anyone trying to bring our leader to ridicule. We do not joke with him. We call on Law Enforcement Agencies to investigate and arrest for prosecution, the source, author, and circulation of the purported letter of suspension of our cherished leader.”


Okoroafor also poured encomiums to the former Deputy Governor for what he described as his inspirational leadership and exceptional support to the party, reiterating their loyalty to the former Deputy Governor.

Why NLNG declared force majeure - ITREALMS

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Some details have begun to emerge as for the reason the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) declared force majeure on product supplies from its production facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria following the declaration of force majeure by all its upstream gas suppliers, reports ITREALMS.

General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, Mr. Andy Odeh, told ITREALMS that the notice by the gas suppliers was a result of high flood water levels in their operational areas, leading to a shut-in of gas production which has caused significant disruption of gas supply to NLNG.

Still on illegal 4km pipeline: More questions than answers says Elvis Eromosele - ITREALMS

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Nigeria is in a precarious situation, financially. The federal government claims it doesn't have money, so it is borrowing, from all sorts of places for all sorts of reasons. Some say that the government is borrowing even to pay the salaries of federal workers.

In June, we learnt that the nation is borrowing to pay the interest on the loans that it has taken. It is a difficult season. Things have never been this bad.

SAT calls for improved handling of HIV-AIDS, TB, malaria @Lagos facilities - ITREALMS

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The Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) of coalition of civil societies in the health sector has called for improved health system especially at the community levels in handling ailments related to AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM), reports ITREALMS.

The ATM coalition includes the Association of Civil Societies on Malaria, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN), TB Network, Network of Persons With HIV-AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN). 

Speaking at the advocacy visits on Tuesday, the Team Lead, Lagos State Advocacy Team (SAT) Mrs. Bunmi Tejumola, said improving quality of lives in communities across the state of excellence in particular after the COVID-19 effect has become necessary.

Peak milk excites consumers in Ibadan - ITREALMS

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Leading dairy brand and flagship product of FrieslandCampina WAMCO, Peak Milk has taken its latest campaign promoting healthy habits, quality dairy nutrition and reviving the declining breakfast culture among Nigerians, ‘Peak Breakfast Café’, to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The ‘Peak Breakfast Café’ is a nationwide educational and fun campaign that began in Lagos last week and will hold in several popular markets and supermarkets across cities, including Abuja, Kano, Jos, Port Harcourt and Onitsha.

'Certificate of Site Ownership for Mass Transmission Antenna' not from us says NCC - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has discovered, through social listening and environmental surveillance that a fraudulent letter, titled: “Certificate of Site Ownership”, for clearance of “Mast Transmission Antenna”, are being circulated by some unidentifiable individuals, and purporting that the letter was issued by the NCC.

The fraudulent letter claimed that the Commission had conducted an inspection on a certain site which is for “9-Mobile Telecommunications Company G.P.R.S”.

Nollywood stars on parade @Azuh Amatus' FAMOUS FACES unveiling - ITREALMS

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"Segun Arinze, Chinedu Ikedieze, Ejike Asiegbu, Victor Osuagwu, Okey Ogunjiofor, Lilian Amah, Jennifer Eliogu, Tricia Eseigbe, Zik Zulu, Fidelis Duker, other Nollywood stars honour Azuh Amatus at FAMOUS FACES unveiling"

It was the gathering of Nollywood heavyweights at the recent unveiling of Azuh Amatus’ two new books, FAMOUS FACES (1&2).

The high-octane books presentation, which held elaborately inside the expansive marquee of the prestigious Colonades Hotels, Ikoyi, Lagos on Sunday, October 9, was hugely attended by leading Nollywood stars and stakeholders.

Polaris Bank commemorates breast cancer month - ITREALMS

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Polaris Bank has said that increased awareness, advocacy, and support will go a long way to reduce the incidence of breast cancer in the country.

The Bank’s Group Head of Strategic Brand Management, Nduneche Ezurike made this known in Lagos while reiterating the Bank’s unwavering commitment to stem the breast cancer scourge among women, in commemoration of October Breast Cancer Month.

UN World Food Day 2022: Ghana loses GH₵ 762.32bn - ITREALMS

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A new research has indicated that Ghana lost some 762.32 billion in Ghanian Cedes on either lost or wasted along the supply chain, and climate change, reports ITREALMS.

This was disclosed by the Food for All Africa, Executive Director, Chef Elijah Addo at an event organized by Food for All Africa in Yeji,the Pru East district of Bono East region to commemorate World Food day 2022 in Ghana.

Global Patriot to host Int'l conference on Africa's economy @New Jersey - ITREALMS

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An International Conference with the theme, Africa's Economy: The Way Forward, is to hold at the Newark City Hall, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America (USA) on Saturday, October 22, 2022 from (9:00AM EST) (2:00 PM WAT) prompt.

The organizers, Global Patriot Newspapers, informed its an attempt to begin a new conversation aimed at proffering fresh answers to old but still troubling questions, especially concerning why a continent as resource rich as Africa must continue to remain the poverty capital of the world.

Family releases details of Rotimi Fashakin's funeral plans - ITREALMS

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The family of Elder Engr. Joseph Oluwarotimi Fashakin, has released details of his burial plans, reports ITREALMS.

According to the plan released late Sunday, and made available to ITREALMS, there will be a Service of Songs at Marcelina's place at 36 Isaac Jones Street,Ikeja Lagos on 25th October 2022 at 3.00pm.