CSR: Stakeholders laud Polaris Bank @Feminine Hygiene Initiative - ITREALMS

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The Polaris Bank has launched a Feminine Hygiene initiative, to reduce challenges facing teenage girls in Nigeria, reports ITREALMS.

Mariam Umar, Felicity Samson & Kehinde Ogunrinde all of Polaris Bank,

Lokoja Branch with Ayomide Peace Sunday of Federal Govt. Day Science School,

 Lokoja, during the  Dignity Kit Project Program.

The programme, ITREALMS gathered has so far seen the Bank sensitize over a thousand secondary school girls on feminine hygiene practices and provide them with the items with which they could manage their menstrual cycle without missing any day at school.

Zamfara shutdown: MRA condemns NCC’s directive to telecos - ITREALMS

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The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the September 3 directive of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to telecommunications companies to immediately shutdown all telecommunications services in Zamfara State, ostensibly as a result of the “pervading security situation” in the State, describing the measure as an unwarranted and unjustifiable interference with the rights to freedom of expression and access to information.

In a statement issued in Lagos, MRA’s Communications Officer, Mr. Idowu Adewale, noted that the NCC, which is supposed to be a regulatory agency, has increasingly become a tool in the hands of the Federal Government for the indiscriminate violation of the rights of Nigerians, arguing that “Such purported exercise of power without safeguards to deny communications services not only to the residents of Zamfara State, but also to other people everywhere who have family members, friends, loved one as well as other social or business relations in the State of the right to communicate with them, without judicial or any other form of independent oversight, cannot be justified under any circumstance.”

ARC, GCA enter MoU on promote climate resilience, disaster risk finance - ITREALMS

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The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build climate resilience in the agriculture sector by facilitating investments in risk management into government planning and high-level advocacy, reports ITREALMS. 

L-R: Prof. Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of GCA, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the co-Chair of GCA,
and UN-ASG Ibrahima Cheikh Diong,  Director-General of the ARC Group, at the signing
 of the MoU during the Friends of GCA High-Level Dialogue, in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

This, ITREALMS gathered, will be supported by a joint assessment of the landscape for developing risk transfer instruments and other innovative instruments to enhance African countries participation in ARC Disaster Risk Pools.

Pastor Chris' Foundation set to build new school @Ewu, Edo State - ITREALMS

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As part of efforts to contribute to nation building and economic development, the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International (COFI) through the InnerCity Mission network of schools is breaking barriers to education by providing marginalised and vulnerable children access to free basic primary education.

*A cross section of Special Guests at the occasion perform the Groundbreaking.

Currently, there are eight (8) 100 per cent free InnerCity Mission Schools spread across Africa and Asia.

FOI request: CBN gets 7 days to provide details on Bitt coy engagement - ITREALMS

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The Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) has been given seven days to provide relevant information about the bidding process in its engagement of Bitt Incorporation by the apex bank.

The bank in August had announced its technical partner for its Digital Currency Project after what it described as a competitive bidding process.

Editor’s daughter, Ikanna, breaks 36-yr jinx @ UNIUYO, makes 1st class in Law - ITREALMS

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For scoring a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.61, Miss Ikanna Okim, has broken the 36-year old jinx in University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom State, to emerge as the first class-ever student in the faculty of law, reports ITREALMS.

Ms Ikanna Okim

The federal institution, ITREALMS gathered, has not produced a first class student in the Faculty of Law in the past 36 years of UNIUYO.

Fayemi, Afe Babalola make case for more united Nigeria - ITREALMS

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…as ex- Senate President, David Mark hails Fayemi’s agricultural initiatives

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi and founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola have called for greater commitment from the citizens in sustaining peace and unity of the country.

Former Senator representing Kogi West, Tunde Ogbeha; Chairman Alumni Association,
3^rd Regular Course, Nigerian Defence Academy(NDA)/ Former Senate President,  
David Mark and Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; during a visit by members of the Association
to the Governor’s Office, during their Annual General Meeting in Ado-Ekiti at the weekend.

The duo made the submission in Ado Ekiti on Friday at a dinner organized in honour of members of Alumni Association of the 3rd Regular Course of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) led by former Senate President David Mark.

Shell donates multimillion dollar projects to Maritime University - ITREALMS

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The Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has described the phase one of infrastructure projects donated to the Nigerian Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Delta State by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and its joint venture partners as a great enhancer of learning and research.

Okowa spoke last week at the opening of a 220-capacity set of auditoriums, eight lecture rooms, one e-classroom and 14 staff offices forming part of the many projects that the SPDC JV planned for the three-year-old specialised institution set up in response to the information and technology revolution in the global maritime industry, an area Nigeria looks at for developing more professionals for its blue economy ambition.

Represented by the state Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Prince Emmanuel Amgbaduba, Okowa charged other oil companies and businesses particularly those in the maritime sector to emulate the gesture of the SPDC JV in helping Nigeria develop future talent of maritime professionals. ‘Insfrastructure such as what Shell and its partners have provided and still plan to provide forms the bedrock of meanful learning, teaching and research that can stand our institutions out in global ranking while helping the university to overcome the chronic shortage in infrastructure.”

Shun mutual suspicion, Fayemi urges Nigerians - ITREALMS

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Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has urged Nigerian youths to see the country as one that is still in the hands of architects and builders who would determine its future rather than a fallen or collapsing edifice.

*Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State

The Governor also stated that the work of nation building is for all generations hence the need for young people to peacefully and actively engage in order to build a country of their dream.

TD Africa's Peace Egege trends in King of Boys - ITREALMS

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A staff of TD Africa, Peace Udochi Egege has again demonstrated that the company, Sub-Saharan Africa’s technology, lifestyle and solutions distribution giant, is filled with budding talents ready to take up any challenge and see them through with distinction,

The TD Africa sales operations team member rubbed shoulders with several high-profile actors who featured in the Nigerian blockbuster movie, King of Boys - The Return of the King, which has been showing in cinemas and on Netflix since August 2021.a