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By Halimah Olamide The Harvard Business School has released a case study examining the role and impact of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), and its unique approach to catalysing entrepreneurship in Africa. The foundation said this is coming at a time of renewed geopolitical interest in Africa, and an increasing questioning of traditional development finance models. The Foundation, Africa’s leading funder of young entrepreneurs, has pioneered an innovative approach to seeding, capacitising and networking young entrepreneurs across Africa. Drawing directly from Tony Elumelu’s entrepreneurial journey, his acknowledgement that luck and chance played an important role in his success, the Foundation…

By Femi Alabi The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI)has said that the Federal Government in implementing the Oransaye report should ensure that the emerging new structure and composition should have clear definitions of functions, protocols, and reporting lines. LCCI Director General, Dr Chinyere Almona, on Friday in Lagos, said the call was to avoid an over-bloated structure that worsened bureaucracy and reduced the chance of service inefficiency due to loss of expertise. Federal Government had approved the implementation of Oronsaye’s report aimed at restructuring federal agencies, parastatals, and commissions. The move, which involves merging, subsuming, and…

By Femi Alabi President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of four Nigerian professionals to serve as Executive Directors of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the appointment was for a renewable term of four years. The new appointees are Oluwagbenga Ajiboye, Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider and Nafisatu Asabe-Ali, Executive Director, Independent System Operations. Others are Ogini Chukwuka, Executive Director, Finance and Accounts and Abiodun Afolabi, Executive Director, Human Resources and Corporate Services. He said the appointment…

By Femi Alabi Hoodlums have attacked a BUA truck conveying cartons of spaghetti at the Dogarawa axis of the Zaria-Kano expressway in Kaduna, carting away the content. The incident happened when the truck driver packed by the roadside to observe the Jummah prayer. The attack occurred around 3 in the afternoon in Dogarawa, a settlement sitting on the outskirts of the metropolitan city of Zaria along the expressway. An eyewitness said immediately after the driver parked, the hoodlums descended on the truck to cart away cartons of spaghetti. While describing the development as unfortunate, the eyewitness, who had…

By Femi Alabi The Lagos command of the Nigeria Police Force on Friday arraigned four suspects Before an Ejigbo Magistrate Court for unlawful assembly and drug abuse. Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin on X said the Magistrate court has ordered their remand in prison custody till March 25, 2024. He stated that, contrary to the news making the rounds that the suspects were arrested for playing Ludo game are entirely false and only brought up by some of the miscreants, who managed to escape, in a bid to change the narrative and divert attention from the…

By Femi Alabi Amnesty International has rated President Bola Tinubu Low in its international legal obligations to respect and protect human rights, including freedom of religion and expression. The Organisation in series of post on its X handle said Tinubu’s Administration must be publicly Committed to ending decades of human rights violations by ensuring that suspected perpetrators of past violations are brought to justice Amnesty International wrote, “Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu’s administration has failed to ensure respect for human rights and the rule of law: “Amnesty International is again calling on the Nigerian authorities to free all those jailed…

Agency Report The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says he is alive because God is wonderful, recalling how he once escaped death by the whiskers. He spoke at the Redemption Camp, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun, on Saturday as he clocked 82, with congregants celebrating him. Adeboye narrated the incident, which many years ago, according to him, could have claimed his life, if not for a miraculous intervention of God. He referred to an earlier narrative by his former driver of several accidents in which the cleric and his wife escaped…

Agency Report The UN weather agency, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), says February saw more extreme heat and unusually high temperatures in both hemispheres. Summarising the state of the climate, it said the month ended with extreme heat in the southern hemisphere where it is summer, while high temperatures atypical of the northern hemisphere winter prevailed. Parts of North and South America, northwest and southeast Africa, southeast and far eastern Asia, western Australia and Europe all saw record-breaking temperatures, either on a daily basis or for all of February. “The anomalous heat is consistent with the persisting warming observed since…

By Femi Alabi The Federal Government has announced that the Lagos-Shagamu Expressway’s Long Bridge will undergo repairs to its damaged expansion joints from Monday. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, disclosed this in a statement on Friday night in Lagos. Kesha, who regretted the inconvenience that these repairs might cause motorists, appealed for patience and cooperation by members of the public. “The Federal Ministry of Works wish to inform the motoring public that repair works for the damaged expansion joints on the long bridge will commence by Monday, March 4, 2024, simultaneously on…

By Femi Alabi. The Vice President of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima has attributed the success President Tinubu to divine blessings and purity of heart. Shettima while addressing the newly appointed Board of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission delegation who came on a courtesy visit in the Presidential Villa, he reminded them of the importance of religious commitment in addressing the challenges facing the nation. He stated: “The road that led us to the Tinubu Presidency did not happen by chance. This is a man whose trajectory is characterized by making sacrifices for the good of the nation.” Highlighting Tinubu’s…