Basking in the euphoria of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) Award as 1st place winner in ‘Promoting Whole of Government Approaches in the Information Age in Africa,’ the managing director of Galaxy Backbone, Mr Gerald Ilukwe, yesterday said the award was a validation of the efforts of the company, and Nigeria, at the efficient deployment of Information Technology in delivering services to Nigerians using its homegrown 1-GOV. net initiative.
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The nation’s reserves of crude oil may received a boost, as Optimum Petroleum Development Limited and its partner Afren Nigeria, on Wednesday, announced the discovery of a significant light oil accumulation at the high impact Ogo-1 well located on the Oil Prospective Lease (OPL 310) offshore Nigeria.
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Total Upstream Petroleum Nigeria Limited – a joint venture with Nigeria’s oil company NNPC – has awarded a $3 billion contract to Italian oil and gas contractor Siapem, for the sub-sea development of Egina oil field. According to ThisDay, the Italian contractor – a subsidiary of Italian oil giant, Eni – will
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The number of millionaires springing up from digital ventures has grown tremendously in the past two decades as the world embraced the potential of knowledge technologies, information and social media to produce economic benefits as well as job creation. From Mark Zuckerberg to Sergey Brin, Lawrence E. Page and YouTube partners Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed
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The Nigeria Football Federation has commended the Super Eagles for their performance in the busy June football schedule that saw them playing six matches in less than four weeks.
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Officials of the National Sports Commission and the Nigeria Football Federation have teamed up to take a stand on the Super Eagles’ match bonuses. The PUNCH learnt from very high levels in both organisations that the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil would be the last competition where the players would get the contentious $10,000 each for winning a game.
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The General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Association, Musa Amadu, said on Tuesday that Nigerians should praise the Super Eagles for their performance at the Confederations Cup in Brazil.
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Judging by the expression on the faces of coach John Obuh and his players as they left the Kadir Has Stadium in Kayseri on Tuesday, it looked as though they had just lost their Group B match to Cuba. Yet nothing could have been further from the truth, the Nigerians having cruised to a 3-0 win over the CONCACAF side to open their account at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013. The reason for the Nigerians’ displeasure was the a
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Michael Ezechikaria, whose stage name is Walko Chilko, has been variously described by the Nigerian media as Michael Jackson’s look alike. Ezekaria, was officially commissioned by the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN) to welcome Marlon Jackson during his visit to Nigeria in 2009. In this chat with Correspondent, Nkasiobi Oluikpe, he speaks about his life. Excerpts:
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David Haye took to twitter this afternoon to quash the exciting rumour that a fight between himself and undefeated heavyweight Tyson Fury was close to being finalised.
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