The American University of Nigeria (AUN) with its Team comprising of Zamiyat Abubakar, Abdulmalik Aminu, Exploits Nicholas, Hafiz Michika, and Ahmed Mohammed; Yola, Adamawa State, has won the first Africa Regional Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Challenging Extremism Competition; #IAMABeliever Campaign.
Author: PositiveNaija
Lagos State Pays 597 Million Naira To 148 Retirees
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has continued the payment of retirees’ entitlements by paying the sum of 597 million Naira to another set of 148 retirees drawn from the Mainstream Civil Service, Local Governments and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Teachers Establishments and Pensions Office (TEPO) and other parastatals of Government being accrued pension rights credited into their Retirement Savings Account.
The recent payment increased total payments by the Ambode-administration to 24.426 billion Naira as accrued pension rights to 5,668 retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme, since August, 2015.
Speaking at the presentation of Retirement Benefit Bond Certificates to the 35th batch of Contributory Pension Scheme retirees, today at NECA House, CBD, Ikeja, Lagos, the Director-General, Mrs. Folashade Onanuga reiterated the Governor’s desire to see retirees enjoy their lives out of office without stress.
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GTBank Wins 2017 Corporate Governance Awards
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank), has been awarded ‘Best Corporate Governance, Africa’, in the Financial services category at the 2017 Corporate Governance Awards.
The event, organized by the Ethical Boardroom Magazine, recognizes outstanding companies who have exhibited exceptional leadership in the area of governance and professional ethics.
According to Mr. Segun Agbaje, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of GTbank;
“Our ardent commitment to global best practices and standards has seen us emerge the first Nigerian Bank to fully implement all ISO certifications namely; ISO/IEC 27001- for Information Security, ISO 20000 – for IT Service Management and ISO 22301 – for Business Continuity Management and PAS 99:2012 Integrated Management System certification by the British Standard Institute (BSI).
Presently, the Bank has the best credit rating assigned to any Nigerian Bank by both local and international rating agencies (B/stable by Standard & Poor’s and B+ by Fitch Rating), which further attest to our adherence to international best practices and standards.”
$25,000 Carnegie Grant & AMERG Laboratory Launched
Consistent with the aim of instituting a training the trainers research group at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, (FUTA), the Advanced Materials and Electrochemical Research Group (AMERG) laboratory has been set up by Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Olaseinde after winning a $25,000 grant of the Carnegie Corporation of New York through the African Materials Science and Engineering Network (AMSEN) under the auspices of Regional Initiatives in Science and Education (RISE).
Dr. (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Olaseinde is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of FUTA, a Corrosion Engineer and RISE scholar who responded to the call for proposals to establish Research Groups among the five networks under RISE comprising FUTA; University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of Namibia, Windhoek; University of Botswana, Gaborone; and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her proposal scaled through and won the only one for AMSEN covering Nigeria and the other countries. In accordance with the aim, Olaseinde has set up the AMERG laboratory, which is located in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, FUTA.
Imelme Umana Is 2017 President of the Harvard Law Review
According to the Harvard website, “She is also on the board of Harvard Model Congress Boston, the nation’s oldest government simulation conference run exclusively by undergraduates at Harvard College. During the school year, Imelme works as a Research Assistant at the Hiphop Archive at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. She also worked as the Harvard Summer in Washington student coordinator, organizing political events for Harvard interns in DC.”
Umana is a doctorate candidate at Harvard Law School, and is most interested in the intersection between government and African American studies by exploring how stereotypes of Black women are reproduced and reinforced in American Political discourse.
2016 Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) Media Awards
2016 MAN Reporter of the Year (Television category)
Abiola Ismail – TVC
2016 MAN Reporter of the Year (Newspaper category)
Odinaka Anudu – BusinessDay
Awarded for his incisive and in-depth reporting and analysis of relevant issues in the manufacturing sector – going an extra mile to do in-depth reporting and analyses of issues and policies affecting the manufacturing sector as well as for conducting relevant interviews and effectively utilising the Association’s position papers and publications. Odinaka Anudu, BusinessDay’s editorial analyst, covers Industry and SMEs. A holder of Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Master of Science degree in Development Economics, Anudu has been trained by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) on Trade Negotiation. He was formerly the secretary-general of the National Drug Abuse Control Association. He has received several training programmes in journalism.
The winners were announced at the 2017 MAN annual media luncheon held in Ikeja, Lagos.