International Women’s Day: A Call to Press for Progress
Today is International Women’s Day, a day where women across the world gather with one voice to celebrate womanhood. Celebrated on the 8th of March, the theme for this year is #PressForProgress. Women and Development Women are called to change the status of fellow women, with several campaigns calling for recognition of the extraordinary role […]
Wisdom From Social Media: Quick Revision Tip For WASSCE
If you’re preparing for WASSCE or have a child preparing for the exam, visit the WAEC Ghana website. Click the ‘menu’ tab, and when the menu drops, go to the bottom and click on ‘chief examiner’s report’. On the chief examiner’s report, you will find past questions from 2011 to 2016 with the chief examiner’s comments on how […]
Treasures Bayode Olawunmi Breaks Guinness World Record
True success comes from daring a dream many others think is impossible to achieve. Treasures Bayode Olawunmi has proven this as he has finally broken Guinness World Record in the Longest Marathon Reading Aloud category by reading for 120 hours, a total of 5 days. In his own words, he did it for the culture, […]
Nigerian Still in the Race To Break World Record For “The Longest Reading Marathon”
Record setters are phenomenal and are fast gaining recognition in Nigeria. One of such people attempting to set a new record in the Guinness Book of World Record is Olubayode Treasures-Olawunmi who strives to break the Guinness World Record for the Longest Read Aloud Marathon. He has so far continued in this feat. One would have […]
MIPAN Unveils Alphabet Media Academy in Lagos
The Media Independent Practitioners Association of Nigeria (MIPAN) has officially launched Alphabet Media Academy (AMA). The media academy is the first of its kind with the aim of producing a group of well-trained talents who will shape and disrupt the future of the media and marketing communications industry in Nigeria and across Africa. The media […]
Nigeria’s Bayode Treasures-Olawunmi Attempts To Set Guinness World Record
A young Nigerian, Bayode Treasures-Olawunmi, is attempting to set a Guinness World Record in the Marathon Reading Aloud category. “I remember, there was a year I bought a book with my savings meant for Christmas clothes.” – Bayode Treasures-Olawunmi wants to read for 120 hours straight (with a 2-hour break every 24 hours). He began reading at […]
Happy National Inconvenience Yourself Day
Did you know today is National Inconvenience Yourself Day? National Inconvenience Yourself Day is celebrated on the 28th February, yearly. The day was created in the year 2006, by Julie Thompson, an environmentalist consultant, in Florida. She invented Inconvenience Yourself Day, as “an incentive for others to acknowledge their appreciation for acquaintances or strangers and to promote respectful […]
Register For Social Media Week Lagos
The 2018 edition of the Social Media Week Lagos starts today 26 February 2018 and would be held for a week. Here is why you need to attend the event: In a time when Black Panther has stirred up conversations about telling our African stories the African way, it is only right that we learn how […]
Attend the Holyholla PluggedinLive Music Festival
The fifth edition of the Holyholla’s annual music festival, PluggedinLive, holds on Saturday, 24th February 2018 at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos. The music festival is an outreach concert which celebrates the best of alternative and contemporary live music in the Christian community. It is a platform primed to celebrate God through live music. The event […]
Fela Durotoye To Run For Presidency in 2019
Motivational speaker and Presidential aspirant, Fela Durotoye has officially declared the political party he would be joining. He stated that the Alliance For A New Nigeria (ANN) is the platform with which he hopes to realise his ambition of transforming the country. Here is his declaration: “As you may already know, over the last 13 […]
Become A Member of Nigerian and Indonesian Chamber of Commerce
As Nigerian and Indonesian work together to strengthen the level of economic cooperation between both countries, membership is now open for new entrants into the Nigerian-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This is to encourage amazing business opportunities with Indonesian business as registered Nigerian members are allowed to partner with their Indonesian counterparts. According to the President, Nigerian-Indonesian Chamber […]
How to Apply For Your Permanent Voters Card
Obtaining your voter’s registration card and checking your registration status has been made easy. The Independent National Electoral Commission has succeeded in making a hereto difficult experience less tasking. INEC started the continuous registration process on April 7, 2017, to enable qualified persons to acquire their Permanent Voters Card. Yet many Nigerians still complain of hardships involved in the process. The Commission […]
Nigerians Who Made Africa’s Billionaires List 2018
The image of Africa continues to be daily shaped by the history and present events of our relationships with the wider world. Nigeria as a nation as its reputation rubbed by the happenings of Africa, and like the Giant Of Africa it is acclaimed to be, it is very obvious that it mounts giant strides in the economy. One particular stride is the inclusion […]
Lagos Theatre Festival: Theatre in Unconventional Spaces
Lagos Theatre Festival (LTF) would be held from February 27, 2018, till March 28, 2018, in Lagos, across different venues, predominately Freedom Park. With the theme, “Theatre in Unconventional Spaces”, the festival is aimed at presenting performing arts from Nigeria and the UK in Lagos. The LTF is divided into curated shows and fringe shows; […]
Much Ado About Valentine
Hey, Valentine is in the air. February 14 is a day that is set aside to celebrate love. But first, what is love? Love is the consuming passion for the well-being of others, love is called out of one’s heart as a response to the pleasure one takes in a person or object. It is […]
Steps To Developing A Reading Culture in The Internet Age
Currently, in the era of the internet, lots of things struggle to grab our attention, and therefore, reading does not stand a chance. If it is true that the way of life of a nation is influenced by the percentage of its citizens who are literate, then it is clear that the reading culture of […]