For some time now, Google has been providing African students the opportunity to further develop their software engineering skills and most importantly use them to build products for their regions. One of such opportunities is the Google Software Engineering Africa Trainee Programme, which exposes students studying computer science or technical-related courses at African universities to [...]
Action Against Hunger | ACF International is a registered charity founded in 1979 now operating in 37 countries. ACF in Nigeria is seeking young motivated and experienced professionals to support start up of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities in Yobe state. Job Title: Hygiene Promotion Officer (3 positions) Qualifications Bachelors degree or HND in [...]
Senegal struck twice in the first half and hung on for a 2-1 win over Nigeria during a group A encounter on Tuesday n night in Tangiers. The match started off at a sluggish pace as the teams were slow out of the blocks and played at an almost pedestrian pace. The monotony broken in [...]
BAZE is a new, secular, independent university, in British style and with British standards, International Staff, and a splendid new Abuja campus. Baze offers attractive salaries to staff. BAZE opened May 2011 The University is seeking academic staff to support teaching and research in Computer Science and Information Technology. Up to 3 appointments are expected, [...]
The doctor who was convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years in prison Tuesday in a finale to the tormented saga of the King of Pop. Dr. Conrad Murray sat stoically with his hands crossed as Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor repeatedly chastised him for what he [...]
No fewer than 15 countries are expected to be represented at the maiden International Conference and Inauguration of Prof Chinua Achebe Annual Lecture series next year. The one-week conference, organised by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), will hold between Jan. 30 and Feb. 3, 2012 at the university. The [...]
Nigeria’s Senate has voted to outlaw same-sex marriage and public displays of affection by homosexuals. The bill must be approved by the House of Representatives and signed by President Goodluck Jonathan before becoming law. British Prime Minister David Cameron recently threatened to withhold aid from countries that violate the rights of gays and lesbians. However, [...]
Guinness Job Vacancy External Job Title: Divisional Sales Manager AutoReqId: 30167BR Function: Sales Type of Job: Full Time Country: Nigeria External Job Description Job Title: Divisional Sales Manager Level: Level 4 Reports To: National Field Sales Manager Context/Scope: The Diageo Sales vision is to become one of the top three most respected Consumer Packaged Goods [...]
EMARIS SYSTEM LIMITED LATEST VACANCIES, We request suitable qualified candidates to fill the vacancies below: Job Title: COMPUTER SOFTWARE DEVELOPER » The candidate must be proficient in any of the following programming languages; Microsoft Visual Basic.net or Microsoft Visual C# or Visual FoxPro 9 or CSS, or PHP with My SQL, and others » B.Sc./HND [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised that Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi will be violence-free. Jonathan, who made the pledge at a really to conclude the PDP governorship campaign in Lokoja on Monday, said the party had vowed never to win any election through bloodshed. He urged the electorate to shun acts capable of disrupting the [...]
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday said it would give the former Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu the best burial ever witnessed in Africa just as it declared a one-week period of mourning for the fallen hero who passed on last weekend in a London hospital. MASSOB leader, [...]
ACF International is a registered charity founded in 1979 now operating in 37 countries. ACF in Nigeria is seeking young motivated and experienced professionals to support start up of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities in Yobe state. Job Title: Technical Officer (1 position) Requirements Higher National Diploma in engineering, construction or related discipline and [...]
Anambra State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka, Monday dismissed the application by counsel to Senator Chris Ngige, Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN, that the tribunal no longer had jurisdiction to continue the hearing of the petition by Professor Dora Akunyili because the 180 days allowed by the constitution had elapsed. Chairman of the [...]
Job Title: Technical Advisor, PLAN-Health Grade: 5 Job ID: 12-4501 Center/Office: CLM – General Project/Program: PLAN-Health Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a private, non-profit educational and scientific organization. Since 1971, MSH has worked with its worldwide partners to improve the management of and access to health services such as primary health care, child survival, [...]
Crane Shift-in-Charge – APM Terminals, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria APM Terminals is one of the largest container terminal operators in the world. The diverse portfolio includes substantial interests in more than 40 ports around the globe. We continue to actively develop and invest in new projects and opportunities in ports and terminal management. In terms of [...]
Latest piracy research for Nigeria has indicated that the value of software theft in the country reached a new peak at $225m in 2010, as 83 per cent of software deployed on PCs during the year was said to be pirated, according to Microsoft Nigeria . This disclosure came on the heels of recent raids [...]
ABN Publishing has announced Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2011. The finalists included Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Pedro Veron Pires, Aliko Dangote and the late Professor Wangari Mathaai, but it was Sanusi who was judged as the person who had the most significant influence on the events of the [...]
Christian Chukwu believes the planned return of Blackburn Rovers’ striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni to the Super Eagles is in order. Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi had hinted earlier this month that he is ready to hand Yakubu, 29, a recall to the team after over a year of absence. And Chukwu, a member of the Nigeria [...]
It was indeed the day the Lord hath made; Saturday, November 26, as family, friends and well-wishers came together for the elaborate wedding of star actor, Chinedu Ikedieze (MFR) a.k.a Aki and Nneoma Hope Nwajah. The traditional marriage was held at the St.Theresa’s Catholic Church Primary School field, Obolo, Isiala Mbano, Imo State. The event [...]
A Nigerian Police officer is set to release his debut album this year. Sunday Akor, popularly known as Supa Sunny, will be launching his album titled ‘I be Naija Police’, in December. According to Sunny, who is a police officer serving at Shogunle Police Command, Lagos, the album is set to correct the negative impressions [...]
Buoyed by the immense prospects of providing basic financial services through the mobile phones to millions of Nigerians in urban and rural communities, United Bank for Africa (UBA) has rolled out its mobile money service targeted at over 90 million mobile phone users. Speaking at the launch ceremony held in Lagos at the weekend, Phillip [...]
The Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) has called for the renaming of University of Nigeria, Nsukka as “Odumegwu Ojukwu University (OON)” in honour of the late National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Describing him as hero and the last of the titans in Nigerian politics, the MRC said [...]
The family of the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who died in London on Saturday, have not yet decided on his burial arrangements, Nigeria’s Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Dozie Nwanna has said. Ambassador Nwanna, who is a family friend of the Ojukwus, told the Daily Trust in a telephone interview that [...]
THE dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect launched another round of deadly attacks in Borno and Yobe states at the weekend,unleashing a gale of sorrow and tears. The offensive left two persons dead and several public structures, including a bank and police station, destroyed, through the use of locally made bombs. About five churches, several shops, [...]
A judge at the High Court in Lagos said the detention of Baba Suwe – as he’s popularly known – was a flagrant abuse and infringement of his rights. Baba Suwe was stopped at the airport in Lagos as he was about to board a flight but no drugs were subsequently found. He was detained [...]
