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  • Academy empowers 100 with vocational skills

    Pixels International Academy has empowered over 100 Nigerians with photography, creative designs and branding skills.

    The academy’s Digital Photography division has received the nod of the Oyo State Board for Technical and Vocational Education (BOTAVED) to run courses.

    Pixels Digital Photography Chief Executive Officer Omolaraeni Olaosebikan made this known at its office in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

    According to her, the market is large enough to accommodate emerging ideas because of the country’s population.

    She added that photography has become very competitive with many opportunities for well-trained photographers to explore in fashion, wedding and entertainment, among other industries.

    “For this reason, Pixels International Academy, a new-age creative school, founded by Pixels Digital Photography, to empower Nigerians who want to build a career in photography, creative designs and branding. Through the academy’s programme, which is designed to enable all Nigerians to develop professional confidence and technical proficiency, to explore and to define their own distinct creative vision, we have empowered over 100 Nigerians who are doing greatly.

    “Our goal is to help many Nigerians discover where an exciting career in photography can take them. It is also to give competitive edge to our students through the comprehensive foundation we provide for them through world-class sophisticated photography equipment and practical they would be exposed to while taking our courses. We are happy to state that the academy has received the approval of the Oyo State Board for Technical and Vocational Education (BOTAVED). The institute got the endorsement of BOTAVED following the completion of its state-of-the-art the facility in Ibadan, which is open for students’ admission,” Olaosebikan said.

    The Head of the Academy, Dolapo Ishola, urged Nigerians who will like to build a career in creative designs, branding, to take advantage of the programme.

    According to her, the primary aim of the academy is to contribute to the socio-economic development of Nigeria through technical and vocational training.

    “To this end, the academy is out build a class of professional photographers whose skills are at par with global standards. It is empowering its students with a wide range of skills using an established curriculum, learn more than photography skills, learn from professionals, enjoy the benefits of a creative learning community, establish industry connections and become a sought-after professional.

    ‘’It is also offering short courses and online programmes on studio photography masterclass, photo editing and retouching masterclass, compositional techniques, smartphone photography and photography foundation programme,” Ishola stated.

  • Academy holds workshop on leadership

    Africa’s first practical school of integrated brand experience and idea management, Orange Academy, in collaboration with Vega School, South Africa, will hold a five-day, seven-session practical workshop dedicated to the strategic models and tools of meaningful brand building.

    The workshop is the third in a series with a focus on Strategic Brand Leadership and it is scheduled to hold from May 20 to 24 in South Africa.

    Vega School is a brand of The Independent Institute of Education and offers qualifications in design, brand and business studies.

    Participants will have the opportunity to experience the learning environment at The Independent Institute of Education (IIE), Vega School in Cape Town, South Africa.

    The Vega-Orange Academy partnership has once again presented employees with the opportunity to learn, imbibe and apply pragmatic leadership culture when challenged to provide their organisation with practical solutions that work.

    Spokesman for Orange Academy ‘Femi Odukoya said: “It is in line with our aim to re-engineer employees’ school of thought and attitude to work that we have partnered Vega School to provide a unique learning experience with some of the finest workshop facilitators that Africa offers.”

    Leading the team of facilitators at the workshop are Dr. Carla Enslin, Thys de Beer and Mike Perk.

  • OAU, Academy seek policy for digital economy

    ONE of the foremost citadel of excellence, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife and Academy Halogen  School of Security Management and Technology, have stressed the need to create a clear policy direction for Nigeria’s digital economy to facilitate effective cyber security practice.

    This is because in today’s digitised world, cyber security has become a vital component of enterprise risks solution, helping organisations to deliver their bottom-line.

    Academy Halogen, Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Wale Adeagbo stressed the importance of a strong cyber security policy direction at the opening of a policy development session hosted at the Ikeja GRA, Lagos campus of the institution.

    Tagged: “Digitising Nigeria: A meeting of Town and Gown”, the cyber security policy confab was a joint initiative of Academy Halogen and the ICT-Driven Knowledge Park, OAU.

    The Academy Halogen chief described the cyber security knowledge sharing session between industry experts and thought leaders from the academic community as a gathering meant to “trigger vital public discussion on how best to digitise Nigeria for the benefit of commerce and knowledge management”.

    The Vice-Chancellor, OAU, Prof Eyitope Ogunbodede, while delivering his keynote address, expressed happiness on the collaboration between OAU and Academy Halogen on cyber security knowledge development on one hand and plans to work with Troyka Group on other levels.

    He said OAU has a sustainable policy of engaging with the community and organisations within the industry towards producing graduates, who are both academically sound and industry savvy.

    Prof Ogunbodede further said the cyber security learning session is a product of thoughtfulness between OAU and Academy Halogen for the good of Nigeria. “This is an initiative we are driving together for the benefit of the entire country. The purpose is not about making money, the purpose is to contribute effectively towards digitising Nigeria in the area of cyber security,” the VC said.

    Speaking earlier, Co-Centre Leader, OAU ICT Driven Knowledge Park, Prof Ganiyu Aderounmu,  said the institution was already bridging knowledge gap between the academic and the industry through collaboration with many corporate big players in the ICT and allied sectors for industrial knowledge transfer to graduates.

    “At OAU, the ICT-Driven Knowledge Centre is already blocking the leakage of students lacking practical and industry experience. We have a lot of partners. We are partnering Academy Halogen to further enhance our growing collaboration in the area of cyber security. We are committed to stimulating creativity and excellence in research and innovation in ICT,” Prof Aderounmu said.

    In his presentation on competencies and requirements in addressing cyber security, Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a Micro Electronics and Medical Robotic Engineering expert, added his scholarly perspective to the cyber security discussion and the need for a robust digital policy direction.

    “The world is made up of numbers. Everything we do as humans is about numbers. We can reduce frictions in business by deploying right technology. Companies are moving from the physical to the digital realm. Digitising Nigeria will bring about a new nexus of opportunities. Our nation will only be bounded by the limitation of the mind,” Ekekwe said.

    Vice-Chairman Troyka Group, Mr. Jimi Awosika in a presentation tagged: “Business and the need for safety in an open world’ observed that we now live in an open world full of risks, which requires security and intelligence to survive.

    “On the part of business and society is the requirement for appreciation of the present danger of the open world and the need to invest not only in these services, but more so in the propagation of the knowledge that the open world presents for as they say, the panacea for the spread of any communicable disease conditions is knowledge,” he said.

  • Reps get 6000 petitions from Academy

    The House Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration has received more than 6,000 petitions from the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron, Akwa Ibom State. Besides, the Committee has issued a 30-day ultimatum to contractors handling projects at the academy to return to site.

    During its oversight visit to the Academy, the  Committee Chairman,  Mohammed Umaru Bago, urged its management to pay outstanding debts and warned the contractors to return to site or have their contracts revoked.

    Bago said: “I will encourage you to call all contractors of abandoned project for an interaction, pay all outstanding debts to contractors and ask them to return to site. Any contractor that refuses to return to site after 30 days will have his contracts revoked.

    “Then, any work that is done without drawing, delegate your works department to get drawings on such jobs so that it can be maintained and refurbished, because some of the buildings that you have cannot be used.

    “You don’t need to have thousands of buildings that are empty.

    “On the issue of workers aiding some host communities to tap electricity power from the academy, any staff found to be doing such, please before you arrest such staff member, first sack him or her. Because when you sack such person, he is no longer a staff member, so you now arrest the person as a criminal.’’

    Bago continued: “It is wrong to tap power from a generator that has just 100KVA capacity. Imagine a generator meant to service a building, some people in connivance with some of the Academy staff tap electric power from it to a village, how can such generator last long? This is wicked.

    On ongoing projects, the lawmaker urged the Academy’s works officers to work hard on them. He said the architects should look at the designs of the projects while the engineers should look at engineering aspects of projects. Projects, he said, should not be left to contractors.

    ‘’It’s because people are not busy; that is why they have time for gossips. When I went to NIMASA, I told them that if I receive any petition from anybody, I will come to the agency and announce the name of the petitioner. The same thing will apply here. If anybody writes petition here, I will come and call the person to come and defend his or her petition.

    “I have more than 6000 petitions from this academy alone on my desk. And most of the petitions are unfounded. I don’t have time for your petitions, people must change,” he added.

  • FRC berates Maritime Academy over non-remittance of surplus

    FRC berates Maritime Academy over non-remittance of surplus

    The Fiscal Responsibility Council of Nigeria has berated the management of Maritime Academy, Oron, Akwa Ibom State for flouting the Fiscal Responsibility Act by not paying its operating surplus into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal Government.

    Its Acting Chairman, Barr Victor Muruako made this known yesterday at the interface between the scheduled corporation under the supervision of the Commission which is mandated to remit its operating surplus after the end of the year to the Federation Account.

    He noted that the Commission as one of the key government agencies saddled with the responsibility of improving on the independent revenue of the Federal Government and as such all the 122 scheduled corporation as directed by the Minister of Finance must key into this provision to improve on revenue generation that would be useful in executing the budget.

    “The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007 mandated our Commission to ensure that Ministries, Departments and Agencies under our supervision remit operating surplus as well as audited account for accountability and transparency in public finance and any corporation that flout this provision will be reported to the Attorney General of the Federation.”

    He maintained that the attitude of the Academy to remit operating surplus over the years calls for concern and he had no option than to ask Legal, Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of the Commission to move in and compel the institution to comply with the provisions of Fiscal responsibility Act.

  • Wike gives C of O to Academy

    Wike gives C of O to Academy

    Rivers State Governor          Nyesom Wike has given a certificate of occupancy (CofO) to the promoters of Charkin Maritime Academy (CMA), Port Harcourt, in fulfilment of his promise.

    To encourage investment in the oil and gas rich state, Wike had during the formal unveiling of the first ever land ship in the country, MV Rivers Pride, last year, approved a Cof O for the land where the land ship is situated at Ozuoba, on the East-West Road, Port Harcourt. The land ship was built by CMA, an indigenous and privately-owned maritime training institution.

    Apparently pleased with the strides made by the academy, Wike said the Rivers State government would do everything to assist the maritime training institution to grow to an enviable height for the benefits of the indigenes of the state in particular and Nigerians in general.

    He lauded the management of the academy for the achievements recorded since it was established.

    CMA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sir Charles K. Wami, who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen in Lagos said the C of O has been handed over to CMA.

    Wami lauded Wike for fulfilling his promise to the academy, pointing out that with the development, many investors will take the state government serious in its drive to encourage investors to invest in the state.

    According to him, the fulfillment of the governor’s promise to CMA will spur him and the academy’s management to do more in the years ahead. “To say the least, we are very pleased with this development. You are aware that it was during the unveiling of the first ever land ship in Nigeria that the governor made the promise. Today, we are happy that the governor has kept to his promise by giving us the certificate of occupancy. We are very grateful,”he said.

    He explained that the support of the state government would enable the training school attain set goals and objectives.

    He pointed out that the academy needs the encouragement of all stakeholders to continue to provide maritime education and training of international repute.

    “The school has a trend of rendering and improving on high quality training to guarantee competence in a conducive and friendly environment. It is a one-stop-shop for marine, oil and gas training”, he said.

    The land ship comprises full mission navigational bridge simulator; ECDIS Simulation Room; GMDSS (Navigation) Simulation Room which conforms to the 2010 Manila Amendments by the global maritime watchdog, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO); and the basic dynamic positioning class.

    Other components of the land ship are advance dynamic positioning and examination class; nautical institute examination room; and the drilling system crane simulator.

    The school has the approval of local and international regulatory agencies across the globe. These include NIMASA, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), OPITO, United Kingdom, and the International Well Control Forum (IWCF), United Kingdom.

    Others are the Nautical Institute (NI), Oil and Gas Training Association of Nigeria (OGTAN), International Association of Safety and Survival Training (IASST), United Kingdom, and the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigerian (PETAN).

    Besides the fact that it is a member of British Safety Council among others, it is also affiliated to the Regional Maritime University, Accra, Ghana.

     

     

  • Commandant for Defence Academy

    Former General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Maj.-Gen. Adeniyi Oyebade, has been appointed the 28th Commandant of Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA). He takes over from Maj. Gen. Mohammed Tasiu Ibrahim.

    At the handing and take over ceremony, at the Academy headquarters, Gen. Ibrahim thanked God for seeing him through his tenure.

    “Through the grace of God, I have come to the terminal end of my call to duty as a military officer; I am today handing over the Academy and all its principalities.

    “It’s been a job and privilege I did not take for granted; I took over with challenges but with the support of dedicated workers, the job was easy and today it is a different story.

    “While wishing you the best, I promise to always be at your service for any assistance,” Ibrahim said.

    Gen. Oyebade lauded the good job done by his predecessor and promised to build on the good legacy.

    “He achieved a lot and we will together strive to take the Academy to greater heights,” he said.

  • Fed govt partners Academy on mortgage, real estate

    To boost mortgage and real estate business in the country, Mortgage and Real Estate Academy (MOREAcademy), in partnership with Centre for Management Development (CMD), a parastatal of the federal government, has concluded plans to hold Mortgage Industry Stakeholders Luncheon on September 19, 2017.

    Its Chairman  and  Western Atlantic Corporations Managing Director, Prince Ade Akinfolurin, made this know during the week in Lagos. According to him, the luncheon is meant to coincide with the historical outing of MOREACADEMY, an establishment of the Federal government in public-private-partnership (PPP) with Western Atlantic Corporation Limited.

    “The luncheon will flag-off the entire training programme of the Academy, and also secure the interest of the participating public in the development of the nation’s mortgage and real estate industry,” said Akinfolurin,  adding that it is meant to further instil public confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari’’s Administration that through MOREACADEMY, a new horizon in delivery of the much needed human capacity in the mortgage and real estate industry could be achieved.

    It is also expected to buttress the importance of MOREACADEMY and its trainings for the nation’s economic interest, taking into consideration the Federal Government’s mandate to various stakeholders in the discharge of their responsibilities. Most  importantly, Akinfolurin said it is a demonstration of the fact that  government is desirous of genuine partnership with the private sector to develop the economy.

    Akinfolurin assured participants of an exciting and top quality training sessions. MOREACADEMY,  he pointed out, “will provide first class trainings and workshops that are structured for the Nigeria economy; hence its relevance . The training programme is expected to draw participants from the banks, primary mortgage institutions (PMI) ; real estate developers, real estate practitioners, state governments, Federal Housing Authorities and  housing corporations in Nigeria.

    MOREACADEMY, a public-private-partnership project between CMD, a parastatal  of National Planning Commission and Western Atlantic Corporations Limited (an investment management, corporate consultancy and training company),  is said to offer courses in both Real Estate and Mortgage Education for mortgage loan originators, mortgage loan processors, underwriters, mortgage brokers, mortgage lenders, real estate brokers/agents, property managers, appraisers/valuers, and real estate inspectors/developers.

  • Academy, Arco Group inaugurate committee on engineering innovations

    Academy, Arco Group inaugurate committee on engineering innovations

    The Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Arco Group have  inaugurated a committee to identify viable engineering innovations by Nigerians and assist in translating them into scalable commercial activities.

    Known as NAE-Arco Group Academia and Industry Linkage, the body is charged with the responsibility of creating paramatres for assessing the commercial viability of identified engineering innovations and prepare in advance, possible avenues of financial and other support that may be required  for their commercialisation, as well as their sustainability.

    The committee is to ensure that accepted innovations conform, not only with  NAE standards, but are in compliance with acceptable international standards. It will also explore avenues for scholarship and research funding in specific areas of engineering that will be useful to industries.

    The NAE-Arco Group Academia and Industry Linkage, will also ensure publication of bankable innovations in peer reviewed engineering journals and business newspapers and magazines as well as on the Internet through relevant websites. The committee will showcase the innovations at appropriate exhibitions in and outside Nigeria.

    The Group Managing Director of Arco Group,  Alfred Okoigun said he was happy that the idea of the Academia-Industry Linkage that was mooted less than two months ago, has become a reality.

    ARCO Group said the committee is expected to seek and admit under strict criteria, other corporate bodies and institutions that share the objectives and goals of the Linkage. He said the the joint committee has been asked to offer suggestions and work towards the revival of the Award of Excellence in Science and Engineering that was  first organised in 2000 by Arco Petrochemical Engineering Company.

    Limited, the predecessor of Arco Group Plc.

    It named the Chairman of the committee as Babatunde Soyode, a veteran of key engineering projects in oil and gas in Nigeria.

     

  • Royal Prince Film Academy gears up for new production

    Royal Prince Film Academy gears up for new production

    Royal Prince Film Academy, one of Nigeria’s production power houses, is set to hit the cinemas with the untold story of slavery, drug abuse, human trafficking and child abuse.

    The film on human trafficking touches on all agencies of antihuman trafficking both local and international, according to the director and producer of this media trending film Prince Cres Ugo (AMP, DGN).

    “The academy film which stars actors like Sam Dede, Jerry Amilo, Gentle Jack, Hary B and many others is a global call to end human trafficking using the Nigerian art and the Royal prince film academy as the research center,” Ugo stated.

    The movie, he said, will be a blockbuster which, it is hoped, would shed light on the crimes and after consequences of the ills led by these gangs of criminals. He further revealed that the flick would make rounds at the cinema upon its release.