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  • Foundation to sponsor 50 entrepreneurs

    In its drive to boost entrepreneurship training and productivity among young Nigerians, the Isaac Moghalu Foundation has announced a scholarship for fifty undergraduates of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

    This was revealed by the President, Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation and Founder, Isaac Moghalu Foundation, Kingsley Moghalu at the annual public lecture of the Department of Economics.

    Unveiling the University’s new e-learning platform, Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and guest speaker at the event explained that the scholarship is designed for students to acquire knowledge and skills to address practical challenges.

    “As part of the Isaac Moghalu Foundation’s vision to enable young Nigerians achieve their full potentials through education, empowerment and stimulate social change, the scholarship is an immense opportunity for budding entrepreneurs to build their businesses and investments. The new platform is built on innovation and wealth creation, and we believe that with such initiatives, our country can attain economic transformation and growth that affects the lives of all citizens,” he stated.

  • Legend extra Stout to sponsor Big Brother Naija Double Wahala

    Legend extra Stout to sponsor Big Brother Naija Double Wahala

    Coming back after being sponsors of last year’s edition, Legend Extra Stout has been announced as sponsors of the 2018 edition of TV reality show Big Brother Naija, which began on Sunday, January 28, 2018.

    Tagged ‘Double Wahala’, this season of Big Brother Naija features 20 housemates from diverse backgrounds living together in the same house for 12 weeks and competing for the grand prize of N45 million and a brand new SUV.

    Legend Extra Stout is the sole sponsor of Saturday night parties in the Big Brother Naija house, a segment which remains wildly popular with both viewers and housemates, and features some of the best DJs in Africa.

    “For the Legend Extra Stout brand, last year’s Big Brother Naija “See Gobbe” was quite rewarding,” said Oluseun Lawal, Brand Manager, Stout, Nigeria Breweries Plc.

    “It was a delightful experience for both viewers at home and all the housemates. This year 2018, we are eagerly looking forward to an even more exciting season for our customers with our sponsorship of the ‘Double Wahala’ edition.

    “Our goal is to always outdo past performances, and this is guaranteed in the new season of BBNaija. We will be giving out surprise gift packages to viewers who follow the show. There is also the Saturday night entertainment that doesn’t just serve contestants, but also millions of fans watching from their homes. We also plan to host evicted housemates at our Lagos headquarters upon their arrival, and treat them to a proper Legend reception.”

  • Zenith to sponsor CFA Institute research challenge

    Zenith to sponsor CFA Institute research challenge

    Zenith Bank Plc. Will partner the CFA Society Nigeria to sponsor the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Nigeria, it was learnt yesterday.

    The CFA Institute Research Challenge is the world’s most prestigious investment research competition among university students globally, aimed at promoting best practices in equity research among the next generation of analysts.

    The competition promotes ethics and best practices in investment research through hands-on mentoring and intensive training in equity analysis and presentation. The overall objective of the CFA Institute Research Challenge is to provide university students with valuable real-world exposure to the practice of finance to complement the theoretical framework of the university education.

    Nigeria is participating in the global competition for the first time and has eight Nigerian universities from across the country participating in this maiden edition. The participating universities are: Ahmadu Bello University, Babcock University, Covenant University, Lagos Business School, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Abuja, University of Ibadan and the University of Lagos.

    The teams are required to conduct a detailed investment research on a subject company and will be presenting their research reports to a high-level panel of investment professionals who will serve as judges with the winner of the 2017/2018 CFA Institute Research Challenge in Nigeria emerging at a national final scheduled for February 2018 at the Civic Centre, Lagos.

    The national champion from Nigeria will then join 35 other national champions at the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Regional Competition in Dublin, Ireland in April 2018 to compete for a slot in the four-team global final that will hold in Seoul, South Korea in the same month.

    On the partnership, the bank said it was proud to sponsor the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Nigeria and that as an institution that strongly believes in the development of human capital, it was one of the ways it could contribute to the development of education in Nigeria.

    It added that by partnering with an institution like the CFA Society Nigeria to run this competition, it believes this would go a long way in promoting global best practices among young Nigerian students.

    Zenith, Nigeria’s largest bank by Tier-1 capital, has youth development at the core of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) and has sponsored similar initiatives in the educational sector.

    Also speaking on the partnership with Zenith Bank, Banji Fehintola, CFA, President of the CFA Society Nigeria said: “CFA Society Nigeria is very excited to secure a multi-year sponsorship from Zenith Bank for this important mandate of our university outreach program.

    “CFA Society Nigeria is primarily focused on improving the level of professionalism, ethics and investment knowledge in our industry and our university competitions enable us to invest in the development of the next generation of investment professionals. We are very pleased with Zenith Bank’s partnership in helping us to achieve our mutual agenda of contributing towards the development of our educational system and the investment industry in Nigeria,” he added.

    Commenting on the benefits of the competitions to participating teams, Chairman of CFA Society Nigeria’s University Relations Committee, Razaq Ahmed, CFA, added that “each team is paired with an experienced industry mentor in addition to a Faculty Adviser from each university who provide specific guidance to the teams.”

    “The teams are also provided free access to research resources such as Bloomberg terminals and online library. It is a huge opportunity for Nigerian students to develop relevant hands-on skills set, explore career choices, get mentorship from experienced investment professionals and interact and compete with their colleagues from across the world,” he said.

  • ‘Abraham did not sponsor thugs to party secretariat’

    A report that the governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state,  Olusegun Abraham, sponsored thugs to disrupt a protest at the party’s secretariat has been debunked. The Director-general of the Olusegun Abraham Campaign organization, Prince Olu Adegboro said the report is  false and ridiculous.

    Adegboro described the report “ a desperate lie aimed at berating a finished work. Firstly, Olusegun Abraham is not a violent man at all, a very sophisticated man focused on the ideology of peace, a loyal party man who will never subscribe to the option of violence at any instance. So, any spurious report bandied around by some desperados is simply false and ridiculous; and is aimed at distracting the entire delegates from focusing on a free, fair and credible primary election”.

    He recalled that a pocket of aggrieved party memebers 4 laid siege on the party’s secretariat on Monday to express their displeasure over the rumours of candidate imposition by a national leader of the party.

    Adegboro noted that the rumour turned out to be false, as the APC National headquarters has insisted in a statement that the primary election will be free, fair and credible.

    The Olusegun Abraham Campaign Organisation absolved its principal from thuggery. It said: “Olusegun Abraham is a longstanding progressive loyalist who will never contribute to any anti-party activity that will dent the party in anyway or deny the unity of the party. Olusegun Abraham remains focused on the upcoming free, fair and transparent primary election that will be conducted the our great party in Ondo state”.

     

  • StarTimes to sponsor three subscribers to US

    StarTimes Nigeria has kicked off its StarTimes NBA All Access Tour in the year.

    According to the Pay TV firm, the year programme is expected to produce three StarTimes subscribers for an all-expense-paid one-week trip to Los Angeles in California, United States to watch American basketball superstars in action.

    The Marketing Director, Mr. Oludare Kafar, said the tour was designed with the NBA TV to reward basketball-loving StarTimes subscribers.

    He said the winners will have an opportunity to meet their heroes, superstars  and fulfill their dreams of watching live basketball matches.

    “This basketball trivia game is our response to the demand of our subscribers for more exciting sporting initiatives and everyone can participate in the program; To be a winner, get a StarTimes decoder if you don’t have it already. Like StarTimes facebook page, post your pictures and link to uploaded personal Youtube video showing some basketball skills on StarTimes website and get your friends and families to like the video. Top 10 finalists will be selected and 3 winners will emerge based on superior skills and highest likes,” Kafar added.

    He said in 2014, StarTimes introduce the campaign  and produced Mr Boluwaji Bamidele and Chinedu Iroche, StarTimes subscribers as winners.

    The programme startedwith an online competition on February 25 and to end this month.

  • Arik Air offers to sponsor Larry Ekundayo’s fight in Nigeria

    Arik Air offers to sponsor Larry Ekundayo’s fight in Nigeria

    Arik Air, Nigeria and West Africa’s largest carrier has offered to sponsor any of London-based Nigerian boxer, Larry ‘The Natural’ Ekundayo’s fights in Nigeria.

    The offer was made on Thursday by the Chairman of Arik Air, Sir Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide when the welterweight boxer – who is on the sponsorship bill of Arik Air – paid a Thank-You visit to the airline’s head office in Ikeja, Lagos.

    Sir Arumemi-Ikhide who stated that Arik Air would be willing to pick up the bill for the fight in Nigeria, is happy with the Larry’s progress in professional boxing and promised to be present at the ring side when he fights for the African Boxing Union (ABU) crown in London this October.

    The Arik Air Chairman disclosed that his interest in boxing and sports generally was influenced by his late father who was a boxing enthusiast.

    Larry who was accompanied on the visit by another London-based Nigerian boxer, Olusegun Ajose and his coach, Daniel Adekunle, was full of praises to Arik Air for all the support he has received in his quest to become a world champion. He promised not to let the company and Nigeria down.

    The welterweight boxer shot into the limelight in 1998 when he became the Nigerian Amateur Bantamweight Champion. Larry Ekundayo was the winner of the 2012 Professional Betfair Light Middle Prizefighter Tournament.

  • OWU, MatchRoom to sponsor Kwara awards

    OWU, MatchRoom to sponsor Kwara awards

    Nigeria’s leading sportswear brand, OWU Sportswear and foremost Lagos-based sports PR Agency, MatchRoom, will organise the first-ever Kwara United end-of-season awards.

    CEO of OWU Sportswear, Tunji Brown, made this known in Lagos.

    “We’re proud to be kit producers of a top side like Kwara United and our desire is to boost the brand. Sponsoring the Kwara United monthly and end-Of-Season awards is OWU’s attempt to boost its partnership with the club and the people of Kwara.

    “The project will be driven by sports PR agency, MatchRoom, which has not only demonstrated its understanding of the sports industry, but is also the power behind leading awards in the country like the annual League Bloggers Awards (LBA) for the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) and Sports Brands Nigeria Awards (SBNA),” Brown told supersport.com.

    Supersport.com learnt that the winner of the maiden Kwara United Player of the month awards will be decorated at the end of March.

    Kwara United begin their return to the elite class with a road trip match at Dolphins, on Sunday.

  • OML 58 FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT: Sponsor, LOC chairman chide teams

    OML 58 FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT: Sponsor, LOC chairman chide teams

    The 2014 OML 58 football tournament is in its second week and lots of matches have been decided between the sixteen communities that are vying for honours.

    Players of the respective teams have been showcasing their skills and interpreting the instructions dished out by their coaches. Competition has been intense because of bragging rights between the competing teams.

    However, it must be mentioned that the matches have been played in good and brotherly atmosphere, as fair play has been the watchword.

    Members of the Organising Committee have been up to speed, making sure that every logistic is in place to ensure a hitch-free tournament. Chairman of the Main Organising Committee, Goodnews Mbonu said that sponsors of the tournament ,TOTAL E and P always striveto improve the standard.

    Mbonu also charged players and officials of the competing teams to continue to adhere to the rules governing the game of football, and the competition rules of the annual OML 58 football tournament.

    Manager, Community services, TOTAL E and P, Okechukwu Obara charged the players to continue to turn on the style, as scouts are taking notes and keeping tabs on exceptional players who will be helped to have a possible future career in football.

    The 2014 OML 58 Football Tournament will end on January 16.

  • SEC to sponsor foreign training for award winners

    SEC to sponsor foreign training for award winners

    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is concluding arrangements to sponsor five Nigerian journalists on an intensive training on capital markets at the International Law Institute, Washington DC, USA.

    The journalists are being sponsored by SEC in redemption of their prize winnings in the 2012 and 2013 editions of the SEC Capital Market Essay Competition for Journalists which was instituted by the Commission in 2012.

    Of the five journalists, two were prize winners in the 2012 edition of the competition. They are Iheanyi Nwachukwu of Businessday newspaper and Taofik Salako of The Nation newspaper. They are to undergo two weeks and one week of intensive training on The Foundations and Development of Capital markets at ILI respectively. Winners in the 2013 edition included Teslim Shitta-Bey of Business Hallmark newspaper, Patrick Atuanya of Businessday newspaper and Sule Teliat Abiodun of Businessday newspaper. Shitta – Bey and Atuanya will undergo two weeks of training at ILI while Abiodun will spend a week in the institution.

    The third place winners – Abiodun Eromosele of Thisday newspaper (2012) and Chris Ugwu, then of Leadership Newspapers (2013) who were entitled to a week – long training in a leading local institution have since redeemed their prizes by undergoing training on Business Writing and Communication Skills at the Financial Institutions Training Centre, FITC in Lagos.

    In a statement, SEC stated that the SEC Capital Market Essay Competition for Journalists, a signature annual event of the SEC, is a specific capacity building mechanism for the media industry.

    “It also fosters investor education through interest in reading and writing about the markets among journalists as well as the wider society. Plans are afoot to activate the 2014 edition of the competition through which fresh winners will emerge,” the Commission stated.

    It noted that in line with the objective of widening knowledge of the capital markets among journalists and wider audiences, the competition offers only training and non pecuniary rewards to winners. These include two weeks and one week of intensive training on finance,  business and capital markets for first and second prize winners respectively in a major learning centre abroad while the third prize winner is entitled to a week-long training in the subjects in a reputable local institution.

  • Kano spends over N1b to sponsor graduates for pilot training

    Kano State Government has awarded a special scholarship worth NI.07 billion (6.715 million USD) to 100 young graduates from the state for an 18-month professional pilot training course at the Mid-East Aviation Academy, Jordan.

    A statement signed by Malam Halilu Dantiye, a copy of which was made available yesterday to The Nation, said the Mid-East Aviation Academy is a flight training organisation that offers courses in pilot training, aircraft engineering and avionics, and is certified by the Jordanian Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission.

    Speaking during a ceremony held for the trainees at the Government House, Kano, Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso described the programme as a watershed in the history of the state, which he said is in line with the human capital development agenda of his administration.

    He said: “Our vision is to equip Kano indigenes to face the challenges of globalisation and take advantage of the local and international opportunities to improve their lot.”

    The governor noted that the foreign training would expose beneficiaries of the training to best practices in aircraft management in addition to fostering a global citizenship.

    He said the government is creating avenues for the people to acquire education in all fields of human endeavour because investing in knowledge brings about accelerated social change and sustainable technological progress.

    Kwankwaso urged beneficiaries of the training not to waste the opportunity, but to justify the investment by excelling in the programme and by being responsible people when they take up jobs as licensed pilots anywhere in the world.

    He said in less than two years, the government has offered overseas scholarships to hundreds of Kano indigenes for graduate and postgraduate courses based on the conviction that the level of greatness of the state depends on the level of education of its citizens.

    The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Aviation, Captain Shehu Iyal, described the sponsorship of 100 youths by the government as “a novel thing in the history of aviation in Nigeria.”

    Iyal, who said the move was in consonance with the Federal Government’s transformation agenda, enjoined the trainees to be good ambassadors, stressing that their training requires discipline, orderliness and respect for hierarchy, among other attributes.

    Others, who spoke at the event included the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, who was represented by the Saudi Arabian Consul in Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, Sheikh Majeed al-Qahtani and an Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) Commissioner, Prof. Olu Aina, who praised Governor Kwankwaso for showing a sense of vision and leadership.