London, August 20, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria’s best Mass Communication degree awarding institution, Moshood Abiola Polytechic, Mapoly Abeokuta, Ogun state, South West, Nigeria will in a couple of weeks inaugurate its community radio station, Mapoly Radio after many years on the drawing board With the feat, Mapoly, formerly Ogun state Polytechnic Abeokuta joins a growing list of ...

London, August 20, 2019 (AltAfrica)–Ekiti state government, South West Nigeria has banned the use of English language as a means of communication during any government organised traditional event in a renewed effort to promote local dialect The governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi who gave the directive on Monday in Ado-Ekiti during the First Ekiti State Arts ...

London, August 18, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has said that he was never in actual detention in Nigeria in the last couple of years. In a video on youtube, the IMN leader said that he nad his wife had been living large, being in a large ...

London, August 18, 2019 (AltAfrica)–The CEO of Matchmakers Consult International Limited, Shina Phillips, is known to many as one of the pioneers of modern day Nollywood and a versatile FIFA-Licensed Players’ Agent. He is the initiator of the prestigious Nigeria Pitch Awards and an FRSC Celebrity Marshall Not many however know him as a seasoned ...

London, August 16, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC is seeking relationship with Chinese investors for strategic partnership and new investments in the Upstream Petroleum Sector to actualize the nation’s crude Oil reserves and 3m barrels per day oil production target by 2023. Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam ...

London, August 16, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian government is seeking new investors who are technically and financially viable to deliver its vision of adequate domestic and industrial power sector , Vice President Osinbajo has said Osinbajo said the government was creating policies that would open up the electricity market to new investors in generation, transmission and distribution ...

London, August 16, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A 15-year-old boy has allegedly staged his own kidnap and demanded for the sum of N500,000 as ransom. The minor, who was paraded in Jos on Thursday, told newsmen that he initiated the plan with his friends in order to enable him buy clothes and celebrate his graduation. “I was the ...

London, August 16, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). is excited at the prospect of the Moroccan-Nigerian gas pipeline initiative which will link the two countries and serve several others in West Africa. ECOWAS believes that the pipeline project is a unifying trans-regional project, that will contribute to achieving the objectives of ...

London, August 15, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria has demanded a thorough investigation into the death of Mr Joseph Nwajueze, a Nigerian Pastor living in that country. Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) who made the demand in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja said the killing of the Anambra-born cleric by Chinese ...

London, August 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Edo Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, says it will soon commence operation at its 6,000 barrels per day (bpd) new modular refinery before the end of the year. The project located at Ologbo, Ikpoba/Okha local government area, is partly sponsored by the Edo State Government and is being developed by AIPCC ...