President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8pm.
This is according to a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity.
In his communique, the media aide urged all television, radio and other electronic media stations to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) respectively for the broadcast.
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The Lagos State Government has shortlisted 10 firms that applied for the construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge. The announcement was made in a statement by the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure.
The firms include CCECC Nigeria Limited; CGGC-CGC Joint Venture; China Harbour Engineering Company Limited; China State Construction Engineering Corporation Nigeria Limited; IC ICTAS Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. and Ingenieros Consultores, S.A., through Makais Energy. Others are Julius Berger Nigeria Plc; Mota-Engil and CCCC Consortium; Mutual Commitment Company Limited and Power Con-struction Corporation of China.
“Following the issuance of request for qualification to the 32 shortlisted and eligible respondents to the expression of interest, we are pleased to announce that the Lagos State Government has received a total of 10 responses to the request for qualification (the applications) from the applicants. “The Lagos State Government will now proceed to evaluate the applications in line with the evaluation criteria set out in the request for qualification and thereafter announce the successful pre-qualified bidders, who shall be eligible for participation in the next stage of the selection/bidding process, being the request for proposals stage,” the statement said.
source: The New Telegraph
Jacob K.
Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions and Chair of the Committee
on African studies at the Harvard Divinity School with a joint appointment as
Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences at Harvard University. Jacob K.
Olupona is a scholar of indigenous African religions who came to Harvard after
serving as a professor at the University of California, Davis.
He is
working on a study of the religious practices of the estimated one million
Africans who have emigrated to the United States over the last 40 years,
examining in particular several populations that remain relatively invisible in
the American religious landscape: "reverse missionaries" who have
come to the U.S. to establish churches, African Pentecostals in American
congregations, American branches of independent African churches, and
indigenous African religious communities in the U.S. His earlier research
includes African spirituality and ritual practices, spirit possession,
Pentecostalism, Yoruba festivals, animal symbolism, icons, phenomenology, and
religious pluralism in Africa and the Americas.
In his
forthcoming book Ile-Ife: The City of 201 Gods, he examines the modern urban
mixing of ritual, royalty, gender, class, and power, and how the structure,
content, and meaning of religious beliefs and practices permeate daily life.
He has
authored or edited seven other books, including Kingship, Religion, and Rituals
in a Nigerian Community: A Phenomenological Study of Ondo Yoruba Festivals,
which has been used for ethnographic research among Yoruba-speaking
communities.
Olupona has
received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical
Society, the Ford Foundation, the Davis Humanities Institute, the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. He has served
on the editorial boards of three journals and as president of the African
Association for the Study of Religion. In 2000, Olupona received an honorary
doctorate in divinity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Jacob K. Olupona received his BA from the
University of Nigeria and his MA and Ph.D. from Boston University.
The governor of Lagos State, the economic capital of Nigeria, has made the wearing of masks compulsory to fight against the coronavirus, his spokesman told AFP on Sunday.
“Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu proclaimed the wearing of masks compulsory in the state” of the 20 million inhabitants megalopolis, spokesman Gboyega Akosile told AFP.
Lagos, the neighbouring state of Ogun and the federal capital Abuja have been placed since the end of March under total containment in order to stop the spread of the virus which has officially caused to date 35 deaths for 1,182 confirmed cases in Nigeria, including 19 deaths for 689 cases in Lagos.A decision by President Muhammadu Buhari on the lifting or extension of this containment, which expires on Monday, is expected at any moment.
The governor of Lagos has threatened penalties and sanctions for anyone who violates the requirement to wear a mask while the virus is spreading among the population, according to his spokesman.
“We have made arrangements for the production of masks in large quantities for the people of Lagos State,” he said, stressing the opportunity for the private sector to contribute to the fight against Covid-19 while securing a lucrative business, according to the same source.
Africa as a whole remains even less affected than most other regions of the world, with 1,330 deaths for more than 29,000 confirmed cases, according to a report compiled by AFP.
The toll is particularly heavy in Algeria and Egypt, with respectively 419 deaths for more than 3,200 confirmed cases and 307 deaths for more than 4,300 cases.
South Africa, the continent’s leading industrial power, is the most affected country in sub-Saharan Africa, with 86 deaths out of more than 4,300 cases.
AFP
Yemi Alade has reaffirmed her decision to sign two new female artistes.
The self-acclaimed Mama Africa said “I put out the word that I was going to do that and my email at the moment is full to be sincere, so I am going through every one of them because I want it to be personal because there is a lot of talent obviously and a lot of people have been sending their emails, and eventually Thank God for this time so I get more time to listen to what has been sent.
source: The Nation
The world-famous song Pata Pata, a South African dance hit from the 1960s, has been re-released with new lyrics to spread information about coronavirus to vulnerable communities.
Meaning “touch touch” in the Xhosa language, Pata Pata was written by Grammy-winning singer Miriam Makeba who named it after a dance move popular in Johannesburg at the time.The new version sung by Beninese artist Angelique Kidjo includes lyrics such as, “We need to keep our hands clean so ‘no-Pata Pata’... Don’t touch your face, keep distance please and ‘no-Pata Pata’”.
It will be played on more than 15 radio stations across African countries, said the UN children’s agency, Unicef,which organized the release.
“It sounds so simple and yet it’s still really difficult to get information out to people in the most remote areas or to people who aren’t online,” said Unicef
Nicknamed “Mama Africa”, Makeba helped popularise music from the continent worldwide.
She was a friend and mentor to Kidjo, a Unicef goodwill ambassador and one of the biggest African celebrities of the last decade.
John Oluseun
Dabiri (Yoruba: John Olúseun DábÃrà ) (born 1980) is a Nigerian-American
aeronautics engineer and the Centennial Chair Professor at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech), with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace
Laboratories (GALCIT) and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on
unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with particular emphasis on topics
relevant to biology, energy, and the environment. He is best known for his
research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a
vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the
Biological Propulsion Laboratory, which examines fluid transport with
applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac
flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts
of optimal vortex formation.
In 2010,
Dabiri was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his theoretical engineering work.
He established the Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy (FLOWE)
in 2011, a wind farm which investigates the energy exchange in an array of
vertical-axis wind turbines. His honors include a Young Investigator Award from
the Office of Naval Research, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE), and being named as one of Popular Science magazine's
"Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. [6] Bloomberg Businessweek
magazine listed him among its 2012 Technology Innovators.
John Dabiri is Professor of Civil & Environmental
Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research
focuses on science and technology at the intersection of fluid mechanics, energy
and environment, and biology. Honors for this work include a MacArthur
Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and a
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Popular
Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists for
his research in bio-inspired propulsion. For his research in bio-inspired wind
energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology
Innovators, and MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35
innovators under 35. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, and in 2018 he won the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in
Teaching. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Fluid
Mechanics and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
John received his B.S.E. summa cum laude in Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2001, his M.S. in
Aeronautics from Caltech in 2003, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor
in Aeronautics from Caltech in 2005. He joined the Caltech faculty in 2005, was
granted tenure in 2009, and he was promoted to full professor in 2010. During
his 10 years on the Caltech faculty, he served as Chair of the Faculty Board
and as the Dean of Students.
The Ojude Oba festival is an annual celebration by the Yoruba people of Ijebu-Ode, a major town in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. This v...
