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To commemorate the
International Women’s Day, Trophy, a product of International Breweries Plc, rolled out the green carpet in celebration of two female Nollywood veterans Idowu Philips, aka Iya Rainbow, and Lanre Hassan, popularly known as Iya Awero.
The event which took place in Lagos saw a band of poets, drummers, dancers, and praise singers storm the residences of the two actresses to give them the ‘Waa Gbayi’ experience as epitomes of culture and in acknowledgement of their invaluable contributions to the movie industry.
Speaking at the event, the Marketing Manager, Trophy, Bamise Oyegbami, described the veterans as “more than deserving of honour”.
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Published 14 March 2021
Some Nigerians have expressed different views over calls for Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, to lead a fresh protest against the purported increase in the price of petroleum in the country.
Though the Federal Government had apologised and debunked plans to increase fuel price “for now”, some Nigerians on Twitter complained that Soyinka should have at least spoken strongly against the FG’s plan.
Some of them uploaded the front page of an old edition of
The PUNCH where Soyinka described former President Goodluck Jonathan as being worst than Nebuchadnezzar.
The PUNCH had reported that the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency revealed in a new monthly template that the price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, has reached N212.6 per litre.
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Published 14 March 2021
The Presidential Implementation Committee on Digital Switch Over (Digiteam) says it was starved of funds by the government after it was established in 2012.
Chairman of Digiteam, Mr Edward Amana, a critical stakeholder in the process of the nation’s transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, stated this in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday.
He said the committee was not funded to carry out its assigned roles in the Digital Switch Over (DSO) White Paper and that accounted for the delay in the roll out process.
“By the specification of the white paper, the Digiteam is supposed to have an oversight over the whole specification for transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in Nigeria.