Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

He voiced his intentions. “Don’t worry. You’ll be alright. I’m going to leave you for a moment now and ring dad and Doc Howie. Or better still, we should get over to him fast.” As he spoke, he was laying her full length on the three-seater, her head on a throw pillow he placed against one of the armrests.

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved the Africa Disaster Risks Financing (ADRiFi) Programme, the institution’s first climate risk management programme to boost resilience and response to climate shocks in regional member countries.

The Mastercard Foundation and African Leadership Academy (http://AfricanLeadershipAcademy.org) are thrilled to announce that 22-year-old healthcare entrepreneur Melissa Bime has won the US$25,000 grand prize at the 8th annual Anzisha Prize awards gala.

The 5th edition of the international exhibition, agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa, will take place for the first time in Abidjan 20 to 22 November at the Radisson Blu Hotel Abidjan Airport.

Nigeria-based Oranto Petroleum (atlas-Oranto.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry Petroleum of the Republic of Niger outlining its intention to sign production sharing contracts on Blocks R5, R6, Dibella and Dallol in the Tenere and Agadem Basins in Niger.

Ayodeji Megbope, founder, No Left-Overs, will lead the line-up of speakers at the 2018 edition of the Total Woman Conference coming up in November 2018.

The world’s largest thin-film power solution company, Hanergy Mobile Energy Holdings Group (www.Hanergy.com), has announced that its subsidiary, Hanergy Glory Solar Technology, has successfully delivered the latest solar powered electric express delivery car (Solar Runner #1) to China’s top delivery companies, STO Express and ZJS Express on October 9, on the occasion of 49th World Post Day.

As the nation continues to turn out more unemployed graduates annually, the National Employment Transformation Initiative has rekindled the hopes of Nigerian youths as it has pledged massive decline in unemployment in its forthcoming summit through training, skill acquisition, and partnerships.

Protea Hotels by Marriott, part of Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) (www.Marriott.com), has announced the opening of Protea Hotel by Marriott Pretoria Loftus Park.

West Africa’s largest data centre provider, MDXI, and global IXP platform provider, Asteroid, have partnered to launch a carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for West Africa.

A new report from Habitat for Humanity’s (www.Habitat.org) Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter shows that low-income people in Kenya who obtain innovative microfinance loans to improve their housing also experience a significant increase in their quality of life.

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a network of prominent media and freedom of expression organizations across the continent, has condemned the October 2, 2018 gruesome murder of renowned Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, saying a country that indulges in such barbaric behaviour ought to be ostracized by the civilized world.

A South Africa town, Mpumalanga, has been conferred with the infamous honour of being the world’s largest air pollution hotspot in these times when climate change is an extremely serious world issue.