Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

Awesu Recently, forty-two staff and students of the Stephens Centre International Group of Schools visited the Old Abeokuta Prison, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria on an excursion and they were welcomed by one of the prison’s social welfare officers, ASP Abdulhakeem Awesu.

Ethiopia has earmarked the sum of $25m to beautify its capital, Addis Ababa.

A Kenyan university graduate has recounted how she had to clean toilets to survive in Morocco after she immigrated there illegally and planned to move on to Europe from there but didn’t as she became scared of dying during the 45-minute crossing from Morocco to Europe.

Kaspersky Lab (www.Kaspersky.co.za) has announced plans to open a new office in Kigali, Rwanda to support the rapid growth of its East Africa trade.

Algeria and Argentina have become the latest countries to be certified by the World Health Organisation as being free of the deadly malaria parasite.

Obama The immediate past President, United States of America, Barack Obama, has been described as being anti-Christian by the author, David Horowitz.

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, Nigeria's favorite stout, is celebrating and rewarding loyal customers in the 17:59 - Welcome To Guinness Time Promo with over N100 million in cash and kind prizes.

Telecoming (www.Telecoming.com), the European technology company specialized in digital services monetization, has closed an agreement with African company, Maliyo Games, the pioneer mobile gaming company in Nigeria, to distribute its offer in the region.

Sirleaf The immediate past President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the current goalkeeper of Liverpool Football Club of England and the Brazilian football national team, Alisson Becker, are two of the four latest global health ambassadors just announced by the World Health Organization.

Seven Egyptian startups have been selected to represent the country in the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3-5.

Penalty singer, small DOCTOR, has been confirmed as one of the performers at the high octane event, Beautiful Africa Day 2019 holding at Cultural Centre Merksem, Belgium on June 1.

The United Nations University (UNU) has announced the appointment of six new members to its council in the persons of Dr Denisa Čiderová (Slovakia), Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies, University of Economics in Bratislava; Dr Comfort Ero (United Kingdom), Program Director, Crisis Group; Dr Xin Fang (China), President & Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

As the world grapples with several problems, one more it has to contend with is the increasing number of babies who are born too small.

The 4th annual Education Innovation Summit (www.EducationInnovationSummit.co.za) is set to take place on the 29th of May 2019 at the Hilton, Sandton, Johannesburg.

The World Health Organisation has come up with a new strategy to tackle cervical cancer which kills 311,000 women a year worldwide and is the second most common cancer among women in the African region.