29-YEAR-OLD BUILDS ELECTRIC CARS AND TRICYCLE
Mustapha Gajibo, a 29-year-old school drop out from Maiduguri, is building electric cars and tricycles and converting car engines into generating sets. According to him, he has “sold 15 tricycles and 7 buses to individuals which have already started generating revenues for them.” The young engineer said his electric vehicles are locally made and can […]
COURT SENTENCES SEXUAL OFFENDERS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, has sentenced Abiodun Matthew, a 39-year-old driver to life imprisonment for raping a 4-year-old pupil of the University of Lagos Women Society Nursery and Primary School, Akoka, Lagos. In another case, Sunday Oyedele was also sentenced to life imprisonment with no option of fine […]
EMMANUEL IKECHUKWU UMEONYIHIRIOHA BECOMES FIRST IGBO LECTURER IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY
In Emmanuel’s words: “It is official that I am the first official Igbo Language lecturer at the number one university in the world, the University of Oxford. Our induction happened today by Marion Sadoux, Head of Modern Language Programmes, University of Oxford Language Centre. This became possible in an account of the James Currey Society. […]
SIMI ADEAGBO INDUCTED INTO OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME
Simi Adeagbo was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame at the Winter Games – Beijing 2022. She is the FIRST African female winter olympian to receive this award. Before her induction, Simi recently made history by becoming the first African to win the Europe Cup monobob race at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation […]
LOOTED BRONZE RETURNED TO OBA OF BENIN
Hurray! Two of the historic items looted by the British during the 1897 invasion of the Benin Kingdom have been officially handed over to the Oba of Benin – Oba Ewuare II after 125 years. The artefacts—the head of an Oba (Uhunwun Elahor) and a carved cockerel (Okpa)—were handed over to the Oba by the […]
EiE Nigeria Hosts Symposium To Commemorate 12th Anniversary
March 30, 2022 Lagos, Nigeria ‘‘We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practice or where they come from.’’ – Olusegun Adeniyi (Chairman, ThisDay […]