As part of activities marking this year’s World AIDs Day, youths in Amuwo –Odofin today organized a road walk to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS scourge and the status of the pandemic. In an interview with Shout-Africa correspondent in FESTAC town in Lagos, the Nigeria’s commercial nerve center, the Chairman of the National Youth Council, Amuwo–Odofin chapter, organizers of the programme, Comrade Oluwafemi Ilesomi, said the walk was to sensitize members of the public about the reality of HIV/AIDs and the need for everyone to know their HIV status. Comrade Ilesomi said that knowing ones status was necessary so that... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, December 2nd 2012 |
iROKOtv, dubbed by media commentators as the “Netflix of Africa” celebrated its first birthday on 1st December 2012. iROKOtv is Africa’s largest online platform for streaming movies and has invested in building the world’s largest library of Nollywood movies over the past year, owning licences to more than 5,000 titles. Lovers of all things Nollywood can watch movies, for free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Launched on 1st December 2011 by Jason Njoku, Founder and CEO of iROKO Partners, which also counts the popular online music platform iROKING among its suite, iROKOtv has grown rapidly over the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, December 2nd 2012 |
…. 19 ‐ 21 March 2013 – International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana – 21st November 2012 – Offshore West Africa 2013, the premier conference and exhibition for the offshore oil and gas exploration & production industry within West Africa, has announced the preliminary conference program for the forthcoming event in Accra, Nigeria. Endorsed by the Ministry of Energy, Republic of Ghana, and sponsored by Tullow Oil, Schlumberger, Modec, ABS, Shell, Hewlett Packard, Lloyds Register and Aker Solutions, the 17th annual Offshore West Africa, taking place from 19‐21 March 2013, will once again address key technology and development issues for the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 21st 2012 |
Lagos, Nigeria – APM Terminals and its consortium partners have announced plans to develop a new greenfield mega-port project and Free Trade Zone at Badagry in Nigeria’s Lagos State, 55 km (34 miles) west of Apapa and the Port of Lagos on the Benin-Lagos Expressway. At full build-out, the deep-water full-service port will be one of the largest in Africa with 7 km of quay and 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of dedicated yard, and will include state-of the art facilities for container, bulk, liquid bulk, Ro/Ro and general cargo as well as oil and gas operations support and a barge... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, November 21st 2012 |
By Shout-Africa.com Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – A member of the 6Team musical group, Mr. Uddy Samuel, has gone solo and is ready to launch his first musical album. Uddy has been trilling his audience at various events lately including churches and at various festivals in Nigeria. The launch of the new album is expected to be before the end of the year. Our correspondent cornered him in Lagos and had a thirty-minute interview with him. Below are the excerpts. CHINYERE: Tell me about yourself UDDY: My name is Uddy Samuel (full name Udeme Samuel) an inspirational singer from a family of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, November 15th 2012 |
