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By Wtr Gideon Tobiloba The Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), a peer advisory group for million dollar plus women-led companies, announces Funmi Ogbue (Mrs), the Managing Director Zigma Limited as the newest member of the Member-at-Large Chapter of the WPO. According to Marsha Firestone, Ph.D., WPO President and Founder, she said “I am very pleased to welcome Funmi to the WPO,” “As a peer advisory organization for women business leaders of multi-million dollar companies, WPO membership is highly selective. Funmi’s membership in the WPO is a testament to her incredible success in business.” Funmi Ogbue is the founder and Managing Director of Zigma, an home grown oil and gas services company. In responding to her acceptance into WPO, she said“I joined WPO so as to connect to a global network of incredible women who have singlehandedly built amazing brands and joining WPO has been one of the defining moments for my business,”. Funmi is also the founder and CEO of Nigeria’s

Wtr Gideon Tobiloba The global pandemic, Coronavirus popularly called COVID 19 is shredding nations and Nigeria is not an exception. Nigeria government has come up with series of measures to curb its spread in Nigeria with lots of organizations coming up with support in different forms as well. To make the battle against COVID 19 easier for the government, the Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry under the leadership of the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari recently embarked on an industry-wide collaborative initiative to combat the pandemic. Their intention is to give support under the three thematic support areas covering: Provision of medical consumables; Deployment of logistics and in-patient support system and delivery of medical infrastructure, initially amounted to N11bilion but has been exponentially increased to N21billion. The Women in Energy Network (WIEN), a non-political and non-profit organization, has unreservedly commended the effort of  the Nigerian

By Wtr Gideon Tobiloba It is no longer news that the entire world is going through  a critical period due to the Coronavirus pandemic also known as COVID 19.  The virus which started in Wuhan China in late December 2019 to early January 2020 has shut down the entire world starting with the developed nations. Asia, Europe, America, Africa and other continents have had their own share of damages in human lives caused by COVID 19 and the future still looks bleak for many. Medical practitioners are still struggling to understand this virus before coming up with a permanent cure but while the research goes on, WHO has come up with various precautionary measures to be taken in order to curb it's spread some of which are social distancing, regular washing of hands, not touching ones mouth, nose, eyes with unsanitized hands, keeping a clean environment and many more. Many nations believe the only way to curb the spread of this deadly virus is to enforce stay at home

By Wtr Gideon Tobiloba  Before now, China boasts of the country with the highest number of skills export in form of expertriates to many countries in the world, Africa inclusive. They are a major part of the workforce in Qatar building the stadiums needed for the 2022 World Cup. They are in Europe, America, and Africa doing what they are best known for - working! Chinese workers anywhere you see them are known for cheap labor and this does not affect the quality of the delivery of their job/work. The story is quite different in Africa because Africa is far behind in most of the areas Chinese expertriate specializes in. The Chinese government has come up with different strategies in a bid to giving Africa what it needs in exchange for the resources in Africa needed by China. In Angola for example, in exchange for their crude which China get at a very low price and which is to continue for many years, China is building schools, roads, rails, hospitals, etc which Angola needs ba

Wtr Gideon Tobiloba As Nigeria continues to battle epileptic power supply and unemployment, experts believe alternative energy is the way to go and one of such expert is Engr. Atinuke Wuraola Owolabi, MNSE, MNIEEE, the MD/CEO of Wurvicat Solar Foundation who recently in Lagos launched a campaign to train 5000 young Nigerians in solar technology free of charge in a project tagged "PROJECT ENERGY 247 A.C.E"  which means 24 hours, 7days Affordable  Clean Energy. This is a five- year plan that is set out to train over five thousand (5000) STEM Youth Corp members across the nation with the pilot scheme starting in LAGOS STATE on "Affordable Clean Energy". It is a year free technical hands-on training that will equip fresh graduates  ( Members of the National Youth Service Corps) with the relevant economic and hands-on skills on Solar Energy Technology  and at the same time position them as agents of positive change across the nation. The training which will comme

Wtr Gideon Tobiloba The Frasers Suites Hotel, Abuja was buzzing with dignitaries from the Engineering Society from within and outside Nigeria in a grand ceremony where the mantle of the leadership of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fell from the immediate past president Engr. Funso Adebayo FNIEEE to the new elected president, Engr. Kings Adebayo FNIEEE on Saturday the 25th of January. In his opening speech, Engr. Funso Adebayo, the outgoing president emphasized on the importance of making electricity available to all Nigerians through emerging technologies. He said market women and people living in remote areas do not need to know anything about electricity, what matters most is  making electricity available to them. He further said they have taken electricity project to at least seven communities in Nigeria including the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) Camp, signed MOU’s with different private power companies and institutions a

By Wtr Gideon Tobiloba Engr. Babagana Mohammed, Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, a past chairman of the V.I branch of the Society, was in a glorious assembly in Abuja on the 11th of January 2020 sworn in as the 32nd President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. The Borno born intelligent engineer in his acceptance speech laid emphasis on building the country on different fronts saying "we will align ourselves with the national development goals 2030 and ensure the profession of engineering gives its best to national development. The widely experienced engineer also said the Nigerian Society of Engineers will open its doors to innovation from all and sundry. Individuals with outstanding ideas that can move the nation forward will get support from the society whether or not such individuals are engineers. To him, what matters now to the society is the greater good of the nation. He further stressed on the importance of young engineering graduates getting