INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY VACANCIES, NIGERIA

VACANT POSITIONS 

1.     Program Manager

2   2.     Data Manager

3.   Data Officer

4.   Program Assistant

5.     Administrative Assistant 

The details can be found on there website. You can search via google to 

find there website.

WORLD YOUTH DAY 2013

World youth day 2013 took place in Rio De Jeneiro, Brazil from July 23^rd to July 28^th. The theme of this year event was ‘Go and make disciples of all peoples’. The first Latin American Pope, Pope Francis is known to come from this same continent. So his presence at the WYD was more like a visit to home after he became Pope.

What seems very significant is the Papa’s message of simplicity which he propagated during his road walk where he shook hands with youths and even received gifts from them. It was an exceptional act of kindness, love and peace; A symbolic representation of the catholic year of faith.   

The next world youth day is fixed for Krakow, Poland as announced by Pope Francis.

VACANCIES AT NATIONAL EXAMINATION COUNCIL (NECO)

Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified candidates for appointment as Subject Officers into the 34 newly introduced Trade/ Entrepreneurship subjects.

THE SUBJECTS ARE;
1.  Auto Electrical Work
2.  Auto Mechanical work
3.  Air conditioning and refrigeration
4.  Auto Parts Merchandising
5.  Welding and Fabrication Engineering craft practice
6.  Auto Body Repairs and spray painting
7.  Electrical installation and Maintenance work
8.   Radio, TV and Electronic servicing
9.  Block laying, brick laying n concrete work
10.  Painting and decorating
11. Plumbing and Pipefitting
12. Machine woodworking
13. Carpentry and joinery
14. Furniture making
15. Upholstery
16. Catering Craft Practice
17. Garment making
18. Clothing and Textile
19. Dyeing and bleaching
20. Printing Craft practice
21. Cosmetology
22. Photography
23. Mining
24. Tourism
25. Leather Goods Manufacturing and Repair
26. Stenography
27. Data processing
28. Store keeping
29. Book keeping
30. GSM Maintenance and Repairs
31. Animal Husbandary
32. Fishery
33. Marketting
34. Salesmanship

REQUIREMENTS:
Applicans must posses at least a Degree or a Higher National Diploma (HND) with Second class lower or lower credit as applicable in any of the above stated subject areas.
Possession of Masters Degree and membership of Professional body/bodies shall be added advantage. All applicants must have completed their NYSC or av exemption or exclusion certificate.

MODE OF APPLICATION:
One copy of handwritten application should be forwarded together with photocopies of credentials and curriculum vitae.

Application should be properly enveloped and marked APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT and addressed to;
    The Registrar/Chief Executive,
    National Examinations Council,
    P.M.B. 159,
    Minna,
    Niger State.

CLOSING DATE:
Application with accompanied credentials must be received within 2weeks from the date of this advertisement.

AN ODE TO THE QUEEN

[By Charles Ayodada]

I salute the courage of those few women

Who in this era of poverty of soul

Have resisted the allures of fashion

Vanity and coquetry;

Who albeit solitary, are perched like happy fragrant roses

Widely interspersed on avid desert plain……………

I salute the courage of those few women,

Who celebrate virtue and things of the spirit;

Who value soulful companionship over vain externals

And will not trade in their bodies for ill-fated marriages

All in the name of material security……………….

I value those few women

Who in the fleeting transience of time

Have truly lived having truly loved!

Who through this indescribable blissful feeling

Have enacted scenario of paradise……………….

I value the courage of those few women

Who silently are as strong as a moving sea

Who are fearless as a standing tsunami

Women, who wield their might most femininely…………….

Dedicatedly…………elegantly………………exquisitely

I salute the courage of those few women;

Yes! Who few as they are still

Hold the keys to the unlocking of paradise on their Psalms

Who are weaving tapestries of the most beautiful light into the storehouse of this mighty creation

And who make the spirit of the man feel like storming the Heavens……………….

A laurel wreath then to those true women,

Who through the realms are linked to the isles of the Roses and lilies

Who breathe purity

and who have found treading the noble God-willed path ordained for them

women, who through their activities

who through just being have become a blessing to the entire creation…………….

A laurel wreath to those women!

(Dedicated to Mercy Azubuike & all the special ladies out their)  

LITTLE PRINCE GEORGE GETS CROCODILE GIFT

Little Prince George Alexander Louis on thursday, July 25th, got a crocodile gift, which will be named George and live at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin city.

He will join two other royal crocs that already live at Crocosaurus, named after Prince William and Catherine. Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles unveiled the tiny reptile.

The government has established a facebook page so the prince can follow his activities from afar, and Giles said each year a card would be sent to the young royal updating him on his namesake's progress.

MEET MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRLS IN NIGERIA 2001 - 2013

MBGN 2013 WINNER: ANNA EBIERE BANNER

MISS BAYELSA

MBGN WINNER 2012:  MISS ISABELLA AGBOR AYUK

MISS CROSS RIVERS

        

MBGN 2011 WINNER: SYLVIA NDUKA

MISS TARABA

MBGN 2010 WINNER: MISS FIONA AMUZIE

MISS PLATEAU 

MBGN 2009 WINNER: MISS GLORY CHUKU

MISS NASARAWA

                                                   

MBGN 2008 WINNER: MISS ADAEZE IGWE

MISS ANAMBRA

   

MBGN 2007 WINNER: MISS MUNACHI NWANKWO

MISS IMO

   

MBGN 2006 WINNER: MISS ABIOLA BASHORUN

MISS LAGOS

MBGN 2005 WINNER: MISS OMOWUNMI AKINNIFESI

MISS KWARA

         

MBGN 2004 WINNER: MISS ANITA UWAGBELE

MISS BENIN CITY

          

MBGN 2003 WINNER: MISS CELIA BISSONG

MISS CALABAR

MBGN 2002 WINNER: MISS CHINENYE OCHUBA

MISS ANAMBRA

MBGN 2001 WINNER: MISS AGBANI DAREGO 

MISS RIVERS

NIGERIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION (NFF) BAN PLAYERS, OFFICIALS AND CLUBS

The NFF vice president, Mike Umeh announced disciplinary measures on the players, officials and clubs that were involved in the match fixing scandals based on the recommendation made by the investigating panel of the NFF. All the players were ban for life.

Premium times reported, quoting Mike Umeh in a news conference made in Abuja     

“The match officials consisting of the entire centre referees and their assistants and match commissioners for the two matches are also banned for life for not living up to their responsibility and allowing the game to be brought into disrepute. The four clubs … are banned for a period of 10 years.” The NFF official concluded.

Young African Millionaires To Watch In 2013

Nothing beats being young and rich.

While most people attain multi-million dollar and billion dollar fortunes in their 40s and 50s, a few savvy entrepreneurs hit the big time while in their 20s and 30s.

There are a handful of young African entrepreneurs who’ve legitimately built multi-million dollar companies while in their 20s and 30s. A few of them have taken the helm of small companies and spun them into companies with valuations of $1 billion or more.

Here are ten such people. All aged 39 and under, they are worth watching closely.

Mohammed Dewji, Tanzania

Source: Manufacturing 

Dewji, 38, a Tanzanian businessman and politician, is the CEO and leading shareholder of Mohammed Enterprise Limited (METL), one of the largest industrial conglomerates in East Africa.  His father, Gulam Dewji, founded the conglomerate decades ago as a trading company but ‘Mo’ as he is popularly called, now calls the shots.  He was solely responsible for engineering the group’s transformation from a trading house to a manufacturing powerhouse.  METL, which records an annual turnover of close to $2 billion, owns 21^stCentury Textiles, one of the largest textile mills in sub-Saharan Africa by volume. The group also manufactures soap, beverages, edible oils and other food products as well as bicycles and motorcycles. Other assets include an insurance firm, a petroleum marketing outfit and a container depot in Tanzania’s capital city of Dar Es Salaam.  The group employs over 24,000 full-time employees. Mo  Dewji is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Member of Parliament for Tanzania’s Singida Urban constituency. (I met with Dewji in Tanzania recently and will be writing a detailed piece on Dewji’s business holdings).

Igho Sanomi, Nigeria

Source: Oil Trading

In 2004, Igho Sanomi founded the Taleveras Group, a Nigerian energy trading company. Taleveras trades over 100 million barrels of crude oil as well as several million tons of gasoline, LPG and jet fuel. In April 2012, Taleveras acquired production sharing contracts (PSCs) for three offshore oil blocks in Ivory Coast. In June 2013, Taleveras sold a 65% stake in one of its Ivorian offshore upstream projects to Lukoil of Russia for an undisclosed price. Taleveras also owns a stake in a power distribution firm in Nigeria. Sanomi is 38 years old.

Quinton van der Burgh, South Africa

Source: Mining

The 36 year-old South African coal magnate is the founder and chairman of Quinton van der Burgh Investments, a diversified holding company that is the controlling shareholder in Eyethu Coal, a company that mines coal in South Africa’s Mpumalanga region. Eyethu owns two operational mines and is a major supplier of coal to Eskom, South Africa’s dominant power provider. Van der Burgh’s portfolio also includes Iyanga Coal- a company that owns a mine with proven reserves of 18 million tons of coal and Burgh Plant Hire- a company that leases earth-moving equipment to clients like BHP Billiton, Xstrata and Anglo-American. Van der Burgh is also a TV personality. He stars in Clifton Shores, an American/South African reality show filmed in Cape Town.

Gerald Wamalwa, Kenya

Source: Engineering & Construction

In 2003, at age 28, Gerald Wamalwa quit his job as a field civil engineer and went on to start Mellech, an engineering outfit. Today, Mellech Engineering & Construction is now one of East Africa’s leading construction and infrastructure engineering company. The company offers services in the construction of building projects, roads, and water & sewer projects and related civil engineering infrastructure projects in Kenya, Southern Sudan and Uganda and grosses over $11 million a year revenues. Wamalwa also owns ACP Telecoms, a company that provides turnkey telecommunication network infrastructure solutions.

Sibongile Sambo, South Africa

Source: Private Aviation

Sibongile Sambo, 39, is the founder of SRS Aviation, a successful South African private aviation company. SRS started off in 2004 by brokering contracts between aviation services and those with air-transport needs. Later in the year, when the South African government invited aviation service companies to bid on a lucrative contract for cargo transport, SRS won the bid. Over time, SRS morphed from its cargo business into an integrated provider of private aviation services. SRS now offers clients from Southern Africa professional and personal flight options to international destinations including VIP Charter, tourist charter and helicopter services. The company also provides maintenance, sales and fleet management services to private jet owners. SRS refused to disclose revenues, but a source in the company says annual revenues are several million dollars.

Khanyi Dhlomo, South Africa

Source: Publishing

The Harvard MBA grad and South African media mogul began her career as a news presenter at SABC, the television station owned by the South African government, at age 20 while she was still a journalism student at the University of Witwatersrand. She went on to become the editor of True Love, a popular South African women’s magazine at age 22. In 2007, she founded Ndalo Media, a 50-50 joint venture with Media 24, the publishing arm of Naspers, Africa’s largest media company. Ndalo Media publishes Destiny and Destiny Man, two of South Africa’s most popular lifestyle magazines. Ndalo also publishes Sawubona, the in-flight publication for South African Airways, which is distributed on all local and international SAA flights. She also owns Luminance, a startup high-end fashion and lifestyle store in South Africa.

Patrick Ngowi, Tanzania

Source: Alternative Energy

Ngowi, a 28 year-old Tanzanian, is the founder of Helvetic Solar, East Africa’s leading renewable energy company. Companies in the group are involved in the handling, supply, installation and maintenance of hydro turbines, solar power and thermal systems in East Africa. According to Ngowi, Helvetic’s revenues are expected to hit $7 million before the end of this year and the company is extremely profitable.  The company’s major clients include the United Nations, World Vision and the Tanzanian Army. An emerging philanthropist, he offers basic lighting facilities to Tanzania’s rural poor through his Light For Life foundation.

Ken Njoroge, Kenya

Source: Mobile technology

Njoroge, 37, is the founder of Cellulant, a leading Pan-African mobile commerce company that manages, delivers and bills for content and commerce services over mobile networks. Cellulant provides mobile banking, mobile payments, music, information services and other mobile related services.  Njoroge founded the company in 2004 along with a Nigerian partner, Goke Akinboro. It now has a presence in 8 African countries and boasts a clientele of African blue-chips like Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered, MTN and other companies. Cellulant’s revenues for 2012 exceeded $120 million.

Colin Thornton, South Africa

Source: Computer Services

In 1998, when he was 20, South African computer whiz Colin Thornton dropped out of the University of Witwatersrand where he was pursuing a BSc in Computer science. He raised $1,000 (R5, 000) from friends and family to print out flyers and other marketing material promoting his startup company which would fix computers. Today, that company is Dial-A-Nerd, a company that provides computer support services dedicated to homes and businesses. Dial a Nerd’s team of mobile technicians are able to repair, build, upgrade or even replace PCs at your premises. The company has annual revenues of close to $10 million, 14 branches and 150 staff.

Alan Knott-Craig Jr., South Africa

Source: Technology, Investments

The 36 year-old South African entrepreneur is the founder of World Of Avatar(WOA), the private investment holding company that acquired MXit from Namibian founder Herman Heunis and Naspers for $50 million in August 2011. Mxit is a mobile instant messaging services which offers social networking, mobile voice clips, music & entertainment, banking access and other community-based applications. It currently has over 20 million users. Alan also has stakes in popular South African online publication Daily Maverick; advertising network Shinka, which sells ad space on MXit; and market research company Pondering Panda. Alan is a 2009 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. 

(culled from forbes July, 2013)

2013 SOCCER SUMMER SIGNINGS

S/N	FORMER CLUB	NEW CLUB	TRANSFER FEES	NAME	AGE (Years)	TRANSFER DATE
1	Napoli	Paris Saint Germain	€63 Million	Edinson Cavani (Uruguay)	26	July 1st
2	Real Marid	Borussia Dortmund	Loan	Nuri Sahin (Turkey)	24	July 17th
3	Sevilla	Man City	€25 Million	Alvaro Negredo (Spain)	27	July 17th
4		Man City	€22 Million	Jesus Navas (Spain)	27
5	Shakhtar Donestsk	Man City	€40 Million	Fernando Luiz Rosa-  Fernandinho (Brazil)	28	June 15th
6	Man City	Roma		Maicon Douglas (Brazil)	31	July 16th
7	Fiorentina	Man City	€30 Million	Stevan Jovetic  (Montenegro)	23	June 15th
8	Shakhtar	Borussia	€27 Million	Henrikh Mkhrtaryan (Armenia)	25	July 9th
10	Saint – Etienne	Dortmund	€E13 Million	Pierre – Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)	24	July 4th
11	Roma	PSV		Kevin Strootman (Netherlands)	23
12	Dinamo Zagreb	Roma	€5 Million	Tin Jedvay (Coatia)	17	July 17th
13	Udinese	Roma	€13.5 Million	Mehdi  Benatia (Morocco)	26	July 13th
14	Bayern	Fiorentina	€16 Million	Mario Gomez (Germany)	28
15	Man City	Juventus	11.8 Million	Carlos Tevez (Argentina)		June 26th
16	Chelsea	Sevilla	Loan	Marko Marin (German)		June 28th
17	Arsenal	Hamburger SV	Loan	Johan Djourou (Switzerland)		July 1st
18	Auxerre	Arsenal	Free	Yaya Sonogo (France)		July 1st
19	Man  City	Liverpool	Free	Kolo Toure (Ivory Coast)		July 2nd
20	Corinthians	Tottenham	€2o Million	Paulinho (Brazil)		July 6th
21	Wigan	Evert on	5.8 Million	Arouna Kone (Ivory Coast)		July 8th
22	Chelsea	Valencia	Loan	Oriol Romeu (Spain)	21 yrs	July 12th
23	Fulham	Chelsea	Free	Mark Schwarzer (Australia)
24	Vitesse	Chelsea	9.5 Million	Mario Van Ginkel (Netherlands)
25	Juventus	Western	Free	Nicholas Anelka  (France)
26	Liverpool	Western	18 Million	Andy Carroll (England)
27	Bercelona	Atletico Madrid	5.1 Million	David Villa (Spain)
28	Santos	Barcelona	57 Million	Neymar (Brazil)
29	Bor Dortmand	Bayern Munich	37 Million	Mario Gotze (Germany)
30	Barcelona	Bayern Munich	25 Million	Thiago Alcantara  (Kenya)
31	Celtic	Southanmton	14.5 Million	Victor Wanyama