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Minister Of Communication Presented ADA Awards To CKN NEWS (Pictures )

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CKN News Assistant Editor Abiola Alaba Peters Receiving (African Digital Award (ADA AWARD) Most Outstanding Online Editor Of The Year on behalf of CKN News from the Minister Of Communications ,Barr Adebayo Shittu at the event held at Orientals Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos. The event was witnessed by a galaxy of stars..More Details Later

FOUNDER OF LEKKI BRITISH INT'L SCHOOL BECOMES DOCTOR OF EDUCATION.

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Founder of Lekki British Int'l School becomes Doctor of Education. The founder of Lekki British International School, Lagos, Dr AbiodunLaja has added a new milestone to her impressive 40-year journey in education , having bagged the Doctor of Education (Ed.DHonorisCausa) from the Commonwealth University. Dr.Laja who is one of the youngest women to courageously brace the challenge of providing quality private education in Nigeria also received the Master Class Certificate in Leadership and Management from the London Graduate School. A statement by her corporate affairs officer affirmed that these recent achievements by the Executive Director of Lekki British School, were simply a recognition of her exemplary courage, sense of vision and resilience. At a very young age, Dr. Laja founded the ABC Nursery Land . She was the first young person to start a private school at that time as private school used to be run by retired teachers. She started off with one school and in ...

INDEPTH NEWSS SPORTS HEADLINES 21ST AUGUST 2017.

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• 10 Things We Learned From a Drama-Packed Weekend of Premier League Action - • 3SC defeats Nassarawa United FC 2-0 - • 5 Games Not to Be Missed as the EFL Cup Returns This Week - • 5 German Stars Who Have Impressed in the White of Real Madrid as Toni Kroos Makes 150th Appearance - • 5-Star Prospect Mitchell Robinson Reportedly May Skip Season, Wait for NBA Draft - • 6 of the Best Moments From the Weekend in Matchday 2 of the Premier League - • 9 Players Who Have Fallen Victim to the 'Swansea Curse' After Leaving South Wales for Bigger Teams- • A new era for French football - how the world reacted to Neymar's PSG switch - • ABS thrash league leader, Plateau Utd 2-0 - • Adam: Premier League clubs 'all want to buy foreign players' over Scots - • African Nations Championship results - • AfricanFootball wraps up the weekend's Absa Premiership action - • Agege LG boss donates match tickets to MFM's fans - • AJ Styles Beats Kevin Owens to...

BEST GRADUATING UNN STUDENT GETS CASH REWARDS FROM CKN NEWS , OTHERS.

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Best Graduating UNN Medical Student Gets Cash Rewards From CKN NEWS, Others Few weeks ago, the internet was littered with the story of a UNN medical student, Dr Chidinma Ikekpeazu, who won nine prizes. Thereafter, she was presented with a cheque of #10,000. A move many Nigerians didn’t find encouraging enough for her outstanding performance. One of such Nigerians, is Journalist and publisher of CKN News, Chris Kehinde Nwandu, better widely known as Ambassador CKN, who charted a cause for a substantial amount be raised for Chidinma, this was supported by other great Nigerians. And in two weeks, #120,000 was raised and handed over to Dr Chidinma in Enugu. This was made public, by Amb CKN himself, in Facebook post, earlier today. “Over two weeks ago after seeing the image online, i decided to make available my own widow’s mite to encourage this awesome best graduating medical student of UNN who won over 9 prizes at her graduation. The paltry 10k cheque presented to her elicited my...

FIRST GRILL AND READ ANNUAL READERS AWARDS [GaRARA 2017, 52 NOMINIES ANNOUNCED BY Speech House International.

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The Speech House International have officially announced 52 nominees in 13 categories for the first Grill and Read Annual Readers’ Awards (tagged GaRARA 2017) The categories are: Book of the Year, Author of the Year; Discovery of the Year; Book Review Site of the Year; Reader's Event of the Year; Book Club of the Year; Celebrity-Reader Motivator of the Year; Reader's Show of the Year (Radio or TV); Book Cover of the Year; Publisher of the Year; Reader-Motivator of the Year, Reader's Person of the Year; and Library of the Year. Titles on the shortlist include: Carnivorous City (Toni Kan); A Tiny Place Called Happiness (Bura-Bari Nwilo); After They Left (Edify Yakusak); Avenger of Blood (Franklin Fynecountry); Route 234 (travel anthology); and The Crazy Nigerian (Tonwapiri Anthony). During the call for nominations in January, organisers said the awards were to recognise the literary community to the socio-economic development of the Nigeria, adding that: “this first-of-...

OZUBULU, MASSACRE HOW INNOCENT ARE NIGERIANS=ROZ-BEN OKAGBUE.

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Post by Roz Ben-Okagbue facebook says it all: Ozubulu... death of the innocent Yesterday gunmen stormed into a Catholic church in Ozubulu and gunned down members of the congregation who were attending Sunday mass. As the drama unfolded and social media was agog with gory pictures, the rumour mills started grinding and the blame was immediately directed at all sorts of terrorist groups. As the day progressed, however, the truth filtered through and it was revealed that the source of this massacre was an enemy within otherwise known as Greed. It is said that innocent people lost their lives in the incident but let us ask ourselves, is anyone really innocent in this? Can any of us claim to be innocent? Are we really surprised that this incident occurred? Have we not been courting this enemy for several years now in Igboland? Is it something that started today? According to reports corroborated by the governor of Anambra state, the incident was the outcome of a drugs war between tw...

OYO STATE HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND- BANK ACCOUNTS FOR DONATION RELEASED.

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Oyo State Health Endowment Fund - Bank accounts for Donation released! In a bid to ensure adequate fund for the newly launched N50b Oyo State Health Care Endowment Fund, five (5) bank accounts designated for receiving donations have been made known by Oyo State ministry of health. In a release by the Health Commissioner, Dr Azeez Adeduntan stated that the accounts are being made known to the public to facilitate direct funding for the health care projects, aimed at transforming the healthcare sector and to establish health centres among others planned in the scheme. Potential donors can deposit sums into any of the designated bank accounts listed as follows: Oyo State Health Care Endowment Fund account numbers; The donation activity is for a period of 2 years ending APRIL 2019. First Bank Account Number---2032335729 Access Bank--------Account Number-- -0737782040 Heritage Bank-----Account Number---5900006333 UBA-----------------Account Number----1020497940 Fid...