By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos In my previous four articles about Mmaku Catholic Centre, I highlighted with nostalgia, the boom days of MCC and the circumstances that led to its fall. I also made a clarion call for its revival, and my conviction for a persistent call of MCC revival is obviously fueled by the following…
By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos In the concluding part of this Exclusive interview with Fr Innocent Udeafor, the Catholic clergy assures there is hope for revival of MCC, but charges Mmaku people to move fast in saving the project in their community before it becomes too late to do so. He also touches on the impasse…
By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos In continuation of our expository series on Mmaku Catholic Centre, the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of PlatformReporters.com, Sylvanus Offorka Obasi engaged the builder of MCC, Rev Fr Innocent Udeafor in a no-hold-barred exclusive interview where he grilled the clergyman on critical issues bothering on conception, construction, completion and eventual handover of MCC…
By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos In his best selling book, “The 48 Laws of Power”, the author, Robert Greene postulated the 19th Law of Power as follows: “Know Who You Are Dealing With – Do Not Offend the Wrong Person”. And in his summary point on that 19th Law, Greene warned thus: ” There are many…
By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos Ask any young Mmaku person, ‘who is the richest person in Mmaku’? He or she will be quick to mention names like Igwe Ogilishi Igbo, Emmanuel Okeke, Bob Andeh and the likes based on their current financial activities and displays in Mmaku. You don’t blame them. Afterall, the definition of the…
Foremost women group in Nigerian maritime sector, the Women’s International Shipping And Trading Association (WISTA Nigeria) has offered to sponsor a Hundred Thousand Naira (#100,000) Cash Prize for the winner of Best Graduating Female Maritime Student in Nigeria at the forth-coming 8th Annual Maritime Students And Youth Conference (AMSAY) scheduled for May 27 this year….
By Sylvanus OBASI, Lagos The Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, on Wednesday handed over the ultra-modern complex housing the Institute of Marine and Transport Technology to the Management of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to Jamoh, the building which is a donation from NIMASA to the University,…
The 2023 AMSAY Conference Planning Committee and the Management of Platforms Communications have once again expressed their special appreciations and commendations to some individuals and corporate bodies who in one way or the other supported the 2023 Annual Maritime Students And Youth Conference (AMSAY). This is even as the organisers have announced commencement of plans…
The Chairman, SIFAX Group of Companies, Dr Taiwo Afolabi – CON has accepted to deliver convocation Lecture at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho, Platform Reporters can authoritatively report. This follows a visit by the management of the University led by its Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor Rasak Olatunde Rom Kalilu who paid a…
Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Chairman, SIFAX Group and the newly-appointed Chancellor of the Gerar University of Medical Sciences, Imope-Ijebu, Ogun State, has commended the university for the quality of infrastructure at the institution’s campus. Afolabi, who was appointed the first Chancellor of the institution recently, expressed his delight that the university, which will welcome her…
