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Wines Of South Africa Returns To Nigeria

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2 years ago

March 2, 2022

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It was a special evening of fun and high level networking at the weekend, as Wines of South Africa ( WOSA) returned to Nigeria ahead of its West Africa tour.

Mathome Mbatha, Marketing Manager, Africa, Wines of South Africa

Held at the Ebony Place, Victoria Island, Lagos, the event, organised to further create awareness for wines produced in South Africa was aimed at promoting already existing collaboration between South Africa and Nigeria.

HE Darkey Africa, Consul-General of South Africa

During his welcome address, Marketing Manager, Africa, Wines of South Africa, Matome Mbatha, expressed pleasure at the opportunity to be back in Nigeria for business, after the break caused by COVID-19.

Bill Bedzrah of Jon Williams ( left) with Michael Effiong James, Editor, Ovation International ( r)

According to him “It’s been over two years now since we have last been in Lagos, to do what we do, which is the presentation of fine wines. And now that Covid has subsided, we are planning to come in full force”, he said.

An optimistic Mbatha said the evening’s ceremony was to raise awareness ahead of the July, 2022 WOSA Wine Tasting event in Lagos and hinted that his organisation will leverage on the robust relationship it enjoys with industry stakeholders to host a successful event this year.

“The purpose of this event this time around, is to do a relaunch, working with the media, trade to reassure you that we are coming back as we normally do around the Nelson Mandela Day celebration, which forms part of the West Africa tour starting here in Lagos, Nigeria and then moving to Accra, Ghana.”

In the same vein, the South African Consulate General, H.E Darkey Africa wants Nigerian businesses and their South African counterparts to tolerate each other and continue to play leading roles on the continent.

“As we go around tasting wine, remember you will be taking a journey from one set of bottles to another sets of bottles and I want you to construe this as some kind of wine tourism that wines of South Africa will now start to introduce wine tourism, which essentially means that people can visit the wineries and if there is big wine event in South Africa,it would do you good to go and see where this beautiful wines come from and you will be able to appreciate the value, expertise and of course the best that you can have”, he said.

Some of the wine enthusiasts at thanked the orgainsers for resuming business in Nigeria and told us that they were looking forward to the July Tour. They confessed that the thoroughly enjoyed the evening packaged by Jon Williams Limited.

John Onyeguzo, whose company has franchise to some South African brands said the organisers must maintain the excellence they are known for.

According to him “I have been part of the wine of South Africa for over a decade.It is always well organized. You can taste loads of wine across brands. It is quite great to interact with other people who have interest in wine. It is very exciting for me as it offers economic and health benefits.”

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Shaibu Eats Humble Pie, Apologises to Obaseki, Says ‘I Missed My Gov’

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4 hours ago

September 22, 2023

Eric

Call it the eating of a humble pie, and you may not be wring as the embattled Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, apologised to Governor Godwin Obaseki amid a face-off between them.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday in Benin City, Mr Shaibu appealed to Governor Obaseki to forgive his “mistakes” for them to continue to work together, Channels TV reported.

“I use this medium to appeal to Mr Governor, if there is anything that I don’t know that I have done, please forgive me so that we can develop our state together,” he said.

“We have just one year to go. We have been the envy of the entire country. So, Mr Governor, if there is anything you feel that I have done, please I am sorry. I need us to work together to finish well and strong,” the deputy governor added.

When asked if he had resumed at his new office, Mr Shaibu said, “We have resumed but there is still a lot of work to be done there.

“There is no problem about it. The governor has asked us to go there. Like I have always tried to prove, I am a loyal servant and nothing has changed.

“I took a personal vow to support my governor and you can see my Catholic people are here. When I took a vow with God, nothing can change it and I wish that the relationship that we had will come back in the next few days and weeks.”

Mr Shaibu also said he has been missing the governor since their rift began, and expressed hope that God will “touch the governor’s heart” to forgive him.

“I mean well. If there is any mistake I have made as a human, it is not out of wickedness because I know I’m not wicked. I have a very clean heart.”

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Tinubu Moves to Stop Release of Academic Records, Appeals US Court Judgement

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17 hours ago

September 21, 2023

Eric

President Bola Tinubu has appealed against the ruling of Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert, sitting at the United States’ District Court of Northern Illinois which ordered the Chicago State University (CSU) to release all relevant records pertaining to him.

SaharaReporters had reported how the federal court in Chicago, while ruling on the civil case filed by Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday granted the applicant’s request to the court, stating that former Nigeria’s vice-president had been able to sufficiently satisfy the purpose for seeking the records.

In the judgement documents seen by SaharaReporters on Wednesday, Judge Jeffrey Gilbert also ordered a deposition of designated CSU officials within two days after the records have been released, noting further that the process can be conducted during the weekend if necessary.

However, as the school prepared to surrender the papers, Tinubu filed an emergency motion in the district, requesting a higher judge to reconsider Mr Gilbert’s September 19 ruling and postpone the execution until at least September 25, according to People’s Gazette.

“Due to the timing for compliance by Chicago State University – later today – Intervenor is filing this motion separately from its challenge to the Magistrate’s ruling on the application,” Mr Tinubu’s lawyers, led by Christopher Carmichael, said. “Intervenor intends to file, by the end of the day, a substantive brief addressing the errors in the Magistrate’s decision.”

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Boy Whose ‘Intestine Went Missing in Lagos Hospital’ Dies

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3 days ago

September 19, 2023

Eric

Twelve-year-old Adebola Akin-Bright, whose small intestine went missing during surgery in the hospital has died.

A close member of the family confirmed the tragedy to BBC News Pidgin, adding that Adebola suffered from internal bleeding.

He was subsequently rushed to the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) but he did not make it.

Adebola had been battling to survive after multiple surgeries were performed on him and it was confirmed that his small intestine was missing.

His mother, Abiodun Deborah had decried the non-intervention of the Lagos State Government, under the leadership of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Nigerian Medical Association in the mysterious disappearance of the small intestine of her 12-year-old son while receiving treatment at LASUTH.

Deborah who spoke to SaharaReporters earlier in September narrated how her son, Adebola, was referred to LASUTH from a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre situated at Ileepo in the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state on June 17 following a complication from surgery to correct intestinal obstruction.

According to the mother, her son was said to have a ruptured appendix and he had surgery at Obitoks Medical Centre in February 2023.

“After the surgery, he was fine until June when he kept saying he had pain in the stomach. This made us go back to the hospital and the doctor said he had intestinal obstruction and he underwent another surgery,” the mother told SaharaReporters.

She revealed further more than seven days after her son had the second surgery, they noticed that he was still draining bilious fluid.

“We went back to the private hospital and the Chief Medical Doctor told us the boy would undergo another surgery and it will be with the help of a professor from Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.

“This was why we decided to move to LASUTH since the professor is from there so that they can have total management,” she said.

She added the management of LASUTH told them the boy should not undergo another surgery immediately but they kept nursing him.

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