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E-commerce in Africa is set to receive a boost as United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced an online payments and collections platform tagged U-bills. The online payment platform has been enabled in all the 19 countries where UBA has operations. U-bills, is a collection and bill payments platform that allows sellers to collect […]

The online dictionary – dictionary.com – describes hemorrhage as a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel.  In looking for a word to best describe the ongoing exodus from the All Progressives Congress (APC) of its leading lights, I could not find a better word than hemorrhage.  With the recent decision of […]

The Federal Government on Friday ordered that all the sacked 16,000 resident doctors in the country be reinstated with immediate effect.Sacked on August 13 because of the strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Medical Association, the government reinstated them unconditionally. Announcing the recall of the resident doctors, the Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, through […]

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Wednesday in Abuja condemned the stigmatization of Nigerians by some countries over recent cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country. Speaking at a meeting with Mr. David Navarro, a Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General, President Jonathan particularly denounced discriminatory actions such as that which forced Nigeria’s team […]

It is with sad but grateful hearts,and in total submission to the will of the Almighty God, that we announce the peaceful transition to glory of the mother of the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Deaconess Agnes Owoma Ukeseh, Nee Ekemike, at mid-day on Wednesday, 28th August, 2014. Deaconess Ukeseh turned […]

The Enugu State House of Assembly has impeached the state’s Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi. The Assembly voted Onyebuchi out of office on Tuesday for reasons that are yet to be made public. However, it is widely speculated that the impeachment was orchestrated by Governor Sullivan Chime. Recall that the Assembly had earlier accused Onyebuchi of […]

As official rhetoric and blame game drives fear into the complex matrix over the raging Ebola crisis, there are reports that some hospitals are now sending away patients, who exhibit Ebola symptoms to go home and manage their illness; leaving the patients with no option than self-medication. This is most pathetic and tragic! Even more […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as an unprecedented national embarrassment the increasing seizure of Nigerian towns by the terrorist group Boko Haram and the reported fleeing of 480 Nigerian soldiers to Cameroon during an attack on a Military base in Gamboru-Ngala on Monday. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji […]

The rank of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dwindled further on Tuesday as Chief Tom Ikimi, one of its leaders and face of the merger that saw four parties becoming APC, dumped the party. Ikimi had threatened to leave the party after he had complained of not being carried along in the scheme of things. […]

With two more Nigerians surviving the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Nigeria now has only one recorded case of the disease in the country, according to the country’s Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu. An elated Onyebuchi broke the news on Tuesday saying the two affected Nigerians who had been kept at the Isolation Centre […]

The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the present crop of Caretaker Committee (CTC) Chairmen across the State are only busy siphoning council funds without the slightest intention to embark on any developmental project. Lamenting the rate of illegal acquisition of properties and lavish waste of council funds on […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday directed all public and private primary and secondary schools not to resume till 13th October. The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, gave the directive when he briefed newsmen after a meeting with Commissioners for Education in Abuja, saying,  the minister and all commissioners met today,26th August, to discuss issues […]