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Daily Archives: March 21, 2017

Jobs Weekly: 7 tech job vacancies available this week

Looking for a new job? We have put together a list of companies recruiting techies this week. Also look out for available non-techie positions in tech companies too. Business Developer at iQube Labs Location: Yaba, Lagos Job type: Full time Deadline: [...]

March 21, 2017 Technology Business & StartUps
Beware of Yoruba Tiger’s Tail

Beware of Yoruba Tiger’s Tail

THE Yorubas say that you learn how to state your case not the art of fighting. The meaning of that is that he would only fight as a last resort.   The depth of his philosophy tells you that he [...]

March 21, 2017 General

Know your numbers as a startup owner

When the founder of a startup shuts down her or his business, it’s likely that these founders are reluctant to tell the rest of the world what went wrong. We have heard of startups fail in Nigeria.  For those who [...]

March 21, 2017 Technology Business & StartUps
Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi To President Buhari

Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi To President Buhari:

Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi To President Buhari – Change should start with the National assembly: A Senator receives N36,000,000 (thirty-six million Naira) monthly. If this is divided into two = N18,000,000 million (Eighteen million Naira).       The second [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics

Below Is The Breakdown Of The $6.9billion Paris Club Refund To 36 States, FCT

Below is the breakdown of the $6.9billion Paris Club Refund to 36 States, FCT.     Follow-up on your governor to ensure the utilization of this fund. Don’t sit at the fence. 1. Abia – $151, 410, 816.39 2. Adamawa [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics
Unemployment: Angry Edo Youths Issue Deadline To NPDC

Unemployment: Angry Edo Youths Issue Deadline To NPDC

A group, under the auspices of Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) yesterday threatened to make oil-producing communities housing the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company Limited( NPDC) unsafe for operation should the company fails to employ a minimum of one thousand youths within two weeks. [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics

VIO Sightings: Using social media to outwit the law may not be the best way to go

An elderly man in Lagos being driven to the hospital on an emergency nearly lost his life because Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) thought he was faking spasms to get out of their check. Two weeks ago, in trying to avoid [...]

March 21, 2017 Technology Business & StartUps

Startup Profile: DoctorsHub Nigeria — get free medical consultation from a doctor across Nigeria

DoctorsHub Nigeria is a web platform that connects people needing access to doctors for free medical consultation across Nigeria. The post Startup Profile: DoctorsHub Nigeria — get free medical consultation from a doctor across Nigeria appeared first on Techpoint.ng. Techpoint.ng [...]

March 21, 2017 Technology Business & StartUps
Akwa Ibom Residents, Workers Relocate From Cities To Villages

Akwa Ibom Residents, Workers Relocate From Cities To Villages Due To Hunger And Unemployment

DISHEARTENED residents and civil servants at Uyo and other cities in Akwa Ibom State are re-positioning to nearby local communities, following severe food shortages and razor-sharp increases in the cost of living, occasioned by the current economic depression. The affected [...]

March 21, 2017 Economy
Nnamdi Kanu Distances Self From US Lunch Of Radio Biafra

No Moral Justification To Continue To Detain Kanu – Rep

The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, fixed April 25 to decide whether or not the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, should be released on bail pending his trial. This came as a [...]

March 21, 2017 Nigerian-Biafran War
Thousands Of Igbo Students Flood Abuja In Solidarity With Buhari Administration

Thousands Of Igbo Students Flood Abuja In Solidarity With Buhari Administration

Whilst IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu was in court with his supporters, thousands of Students from the south-east part of the country under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndi’gbo Students Forum on Monday besieged the streets of Abuja pledging their unalloyed loyalty [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics
Dr. Allwell Orji

My son’ll be rescued alive, says mother doctor who jumped into lagoon

Rescue workers, comprising officials of Marine Police, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA and local divers, yesterday, combed the lagoon section at the Third Mainland Bridge in search of the medical doctor, Allwell Orji, who jumped into the lagoon on [...]

March 21, 2017 Incidents
Those Around Buhari Are Profiting From Boko Haram Misery – Senator Sani

Those Around Buhari Are Profiting From Boko Haram Misery – Senator Sani

Magu was a victim of the civil war in Buhari’s cabinet Senator Shehu Sani, APC Kaduna Central is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Debts; Vice Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee; Chairman, Senate adhoc Committee on Humanitarian Crisis in [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics
Ile-Ife crisis that claimed over a dozen lives

Police Parade 20 Suspects Over Ile Ife Crisis

The Nigeria police paraded suspects over the Ile-Ife crisis that claimed over a dozen lives and the destruction of properties worth millions of naira. A statement signed by the force public relations officer CSP Jimoh Moshood yesterday said the police [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics
Gabrielle-Union

TOP 40 WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL CELEBRITIES 2017

Top 40 World’s Most Beautiful Women 2017 40. Sandra Bullock 39. Gabriella Union 38. Vanessa Hudgens 37. Anne Hathaway 36. Olga Kurylenko 35. Keira Knightley 34. Meryam Uzerli 33. Charlzie Theron 32. Olivia Wilde 31. Monica Belluci 30. Shailene Woodley [...]

March 21, 2017 entertainment
Col. Hameed Ali

Group Threatens To Sue Customs CG Over Uniform

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) have threatened to sue the embattled Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) if he should wear the Customs uniform. In a statement, the Founder of NAGAFF, [...]

March 21, 2017 Government and politics
63 year old Grandmum

Ladies… Meet the 63 year old Grandmum that can totally snatch your boyfriend from you

These are the photos of a woman that have taken over social media recently. At first glance one would think the photos of a 63-year-old Grandmum are those of a young lady showing off on Instagram. But closer investigation shows that [...]

March 21, 2017 Health issues
Allwell Orji

Man whose photos are being mistaken for the doctor, Orji Allwell, who jumped into Lagos Lagoon speaks

The Lagos-based doctor who jumped off the famous Third Mainland Bridge in an apparent suicide has been Identified. LASEMA Identified him as Orji Allwell. Allwell Orji is a middle-aged medical doctor and it was said that he stopped his driver [...]

March 21, 2017 Incidents