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Since the start of the pandemic, there have been varying effects, on the way consumers shop and make payments. We have seen significant impact on lifestyle habits which have also triggered an increased dependence on eCommerce. While the current circumstances have radically reshaped consumers’ shopping patterns and prompted merchants and small business to go online very …

By Christophe Vaissade, Sales Director EMEA, Western Digital Today’s supply chains are rapidly evolving to reflect the increased complexity of world trade – a highly competitive and increasingly volatile environment, where customer requirements can change in an instant. This makes a one-size-fits-all fulfilment model at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright confusing. Many companies are …

By Kingsley Omonobi The defence headquarters, DHQ, has disclosed that 18 persons—four soldiers, 10 policemen and four civilians— died during the Boko Haram terrorists’ ambush on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Friday, when their vehicles ran over several IEDS while in pursuit of the extremists. Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major-General John Enenche, …

Ekiti State chapter of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) is to commence a seven-day warning strike on Monday to press home its demand for payment of its members’ outstanding benefits. The stay-at-home directive is contained in a letter the union addressed to Prof. Kayode Olabanji, Chief Medical Director, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital. The …

Nigerian Flag …Lists Biafra War, Sharia, Democracy, other matters to be investigated … ‘How nation made wrong turn’ …Seeks Truth and Reconciliation Commission …‘Buhari administration using colonial solutions to tackle problems’ By Sam Eyoboka This is the week of the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. Ordinarily we should roll out the drums in celebration on Thursday, …

By Dayo Johnson, Akure The supremacy battle between the two major political parties has shifted to Ondo State after last weekend governorship election in Edo State which Governor Godwin Obaseki of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won. Obaseki secured reelection by beating Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 17 political parties …

Ayuba Wabba …Rallies CSOs, traders, commercial bus drivers, others for action …Economy may not survive, NECA warns By Victor Ahiuma-Young Amid uncertainty over the planned nationwide strike and mass protest against the recent hike in prices of electricity tariff and petrol pump price scheduled for tomorrow, Organised Labour, has dismissed court orders aimed at stopping the …

Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) in collaboration with Transparency International-Defence, Security Programme, with support from UK-AID organised a one-day legislative retreat in Lagos for chairmen, members and clerks of security committees of the House of Representatives. The aim is to achieve healthy and sustainable coordination of the various defence reform bills before the National Assembly. …

Says subsidy is fraud By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The President of Trade Union Congress, TUC, Quadri Olaleye, yesterday, disclosed why strike action remains the only option left over the recent increase in electricity tariff and pump price of fuel by the federal government. Olaleye made the assertion while speaking with journalists during the ‘National …

File photo. By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti As Ekiti State Police Command launched a manhunt for Oguntoyinbo Samuel for allegedly being the mastermind behind bank robberies and kidnappings in the state and environs, residents appear to have joined the search for the kingpin. What seems to have triggered the interest of the residents in the manhunt was …

Lai Mohammed The Federal Government has said that the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan created the problem in the power sector by selling the power generating and distributing companies to incompetent investors. Information and culture minister Lai Mohammed stated this on Saturday in Lagos at a meeting with the Online Publishers Association of Nigeria. …

File: River By Bose Adelaja Tragedy occurred in Lagos weekend, after a six   tyre-truck laden with sand reportedly lost control and plunged into a river in Epe Bridge area. Details of the incident which occurred at about 1.20am could not be ascertained because of the time, but the Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency …

Lai Mohammed The Federal Government on Saturday appealed to organised Labour to shelve its planned strike, saying it will only bring more hardship to ordinary Nigerians. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the appeal in Lagos at a meeting with the Online Publishers Association of Nigeria The News Agency of Nigeria …

…as death toll rises to 30 ….Buhari, Ortom, ACF shocked, N/East Elders say military at breaking point …Gov laments ambush By Johnbosco Agbakwuru and Joseph Erunke, Abuja, Peter Duru, Makurdi Nigerians are angrily reacting to the jihadist attack on the convoy of Governor Babagana Umaru Zulum, which death toll rose to 30 yesterday. Sources told AFP …

Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment …Govs meet labour leaders, to parley Buhari …Lai Mohammed warns action will hurt common man …IPMAN disowns industrial action By Henry Umoru      & Johnbosco Agbakwuru AS part of the last-minute moves to stop nationwide strike and mass protest scheduled for tomorrow by Labour, governors under the aegis …

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b4aRMJVL4?rel=0] This statement leads to the question, What exactly is wrong with Lagos? Is Nigeria really ready for 21st-century politics? Also read: Ikwenene/Ujode Road in Delta: NDDC has failed us, residents cry out (VIDEO) Vanguard News The post EDO IS NOT LAGOS: Short statement but very deep! (VIDEO) appeared first on Vanguard News.

Jonathan (L) and Bha Ndaw (R) Bah Ndaw, a retired colonel who has been designated Mali’s interim president following last month’s coup, made his first public appearance on Thursday, meeting a regional mediator, AFP reporters saw. Ndaw, 70, met former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, in Bamako on a mission for the 15-nation bloc ECOWAS, on the …

The Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), on Saturday, held a memorial service for the 165 military officers who died in a plane crash in 1992 at Ejigbo on the outskirts of Lagos. The Nigeria Air Force C-130 plane crashed on Sept. 26, 1992 killing all the passengers and crew members. The News Agency …

The Community and Social Development Project (CSDP), an initiative of the Federal Government with support from the World Bank, spent N90 billion on community projects in 30 states from 2009 to date, an official has said. Dr Abdulkarim Obaje, National Coordinator of the CSDP, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the goal …