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  • Jumia Partners MasterCard Dell Others Marks Anniversary

    Jumia Nigeria has announced its partnership with MasterCard to use MasterCard's Internet Gateway Service to make credit card payments safer and easier for its customers. The company, which marked its one year anniversary, said it was nearing exclusive partnerships with Dell, Intel and Nokia, among others, to increase customer satisfaction and experience. A release made available to ...

  • UBA Re-Launches Ruby Account for Women

    The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has repackaged its Ruby Account product that was specifically designed to cater for women. The bank explained that the gender specific personal current account product was specially designed and targeted at discerning women. Speaking at an event for customers in Lagos, the Deputy Managing Director, UBA, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, said the product has been redesigned ...

  • PDP NGF Crises Are About 2015 Says Jang

    The Chairman of a faction of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) and Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, Wednesday disclosed that the crises in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the NGF were as a result of the divergent interests on who becomes the president of the country in 2015. Jang made the revelation at the end of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting held at the Banquet ...

  • NGO Empowers 20 Underprivileged Persons

    Twenty out of a good number of underprivileged individuals living in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have received various forms of help from a Non-governmental organisation, the Ijaw Community in Abuja (IJCA). IJCA, which also doubles as a socio-cultural platform for all sons and daughters of the Ijaw nation that are resident in Abuja, presented various gift items and monies which it ...

  • More Important Than Football

    PROTESTS in Brazil's biggest cities are over the billions of Dollars the country is pouring into preparations for the 2014 World Cup, the first in Brazil in 60 years. Hungry, unemployed youth are on the streets – they consider their future more important than the FIFA Confederation Cup, the 2014 World Cup, and the Olympic Games in 2016. "If your kid gets sick, take him to the ...

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Safety Last! [Blu-Ray]

Safety Last! [Blu-Ray]

It is one of the most iconic images of film comedy, and quite possibly the most iconic image of the silent era: Harold Lloyd, with his round owl glasses and straw hat, dangling perilously from the hands of a clock on the side of a towering building in downtown Los Angeles. Even those who ... ...

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  • Kidnapped 82-yr-old man buried alive in “evil forest”

    BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASEBENIN-- THE remains of an 82-year-old retired Inspector of Police, Elder Samuel Ekhoruyimen, who was allegedly abducted by some youths of Ewudu village in Ovia North- East Local Government Area of Edo State have been discovered in an ‘eveil forest’ near the village. However, his remains suggest that he was buried alive in a grave dug before his abduction. Pa ...

  • Benin opposition denounces election fraud

    Following a chaotic election process, Benin's government claims incumbent President Thomas Boni Yayi won the first round outright. Opposition leader Adrien Houngbedji cries ...

  • Issoufou wins Niger model vote

    The elections in Niger, gained by long-time opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou, are described as a "model" for Africa. Also the democratic transition process is ...

  • Benin protesters won demanded vote delay

    Benin last month saw mass protests, demanding a delay of the elections planned for 27 February as 1.4 million voters were missing in the electoral roll. Now, the Constitutional Court has given them ...

  • Ondo female legislator suspended over fetish objects possession

    By DAYO JOHNSON AKURE -- A female member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Fola Olasehinde was, yesterday, suspended indefinitely for being in possession of fetish objects including miniature coffins. The suspended member is representing Ose council area of the state constituency. Her indefinite suspension was announced on the floor of the House by the Deputy Speaker, Dare Emiola after a ...

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