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The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Wednesday announced that the process of the recruitment of 10,000 policemen as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari at the National Security Summit last year in Abuja has commenced. A statement by the spokesman of Police Service Commission (PSC) Ikechukwu Ani said the Commission had on Tuesday, March 22nd in Abuja unveiled the internet website portal for the recruitment. Ani said the chairman of the Commission Mike Okiro who unveiled the portal at a ceremony attended by the management team of the Commission announced that the portal will be opened to the public on the 1st of April, 2016 which indicates the commencement of the recruitment exercise. Okiro said the unveiling of the portal was in actualization of the presidential directive on the recruitment of the 10,000 Police Men. He also said the Commission considers the exercise remarkable since there has not been recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force for more than five years due to...

Guinness Nigeria has announced the launch of its new Orijin variant, the Orijin Zero Non-alcoholic Orijin drink, aimed at meeting the needs of non-alcoholic consumers in that market segment. Describing the product as another innovation coming from the company’s stables,  its Marketing Director, Mr Obinna Anyalebechi stated that the idea to come up with Orijin Zero Non-alcoholic drink was informed by the need to also cater for the needs of consumers, desirous of the bitter-sweet taste of the drink, without its alcoholic content. He expressed the determination of the company to ensure that the new product is sold at the prescribed price in the open market, noting that one of the ways of ensuring this is to put a price tag on the cans as a way of making sure that they are not sold above the recommended retail price. According to him, the Orijin Non-Alcoholic drink, which is a product of consumer insight, would go a long way in further boosting the profile of the company as an o...

In recognition of our commitment to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and youth development, Heritage Bank has been adopted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as the pilot bank for the Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme (YIEDP). The programme is aimed at harnessing the latent entrepreneurial spirit in the teeming youth by providing them timely and affordable loans to implement their business ideas. It further provides a sustainable mechanism to stimulate employment, contribute to the nation’s non-oil Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and address the challenge of youth restiveness. The following youth, aged 18 – 35, are eligible under this scheme: I. Serving National Youth Corps members II. Non-NYSC members (not more than five years post National Youth Service) Qualified Business Sectors: 1. Agro - Allied 2. Food Processing / Preservation 3. Arts & Crafts 4. Manufacturing / Cottage Industry 5. Information & Communication Technology (ICT) 6....

Scientists have warned that humans should brace for the emergence of a new virus that could be deadlier than Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or Zika. The scientists in a study published on March 14, 2016, edition of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, titled “SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence” said outbreaks from zoonotic sources represent a threat to both human as well as the global economy. A zoonotic disease is a disease that can be passed between animals and humans. The scientists are already bracing for a potential outbreak of the new SARS-like virus. They warn the new virus, called WIV1-CoV, may induce the same results in humans as SARS – starting out with flu-like symptoms and accelerating rapidly to pneumonia. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Bat SARS-like coronavirus WIV1, (Bat SL-CoV-WIV1) also sometimes called SARS-like coronavirus WIV1 that is W1V1-CoV, is a newly identified ...

An archaic game of beating with long canes was recently played at a remote area in Osun state during which several degrees of injuries were inflicted on the participants that were cheered by supporters. A flogging competition took place at Ipetu-Ijesha among two notable streets namely; Odoise and Ifofin. Each street has representatives (competitors), so the representatives came out and started flogging themselves in turns. The more a participant could withstand a particular session, the higher the points earned by such participant. Whichever street  that won will be given a price  from the king according to a social media user who attended the event. The flogging game in progress Checkout some pictures below from the beating competition below:

THE GENESIS OF THE ISSUE The issue was the fact that I was in Psquare and it felt like I was in fear. If I don’t do this, Psquare will break-up, if I don’t do that, Psquare will scatter.’Four years ago, I told Jude that he needs to step down as our manager, because I didn’t want to disrespect him as a brother, but this is business, we have to structure it. And Jude said to me that there’s a way I’ll talk to him, and he’ll slap me. So I kept quiet’. ‘So, a few hours after, Paul came to me and said if I want Jude to step down it’s not a problem, but it’ll mean that he (Paul) will go solo. The the first time word got out about Psquare breaking up, a lot of people called us, senators, governors, and people like that. In fact three of us were once in a private jet to go and see someone who wanted to resolve our issues and we didn’t speak to each other all through the flight. At the end of the day, I swallowed my pride for peace to reign and allowed Jude to remain as our manager’. O...

S aharaReporters has obtained a list of at least 91 people tied to influential or highly placed Nigerians who were recently offered juicy appointments by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a hiring process that was highly secretive. Indeed the Political cabal that once held the nation by the jugular had only let go to latch onto another spot that is no less deadly than when its grip was strangulating the nation’s economy. Our worries should be magnified at this point because the actions of the cabal are now deeply insidious as it has again activated its sleeper cells within our Nations apex financial institution.  Not only is the old status quo resisting change, it is also fighting efforts at reforms and the anti-corruption campaign spreading it's Web to the very crusaders of change. Nigerians must also not continue in that unacceptable tradition of seeing this problem as that of the less privileged and the poor, where only the few influential and highly connected get in to ch...