The Ebola epidemic currently ramapaging in the Tano River countries of West Africa is showing the potential to gradually wipe out whole families. A boy who watched as his parents succumbed to the virus and ran away from home has now been diagnosed with the virus. The 11-year-old boy who was identified Ebola positive at Freetown’s Ola During Children’s Hospital has since been transferred to the Kailahan quarantine centre, leaving anxiety in his wake. The medical team at the children’s hospital are full of trepidation that they may have caught the Ebola virus from the boy, as…
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MOVIES No Good Deed Taraji P. Henson, Idris Elba, et al. It’s average, it’s black and here is the best part… It’s winning! As Guardians of the Galaxy continued to lead the box-office un-interrupted a lot of people waited for the HIT movie that’ll send the Marvel comics heroes below, little did they know that all it’ll take is an Idris Elba and a Taraji combo. With Elba just coming off a not-too-successful Nelson Mandela movie and Taraji not being too superb in “Think Like a Man Too”, we all didn’t see this coming. The movie opened at the top…
By Alex C The Debt Management Office (DMO) sold N100 billion ($610.1 million) worth of bonds at higher yields for three- and 10-year paper while it was able to offer lower yields on 20-year benchmark debt. The DMO, on Thursday, said it sold N15 billion of three-year debt at 11.49 percent, 37 basis points higher than 11.12 percent the paper fetched in August. It also sold N50 billion of 10-year debt at 12.23 percent against 12.22 percent previously. The debt office sold N35 billion worth of 20-year paper at 12.29 percent, lower than 12.38 percent at the previous auction. All…
By Alex C Nigeria’s leading social innovation centre Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) is set to boost its incubation program with the launch of a $500,000 seed investment fund to support early stage start-ups over the next two years. CcHUB, which leverages software developers, organizations, etc., believes that start-ups will receive sums ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 to support business model experimentation and operations. It gave the name of initial beneficiaries of the seed program as Vacantboards, Truppr, Traclist, 500shops and GeniiGames. The announcement comes on the occasion of first anniversary of its incubation office which amongst other things provides entrepreneurs with…
By Alex C Revenue earnings from Nigeria’s entertainment and media industry are expected to hit an estimated $8.5 billion by 2018, a multinational advisory and auditing firm PwC report has revealed. The sector’s returns are expected to double 2013 figure of $4.0 billion at a CAGR of 16.1 percent. This figure, analysts say, is considered one of the fastest growth rates in the world. The Internet remains a key driver for Nigeria, where the number of mobile Internet subscribers is forecast to surge from 7.7 million in 2013 to 50.4 million in 2018. Television in the form of advertising and…
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The Women On Women Initiative in partnership with ROWEAD held a thought provoking and lively discussion at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island, Lagos. Chaired by Hon. Justice Victoria Okobi (Rtd), a predominantly female audience discussed the role of women in the pursuit of peace and unity in Nigeria. The event featured three renowned speakers, Professor Abiola Awoshika, Chief (Nze) Charles O Anyiam-Osigwe and Mrs Onari Duke, who presented their thoughts to the audience before a wider debate opened up. Professor Awoshika, spoke about the role of women in resolving the ethno-religious crisis currently gripping the nation.…
Like most people of his generation, President Yoweri Museveni was born at a time when hospital records of birth were not the norm. So unlike his children and grandchildren he cannot say for sure what his exact date of birth is. However he has adopted September 15, 1944 as his natal day after piecing together circumstantial information of his birth from his dear mum Esteri and an old lady with a sharp memory. President Museveni said that he “I was born approximately on September 15, 1944; there were no hospital records of my birth but from accounts from my mother…
A gun bought by loving father to protect his family against marauding armed robbers has bizzarely become the agent of self-execution of his son. Unaware that it was loaded the boy obviously clicked the trigger, possibly imitating what he had previously seen the father do while cleaning the gun. The boy’s mother had heard “a big bang in the family’s room” as she took care of her son’s little sisters in the evening at Ofankor, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital. “I blacked out when I attempted to verify the incident immediately after the bad news got relayed to me”,…