The claims of a 36-year-old guard attached to a private security company in Lagos that he was neglected by the company after he sustained injuries from a bullet wound has been debunked by the company, Pahek Security. The company stated that the guard was offered adequate medical services but he absconded from the hospital and disappered to his vilage only to re-surface a year later to make frivolous claims. They further stated that the guard’s story was convoluted giving room for doubts over his claims adding that he was gainfully offered empoyment in spite of the state of his health.

A new school year is starting and this gives us the opportunity to take a look at how we prepare our children for an uncertain future. About 30 or so years ago, one of the political parties, the Unity Party of Nigeria, had a four-cardinal programme centred on free education, free health, full employment and integrated rural development. One thing that was noticeable then was that most politicians spoke about the first two items in the programme but said very little about the other two items. In some instances, the politicians could not remember what the other two items were when they were making public presentations.

Samsung electronics has disclosed that BBM, the social network is now available for free download in its GALAXY smartphones across Africa from the Google play store.

AT the just concluded world cybersecurity conference held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, IT experts, Dame Dr. Patience Goodluck Jonathan, the ITU Champion on Child Online Protection and over 1000 experts from various sectors of the economy rose up from the forum pushing for the quick passage of long awaited Cyber security bill 2013.

Some of these militating factors would include – drastically low per capita income, unemployment & high incidence of job losses, poor and or dwindling economic environment and activities; poor pay and reward system within the Nigerian landscape including failure or ignorance of insurance buyers to appreciate the essence of premium payment and the implications of non-payment under an insurance contract among several other factors.