Recently, job seekers patronized cyber cafes in their numbers to fill online application for recruitment into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC. In the process, some of them reportedly paid an unspecified amount into designated bank accounts while others made cash payments to some persons acclaimed to be consultants to the Corps.

Telecoms firms, especially mobile phone operators (both CDMA and GSM) had, in my opinion, a hard time last year. I particularly pity the CDMA operators who lost market share the way a dead fowl being dressed for consumption loses its feathers in hot water.

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, STI, has upgraded its core information technology infrastructure to enable it drive new business model, deliver cutting edge services to customers and ensure a sustained improvement in its top and bottom line financial figures.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, turned his attention to ethno-religious groups in the country and urged the Federal Government to ban them as a way of curbing insecurity in the country.

Mobile devices have infiltrated nearly every aspect of people’s lives. The amount of personal and corporate data stored on these devices makes securing the information on the device a priority.

Harmattan is one of the seasons in Nigeria. The Harmattan is a dry and dusty West African trade wind. It blows south from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea between the end of November and the middle of March. There are so many challenges one could face during this period like cracking of lips or breaking of lips, cold, dry skin, catarrh, cough and a lot more but among all, cold is the major problem.

FTN Cocoa Processors Plc has promised improved return on investment to shareholders in the nearest future and consequently advised them to exercise patience as the company was making every effort to weather the storm.

TREPIDATION has gripped members of Chikere family of Ngwa community in Abia State over what they described as mysterious happenings which has claimed four members of the family.

FOUR top officials of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta State were, yesterday, arraigned before a magistrate court in Asaba , on a 15-count charge of allegedly forging a West African Examination Council, WAEC, result purportedly belonging to the former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr. Olisa Imegwu, as a ploy to stop him from contesting the House of Representatives election in 2011.

IMPLEMENTATION of the Community Service, Women and Youth Empowerment Scheme, CSWYE, under the Federal Government’s Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, has been flagged off in Rivers State.

Former Green Eagles goalkeeper, Emmanuel Okala, on Tuesday said that there was no cause for alarm over the injury sustained by the Super Eagles goalkeeper Austin Ejide.

There were indications yesterday that the amber light on the patrol van used by a Police team on distress call in Ajah area of Lagos, weekend, aided the rampaging robbers in identifying the van, before releasing volleys of bullets which killed three of the Policemen.

Property worth billions of Naira was salvaged yesterday, when fire gutted parts of the ever busy Ikeja City Mall, Alausa, which left some customers and workers at the Mall scampering for safety.

ILORIN—Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali, yesterday, said that only 18.45% of the candidates who applied for admission in the last JAMB examination were offered.

Former Angola coach Luis Oliveira Goncalves has criticised the Palancas Negra’s decision to head to the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations without a goalkeeper coach.