Gloo.ng unveils plan to capture online grocery market
Chief Executive Officer of Gloo.ng, Dr Olumide Olusanya has said that he aims to capture at least 5 percent of Nigeria’s online grocery market in the next five years and to cover the whole of Lagos by September 2014.
Gloo.ng is an online grocery store.
Blast rocks city of Kano
A suspected car bomb ripped through a crowded entertainment spot in the north Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday, witnesses said.
Itsekiri graduates reject Chevron’s 12 training slots
THE National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, under the leadership of Mr. Lucky Futughe, has rejected the 12 new Ogere training slots recently allotted to the Itsekiri by Chevron Nigeria Limited, saying they were grossly inadequate and negate the principle on which the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU, was anchored.
I-G orders tight security in Benue schools over Boko Haram’s threat to kidnap boys
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubaka, on Sunday ordered the strengthening of security in all boarding schools in and around Makurdi.
Sports, key element of national transformation – TAN
Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, has said the sports sector remained a key element of the paradigm of national transformation enunciated by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Monarch, 14 others in Police net over forest reserve trespass
No fewer than 15 persons, including a traditional ruler (name withheld), have been arrested for allegedly stealing government’s property in the forest reserves, which have been designated as no‑go‑areas across the state.
Oil tanker hijack: Navy kills 2 suspected pirates during shoot-out
Naval personnel attached to NNS Benin and NNS Ikot-Abasi, recently engaged in a gun battle with sea pirates who hijacked a vessel with 17 foreign crew members at the Lagos anchorage, killing two of them in the process.
#BringBackOurGirls: Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Gibson, others held up signs
EXPENDABLES FOR ABDUCTED NIGERIAN GIRLS: After a fun-filled morning of riding tanks and cracking jokes, the cast of “The Expendables 3” took a far more serious tone on the red carpet when they brandished signs sporting #BringBackOurGirls.
Ekiti polls: 11,600, police, security operatives expected – CP
The Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Felix Uyanna, has assured that the Police will not condone any compromise during the June 21 governorship election just as he vowed that the election will be violence-free.
Wenger hails FA Cup victory as Arsenal’s most important trophy
Arsène Wenger described Arsenal’s 3-2 victory over Hull City in the FA Cup final as a “big moment of happiness”, and even went as far as to suggest that the club’s first major piece of silverware in nine years was the most important in his time at the club.
Corruption a clog in the wheel of iNigeria’s devt -Don
Dr Kwaghmande Joseph, a sociology lecturer at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, says Nigeria must tackle corruption in order to improve its image in the international community.
