Nigeria’s advertising industry recovered in 2013 from the slide it recorded in 2012, as the media spend by advertisers across the country amounted to N103.8 billion, representing an increase of N12.95 billion over the N91.9 billion recorded in the previous year.

Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Dr. ‘Femi Thomas says the Scheme is set to launch Community Based Health Insurance Programme, CBHIP, in at least three LGAs of each state of the Federation by the end of the year.

I don’t like early-morning phone-calls, but this one was a distress-call from Femi-Kevin. “Do you know that the doctor at First Consultants that contracted Ebola is Dr. Adadevoh?” he asked. He had to tell me this twice because his call woke me up. I tried not to believe it. In a very selfish and foolish manner, I wished it were not her but someone else. But if it were someone else, that someone else would also be somebody.

In the effort towards better care and health for the elderly, the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, FIIRO, Oshodi, in collaboration with Dave Omokaro Foundation, DOF, teamed-up with stakeholders to assess the welfare of the elderly and commenced review of policies that would advance their health and well-being into old age.

CENTRE for Civil Education, popularly known as Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, yesterday, criticised the deployment of the military to police electoral process.
It also challenged the electoral umpire on free and fair election come 2015 general elections.

People Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Delta State, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has urged the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, the umbrella body of the Urhobo ethnic nationality in the state, not make the blunder of choosing a wrong governorship flag bearer for the 2015 poll.

Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa, CGGEJA, has said it has uncovered plans by some disgruntled politicians to blackmail and ridicule the Adams Oshiomhole-led administration in Edo State through paid demonstrations, protests and orchestrated media sympathies.

Hundreds of troops in Gamboru Ngala and Banki towns reportedly fled their duty posts into Cameroon, yesterday, after they ran short of ammunition in their encounter with Boko Haram terrorists who stormed the two communities with sophisticated weapons in search of security operatives.

Arising from the just concluded 44th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) with the theme “Construction Industry Development: Collaboration, Innovations and Capacity Building” which held in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, professional builders have called for the formation of a consortium of experts in the building industry in order to encourage and improve construction project delivery

As part of the Cashless Initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Computer Warehouse Group Plc has extended the MTN XaaS platform to power the Diamond Y’ello Account in collaboration with Diamond Bank and MTN Nigeria. MTN XaaS runs on indigenous software from Computer Warehouse Group Plc designed to provide efficient cloud-based banking services.