With less than seven months for Nigeria to be declared polio free by the World Health Organisation, WHO, the Lagos State government is targeting over four million children for vaccination against polio and other childhood killer diseases as part of efforts to consolidate the progress on polio eradication.

Beer brewers in Nigeria have deployed new marketing tactics that have delineated consumers along brand line as a way of edging out competing brand (s). A report by the brewery companies indicated that the industry recorded a marked decline in growth in the third quarter of 2014, this was attributed to pressures on household income and heightened security concerns which affected consumption pattern.

Former Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, yesterday, stoked the controversy over the alleged interim government arrangement when he declared that he had evidence that national leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was wooed to be part of the ING by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The World Meteorological Organization, ,WMO, has okayed the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET)’s Seasonal Rainfall Predictions (SRP) as a successful product that could be adopted by countries around the world This is also as NiMET predicted late rainfall and early cessation for this year’s weather forecast while it foretold that most part of the country will experience warmer-than-normal temperature.

Evangeline Wiles is the Managing Director of Nigeria’s pioneer online marketplace, Kaymu.com.ng. By January, 2015, the marketplace marked two years anniversary in Nigeria, celebrating their successes in pulling over 20, 000 SMEs to their platform and expanding to five other cities across the country. In this Interview with JONAH NWOKPOKU, she argues that efficient delivery system remains the backbone of e-commerce.

Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Akon Eyakenyi, has reiterated the commitment of the federal government to the provision of affordable housing in the country. She gave the commendation at the commissioning of the 102 units ministerial pilot housing scheme in Suleja Niger State, which was fully funded by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN).

Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has said that youth entrepreneurship is a key to its policy, reiterating readiness to continue inspiring youth by engaging them in activities that will explore and expose their inert and creative talents. Speaking at a meeting to flag off the Child Live Painting and Literary Arts Competition, titled “The Road to Sambisa” Executive Director, Marketing, Mr. Benson Evbuomwan, said that the company will continue to support initiatives and programmes that will impact positively in the lives of the youth.

LAGOS — Lagos State government is set to commence operation at the just completed first ultra-modern cardiac and renal centre at Gbagada area of the state. The centre, according to the government, was aimed at ensuring local management of cadio-vascular conditions as coronary heart disease as well as chronic kidney diseases.

The perennial crash of crude oil prices and the exposure of the Nigerian economy to financial crisis has pushed stakeholders and policy makers attention to non oil revenue generation. One sustainable source of foreign exchange generation is export of manufactures, solid minerals, and agricultural output with value addition. The Nigerian Export Import Bank is fast becoming the center of attraction to government and exporters to push the non oil foreign exchange earning drive through trade financing and productive efforts of exportable products from Nigeria

Nigeria’s online shopping mall, Shotpomydoor has announced free ingternational shipping services for customers shopping from the United States of America. The free shipping promo, according to Shoptomydoor, will apply to customers who purchase virtually anything from the USA with the exclusion of cars, heavy industrial machineries and a few other items, and will run for purchases made from the 12th to 30th of March, 2015.