Leading Technology Company, Cisco, recently released a study indicating that 75% of businesses worldwide will be digitized by 2020. However, only 30% of such businesses will ultimately be successful. Further insight on the study lays emphasis on the future of Internet of Everything (IoE) in Africa, raising fears against the rise of cyber-crime.

DAYS before President Muhammadu Buhari embarked on his official visit to America at the invitation of the US President, Barack Obama, many Nigerians appeared anxious. It was clear they could not be sure what would be the outcome of that visit. Their anxiety level had been raised by some commentators who could neither see nor be bothered by what the trip would achieve.

Akwa Ibom State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Obong Paul Ekpo, yesterday, raised alarm over the spate of harassment of its members and the manner the Department of State Services, DSS, was aiding and abetting the opposition at the venue of the electoral tribunal currently sitting in Abuja.

Warri is considered an important city in Delta State and in fact prides itself as a leading oil city. The reason for this is not far to seek. Various multinational oil companies and several subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Companies, NNPC, have offices and also operate from there. But in spite of the importance which oil has conferred on it, Warri may not be your ideal tourist destination as it is fast becoming a city of refuse and filth.

ABUJA—National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and the party have at least 100 days of honeymoon before embarking on the implementation of “change” programme.

ACUPUNCTURE has been recognized as a fertility enhancing approach through its restoration of balance to the body and the internal systems responsible for regulating hormones.
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine involving inserting thin needles into the body and it’s based on the theory that energy, flows through and around your body along pathways called meridians.
Nordica Fertility Centre’s Infertility Counselor/Acupuncturist, Dr. Esther Odiete, at the Physicians Roundtable at in Lagos, recently with theme: ‘Transforming Infertility Treatment- In line with global advancements’ affirmed that acupuncture could benefit IVF patients beyond potentially improving rates of IVF pregnancy success.
Odiete said by giving a patient acupuncture before IVF is done has resulted into positive results from practical experience and several studies globally.
She affirmed that acupuncture stimulates the neurotransmitters that trigger the production of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone, which controls the menstrual cycle and a woman’s ovulation.
It is also believed to stimulate blood flow to the uterus and boost the production of endogenous opioids, inducing the body to relax.
Odiete said acupuncture is best before embarking on IVF, during stimulation, before and after embryo transfer. She said countless benefits of acupuncture include reduction of anxiety, stress, and hormones secreted during stressful situations which significantly decrease fertility.
It also increases blood flow to the uterus, thus thickening the uterine lining, which improves the chances of an ovum implanting on the uterine wall and normalises the systems that regulate ovulation, especially in women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, PCOS.
“Acupuncture could benefit IVF patients beyond potentially improving rates of IVF pregnancy success, noting that it is relatively safe and inexpensive and may aid patients in coping with the emotional and psychological challenges related to IVF and infertility, she said
“It regulates the menstruation and improve ovulation. Improves egg quality by nourishing the follicles with adequate blood supply. It terms of physiological effects, it increases circulation , decreased inflammation, relief from pain, relief of muscle spasms, increased T-cell count which stimulates the immune system.
Dr. Abayomi Ajayi on his part said: “The physicians roundtable is to bring doctors together to share knowledge and ideas on the latest happenings in the world of IVF. It is supposed to be a quarterly programme and we will make more regular. People are more aware of infertility in Nigeria and are coming out for treatment.
“You know there is a difference between awareness and knowledge. Although the knowledge is still very superficial and that is why we really want to address. To make everybody to understand IVF, know what to expect from it and nobody can take you for a ride in the name of IVF.
He added: “The idea of this project was five years ago, I was in the USA and made some inquiries and I observed that acupuncture was beneficial and came with the question what can I do? So we had to send someone to China. But my surprise is the way people took it. They can see the benefits.”
Nordica, Lagos registered about 600 new patients every year with over 500 treatments in 2014.

The African Development Bank has held a high-level consultation with the Dutch government about developing a platform for providing women with market information to enhance their participation in agricultural trade. The discussions held at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan recently focused on designing, developing and implementing an Agricultural Trade and Investment Market Intelligence Platform.

RESIDENTS of Jos, the Plateau State capital, are not new to calamity: from politico-religious crises to bomb attacks and isolated killings, the trend is well known. As the city was grappling with the recent bomb blasts whose survivors are still receiving treatment in the hospital, another tragedy occurred in the early hours of Saturday as a result of gas leakage from the Lamingo Water Treatment Plant which left eight people dead and over 100 others hospitalised.

To—inculcate the habit of cleanliness and observing proper hygiene in school children and their teachers, the National Orientation Agency, NOA, has taken its Campaign for Hygiene and Proper Refuse Disposal to secondary and primary Schools in Anambra State, with the Onitsha South Local Government Area NOA flagging off the campaign weekend at Urban Girls Secondary School, Fegge, and Zik Avenue Primary School Fegge, Onitsha respectively.

Investors can now buy and sell the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Limited N26 billion bond on the trading platform of the Financial Market Dealers Quote (FMDQ). The bond, which will mature in 2021 with a fixed annual interest rate of 14.25 percent, was the first to be issued under the N100 billion debt issuance programme of the bank. FCMB Capital Markets Limited, the investment banking subsidiary of FCMB Group Plc, is the issuing house and sponsor of the bond.

MR. Sam Amuka, the widely acclaimed doyen of Nigerian journalism, easily comes across as a man who is contented to remain in the shadows of his prodigious achievements. But Uncle Sam, as he is fondly called, certainly will have nowhere to hide tomorrow, Thursday, July 30 when leading media professionals and industry chiefs gather to celebrate and honour him with a book launch and lecture on the future of journalism.

By Austin Ogwuda Enugu—Four different groups which styled themselves as anti-corruption groups from the  South East region yesterday staged a peaceful rally in Enugu calling for  acceleration of trial of former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu and his other colleagues that served during General Olusegun Obasanjo’s era. The groups comprising of South East […]

Heartland may be forced to call off plans to return to their home ground of Dan Anyiam Stadium in Owerri because of an industrial action by civil servants in Imo State.

– President Muhammadu Buhari was commended for appointing on Tuesday Brigadier-General Paul T. Boroh (rtd.) as the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta militants.

About forty-three years ago, I traveled through Bida, then in North-Western State and now in Niger State, on my way by road from Lagos to Kaduna. I was struck by one person’s attempt to achieve a building structure with a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor plus roof using mud walls and timber for the floor levels and the roof structure. I observed that partial collapse of the building had occurred from the second floor to the ground floor.