PEOPLE like to know a little about you before meeting you in per son. If for instance, you are prospecting someone online or via social media, the first thing he/she will probably do is to search your full names and company name on Google. The basis of every relationship, including business and emotional relationship is trust.

Insurance is a way of managing risks. When you buy insurance, you transfer the cost of a potential loss to the insurance company in exchange for a fee, known as the premium.

BENIN—FORMER Minister of State for Works and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Chris Ogiemwonyi, has urged Nigerians to boycott the March 28, 2015 presidential elections if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, bows to the pressure to abandon the use of card readers for the elections.

Being your own boss might be made to look easy when you are on the outside looking in, but it is not as easy as it may seem. Like a lot of other business women, Mrs Toyin Nwaokolo is one of those women who are set to beat the odds when it comes to her business. Determination to succeed where others might have failedhas made her stand firm in her business even when the economy dictates otherwise. In her chat with Vanguard, she tells more.

AFrica’s technology market has clearly emerged the beautiful bride toasted by well established global business organisations. Reasons for the romance are not far- fetched. With American and European markets attaining saturation, coupled with economic and recession issues, it makes the most business sense to approach a great continent with young, aggressive, educated people, who want to make a difference and are hungry for technology.

THE Minister of Com munication Technolo gy, Dr. Omobola Johnson, has said that1.4 million students in 27 federal universities are now connected to internet as a result of the ministry’s efforts. This feat, according to the Minister is a collaborative effort of the ministry with the Ministry of education and the World Bank’s STEP-B project in the deployment of fibre-optic cables to universities and affiliated medical colleges, Nigerian Research and Education Network, NG-REN.

Goodluck Support Group, GSG, Ogun State chapter, have called on Nigerians to vote en mass for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election for continuity and consolidation. State coordinator of GSG, Alhaji Sulaiman Abiola, said President Jonathan had recorded great achievements in the economy, social infrastructure, agriculture and security that qualify him for another term to consolidate on these achievements, and move the country forward.

Hope dimmed, yesterday, on the rescue of abducted Chibok girls from Boko Haram terrorists as the Chief of Army Staff, General Kenneth Minimah, declared that despite the liberation of some towns and villages in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, the troops have not been able to establish the whereabouts of the schoolgirls.

WARRI—AS the rainy season sets in, authorities of Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, commenced a three-day clearing of the canal connecting Igbudu Market to the Spare Parts Market on Lower Erejuwa Road, Warri, with a resolve to ensure that all blockages in the canal and drains around the market were evacuated.

A group, Movement for Credible and Free Elections, MCFR, has condemned recent violent clashes among political parties and their supporters in Ikwuano and Obingwa Local Government areas in Abia State.