Day: November 15, 2017

Food Prices Nose Dive, Hits 13-month Low

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Data made available by the National Bureau of Statistics show that food inflation recorded the lowest month on month movement since September 2016. According to the Core Price Index for October 2017 released by the bureau on Wednesday, the country’s inflation rate stands at 15.91% from the 15.98% recorded in September 2017. “The consumer price index (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 15.91 percent (year-on-year) in October 2017. “This was 0.07 percent points lower than the rate recorded in September (15.98) percent making it the ninth consecutive disinflation (slowdown in…

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Report: Malami Met With Maina In Dubai Before Controversial Reinstatement

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Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has reportedly said he met with Abdulrasheed Maina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in 2016. According to The Nation, he disclosed this to the senate ad hoc committee probing the reinstatement of Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform Team (PTPT), into the civil service. Maina is accused of a multi-billion naira pension fraud. After fleeing the country in 2013, he was reinstated under controversial circumstances and promoted to the level of a director in the ministry of interior.…

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5 Useful Tips To Overcome Binge Eating

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The temptation to binge can indeed be one of the hardest things to overcome. However, there are some useful tips that can help deal with this temptation and help you eventually overcome it. Jumia Food, Nigeria’s No. 1 online food ordering platform, shares 5 useful tips to deal with binge eating. Keep Record of What You Eat It is easier to deal with binge eating when you’re mindful of what you eat. Keeping record of what you eat in a food diary can help you do just that.   Explore…

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4 Simple Ways To Handle A Bad Roommate

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Having to deal with a bad  roommate can really be tiring and aggravating. However, there are ways of dealing with a bad roommate that will make the situation less of an ordeal for you. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 simple ways to handle a bad roommate. Decide to Rise Above It Dealing with a bad roommate can easily become a power struggle mired with pettiness, antagonism and immaturity. This is unnecessary and will pay you much more to make a decision to rise above it all…

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5 Points To Protect Your Website From Hackers

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With a handful of individuals and organisations now heavily utilising websites as their databank and to do business, it can be compromised anytime especially if it is insecure. The consequences of running a website that can be breached include loss of sensitive data and customers to your competitors; it may be defaced and hackers may set up a temporary web server to perform illegal activities. On this premise, Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares security tips that will help you protect your website from hackers. Keep web scripts…

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Naira Remains Strong As CBN Pumps In $195m

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The Central Bank of Nigeria has continued its sustenance of FOREX liquidity by injecting another $195 million into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market, even as the Naira maintains its strength. The $195 million intervention was made on Monday, November 13, 2017. Figures released by the Bank show that it offered the total sum of $100million to the Wholesale segment, while the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) segment received the sum of $50 million. The invisibles segment comprising tuition, medical payments and Basic Travel Allowance (BTA) received $45 million. The Bank’s…

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Emefiele Lists Gains of Forex Restriction On 41 Items

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…outlines projections for 2018 The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele says the dogged implementation of the Bank’s policy, which restricts importers of certain items access to foreign exchange from the Nigerian Forex market, has led to improvements in the domestic production of those items and a reduction in Nigeria’s import bill. Delivering the 2017 Annual Bankers’ Dinner of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) in Lagos at the weekend, Mr. Emefiele asserted that local manufacturers were recording profits and major boosts to their revenue…

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2017, Nigerian Army And Memorable Service To Nationhood By Nkechi Odoma

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The familiar Nigerian jargon, “ember” months signify several things to most Nigerians, especially, those in big or miniature leadership positions in the country. The birth of a new year comes with multiple expectations and resolutions at personal and official levels. New Years are new in the sense of fresh focus, resolves, fresh strengths, new thinking, new budgets, new experiences and actions or accomplishments. In Nigeria, governments are most hit with the fever of a New Year and its ending. Promises are made and for nearly 12 months, the masses watch…

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National Career Fair Moves To Provide 6000 Jobs Nationwide

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Nigeria’s biggest annual symposium on career information, business development, employment and economic opportunities for students, young professionals and SMEs in Nigeria, National Career Fair, NCF, has moved to provide 6000 fresh jobs for unemployed graduates nationwide. The annual event which is back for its 6th edition is designed to reduce the growing unemployment rate in Nigeria and respond to the growing needs of the society- student undergraduates, graduates through an all-encompassing career information program; and has this year introduced a Nationwide campaign tagged “#EmployAnIntern” in a bid to create instant…

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