Year: 2017

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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S’South APC Forum Visits AMAC Chairman, Pledges Continuous Support

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A group, South-South All Progressives Congress Stakeholders Forum and other APC stalwarts today lauded the Abuja Municipal Area Council Chairman, Hon. Musa Abdullahi Candido for the all inclusiveness in his administration in line with equity and fairness; calling on other Area Councils to emulate the stride. The group while singling out the Executive Chairman as the best in the FCT said his records and achievements thus far underscores his avowed commitment to entrench good governance at the grassroots level. The National Chairman of the group, Comrade Abdulwahab Ekekhide A. who…

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25 Cities Commit to become Emissions Neutral by 2050 to Deliver on their Share of the Paris Agreement

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…C40 to support 9 Sub-Saharan African cities to create …Paris Compliant Climate Action Plans, thanks to German Government The mayors of 25 pioneering cities, including Accra, Durban & Cape Town, representing 150 million citizens, have pledged to develop and begin implementing more ambitious climate action plans before the end of 2020 to deliver emissions neutral and climate resilient cities by 2050. These plans will ensure the cities deliver on their share of emissions reductions required to realise the ambition of the Paris Agreement. In concrete terms, these climate action plans,…

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Delivering Decent Low-Cost Housing – The DNA Option By Engr Aju Ogar

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After food, shelter is the next vital physical need of man and woman too. So this places a huge concern on all concerned more so government. I wish to clarify that at this point i will be using the terms housing and shelter interchangeably in the course of this write up. A Calculated Pause (to ponder). I am not trying to reinvent the wheel here but to highlight some little unique facts – some special angle to construction. To enable us step into this new desired mental environment, I humbly…

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