The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said Nigeria has only one active case of the infectious Ebola virus. Giving an update on government’s effort to contain the disease yesterday during a press-conference in Abuja, Chukwu said: “Today is the 37th day since the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was imported into Nigeria by a Liberian-American. As of today (yesterday), Nigeria has had 13 cases of EVD, including the index case.
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Over 196 youths organisations cutting across all the 21 local government areas in Adamawa State yesterday endorsed the aspiration of the acting Governor, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, to contest the October 11 by-election.

 The youth organisations under the Adamawa State chapter of National Youth Council of Nigeria, said the reason there are behind Fintiri’s endorsement was because of his effort to rescue the Adamawa people from abject poverty.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it would use its enormous grassroots connection to upstage the Peoples Democratic Party in the October 11 governorship by-election in Adamawa State. Speaking with journalists shortly after submitting his nomination form at the party’s headquarters in Abuja yesterday, one of the governorship aspirants, Senator Umoru Jibrila, said with the current popularity of the party, no power, not even the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, nor the influence of the presidency can help the PDP.
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The embattled Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, was yesterday impeached by members of the state House of Assembly. Onyebuchi impeachment followed the adoption of the report of the seven-man investigative panel set up by the state Chief Judge, Justice Innocent Umezurike, to look into the allegations of gross misconduct preferred against him by 22 out of 24 members of the assembly.
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The federal government has disclosed that the knowledge acquired from the recent rebasing exercise will help the country to grow and diversify the economy as well as increase job opportunities for the youths. The Vice-President, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, who represented President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday at an award ceremony by the National Productivity Centre for 15 individuals and three organisations in Abuja, said the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is now $510 billion, making it the largest economy in Africa and 26th in the world.
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Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited (SIAML), a wholly owned asset management subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, has concluded arrangements to float the Stanbic IBTC ETF 30 (“the Fund”), which opens on Monday, September 15, 2014 and closes on Wednesday, October 15, 2014. At the signing ceremony held in Lagos yesterday, directors of SIAML and all other professional parties signed the deal to issue 10,000,000 units of the Fund of 100 each at par (the “Offer”). The minimum subscription is 10,000 units and multiples of 5,000 units thereafter.
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Many of you work at least 8 hours a day and see the same people every day. Therefore, it makes sense to become friends with your co-workers. However, have you ever thought whether your work friends are your real friends? There is a difference between your real friends, who will be there for you in your tough times or whom you enjoy inviting over to your house for dinner, and your work friends whom you hang out with for lunch or happy hour because you happen to be in the same building every day. It is harder for young professionals to make this distinction because many of us become friends in school. You go to the class, meet new people and make friends. Some of them may think it is similar in the office as well.
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Sure, it pays to focus on customer acquisition -- but what about customer retention first? According to the infographic below, 80% of businesses believe they provide "superior" customer service. But only 8% of customers would describe the service they've received in such glowing terms. When customers aren't happy, there's often significant damage done. In fact, U.S. businesses collectively lose an estimated $83 billion a year due to shoddy customer service.
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To encourage financial inclusion in Zimbabwe, Telcel has dropped charges on Telecash transfers for its subscribers, making it the most affordable mobile money transfer service in the Southern African country. According to Telcel, customers will not pay for receiving and depositing money via Telecash. Tariff levied on sending money to non-subscribers has also been reduced though the mandatory 5 cents placed by the regulator remains. Registered Telecash subscribers who receive money via mobile will now pay between 10 cents and $4.90 for cash between $1 and $500.
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Nigeria’s foremost cement company Lafarge Cement WAPCO has announced a profit before tax of 17.74 billion for its half year ended June 30, a 29 percent rise from its N13.80 billion ($85 million) in the corresponding period of the previous year. The company, which last month merged with South Africa’s Lafarge subsidiary, also enjoyed a 12 percent in revenue for the first six months of 2014. Revenue rose to N55.35 billion ($341 million) from N49.48 billion ($305 million) in the preceding year.
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