The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has clarified issues regarding the altercation on May 8 between the popular musician, Mr. David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, and its staff at the Murtala Muhammadu International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, over the absence of the Nigerian visa on his American passport. The Public Relations Officer with the NIS, Mr. Chukwuemeka Obua, in a statement yesterday, debunked the allegation that Davido was denied an exit permit because he refused to bribe the immigration officials at the airport. Giving a detailed account of what transpired between NIS staff and the Skelewu crooner, Obua said he had approached immigration officials at the airport on the fateful day with the intention of travelling out of the country and presented a US passport with number 460918874 issued by the US State of Georgia on December 14, 2009 and valid till December 13, 2019.
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The violent sect, Boko Haram and other groups in northern Nigeria received $3m from Osama bin Laden in 2002, according to a report by some United States intelligence analysts. Bin Laden was said to have dispatched an aide to Nigeria to hand out the seed money in naira to a wide array of Salafist political organisations that shared al Qaeda’s goal of imposing Islamic rule.
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The United Kingdom hinted on Sunday that it could send troops to Nigeria if requested by President Goodluck Jonathan as part of efforts to rescue the over 200 female pupils abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from their school hostel in Chibok, Borno State on April 14. Prime Minister David Cameron made this known just as Pope Francis prayed for the safe rescue of the girls. Cameron, who has also joined the growing list of global personalities that have enlisted in the ‘‘Bring Back Our Girls,’’ social media campaign, said while featuring on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Andrew Marr show, that Britain “will do what we can” to help find the female pupils.”
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A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said the Peoples Democratic Party can only win the Ekiti governorship election by rigging. He added that the PDP was aware that it could only win the state by manipulating the election because the party had not presented an alternative manifesto to challenge the ruling APC government in the state.
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Can anything make buyers trust real estate agents? A new startup for the housing industry is hoping its service will do just that. Giveback Homes, which launched in August, is a network of real estate agents, home builders, mortgage brokers and interior designers. Members pay $50 each month to get listed on Giveback Homes’ website and receive marketing support. Individuals then decide how much, and how frequently, they want to donate to a good cause—an amount that is typically cut from commissions they earn by helping to buy or sell a home, for example. All of the donations—$56,000 raised, to date—have been passed on to the nonprofit group Habitat For Humanity to help build 12 homes in Nicaragua and put toward future houses set for Dallas and Los Angeles.
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As your business grows, it can be tough to keep up with the constant challenge of attracting, recruiting, and hiring new employees – especially those employees who are going to be game-changers for your company. Even growing companies have likely not invested heavily in their human resources departments, since many times resources go to sales, product development and marketing first. That’s why an executive recruiter can be a strong ally. Skilled, well-connected executive recruiters can help you pinpoint and attract key talent. But, there are some essential elements to working successfully with a good recruiter, says Charley Polachi, founder of Boston-based Polachi Access Executive Search, an executive recruiting firm that in the technology sector.
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The inevitable buzz over Mark Zuckerberg's 30th birthday won't peak until he hits the milestone on May 14, but the Facebook CEO still managed to be a hot topic of discussion on social media in the last week. According to data gathered for Inc. by social intelligence company Synthesio, Zuckerberg received 14,506 mentions on Twitter and other social platforms between May 2 and May 8. The previous week he had gotten more mentions (17,996), but was second to Tesla founder Elon Musk among the 25 top tech CEOs Synthesio tracks.
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To hear Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine tell it, you’d think Apple’s pending $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics--a deal that’s shocked the worlds of tech, music, and Wall Street--was always meant to be. Don’t believe him? Well, just listen to Steve Jobs. “Steve called me one night before he passed. Must have been eight months before he passed,” Iovine told me during an interview at his home in Los Angeles this past March 17. On that call, Iovine continued, Jobs told him ‘‘’you know, you’re one of the few people--if not the only person--who came out of software and made a piece of hardware successfully.’”
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To hear Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine tell it, you’d think Apple’s pending $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics--a deal that’s shocked the worlds of tech, music, and Wall Street--was always meant to be. Don’t believe him? Well, just listen to Steve Jobs. “Steve called me one night before he passed. Must have been eight months before he passed,” Iovine told me during an interview at his home in Los Angeles this past March 17. On that call, Iovine continued, Jobs told him ‘‘’you know, you’re one of the few people--if not the only person--who came out of software and made a piece of hardware successfully.’”
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The euro's decline following the hint dropped by the European Central Bank (ECB) last Thursday that it may ease its policy stance early next month is a trading event with little, if any, message for investors in euro-denominated assets. There are two major reasons for that. First, the ECB has no effective policy instruments to weaken the euro/dollar exchange rate in a credible and sustained fashion. All they can do is: (a) try to talk the euro down by saying, as they did last week, that fundamentals don't warrant the currency's appreciation, (b) drive money market rates to zero from 0.25 percent, and (c) engage in selective asset purchases that would be consistent with the bank's restrictive mandate.
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