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http://ift.tt/2rUIAeD Insurance Industrial And General Insurance Plc (IGI) has introduced new payment solutions to facilitate online remittances for cover policies to ensure safer, more efficient transactions by customers. A statement from the Head, Corporate Communications, Steve Ilo, said the initiative is to allow customers to pay for their policies or renewal by using their mobile devices from the comfort of their homes. The statement said: “We have fully embraced electronic transactions by partnering with Quickteller, even as our website has been revamped to make it user-friendly. Our customers can now conveniently pay their premiums viawww.quickteller.com or on our website, http://ift.tt/2rHTVxx , by clicking on the ‘Pay Your Premium’ icon. He said: “IGI is committed to protecting customers from payment fraud, simplifying processes and making transactions as seamless as possible. From multiple mobile and online payment channels to an interactive live chat on our websi...

http://ift.tt/2rUIAeD Insurance Industrial And General Insurance Plc (IGI) has introduced new payment solutions to facilitate online remittances for cover policies to ensure safer, more efficient transactions by customers. A statement from the Head, Corporate Communications, Steve Ilo, said the initiative is to allow customers to pay for their policies or renewal by using their mobile devices from the comfort of their homes. The statement said: “We have fully embraced electronic transactions by partnering with Quickteller, even as our website has been revamped to make it user-friendly. Our customers can now conveniently pay their premiums viawww.quickteller.com or on our website, http://ift.tt/2rHTVxx , by clicking on the ‘Pay Your Premium’ icon. He said: “IGI is committed to protecting customers from payment fraud, simplifying processes and making transactions as seamless as possible. From multiple mobile and online payment channels to an interactive live chat on our websi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, DTHA, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has advised Urhobo youths to key into the SMART Agenda of Delta State, just as he described the government of  Governor Ifeanyi Okowa  as youth-friendly. He made this statement when youths of Delta Central Senatorial district paid him a solidarity visit over his emergence as the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly,in Asaba.. The Speaker expressed happiness for the show of love from the youths of his senatorial district and urged them to key into the state government’s  SMART scheme. Comrade Believe German, who led  the youths under the auspices of Core Delta Central Youths, thanked the assembly members for electing Oborevwori as the DTHA Speaker and to pledge their support for his leadership. The post Delta Speaker advises Urhobo youths to key into SMART scheme appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rEwLIA

http://ift.tt/2rwQ9au This file photo taken on February 10, 2017 shows<br />David Grohl and the Foo Fighters performing during the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year, honoring Tom Petty, in Los Angeles, California. Foo Fighters made clear they don't think they'll get too old to rock as they released a surprise new single Thursday that imagined the band at a nursing home. The song, "Run," marks a shift back to the whirling guitars and screeching vocals reminiscent of frontman Dave Grohl's earlier band Nirvana after more tame recent fare from Foo Fighters. Robyn BECK / AFP Foo Fighters made clear they don’t think they’ll get too old to rock as they released a surprise new single Thursday that imagined the band at a nursing home. The song, “Run,” marks a shift back to the whirling guitars and screeching vocals reminiscent of frontman Dave Grohl’s earlier band Nirvana after more tame recent fare from Foo Fighters. In a video also directed by the 48-year-old...

http://ift.tt/2rerULK Director Yorgos Lanthimos, Best screenplay ex aequo award winner for his film "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" at 70th Cannes Film Festival on May 28, 2017. The Greek master of the weird Yorgos Lanthimos picked up the best screenplay award at the Cannes film festival Sunday for his icy thriller “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”. Despite dividing critics — and prompting its star Nicole Kidman to say she wouldn’t be taking her kids to watch it — the creepy tale inspired by Euripides’ Iphigenia impressed the Cannes jury. He shared the prize with Scottish director Lynne Ramsay for her film “You Were Never Really Here”. “Sacred Deer” picks up the laconic tone of Lanthimos’s hit “The Lobster” but then becomes much darker after a heart surgeon played by Irish actor Colin Farrell operates on a man while he is drunk and kills him. Years later, the dead man’s teenage son plots revenge, telling the surgeon he must choose a member of his family to kill or th...

http://ift.tt/2pMKjlw Sir: Becoming a teacher in Nigeria, doesn’t exactly align with the prayers of most young Nigerians who seek God’s direction in their search for a glamorous future occupation. Try suggesting the teaching profession to an intending “Jambite” and you’d almost certainly be rebuked for your unreasonable statement, with a fervent “God Forbid!” to ensure such absurd wish never come to pass. Aside from the snide remarks which undergraduates studying education struggle to endure on a daily basis from peers of other disciplines (which are considered to be more honorable and economically viable), a great portion of ‘Edu’ students, already seem to have programmed their immediate-future endeavours away from the classroom. A teacher’s reward is said to be in heaven. Well, while such complimentary divine assurance is expected to draw some attraction to the teaching profession, the farther it scares people away from it! It’s not news that a huge number of Nigerian teachers are...

http://ift.tt/2nXtunb Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has canvassed fiscal federalism and allocation of more resources to states and local councils.The governor says that the country risks continual dissention if justice and equity which are twin guardians of democracy, are not made the cornerstones of Nigeria. Wike stated this in his address to mark the 50th anniversary of the state and to celebrate his two years in office at the Obi Wali Centre, Port Harcourt.The governor said that before the state was created 50 years ago by former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Rivers people were held in bondage and had to endure severe hardship in the default Eastern Region. According to him, those who fought for the liberation of Rivers State did so at the risk of their lives.He stressed that there is a linkage between fiscal federalism and economic development, compared to a system of unjust concentration of resources at the centre as against the c...

http://ift.tt/2qtXI2m When the ancient Hebrew wise King Solomon said that the aggressive shall be rich while the poor is feeble (Proverbs 10:4), he probably foresaw the poverty, agony and distress that retired civil servants would face in Nigeria after spending their youthful lives and talents working for a system that doesn’t care for their welfare. King Solomon was sounding a note of warning to humanity that the only way to liberate from poverty is through diligent working, smartly, along the line of personal vision. Getting a job might be good in a system that cares for the citizenry. But one won’t be rich even in such a system; the person won’t suffer on retirement and old age. Worldwide, the richest people are not salary earners or civil servants. The richest people are those who have personal vision of what they want to do with their own hands. When the vision is put into action, the result is prosperity and wealth. Forget about the corrupt visionless and greedy individuals wh...

http://ift.tt/2reqhhf House of Representatives and stakeholders in the communication sector yesterday proposed financial autonomy for Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) to meet international best practices. At a public hearing on the bills to repeal the Nigerian postal service Act and to amend the stamp duties Act, conducted by the House Committee on Telecommunications, participants also seek to give NIPOST the enabling environment to measure up with the advanced postal administration. In his welcome address, the Chairman of the Committee, Saheed Akinade-Fijabi, said with the passage of the bills, NIPOST would be well positioned for the realisation of the federal government financial inclusion programme, which seeks to provide access to the unbanked and under-banked rural communities as key to poverty alleviation. He explained that the dwindling oil revenue and the current global recession necessitated the need for the nation to diversify its economy.He said: “The two (2) Bills ...

http://ift.tt/2qtXY17 Ikedife Former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife, spoke to LAWRENCE NJOKU on how the Igbo have fared in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in the last two years. Excerpts: Igbo’s perception of Buhari’s government Ndigbo see the administration as one that has truly continued in their marginalization. The suffering is very obvious and it is clearly written that they are not part of this system. It is clear to any observer that Buhari’s administration has not accommodated Ndigbo in the process of governance and it looks like a deliberate effort to put them way outside the system, because so far, apart from the statutory appointments in the constitution, that he should appoint a Minister from each of the state of the federation, I don’t know what else Ndigbo have benefited. In the reactivation of the railway, the eastern line was not included and we are being told that it will be reactivated under a PPP arrangement. That is th...

http://ift.tt/2pljakC The Guardian gathered that the gully in Uzebba area is measuring between about 50ft deep and 35ft and eight houses have been destroyed in the area. There are other gullies ‎in Iruekpen and some parts of the state. No‎ fewer than seven communities in Iluleha, near Sabongida-Ora, Owan West Local Government Area of Edo are under threat of gully erosion that have eaten deep into the only road that linked the community with the rest of the state. The Guardian gathered that the gully in Uzebba area is measuring between about 50ft deep and 35ft and eight houses have been destroyed in the area. There are other gullies ‎in Iruekpen and some parts of the state. The seven affected communities included Ikpeyan, Oromen, Okeagho, Avbioghola, Ivbiodohen, Oah and Iloje and may soon be cut-off from the main town of Uzebba, as Okpuje road that linked the communities have been almost eroded by the erosion. The traditional head of Iluleha, Chief Sam Dogo, appealed for qui...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Princewill Egwujuru LAGOS— Sona Agro Allied Foods Limited has concluded plans to boost its capacity through additional two biscuit plants to 200 tonnes per day, as it launches two biscuits. The company said it has plans also to ensure the Sona Group strives to use locally available raw materials to be used 100 per cent in its manufacturing activities to drive the local economy. Managing Director, Mr. Subramaniam Murugesan, disclosed this during the new product launch in Lagos, adding, “with the installation of two additional plants, the company would now have a production capacity of 200 tonnes per day.” While expressing optimism in the Nigerian market, Murugesan said the company remains resolute in providing innovative products in the years ahead. Commenting on the launch of its new premium biscuits brand, Murugesan said that the decision to launch new arrays into the market was informed by the need to fill the big vacuum arising from shortage of premium ...

http://ift.tt/2chX4ZY By Abdallah el-Kurebe NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, Sokoto State chapter, has demanded an upward review of the monthly pension to a minimum of N25,000, as against the N4,000 being paid since the past 12 years. State Chairman of NLC, Mr. Aminu Umar, while making the demand in Sokoto, also called for implementation of the government circular of December 2014, on the payment of gratuity and pension to staff and medical workers in the Local Government service, as their counterparts in the state service. He, however, lauded the state government for the payment of arrears of gratuities of more than N4billion to retired civil servants at the state and local government service. He also noted the regular payment of salary and pension “at a time when some workers in some states are being owed arrears of salary and pension. Regular training and retraining of civil servants, priority given to education, agriculture and others. “The minimum of N4,000 monthly pension has b...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emma Amaize, Akpokona Omafuaire & Ochuko Akuopha O LEH— GUNMEN have abducted a lecturer at Delta State University, Oleh campus, Mr. Kingsley Uwubiti, demanding N100 million ransom for his release. Vanguard gathered that Uwubiti, a one-time chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Oleh chapter, was ambushed at 10p.m. on Saturday, while driving along the newly-constructed Oleh-Ozoro Road. Sources said Uwubiti was returning from Ozoro when he ran into the kidnappers, who had mounted a roadblock and were robbing travellers. A source said he sustained a bullet injury on his hand as the kidnappers shot sporadically. Another source confirmed to Vanguard that a ransom of N100 million was being demanded by the kidnappers. At the Oleh campus, yesterday, there was apprehension among the lecturers and students. Members of the NBA, Oleh chapter, were said to be in an emergency meeting over the matter at press time. A lecturer, who spoke on condition of ano...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J BY ANTHONY ARUGBA The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Delta State University, Abraka branch, Prof. Abel Diakparomre, has expressed worries over the nefarious activities of Fulani herdsmen in Abraka, urging the Ovie of Oruarivie-Abraka kingdom, HRM Akpomeyoma Majoroh Ojetta 2, to put the union under his protective hands. Diakparomre, who said this when he led a delegation of ASUU executive on a courtesy call on HRM Akpomeyoma Majoroh at his palace, noted that the union decided to visit him (HRM Majoroh) to allay their fears and worries over the activities of cattle herdsmen. He said,” We know that the problem of violent attack by cattle herdsmen on host communities is beginning to cut across many states of the nation. But, each environment has its own unique characteristics. Therefore, the problems that are engendered by the murderous actions of the cattle herdsmen also assume texture and coloration from place-to-place. ” Abraka has a status and...

http://ift.tt/2dZ10Wp By John Egbokhan Nigerian players will today start their hunt for computer ranking points at the Dayak  Future II holding at the Package B Tennis section of the Abuja National Stadium,. Clifford Enosoregbe will serve off the home challenge against Pole Mateusz Smolicki in one of the matches on Centre Court. Thomas Otu and Christian Paul will be next on court in an all-Nigerian clash while the game between Sylvester Emmanuel and American Aron Pierce follows later. Fans attention will also beam on the match between top seed and last week’s champion, Calvin Hemery and Christopher Diaz-Figueroa of Guatemala. The Franco-Nigerian is tipped to shine after winning the USA F15 a week back In one of the matches played yesterday, Tunisian Moez Echargui  caused an upset with a 6-3, 7-6  win over sixth seed, Benjamin Lock of Zimbabwe. The post Nigerians eye points at Dayak Futures appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2ptKdek...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Udeme Akpan There are strong indications that oil exploration and production have increased in different parts of the world as the global rig counts hit 956 in April 2017, showing an increase of 13 against 943 recorded in March, this year. Baker Hughes report released over the weekend also showed that the international offshore rig counts for April 2017 was 201, up four from the 197 counted in March 2017, but still down by 19 units against the 220 counted in April 2016. “Baker Hughes Incorporated announced today that the international rig count for April 2017 was 956, up 13 from the 943 counted in March 2017, and up 10 from the 946 counted in April 2016. The international offshore rig count for April 2017 was 201, up 4 from the 197 counted in March 2017, and down 19 from the 220 counted in April 2016. “The average U.S. rig count for April 2017 was 853, up 64 from the 789 counted in March 2017, and up 416 from the 437 counted in April 2016. The average Canad...