Lagos, 11 October 2019, In furtherance of its commitment to the growth and development of sports, nation building and the economy at large, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its sponsorship of the Georgian Cup of the Kaduna Polo…
7 Interesting Features Of Alibaba’s “Hotel Of The Future” Partly Run By Robots
Earlier this year, e-commerce giant Alibaba opened its FlyZoo Hotel, which it describes as a “290-room ultra-modern boutique, where technology meets hospitality. The hotel is the first of its kind in that it eschews traditional check-in and key card processes,…
What Shoes To Wear With Jeans: A Complete Guide To Not Putting A Foot Wrong
How To Wear Brogues With Jeans They’re considerably more formal than the trainers that most of us schlep around in given the option, but brogues are nevertheless a relatively casual smart shoe, if that isn’t a contradiction in terms, originally…
2020 budget: Food items exempted from VAT
In the 2020 Appropriation Bill submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday to a joint session of the National Assembly, 10 food items were exempted from the proposed Value Added Tax regime. The Federal Government recently increased VAT from five…
Please don’t ever compare Big Brother Naija voting to Election Season voting [Opinion]
On the final day of Big Brother Naija (Season 4), show host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu disclosed that the vote tally stood at over 250 million, with some 50 million votes garnered in the last week alone. His revelation drew something of…
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Is Coming To Nigeria
Nigerians are about to have a real-time experience with Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO as he prepares for his trip to Nigeria. Jack who announced this on Twitter, one of Nigeria’s favourite social media platform, also stated some countries he would…
Get a Taste of Africa in Brooklyn during African Restaurant Week
Now in its seventh year, African Restaurant Week kicked off on October 4, in 20 participating restaurants across New York City. The festival’s moniker says “week,” but it’s actually two weeks, concluding on Sunday, October 20, with more events, food and wine…
OPINION: SEE WHO IS 59!
Mathematically, Nigeria is said to be 59 years of post-independence in the sense that it was on October 1st 1960 that some foreign occupying forces (Great Britain) retreated by general consensus of both the occupier and the occupied. It was on…
22 Foods Nigerians Miss Most While Living Abroad
Even though, exotic foods are delicious and enjoyable; once in a while, some of these foods can make you feel rootless and homesick. We know it is not easy to bring Nigerian foodstuff abroad. If you try it, you will…
IrokoTV CEO Jason Njoku commits N10 million to CCHUB CEO Bosun Tijani’s call to action to end SARS harassment of Nigerian Software Developers
On Saturday, September 28th, 2019, a Software Engineer located in Lagos, Nigeria, narrated on Twitter his encounter with Police while heading home He claimed to have been stopped while using a ride-sharing motorbike on his way home, accused of being…