Beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plainer counterparts, says a new study. Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics analysed data from a survey of 17,000 babies born in Britain in March 1958 and tracked them throughout their lives. At the age of seven, their attractiveness was rated by their [...]
A resounding ‘no’ from an array of stakeholders has greeted an attempt by federal lawmakers to legislate their way into the leadership councils of their various parties. Virtually every member of the public who attended a public hearing on the proposed bill Monday, at a meeting room of the House of Representatives in Abuja, opposed [...]
Experienced Telecoms Implementation Engineers wanted Globacom Limited is Nigeria’s Second National Operator in GSM, Fixed, Broadband and Gateway services with subsidiaries in Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and other west African countries. It has also launched the commercial services of Glo1 submarine cable, which will revolutionize the data services in and out of all west [...]
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Your role will incorporate the following financial activity: Submission of weekly results & analysis of variances Prepare weekly cash flows Managing the production of effective and credible monthly financial reports Preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts Dealing with local, state and federal tax authorities Prepare audit file for auditors Management of finance [...]
Into the hospital at Pisco (Peru) came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil [...]
Every income we make can be classified under three types; earned income, portfolio income and passive income. Earned income comprises all the monies we earn as a direct result of work we do. It is limited to employees earn their income. The day they stop working and decide to travel the paychecks stop coming. It [...]
Across the country thousands of students have been protesting Students have been staging a day of action in protest across the UK against proposed increases in university tuition fees. Thousands of students staged sit-ins, occupations and walkouts at universities and colleges, with pupils also staging protests at schools. The protest was organised by the National [...]
G4S is the world’s largest provider of security solutions. A FTSE 100 company listed on the London and Stockholm stock exchanges, G4S operates in over 115 countries and employs over 550,000 personnel. Represented throughout Africa, G4S provides robust and cost effective solutions to manage and mitigate the threats and risks faced by its clients. For [...]
A new director general of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) may emerge before the end of the year. Balama Manu, the Interim President of the NSE Council, told journalists at the Exchange’s 49th annual general meeting, in Lagos yesterday, that the screening committee came out with a resolution on Monday which has been forwarded to [...]
The presidential election will now hold on Saturday, April 9, 2011, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced last night. The National Assembly elections will, however, hold a week earlier while the governorship and state houses of assembly elections come up on Saturday April 16. The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, [...]
The seventh Harry Potter movie opened to a jaw-dropping $330 million in global ticket sales over the weekend, underscoring the magical powers of the Warner Brothers marketing and distribution departments. Multimedia Interactive Feature Anatomy of a Scene: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1′ Related * Movie Review | ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly [...]
Northern factions within Nigeria’s ruling party have agreed on former vice president Atiku Abubakar as a consensus candidate to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan in primaries ahead of elections next April. “He has been chosen as the consensus candidate that will run against the president in the (ruling) People’s Democratic Party primaries,” Abubakar’s campaign spokesman Garba [...]
UniCem is the leading supplier of cement in south eastern Nigeria, with plans to consolidate itself as a major supplier within the Nigerian market with the commissioning of the 2.5 million tons/annum plant at Mfamosing in 2009. Unicem Nigeria recruits for Graduate Trainees scheme The United Cement Company Of Nigeria Limited, a leading manufacturer of [...]
The selected candidate will serve as the head of accounts for the organisation. He/ She will be responsible for keeping accounting records, coordinating the internal control function and managing the financial function. In addition, he / she will be responsible for serving as primary liaision for managing banking relations & tax matters. Skills candidate MUST [...]
May & Baker Nigeria Plc engages in manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing human pharmaceuticals, vaccines and sera, medical diagnostics, and foods and consumer healthcare products. Its products include antimalaria, amoebicides, anti-infectives, sulphonamides, cough and cold, anti-histamines, anti-pyrectic/analgesics, anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetic, and consumer products. The company was incorporated in 1944 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. May [...]
Fifa banned two of its executive committee members from voting to decide the countries that will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups following an investigation into newspaper allegations of corruption but, at the same time, criticised the English media’s reporting methods. Video footage from a Sunday Times undercover investigation last month appeared to show [...]
The Senior Drilling Engineer (SDE) function shall be a key member of the OEPL Drilling Team for preparing, planning and delivering wells in OEPL Assets. Current portfolio includes OML 56 (Obudugwa), OPL 278 and 236 and OML90 (Akepo). Reporting directly to the Well Operations Manager/Drilling Manager. He shall Assist in the location, set up and [...]
Specialized program designed for young technical college school leavers, who bright, talented with unique skills required to provide outstanding maintenance services required for our automated bottling operations facilities -the training program leads to the award of internal certificate, while trainees are prepared for city and guilds (London) external examination. -successful candidates will undergo a two [...]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Professor Oladapo Afolabi as the new Head of Service of the Federation (HOS) following the expiration of the tenure of Mr Stephen Oronsaye. A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro, in Abuja, on Monday, said that Mr Oronsaye’s tenure expired [...]
According to a number of reports from Iran, the NFF (Nigerian Football Federation) has made the decision to cancel the upcoming international friendly between Iran and Nigeria which was supposed to take place on Wednesday. The NFF has reportedly sent the FFIRI (Iranian Football Federation) a letter to explain their decision to cancel the friendly [...]
Nigeria’s Super Falcons yesterday defeated defending champions Equatorial Guinea’s Nzalang Nacional 4-2 to win the 7th African Women’s Championship, in South Africa. It was the 6th time Nigeria will be emerging as champions of Africa and the win served as sweet revenge for the Super Falcons, who had lost out at the semi final stage [...]
Crane Mechanic – APM Terminals, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria Crane Mechanic This position offers an outstanding opportunity to join global team at APM Terminals and contribute to the success of the organization. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES • Perform scheduled maintenance and unscheduled breakdown maintenance on equipment assigned to Crane Section for maintenance. • Receive and execute instructions and [...]
The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency) wishes to announce vacancies for various positions at its office in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and its Regional Missions at various duty stations. The NEPAD Agency kindly request that all applicants from African Union Member States to send their applications and detailed CVs in accordance with the [...]
Spammers and hackers are constantly trying to take advantage of unsuspecting consumers (also known as my parents) online. According to a three-month study by antivirus developer PandaLabs, these cyber-criminals are creating around 57,000 new fake websites every week. That’s close to 3 million per year. And all of it is being done to exploit major [...]
This is to inform all candidates who sat for the Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post- UTME) exercise conducted by our institution, University of Science and Technology, Ifaki – Ekiti (USTI) that the list of successful candidates is out. Successful candidates are expected to pay a non- refundable acceptance fee of Ten Thousand Naira (N10,000.00) [...]
