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On 9th April 1963, United States President, John F. Kennedy made former Prime Minister Winston Churchill the first honorary citizen of the United State of America. Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War and is considered a hero in defending liberal democracy. On the Winston Churchill day, here are five facts about…

Managing groups effectively requires the capacity to obtain people’s willing collaboration and this requires cultural sensitivity. The process of obtaining another person’s agreement is essentially one of negotiation. The focus of this article is on effective negotiation skills in group management, especially when there is need to obtain people's consent on a subject matter. A…

How can we improve the delivery of DFS to end consumers? Since the inception of mobile money, adoption among the under-banked and unbanked has been extremely small. Ironically, the early adopters of mobile money were the banked population in the society; hence, proof of the hypothesis that Digital Financial Services (DFS) and other mobile-based financial…

Hawking or street selling in Nigeria and Africa at large is a unique phenomenon that arose out of the need to solve societal problems such as unemployment, poverty and consumer goods accessibility. It is a booming informal sector that has proved resilient despite various governmental efforts aimed at eradicating it. Government at all levels have…

Clean and safe water is crucial to the livelihood of all men. It has a direct effect on the economic, social and environmental welfare of all (WHO, 2011). 1 in 10 people does not have access to clean and safe water worldwide (Water.org, 2017). The irregular distribution of freshwater resources across the planet and the…

Louis Richard Albert and Lettie Semaru, both South African nationals, are suffering from lung disease and tuberculosis. They are undergoing treatment and care at the Lung Clinical Research Unit of the University of Cape Town’s Lung Institute-the world’s second largest facility.....

My name is Bukola Ayinde and I have a five-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture that is caused by damage to some parts of an immature developing brain. When my daughter Oluwalonimi whom we fondly call Nimi was just a little over a year…

Infant and maternal mortality has been a recurring issue in the health sector, probably due to its pivotal place in human existence. As regularly as it gets attention, efforts to tackling the menace have over the years either shown minimal result or not working at all.

Agitations for multinationals in the telecoms, oil and gas companies to list on the nation’s bourse and encourage the active participation of indigenous consumers in the company’s wealth creation process have been on the front burner since after the 2007-2008 global financial crises. Over the years, the nation’s stock market has played a fundamental role…

Agitations for multinationals in the telecoms, oil and gas companies to list on the nation’s bourse and encourage the active participation of indigenous consumers in the company’s wealth creation...

On the 19th of February this year, suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped 110 girls from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi in broad daylight and till date, their parents and the whole nation are still wondering what became of them.

Nigeria has every reason to be concerned as measles return with vengeance in northern Nigeria and other parts of the world especially in Europe. The World Health Organization (WHO), penultimate week, reported cases of the highly contagious and potentially deadly virus almost quadrupled in Europe in 2017 (21,000 cases) compared to the year before (5,273…