Here is the biography of Tony OnyemaechiGF Elumelu (born March 22, 1963) the man who  made$123 Million In 3 Weeks  is a Nigerian economist, banker, investor and philanthropist. Elumelu is head person of Heirs Holdings, a pan-African proprietary buying into business with interests in strategic sectors of Africa’s economy. He is furthermore the founder of the Tony Elumelu base, an Africa-based and African-funded not-for-profit organisation (NPO) that is dedicated to the promotion and commemoration of excellence in enterprise leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa.[1] Elumelu holds the Nigerian nationwide respect, the Commander of the alignment of Nigeria (CON). New African magazine lately recorded him as one of the 100 most influential persons in Africa.
Elumelu was born in Jos, Nigeria, in 1963. He has two degrees in Economics from Nigerian schools. His Bachelor degree was from Ambrose Alli University and he has a expert of research degree, furthermore in Economics, from the University of Lagos. He is an alumnus of Harvard enterprise School’s sophisticated administration events. Tony Elumelu wed Awele V. Elumelu, a health medical practitioner, in 1993 and has five daughters. He has four siblings encompassing the Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, a constituent of the Nigerian government House of Representatives.
In his early vocation, Elumelu made a name for himself when he came by and turned benchmark believe Bank into a top-five contestant in Nigeria. In 2005, his business reputation as an African Business foremost was closed when he led the largest amalgamation in the banking part in Sub-Saharan Africa to come by joined Bank for Africa (UBA). In five years he transformed it from a single-country bank, to a pan-African institution with over 7 million customers in 19 African countries.

Following his retirement from UBA in 2010, Elumelu founded Heirs Holdings, which buys into in the financial services, power, genuine land parcel and hospitality, agribusiness, and healthcare parts; all of which help to conceive financial prosperity and social wealth over the countries. In the identical year, he established the Tony Elumelu base, an Africa-based and African-funded, philanthropic association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in enterprise authority and entrepreneurship, to enhance the competitiveness of the personal sector over Africa.

In 2011, Heirs Holdings acquired a controlling interest in the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), a publicly quoted conglomerate that has business interests in the agribusiness, energy, and hospitality parts. Elumelu was subsequently appointed Chairman of the company.

Elumelu serves as an Advisor to the USAID’s personal Capital Group for Africa (PCGA) Partners Forum. He is seated on the Nigerian President’s farming Transformation Implementation assembly (ATIC). He is furthermore Vice-Chairman and a key person driving in the formation of the nationwide Competitiveness Council of Nigeria (NCCN), and serves as Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute Dialogue sequence on international Food Security. He additionally seating the Ministerial managing group to set up world-class hospitals and diagnostic centers over Nigeria, at the request of the government Government.
Philanthropy
The Tony Elumelu base

Following his retirement from joined Bank for Africa in July 2010, Elumelu founded The Tony Elumelu base. His stated target was to “prove that the African personal part can itself be the primary generator of financial development.” The base is ascribed with the objective of going by car Africa’s financial development by enhancing the competitiveness of the African personal part. As a premier pan-African-focused not-for-profit institution,the Tony Elumelu base is dedicated to the promotion and commemoration of entrepreneurship and excellence in enterprise authority across the countries.

The base strives to deploy its resources to develop solutions to trials that inhibit the development of the African private part. Through its firm pledge to catalytic philanthropy, the Tony Elumelu Foundation hunts for to accomplish its objective by enhancing the capacity of African enterprises, carrying and driving principles that encourage competitiveness, establishing economic capital through influence investments, and educating public and private part actors through rigorous study.
acknowledgement

In 2003, the government Government of Nigeria granted Tony Elumelu the name of constituent of the alignment of the government Republic (MFR), a national honour. In 2006, Elumelu was voted African enterprise foremost of The Year by the Africa shareholder publication and was identified African Banker of the Year in 2008 by the African Banker magazine. In 2009, the Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'adua asked him to serve on the Presidential Committee on the Global economic Crisis.

In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious nationwide Honour of Commander of the alignment of the Niger (CON) for his service in encouraging personal enterprise. He was recognized as one of “Africa’s 20 Most mighty People in 2012” by Forbes publication. In supplement, the New African publication boasted him in their register of the “100 Most Influential Africans in Business.”He was bestowed an honorary doctorate of research degree from the Benue State University and an honorary doctorate of business management from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Writings and publications

Elumelu contributed an article to the publication How to Excel at Work - Proven schemes for accomplishing better work performance by Bili A. Odum. He furthermore assisted to the Nigeria authority Initiative White Papers, composing on Leveraging private sector approaches in transforming government delivery.

The Power of dream: Insights on Tony Elumelu is a testimonial amassed on the occasion of his retirement as assembly Managing Director/Chief boss agent at the joined Bank for Africa. It comprises notes from Aliko Dangote, previous Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, lecturer Michael Porter, previous World Bank organising Director and Nigeria’s Minister of investment Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, President of Sierra Leone; Ernest Bai Koroma, previous joined States Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the centered Bank of Nigeria.

1. Activate the Android Power Strip

The single most important feature in Android 2.1 is its built-in power strip widget. Here, you're able to quickly disconnect all the phone's battery-destroying features, like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the Great Batter Killer that is GPS. Long-press on the screen and install it via the widgets category.

Android power strip

2. Android call screening

If you're a paranoid call-screener, Android is there for you. Open up the Contacts listing of the person you're currently avoiding, then select Menu > Options. From here you're able to ping all incoming calls from this person directly to voicemail. Give people the brush off with Android.

3. Set up custom caller ringtones

Alternatively, if you like talking to people, the same screen lets you allocate a specific custom ringtone to each caller stored in your Contacts directory.

    30 best free Android apps

4. Add your alarm clock to your task killer

A classic mistake, this. We're constantly being told of the (debatable) importance of using a task manager to maximise Android battery life, and if you want to go down that route you're welcome. However, when killing all your tasks to save battery life, remember that your alarm clock is a task in itself - kill that and you'll wake up in a panic at 10.15am tomorrow morning.

5. Organise things into folders

While Steve Jobs may have recently made quite a big deal about letting iOS users organise things into folders, Android's been doing that for ages. Fancy a quick Home screen shortcut to your starred favourite contacts? Long-press the Home screen and make it so.

6. Rename Android folders

And, once you've done that, to customise things to perfection it's possible to rename folders. Simply open the folder, then long-press on its name in the top bar to bring up the Top Secret renaming field.

Rename folders

7. Check the date

Possibly one of the tiniest undocumented features is the date-checking facility. Press the Notification bar at the top left of the screen. It tells you what the date is. Go on, try it. It will.

8. Mount your SD card

Also accessed via the Notifications field is the "Mount" option. Many an Android newcomer has failed at this hurdle, as mounting your phone's SD card is an awkward step that needs to be taken before it'll appear as an external drive for data copying. Plug it in, mount it, then copy.

9. Set up your keyboard launch shortcuts

One of the reasons many people still love their QWERTY keyboards is Google's inclusion of the reliable old keyboard shortcut system in Android. The phone has a completely customisable collection of app launcher shortcuts, which are found under Settings > Applications > Quick Launch.

Quick launch

10. Download more Android live wallpapers

One thing that makes Android 2.1 a little more swish and exciting than the rather dull earlier versions is its support for Live Wallpapers - the animating image format that brings your Home screen to life. There's a negligible battery life hit for doing so, but in return you get a phone that looks cool. Which is what life's all about, right? Search the Android Market for Live Wallpaper - there are loads.

A Nigerian IT company, Techvibes International limited has urged Nigerian businesses that depend upon IT competencies to shore investments, to confirm that IT solutions at their disposals ar of remarkable worth, else their businesses might not attain world category standards.

The company’s CEO, Mr. archangel Oglegbaargued that as up to date establishments and organizations ar perpetually challenged to adapt to the innovations of technology in their operations, the requirement for fashionable  IT solutions becomes as important because the IT firms that give the solutions.
He aforementioned that his Techvibes International restricted is delivers exceptional worth and convenience with tried competences in computer code development, particularly in Biometric Technology, Human Resources and Payroll, Finance and Taxation, Electronic Payment and Revenue assortment.

The company, in step with him, employs up-to-date fashionable  technology and deploys customised solutions to facilitate safe and reliable electronic collection, processing and identity management for establishments in each public and personal sectors.
Listing the company’s core competencies, Oglegba aforementioned that such areas as Biometric technology and identity management solutions, computer code development, Payment and assortment computer code readying, Internally generated revenue solutions,E-government solutions among others ar handled with deft experience by Techvibes.

He noted that at this stage wherever the globe has been reduced to a mere world village, firms don't have to be compelled to create mistakes or compromise of IT values that may set their businesses on the world map.
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The Federal Ministry of Health is recruiting to fill the position of a Campaign Coordinator
 Location: Abuja
 DescriptionSupport the IVM branch in the organization of the technical resource pool into function units
    Provide support and general technical advice to the State Support Team (SST) structure
    In collaboration with the IVM branch, supervise funding flows and timely release of funds to campaign implementers (preparing budgets and requests, following up to see if things are moving according to plane.),
    Ensure monthly campaign reports, planning/working documents (revised tools, guidelines) and other documents ore disseminated to malaria partners and relevant stakeholders
    Support the IVM branch to review progress in the implementation of the WN campaigns
    Support in periodic review of existing LLIN Mopping and implementation plans
    In collaboration with IVM branch, provide periodic updates to the IVM Steering Committee & National Coordinator of the NMCP
   

Qualifications

    Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

    An advanced degree in Public Health, Social Sciences or related field.
    Excellent technical writing and oral presentation skills highly desired.
    Specific experience in malaria programmes strongly desired.
    Proven experience in managing public health programmes or projects in Nigeria or similar developing country context.
    Demonstrated ability to monitor, supervise, and train in health service programmes.
    Extensive knowledge of the Nigerian public health sector.
      Knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
      

At least 10 years of professional experience in health programmes, preferably in areas related to training, data management and M&E.

Period of Consultancy:

    The period for this consultancy work is Twelve months, from January to December 2014.

Mode of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should submit the following to the address indicated below:

    A detailed CV that shows evidence of relevant qualifications.
    Letter of motivation.

The above should be submitted in an envelope with the position being applied for clearly written on the right upper part of the envelope and submitted by courier to the office of:

The National Coordinator,
National Malaria Elimination Programme,
1st Floor, Abia House,
Central Business District,
Abuja, FCT.
OR
To: nmcpnigeriarecruits@gmail.com with the position applied for as the subject of the e-mail.
 

Note:  Successful individuals will be expected to commence work immediately from 20th January 2014.

Application Deadline: 21st December, 2013

 

The popular Mile 1 market in Port Harcourt, Rivers, early morning fire that destroyed properties and goods worth millions of naira.

Eyewitnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the fire started at about 2.00 am on Tuesday and razed the entire make-shift market.

The fire also affected a two storey residential building housing some lock-up stores.


Eze said that the painful aspect was that he just received stock worth N600, 000 for the Christmas sales.

”I just lost everything to the fire,” he said.

Another trader, Mr. Chinecherem Ndubuisi, said he lost electronics worth more than N3 million, adding that starting afresh would be very difficult for him since he did not have enough capital.
 

Others traders told NAN that they did not only lose their goods to the sad incidence , they also lost cash worth several thousands of naira which they left in the market.

Mr. Christopher Uwajeh, , who is an eye witnessed said the Police and men of the State Security Service were at the scene to curtail breakdown of law and order.

 Rev. Michael Oguguo, 52, who sold the baby of his daughter, Chiamaka Oguguo, for the sum of N200,000 with the connivance of a clinic in Umuechem, Etche, Rivers State where the baby was born.
Rev. Oguguo, a native of Ejemekwuru in Oguta is the minister of 11th Deliverance Ministry, Nkwesi, Oguta, Imo State while the clinic is operated by Cyprian Phat, a homeopathic medicine practitioner.
AsSunday Sunlearnt from the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Katsina, the sordid story started when Chiamaka was impregnated by her boyfriend, whose name was given as Chinedu Ukachukwu.
Recalling the painful experience, 18-year-old Chiamaka toldSunday Sun: “I was impregnated by my boyfriend Chinedu Ukachukwu who lied to me that he was not married. Later I learnt that he is married with four children. When my father, Rev Oguguo heard that I was pregnant, instead of accepting me with my condition, he threw me out of the house and I slept in an uncompleted building for days. My father encouraged me to abort the pregnancy, but I didn’t listen to him.”

The twist in the tale occurred when Chiamaka’s father who had initially abandoned her suddenly re-surfaced after hearing of her safe delivery of the baby.
Continuing the tale, Chiamaka said: “When I saw him, I thought he came to rejoice with me. I did not know he came with a devilish intent. Like magic, my baby girl disappeared from my bed. I thought she was taken for treatment. I didn’t know that my father had connived with the doctor and sold my baby to one Chinwe Okuzu, 25, a Business Studies student of Abia State Polytechnic for the sum of N200,000.”
Recounting his role in the baby sale caper, Phat who hails from Mgbele in Oguta LGA, Imo State, toldSunday Sun: “I claimed to be a homeopathic practitioner. I was deported from Austria in 1988 after I was unable to undergo training as a mechanic. I returned home in 1993 and started practicing homeopathic medicine. Chiamaka Oguguo came to my clinic to deliver a baby girl. Later her father, Rev Oguguo came to my clinic and said we should sell the baby girl. We arranged with a lady, Chinwe Okuzu who bought the baby at N200,000 at the clinic at Umuechem Etche, Rivers State. Later the police came to arrest me and I have confessed to them.”
The next link in the chain of infamy, Okuzu, a native of Umuchi in Ihitte Uboma LGA Imo State, confirmed buying the baby but added that she did so on behalf of one Mrs Rose Nwadinaobi, who runs a baby factory, from whom she collected a share of the proceeds from the sale.
Her words: “I am an agent to Mrs Rose Nwadinaobi who took the child from me and I have not been able to locate her since I was arrested me.”My cry is that I need my baby girl. They should return my baby girl to me. I have disowned my father who claims to be a reverend in the church. He is not a man of God. He is just deceiving the congregation. If he can do this to me his own daughter what would he do to others? He does not have the fear of God. I am ready to carry my cross and care for my baby. Today’s men of God are so deceitful.”
Meanwhile, there is a glimmer of hope that the baby girl may be found as the Imo State Police Commissioner disclosed that Rose Nwadinobi, who bought the newborn is already in the police custody. He further said that the suspects would soon appear in court.
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Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)  have arrested
Two of the six cult boys who raped a 16 year old secondary school student in Akure, Ondo State last week.
The men, said to members of a cult group known as Blue Angel, saw the girl as she was returning from school, they stopped her, took her to their hideout and raped her. All six of them. They recorded the act with a mobile phone and threatened to post the video online if she told anyone what happened.

Fortunately she did and two of the rapists, Wale Fadahunsi, 28, and Banji Olaseinde, 25, have been arrested, while four others are on the run. Those on the run include Tope Oluwole; Tope Jigan and Muyideen. The two that were arrested were paraded a few days ago where they confessed to raping the helpless girl whose identity is being concealed because of her age.

Mariah Carey arrived in Lagos this afternoon to perform at Access Bank's Christmas Party and Send-off ceremony for the bank's Managing Director Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. The event will hold tonight at Eko Hotel. This is Mariah's first time in Nigeria.

More than two person has been killed and several injured by an explosion on a bus in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The blast  which hit the 32-seater bus as it was heading to the Eastleigh suburb, which is home thousands of Kenyan Somalis and Somali immigrants.

Some reports say a grenade was thrown onto the bus.

A former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, in this interview with ADEOLA BALOGUN and TUNDE ODESOLA 

 2. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas -- Johnny Mathis 

3. Mistletoe and Holly -- Frank Sinatra

 4. Silent Night -- Sarah McLaughlin 

5. Frosty the Snowman -- The Beach Boys

 6. Santa Baby -- Madonna

 7. Jingle Bell Rock -- Bobby Helms

 8. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas -- Gayle Peevey

 9. O Holy Night -- Luciano Pavarotti 

10. Christmas Canon -- Trans Siberian Orchestra