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Popular Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has joined a number of people who recently took to their Twitter to share their varied experiences of making international shipping orders from Nigeria using the hashtag #MyShippingStory.The hashtag, which recently started trending, has seen a large number of responses varying from good and average experiences to horrorstories including delivery no-shows, payment fraud andCustoms disputes.On her part, Mercy Aigbe tweeting from her handle @RealMercyAigbe has revealed some of her best and worst experiences of shipping items to Nigeria including an occasion where she was scared for the growth of her business owing to unending disappointment from her previous shipping company, and how a friend ofhers restored her hope in shipping by introducing her toSimplified Corporate Logistics.One of her tweets reads,“I didn’t know where to turn to, until a friend introduced me to Simplified Corporate Logistics. #MyShippingStory @SCLogisticsng”Ahead of the launch ...

Five suspects, who posed as businessmen,have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly abducting and gang-raping a woman.PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects – Ugochukwu Eso, Gabriel Obinna, Chinedu Ezechukwu, Akubueze Nnadozie and Godwin Balogun – used a hotel, which the police did not disclose, in the Agege area of the state to perpetrate the crime.Punch correspondent gathered that 18-year-old Obinna allegedly used a Magic Voice application on his mobile phone to change his voice to that of a woman while communicating with the victim on the telephone.Using a pseudonym, Vanessa, he allegedly invited her to inspect some non-existent goods in his house.A police source said the gang’s mode of operation was to lure female customers into their midst, gang-rape them and threaten to blackmail the women with video recordings of the rape unless some money was paid to them.In the latest incident on Tuesday, August 2,the gang members allegedly lured their female victim throu...

Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Mr Kingsley Esiso, yesterday, said that the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government has brought untold hardship on Nigerians.Esiso, when he played host to PDP Patriotic Ladies in Asaba, urged the women to mobilise ahead of 2019 for the re-election of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and also vote out the APC at the federal level and other APC controlled states.He said: “For about two years now, Nigerians have witnessed negative change that has brought injuries, hardship and highcost of living to them.They came with the mantra of change that former President Goodluck Jonathan was not doing well but the reverse is now the case. We will endure till 2019 to change thechange.

The United States on Wednesday pledged$37 million in aid for victims of Boko Haram, government officials said, as fears of a famine mounted in the ravaged Lake Chad region.Despite Boko Haram losing many territory in the northeast as a result of a renewed military offensive, millions are still going hungry after years of attacks disrupted farming and supplies.The US government will provide “more than$37 million in additional humanitarian assistance” the United States Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria in Abuja said. “Approximately five million people need emergency food assistance.”The money for food would be directed to communities in the Diffa region of Niger and is part of a coordinated effort to get more food into the area.

Colombia on Wednesday defeated Nigeria U-23 football team 2-0 at the Arena dos Corinthians in Sao Paulo to reach the quarterfinals of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.Nigeria qualified for the quarterfinals after beating Asian champions Japan 5-4 on Thursday and edging Sweden 1-0 in Manaus on Sunday.

Staff at the World Bank delivered a broadside againstits sitting president this week,saying the global lender faced a “crisis of leadership” and risked irrelevance on the world stage.The rebuke, made in an open letter from the Bank’s staff association, came as informal talks have reportedlybegun on choosing the Bank’snext president.Jim Yong Kim, the current president, whose term ends inless than a year, has not officially declared whether hewishes to stay on.Since taking office in 2012, Kim has undertaken a cross-cutting structural reform which has left some staff members uneasy. Internal surveys have shown that large proportions of Bank staff feel distrustful of senior management.“At the World Bank Group, we preach principles of good governance, transparency, diversity, international competition and merit-based selection,” said the letter from the staff association, which represents more than 15,000 employees.“Unfortunately, none of these principles have applied to the appointment of...

Last month, it was officially announced that Mavins first lady, Tiwa Savage, had finally solidified her deal with American rapper, Jay Z’s Roc Nation.Taking things a bit further, her profile, has now been uploaded onto the label’s officialwebsite.Tiwa, via a quote on her profile, revealed how estranged husband, Teebillz, played a major role in creating the Tiwa Brand we alllove today.According to the singer, Teebillz, made her dump her songwriting career abroad to kick-start a very successful music career inNigeria.I met Tunji and he told me about the growing Afrobeats scene back home in Nigeria.He thought I was wasting my talents being a songwriter and a backing singer and pushed me to move back to Africa.At first I thought it was a bit of a step backwards but he was adamant that this was my future.He knew it was what would set me apart from the restBefore returning home, Tiwa Savage, had a music deal with Sony/ATV as a writer, which saw her co-writing songs for international stars l...